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- Opposites attract
- Millencolin | Music Artist | Videos News Photos & Ringtones |…
- Steve Winwood | Music Artist | Videos News Photos & Ringtones |…
- Coachella Builds a Bigger Game
- Fall Out Boy | Music Artist | Videos News Photos & Ringtones |…
- The Celtic-klezmer Connection
- Santogold: Santogold < Music | PopMatters
Opposites attract
Tribune Review – Apr 29, 2008
Elise Neill of West View got together with her husband John years after they attended the same church group in high school. Back then they never would have predicted their future: John had a mohawk and played in a punk-rock band and Elise was a preppy oboe player in the band. Today John Neill looks mainstream but he still pulls out his skateboard every now and then and listens to his old-time punk music like the Sex Pistols. He also has a kooky sense of humor while Elise Neill is more serious and strict with their kids: Asia 5 and Zachary 7. The two have broadened each other’s horizons especially musically. “Now I’ve been opened up to a new world of new music stuff that I wouldn’t have heard before” says Elise Neill 36. “On the other side he’s starting to get an idea of more symphonic music.
Millencolin | Music Artist | Videos News Photos & Ringtones |…
MTV.com – Apr 29, 2008
Machine 15 followed three years later. ~ Jason Ankeny & Corey Apar All Music Guide.
Steve Winwood | Music Artist | Videos News Photos & Ringtones |…
MTV.com – Apr 29, 2008
Traffic broke up in 1974 but instead of going solo right away an exhausted Winwood spent the next few years as a session musician relaxing on his Gloucestershire farm during his spare time. He also featured prominently as a collaborator with Japanese percussionist Stomu Yamash’ta appearing on his hit jazz fusion LP Go in 1976. When Winwood finally returned with his self-titled solo debut in 1977 Britain was in the midst of the punk revolution and the music itself was somewhat disappointing even to Winwood himself. Dismayed he returned to Gloucestershire and all but disappeared from music. He returned in late 1980 with the little-heralded Arc of a Diver a much stronger effort on which he played every instrument himself. Modernizing Winwood’s sound with more synthesizers and electronic percussion Arc of a Diver was a platinum-selling hit in the U.
Coachella Builds a Bigger Game
New York Times – Apr 29, 2008
Everything’s becoming what it’s not: punk developing into hippie rock into disco. Pop and its audiences keeps relaxing its boundaries. Coachella music is only divisible by roughness and sheen the raw and the cooked. There was a little bit of raw over the weekend. Yo! Majesty a female duo from Florida speed-rapped in torrential tag-team bursts over Miami-bass beats about dancing and lesbian sex.
Fall Out Boy | Music Artist | Videos News Photos & Ringtones |…
MTV.com – Apr 29, 2008
Most notably Hurley drummed for Racetraitor the furiously political metalcore outfit whose brief output was both a rallying point and sticking point within the hardcore community. As Fall Out Boy the quartet used the unbridled intensity of hardcore as a foundation for melody-drenched pop-punk with a heavy debt to the emo scene. They debuted with a self-released demo in 2001 following it up in May 2002 with a split LP on Uprising that also featured Project Rocket (for which Hurley also drummed). The band returned on the label in January with the mini-LP Fall Out Boy’s Evening Out with Your Girl but by this point a bidding war of sorts was already in full swing. Fall Out Boy eventually signed a deal with Gainesville FL’s Fueled by Ramen the label co-owned by… ” The album continued Fall Out Boy’s streak debuting at number one on the Billboard charts and going platinum about a month later. ~ Johnny Loftus & Corey Apar All Music Guide.
The Celtic-klezmer Connection
Village Voice – Apr 29, 2008
Matt and Mitch Greenhill of Folklore Productions are a Jewish father-son management team with one of the most significant rosters of Celtic acts in the business: Dervish Flook Lunasa Karan Casey. (They also represent the Klezmatics. ) What makes so many Jewish-Americans with no Celtic heritage pour sweat equity into presenting producing writing about and traversing long distances to enjoy Celtic music?The Pub Life “Well that’s one of the great mysteries in our music—all I can say is that there are a lot of them!” says Joanie Madden Irish flute player and leader of the “supergroup” Cherish the Ladies. No one knows exactly how many Jewish fans there are of Celtic music but their ranks include promoters musicians and DJs. Brian O’Donovan who hosts a Celtic radio show at WGBH says a “large portion” of his mailing list is Jewish; Irish songstress Susan McKeown who also sings with the Grammy-winning group the Klezmatics says a “significant number” of Jews make up her own list. Patrick’s Day the Landmark Tavern in Hell’s Kitchen is hopping and the Monday-night seisun (informal jam session) run by Don Meade is starting late… Then there was the passion and the excitement of the Scottish war song “Donald MacGillivray” as interpreted by Silly Wizard. Just listen to the fast furious fiddle solo by the late and lamented Johnny Cunningham. Doesn’t it make you want to march over some hills and resist some English? As a college DJ I did a show called Wild and Beautiful named after the Silly Wizard album; during Celtic shows at San Francisco’s Great American Music Hall occasionally someone would recognize my voice unfazed by the blue lipstick and white pancake makeup of my post-punk persona. When I use will-call at shows the name on the ticket envelope often reads “O’Rel. ” Irish guitarist Gerry O’Beirne e-mails: “It never occurred to me that you weren’t Irish. (By “Celtic” music I refer to Irish Scottish and English fare.
Santogold: Santogold < Music | PopMatters
PopMatters – Apr 29, 2008
Produced by a crew including snowboarders electronic and dub-based producers like Squeeze and Diplo and sounding like what happens when London Jamaica Brooklyn Philly and an old school Hindi film soundtrack explode out of a Nintendo set Santogold’s self-titled first album is ska resurrected punk retooled drum and base repossessed and pop reborn. This is the soda shack where punk and electronica meet the rhythm of a diasporic dub addiction. You almost have to write a surrealist poem to describe this music.