The News Review:
- A Short Column About Music 12.19.08: The Jam – All Mod Cons
- Joost to host 18000 music videos following tie-in with indie labels
- Joost Grows Indie Music Catalog
- The Noisettes Talk Afro-Punk Wild Young Hearts And Their Favorite …
- Metallica at the Forum
- Pop and Rock Listings
A Short Column About Music 12.19.08: The Jam – All Mod Cons
411mania.com TX
The scene died down towards the end of the 1960s but reemerged a decade later with the Mod revival. The music of the Mod revival took the R&B inspired rock of the 1960s and combined it with punk and new wave as well as other influences like reggae and soul. While British punk music was creating a buzz in America the Mod revival bands didn’t make much of an impact across the pond; instead one such band became one the most popular rock bands in the country. The Jam developed into one of the great British groups of all-time with some amazing pop-rock songs and records. The band was formed in 1975 by guitarist Paul Weller along with bassist Bruce Foxton and drummer Rick Buckler. They started out playing American rock music from the like of Chuck Berry and Little Richard. Eventually Weller would become influenced by the mod lifestyle and music most notably the works of The Kinks and The Who.
Joost to host 18000 music videos following tie-in with indie labels
guardian.co.uk UK
13 GMT On-demand TV site Joost has signed a distribution deal with nine independent music labels and two major aggregators to boost the editorial content section of the service. The deal adds 18000 music videos live performances and interviews to the site including Lightspeed Champion and the Last Shadow Puppets from Domino Records Bad Religion and the Offspring from Epitaph and Plain White Ts and the Morning Light from Fearless Records. Dance music label Defected punk labels Hopeless and Victory world music label ESL hip hop specialists Stones Throw and the eclectic Sarathan Records from Seattle are also offering editorial content via Joost. In addition the site has partnered with music community site Last. fm specialist site 88HIPHOP and video interview site Uncensored Interview. com for editorial content. The new deals will make content from most labels available worldwide though Epitaph Hopeless Fearless and Victory as well as the Last.
Joost Grows Indie Music Catalog
PR-CANADA.net (press release) Montenegro
Victory Records: Victory Records focuses on the world of independentalternative metal hardcore emo and punk music. The Victory Recordschannel on Joost features videos from the label’s current and formerartists including Aiden Taking Back Sunday Hawthorne HeightsSilverstein and Thursday and can be found at.
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The Noisettes Talk Afro-Punk Wild Young Hearts And Their Favorite …
MTV.com
”Guitarist Dan Smith sees the festival as a catalyst helping to eradicate some old notions. “The [punk] music movement in America has always been perceived as being a white thing and [Afro-Punk] is making it more inclusive” he said. “It’s about people getting a wider understanding of rock and roll and its history and its roots where it comes from and that anyone can do it. And it can be loads of fun yeah?”The CMJ crowd loved the Noisettes’ live show (see some of it in the Afro-Punk video below) so we got on the phone with them Wednesday to talk about their new video for “Wild Young Hearts” their spring ‘09 album of the same name and their list of the artists they fell for in 2008.
Metallica at the Forum
Los Angeles Times CA
Add to that Hetfield’s lyrics which focus heavily on horror and death and an overall aesthetic that rejects lyricism and prettiness in favor of power and precision and you have a potential artistic downer. In concert though the audience’s constant raucous singing added a wild element to the otherwise stern proceedings and seemed to loosen up the musicians too. Metallica arose at the intersection of punk and heavy metal blending grass-roots mayhem and grand spectacle. In early songs played Wednesday like “Master of Puppets” the punk side dominated even when the arrangements took surprising twists. Later hits including “Sad but True” and “The Unforgiven” tapped into not only metal’s pompous sweep but pop’s melodicism. Often both approaches would factor into one song. The set at the Forum reflected the way the band has integrated those two sources.
Pop and Rock Listings
New York Times United States
com; $13 in advance $15 at the door. (Petrusich) JESSE MALIN (Friday) The former D Generation frontman and frequent.