The News Review:
- Music Lead The Vacancies
- Era Vulgaris : Queens of the Stone Age : Review : Rolling Stone
- She was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar…
- Maroon 5 Top BillboardAlbums Chart – News Story | Music Celebrity…
- Brand New Does the Soft-Loud Thing At Gramercy Theater
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- Danzig with the Stars
Music Lead The Vacancies
Cleveland Free Times – May 30, 2007
As a result the guys have ended up on bills with old-school punk bands something they say makes for a good challenge. "Anytime you play for teenagers and you play for your peers it's easier to win the teenagers over" Billy says whose Adolescents T-shirt speaks to his affinity for the veteran acts. "They want to hear new music and new stuff. They're not jaded and tired of hearing punk band after punk band. It's harder to play for their crowds but it's very inspiring. There's just some kind of magic in watching a guy like the Circle Jerks' Keith Morris. He doesn't jump around and do back flips like every fuckin' band nowadays.
Era Vulgaris : Queens of the Stone Age : Review : Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone – May 30, 2007
There aren’tany others like him that’s for sure and he’s never been an easy oneto figure out. Here’s a rock star who seems to shuffle his band’s lineupas often as he shaves his back yet who always sounds like himselfmaking fun of solemn art types but working harder than any of them. Hemanages to be the token metal dude for indie kids and the token punk forheadbangers without compromising for either camp. Homme makes music inall kinds of incarnations — the Queens Eagles of Death Metal hisendless Desert Sessions projects. But he always seems to inhabit his ownmusical world a zone where lost kids chase the desert acid-trip vibe ofclassic Seventies midnight movies like Vanishing Point and Two-LaneBlacktop. Really the scene in Vanishing Point where the naked hippiechick cruises across the desert sand on her Harley blasting Mountain’s”Mississippi Queen” could be the starting point for every song on thisalbum. Era Vulgaris is Homme’s fifth Queens album and like the others it’sintricately crafted meticulously polished and ruthlessly efficient inits pursuit of depraved rock thrills with robotic rhythm machines like”Turning on the Screw” and “I’m Designer.
She was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar…
The Independent – Independent – May 30, 2007
It really broadened the kind of music that I liked and broadened the type of songs that I wrote as well. “Andrea RossAndrea Ross was just a 13-year-old high school student in Boston when she recorded some songs over a tinny karaoke backing tape and decided on a whim to send it to her musical hero Andrew Lloyd Webber. Despite a penchant for musicals and a string of amateur roles under her belt she had little reason to believe her tape would end up anywhere other than the slush pile. And indeed it almost did – but for the efforts of an enterprising assistant who insisted Lloyd Webber sit down and listen to the hastily compiled cassette. Soon afterwards one morning before school Ross received a phone call out of the blue from the music maestro’s agent asking her to come for an audition in Los Angeles… All of their six studio albums have reached the top spot in the British charts and they have garnered five Brit awards the latest of which was in February for an outstanding contribution to music. Avril LavigneAvril Lavigne’s first album Let Go sold more than 13 million copies worldwide but the Grammy-nominated Canadian punk rocker was first spotted singing country covers in an ntario bookshop by Cliff Fabri who became her first manager. Soon she got the chance to work on her own pop punk tracks such as Sk8er Boi which made her name. In 2002 when she released her debut single Complicated aged just 17 there were very few signs of her country and western beginnings. The singer who is famed for her grungy fashion is often criticised for being more concerned with perfecting her look than her singing. However unlike most teen-pop fodder she does write her own music. Pulpne night in 1980 John Peel was getting into his car on the way home from recording one of his radio roadshows in Sheffield when a fresh-faced 16-year-old called Jarvis Cocker bounded up to him and thrust a demo tape into his hand.
