The News Review:
- No ‘Bummer’: Warped Tour’s Lyman Delves Into Film
- Robot Rocked: Underground Dillettante Goes to SF360’s Film+Club
- … Tommy Mottola Was ‘Restrictive’ – News Story |…
- Damned for all time
- Hot summer releases from Houston bands
- To Be Real page 1 – Music – SF Weekly – SF Weekly
No ‘Bummer’: Warped Tour’s Lyman Delves Into Film
Billboard – Aug 22, 2007
5 million budget Lyman tells Billboard. Early ’80s punk music will be featured throughout the film which is one reason Lyman got involved with the project. “It lends so much to the music history that I grew up with” says Lyman who grew up working in the ’80s L. As such the Web sites and MySpace pages for Warped Tour and Taste of Chaos are being used as promotional tools for “Endless Bummer.
Robot Rocked: Underground Dillettante Goes to SF360’s Film+Club
San Francisco Chronicle – Aug 22, 2007
“I want that outfit for Burning Man” Jesse sighed. The sound was awesome. It wasn’t Daft Punk music but it was heavy on vibrating pulsing sounds and the occasional acoustic ballad. Not a film to watch at home. it does help to have the room shake… it does help to have the room shake. In a way the piece was a reverse Gondry film with the visuals — the monotony of the road and rolling desert dunes — driving the soundtrack rather than vice versa. The unavoidable problem for this viewer (and many many others in the room) was that the “action” was all set in Inyo County — which looks a hell of a lot like the roads tumbleweed-dotted expanses and er playas at a certain festival in Nevada. A guy behind me was getting restless with the desert imagery about 60 minutes into the film and started grumbling “Burning Man Burning Man.
… Tommy Mottola Was ‘Restrictive’ – News Story |…
MTV.com – Aug 22, 2007
Wal-Mart is the latest retail giant to unveil an online music store aimed at challenging Apple’s iTunes by offering DRM-free music. The Wall Street Journal reported that Wal-Mart is selling the unfettered tracks from two major labels Universal Music Group and EMI for 94 cents a piece and $9. The songs can play on almost any portable music device including iPods and iPhones… He’s even cooked up his own cover for the effort Ben Lee Sings Against Me! New Wave — it replaces the fearsome panther on the Florida punk band’s original with a less ferocious kitty cat. Devra Robitaille one of Phil Spector’s ex-employees testified Tuesday that he once threatened her at gunpoint when she attempted to leave his house.
Damned for all time
Prague Post – Aug 22, 2007
”The Damned have always had a different ethos. “I thought the original thing about punk was punk doesn’t have a set of rules” Vanian says. “If you’re going to make music anything’s possible. ”In his other project Dave Vanian and the Phantom Chords Vanian leads by example writing songs as if he had been teleported back to the beginning of the rockabilly era. Meanwhile Captain Sensible has taken his voice from grandstanding on stage to a party platform — a political party that is. He describes the UK’s Blah! Party as an “anti-politician party: It’s not about getting elected it’s about getting members.
Hot summer releases from Houston bands
Houston Chronicle – Aug 22, 2007
Available at Soundwaves Sound Exchange and Vinal Edge. Sideshow Tramps Medicine ShowThis band of rabble-rousers used to be known as the Medicine Show and used to throw down some wild Monday-night parties at Helios. The name has changed and the Helios parties are over but the music is as good as ever. The Tramps’ folk-Americana-blues-punk m?nge was given a careful treatment in the studio ably capturing the band’s electrifying live performance. Standouts include John Went Up to Heaven a knee-slapping bluegrass tune; the gypsy-jazz feel of Funeral Song; and a bit of rockabilly on Rag Tag Mess Around. With a running time of just over an hour you’ll get your money’s worth on this exuberant musical tome about life death sex and religion. The icing on the cake is the glorious 9-minute tribute to vodka featuring Two Star Symphony.
To Be Real page 1 – Music – SF Weekly – SF Weekly
SF Weekly – Aug 22, 2007
“DJ culture was prevalent and a lot of sampling was going on. What’s around me now among my peers — musicians and artists — is a struggle to escape these feedback loops of pop culture. Everything has to be punk or post-punk or Beatles-esque or Hank Williams crossed with Cyndi Lauper; everything has to have a genre and a reference point. ” Watson who has played his fair share of roots music confronts this referential instinct on his third solo album Aficionado. “I feel like it’s a critical point in our culture when we can’t seem to get past that. On the one hand I’m really reverent of the past in my music. That makes it a special challenge to throw down the gauntlet and say “We’ve gotta do something new… What’s around me now among my peers — musicians and artists — is a struggle to escape these feedback loops of pop culture. Everything has to be punk or post-punk or Beatles-esque or Hank Williams crossed with Cyndi Lauper; everything has to have a genre and a reference point. ” Watson who has played his fair share of roots music confronts this referential instinct on his third solo album Aficionado. “I feel like it’s a critical point in our culture when we can’t seem to get past that. On the one hand I’m really reverent of the past in my music. That makes it a special challenge to throw down the gauntlet and say “We’ve gotta do something new. ‘” Which isn’t to say that Aficionado lacks clearly defined reference points.