The News Review:
- Disbanded punk band Face to Face reuniting briefly
- Chiodos | Music Artist | Videos News Photos & Ringtones | MTV
- Anti-Flag goes beyond punk-rock comfort zone
- … For Mixtape Hiatus: Mixtape Monday – News Story | Music…
- East Village Opera Company
- ‘Troubadour’ (MCA Nashville)
Disbanded punk band Face to Face reuniting briefly
Press-Enterprise – Mar 31, 2008
"We felt like we needed to completely kill the band to pursue the other creative projects we wanted to do" Keith said. Story continues below… Fans can stream the album for free or download it for $5. "It’s a cool way to be able to take the music directly to the people" he said. The album’s spectrum most resembles the indie-rock leanings on Face to Face’s "Ignorance Is Bliss" album. Keith is doing a solo tour and will play Los Angeles and San Diego at the end of May. He said his new material won’t make it into Face to Face’s sets. Despite the band reuniting for shows Keith said there won’t be any new music coming out under the Face to Face moniker.
Chiodos | Music Artist | Videos News Photos & Ringtones | MTV
MTV.com – Mar 31, 2008
The release along with the band’s energetic and powerful live show helped bolster a notable local following. They next self-recorded and produced the seven-song The Heartless Control Everything in McManaman’s bedroom which was subsequently issued by Ann Arbor-based indie Search and Rescue in January 2003. Following the release the guys hit the road hard trekking across the nation seven times over including shows with… Owens was also involved for a time in the rotating cast of musicians that made up the Sound of Animals Fighting. After returning to the studio this time with producer Casey Bates the band titled their new album Bone Palace Ballet after a book of poems by Charles Bukowski and scheduled to release it in September 2007. ~ Corey Apar All Music Guide.
Anti-Flag goes beyond punk-rock comfort zone
AZ Central.com – Mar 31, 2008
“In the symphony a tympani is something that’s played by guys in tuxedos who have gone to school for years” Sane says. “And our point was that anybody can make art with anything if they put their mind to it and are creative about it. So we wanted to take a genre of music that is put up on a pedestal and tarnish it kind of and make it our own bring it down to the street level. Visconti has said of the album “I always wanted to produce a punk album but this isn’t it. ” Or is it? “If you strip away the added elements of the orchestral instruments and the little kids singing” Sane says “it still sounds like Anti-Flag. I think what Tony was looking to make was the Ramones – a guitar amp a bass amp plug in turn everything up and rock. I think that’s what he thought he was getting into and then he ended up getting into something very different than that… “And our point was that anybody can make art with anything if they put their mind to it and are creative about it. So we wanted to take a genre of music that is put up on a pedestal and tarnish it kind of and make it our own bring it down to the street level. Visconti has said of the album “I always wanted to produce a punk album but this isn’t it. ” Or is it? “If you strip away the added elements of the orchestral instruments and the little kids singing” Sane says “it still sounds like Anti-Flag. I think what Tony was looking to make was the Ramones – a guitar amp a bass amp plug in turn everything up and rock. I think that’s what he thought he was getting into and then he ended up getting into something very different than that. An undeserved backlash is sure to ensue but Sane is pretty sure most fans will really like it.
… For Mixtape Hiatus: Mixtape Monday – News Story | Music…
MTV.com – Mar 31, 2008
“Don’t underestimate nobody. He’s a big dude but that’s dead weight. He thought he was just gonna come in there and get an easy run try to punk me. ‘Yo you got a problem with me?’ That sh– don’t scare me. I’m from Brooklyn; that don’t put no fear in my heart. Size don’t mean nothing. Like I said that’s dead weight… Bun B’s second solo LP II Trill is coming in less than a month and the first single called “That’s Gangsta” features Sean Kingston. ” ‘Gangsta’ is still doing real good” Bun said at the South by Southwest music festival earlier in March. “We’re gonna shoot that video just waiting for Sean to get back from overseas to get that movin’. Finin’ to start getting some viral videos together — just trying to stay focused and grind it out. “Damn I’m Cold” features Lil Wayne while Mya sings on “Good II Me. ” Scott Storch produced “I Luv That.
East Village Opera Company
Washington Post – Mar 31, 2008
So how about mixing them together? Well that’s also been tried more than once. But an electro-punk tradition that stretches all the way back to Suicide’s 1970 live debut doesn’t stop… Ghostland is singer Aaron Behrens who sometimes plays guitar and keyboardist-producer Thomas Ross Turner who occasionally plays drums. When both turned to their more traditional instruments the resulting sound recalled ’70s punkabilly. But when the backing was all electronic the music veered toward ’80s house music. There were also hints of the two men’s pasts: Behrens’s in a metal band and Turner’s as a. The group didn’t entirely convey the funk of its recordings; such potentially slinky songs as “Freeheart Lover” and the vocoder-enhanced “Stranger Lover” were pushed toward respectively thumping rock and pounding techno.
‘Troubadour’ (MCA Nashville)
New York Times – Mar 31, 2008
Strait 55 is the genial pious faithful casually virile Texan whose music leans toward old-fashioned honky-tonk but doesn’t rule out other possibilities. With a voice full of classic country slides and breaks he often sings about loyalty and attachment: to a woman he loves or to a woman who left him that he can’t forget. Stability counts both in the songs he chooses and in his career. Strait gets more au courant than usual on “Troubadour… Intriguingly the album includes two back-to-back renditions of the same brokenhearted complaint “Remember When. ” One can safely be called a Danger Mouse special with its moody cadence and murky atmospherics. Then comes the straight-up Black Keys edition: a savage bitter concoction built on a snarling punk-rock riff. There’s no question that this second version of the song is better but it also builds naturally on the first. It’s clear that both readings belong on this record which could reasonably be considered a shared achievement.