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- Public garden trashed after Facebook party
- Latest ‘Grand Theft’ Superlative: Killer Music
- Fly high with Atmosphere
- Pop and Rock Listings
- Theater Listings
Public garden trashed after Facebook party
NEWS.com.au – May 9, 2008
story-share –> A MASS water fight organised on Facebook led to an award-winning garden being trashed. Leeds City Council in Britain says about 350 people armed with water pistols and buckets destroyed the city’s Millennium Square garden causing thousands of dollars of damage. Footage of the holiday rampage taken by participants was posted on the YouTube video website set to punk music. See the video here:. The water fight was promoted on a Facebook group called "Leeds Biggest Waterfight 2008" that had more than 9000 members.
Latest ‘Grand Theft’ Superlative: Killer Music
NPR – May 9, 2008
“The intention of the game is to create the idea of New York City” Richards says. “They’re not trying to mimic what’s on New York radio but trying to create an almost idealized version of what people would want to hear. “Paradise it is: Richards is blown away by how much music there is. The game features over 150 tracks spanning 16 radio stations. The last GTA Richards says had only eight stations with five or six tunes apiece. It’s hard not to compare GTA’s riches with the comparative sonic poverty offered by classic Nintendo titles like Super Mario Bros or The Legend of Zelda which featured techno-ish bleeps and buzzing. “I think what’s happening is that the video game world is reaching outside the video game world” Richards says… “There are relatively obscure indie songs that I would presume the average gamer might not have heard before. “Richards points in particular to songs on Radio Broker named for the neighborhood that stands in for Brooklyn. On that station users can hear young hip dance-punk groups that first came on the scene in the early 2000s such as the Rapture LCD Soundsystem !!! and more. But it’s a station called The Journey that really stuck with Richards. “I thought it would be some kind of power ballad station but it’s actually an avant-classic almost New Age channel” Richards says. “Here it is in this shoot ‘em bang-bang video game.
Fly high with Atmosphere
PSU Daily Vanguard – May 9, 2008
This doesn’t have much to do with their actual music being particularly radical or modern–honestly there are many equally talented bands. It’s about how they actively courted fans from outside the confines of the traditional hip-hop demographic and bridged a gap between two societal factions that ordinarily share little in common. I’m talking specifically about their storied relationship with punk music. Before Atmosphere were well known Slug was part of a small musical collective called the Rhymesayers who released records on their own small label. In 2002 looking for bigger distribution Slug entertained offers from some of the major record companies before making his decision–Atmosphere were going to release their fourth record with Epitaph a punk label run by Brett Gurewitz the guitarist for Bad Religion. This surprised a lot of people but it ended up being extremely good for their career. There was less competition from other rappers in this scene and their energy fit right in with more abrasive acts such as label-mates Rancid.
Pop and Rock Listings
New York Times – May 9, 2008
Bowery Ballroom 6 Delancey Street near the Bowery Lower East Side (212) 533-2111 boweryballroom. Music Hall of Williamsburg 66 North Sixth Street Brooklyn (718) 486-5400… (Petrusich) ★ CUT COPY (Wednesday) Fusing post-punk guitars with disco beats and glitchy effects this Australian band’s sophomore LP “In Ghost Colours” (Modular) is an epic jubilant affair that recalls the finest ’80s electro-pop: prepare to swoon. With Mobius Band and T&T (Tim Goldsworthy and Tim Sweeney). Bowery Ballroom 6 Delancey Street near the Bowery Lower East Side (212) 533-2111 boweryballroom.
Theater Listings
New York Times – May 9, 2008
(Brantley) ‘SPAMALOT’ A singing scrapbook for Monty Python fans (2:20). Shubert Theater 225 West 44th Street (212) 239-6200. (Brantley) ‘SPRING AWAKENING’ An explosively good new musical about teenage angst in 19th-century Germany set to melodious post-punk pop music by Duncan Sheik (2:00).