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- Pop and Rock Listings
- Labels dream of sexy singles
- … Dark Fortress & More: Metal File – News Story | Music…
- Sunday night hip-hop features POS at Whiskey Dick’s
- Bopping till they drop BB. King & Co.
- It’s music to your heirs
Pop and Rock Listings
New York Times – Aug 24, 2007
(Sisario)PELA ELK CITY JEALOUS GIRLFRIENDS (Saturday) Pela which leads this night of New York bands calls its music “pastoral punk” which means wide-open skies of bouncy bass lines and sparkling guitars. Unfortunately on its new album “Anytown Graffiti” (Great Society) it also means secondhand gloom borrowed from Interpol and the Strokes. Elk City’s cool and elegant sound draws on 1980s “dream pop” and bits of 1960s folk-rock. The Jealous Girlfriends one of the best new bands in New York float through soft and erotic clouds of guitar and keyboards that can turn grungy and turbulent.
Labels dream of sexy singles
The Age – Aug 24, 2007
English all-girl trio the Pipettes – strongly rumoured to betouring Australia at the end of the year – play PhilSpector-inspired old-fashioned pop. Their debut album We Arethe Pipettes lands in October. If cult-acts-gone-big Lily Allen and Jamie T epitomised Britishmusic last year an eccentric 22-year-old from the same scene couldbe this year’s story. Jack Penate is a goofy singer-songwriterwhose guitar-based ska-inflected punk-pop is already enjoyinglavish praise at home. His first Australian single Torn on thePlatform is on YouTube and a debut album is expected in a fewmonths. Much is expected of A Book Like This the debut albumfrom NSW brother-sister duo Angus and Julia Stone. They have signeda British record deal and been taken under the wing of Travissinger Fran Healy… Having played in Europe Japan and Britain – where theNME magazine proclaimed them the No. 1 “breaking band” -Melbourne’s rocking electronic fusion specialists Damn Arms havealmost finished an album produced by Kevin Shirley (Silverchair’sdebut album Frogstomp). Comparisons with Daft Punk are already emerging for Sydneybrother-and-sister team the Bumblebeez. Their first release in morethan three years is out next week. Prince Umberto and theSister of Illboldy rather ambitiously attempts to cram insounds “from 1920 to 2020″. Melbourne’s Whitley is already being favourably compared toBright Eyes. Whitley describes his sound as “an Australian folkmusician who’s watched way too many Wes Anderson films”.
… Dark Fortress & More: Metal File – News Story | Music…
MTV.com – Aug 24, 2007
At the same time many of the elements on Lead Sails Paper Anchor are poppier than past excursions — occasionally bordering on Linkin Park territory. “This is definitely a metal record but there’s more to it as well” Saller said. “There are rock and roll punk and even almost dance aspects. But in essence it’s a true Atreyu record. This is where we come from. This is what we are. The rest of the week’s metal news:Machine Head’s upcoming U… Colorado’s Planes Mistaken for Stars are throwing in the proverbial towel but plan on going out in style with a spate of to-be-announced farewell shows. In a statement the band blamed the split on “financial strain” and “family obligations” before adding that “we just felt it was time. Our love for each other and our music has not diminished. It will always be there.
Sunday night hip-hop features POS at Whiskey Dick’s
Tahoe Daily Tribune – Aug 24, 2007
S? A chance encounter one day at a cousins house 7-year-old Stefon discovered a bass guitar. Allowed to take it home he banged the hell out of this old hobby bass for two years without realizing he needed an amp. The bass guitar led to stef unearthing the music of punk rock. It was easy to learn and had the right aggressive energy. He now had an outlet music. Not just any music but punk rock. He knew this was for him but didnt always feel the same open arms from the scene as a black punk… The bass guitar led to stef unearthing the music of punk rock. It was easy to learn and had the right aggressive energy. He now had an outlet music. Not just any music but punk rock. He knew this was for him but didnt always feel the same open arms from the scene as a black punk. Body surfing at a festival a thirteen-and-a-half-year-old Stefon kicked a kid named Kai in the face. Two weeks later while moshing at a friends house party he kicked Kai in the face again.
Bopping till they drop BB. King & Co.
Denver Post – Aug 24, 2007
The blues guitarist who will turn a ripe old 82 on Sept. 16 is the embodiment of his genre. His impact on contemporary music popular or otherwise is so vast that measuring it seems pointless. King has been playing his songs longer than most of us have been alive starting out at Memphis radio station WDIA in 1948 and exploding from there. Almost more than any other musician he justifies the oft-overused term “living legend. ” But when King visits Red Rocks Amphitheatre on Saturday as part of his Blues Festival with Al Green and Etta James he will illustrate why the “living” part nearly overshadows the “legend. ” King is one of dozens of older artists showing the younger set how it’s done… At 92 he’s not only performing but touring and jamming with protégés like Steve Miller. He still plays every Monday at the Iridium Jazz Club in Manhattan. “We must all own up that without Les Paul generations of flash little punks like us would be in jail or cleaning toilets” the Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards said on Paul’s website. Devoutly Christian crooner Charlie Louvin 80 played the hipster-laden South by Southwest and Bonnaroo music festivals this year between dates on his national jaunt which led him through Denver and Boulder. The surviving half of the influential Louvin Brothers country duo also released a collaborative CD with a thick crop of indie artists some of them a third his age. Why — and how — does he do it? “I have a good time doing what I do because I love it.
It’s music to your heirs
Daily Mail – Aug 24, 2007
has(“lightBox”);It’s music to your heirsBy VAL HENNESSYLast updated at 17:43 24 August 2007. In her highly original and idiosyncratic memoir Lavinia Greenlawrecords the significance of music in her life from the time herfather hummed as he balanced her on his shoes and waltzed heraround the room to skipping songs piano lessons joining handsand spinning in a chanting circle round the playground to leavingchildhood behind for the heady wilderness of bubblegum popmusic… As she says: ‘Imagine ten girls in four-inch wedge heelsstomping in time to War’s Me And Baby Brother hop skip jumpCRASH. ‘Terrific! Imagine too the exhilarating shock of punk thejangling dis-chords caterwauling obscenities ear-splitting bassacid pinks and yellows stiff spiky hair and safety pins. Punkchanged the shape of Greenlaw’s world and although ‘it did not saveany whales it made itself a force for change’. Certainly Greenlaw’s nostalgic navel-gazing will resonate witheveryone who has ever danced around a handbag or played air guitar. However as a full-blown autobiography the book is too slight tooself-indulgent and often reads like notes of a work in progress orlike a therapeutic exercise. But for me it did release one particularly painful and deeplyburied memory. Shortly after my marriage (aged 21) my husband tookone sneery look at my collection of 45s and urged me to bin thelot.