The News Review:
- Daft Punk gets earthlings grooving
- Britney And Kevin Finalize Divorce – News Story | Music Celebrity…
- I Crime Ryan Anderson and Bad Folk tonight at Ceebs
- OFF THE WALL
- Aiden Takes ‘Book The Band’ Slot for Virgin Festival By…
- Wakestock a splash hit in spite of dead air
Daft Punk gets earthlings grooving
Seattle Times – Jul 30, 2007
As the five-tone alien communication from “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” played the sweat-drenched mass on the dance floor greeted Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter like deities with a thunderous roar and exuberant cheers. The cryptic duo blurring the line between man and machine wore their familiar gold and chrome-plated robot helmets and appeared as interplanetary MCs to a sea of dance-crazed fans. Undeniably the biggest name in electronic music Daft Punk refuses to do interviews or be photographed without the helmets — a ruse they’ve been able to uphold for more than 10 years. At WaMu perched atop a massive pyramid at center stage and surrounded by a dazzling display of LED lights the pair tore through a flawless set of their most familiar songs. Rather than the traditional DJ set they reworked skeletal versions of their songs remixing snippets from each on the fly. Daft Punk played versions of songs from all three of their full-length albums including early favorites like “Around the Word” from their 1997 debut “Home Work” but it was “Digital Love” and “One More Time” from “Discovery” that ignited an already ecstatic crowd. “Robot Rock” and the titular “Human After All” from their 2005 release further advanced the pair’s android theme.
Britney And Kevin Finalize Divorce – News Story | Music Celebrity…
MTV.com – Jul 30, 2007
According to Jermaine Dupri fans will have to wait a while longer for new Janet Jackson music — she’s not going to be featured on the “Rush Hour 3″ soundtrack. The producer posted a message on his MySpace page saying “To answer all questions about [the] ‘Rush Hour 3′ soundtrack I ended up not doing it ’cause the movie takes place in Paris and a lot of the music didn’t fit. So all of you looking for that Janet record you gotta wait till she’s finished with the new album… He also said Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong’s declaration that he didn’t want to play “four-chord punk-rock for the rest of his life” according to Stump has impacted the band’s outlook. “They’re really just true to what they are and so that’s how we are” he said. “I think we’ll change stylistically but at the end of the day that’s just something you wear. You’re still yourself.
I Crime Ryan Anderson and Bad Folk tonight at Ceebs
St. Louis Post-Dispatch – Jul 30, 2007
Beyond their stick twirling and alcoholic flair I Crime truly is a band of songwriters. Creating songs from influences as estranged and arresting as traditional olde-time power-pop psyche-punk honky-tonk ’50s crooning and high-strung straight-up rock “n’ roll. Their new brand of romantic rock will blow your ears with harsh punk urgency and your mind with excruciatingly gorgeous boy-girl harmonies. Their song ‘It Ain’t Right” reached #1 on Brown Student Radio in Providence RI which called their sound ‘Black Sabbath meets the Marvelettes. ”Ryan Anderson is recording and playing a lot in Austin now but comes from Florida via Savannah Georgia. A bunch of us saw him play at Mr. Hutto’s house party last summer and I’ve been listening to his TRAINS TAKE AWAY OLD FRIENDS ever since… ” – Jeremy Mutant TheChickenFishSpeaks. com…and of course Bad Folk is a St. Louis gem busting out of the alt-country and cow-punk entrapments to make original music with traditional instruments…and with rock-star experience from the likes of Tim Rakel Anne Tkach Joey Gavin Bruk Longbottom and Adam Hesed they deliver. They should be crammed into that front window and ready to tear through a vicious set for this one ’cause they always are…the atomic bomb indeed but with better intensions than melted faces…somebody mentioned Nick Cave and Tom Waits and David Lynch but with banjo and slide guitar…don’t forget the ladies on bass and drums sometimes saw and just get your ass out to this show.
OFF THE WALL
San Diego Union Tribune – Jul 30, 2007
This apparently came as news to fellow New Order members Bernard Sumner and Stephen Morris. They recently responded that they would continue the band without Hook telling a radio interviewer in England: “Whatever happens musically or otherwise New Order have not split up; they continue to exist. ” Not so countered Hook in the latest chapter of a rock soap opera that might best be titled “Joyless Division. ” In the latest entry on his MySpace.
Aiden Takes ‘Book The Band’ Slot for Virgin Festival By…
Free with registration – Wireless News – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jul 30, 2007
com Few up-and-coming music acts could imagine joining a concert line-up boasting such legendary names as The Police The Smashing Pumpkins and Beastie Boys. But for Seattle-based Goth punk rock band Aiden that dream is about to become reality. Aiden nabbed the most viewer and text votes in Virgin Mobile’s “Book the Band” an online and on-air production by MTV2 Kyocera Wireless and Virgin Mobile USA. These five musicians beat out four other buzz-worthy groups for an opening spot on Day Two of Virgin Festival By Virgin Mobile.
Wakestock a splash hit in spite of dead air
Toronto Star – Jul 30, 2007
"The logistical snarls pass the time though as Wakestock ? which wrapped up a four-day 10th-anniversary barrage of "extreme" sports music and youth-oriented marketing on the island yesterday after drawing what organizers called a record crowd of 39000 ? tends to provide a lot of idle moments for those not equipped to hit the always-thriving skateboard park. Even when they’re happening action sports such as wakeboarding (people hitting jumps and pulling aerial tricks whilst being towed behind a boat on a wide floating water ski) and wakeskating (people hurtling down a watery ramp on a wide floating skateboard and generally falling in a heap) require a lot of set-up lulls to deliver their visual kicks. Wait times between sets on both musical stages on Saturday were interminable undermining the festival’s aggressive bid to stud this year’s bill with "name" acts such as eccentric American metallers the Deftones hip hop luminaries De La Soul and ska-punk crowd-pleasers Goldfinger. The dirt bike daredevils on the "freestyle moto-x" circuit meanwhile were left sitting atop their jumps while some dude with a scissor lift and a chainsaw hacked out chunks of the aged trees they were hitting during their wilder ascents. The motocross antics are always a guilty polluting pleasure. But watching some beautiful old-growth foliage defiled when the cityscape across the harbour was half-obscured by a brown film was kinda horrifying. "I give you air and this is what you do to me?" exclaimed one of De La Soul’s three MCs ? I’m not sure which one because I was watching the firewood fall with everyone else ? in the middle of their spirited early-evening set… 50 for a four-day pass. Growing pains were evident in the overwhelmed concession areas the long lapses in anything of real interest to do or watch and the dismal sound accorded festival headliners the Deftones for their Saturday set. The master volume could be heard going up and down during the first two songs before whoever it was at the soundboard apparently decided to just let the bass and Chino Moreno’s vocals fight it out for dominance; not the best way to trumpet Wakestock’s first bid for big-ticket status as a music festival. Simply hanging out on the lake is obviously the big thing at Wakestock anyway and the tipsy throngs made the best of it even without much real access to the lake. You can always ride the Scrambler in Centreville to get away from it anyway. As long as you averted your eyes from the garbage strewn everywhere around the festival site.