The News Review:
- Hear & Now: Get out your skinny for new wave reunion
- Greg Kot’s Eve shows to catch
- There’s still music for the holidays
- Pop and Rock Listings
- Music-filled knitting shop in Los Angeles is a real pearl
Hear & Now: Get out your skinny for new wave reunion
The Virginian-Pilot VA
For one the legal drinking age was 18 which meant college students could experience live music in bars. ften 16- and 17-year-olds got in with fake IDs. Also the punk music scenes of New York City and London were churning out a revolution in pop culture and music in general was taking new forms on a seemingly weekly basis. MTV was born and music videos – not silly contrived reality dramas – were aired. Since this period was pre-Internet fans had to make an effort to discover new music because it wasn’t getting played on commercial radio. f all the early ’80s acts the X-Raves were perhaps the most important. While it played originals the quartet was keen on playing covers by The Clash Elvis Costello Gang of Four and countless others.
Greg Kot’s Eve shows to catch
Chicago Tribune United States
Hum: Quite a coup to bring back this quartet who released several fine albums out of Champaign Ill. in the ’90s before fading away. Though loosely embracing a do-it-yourself punk and garage-rock aesthetic the band was justly appreciated for its introspection and use of space and texture to manipulate mood. The show is sold out but it might be worth shelling out some extra bucks if you’re a hard-core fan of these guys because who knows when we’ll see them again. Double Door 1572 N. $65 (sold out); 773-489-3160.
There’s still music for the holidays
Fresno Bee CA
Also on the bill: Style Like Revelators The Quillborns and Wings for the Queen. Rites of RetributionFormer members of Fresno punk bands Die Another Day and Rikki and the Bruiser Boys have joined to form punk group Rites of Retribution. The band plays at 8 p. Friday at Babylon 1064 N.
Pop and Rock Listings
New York Times United States
(Petrusich) NEW YRK DLLS (Saturday) Never say die. r maybe say it eventually. Two years ago with its two surviving original members well into their 50s the New York Dolls — the proto-punk proto-glam band that made trashy cross-dressing a rock ’n’ roll virtue — released a new album “ne Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This” which showed that the Dolls’ appetite for sleazy vamps and hilarious wickedness was undiminished. But since then occasional gigs have led to a previously unimaginable circumstance: being nearly taken for granted. With the Dirty Pearls.
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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