The News Review:
- New Tap Tap iPhone game includes tracks by Moby Daft Punk
- Snowboarder Gives Music A Try
- Tuning the Soul to Something Higher
- Computer musician returning to Purdue with ‘Funny Noises’
New Tap Tap iPhone game includes tracks by Moby Daft Punk
Ars Technica MA
Music labels seem to have taken note of its success and are now working with Tapulous on label-specific versions of the game. Tapulous had already.
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Snowboarder Gives Music A Try
antiMUSIC.com CA
“After nine months of rehab and a full recovery the professional snowboarder-turned-musician had Trouble Andrew recorded a four-piece band and a whole new sound behind him. That new sound is an amalgamation of the punk rock hip-hop sk8 surf and snowboard cultures he grew up on. The end result is a poppy electro sk8 punk music with fist pumping anthems rump-shaking melodies and sing-along hooks. “It’s like crunkrock pop” says Trouble. Other key tracks on Trouble Andrew include “Chase Money” an anthem song based on materialistic people and “UH OH” a dark sexy song with a slower groove for the ladies. “Young Boy” is one of the artist’s more serious songs talking about world issues and family trouble with a positive twist while “Pimp Millennium” is an attitude-laden ditty that makes you feel like going out to pimp the world. “Trouble is currently writing new songs for the follow-up record to his self-titled CD which is slated for a summer 2009 release on Virgin Records.
Tuning the Soul to Something Higher
BalkanInsight.com Serbia
Today as apassionate fighter against discrimination and extremism he knows thedifference very well. He also believes cultural expressions such as musichave the power to generate a positive transforming energy. While his long hair and hippie appearance disguisethe fact it was Punk music that brought political content into Andreas?s life. Now he laughs while recalling how he once drew a picture of a Punk rocker witha swastika symbol on his ear. A friend tore it up telling him furiously thathe ought to know the difference between the two movements. Andreas wassurprised. Although he had enjoyed Punks? fast hard-edged music he did notdwell on the rebellious and subversive message of the songs.
Computer musician returning to Purdue with ‘Funny Noises’
Journal and Courier IN
He had the big glasses suit jackets and rows of analog synthesizers. Garton was responsible for the band’s new wave edge which lured Purdue students who were fans of punk and new wave as well as just the curious. “Everyone thought we were going to burn down the building. But people were on people’s shoulders and the crowd was spilling out the door and into the hall because they were so amazed by it.