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- Los Angeles’ legendary X proves even a punk band can age gracefull…
- Music Preview: Neon is not your average retro night
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- Gypsy punk opera extravaganza by Serbian filmmaker Kusturica hits…
- Rage Against The Machine
Los Angeles’ legendary X proves even a punk band can age gracefull…
Seattle Post Intelligencer – Mar 27, 2008
Cervenka was only 20 when she met Doe at a poetry workshop in Venice Calif. Within a year they were stars of L. ‘s explosive punk and hardcore scenes. The group had a roots-conscious sound that recalled country music of the Depression era. “I’m Coming Home” originally a poem was the first song Cervenka wrote for the band.
Music Preview: Neon is not your average retro night
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Pittsburgh Post Gazette – Mar 27, 2008
And the proper term when referring to Neon really is “subcultural” because it isn’t your usual ’80s night frequented by big-haired ladies and meat-market dudes. Instead DJ Hates-you’s following runs the gamut from 30-something alt-music types who used to haunt Oakland’s much-missed Upstage Lounge to younger punk rockers bohemians and goths. “But it’s pretty diverse” Cannon adds. “It also gets average neighborhood folks college kids and people who drive in from the suburbs. On one recent evening the crowd grew so large according to Cannon that they had to refuse admission for more than a half hour. How often do you hear about that happening at a club night that doesn’t spin Top 40 tracks? And there’s another aspect that differentiates Neon from your run-of-the-mill ’80s night — the music is almost entirely spun from vinyl records more than you’ll find at any given hip-hop event.
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NME.com – Mar 27, 2008
They have been performing in venues the length and breadth of the uk The legendary CBGBs club in New York also asked them to play and they did! Shame you missed that one but for your aural pleasure they are still performing in small to large uk venues to critical acclaim. They get their drive from these gigs feeding off the crowds raw energy and appreciation of what they are hearing they've built up a good following too almost like one of the scenes best kept secrets As for the music its like pure old school punk essence with understandable lyrics along with overtones of a hard driving Motorhead at their peak. Depth and perception change as the music progresses getting faster and faster this is the punk rock version of drum n bass its like a punk rock heart attack and a turbojet burning a hole in your brain case at the same time and if your not moving with the rest of the crowd you must be dead already. I defy you to stay still! But its not aggressive in the traditional punk sense. Theres no gobbing greenies at the crowd theres no razor blade slashing of skin or drug infused bad tempered nonsense. They bring a mature and massive sound theres little time between numbers they dont have time to listen to applause theyve still got a story to tell and you'd better be listening.
Gypsy punk opera extravaganza by Serbian filmmaker Kusturica hits…
International Herald Tribune – Mar 27, 2008
Nearly all nonprofessionals they bring a palpable freshness to their roles belting out the libretto with gusto. All songs are in the Gypsy language of Romani with French subtitles. The music veers between the accordion-driven tunes of traditional Gypsy music and harder rock rhythms played by The Garbage Serbian Philarmonica a classical orchestra and Gypsy techno-rock group The No Smoking Orchestra. Kusturica has played the guitar for the group since 1986 while his 30-year-old son Stribor is its drummer. The opera tells the tale of Perhan a Gypsy teen who leaves his village for Milan where he becomes a crime boss. It's a streamlined reworking of the plot of the marathon movie “Dom Za Vesanje” (The Time of the Gypsies) for which Kusturica won best director at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival. “It's a romantic story that I think has not lost its relevance” in the 20 years since the film's release he said.
Rage Against The Machine
Washington Post – Mar 27, 2008
This time Lefsetz — one of the music industry’s most influential analysts and certainly the loudest — is seething about the state of the concert business. Tickets are too expensive he howls. Service fees are out of line. Music fans are being “raped” by promoters. “Where is the CONCERT-GOERS’ bill of rights?” he shrieks gesticulating wildly… "See you on the streets you punk [expletive] [expletive]!!!" Rock hissed in his e-mail. But in person where the dynamics are markedly different everybody seems so.