The News Review:
- Daydream Nation by Matthew Stearns
- Press Room :: Press Release :: June 2007
- … Remembered At Memorial Service – News Story | Music…
- Record label makes Belgium an unlikely hub for latest wave of Bossa…
Daydream Nation by Matthew Stearns
PopMatters – Jun 18, 2007
While listening to music on headphones in the (mostly) dark. The music coming through those headphones which delivered such visionary auditory inspiration tended to be one album in particular: Sonic Youth’s Daydream Nation. Released in 1988 it was an anomaly in the post-punk music underground by being a sprawling double LP whose semi-mystical and arcane songs gave off a strong whiff of the dreaded concept album so beloved of pretentious arena rock bands which punk post-punk New Wave and No Wave had done their best to maul and leave for dead. So it was different.
Press Room :: Press Release :: June 2007
USA Today – Jun 18, 2007
- USA TDAY turns 25 years young this September and to continue the celebration The Nation’s Newspaper will look back at the Top 25 Music Milestones. In 1982 ABBA disbanded Public Enemy formed and zzy sbourne bit off a bat’s head. In the 25 years since music has undergone cataclysmic changes. USA TDAY has picked 25 top milestones; share your choices at… ‘s Straight utta Compton (1988) Gangsta rap exploded in violent explicit street stories including the widely banned F— Tha Police fueling hip-hop’s mainstream popularity and intensifying censorship debates and a culture war. Smells Like Teen Spirit (1991) Nirvana’s punk anthem brought alternative rock to the fore and heralded the grunge movement’s tsunami of Seattle bands from Soundgarden to Pearl Jam rock’s counteroffensive to big hair metal. Kurt Cobain’s 1994 suicide created a Gen X martyr. iPods and iTunes (2001) Technology allowed tailor-made playlists and music became less of a communal experience as buyers cherry-picked vast online reservoirs and listened in isolation. Sales patterns reveal fewer superstars and a long tail of niche artists.
… Remembered At Memorial Service – News Story | Music…
MTV.com – Jun 18, 2007
href} {button:true} ); Family friends and fans gathered in the hundreds on Saturday morning at the Webb-Freer Funeral Home in Blue Springs Missouri to bid farewell to Frankie Abernathy the former “Real World: San Diego” housemate who lost her lifelong battle with cystic fibrosis on June 9. And much like Frankie herself Saturday’s ceremony was unique and reflective of the spunky punk rock-adoring star’s personality. A ruling on the official cause of Abernathy’s death has yet to be determined but it is most likely related to cystic fibrosis (see… ” She was also a music lover and father and daughter shared a passion for Harley-Davidson motorcycles. She was also an avid Hello Kitty fan and the iconic cartoon character graced the service’s program. Joe Abernathy lauded his late daughter for the courageous way in which she never let her disease get her down. “She never let it get in the way or define her” he said. As amusing Frankie stories were recalled and shared for those in attendance her mother Abbie decided she wanted to help everyone feel better about her daughter’s passing according to the Star.
Record label makes Belgium an unlikely hub for latest wave of Bossa…
International Herald Tribune – Jun 18, 2007
While the trend of the time was post-punk posturing Crammed cast its net wider and was soon working with musicians from around the world pumping out Norwegian electro-folk Israeli funk Californian art house rock. Brussels may have been on the margins of the emerging world music scene but Hollander thinks being Belgian helped forge the label's unique melange. “My interest was always in mixing different styles of music in a playful way just playing with styles and cultures which is maybe a natural thing when you are growing up in Belgium where there is no strong national identity or culture” he said in an interview. “It's pretty split up it's open to influences and the filters are much thinner than if you are English American French or German. ” Twenty-five years on Crammed remains committed to genre bending and genre blending… While the trend of the time was post-punk posturing Crammed cast its net wider and was soon working with musicians from around the world pumping out Norwegian electro-folk Israeli funk Californian art house rock. Brussels may have been on the margins of the emerging world music scene but Hollander thinks being Belgian helped forge the label's unique melange. “My interest was always in mixing different styles of music in a playful way just playing with styles and cultures which is maybe a natural thing when you are growing up in Belgium where there is no strong national identity or culture” he said in an interview. “It's pretty split up it's open to influences and the filters are much thinner than if you are English American French or German. ” Twenty-five years on Crammed remains committed to genre bending and genre blending. Hollander is wary of the world music tag and the current vogue for what he calls “artificial fusion.