The News Review:
- French Electronic Dance Music – New York Times
- The great Pumpkin still stirring up Controversy.
- San Jose Mercury News Calif. Shay Quillen column: They Might Be…
French Electronic Dance Music – New York Times
New York Times – Jul 1, 2007
“They’ve got the music the art the aesthetic the amazing videos and they’re kind of a traveling party. “Ed Banger’s multimedia sensibility not to mention its sound has a clear antecedent. The label is run by Pedro Winter who in addition to making music as Busy P has for many years managed Daft Punk the duo of Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo. Like Justice Daft Punk played Coachella in 2006; its set was a spectacle of lights and video with the duo in the guise of robots triggering electronics atop a sort of neon pyramid. Daft Punk is not directly involved in Ed Banger but you can hear its influence on the label. Bangalter’s superlative remix of DJ Mehdi’s “Signature” turns a teasing snippet into what might be the most ecstatic dance track you’ll hear this year.
The great Pumpkin still stirring up Controversy.
Free with registration – Chicago Tribune – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jul 1, 2007
But already Pumpkins singer songwriter and lightning rod Billy Corgan is being vilified. It’s a role Corgan embraced in the ’90s. The more the naysayers pushed the harder he pushed back in music as big and bombastic as any created during the Lollapalooza era. That the Pumpkins broke up after five studio albums 25 million units sold and 13 tumultuous years was inevitable; the bigger surprise was that the volatile Chicago quartet managed to survive as long as it did. Since then a legion of Pumpkins-esque bands have taken over the charts including My Chemical Romance Fall ut Boy and AFI. So when Corgan announced his intention to “renew and revive” the band two years ago on the same day that he released his commercially underwhelming solo album (“The.
San Jose Mercury News Calif. Shay Quillen column: They Might Be…
Free with registration – San Jose Mercury News – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jul 1, 2007
Shay Quillen column: They Might Be Giants retain quirky charm. 1–A bond forged 30 years ago by two high-schoolers over a shared love of underground cartoons and Boston punk bands lies at the heart of They Might Be Giants’ success.