Maroon 5 Top BillboardAlbums Chart – News Story | Music Celebrity…
MTV.com – May 30, 2007
zzy sbourne’s Black Rain enters the chart at #3 having sold close to 152000 copies during its initial week at retail and is followed at #4 by Young Jeezy Presents USDA: Cold Summer which scanned around 95000 units. (zzy’s 2001 LP Down to Earth bowed at #4 with 152500 sold while 1995′s zzmosis sold 127000 copies to also open at #4. ) Another newcomer to this week’s chart — of which there were a total of 19 — closes out the week at #5 on sales of 92000: the latest from Utah punk outfit the Used Lies for the Liars (kinda funny to have USDA and the Used right next to each other on the chart). Sandwiched at #2 between Maroon 5 and zzy is last week’s #1 Linkin Park’s Minutes to Midnight which suffered from a 68 percent second-week sales slump but still racked up another 197700 in sales. Climbing four places to #6 this week is the self-titled debut from “American Idol” season-five finalist Chris Daughtry’s eponymous rock troupe selling more than 74000 copies; the disc enjoyed a 45 percent spike in sales probably boosted by the singer’s appearance on the show last week. Michael Bublé’s Call Me Irresponsible falls four spots to #7 with 62000 copies scanned while Carrie Underwood’s Some Hearts returns to the top 10 climbing four positions to #8 also with an assist from her “Idol” performance. Avril Lavigne’s Best Damn Thing drops to #9 with sales of 48000 and rounding out the top 10 is Ne-Yo’s Because of You… Michael Bublé’s Call Me Irresponsible falls four spots to #7 with 62000 copies scanned while Carrie Underwood’s Some Hearts returns to the top 10 climbing four positions to #8 also with an assist from her “Idol” performance. Avril Lavigne’s Best Damn Thing drops to #9 with sales of 48000 and rounding out the top 10 is Ne-Yo’s Because of You. With 34700 copies leaving the nation’s music stores this week the Hans Zimmer-helmed soundtrack to “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End” makes its Billboard debut at #14 while Trill Entertainment Presents: Survival of the Fittest a compilation album featuring the work of rappers Foxx Lil’ Boosie and Webbie bows at #17. The Bravery’s new one The Sun and the Moon opens at #24 having scanned around 21800 copies and checking in at #40 with 14500 sold is the Beach Boys’ retrospective set The Warmth of the Sun. Rancid frontman Tim Armstrong’s solo offering A Poet’s Life claims the chart’s #59 slot with 10600 units snatched up — which is quite impressive when you consider the entire effort was made available for free download prior to the CD release. Meanwhile right behind Tim at #60 is the latest from Christian rockers Hillsong United All of the Above. Amber Pacific’s Truth in Sincerity debuts at #64 selling to the tune of nearly 10000 and opening at #68 is the National’s Boxer with around 9400 sold.
Brand New Does the Soft-Loud Thing At Gramercy Theater
Rolling Stone – May 30, 2007
And their lyrics are pretty amazing too. Very deep stuff not your sappy “Boo Hoo I’m so sad because a girl dumped me” stuff. Music with meaning not done in a “I have no idea what I’m really talking about” Anti-Bush Punk rock way. Wish I could have seen the show.
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Appleton Post Crescent – May 30, 2007
“We wanted to start something different that we haven’t really seen in the Fond du Lac area” Wells said. So the duo recruited some friends and formed The Finnegans a distinctive fusion of Irish music folk music country and old-school punk rock. The different styles of music did not blend easily at first but soon the band found its sound. “At first we were just trying to somehow fuse the folk instruments into punk rock and now it’s more like we’re writing folk and country songs and putting punk into it” Wells said. Some of the songs even have a bluegrass feel he said. With their depth in style The Finnegans have been able to win over fans of all the genres they borrow from.
Danzig with the Stars
Riverfront Times – May 30, 2007
Ferris Andy Vihstadt published: May 30 2007 Glenn Danzig’s DNA is splattered all over the dark underworld of punk hardcore and heavy metal. And while his work may be footnotes in mainstream music what footnotes they are.