The News Review:
- Music Preview: The Slits are back with a Pistols daughter
- HorrorPops wax on Kiss Kiss Kill Kill their rebellious streak and…
- >> DAUGHTER’S MUSIC DOESN’T LEAVE PUNK-ROCK DAD SEDATED…
- Music Preview: ‘Girlfriend’ put Avril Lavigne back on the…
- Sound off: Band of brothers
- Cause celeb: Legendary punk band X tours in support of sick musicians
- Now You See ‘Em page 1 – Music – Miami New Times – Miami New…
Music Preview: The Slits are back with a Pistols daughter
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Pittsburgh Post Gazette – Mar 20, 2008
Punk means you express yourself any way you can and want and don’t give a [expletive] really what anyone tells you how you’re supposed to sound. It’s part of being experimental. Punk came because of attitude even more than music. Obviously the Slits had a smooth entry into the British punk scene. “It was a tight-knit circle of people — they were all into the Slits before we even hit the stage” she says. Getting the rest of the world on board was a little tougher. The new book “Pretty Vacant: A History of UK Punk” calls that White Riot Tour (which was not racist despite what it sounds like) the first UK punk tour to actually be completed.
HorrorPops wax on Kiss Kiss Kill Kill their rebellious streak and…
Phoenix New Times – Mar 20, 2008
In any culture it doesn’t even have to be a subculture there’s a set of rules that you follow. Let me give you an easy one: punk. If you’re punk you’ve got this set of political opinions you’ve got your little outfits you can listen only to punk music. You can’t listen to Barry Manilow and if you do you put it at the back of your record collection so your cool friends don’t find it. NT: And the HorrorPops’ music is marked by breaking those rules. PD: When we started as a band we started to cross genres and combine lots of genres into one because we didn’t want to limit ourselves as a band. We wanted to be able to play all the different types of music we liked whether it was Dolly Parton or Motörhead — it didn’t matter.
>> DAUGHTER’S MUSIC DOESN’T LEAVE PUNK-ROCK DAD SEDATED…
Free Lance-Star – The Free Lance-Star – Mar 20, 2008
So I swore to myself that when I became a parent I would take my kids to concerts whenever they expressed an interest in one. Of course when I made that promise to myself I couldn’t possibly have predicted that Disney would be in the rock ‘n’ roll business pumping out bands like a doctor handing out aspirin. Against my better punk-rock sensibilities I took a deep breath and volunteered to take my daughter Lindsey as a surprise birthday present to see the Jonas Brothers last Friday at George Mason University’s Patriot Center. Arriving at the Patriot Center we were met by a sell-out crowd of 10000 screaming fans. I’d say 9987 of those were females between the ages of 8 and 50. The remaining 13 were dads like me wondering “What was I thinking?” Everywhere you looked there was a fan sporting her own creatively designed Jonas Brothers T-shirt pants skirt hat and even socks. I never experienced Beatlemania but I can only imagine that it looked something like this.
Music Preview: ‘Girlfriend’ put Avril Lavigne back on the…
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Pittsburgh Post Gazette – Mar 20, 2008
” And that’s what got me to where I am today. Some people nowadays because of the whole fame thing are so crazy they just want to be that. I was like I just want it to be about music. You and Deryck are considered part of a pop-punk scene. I wonder when you get in the car are you more likely to listen to New Found Glory and All-American Rejects or will you put on the Ramones Clash or maybe fellow Canadians like Black Mountain or Broken Social Scene?We listen to everything. Deryck loves like Elvis Costello and all that kind of stuff.
Sound off: Band of brothers
MetroWest Daily News – Mar 20, 2008
The British punk rock trio plays the Paradise in Boston Friday. More related photos. metrowestdailynews. metrowestdailynews… the indie rock scene became huge. It became like proper commercial music” Jarman said. “It still is proper commercial music and it’s very very mainstream now. We just didn’t want people to think that we are one of those bands especially in the U. where it’s easy to appeal to things like that because you hear about all these other bands that are coming out and we’re like ‘we’re not mainstream. ’ Obviously we want to do well but we want to do well on our own terms.
Cause celeb: Legendary punk band X tours in support of sick musicians
Broomfield Enterprise – Broomfield Enterprise (subscription) – Mar 20, 2008
While X has been touring sporadically the past seven years for the better part of two decades Doe has pursued a successful solo career that incorporates folk and singer-songwriter elements. The switch into X mode can be somewhat jarring the bassist says. “Playing with X is a real physical challenge” he says adding that it’s worth the effort “to bring this music to the people. And while folk and punk may seem like mutually exclusive musical styles X was always known for pushing the boundaries of punk rock incorporating folk and country into its aggressive rhythms and presaging like-minded post-punk bands like the Replacements. “Even good bands nowadays can be too derivative” Doe says. “Even though X’s influences are obvious we created a hybrid that people took to. The band’s current tour is about more than revisiting its old material.
Now You See ‘Em page 1 – Music – Miami New Times – Miami New…
Miami New Times – Mar 20, 2008
Miami Punkers the Crumbs Play — Where Else? — Churchill’sThey’re happy to remain “Dade County” trash. Cop to ItToronto’s Tokyo Police Club hits Studio A on Friday. Now You See ‘EmThe Unseen brings a little ’77-style punk to Studio A. No related articles found. 2182 –>National Features >Riverfront Times… By Randall Patterson. 0013 –>write to the editor | email a friend | print article | write your commentNow You See ‘EmThe Unseen brings a little ’77-style punk to Studio A. By Tom BowkerPublished on March 19 2008 at 10:57amEvery major city in America has a “crusty” straight-up punk band. The members sport studded leather jackets liberty spiked Mohawks and dirty jeans — the uniform popularized by early-Eighties Second Wave UK punk acts like GBH and the Exploited. Once dressed for the part they do their best to sound just like those two bands — a charging chainsaw-guitar-led musical attack with two speeds: 200 mph hardcore gallop and mid-tempo tribal circle-pit anthems. If you go to one of their shows you will probably hear at least one plan to Dumpster-dive for pizza and if you listen closely you can learn exactly how much a six-pack of Old Milwaukee costs at the nearest 7-Eleven including tax.