The News Review:
- Chicks That Mix: Misstress Barbara
- … To Take Stage At Tony Awards – News Story | Music Celebrity…
- The Police pening Night in Vancouver: Their First Real Gig Since ‘…
- Kanye West Loves Rolling Stone. Sort of.
- Simon Reynolds interview: Pop politics hip-hop and postpunk|2Jun07|S…
Chicks That Mix: Misstress Barbara
Synthtopia – May 29, 2007
Misstress Barbara DJ ProfileShe holds a degree in Communication Studies specialized in Film and obtained a license to fly gliders and Cessna airplanes at age 16. Her creative involvement with music began when she picked up the drums at age 12 and started playing in bands. For the next seven years she was into classic rock punk music and all the hard music of the time. In 1994 her musical interests shifted to electronic music. While attending numerous events she fell in love with watching DJs work. A year later she traded in her drum kit for two turntables and a mixer. In the spring of 1996 she got her first booking and hasn’t looked back since; playing all the major cities from North to South America Europe and Asia along with Australia.
… To Take Stage At Tony Awards – News Story | Music Celebrity…
MTV.com – May 29, 2007
Minus the Bear’s upcoming LP Planet of Ice featuring the lead single “Knights” is due August 21. The band wrapped up a one-month tour with a performance at the Sasquatch! Music Festival on Sunday and is currently planning an extensive tour to support the disc. Grab the glow sticks: Klaxons will light up the U… 2007Green meets yellow: “The Simpsons Movie” cast was more or less mum about Green Day’s appearance in the flick when we spoke with them at the 400th episode party earlier this month but now comes news that the band has recorded a punk version of the show’s theme song for the score soundtrack. com reports that Warner Bros. will issue a single of the song on July 24 three days before the flick hits theaters while Fox Music will issue a digital version of the score through its Web site and Extreme Music will ship 25000 copies of the set — in pink doughnut cases! — to Best Buy Circuit City Wal-Mart and Barnes & Noble.
The Police pening Night in Vancouver: Their First Real Gig Since ‘…
Rolling Stone – May 29, 2007
And if professional musicianship was always the hallmark that made the Police a success it was again evident as they gave new life to well-known hits removing the reggae-lilt of ?Roxanne? and replacing it with a slowed jazzier tempo. That they felt comfortable enough to re-imagine a well-known catalog shows the confidence of seasoned veterans. While it wasn?t exactly ?the Police unplugged? the frantic punk edge of early hits like ?Can?t Stand Losing You? and ?Don?t Stand So Close to Me? was swapped for more room for Copeland?s improvisations and Summers tasty. The extended songs also gave Sting space to widen the choruses and he turned ?Roxanne? into a call-and-response with the audience that could have come straight from the… ” What?! Copeland & Summers are incredible musicians and for the music they make with Sting as The Police none are more right. I hope you didn’t go to The Police concert expecting Sting to sound the way he does as a solo artist. I say this because before last night at the 2nd Seattle show I didn’t care much for The Police. They were at best just part of the background music of my 80s childhood. I admit I liked Sting’s solo catalog better.
Kanye West Loves Rolling Stone. Sort of.
Rolling Stone – May 29, 2007
” Thanks Kanye! His main point is that he should get to “proofread” stories about him before they go to press to avoid having “jokes” taken out of context because he “doesn’t have media training or whatever. ” This isn’t a new argument from him and it’s not clear what got him thinking about it now (the cover story he’s referring to is from January 2006). He goes on to deny that the Jesus pose on the David LaChappelle-shot cover is evidence of an outsized ego asking the rhetorical question “if someone is in college and they do a play where they emulate Christ do they have a God complex?”As fascinating as this glimpse into Kanye’s head might be the music is what makes the mixtape worth tracking down (it’s all over the internet’s shadier download sites). In addition to recent hits — his “Throw Some Ds” remix (introduced with an interlude about Imus and misogyny in hip-hop). Listen for new hip-hop supergroup CRS (Kanye… As well as the single “Gold Digger” I don’t think that Kayne is as talented a lyricist as most other rapper. He is just a fresh face. He better run with this.
Simon Reynolds interview: Pop politics hip-hop and postpunk|2Jun07|S…
Socialistworker.co.uk – May 29, 2007
This month sees the release of the sequel to Rip It Up that focuses on what happened next – in particular the rise of hip-hop and indie rock. Bring The Noise – named after Public Enemy’s 1987 single – is a collection of Reynolds’ articles and reviews from 1986 onwards while he was working as a music journalist on Melody Maker Spin and other publications. The publication of Bring The Noise coincides with the 30th anniversary of the release of another iconic single one that arguably defined the sound and attitude of punk rock and set the scene for Reynolds’ two books. n 27 May 1977 the Sex Pistols released God Save The Queen – a blistering attack on the royal family timed to coincide with the queen’s silver jubilee celebrations.