The News Review:
- Timeless and indestructible
- On the Beat: David Menconi on music
- Quite a journey for Cut Copy founder Dan Whitford
- The B-52s – Band – Dance-Rock – New York Times
- Sunday ‘” March 16
Timeless and indestructible
Jerusalem Post – Mar 16, 2008
Jackson should know about those bands – his music was an integral part of the new wave soundtrack of the day albeit the less threatening more melodic and acceptable side. No Sex Pistols controversies or safety pins through the cheeks for David Ian Jackson who was born on Burton-upon-Trent Staffordshire England and grew up learning piano with a focus on classical and jazz music. What he did share with the punks though was the attitude that rock had become stale boring and safe. His punchy music possessed the same belligerence satire and frustrations that punks sang about but Jackson just did it with a sophistication humor and craft that set him apart from most of his peers. His 1979 debut Look Sharp containing classics like “Is She Really Going Out With Him?” was a taste of things to come literate witty and infectiously energetic power pop that utilized his piano skills as a main instrument instead of guitar.
On the Beat: David Menconi on music
News & Observer – Mar 16, 2008
Mostly though I just marveled at the massive throngs of people in Austin all of them playing listening to and talking about music. By now SXSW is a perfect microcosm of the music industry. Fewer and fewer people pay attention to the official part of it (I didn’t go to a single panel except for Lou Reed’s keynote) because everybody’s having too much fun partaking of the sprawling decentralized mess it has become. The music business is in serious trouble and so is journalism; I don’t know anyone in either field who isn’t worried about their jobs right now… Mostly though I just marveled at the massive throngs of people in Austin all of them playing listening to and talking about music. By now SXSW is a perfect microcosm of the music industry. Fewer and fewer people pay attention to the official part of it (I didn’t go to a single panel except for Lou Reed’s keynote) because everybody’s having too much fun partaking of the sprawling decentralized mess it has become. The music business is in serious trouble and so is journalism; I don’t know anyone in either field who isn’t worried about their jobs right now. Bad news came down in Austin too when word got out that.
Quite a journey for Cut Copy founder Dan Whitford
NEWS.com.au – Mar 16, 2008
"I’m obsessed with the history of music and how that relates to music now" he says. "The aesthetics instruments and sounds that people use now in dance music in particular often come from the disco era or are even older. "I like finding a meeting point between Daft Punk and My Bloody Valentine and ELO and a lot of these things that excite me. "You can hear that in the music that we like – often you will hear a dance track converged into a guitar track and then back into something else. It’s about piecing these things together. " That journey took the band to New York’s DFA studios where Whitford found a like mind in former UNKLE and sometime LCD Sound System drummer Tim Goldsworthy who produced In Ghost Colours. For someone who began in a home studio the treasure trove of vintage instruments and analogue equipment was studio heaven for born-again techno geek Whitford.
The B-52s – Band – Dance-Rock – New York Times
New York Times – Mar 16, 2008
” “We have to jump back into the void we left behind” Mr. “We’ve gone through three different types of music eras or styles since we put out our last album.
Sunday ‘” March 16
NEWS.com.au – Mar 16, 2008
Midnight Decks in the City (jazz funk fusion). 7 – 1am Adelaide’s Best Music.