The News Review:
- ‘Generation X’ band still going strong after 16 years
- Country-Punk Langhorne Slim Rocks the ‘BPP’
- … A Furiously Paced Set In NYC – News Story | Music Celebrity…
- Ashlee Simpson: Bittersweet World : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone
- Best Punk Band: Against Me!
- Joe Jackson: Actually I quite like landmines
- Kiwi music fans in for a busy time during May
‘Generation X’ band still going strong after 16 years
Charleston Post Courier – May 1, 2008
We’re not little kids but we were all going for it everyday like we were 22 and had something to prove. ” It was on those tours that Less Than Jake proved their talent to a mass audience. The group showed that regardless of what anyone thinks of punk music namely ska punk Less Than Jake is definitely one of the genre’s better live bands. That is precisely why today ? in a Generation Y dominated soundscape – the band remains viable. The band is getting ready to self-release its eighth album. “If anybody says they knew (that) when they started a band it was going to be this thing that lasted they’re liars” JR said “and you should call them a dirty liar. “I started playing music because I heard you get free beer and somebody said there would be girls there.
Country-Punk Langhorne Slim Rocks the ‘BPP’
NPR – May 1, 2008
After success on an indie label this week he releases his first major label album Langhorne Slim. Born Sean Scolnick the singer is off to a good start. In addition to the album release just a couple of weeks ago Langhorne Slim made his first ever television appearance — on the Late Show with David Letterman. Wednesday he and his band The War Eagles stopped by the Bryant Park Project studios.
… A Furiously Paced Set In NYC – News Story | Music Celebrity…
MTV.com – May 1, 2008
“Give it to me New York” Madonna yelled. “I don’t see you people dancing up and down enough. The stage lights were reminiscent of those at a Daft Punk gig and that didn’t change during the night’s final song “Music. ” As her dancers emerged from a faux silver subway car (destination: “Freshville”) she pranced across the stage touching the dozens of outreached hands grabbing for her attention. The show ended with Madonna racing up the stage to the subway doors behind which she disappeared. And at 10:38 she was done.
Ashlee Simpson: Bittersweet World : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone – May 1, 2008
Although the argument that her vocals are sub-par is completely understandable but she never attempts to sing songs beyond her singing potential. As a matter of fact her vocals have improved greatly from Autobiography and I Am Me. Bittersweet World has multiple upbeat punk pop and even dance songs that are generally a lot of fun. The songs that impressed me the most are Hot Stuff Boys and Rule Breaker (that isn’t to say the other songs are bad). I did prefer I Am Me simply for it’s rhetoric and for showing the biggest transition from Jessica’s younger sister to a serious recording artist. Don’t judge Ashlee because she hit the worst note in live performance history at the Orange Bowl!Jun 28 2008 13:23:25.
Best Punk Band: Against Me!
Rolling Stone – May 1, 2008
“We take daysoff now” Gabel says. “But we really just wanted to hit it hardand we continue to do that. For us it’s always been ‘Here’s themusic. Learn the words come out and sing along.
Joe Jackson: Actually I quite like landmines
Telegraph.co.uk – May 1, 2008
Tall rail-thin wearing dark tailored threads and with his receding silver hair swept neatly back he looks every inch the svelte Prussian gent. And Berlin hardly detracts from the air of mystery which surrounds a long-term loner who has never married still lives on his own and when asked at the end of the interview about his plans for the rest of this evening replies succinctly “I’m not telling you. “As little or as much as Jackson wants us to know about his life he has already divulged in a critically acclaimed 1999 autobiography A Cure For Gravity a work he describes as “a book about music thinly disguised as a memoir”. His musical journey has been to put it mildly unconventional. A working-class boy from Portsmouth who fell in love with Beethoven and the great Broadway composers as a teenager he fetched up studying piano at the Royal Academy before joining a semi-pro covers band playing rowdy social clubs in the sticks. Around the dawn of punk Jackson could be seen cavorting about on rickety stages singing old Beatles songs dressed in a false beard and an old tartan dress of his mother’s. His transformation into a new-waver of the sardonic tendency – a less abrasive Elvis Costello – was dramatic… His musical journey has been to put it mildly unconventional. A working-class boy from Portsmouth who fell in love with Beethoven and the great Broadway composers as a teenager he fetched up studying piano at the Royal Academy before joining a semi-pro covers band playing rowdy social clubs in the sticks. Around the dawn of punk Jackson could be seen cavorting about on rickety stages singing old Beatles songs dressed in a false beard and an old tartan dress of his mother’s. His transformation into a new-waver of the sardonic tendency – a less abrasive Elvis Costello – was dramatic. “At the age I was then punk was overwhelming. When you’re 22 everything feels like a call to arms. “Unlike most of his peers from the class of ’77 Jackson still approaches music as a set of challenges.
Kiwi music fans in for a busy time during May
New Zealand Herald – May 1, 2008
Those of you anticipating the onset of Seasonal Affective Disorder as the days get chillier cheer up there is some good news. New Zealand Music Month begins today and there is a host of gigs events and even the odd TV show for you to check out so get out your diaries and mark them in. Here are some of the events happening during the first week of the month alone: * Auckland based music channel Alt TV launches 24-hour live streaming of the channel online on May 1… * Auckland bar Galatos is one of the busiest venues this music month. Almost any night of the week in May you’ll find some of Aotearoa’s finest musicians performing. From the soul funk of the Opensouls and Recloose to the punk and rock of the City Newton Bombers and The Have to the hip-hop of Scribe and P-Money there is a lot to choose from. In fact far too many to list here.