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- Ed Vulliamy on goth-punk | Music | The bserver
- … built a legitimate interest in politics among apolitical…
- Punk rabble-rousers
- Part show part competition has new-found popularity
- The New Tributes and an ld Triangle
- Post details: Isle f Skye Music Festival: The Verdict
- A Hip-Hop Hurricane and ther Phenomena
Ed Vulliamy on goth-punk | Music | The bserver
The bserver – May 27, 2007
A shared love of music proved crucial as he began taking Elsa then aged 11 to see her favourite bands – obscure goths discovered on the internet. It was the start of an 18-month voyage of discovery that brought them closer than ever.
… built a legitimate interest in politics among apolitical…
San Francisco Chronicle – May 27, 2007
And few commanded as much respect in their communities. During the previous two decades he had made a healthy living from Fat Wreck Chords his punk rock record label that’s housed in a dingy South of Market office. Burkett himself has produced 30 punk records and his label has 40 bands under contract including two of his own: NFX and Me First and the Gimme Gimmes. While his bands’ record sales are modest compared with those of mainstream chart-toppers he has made enough as an independent label chief to afford a home for his wife and young daughter in an upscale San Francisco neighborhood (that he requests remain unnamed). Despite most of Fat Wreck’s bands getting next to zero coverage in the mainstream media and no major radio airplay their shows cater to an intensely loyal crowd of young punk fans who pack 500- to 2000-seat venues and festivals around the world. NFX which has sold 6 million records in its 24-year history earned a gold record for 1994’s “Punk in Drublic” but has never been interviewed on MTV; the network said a couple of NFX videos were briefly in a limited rotation. As described the band’s journey on his label’s Web site… Burkett didn’t start out to be a political activist much less a political leader. Born and raised in the Los Angeles area by his mother he moved to San Francisco in 1985 to attend San Francisco State University. He earned his degree in social science while playing music on the side. In 1987 he began putting out early NFX efforts. After graduating he went to real estate school and thought about returning to Los Angeles until the market collapsed. “I wasn’t going to quit my band” Burkett said. “But being in a punk rock band in the 1980s wasn’t a career option.
Punk rabble-rousers
Malaysia Star – May 27, 2007
There’s no subtlety to its name but this one-time punk band notorious for its controversies and lack of PC-ness had churned out some amazingly sublime music. THE funny thing about history is that you sometimes look at things backwards. When I became rather serious about my love for music it was the mid-1980s and groups like Genesis Pink Floyd and Yes were having hit records that bore little or no resemblance to their progressive heyday. I soon found myself deriving great joy from the experience of unravelling a group’s musical journey. ne such act was The Stranglers.
Part show part competition has new-found popularity
augusta.com – May 27, 2007
n this night about 600 people have gathered at the All-American Skating Center in the shadow of towering Stone Mountain right across the street from the tennis complex that was used during the 1996 lympics. Just don’t expect this sport to join the establishment any time soon. Part show part legitimate athletic competition roller derby’s latest incarnation is rapidly carving out a subculture of its own sprouting from the punk music scene but embracing women of all types. Some came for the exercise. Some were drawn by the chance to level a competitor. Some leaped at the chance to trade their conservative 9-to-5 clothes for the outrageous personalized costumes of roller derby. Sara Riney pays the bills by working in public relations.
The New Tributes and an ld Triangle
New York Times – May 27, 2007
Until the album loses steam in its final tracks “A Tribute to Joni Mitchell” elegantly draws the present out of the past. Beyond each track’s individual thrills a tribute album can illuminate a style and sensibility or reconsider a historical moment as “The Sandinista! Project” does with contributions from Amy Rigby Stew Jon Langford and Sally Timms and dozens of others. The original “Sandinista!” filled three LPs with outsize ambitions: songs about violence victims revolution and drugs delivered in a haze of punk reggae funk and glimmers of hip-hop. The remake like most tribute albums is hit or miss but luckily it’s anything but reverent. A few Clash imitations show up but so do multidirectional time warps. Songs skew toward Appalachia with banjos plunge into psychedelic loops and echoes unleash theremin on “The Call Up” and the Persian wail of Haale on “ne More Time. ” Members of the Clash wanted their songs to reverberate worldwide; “The Sandinista! Project” proclaims that they succeeded… ” Members of the Clash wanted their songs to reverberate worldwide; “The Sandinista! Project” proclaims that they succeeded. And it not only insists that the original album hung together but goes on to take the sprawl of “Sandinista!” even further. More tributes are on the way. A two-CD collection of.
Post details: Isle f Skye Music Festival: The Verdict
NME.com – May 27, 2007
As a final love token I give you my top-five bands of the weekend: 1. The LawAre going to clean-up. If Dundee is to give the world one grot-punk successor to Doherty then I vote it should be The Law and The View should be banished to eternal night and the door to eternal night should be bolted shut. We Are The Physics. Look like The Proclaimers… Look like The Proclaimers. Sound like very little. They’ve carved out their own world based around a kind of super-punk: very distorted very choppy but with vaguely folkish melodies peeping through whenever the squall subsides. A bit like The Ramones played at double-speed on a dirty tape recorder. Robots In DisguiseRecord-breakingly sexy.
A Hip-Hop Hurricane and ther Phenomena
New York Times – May 27, 2007
com you can watch the music video directed by Kinga Burza whose cute images (tangling socks kissing toothbrushes) echo the incongruous cheer of the strummed guitar and peppy drum machine. Everything seems fixable until the end when Ms. Nash grabs that suitcase. The AlmostThis band is the side project of Aaron Gillespie who plays drums and sings in the popular Christian screamo band Underoath. And after surviving a turbulent 2006 with Underoath (”old issues” forced the band to drop off the Warped Tour) Mr… Gillespie seems to be having a happier 2007. ” It’s a memorable little pop-punk tantrum with guitars that keep cutting out and then storming back in. 1990sTen years ago John McKeown was a Glaswegian secret: leader of a clever puckish post-punk band called the Yummy Fur. He never became a rock star but a couple of his bandmates did when they formed a group called Franz Ferdinand.