The News Review:
- … Struggling To Line Up An Interview – News Story | Music…
- Pop and Rock Listings
- Seeing the World Through Manu Chao’s Eyes
- Shangri-Las Singer Mary Weiss Returns
… Struggling To Line Up An Interview – News Story | Music…
MTV.com – Jun 22, 2007
Avril Lavigne has the guitar to thank. And Kelly Clarkson does it all for Steven Tyler. In Style focuses on women in music for its July issue with seven artists sharing what inspires them to get creative. Carrie Underwood said she’s making hits now because of women who paved the way — “Tammy Wynette Patsy Cline Dolly Parton… 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.
Pop and Rock Listings
New York Times – Jun 22, 2007
(Sisario) EX MDELS S-S-S-SPECTRES (Tomorrow) With violent mathematically precise spurts of rhythm and noise Ex Models’ songs could be workouts for manic malfunctioning robots. The band opens the shoestring yet adventurous East River Music Project series with S-S-S-Spectres whose dissonant honkings and lurching beats evoke No Wave heroes like James Chance. With Hundred Eyes and Mikey Bones. East River Park south of Delancey Street Lower East Side… (Sisario)JS DE BRUJ (Wednesday and Thursday) Plunging flamenco into the disc-jockey era jos de Brujo from Barcelona mixes club beats punk guitar and socially conscious rapping with the old Gypsy passion. Highline Ballroom 431 West 16th Street Chelsea (212) 414-5994 highlineballroom.
Seeing the World Through Manu Chao’s Eyes
Washington Post – Jun 22, 2007
The audience won’t be quite as exotic when Chao and Radio Bemba Sound System perform Saturday at Merriweather Post Pavilion with Thievery Corporation and Bebel Gilberto but you can bet it will be an international one. That shouldn’t be surprising: Though he has a limited profile in the United States Chao is a global rock star who sings in Spanish French English Arabic Wolof and "Spanuguese" a mixture of Spanish Portuguese and Brazilian slang. Chao’s musical vocabulary is just as diverse: bracing punk rock folkloric pop lilting reggae frenetic ska sinewy salsa… It’s a new country for me and what is good for us is we make all the tour only by bus — no planes — so the days traveling are an important part of the experience. "Maybe while here Chao can ride Metro a reminder of Mano Negra’s roots (the band’s early performances were on the Paris Metro). Inspired by France’s nascent alternative music scene in the ’70s and ’80s Chao briefly sang with rockabilly group Hot Pants before forming Mano Negra in 1986 with brother-trumpeter Tonio Chao and cousin-drummer Santiago Casariego. The band name meaning "the Black Hand" came from an anarchist organization in Spain (the left-leaning Chao still has a penchant for Che Guevara-style red berets and Andean caps). According to Chao Mano Negra formed in reaction to anti-immigrant sentiments being espoused by prominent French politicians at the time and the band’s makeup clearly mirrored the changing complexion of European society. Its members were French Spanish and North African and the results were a mash-up of cultures and sounds. Though its two greatest poles of influence were the Clash and.
Shangri-Las Singer Mary Weiss Returns
San Francisco Chronicle – Jun 22, 2007
They collaborated writing songs long-distance via computer meeting each other face-to-face only when Reigning Sound came north to join her at a recording studio in Brooklyn. “When we walked in there was no pretense no bull” she said. “Everyone was in the room just to make music. What are the odds?”The resulting album has a loose pop-punk sound that occasionally echoes back to her heyday with the exception of her deeper voice. A punkish album by a 58-year-old who hadn’t recorded in 40 years released on an independent label is hardly the recipe for stardom. Weiss couldn’t care less. She’s had her day in the sun and really just wants to have fun.