The News Review:
- … Setback In Child-Custody Hearing – News Story | Music…
- Liars Cat Power – Music – Review – New York Times
- Monday ‘” September 17
- The gangsta vs the nerd
- Weewerks Records Showcase at Zaphod Beeblebrox
… Setback In Child-Custody Hearing – News Story | Music…
MTV.com – Sep 17, 2007
newspaper The Guardian about the death of his former Nirvana bandmate Kurt Cobain. “Kurt dying shocked me into running away from music for a while” he divulged. “I started Foo Fighters because I didn’t want to retreat. I couldn’t imagine joining another band and sitting behind the drum set because I would always think about Krist [Novoselic] and Kurt. ” Grohl also revealed that while one of the Foos’ earliest songs “I’ll Stick Around” was not directed at Cobain’s ex-wife Courtney Love he wouldn’t be surprised if similar comparisons are made over “Let It Die… Iconic punk band Operation Ivy’s 1991 self-titled compilation LP will be reissued on November 6 on Hellcat. The classic release has been remastered and will also be available for download for the first time.
Liars Cat Power – Music – Review – New York Times
New York Times – Sep 17, 2007
Eventually the singer Paul Banks allowed that it was “a very special night for us. ” In Interpol’s songs emotion is measured and constrained and anything like triumph or elation would upset the band’s neat balance of ache and mathematics. When Interpol got started in the late 1990’s it seemed thoroughly retro out to reclaim a certain niche of post-punk. Interpol’s steadily ticking eighth-note patterns on guitars and bass its unwavering drumbeats and Paul Banks’s morosely aggrieved voice all hark directly back to the mope-rock of Joy Division. Now with bands like Editors the National and Cinematics latching on to kindred late-1970’s styles Interpol sounds less like a throwback and more like the beginning of a revival. But Interpol didn’t follow Joy Division to its revelatory extremes. Interpol’s members wear natty suits onstage and its lyrics are more likely to revolve around loneliness and romance gone wrong than about overwhelming dread… Interpol stays determinedly glum and portentous. It’s easy to understand why the narrator has so much trouble holding on to a lover. Luckily Interpol’s music has pop instincts. Drones give way to melodic choruses crescendos surge and new material often appears well into a song. ” The band started its set playing behind a scrim with oversize shadows projected on white fabric and then had brief technical trouble getting the scrim removed. But even with the fabric out of the way Interpol stayed remote: better at displaying formal elegance than showing much heart.
Monday ‘” September 17
NEWS.com.au – Sep 17, 2007
30 The Wire (national current affairs). 6 Neo Voices (multicultural youth). 7 Nunga Wangga (Indigenous music and issues). 9 State of Play (performing arts). 11 The Angry Hour (punk).
The gangsta vs the nerd
Taipei Times – Sep 17, 2007
Graduation is not just West’s third album another journey in sound that takes him from 1980 to 2080 via Daft Punk samples anime porn and glitch-in-the-matrix Max Headroom sound effects. Curtis taken after the rapper’s given name Curtis Jackson was also supposed to be 50′s third release another one of his odes to violence that made him so popular in 2003. But it was never just about the music. It’s about the marketing and the hype it created. And West (the college dropout) and 50 (the walking bullet wound) have always been master marketers. Yet somehow a simple release date has become the day the nerd fought the bully soulful hip-hop fought gangster rap and good fought evil all at once. It’s a great marketing strategy… 50 can’t reach out to Coldplay’s Chris Martin without looking silly. 50 can’t stop rapping while producer Jon Brion allows harps and pianos to wander aimlessly for measures at a time such as on I Wonder. He can’t sample Daft Punk and still rap about homicide.
Weewerks Records Showcase at Zaphod Beeblebrox
Ottawa Start – Ottawa Start (press release) – Sep 17, 2007
Punk meets hillbilly. OX Saturday October 6 (Doors 7pm)Zaphod Beeblebrox.