The News Review:
- SPARE TIMES Spare Times
- Essential gigs – News Music & Gigs – Belfasttelegraph.co.uk
- With the Evens MacKaye Keeps It Simple
- Band builds buzz with online tracks: PP MUSIC: Ghosthustler’s…
- … : Voices f Protest Finally Wake Up – News Story | Music…
- Black Culture Is So Punk Rock
SPARE TIMES Spare Times
New York Times – Jun 29, 2007
n Sunday as part of its third annual Afro-Punk festival of film music and art the. “We really wanted to do something that was drawn from the community” said Tamara McCaw the community affairs and audience development manager for the academy and a party organizer.
Essential gigs – News Music & Gigs – Belfasttelegraph.co.uk
Belfast Telegraph – Jun 29, 2007
The Belfast-based band is one of the most exciting on the local scene and the five members aren’t afraid to showcase their individuality with an ‘in yer face’ delivery. Musical influences including alternative rock and edgy New York post-punk certainly shine through in their music which is full-on hi-octane rock ‘n’ roll. You can catch them tonight when they play The Pavillion’s middle bar Belfast in the company of Tin Pot peration in what is set to be one of the ‘must see’ locals gigs of the summer. TP is another local band which really stands out from the crowd thanks to their socially aware lyrics. Formed in west Belfast in 2003 they have a sound attitude and a philosophy of their own and willingly embrace everything from politics to racism in their songs. And completing the bill in what is a really excellent line-up are Pocket Promise the Tyrone band who are now based in London and are busy writing and performing there.
With the Evens MacKaye Keeps It Simple
Washington Post – Jun 29, 2007
Ian MacKaye’s baritone guitar and Amy Farina’s drums in the Evens. MacKaye much to his annoyance is a punk icon a legend and not just local. His shorthand CV: Teen Idles Dischord Records seminal bands Minor T… All this is a roundabout way of noting that even as the Evens have been MacKaye’s musical focus for the past five years legacy issues abound particularly with some hardcore fans reluctant to let go of the past. MacKaye says: "When Fugazi started I was asked ‘Will you ever be able to escape the specter of Minor Threat?’ There are still people who want to talk to me about Minor Threat and there will be people who will want to talk to me about Fugazi but I can tell you already we play shows that are heavily populated with people who have come to see the Evens. "In each case the music has taken a turn not because it’s a style or a genre but a particular reflection of what specific individuals develop" he explains. "That’s the conversation I’m having with Amy the conversation I had with Brendan and Joe and Guy and the lack of conversation I had with Lyle Brian and Jeff. "I’m sure that people will always be interested in my legacy and that’s fine — I don’t deny it" MacKaye says. "They can take or leave the Evens; plenty of people don’t take it and that’s okay. We have shows where 100 to 200 people come out; with Fugazi it would be 1000 to 2000 so already it’s clear it’s not the same people who are coming out.
Band builds buzz with online tracks: PP MUSIC: Ghosthustler’s…
Free with registration – Dallas Morning News – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jun 29, 2007
Buzz began with testimonials from the local tastemaking blogs We Shot JR and Gorilla vs. More bloggers soon followed suit as did respected music site Pitchforkmedia. com which posted Ghosthustler’s MP3s. Ghosthustler’s limited yet fantastic body of work should appeal to anyone who appreciates dance pop with thumping infectious bass lines and devil-may-care vocals. The three songs out there particularly “Parking Lot Nights” are definitely sexy. We Shot JR’s anonymous blogger Stonedranger put it best in an e-mail: “What is appealing about them is the fact that they know how to put together good dance tracks in the form of short catchy pop songs and you can tell that they really understand the history of dance music unlike a lot of similar groups.
… : Voices f Protest Finally Wake Up – News Story | Music…
MTV.com – Jun 29, 2007
Amid all of this we also get the return of Rage Against the Machine hardly a coincidence. But where were they during most of Bush’s time in office? Squabbling? Not speaking to each other when their powerful voice of dissent would seem to be just what the times called for? For that matter where was anyone in music who thought this country was headed in the wrong direction? Clearly Rage hopes to make up for lost time telling the crowd at Coachella “ur current administration needs to be tried hung and shot. We need to treat them like the war criminals they are” (see. But will it any of this incite revolution? Not likely… This remains a nation of CD burners not flag burners. As for Iraq “surge” or no “surge” there is no end in sight. But neither is there any reason to think the protest lyrics will let up any time soon. You’d hate to think these artists simply waited until public opinion — in opposition to the war and to the Bush presidency in general — was overwhelmingly on their side. Whatever the reason the flood gates seem to have opened. Better late than never I guess.
Black Culture Is So Punk Rock
New York Sun – Jun 29, 2007
Green’s restlessly lyrical camera which imbues the screen with a profoundly felt sense of place. The story’s dark undertow never submerges its tender spirit its lingering candid observations or its gentle humor: It’s a movie people fall in love with. The same can be said for the festival’s mother lode of music documentaries which include D. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus’s “Monterey Pop” outtakes “Jimi Plays Monterey” and “Shake: tis at Monterey” both of which capture Jimi Hendrix and tis Redding at their galvanizing iconographic primes and the delirious “Space Is the Place “(1974) which combines concert footage of Sun Ra and his Arkestra with a plot involving the extraterrestrial bandleader as a superhero battling for the future of the black race. Most memorable though is the late Thomas Reichman’s hour-long “Mingus” which finds the protean jazz bassist in a cantankerous mood as he is about to be evicted from his East Village loft. These days it would be the kind of uncensored offstage ranting that might surface on YouTube but here it plays like an open wound… These days it would be the kind of uncensored offstage ranting that might surface on YouTube but here it plays like an open wound. And just wait until Mingus grabs his shotgun. He’ll show you what “punk” is all about. Through July 7 (30 Lafayette Ave. between Ashland Place and St. Felix Street Brooklyn 718-636-4100).