The News Review:
- Mission In Progress – a complete fusion of pop rock and reggae
- Clinton’s tribute to punk pioneer
- Pop and Rock Listings
- New bands team up to fight racism
- Pop Life: Ready to rumble
- Our tune: Celebrities pick their ‘special’ songs
- Making music with 6 fingers 3 phones
Mission In Progress – a complete fusion of pop rock and reggae
Jamaica Observer – Apr 25, 2008
The Morgan’s are known for pushing the envelope when it comes to mixing and matching genres but Shotz is a new high and is as impressive as it is creative. The emo sensibilities speak to information within the album’s liner notes as the Morgan’s thanked their “Punk Friends” – established rock bands “New Found Glory and Good Charlotte”. “Oh by the way thanks for teaching us about punk music and making us feel at home in your world of punk rockers. Along with MH Mission lists Chris and Randy Chin as its executive producers and is for the most part an eclectic collection that should inform listeners of their evolution as a band and their appreciation of all music. Talk Back No comments have been posted.
Clinton’s tribute to punk pioneer
BBC News – Apr 25, 2008
‘Ring of steel’Mr Hooley said although he was “an old hippy” punk had been a ray of hope amid the violence on the streets of Belfast in the late 1970s. “In those days there was a ring of steel around the city” he said. “The only people you saw in the city centre at night apart from the police and army were the punks going down to the Harp Bar. “The great thing about punk was it was the first time in 10 years that the kids could get together. “It didn’t matter whether you were Protestant Catholic whether you had green orange or purple hair as long as you were punk it was fine. The Undertones one of Hooley’s prot?es headline a concert at Belfast’s Mandela Hall on Friday evening. Good Vibrations released the Undertones’ 1977 single Teenage Kicks the favourite song of legendary DJ John Peel.
Pop and Rock Listings
New York Times – Apr 25, 2008
AMERICAN MUSIC CLUB (Saturday and Sunday) Mark Eitzel’s husky weary voice holds the complete anatomy of melancholy and his band American Music Club ranges through genres to flesh out his every bleak mood from bristling cynicism to wistful ballad to folky introspection. Music Hall of Williamsburg 66 North Sixth Street Brooklyn (718) 486-5400. com; $15 in advance $17 at the door… (Sisario)THE KILLS (Thursday) Following in a long tradition of arch blues-punks this American-British male-female duo surrounds sexy corrosive riffs with no shortage of sneers and pouts romanticizing the eternal pursuit of trashy chic: “I’m bored of cheap and cheerful” sings Alison Mosshart a k a V V “I want expensive sadness. ” With Child Ballads and Telepathe. Webster Hall 125 East 11th Street East Village (212) 533-2111 bowerypresents.
New bands team up to fight racism
BBC News – Apr 25, 2008
He said: “The punk thing really was locking into reggae bands and black artists of the time. “So it was a way of going forward and saying music is for all. “That day was a very emotional day and a very uplifting day for us as musicians to see what was going on in front of us. This weekend a number of black and Asian artists are also involved in the event. None of the performers are being paid for the gig and R&B singer Jay Sean reckons it is a chance to give something back.
Pop Life: Ready to rumble
Sacramento Bee – Apr 25, 2008
In one corner you’ve got the punk rockers ripping through songs with spiky hair. And on the other side it’s the rockabilly crew taking its cues from the early 1950s: pompadour hair and motorcycle boots for the dudes and the ladies looking like Vargas pin-up girls or Bettie Page with an extra shot of attitude. All Rights Reserved… In one corner you’ve got the punk rockers ripping through songs with spiky hair. And on the other side it’s the rockabilly crew taking its cues from the early 1950s: pompadour hair and motorcycle boots for the dudes and the ladies looking like Vargas pin-up girls or Bettie Page with an extra shot of attitude. And tonight the punks and rockabilly masses are going to battle in a steel octagon cage suspended over the VFW Hall in Orangevale. OK so we’re kidding about the wrestling ring. But tonight’s show at the VFW Hall is the second edition of “Punk vs. Rockabilly” in which the two genres go mano a mano in a musical sense. The Secretions the Helper Monkeys and Fingers of Passion will throw down some punk rock.
Our tune: Celebrities pick their ‘special’ songs
Belfast Telegraph – Apr 25, 2008
She married businessnan Jonathon Crawford six months ago and they live in Belfast. She says: Johnny and I sort of came together in spite of music. He’s very much into Frank Sinatra Dean Martin and swing music. My taste is very eclectic – I’m into anything. I could be dancing round the living room on a Friday night with mates to Hendrix one minute and then the next to something punk. Jonathon and I actually met at a Fat Boy Slim concert in Kelly’s in Portrush – he was playing Right Here Right Now at the time. I can remember really getting into music around the time of my GCSEs… He’s very much into Frank Sinatra Dean Martin and swing music. My taste is very eclectic – I’m into anything. I could be dancing round the living room on a Friday night with mates to Hendrix one minute and then the next to something punk. Jonathon and I actually met at a Fat Boy Slim concert in Kelly’s in Portrush – he was playing Right Here Right Now at the time. I can remember really getting into music around the time of my GCSEs. I had pretended to like U2 to impress my brother – and I do like them – but at the beginning of that summer I started listening to The Smiths and Morrissey. I’d also just become friends with this girl who like me really liked the song The Boy With The Thorn In His Side.
Making music with 6 fingers 3 phones
Times of India – Apr 25, 2008
The Viennese trio firstgained attention in February on a video-sharing website with its music video ‘Life Is Greater ThanThe Internet’. The clipshowing a bird’s eye view of six hands wearing fingerless gloves and typing awayat three touchscreens has since been viewed over 28 million times. “It was atest we were rather surprised by all these viewings but of course it’sflattering” Seb the “drummer”said. Fascinated by thepocket-sized gadget’s possibilities the three members of the band importedApple iPhones as soon as they went on sale in the US and began experimentingwith the accompanyingsoftware. “The idea was thereeven before the software existed” said Marina an arts and communicationstudent who is the band’s singer and”pianist… Themusical phone’s only limitation is its lack of nuances: whether the player’stouch is soft or hard the sound coming out of the instrument remains the samemaking it ill-suited for classical music or jazz. “But then again why not”added Seb. In the end theiPhone is very similar to other instruments according to the three musicianswho founded a punk group 10 years ago. getElementById(“storydiv”). substring(0storycontent.