The News Review:
- Music Preview: Magic Wolf debut is a howlin’ mix of punk grunge…
- The day the music didn’t die
- Finns finance ‘Indigo’ ‘Punksters’
- ‘Harry Potter’ Editor Says ‘No ne’ Has ‘Deathly…
- Down ‘n’ Dirty page 1 – Music – The Pitch – The Pitch
- Art Review | ‘Linder’
- Casbah’s Anti-Monday League brings good music to our least…
Music Preview: Magic Wolf debut is a howlin’ mix of punk grunge…
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Pittsburgh Post Gazette – Jun 21, 2007
Accordingly now is the hour of Magic Wolf the Pittsburgh-based rock trio composed of vocalist and guitarist Dave Wheeler bassist Mike Rensland (formerly of Brown Angel) and drummer Jake Leger (also of Karl Hendricks Rock Band). Their self-titled debut which will be released on Friday merges a wide range of influences from ’90s grunge and stoner rock to classic-era metal and punk. Wheeler admits to being a late bloomer when it came to understanding the creative freedom of independent music. “I didn’t get into punk as a kid. I was just really into Zeppelin and Sabbath the Guess Who and Grand Funk Railroad. I didn’t even start playing guitar until I was 20. Helming a radio show at Pitt’s college station WPTS turned his head around.
The day the music didn’t die
UI The Daily Iowan – UI The Daily Iowan (subscription) – Jun 21, 2007
With wives and children at home the two don’t give the label all of their time. But by the end of summer Scenester with a lineup of more than 20 bands plans to release three records. Specializing in punk music the label’s latest joint-releases come from bands as close as Muscatine and as far as the UK. And it all started with simply “wanting to be a part of it. ” Independent labels don’t want to have it all Bergus says – they simply want a piece. Scenester Credentials has subsisted for nearly seven years since its start in late 2000 and both Bergus and Show have no desire to drop their side project anytime soon. Fighting the big boxThis isn’t an uncommon tale: boy goes out into big world and realizes his small-fish status in the gargantuan ocean of the talent (and talentless) music industry.
Finns finance ‘Indigo’ ‘Punksters’
Variety (subscription) – Jun 21, 2007
Producers are Lasse Saarinen and Risto Salomaa. Nordisk Film is handling international sales. Documentary “Punksters & Youngsters” focuses on the Finnish punk music scene since the 1970s and Finnish punk legend Pelle Miljoona in particular. The film is to be directed by Jouko Aaltonen whose music doc “Revolution” was nominated for the Nordic Council’s Film Prize last year. Shooting takes place this summer and autumn and the pic is to premiere in February 2008. Sandrew Metronome Distribution Finland will distribute the film. Illume’s Pertti Veijalainen produces.
‘Harry Potter’ Editor Says ‘No ne’ Has ‘Deathly…
MTV.com – Jun 21, 2007
Bulgarian news site Novinite. com reports that eight people were seriously injured in a fight between skinheads and punks that erupted during a concert by punk legends the Exploited in Sofia Bulgaria on Wednesday night. The fracas involved approximately 60 people who used glass bottles chains and other metal objects as weapons before the police could arrive to stabilize the situation. Five people were arrested in connection with the incident and the concert continued as planned… Puddle of Mudd will return July 24 with a new album titled Famous. “It’s about passion and writing music that connects with other people and somehow heals them” frontman Wes Scantlin said in a statement. “I really want to try to crawl under people’s skin and at the same time make some kick-ass rock and roll music. ” The disc produced by former Black Flag drummer Bill Stevenson will be the band’s first with new members Christian Stone and Ryan Yerdon.
Down ‘n’ Dirty page 1 – Music – The Pitch – The Pitch
Pitch Weekly – Jun 21, 2007
Details:Blowfly with Blueprint and the Pornhuskers. Wednesday June 27 at the Record Bar. Subject(s):Blowfly Blueprint Pornhuskers Record BarThe music of quasi-legendary soul-funk-rap pioneer Blowfly is primarily about three things: fuckin’ fuckin’ and fuckin’.
Art Review | ‘Linder’
New York Times – Jun 21, 2007
1 Contemporary Art Center by Neville Wakefield a senior curatorial adviser at the museum. “Linder” is an intriguing exploration of the overlapping worlds of art and music but walking through the show tends to call to mind a roster of more memorable women. Skip to next paragraph… 1 also includes drawings and video. Linder’s primary outlet was (and remains) the photomontage that composite-image technique embraced by Dada artists like Hannah H? John Heartfield and Raoul Hausmann. She was active in the late 1970s and early 1980s Manchester punk and post-punk scenes and some of her earliest work here includes posters and fliers for bands like the Buzzcocks and Magazine in which images of domestic appliances and women’s bodies are merged. Several like an untitled photomontage of a woman’s torso perched in a saucepan on a kitchen counter with a blender for a head appeared in the fanzine The Secret Public published in 1978. Linder’s work shows obvious links to British Pop artists like Richard Hamilton and particularly Eduardo Paolozzi who used images cut from pin-up magazines. There’s also a likeness to other punk-era graphic artists like Jamie Reid who designed the Sex Pistols’ singles and the poster that came with their 1977 album “Never Mind the Bollocks Here’s the Sex Pistols. “But the artist with whom Linder shares the closest ties is Martha Rosler whose series “Beauty Knows No Pain or Body Beautiful” from 1966 to 1972 moved photomontage into an unmistakably feminist vein turning media images back on themselves to criticize the beauty industry and women’s domestic role.
Casbah’s Anti-Monday League brings good music to our least…
San Diego Union Tribune – Jun 21, 2007
I grew up here so I've been a kid who supported Tim when he used to do shows at Carpenter's Hall or Wabash Hall. I was a kid who went to the Pink Panther when I got of age and then the old Casbah down the street before he moved here. ”Adds Pyles on the Anti-Monday League: “You're going to hear everything from punk rock to dance music on any given night. ”Flash-forward five days to Monday night. Tampa hip-hop crew Yo Majesty has just exited the stage leaving the crowd amped and ready to dance. The Casbah dance floor is packed with music fans of all shapes sizes and styles as DJ Diplo starts his set of mash-ups of old favorites by Paul Simon The Beatles and Technotronic. The floor vibrates with thumping dance music and frenetic revelers spill out onto the outdoor patio.