The News Review:
- Music-filled knitting shop in Los Angeles is a real pearl
- Young Muslims Build a Subculture on an Underground Book
- Joost to host 18000 music videos following tie-in with indie labels
- Galaxy’s pop-punk sheen
- Music Review Hanukkah With Love and Noise
- Don’t miss: X
Music-filled knitting shop in Los Angeles is a real pearl
Los Angeles Times CA
Heisenflei of Pity Party stitches together the worlds of music and needle craft at her Atwater Village store. She finds comfort and joy in both pursuits. By Gale Holland December 25 2008 The Christmas Sweater Festival at the Echoplex music club was holiday programming for the tongue-in-cheek generation. The Echo Park venue was awash in appliqued snowmen flashing pompoms and teal-colored squirrels. ne of the bands on the bill Pity Party showed up the other revelers.
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Young Muslims Build a Subculture on an Underground Book
New York Times United States
“Reading the book was totally liberating for me” said Areej Zufari 34 a Muslim and a humanities professor at Valencia Community College in rlando Fla. Zufari said she had listened to punk music growing up in Arkansas and found “The Taqwacores” four years ago. “Here was someone as frustrated with Islam as me” she said “and he expressed it using bands I love like the Dead Kennedys. It all came together. ” The novel’s Muslim characters include Rabeya a riot girl who plays guitar onstage wearing a burqa and leads a group of men and women in prayer. There is also Fasiq a pot-smoking skater and Jehangir a drunk.
Joost to host 18000 music videos following tie-in with indie labels
guardian.co.uk UK
13 GMT n-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 ffspring 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 88HIPHP 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.
Galaxy’s pop-punk sheen
Hub MI
You see the guys are based out of Fenton but bass player Kevin McKay is a MSU student so they write and practice in his digs. And the result? Music that’s a melting pot of youthful alt-rock and pop-punk sheen. Galaxy Down plays Small Planet on Friday opening for The White Tie Affair.
Music Review Hanukkah With Love and Noise
New York Times United States
— Yo La Tengo is one of the great connector machines of indie culture a small aesthetic force field. If you share a stage with this band you become part of a loose historical tradition. For 24 years Yo La Tengo has worked with an index of garage-rock post-punk and free-jazz groups; as promoters and producers and audiences around the world have become more imaginative it has collaborated increasingly with filmmakers comedians and authors too. Skip to next paragraph.
Don’t miss: X
San Francisco Chronicle USA
tmpl –>X The Los Angeles punk rock stars celebrate 31 years of making music with two shows at Slim’s. Expect to hear new and old X songs as well as some X-mas tunes. Steve Soto opens the Saturday show.