The News Review:
- Nash goes from pop to punk
- More music to our ears
- Pop and Rock Listings
- On the Beat: David Menconi on music
- Foxboro Hot Tubs Go Back to the Garage at Tiny Austin Club Show
Nash goes from pop to punk
BBC News – May 23, 2008
“I’ve always really liked punk music. So I think it’s something I always wanted to get more into. “Also I’m really into the Supremes and Motown. I don’t know I’m excited to get in and see what happens. ”
She recently scooped best female solo artist at the NME Awards which may have given her more indie credentials.
More music to our ears
Sacramento Bee – May 23, 2008
at the Distillery: It’s one of the best scenes in the 1980s punk rock flick “Suburbia. ” The fresh-faced protagonist gets his first taste of a punk rock show only to get unwittingly dosed with drugs while the band D. plays an epic version of “Richard Hung Himself. ” And even though he’s been slipped a mickey and passes out the young dude soon shaves his head and embraces the punk rock lifestyle… And throw your hands in the air for the other acts on this bill: Verbal Venom Shades of Gray and Rogue Scholars. The music starts at 9 p. For more information: (916) 443-9751. SundayPow how ya like me now? Club Pow! takes over the Press Club (2030 P St.
Pop and Rock Listings
New York Times – May 23, 2008
com; $16 in advance $18 at the door. (Petrusich)THE JEALOUS GIRLFRIENDS SEA WOLF (Tuesday and Wednesday) #8220;Everything will be all right#8221; purrs Holly Miranda the velvet-voiced frontwoman for the Brooklyn quartet the Jealous Girlfriends. The band#8217;s LP (titled after itself) #151; which marries prickly post-punk with dreamy lulling shoe gaze #151; is reassuring despite its dissonance. Sea Wolf from Los Angeles is the alias of Alex Church a singer-songwriter whose muddy melodic folksongs mix the irreverence of Beck with the gentleness of Iron and Wine. With Joemca #38; Poets and Ludlow Lions on Wednesday.
On the Beat: David Menconi on music
News amp; Observer – May 23, 2008
While X’s bohemian roots-punk sounds downright mainstream today the band never made it above-ground during its early-’80s prime. They broke up in 1989. But now that “alternative music” is a demographic as well as a style bands like X are in demand again. Bonebrake and singer Exene Cervenka with former Lone Justice guitarist Tony Gilkyson filling in for holdout Billy Zoom.
Foxboro Hot Tubs Go Back to the Garage at Tiny Austin Club Show
Rolling Stone – May 23, 2008
Someone else commented everything they touch turns to gold. Because music is all about hype and mediocrity now; just because Green Day are way better than their pop-punk peers and the emo groups doesnt mean they#8217;re great nor do high album sales. One of their biggest hits since 2000 was a blatant rewrite of a hit Oasis song less than 10 years later (#8221;Boulevard of Broken Dreams#8221;). They cashed in while Bush was in the white house.