The News Review:
- PRINCE OF THE PUNKS IS DEAD
- Punk’s in the past for solo Siouxsie
- Classic pop reappraised by the Magazine
- Dairy-Free Delights
- Punk doesn’t mean much to Good Charlotte
PRINCE OF THE PUNKS IS DEAD
New York Post – Aug 30, 2007
"I thought it would be a whole lot of fun to have my own club with all this kind of music playing there. Unfortunately or perhaps fortunately things didn't quite work out the way I'd expected" Kristal wrote in his history of CBGB. Kristal was an unlikely avatar of punk music. "At first they didn't play so well" he once said of the seminal punk bands that came to CBGB in the mid-1970s. "I certainly didn't love every band that played CBGB's but I did love to encourage them to do their own thing to challenge the establishment. " He became a beloved figure to the performers who used his small venue as a launching pad to stardom. "In an era when disco was the mainstream Hilly took a chance and gambled" said Ramones drummer Marky Ramone.
Punk’s in the past for solo Siouxsie
The Australian – Aug 30, 2007
It’s like you’ve been robbed of this person. But it’s not the person it’s the disease you hate. " Thinking back she associates music with happiness albeit in a complicated way. "It was like the classic Tom and Jerry cartoon where they’re getting on fine when the music’s playing and the second it stops they’re at it again. I remember when I was young feeling really dismissive but later I knew there was this other side: he read to me things like the Just So Stories. "He was educated; he had all these ideas a great sense of humour. Apparently he invented a tropical-disease cure: I’ve only just found that out… People forget it was an attitude a mind-set reacting to what was going on in the world in music at that time. You can’t take that and place it now: that would just be mimicry. It’s weird when you hear things like ‘This is the new punk rock. ‘ They’re so obsessed with looking back. I mean after Bill Grundy forget it. Once it hit the tabloids it became a cartoon. People doing their own thing: that’s punk.
Classic pop reappraised by the Magazine
BBC News – Aug 30, 2007
Casio keyboardsBut as the scandals around the band multiplied Anarchy In The UK grew in stature – and in menace. Its performance on a boat by the Houses of Parliament on Jubilee Day in 1977 ended with the usual beatings and press coverage. And despite the ugly disintegration of the band Anarchy remained more or less inviolable as ex-punks became music critics insisting on the import of the heady days of sedition. The song even inspired a 500-page tome from Harvard University Press. In Lipstick Traces Greil Marcus depicted Johnny Rotten as a channel for the voices of history’s malcontents.
Dairy-Free Delights
Jewish Exponent – Aug 30, 2007
The kosher baker’s best option when meat was served was to replace butter with margarine which traditionally yielded flat flavor and texture ranging from dry to gooey — sometimes in the same cake. But home bakers now can produce luscious desserts equal if not better in taste than their buttery counterparts without margarine. Isa Chandra Moskowitz a vegan and punk-music aficionado since the 1980s is a co-author of Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World: 75 Recipes for Cupcakes That Rule (Marlowe & Company 2006) her second cookbook. While Moskowitz 34 has been on the vanguard of American social and culinary movements she has spent two decades experimenting with dairy-free baking. The results could revolutionize pareve pastries raising them from a compromise to a contender when pitted against dairy items. For ethical reasons Moskowitz avoids cooking with eggs a boon to those with high cholesterol or an intolerance to the protein in eggs. In lieu of dairy products she turns to full-fat soy milk and non-hydrogenated coconut and canola oils.
Punk doesn’t mean much to Good Charlotte
Georgia Straight – Aug 30, 2007
“It was everybody else that said ‘Good Charlotte thinks they’re punk and they suck cause they’re not. ‘ I’ll be the first to wave my hand and say ‘You’re right we’re not punk and we never have been. ‘ I personally can’t name one punk band that’s been an influence to me. I never listen to that music I’ve never been into it and I was shocked when we started to get lumped in with pop-punk bands. “I mean Good Charlotte as the end of punk?” Martin pauses to snort derisively. “I dunno man” he says. “I think it ended way before that.