The News Review:
- Famous five: Why The Traveling Wilburys are the ulimate supergroup
- Freedom Rock
- … Up More North American Tour Dates – News Story | Music…
- This week’s music reviews:
- Revellers gear up for gay march
Famous five: Why The Traveling Wilburys are the ulimate supergroup
Belfast Telegraph – Jun 19, 2007
But none can match the pedigree of The Traveling Wilburys. Indeed it may be the only album this year to reach this level of success without the assistance of MySpace YouTube or any of the internet-associated aids which we are constantly told are vital promotional tools in today’s pop marketplace. But then what might be on their MySpace site? "Hi kids we’re The Traveling Wilburys! We’re old enough to be your grandads – in fact two of us are so old we’re dead and the rest aren’t feeling too good at the moment. We make the kind of music you probably hate. " Their MySpace friends however would number in the hundreds of millions comprising as they would the combined fan-bases of The Beatles Bob Dylan Roy rbison EL and Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers… Even the more marginal music genres threw up their own supergroups most notably the Pentangle aggregation which combined virtuoso folk guitarists Bert Jansch and John Renbourn with singer Jacqui McShee and the jazz rhythm section of Danny Thompson and Terry Cox. But the rock supergroup quickly became a byword for ego excess and interminable soloing most spectacularly in the case of Emerson Lake & Palmer a prog-tastic alliance whose stodgy quasi-classical music filled stadiums but not souls. With the advent of punk the supergroup’s days were numbered; the notion became not just musically dubious but a representation of the morally reprehensible separation of artists from their audiences. Now as Andy Warhol and Sly Stone had claimed everybody was a star and to profess one’s superiority was just about the only form of bad manners recognised by the punk movement. For a decade or so the supergroup fell out of favour along with the idea of virtuosity. utside America the accent in the Eighties was more on amateurism and unashamed artifice whether as ironic commentary on the business of pop or as celebration of its sleek flimsy surfaces. The only significant supergroup projects were charity one-offs like Band Aid’s " Do They Know It’s Christmas?" in which the participants’ names mattered rather more than their musical abilities.
Freedom Rock
Washington Post – Jun 19, 2007
Freedom du Lac is online every Tuesday at 2 p. ET to talk about the latest on the music scene: alternative country alt-country pop hyphy harp-rock reggae reggaeton R and B and whatever it is that Bjork does… Freedom du Lac: nly if you’re Dennis Eckersley. Who by the way I saw last weekend in Boston. Where by the way they play the greatest relief-pitcher entrance music in Major League Baseball every time Red Sox closer Jonathan Papelbon enters the game at Fenway: The Dropkick Murphys’ rollicking shanty-punk song "I’m Shipping Up to Boston. " The song gets the locals properly fired up whenever it’s cued. A good thing that given that it usually comes not long after everybody’s done the sing-along to "Sweet Caroline. "_______________________Arlington Va. : So the new White Stripes is "the year’s best rock album (so far).
… Up More North American Tour Dates – News Story | Music…
MTV.com – Jun 19, 2007
The creators of San Francisco’s hip annual Noise Pop festival announced a new Bay Area gala on Tuesday: the Treasure Island Music Festival which will be held September 15-16 in San Francisco. Headliners include Modest Mouse and Thievery Corporation while Clap Your Hands Say Yeah M. DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist Built to Spill M… Long-running indie ‘zine Punk Planet is closing up shop. After 13 years of chronicling and championing the underground the mag announced in a post on its Web site Monday that it is ceasing publication after the issue now hitting stands. A combination of decreased readership and advertising revenue and the fallout from a bankruptcy filing by the mag’s newsstand distributor contributed to the decision. The magazine’s Web site will live on as a social networking hub and its offshoot book line will also continue to publish new titles.
This week’s music reviews:
Baltimore Sun – Jun 19, 2007
Made for: Disgruntled Whiskeytown fans that just can’t hang with. Alt-country punks happy to welcome a little trippy psychedelica (and pop harmonies) to the mix. Drunken beach parties down by the lake.
Revellers gear up for gay march
BBC News – Jun 19, 2007
It will proceed through St Andrew Square along York Place down Broughton Street to East Claremont Street before going along Broughton Road to Pilrig Street. The festivities will start in the park from about 1430 BST and run until 1930 BST. The event will feature live music from various genres including the Loud and Proud Choir some folk music pop rock and punk.