The News Review:
- Young man killed in Moscow in attack by neo-Nazis group says
- 8 places to turn up the volume
- Five great nights at South by Southwest
Young man killed in Moscow in attack by neo-Nazis group says
International Herald Tribune – Mar 17, 2008
The Antifa anti-Nazi movement said in a blog that the 16-year-old Alexei Krylov was attacked by more than a dozen neo-Nazis armed with knives and fatally stabbed in the neck late Sunday. The attack just a few blocks away from the Kremlin occurred as Krylov and several others were heading to a punk music concert in a Moscow nightclub Antifa said. Moscow police spokesman Yevgeny Gildeyev confirmed that a young man was stabbed to death in downtown Moscow late Sunday but would not identify the victim or give any details saying the criminal probe was under way. Antifa said that a young woman also was wounded in Sunday's attack. It said that in 2006 another young man died in a similar attack by neo-Nazis outside a Moscow nightclub. Nationalist and neo-Nazi groups mushroomed after the 1991 Soviet collapse as a dramatic economic decline spread social frustration particularly among youth.
8 places to turn up the volume
Battle Creek Enquirer – Mar 17, 2008
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Five great nights at South by Southwest
Chicago Sun-Times – Mar 17, 2008
Here are my personal highlights from SXSW XXII (with more. TuesdayAlthough the official showcases didn’t start until Wednesday dozens of unsanctioned shows took place throughout the week and my SXSW experience got off to a great start at Red 7 with the underrated Shot Baker an excellent quartet working the classic Chicago punk formula and some of their heroes the reunited and reactivated Naked Raygun still the all-time champs of the rollicking rhythm metal-meets-punk riff and rousing “whoa-whoa-whoa-oh-oh-oh” chorus… The first was Houston’s Space City Gamelan an eight-piece group of young men and women dressed in black with red and white face paint who played a mix of traditional Indonesian pieces and their own “polyrhythmic psychotropic lullabies” at the Central Presbyterian Church. These mystical sounds were a welcome breather and the extreme opposite of my second high point the Marked Men. This Denton Texas quartet unleashed frenetic buzzsaw punk laced with delicious British Invasion harmonies — bubblegum garage on speed. The Marked Men had been recommended to me by Matador Records co-founder Gerard Cosloy as “the best band in the world” and while I cannot second his hyperbole the group was one of the three best bands I heard in Texas and the perfect way to end my SXSW experience.