The News Review:
- Hilly Kristal; His CBGB Nurtured NY Punk Scene
- Online radio fears for its future over royalty fees for record labels.
- Andrew Murfett and Patrick Donovan
- Y’all Stars and
- Pick of the pop acts
- ‘It felt like someone had ripped out my heart’
- Gig of the week: Various Artists – Independent Armchair Theatre
Hilly Kristal; His CBGB Nurtured NY Punk Scene
Washington Post – Aug 31, 2007
The club also became a brand name for a line of clothing and accessories even guitar straps; its store CBGB Fashions was moved a few blocks from the original club but remained open. Kristal a singer and songwriter began managing downtown music clubs in the late 1950s starting at the Village Vanguard and then his own club Hilly’s on Ninth Street in the 1960s according to the Stereo Society Web site. Kristal opened CBGB in December 1973 on the Bowery in the East Village an area synonymous with poverty crime and alcohol abuse. He had hopes of making it a mecca of country bluegrass and blues — called CBGB & OMFUG for Country Blue Grass and Blues & Other Music for Uplifting Gormandizers. Most people called it CBGB’s… Most people called it CBGB’s. He found few bands to book. The club instead became the epicenter of the mid-1970s punk movement. Besides the Ramones and Talking Heads many of the other sonically defiant bands that found frenzied crowds at CBGB during those years became legendary including Smith’s group Blondie and Television. “I was on a ladder in front of the club fixing the awning in place when I looked down to notice three scruffy dudes in torn jeans and T-shirts looking up at me inquisitively” Mr. Kristal wrote in a history of the club on the CBGB Web site. ” ‘What’s going on’ or something of that nature was the question they asked.
Online radio fears for its future over royalty fees for record labels.
Free with registration – San Diego Union Tribune – AccessMyLibrary.com – Aug 31, 2007
“Why do they want to create different rules for us?” Kaloyan asked. “We’re putting our money and our necks on the line because we believe this matters — to create radio the way it used to be. ” Webcasters and the music industry particularly the major record labels have been locked in tough negotiations over the amount of royalties that webcasters must pay to stream music online. The talks started slowly but are now yielding results. Last week record companies and big webcasters such as AOL Pandora and Yahoo reached a deal on one of the more contentious issues in the negotiations by agreeing to cap the proposed minimum fee that webcasters must pay. The minimum fee was proposed on top of any per-song royalties. Record labels also offered small webcasters — those with revenue of less than $1.
Andrew Murfett and Patrick Donovan
The Age – Aug 31, 2007
Gurney says it was Oasis’ Morning Glory album thatfired up his love of rock and the band began by playing what hedescribes as a cross between the Cure and Placebo. “But we got out of high school and we were going to parties andmeeting girls and having the time of our lives. We askedourselves ‘Why are we playing this dark depressing music?’ Thenwe started playing rock. Collusion played backyard gigs for family and friends then hitthe pub circuit. By last year they had changed their name toSkybombers. They recorded an EP Sirens and swiftlysigned to respected rock label Albert Music. “At the start we never really took the band seriously” Gurneysays… If you happen to win then you loseall rights over your own music. Noone believes it is part of a trend for large companies toentice young performers with competitions that draw them intoinequitable legal arrangements. Ben Lee goes New WaveOne of the best-reviewed punk records of the year is undoubtedlyNew Wave by Florida band Against Me! Ben Lee who isself-releasing his album Ripe in two weeks liked New Waveso much he recorded a cover of the whole album. “I fell in love with the album. Like couldn’t stoplistening to it” he wrote on his website last week. “As heavy andgnarly as it sounds at times it is unmistakably a pop masterpiece.
Y’all Stars and
New York Post – Aug 31, 2007
; [212] 462-0999; motherf***ernyc. TUESDAY: The Cinematics which released debut disc "A Strange Education" in March have those melodies reminiscent of your best new-wave dance-punk years. The quartet which hails from Glasgow Scotland – now known as the land of Franz Ferdinand – headlines the Bowery Ballroom (6 Delancey St. ; [212] 533-2111) with Carina Round and Val Emmich. WEDNESDAY: You say you're not a fickle music fan so prove it by being somewhat interested in last year's best band ever Arctic Monkeys. The band performs at Rumsey Playfield (Central Park; [212] 310-6638)… The quartet which hails from Glasgow Scotland – now known as the land of Franz Ferdinand – headlines the Bowery Ballroom (6 Delancey St. ; [212] 533-2111) with Carina Round and Val Emmich. WEDNESDAY: You say you're not a fickle music fan so prove it by being somewhat interested in last year's best band ever Arctic Monkeys. The band performs at Rumsey Playfield (Central Park; [212] 310-6638). The trippy Coral opens. * I've seen the lights flicker on the Bowery with the death of CBGB and members of the Ramones but now the lights have gone out with the death of the punk club's founder Hilly Kristal. As he left the club a year ago midway through Patti Smith's set on the final night at CBGB the crowd parted standing somewhat in awe of this thin bald cancer-cursed man who did so much by giving people a place to express themselves.
Pick of the pop acts
Seattle Times – Aug 31, 2007
Sunday at Memorial Stadium. Bumbershoot has its niche attractions: performance art rock posters at Flatstock wordplay at the Seattle Spelling Bee finals. But who are we kidding? Bumbershoot is about the music. This year’s festival boasts some of the hottest acts in rock and pop. Here are our picks for the mainstage and a few of the smaller music venues. SaturdayThe Shins — 2:30 p… Gogol Bordello — 9 p. Fisher GreenThis genre-hopping gypsy-punk band is known for its live shows: One reviewer called them “a bit like the Clash having a fight with the Pogues in Eastern Europe. Panic! At the Disco — 10 p. Memorial StadiumPanic!’s emo-pop-punk is nothing groundbreaking but their theatrical live show — replete with a troupe of sexed-up circus performers — is worth the trek to the Mainstage. SundayBlack Rebel Motorcycle Club — 1:15 p.
‘It felt like someone had ripped out my heart’
Guardian Unlimited – Aug 31, 2007
To be honest when [the Joy Division song] Atmosphere came on I thought I was going to throw up. It was also crucial that “the story should be allowed to tell itself before any kind of self-expression from Anton” he says of the Dutch director whose photographs of Joy Division when he was an NME photographer set the austere modernist tone for the post-punk era. (Control is filmed in black and white. )”Ian is the central character not Anton” says Sumner. “I think people want the story. I really like the look of it… We were more youthfully idiotic than that. But we had a serious side. We stamped our personalities on the music of Joy Division and it sounded heavy. But we weren’t really heavy people. I’d had quite a tough life up to that point. I’d had to cope with a lot of death and illness in my family from a young age and that maybe gave me a bleak outlook on the world. But looking back we were flippant and playful.
Gig of the week: Various Artists – Independent Armchair Theatre
Tonight – Aug 31, 2007
They have a fierce following and one of the meanest pits in the country. Come and see why they are legends. Power-pop-punk trio Japan and I have been generating bucket-loads of buzz with the release of their debut album and their energetic live shows top.