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- Area in Brief
- The Macon Daily – EditorsCorner News provided by The Macon Daily!
- If Madonna notta for you try these chanteuses
- Concert Wrap ‘” Dickson Street Music Festival Day 1: A musical journey
- Madonna Santogold Make Dance Records
Area in Brief
Gallup Independent – Apr 26, 2008
Coal; Info: (505) 722-0117. m: Live Punk Music with Pretend 2 Believe; benefit concert for arts council by three-man band; $5 admission; Old School Gallery 11 miles east of Ramah; Info: (505) 783-4710. Tuesday Gallup 6:30-8 p. m: Concert by Classical Guitarist Gabriel Ayala award-winning Yaqui guitarist from Tucson; free admission; Calvin Hall Auditorium UNM-Gallup. Wednesday Gallup 6 p. m: One-Eyed Doll S.
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Macon Area Online – Apr 26, 2008
I thought it was awful. “Those words sound strange coming from Nick Lowe whose early music helped pioneer the punk and New Wave sounds of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Lowe 59 was behind some of the most potent music of the era recording his own songs and writing and producing for the likes of Elvis Costello Graham Parker and The Damned. His first solo album “Jesus of Cool” was recently reissued by Yep Roc Records to commemorate the 30th anniversary of its release which some see as a landmark in the evolution of punk — fast hard rebellious rock music… That interested me much more. I wanted to do something that was a little more insidious and change things a little higher up the food chain. “Far from the nihilism or amateurish nature of punk the music on “Jesus of Cool” encompasses a variety of styles — power pop British Invasion rhythm & blues reggae or hard rock — and filters it through Lowe’s mischievous wit and irreverence. The songs are hard to confuse with punk but listeners can clearly see the source of punk’s inspiration. Lowe said that listening to the album is akin to listening to an oral version of a 30-year-old home movie. “You sort of recoil in horror from your hairstyle your clothes your antics. But despite all that we did know how to have fun back then.
If Madonna notta for you try these chanteuses
Denver Post – Apr 26, 2008
“Song for Jo” her original is an attempt at unfazed shoegazer vocals over acoustic guitar and homemade background noises. She does that really well. But the mix throughout the record seems heartily tilted toward the music and Sitek’s willowy atmospherics. Johan sson’s voice almost seems like it’s just another instrument. In many songs on the record including “No One Knows I’m Gone” good luck deciphering the actress-singer’s whispery vocals. Abigail Washburn & the Sparrow Quartet self-titled (Nettwerk out May 20)We’ve never felt safer saying this: You’ve never heard anything like this before. Abigail Washburn plays the five-string banjo and with her three friends writes music that bridges the Appalachian highlands and China’s lowlands… Granted this record’s not all pussycats and flowers but it is joyous at times and dancey throughout. Disclaimer: the Kills are a girl-boy duo that shares singing duties but Mosshart seems to be the inspired one this time out. She has all the best songs including the minimalist “Tape Song” the post- punk “Hook and Line” and “Last Day of Magic. Santogold self-titled (Downtown in stores now)In the same way that the singer M.
Concert Wrap ‘” Dickson Street Music Festival Day 1: A musical journey
nwanews.com – Apr 26, 2008
The shows weren?t delayed too long however and. The small crowd ? the band?s lead singer Jon Kelley acknowledged the sparseness by saying ?Thanks to all of you who came out all four of you? ? grew throughout the set and they were treated with a lighthearted but fun cover of the pop song ?Umbrella? by. Perhaps just the mention of an umbrella was enough to shield Fayetteville from more rain… 38 Special?s performance it was. He may be labeled as outlaw country.
Madonna Santogold Make Dance Records
NPR – Apr 26, 2008
she has a distinct sound of her own incorporating elements of West African percussion and international world music into dance-punk and new wave. After 10 years spent as an A&R representative and an R&B producer the Brooklyn singer emerged fully formed with her own self-titled album. Related NPR StoriesApr.