The News Review:
- Buzznet picks up Absolute Punk.(ONLINE MUSIC SERVICES)
- Festivals offer punk to bluegrass and everything in between
- Paul Weller: changing man
- Music : Rock Pop Music
- Emo is part of culture | Teen | PE.com | Southern California News |…
- Langhorne Slim’s Folk-Rock Live Wire
- Jon Savage on Ian Curtis’s reading | Books | The Guardian
Buzznet picks up Absolute Punk.(ONLINE MUSIC SERVICES)
highbeam.com – May 10, 2008
All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Social media network Buzznet continued its string of acquisitions with the purchase of punk music community Absolute Punk. The eight-year-old Absolute Punk is considered a premier destination for alternative music industry news reviews interviews and community. Absolute Punk is said to have an active community of over half a million fans of alternative music ranging from punk emo hardcore and indie. “The addition of Absolute Punk to our site helps us to deliver on our promise of making Buzznet the go to destination for all different kinds of fans across all genres of music” said Buzznet general manager Scott Boyd. “Absolute Punk’s loyal community and high.
Festivals offer punk to bluegrass and everything in between
Huntington Herald Dispatch – May 10, 2008
It’s time for spring music festivals. Next weekend alone you can dive in for anything from punk-infused bluegrass to a weekend-long-stream of Dixieland jazz. Here’s a look at just a few of the cool music festivals in our region in May June and early July.
Paul Weller: changing man
Telegraph.co.uk – May 10, 2008
It was what drew him to music as a kid when he could name every song in the top 20 and knew the lyrics to most of them and what inspired him to start writing. It’s that feeling he says that you’re the only person in the world who feels a certain way ‘whether you’re going through good times or bad times or whatever. And you hear a song and all of a sudden “That’s exactly how I feel and somebody else feels the same way. ” And you realise you’re not alone on the planet…’Weller was 19 when the Jam released their first single In the City in 1977… And you hear a song and all of a sudden “That’s exactly how I feel and somebody else feels the same way. ” And you realise you’re not alone on the planet…’Weller was 19 when the Jam released their first single In the City in 1977. While the group emerged from the brawling spitting ruck that was punk rock they could never be defined as punk themselves and never shared the prevailing orthodoxy that punk constituted a sort of ‘Year Zero’ in the history of pop music. ‘I never burnt my Beatles records or my Who records. There’s a lot of myth-making that’s gone on in the 30 years since as if that was some kind of highlight in British music. But I don’t think that at all. None of those records have endured.
Music : Rock Pop Music
Prudent Press Agency – Prudent Press Agency (press release) – May 10, 2008
In the 1970s rock incorporated influences from soul funk and latin music. During the 1970s a number of subgenres of rock such as soft rock heavy metal hard rock progressive rock and punk rock was created. Synth-rock hardcore punk and alternative rock were the sub genres of rock pop music that was developed in the 1980s whereas rock subgenres in the 1990s included grunge Britpop indie rock and nu metal. A rock band or rock group is a group of musicians specializing in rock pop music. Most of the rock groups consist of a guitarist lead singer bass guitarist and drummer forming a quartet. Seldom groups also employ stringed instruments such as violins or cellos or horns like trumpets or trombones.
Emo is part of culture | Teen | PE.com | Southern California News |…
Press-Enterprise – May 10, 2008
" But the fashion seems to pertain to their personality. Emo punk and goth styles are similar yet feature differences in both clothing and personality traits. For example punk includes nose rings combat boots skin-tight pants and jeans plugs dyed hair and a different type of music more rock than anything else. Goth students wear more black makeup black hair and black clothes and more flamboyant hairstyles. The former have a more distinctive personality; the latter have rather low-key attitudes. Emos are usually angry or depressed. Some people associate the word emo with individuals who have suicidal thoughts or who cut themselves.
Langhorne Slim’s Folk-Rock Live Wire
NPR – May 10, 2008
Now touring with a new self-titled album the singer-songwriter along with band members Paul Defiglia on upright bass and drummer Malachai DeLorenzo performed from Nashville and spoke with Weekend Edition Saturday’s John Ydstie. Born Sean Scolnick Langhorne Slim renamed himself after his hometown in Pennsylvania. “I was patiently waiting for somebody to give me a nickname that I thought suited me” he says. “The truth of it is when I was young I really wanted to be a black blues singer and it’s taken me up to 27 [years] to realize that’s not gonna happen for me… “I was patiently waiting for somebody to give me a nickname that I thought suited me” he says. “The truth of it is when I was young I really wanted to be a black blues singer and it’s taken me up to 27 [years] to realize that’s not gonna happen for me. I just thought it just sounded cool and sort of fit in the tradition of the music I was listening to at the time. “Originally signed to V2 Records Slim put out the EP Engine in 2006 and planned a full-length album to follow. But when V2 shut down the singer decided to release the disc through a smaller label. Though the recording industry remains in flux Slim says he still finds confidence to keep going. “I think what you learn is you got to have belief in what you’re doing and the ups don’t get you too up and the downs don’t get you too down” he says.
Jon Savage on Ian Curtis’s reading | Books | The Guardian
Guardian Unlimited – May 10, 2008
Ian Curtis In March 1980 Joy Division released their third single featuring the songs “Atmosphere” and “Dead Souls”. Published in a limited edition of 1578 on an independent French label Sordide Sentimental this was no ordinary record. Carrying a “warning” of one word – gesamtkunstwerke – it was indeed a total artwork comprising graphics music photographs and text a world unto itself. On the cover of the fold-out was a painting by neoclassical artist Jean-François Jamoul picturing a robed hermit looking out over mountain tops the valleys obscured by clouds. Inside was a collage of a lone figure descending into the depths of the earth with Anton Corbijn’s photo of Joy Division under strip lighting in Lancaster Gate station. And then there was the text. In the essay entitled “Licht und Blindheit” (light and blindness) Jean-Pierre Turmel positioned himself as far away from rock crit cliché as possible… “Dropping out of school at 17 Curtis was an autodidact who took his cues from the pop culture of the time. In 1974 David Bowie was interviewed with William Burroughs in Rolling Stone. The actual chat was fairly non-eventful but it made the link explicit – especially when Bowie was seen fiddling with cut-ups in Alan Yentob’s “Cracked Actor” documentary – and Burroughs would cast a major shadow over British punk and post-punk. In the mid-70s there was a sense – reinforced by the vacant derelict state of Britain’s inner cities – that the bomb had already dropped. With its casual brutality and black humour Burroughs’s accelerated prose – what his biographer Ted Morgan called his “nuclear style” – matched this apocalyptic mood. The lack of conventional narrative in his books plunged the reader into a maelstrom of malevolent unseen forces and ever-present unidentified dangers. Joy Division rarely did interviews.