The News Review:
- Extra punk please
- New coffee-table books for music lovers
- Boosting Music Sales One Blog At A Time
- KCRW’s Jason Bentley wakes to a new day
- 9:10 pm update: Punk music concerts usher vintage clothing shop …
- Burqas and fries
- Dead to Me – Little Brother EP Review
Extra punk please
Daily Pilot CA
“I’ve been in here before when people actually cruised by and asked Casey to sign things” Munn said. “These guys came in one time and said ‘Aren’t you the guy from the Adolescents?’ Casey sent them over to the record store to get some CDs. ”When Royer started his music career three decades ago working a regular job didn’t sound that bad to him. In fact punk purist that he was he despised the idea of being a corporate rock star. Even as other bands brought their incendiary style into the mainstream Royer viewed their success with a skeptical eye. “Green Day the Offspring used to listen to my music when they were growing up and passed us in the money game” he said over breakfast at Alta Coffee before heading off to his shift at Subway. “They passed us in the corporate race and we still stuck true to our beliefs.
New coffee-table books for music lovers
Staten Island Advance – SILive.com NY
note: there relationship was just a rumor at this point) was in the back seat as well — so I took that shot with one frame. BRIAN COGAN ON GROWING UP PUNK ON STATEN ISLAND:High school: When I was growing up at Farrell we thought we were outsiders. Most people were into generic dance music or late-period disco that sort of thing. Punk really provided a sense of solidarity for me and my friends. We had something that was ours that wasn’t being sold and marketed. His music: I’m still in a local punk band called In Crowd. Eventually I’m going to put out a compilation of our 7-inch singles called “Three Decades of Futility.
Boosting Music Sales One Blog At A Time
NPR
“I didn’t even put it out on the Internet” Green says. “It was just people who had gotten copies of the demos that I had sold when I was a teenager. “Green is still best known as the guitarist and a singer of the punk band Alexisonfire. The band is popular in his native Canada where one of its albums went platinum. But as Alexisonfire got big fans wanted to know more about them. “Kids started sort of searching the Internet for things about the members of the band” Green says. “One person found out I had this song and told another person or e-mailed it to that person and then slowly but surely kids started asking me when I was going to put a solo record out.
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KCRW’s Jason Bentley wakes to a new day
Los Angeles Times CA
It’s just part of that head space" he says. "When that’s themotivation I think there’s really a purity and an excitement to what’sgoing on. "While all the cool kids who were DJ-ing wanted to play punk andhip-hop Bentley was laying down Peter Gabriel and Youssou N’Dourimitating such KCRW predecessor-role models as Tom Schnabel. By 1992he was on-air himself. As music director Bentley hopes to bring even more attention to KCRW’sDJs several of whom like him have other gigs music-directing filmsoundtracks and serving as programming advisors at various live-musicvenues. He’s looking forward to "working with individual DJs to helpthem be the best that they can be to be their harshest critic andtheir biggest cheerleader. "And he’s looking forward to spending more evenings with his wife an interior designer.
9:10 pm update: Punk music concerts usher vintage clothing shop …
Press of Atlantic City NJ
“You have to have balance” the 31-year-old said Thursday outside her shop at 27 E. which she has christened The Church of Vintage. “You can’t just be a collector. “Bianco and Kavadas are two of the newest merchants to open a business in Bridgeton a city that for years has tried to attract specialty shops to its historic downtown. The pair has scheduled the grand opening for Friday night to coincide with the city’s First Friday art and music event. The Church of Vintage is also marking the event by staging a pair of punk music shows at two local venues.
Burqas and fries
Sydney Morning Herald Australia
Hiba slips out of the white T-shirt with black letters that read”Homophobia Is Gay” which she wore to Kempner High School whereshe is a junior. It’s one of a collection of slogans the17-year-old has on T-shirts unbeknown to her parents Muslimimmigrants from Pakistan. There are other aspects of Hiba’s life she thinks they might notapprove of either like the Muslim punk music she listens to withlyrics such as “suicide bomb the GAP” or “Rumi [a 13th-centuryPersian poet and theologian] was a homo. ” Or the novel aboutrebellious Muslim teenagers in New York. It opens with: “Muhammadwas a punk rocker he tore everything down. ” This much Hiba knows:she is a Muslim teenager living in America. But what does thatmean? It is a question that pesters her like the other questionsshe is afraid to ask her parents: can she still be a good Muslimeven though she does not dress in hijab or pray five times a day?Is going to the prom sinful? Is punk?In a real-life scenario reminiscent of the hit 1999 British filmEast Is East about a Pakistani fish-and-chip shop owner whoexpects his rebellious family to follow his strict Pakistani Muslimways even though they were born and brought up in Britain Hibaloves Allah but wonders whether it is OK to question customs.
Dead to Me – Little Brother EP Review
411mania.com TX
Okay song but nothing special. The title track is next and it is the best song on the record. I am a sucker for reggae influenced punk rock and this is a good example of it. The music weaves back and forth between slower reggae groove and faster paced punk anthem. The progressions are seamless. There’s no sense of fragmentation which can often occur when punk bands attempt this. The vocal melody is particularly strong in the chorus.