The News Review:
- The Great Chrismukkah Mashup
- Tap Tap Dance debuts for iPhone
- Live: Oasis at Staples Center
- » 10 antidotes for holiday music burnout
- Punk photos
- Vet rocker gets punk makeover
- Boston Music Spotlight’s picks for the 2008 Boston Music Awards
The Great Chrismukkah Mashup
Forward NY
) Whereas Sandler lists Jews in Hollywood ?Punk Rock Chanukah? goes through all the Jews in punk music. ? The Jewish influence on punk isn?t news (check out Steven Lee Beeber?s ?The Heebie-Jeebies at CBGB?s: A Secret History of Jewish Punk?) but lyrically and instrumentally remixing a new Hanukkah ?classic? and tricking it out with a funky animated YouTube video is. Reaching out to the same audience that knows the aforementioned classic but with holiday songs more than eight years old is Erran Baron Cohen?s ?Songs in the Key Of Hanukkah.
Tap Tap Dance debuts for iPhone
Macworld CA
Tapulous has parlayed that popularity to develop a line of premium games based on the same basic mechanics featuring different music. The first release was Nine Inch Nails Revenge a version of the game customized with a new interface and music produced by Nine Inch Nails. Tap Tap Dance builds on that by incorporating dance tracks from well-known artists including The Chemical Brothers Daft Punk Digitalism Moby and others. The game also features richer graphics new lighting effects and more sophisticated gameplay features. Tap Tap Dance also includes an exclusive track by Soul Magic Orchestra and an exclusive remix by Morgan Page of Sunny Levine?s Daylight. Three of the tracks ? ?Technologic? by Daft Punk ?Disco Lies? by Moby and ?Phantom Pt II? by Justice come with their own exclusive themes. See more like this:.
Live: Oasis at Staples Center
Los Angeles Times CA
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» 10 antidotes for holiday music burnout
Chicago Daily Herald IL
I try to listen to this CD every year while wrapping presents. After an afternoon at the mall it always helps my mood. The Vandals “Oi to the World!” (1996)The realm of punk rock offers enough great untraditional holiday songs to fill this list alone but with such an easy target it’s rare to find a good Christmas punk tune that’s irreverent but not completely snotty. Veteran California pranksters The Vandals offer just that. Doubling as a tribute to classic British street punk (from Dave Quackenbush’s fake Cockney accent to the band’s oi! chants) it’s a nice story about an Indian kid and a white skinhead who get into a fight at a punk show but who eventually bond in the spirit of the season. No Doubt later sucked the joy out of it on the 1997 compilation “A Very Special Christmas 3.
Punk photos
Lancaster Newspapers PA
"It was all really organic and natural" Kereakes said. "It's like when you think of whoever you hang out with all the time that's how it all happened. "More than 30 of her punk music images from 30 years ago — influenced by pop culture "elevating the banal" and finding beauty in common events — are now on display at Metropolis Gallery in a show called "Unguarded Moments: Backstage and Beyond. "The images include snapshots of the famous and infamous such as candid shots of a young Billy Idol at a party in Joan Jett's apartment and Iggy Pop's lanky body behind a microphone. Kereakes grew up in Los Angeles and at age 4 she picked up her parent's Leica Rangefinder taking pictures of herself her sister and their dog. She said she began making 2½-minute movies with her Super-8 movie camera and knew she wanted to use photography as her way to express herself letting the images speak for themselves.
Vet rocker gets punk makeover
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Other members include Yohei Hasegawa (guitar) Lee Sang-hun (keyboards) Choi Won-sik (bass) and Lee Min-woo (drums). The album reflects his emotions surrounding this new musical period in his life. ¡°I always had a thirst for punk music – it challenges the social status quo¡± Kim said in an interview last month at his recording studio in Mangwon-dong western Seoul. He was busy editing the album¡¯s final recordings. This is a first for him in the punk genre. In fact Kim dissatisfied with the music of the time formed the band Sanwoolim in the mid-1970s with his two brothers Kim Chang-hun and Kim Chang-ik. His music is once again making a statement against the commercialism that prevails in the arts industry today.
Boston Music Spotlight’s picks for the 2008 Boston Music Awards
Boston Music Spotlight MA
Thang Gucci Vuitton Redfoxx San Serac. Outstanding Punk Act Of The Year: Street Dogs Big D And The Kids Table Clouds Jason Bennet and the Resistance Mark Lind & the Unloved The Men. Outstanding Americana Act Of The Year: Girls Guns And Glory Crooked Still Frank Morey Little Guitar Mean Creek Movers And Shakers Session Americana. Outstanding Jazz Act Of The Year: Grace Kelly Walter Beasley Nnenna Freelon Deborah Henson-Conant Makoto Ozone Christian Scott Esperanza Spalding Andre Ward. Outstanding Singer Songwriter Act Of The Year: Josh Ritter Jabe Beyer Stephen Brodsky Melissa Ferrick Marissa Nadler Audrey Ryan Eric Salt. Outstading Blues Act Of The Year: James Montgomery Ronnie Earl Ernie & the Automatics Evan Goodrow Troy Gonyea & the Howl David Maxwell.
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