The News Review:
- Music Preview: The Lowe down on a power-pop veteran finding a sound…
- Cartel doesn’t live up to singer’s talk
- Music Preview: Local artist unveils an inconvenient sound
Music Preview: The Lowe down on a power-pop veteran finding a sound…
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Pittsburgh Post Gazette – Apr 24, 2008
Unfortunately due to these various dramas that were happening to me in my private life I kept getting knocked out of the groove. I lost both of my parents. They were ancient so it wasn’t expected but it still was not much fun. And much to my astonishment I had a little boy who turned up rather late in life especially to someone like myself who led a life of almost total selfishness up until then and everything was marvelous and I came and went as I pleased. All of that has kind of bitten the dust and I’m awash in like school fees and God knows what [laughs]. But it has its compensations. This is called “At My Age.
Cartel doesn’t live up to singer’s talk
Penn State Digital Collegian – Apr 24, 2008
If Cartel is leading any sort of musical revolution then you can call me King George. If he’s trying to revolutionize Pugh is in the wrong genre for two reasons. First pop punk is a style of music in which an affected vocal style has always masked a lack of singing ability. Certainly there are good singers within the genre — and Pugh is one of them — but it doesn’t offer a lot of room to show off. Second punk music — the forebear from which pop punk was derived — was supposed to be revolutionary from the get-go. And in a lot of ways it was. What we have now though is watered down and innocuous… First pop punk is a style of music in which an affected vocal style has always masked a lack of singing ability. Certainly there are good singers within the genre — and Pugh is one of them — but it doesn’t offer a lot of room to show off. Second punk music — the forebear from which pop punk was derived — was supposed to be revolutionary from the get-go. And in a lot of ways it was. What we have now though is watered down and innocuous. Most worrisome it champions commercialism over any actual innovation. I’m not trying to knock Pugh here.
Music Preview: Local artist unveils an inconvenient sound
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Pittsburgh Post Gazette – Apr 24, 2008
More information: 412-681-5449. Beginning in Baltimore as a writer in the late ’60s his music began as folk song progressing to free-form improvisation and musique concrete (tape manipulation of sound) while he also ignited an interest in experimental filmmaking in 1974. Following a long and storied history as avant-garde raconteur in the Charm City he decided to move to Pittsburgh in 1996 after local avant-garde film collective Orgone Cinema brought him twice to town for presentations. “I was looking for a new city in the U. to live in and [Orgone] convinced me that Pittsburgh was the place to be” recalls Tent… There’s a greater working-class solidarity here than in other cities — a subconscious feeling of a strong labor history. If you get the idea that radical politics might inform much of Tent’s musical and visual work you’d be on target. He labels himself as an anarchist but not in the sense of violent overthrow or even Anti-Flag’s pat punk-rock slogans. There’s even a hint of libertarianism in his philosophy. “People should take responsibility for themselves and not be passive slaves — what psychologist Louis Yablonsky called ‘robopaths’ or those allowing themselves to be controlled and shaped by external forces. Most of Tent’s creations in fact are imbued with his advocacy for individualist critical perception — when one encounters his confrontational intellectual methods one is always encouraged to think.