The News Review:
- WZBC celebrates 35th anniversary
- The Wombats | Music Artist | Videos News Photos & Ringtones |…
- Music Review: Santogold’s debut shows she’s no MIA clone
- Music festivals: the best of the rest
- 90000 fans Love Music Hate Racism
- Paramore Jimmy Eat World
- STREET BEAT CHIC
WZBC celebrates 35th anniversary
The Heights – The Heights (subscription) – Apr 28, 2008
The station as WZBC publicity director David DeKeyser A&S ‘08 explained originally was album-oriented often playing popular adult-rock music. “It was originally like Bruce Springsteen what you would hear on the other radio stations at the time” DeKeyser said. In 1977 another local radio station began to play punk music and WZBC followed suit playing other more experimental music. Spearheaded by then general manger of the station Herb Scannell BC ‘79 the station began playing music that wasn’t featured on regular FM stations at the time. Scannell who later became president of Nickelodeon Networks and vice chairman of Viacom’s MTV Networks and is now the CEO of Next New Networks was instrumental in starting the evolution WZBC. “From one year to the next it went from listening to the pop of the time to Velvet Underground and Sex Pistols. Since then it has shifted in exactly what it plays but it has always tried to cater to lesser-known underground music” DeKeyser said.
The Wombats | Music Artist | Videos News Photos & Ringtones |…
MTV.com – Apr 28, 2008
Enter the Wombats a three-man cross between Art Brut’s Wire-like fractured art-punk and Half Man Half Biscuit’s wicked Liverpudlian humor. Not only are the Wombats fellow.
Music Review: Santogold’s debut shows she’s no MIA clone
San Francisco Chronicle – Apr 28, 2008
Both employ Diplo and Switch as producers. Both women have oodles of hipster cred. And both deal in hybrid music that’s simultaneously retro and futuristic. ’s dance blend dabbles in bhangra dancehall hip-hop and grime Santogold conflates her power-punk hip-hop reggae and pop-rock influences into an entirely different stew… ’s dance blend dabbles in bhangra dancehall hip-hop and grime Santogold conflates her power-punk hip-hop reggae and pop-rock influences into an entirely different stew. Her self-titled solo debut shows off her stellar songwriting chops (she wrote most of R&B rocker Res’ 2001 debut “How I Do”) and a daring willingness to surround her high-pitched wail in an array of noisy clanging electro-beats and hard-driving melodies. The guitar-infused first single “L.
Music festivals: the best of the rest
Telegraph.co.uk – Apr 28, 2008
Pinkpop Festival Landgraaf May 30-June 1 Pinkpop annual rock festival is held on Whitsun weekend (Pinksteren in Dutch hence the name) in Landgraaf 134 miles from Amsterdam. Pinkpop is in Guinness World Records as the longest-running music festival in the world the first being held in 1970. Like Glastonbury Pinkpop has the unfortunate knack of being wet and muddy but this doesn’t stop the outlandish Dutch from letting their hair down. The huge open-air event which is attended by a 60000-strong crowd includes about 40 bands spread over four stages. This year the line-up includes Foo Fighters Queens Of The Stone Age and Rage Against The Machine… If an act is hot it will be on the bill the lavatories are respectable and compared with that offered at other festivals the food is à la carte. V is split into two sites – Hylands Park Chelmsford and Weston Park Staffordshire – with the line-up alternating over the two nights. If you want creature comforts and don’t want to fight through hordes of goths and punks V is the festival for you. Chelmsford’s proximity to London guarantees a host of celebritiess and day attendees but camping is available. V is the only English summer event at which Muse and Amy Winehouse will be appearing.
90000 fans Love Music Hate Racism
BBC News – Apr 28, 2008
The festival was headlined by The Good The Bad and The Queen and also featured sets by Hard-Fi and The View. The weather could have been better for the crowds although some sunshine eventually broke through the rainclouds as Damon Albarn’s band took to the stage. There were a number of political speakers including British director Gurinder Chadha who also attended the original Rock Against Racism gig in 1978. Also hanging around backstage area were Fyfe Dangerfield from Guillemots Carl Barat of Dirty Pretty Things and Ed Larrikin… The punk frontman recreated his performance of The Clash’s White Riot which he performed at the Rock Against Racism four decades ago. McConnell also played with Reverend And The Makers’ Jon McClure who revealed they are working in the studio with former Arctic Monkey Andy Nicholson and a British-Iraqi rapper called Lowkey. It was a big day for The Clash’s Paul Simonon to return to the same venue 30 years on with his new band The Good The Bad and The Queen as headliners once again. Organisers confirmed Morrissey had donated £75000 to the event after a sponsorship deal fell through. None of the artists which included Roll Deep Bashy and Jay Sean were paid to perform.
Paramore Jimmy Eat World
Washington Post – Apr 28, 2008
Collins who appeared with Amy Speace an artist on Collins’s Wildflower Records talked about her beginnings as a pianist and how songs such as "Goodnight Irene" pulled her away from classical music. She recalled playing Gerde’s Folk City in New York and seeing a 13-year-old.
STREET BEAT CHIC
New York Post – Apr 28, 2008
But I love the colors and the textures of 'El Topo' bandits. I'd like to dress like a Don Van Vliet painting. "What place does fashion have in music? "For me it's the whole thing that moves me – the attitude the look and the sound. When I was a kid I chose records at the record store by looking at the sleeve. If the band looked 'cool' to me I bought the record… It's chic well-made and relatively well-priced. She's a punk with a love of structure. And Geoffrey Beene. He's unexpected has a sense of humor and again he knows how to cut clothes. I'd love to wear the new Balenciaga collection or the new Balmain. That stuff is incredible.