The News Review:
- True Sounds of Liberty
- They Might Be Giants | Music Artist | Videos News Photos &…
- The Hives Guide to Becoming a Rock Star (Plus a Report From the…
- Nightlife Agenda
- Say Anything takes its ‘silly bloody and chaotic’ style on…
- Flower Punk’s Sonic Bloom
- The Ramones ‘It’s Alive 1974-1996′ Rhino
True Sounds of Liberty
PSU Daily Vanguard – Oct 11, 2007
has somehow managed to stay relatively underground for 28 years a surprising accomplishment considering their talent and energy. You can sit all day and argue about who “invented” punk music. If you do that you are nothing but a gigantic walking cliche. The Sex Pistols were mostly a noisy fashion advertisement and although The Clash was excellent their music just wasn’t that hardcore. The argument that people should be having is who really made the genre frightening and revolutionary not who has the most recognizable logo.
They Might Be Giants | Music Artist | Videos News Photos &…
MTV.com – Oct 11, 2007
Here Come the 123′s the sequel to Here Come the ABC’s appeared in early 2008. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine All Music Guide.
The Hives Guide to Becoming a Rock Star (Plus a Report From the…
Rolling Stone – Oct 11, 2007
They’re a band whose roots show through on their records despite any polished gloss that may be laid over the tunes. The first two 12″s and early singles still hold up as being raging garage-punk records with a good bit of soul and lest we forget all of these dudes flew to Memphis in 2003 to catch the Oblivians Halloween reunion. ask yourself this: how many serial killers were there in the 1960??s? one. and when did he kill? right around the time the beatles were breaking up!!!! if you get rid of bad music the amount of crazy people will DRAMATICALLY DECREASE!Bad music makes people insane.
Nightlife Agenda
Washington Post – Oct 11, 2007
We’re not sure what the setup will be but we’ll assume that DJs Natalya and Trickster will trade off sets. It might be a bit jarring to keep switching back and forth between Acid House Kings the Birthday Party Love Is All and the Teardrop Explodes.
Say Anything takes its ‘silly bloody and chaotic’ style on…
Seattle Post Intelligencer – Oct 11, 2007
com a few years ago. So it’s no surprise the Los Angeles band is now co-headlining the first MySpace Music Tour. COMING UPSAY ANYTHING HELLOGOODBYE YOUNG LOVE AND POLYSICSWHAT: MySpace Music Tour… The trek continues through late fall. Beverly Hills Calif. based MySpace is the sixth most popular English-language Web site in the world and the third most popular in the United States. The site has made instant celebrities of people such as Colbie Caillat whose debut album peaked at No. 5 on The Billboard 200 album chart over the past few weeks.
Flower Punk’s Sonic Bloom
OC Weekly – Oct 11, 2007
And they’ve managed to squeeze in one more album before 2007 ends. Their fourth studio showing in as many years Good Bad Not Evil may be the best garage record since White Blood Cells. Country psych and blues are chewed up and spit out again as gritty punk every song blessed with rickety hooks a swaggering rhythm section Cole Alexander’s frazzled singalongs and an aroma of smoke and reverb. Black Lips call their sound “flower punk” but that’s only because they don’t trust rock critics to handle the describing. “It’s got a lot to do with your line of work” says Bradley plainly. “Journalists would give us the most ridiculous titles like ‘blues country. ‘ So we just decide to call ourselves something… “I don’t think we have quite as much soul as Eric Burdon” Bradley says and laughs. He cites the 13th Floor Elevators as a big influence and explains that the country-tinged morbidity of “How Do You Tell a Child That Someone Has Died”—Evil’s standout song about explaining death to a kid—was inspired by the cassettes you pick up at a truck stop. “Have you ever heard one of those trucker compilations where a guy just talks over the music? They’re funny and dark at the same time. Black Lips ace that same trick throughout Evil. Alexander rattles off a long list of Indian tribes on the peyote-stained love song “Navajo” and sings from the perspective of young thugs on the short-but-startling anthem “Bad Kids” detailing with vocal harmonies a long rap sheet ranging from truancy to graffiti to dodging child support. It’s laugh-out-loud hilarious as well as disturbingly realistic. The raucous “O Katrina!” recasts the disastrous hurricane as a woman you’d never want to cross: “O Katrina why you gotta be mean?” “It’s supposed to be a double-entendre” Bradley says.
The Ramones ‘It’s Alive 1974-1996′ Rhino
Charleston Post Courier – Oct 11, 2007
Thursday October 11 2007 Vintage punkThe Ramones ‘It’s Alive 1974-1996′ RhinoMention punk-rock music and a few classic acts come to mind including The Sex Pistols and of course The Ramones. Fans of The Ramones remain hungry for anything connected with the band. Rhino has just released a collection of live performance footage spanning more than 20 years that will have those fans drooling with anticipation. “It’s Alive 1974-1996″ takes everything from 8mm home movies to modern video production to show The Ramones in the band’s best setting: on a stage in front of fans. The various pieces of footage are wildly uneven and varied.