The News Review:
- … Offer Pre-Sale Tickets With Digital Purchase Daft Punk…
- Dead City Dregs: St. Louis’ finest punk
- Punks and Posers in China
- Remaking a Punk Classic from Memory
- … ‘Bringing The Noise’ With R. Kelly – News Story |…
- … Hogan’s Son Injured In Car Crash – News Story | Music…
- Daft Punk Reveals Live Album Track List
… Offer Pre-Sale Tickets With Digital Purchase Daft Punk…
Rolling Stone – Aug 27, 2007
? Those who preorder the album via Apple?s digital service will be given a password for Ticketmaster. com that would allow them to scoop up Foo tickets before the general public. Daft Punk fresh off playing. The set will include twenty-seven songs from their hit-filled Paris concerts this summer.
Dead City Dregs: St. Louis’ finest punk
Current – Aug 27, 2007
Fans of The Creepy Crawl have probably caught a Dead City Dregs set as they have opened for bands such as The Tossers and Street Dogs. Despite the poor turn out Dead City Dregs put on a solid set playing songs from their self-released demo CD and throwing out new music to the fans. The music of Dead City Dregs is straight-up punk. There are no pop melodies or hardcore screams just hard fast punk rock hearkening back to the underground strength that punk began with. Even without the pop influence however Dead City Dregs could definitely find a niche on mainstream radio. Their songs are catchy and fun like The Offspring without crossing the pop-punk line. While diversity is generally something I look for in my music every genre has its place and true punk is being lost between hardcore and punk pop.
Punks and Posers in China
Washington Post – Aug 27, 2007
I gravely doubt if the Chinese teenagers know what punk rock is really about rebellion anarchy anti-establishment. It is unfair to say that they do. Most teen rockers live with their parents obey their parents and have absolutely no money of their own. They have therefore no true concept of spiritual freedom. When one puts a slice of reality on the table the rebellious teenager usually pulls a blank stare steps back from you and pretends to be stupid… And the upper class dare not take part in such activities. There is however sugary very sugary pop music and it is everywhere. I have yet to listen purchase or see anything like altenative music in China and I have looked hard. I gravely doubt if the Chinese teenagers know what punk rock is really about rebellion anarchy anti-establishment. It is unfair to say that they do. Most teen rockers live with their parents obey their parents and have absolutely no money of their own.
Remaking a Punk Classic from Memory
NPR – Aug 27, 2007
” The end result finds the songs all accounted for yet with wildly reworked arrangements that force a double-take from even those most familiar with the original works. For fans of Damaged it’s hard not to marvel at the similarities while noticing the many differences. On the title track as with much of the record Longstreth neatly entangles crisp guitar playing a chorus of female voices and a sturdy back beat and takes the songs far away from punk and into less easily labeled territory. The song mixes the soaring vocal heroics of soul the bite of ’60s rock and subtle allusions to the dance grooves of Afrobeat as Longstreth’s voice channels Marvin Gaye and Bob Marley via Antony & The Johnsons. While both albums draw from difficult political eras the music hardly feels hopeless or brooding as The Dirty Projectors’ reliance on pop helps couch the statements of Rise Above in optimism. Hearing this version it’s intriguing to hear the rage of Black Flag’s original wash away and reveal more of a plea for change… On the title track as with much of the record Longstreth neatly entangles crisp guitar playing a chorus of female voices and a sturdy back beat and takes the songs far away from punk and into less easily labeled territory. The song mixes the soaring vocal heroics of soul the bite of ’60s rock and subtle allusions to the dance grooves of Afrobeat as Longstreth’s voice channels Marvin Gaye and Bob Marley via Antony & The Johnsons. While both albums draw from difficult political eras the music hardly feels hopeless or brooding as The Dirty Projectors’ reliance on pop helps couch the statements of Rise Above in optimism. Hearing this version it’s intriguing to hear the rage of Black Flag’s original wash away and reveal more of a plea for change.
… ‘Bringing The Noise’ With R. Kelly – News Story |…
MTV.com – Aug 27, 2007
Listen up punk-rockers: Unreleased and rare tracks by Panic! at the Disco Gym Class Heroes the Used Cute Is What We Aim For Sparta Head Automatica and more fill up Press Play: Volume 1 a new comp that was put together by Photo Finish and Alternative Press. A portion of the proceeds from the September 25 release will go to the Keep a Breast Foundation a nonprofit organization that fights breast cancer… Music martial arts and chess. how could members of the Wu-Tang Clan not be involved? RZA and GZA are participating in the Hip-Hop Chess Foundation’s first-ever Chess Kings Invitational set for October 13 at the San Francisco Design Center. The rappers will talk on the tournament’s Life Strategies panel about how music martial arts and chess — activities the organization uses to promote nonviolence — have affected their lives… how could members of the Wu-Tang Clan not be involved? RZA and GZA are participating in the Hip-Hop Chess Foundation’s first-ever Chess Kings Invitational set for October 13 at the San Francisco Design Center. The rappers will talk on the tournament’s Life Strategies panel about how music martial arts and chess — activities the organization uses to promote nonviolence — have affected their lives.
… Hogan’s Son Injured In Car Crash – News Story | Music…
MTV.com – Aug 27, 2007
Listen up punk-rockers: Unreleased and rare tracks by Panic! at the Disco Gym Class Heroes the Used Cute Is What We Aim For Sparta Head Automatica and more fill up Press Play: Volume 1 a new comp that was put together by Photo Finish and Alternative Press. A portion of the proceeds from the September 25 release will go to the Keep a Breast Foundation a nonprofit organization that fights breast cancer… Music martial arts and chess. how could members of the Wu-Tang Clan not be involved? RZA and GZA are participating in the Hip-Hop Chess Foundation’s first-ever Chess Kings Invitational set for October 13 at the San Francisco Design Center. The rappers will talk on the tournament’s Life Strategies panel about how music martial arts and chess — activities the organization uses to promote nonviolence — have affected their lives… how could members of the Wu-Tang Clan not be involved? RZA and GZA are participating in the Hip-Hop Chess Foundation’s first-ever Chess Kings Invitational set for October 13 at the San Francisco Design Center. The rappers will talk on the tournament’s Life Strategies panel about how music martial arts and chess — activities the organization uses to promote nonviolence — have affected their lives.
Daft Punk Reveals Live Album Track List
Billboard – Aug 27, 2007
9 show at Coney Island in Brooklyn N. Daft Punk played its first show in nine years at the 2006 Coachella Festival and positive word-of-mouth in its wake was a huge contributing factor to the success of its recent North American tour. Based on Billboard estimates the brief run grossed in the neighborhood of $3 million and played to more than 60000 fans. Daft Punk will close out the year with performances at Vegoose in Las Vegas (Oct. 27) Mexico City (Oct. 31) and three December shows in Japan… We really underplayed” the group’s agent John Pleeter of CAA tells Billboard. “The philosophy behind it in as far as the show goes was to tease the marketplaces and leave people wanting more. “The thing we focused on is what you get out of the show: an intense experience of music lights and robots with a thin line between fiction and reality” Daft Punk principal Thomas Bangalter tells Billboard. “That is really the concept of this tour which was not the concept of the stuff we were doing 10 years ago. CM8ShowAd(“Middle”); Buzz is also growing for the film “Electroma” an homage to low-budget science-fiction movies that builds on the robot motif. In it two crew members fill the roles Bangalter and partner Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo play onstage. The movie is something of a cult favorite in France where it has been playing to packed midnight screenings and just premiered Aug.