The News Review:
- The Daily News
- Flogging Molly rocks Irish festival.
- The best movie soundtracks since ‘Saturday Night Fever’
- NO FREE SAMPLE CREDITS
- Victoria Hippel Joseph Vergolina
- Ben Rayner’s Reasons to live …*
The Daily News
Daily News – Galveston County – Sep 16, 2007
HamiltonThe Daily NewsPublished September 16 2007GALVESTON The tattoos that cover his forearms are almost indistinguishable under a fine mist of dried spray-paint. Nineties punk music plays from a stereo by the wooden half-pipe skateboarding ramp that divides his space at 26th Street and Ship’s Mechanic Row gallery on one side studio on the other. A retro-styled sign says “Enjoy Nic Noblique Sculpture!”On the gallery side of the ramp Noblique’s finished works gleam in the mid-day sunlight. Their bright powder-coated finishes shine like freshly waxed sports cars. On the studio side is a chaotic mix of raw materials works in progress and cans of spray paint with an old chopper parked in the center. “I don’t buy new metal” Noblique said.
Flogging Molly rocks Irish festival.
Free with registration – Times Union – AccessMyLibrary.com – Sep 16, 2007
Byline: Greg Haymes Sep. 16–ALTAMONT — “Who invited the punk rock band to the Irish festival?” asked bassist Johnny Rioux of the Street Dogs and a roar went up from the crowd at Altamont Fairgrounds on Friday night mixing with the body heat-generated steam and the clouds of dust kicked up by the mosh pit. Yes the Irish 2000 Music and Arts Festival expanded to two days for the first time in its 11-year history and Friday night’s lineup was dedicated to the bands who walk the line between Irish music and punk. In fact Friday’s nearly six-hour performance was dubbed the… Byline: Greg Haymes Sep. 16–ALTAMONT — “Who invited the punk rock band to the Irish festival?” asked bassist Johnny Rioux of the Street Dogs and a roar went up from the crowd at Altamont Fairgrounds on Friday night mixing with the body heat-generated steam and the clouds of dust kicked up by the mosh pit. Yes the Irish 2000 Music and Arts Festival expanded to two days for the first time in its 11-year history and Friday night’s lineup was dedicated to the bands who walk the line between Irish music and punk. In fact Friday’s nearly six-hour performance was dubbed the.
The best movie soundtracks since ‘Saturday Night Fever’
San Francisco Chronicle – Sep 16, 2007
” Its infectiousness is greatly eclipsed by its ridiculousness. And if there was any chance that people were going to take the picture seriously it died when Sylvester Stallone made the sequel “Staying Alive” a top candidate for the worst film of all time. But while the finished product wasn’t much the “Saturday Night Fever” soundtrack did change moviemaking in profound and mostly unfortunate ways. The Bee Gees song “Stayin’ Alive” was released to radio before the movie came out – a marketing ploy that was innovative at the time. Movie scores (“Jaws” “2001: A Space Odyssey” “Shaft”) and soundtracks for musicals (“West Side Story” “The Sound of Music”) were popular before 1977 but the film usually drove soundtrack-album sales not the other way around. “Saturday Night Fever” was the template for “The Bodyguard” “Footloose” “Top Gun” and dozens of other multiplatinum-selling albums that helped promote their respective movies. Looking back this was a bad development… The songs mostly written by Trey Parker are also extremely catchy – even more than Parker and Matt Stone’s other movie with a great profane soundtrack “Team America: World Police. Best songs: “Mountain Town” “What Would Brian Boitano Do?”6. “Repo Man” (1984): Punk rock still had a do-it-yourself mentality in the 1980s and the idea of a soundtrack with Circle Jerks and Black Flag songs couldn’t have looked too lucrative to many movie studios. But this great album that accompanied Emilio Estevez’s best movie somehow got released anyway – with a great Spanish-language version of “Secret Agent Man” thrown in for good measure. Best songs: “Repo Man Theme Song” Iggy Pop; “Institutionalized” Suicidal Tendencies.
NO FREE SAMPLE CREDITS
New York Post – Sep 16, 2007
Walter Becker and Donald Fagen along with disco duo Daft Punk Sixties' singer Laura Nyro and Sir Elton John are among the different artists West sampled to create his chart-topper "Graduation" – and are expected to get a healthy paycheck from its first week's 700000-plus sales. A 2004 law requires producers to pay original artists when reinterpreting – or sampling – their music. Experts say sampled artists usually ask for about 50 percent of the songwriting credit which would add up to a serious payday for the dozen artists West borrowed from. It is most financially advantageous to Daft Punk and Steely Dan. ITunes' current No. 1 single West's "Stronger" heavily samples Daft Punk's manic 2001 hit "Harder Better Faster Stronger.
Victoria Hippel Joseph Vergolina
New York Times – Sep 16, 2007
Vergolina who played shortstop. The smooth double-play combination also had chemistry off the field. “We also learned that we have the same love of heavy metal and punk rock music” Mr. “The bride who described her teammate as “a great player who has the most beautiful eyes I’ve ever seen” said that his great defensive plays drew her to him. “He made so many diving plays that his knees would get all busted up and so I became his nurse” she said.
Ben Rayner’s Reasons to live …*
Toronto Star – Sep 16, 2007
Wherein the disgusted reader learns that a music critic’s private tastes are much more distasteful than previously suspected. Also wherein the same critic pledges to reveal his current obsessions week by week however fleeting or embarrassing they might be. Renowned music-video auteur Anton Corbijn’s heartfelt if harrowing film biography of enigmatic Joy Division lead singer Ian Curtis and his meteoric path to suicide at 23 is as much a tragic love story as it is a subdued exercise in rock-star mythmaking thanks to a script that reverently adheres to widow Deborah Curtis’s plainspoken 1995 memoir Touching From a Distance and the exceedingly human performances of leads Sam Riley and Samantha Morton. Obviously it’s sad as hell but Control is also shot through with a surprising number of laughs (many provided by Tony Kebbell’s droll turn as JD manager Rob Gretton) and… music-press hyperbole ? but they were wedged near a beer garden between bafflingly popular mainstage attractions the Killers (don’t get it and I’m increasingly certain never will) and the similarly self-important and empty Editors on Sunday night. They’re young enough that the Strokes were probably a jumping-off point for both their music and their dilapidated fashion sense but their giddy ratchet-tight "new New Wave" dance-punk was proven more eccentric and less predictable than it first seemed. Plus bassist Chris Carr made maybe the best dig at Killers ever: "We shared a boat with the Killers on the way over. They stopped the ferry halfway. Brandon Flowers got off and walked on the water a bit. " Season two of Mr.