The News Review:
- Yuyintang comes home
- New Model Army | Music Artist | Videos News Photos & Ringtones…
- Baby boomers
- Ozzy presides over his domain
- The stage is set for ViTal
Yuyintang comes home
chinadaily.com.cn – Aug 21, 2007
The Culture Bureau sees rock and punk music as threatening to a stable society says Zhang Hai Sheng with a laugh. Brain Failure (who are apparently China’s Marilyn Manson) were shut down again the very next night in Hongzhou. As for the polar opposite reception live music has in Beijing Zhang Hai Sheng argues that the cultures of north and south China are very dissimilar and that rock music has been around for a long time in north China. He argues that many members of the police or local government may have been in college bands themselves at one time and thus they are more open about live punk music. “And they’ve had Cui Jian” says Zhang Hai Sheng.
New Model Army | Music Artist | Videos News Photos & Ringtones…
MTV.com – Aug 21, 2007
Combining the gut-level force of punk with the anthemic political fervor of U2 and The Alarm as well as the urban protest folk of Billy Bragg NMA sounded like few other bands. Read MoreFeatured… The studio album Carnival appeared from Attack Attack in August 2005; it featured Sullivan Dean Nelson Blomberg and White. EMI also announced plans to reissue expanded re-mastered editions of NMA’s back catalog. ~ Steve Huey All Music Guide.
Baby boomers
Jerusalem Post – Aug 21, 2007
“I keep telling him to quit” he says again for emphasis. So now that they’ve gotten some major media attention and released their first album the band is working on becoming major stars in the United States. “Music is in my soul and the goal is to get bigger and bigger in Israel and then go to the US and go on the “work tour” – a punk rock tour with our own bus” Amir says. Until then the three teens are working hard on the next album and making up the tests they missed at school. “I hope a lot of people buy our album so we can keep playing” Amir says. “And it would be cool to make enough money to buy new drums. For more information visit www.
Ozzy presides over his domain
Providence Journal – Aug 21, 2007
— Ozzy Osbourne’s an iffy singer but a great patriarch. His singing is technically suspect under the best circumstances and fighting a throat infection last night at the Tweeter Center it was downright awful. And the nine hours of bands that preceded him at Ozzfest demonstrated that his music doesn’t even really qualify as heavy metal anymore. Yet there was the man who made it all possible singing the songs that made it all possible — solo songs such as “Bark at the Moon” and “Crazy Train” Black Sabbath classics such as “War Pigs” and “Paranoid” as well as a few from his new Black Rain album — demonstrating the gleefully anarchic attitude that made it all possible and the sellout crowd at the free concert ate it up… Daath originally from Boston were like Behemoth chilling in their seemingly unnatural speed and power. In This Moment had moments of power but used them in the service of a basic arena-rock songwriting aesthetic the single “Beautiful Tragedy” with its U2-style guitar intro being a good example. Hatebreed from New Haven Conn. headlined the second stage and mixed hardcore punk and thrash with their metal giving more beef to the guitars and growl to the vocals (without delving into Cookie Monster territory).
The stage is set for ViTal
Belfast Telegraph – Aug 21, 2007
Tomorrow Alloy Mental: Electro punk band featuring Phil Kieran Martin Corrigan and Danny Todd. They recently played the Beach Party at Portrush and released their new album called We Have Control. Kharma 45: dance rockers who hail from Derry and Strabane consisting of Peter Doherty Glenn Rosborough Phil Curran and Shane McDevitt. Hotly tipped they recently played Oxegen and Glastonbury. New single is called Come On.