The News Review:
- Monday ‘” May 19
- It’s a new British Invasion
- Velocity Weekly – Louisville Kentucky
- ‘Idol’ stylist lives with nit-pickers
- Getting to know M. Bison
Monday ‘” May 19
NEWS.com.au – May 19, 2008
30 The Wire (National current affairs). 6 Neo Voices (multicultural youth). 7 Nunga Wangga (Indigenous music and issues). 9 Songcatcher (local songwriters). 11 The Angry Hour (punk).
It’s a new British Invasion
Akron Beacon Journal – May 19, 2008
They have an edgy humor and personality (they are) a breath of fresh air. ”
For Nash comparisons to artists such as Lily Allen because of their similarly twangy accent and wry songs has caused some frustration. She cited her own diverse background from playing classical music as a kid to loving punk rock bands such as the Buzzcocks later on. ”I feel like sometimes I’m being boxed because sometimes it’s almost patronizing. I think a lot of it comes from the media” Nash said. ”It’s something you have to forget about.
Velocity Weekly – Louisville Kentucky
Louisville Courier-Journal – May 19, 2008
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Ask a Young Person – vol. 8
Anecdotal evidence shows that people are the most excited by music we listen to during our high school and college ages. The music we hold on to in our lives is most likely to be the music we listened to during that era. As we get older most people get distracted by real life concerns and forget mostly about how exciting a new song a new record a new band can be. The ones who don’t either become music critics record store clerks or – more likely – some guy working a dead-end job who just wants to tell you all the time about how your music sucks and how you need to be listening to something you’ve never heard of instead. I’ve been all three… Can meander wonderfully around for minutes before finding the perfect groove. The Dirty Projectors: Rise Above (Dead Oceans)An album that covers Black Flag’s ENTIRE Rise Above. Very imaginative dub-style noisy reimaginings of the original’s dirty L. Poppy and I love it. “Who do you think is overrated?”I don’t think anyone is overrated – if people like them they deserve it.
‘Idol’ stylist lives with nit-pickers
News amp; Observer – May 19, 2008
But if you are a 17-year-old singer with a reputation more wholesome than Betty Crocker’s as David Archuleta’s is and you step on stage in leather pants neither God nor man nor the Fox network can save you. Who’s riding this bronco? As it turns out it’s one thin dapper soft-spoken Brit by the name of Miles Siggins. Having emerged from the U. punk scene launched the Stussy line and worked to dress some of the giants of music before joining “American Idol” in its second season Siggins still finds himself somewhat unprepared for the intensity of the microscope he lives under today as the show’s chief stylist. Asked about the leather pants incident he took a deep breath and emitted a rueful chuckle: “They weren’t leather pants believe it or not. They were kind of a shiny wool.
Getting to know M. Bison
Seattle Post Intelligencer – May 19, 2008
What’s your favorite musical memory?
M. Bison played a house party in North Seattle last summer on a gorgeous fry-an-egg-on-the-sidewalk day and just as they began to churn into the butter of their set (rock) some punks harshed their mellow (the cops) and told us to turn down. Who the hell doesn’t like out of tune guitars blaring through the neighborhood? Sissy Ninnies. Bison compromised by playing the rest of the set in oh-so-quiet samba mode adapting all of their songs with that cha-cha feel and only Brian’s dad was shaking his hips. And sheepishly at that.