The News Review:
- Rocking in ‘the Sheds’: Self-storage becomes music venue.
- Latest effort from violin-wielding punks
- Who hears The Pants?
Rocking in ‘the Sheds’: Self-storage becomes music venue.
Free with registration – News Herald – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jul 16, 2007
” — ‘em the “Sheds. ” Two long low corrugated buildings divided into storage spaces sandwiched between a drug store and a chicken restaurant. Quiet during the day wide awake at night pulsing with punk music layered on top of metal and classic rock. This place near the junctures of Front Beach and Middle Beach roads is the epicenter of local music. This is where it’s created practiced perfected where sounds are shaped by the hope for success. “There wouldn’t be much of a music scene without these guys” said Rusty Stewart bass player for the PCB Culprits as a half-dozen bands practiced at the Sheds on a recent Thursday night. “Everybody pretty much knows everybody here.
Latest effort from violin-wielding punks
InTheNews.co.uk – Jul 16, 2007
While they build anticipation of an epic anthem on Keeper only to disappoint with a plodding melody Shadows and Regrets becomes something quite wonderful with some minor-key acoustics showing some a great deal of promise realised in the anthemic climax of Paper Walls. An angelic choir builds with spiralling strings and the oddly Christmassy feel of the song isn’t too big a problem when it’s delivered so passionately. Who’s it by Jacksonville punks Yellowcard hit the big-time in 2003 with the multi-million selling Ocean Avenue a fantastically gleeful mix of pop-punk melodies some surprisingly mature rock sensibilities and a unique classical edge thanks to Mackin’s input. This latest album finds them again produced by Neal Avron and mixing magic of Tom Lord-Alge is certainly welcome with the sound never cluttered or succumbing to the tinny depths of much of the pop-punk canon. There’s also a hint that some bitterness and bile could enter their music though not as much you’d expect from a band who billed the recording of this album as a “group therapy session” after founding member Ben Harper left acrimoniously. While Paper Walls is a fairly good album it’s just not groundbreaking or exciting enough to garner any widespread acclaim.
Who hears The Pants?
Vail Daily News – Jul 16, 2007
<b>I listen to the Clash. The best punk I played in my teens had the same honesty and passion to it. It has the same raw energy and you can’t fake that. <b>The Town Pants we hear a lot about the name.