The News Review:
- Best music options for New Year’s Eve
- The Knux rebellion
- Styles shift barriers blur audiences fragment and artists take …
- Young Muslims build a subculture on an underground
- Great music is out there but will it be heard
- Joost to host 18000 music videos following tie-in with indie labels
- Hear & Now: Get out your skinny for new wave reunion
Best music options for New Year’s Eve
Chicago Tribune United States
Milwaukee $65 (sold out); 773-489-3160: 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 hardcore fan of these guys because who knows when we?ll see them again. White Mystery with Jay Reatard at Empty Bottle 1035 N. Western $25 773-276-3600: While Reatard?s one-dimensional retro-punk packs the requisite kick-out-the-jams punch required for a big party the real attraction is White Mystery the new duo forged by Miss Alex White best known as the guitar-wielding blowtorch in her long-running gig with the Red rchestra. With drummer Francis White she reduces her love of soul-fired garage rock to its butt-kicking essence.
The Knux rebellion
Los Angeles Times CA
Without a word they disrobed in the middle of the store. ff went the snug-fitting tees the rapper-producer-multi-instrumentalists had been wearing in favor of “new” T-shirts that looked to have gone through the rinse cycle at least a thousand times. For Kintrell “Krispy Kream” Lindsey: one bearing the logo of ’80s punk group the Exploited. And for his brother Alvin Lindsey (nom de rap: Rah Al Millio but call him Al) a shirt bearing the slogan “D.
Styles shift barriers blur audiences fragment and artists take …
Baltimore Sun United States
Listeners and critics were receptive to black men and women who eschewed stereotypical R&B melisma and other “urban” styles for punk new wave and artful noise. There’s a muddled sense of direction as the country faces a spiraling economy and prepares to inaugurate its first African-American president. Pop in 2008 largely echoed that sentiment.
Young Muslims build a subculture on an underground
Houston Chronicle United States
11 attacks but repelled by both the Bush administration’s reaction to the attacks and the rigid conservatism of many Muslim leaders the novel became a blueprint for their lives. “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.
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Great music is out there but will it be heard
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review PA
Country fans had Gravel led by Bob Corbin and Dave Hanner the city’s finest songwriters. David Werner and Phil Harris were iconoclastic unique talents. And when punk finally reared its contrary head Carsickness and The Five and later the Cynics and the Little Wretches reflected that strata of music. Equally important the clubs that hosted bands — including the Decade and the Electric Banana in akland and Fat City in Swissvale — had character and personality. Not to mention characters and personalities frequenting the premises. story continues below It was a time unparalleled.
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.
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.