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- Addicted to Peter Lorre (That Voice Those Eyes)
- Mike Watt riffs on Ron Asheton and the Stooges
- Afro-Punk Songstress Ebony Bones Makes ‘The Musik’ ‘” And …
- RACHEL MAY | local music highlights New bands take the stage
- Get your punk music fix
- Good time music for hard times
- Long Ryders chooses the Earl for a rare reunion
Addicted to Peter Lorre (That Voice Those Eyes)
New York Times United States
The group’s eight current players — membership has been somewhat fluid — play saxophones and accordion in addition to guitar and drums and dress in suits and gowns. Jack Terricloth sings in a smarmy slur and maintains a constant devilish smirk. “We are a punk-rock band and we play punk-rock shows but our music couldn’t be more different” he said. “Kids see us and think: ‘Guys in suits and makeup at a hardcore show? Come on. ’ But we always have them by the third song and then we’re something they have to accept about the punk rock scene and about the world. We’ve now entered into the great dialogue that is our culture which is what any artist should do. I was going to say ‘any good artist’ but any bad artist too.
Mike Watt riffs on Ron Asheton and the Stooges
Los Angeles Times CA
Most people at my high school they didn’t like that sound. They were like “You like them?” We took a lot of [flak] for liking them in a way. Then the punk scene comes and the Stooges was the common ground. That scene which was not very popular here in Southern California was just all these different weirdos from different places. The one thing in common was the Stooges. It was kind of anti-arena rock — more like Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard than what was happening in the ’70s. I can’t even imagine our scene without that band.
Afro-Punk Songstress Ebony Bones Makes ‘The Musik’ ‘” And …
MTV.com
‘1984′ was a book I read as a child that is still relevant. ” She mentioned the way that the average London resident is recorded over 300 times a day adding “[the album] was definitely influenced by the book and what goes on in today’s world. ”Bones sees music as a universal connector that can reach over political divisions — with a great beat. “The last line of ‘The Musik’ is ‘All we have is each other and the music to keep us warm’ and everyone we’ve met so far is really embracing that. ”Can’t get enough Ebony Bones news? Visit the MTV Newsroom blog tomorrow! We’ll have an exclusive track from her debut album and it may help you win a.
RACHEL MAY | local music highlights New bands take the stage
Detroit Free Press United States
Three guys and one girl make up the new quartet which plays Saturday at Paycheck’s in Hamtramck. The show starts at 9:30 p. pening is Monkey Jacket.
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Get your punk music fix
Petaluma Argus Courier CA
com | Petaluma Argus-Courier | Petaluma CA. 3 at the Phoenix Theater 201 Washington St. ther bands performing include Sabertooth Zombie; Xibalbax; Strike to Survive; and Seize the Night.
Good time music for hard times
Troy Record NY
”Alan Chartock of WAMC called Michael Eck in 2005 about putting together a tribute to The Mayor of McDougal Street Dave Van Ronk. Not only had the late Van Ronk been the catalyst for the Greenwich Village folk revival of the late ’50s and early ’60s but he’d also briefly recorded with a group he called the Ragtime Jug Stompers which Eck now considers one of the most punk-rock records he’s ever heard. Keep in mind this album came out in 1963 a good decade and a half before the word “punk” was even applied to music. What was punk rock to Eck was a good timey electric send-up on jug band music to Van Ronk who had a great — if very cynical — sense of humor about the whole scene he was helping to invent. Listening to Eck describe specifically what inspired him about Van Ronk offers powerful insight into what makes the Ramblin Jug Stompers so magical. “(Van Ronk) was a cantankerous mutha and a sweater. He was wheezing and playing this beautiful guitar with that whisper to a scream thing.
Long Ryders chooses the Earl for a rare reunion
Creative Loafing Atlanta GA
" Rarely had roots music felt so insistent or had punk music felt so melodic or fleshed out. The band's politics made an alliance with Miller beer in 1986 seem unlikely – except that the band despite all its critical praise was broke. But nobody was prepared for the fan and critical backlash to the commercial. Spin magazine published an article in the mid-'80s eviscerating bands for "selling out" even if the payoff didn't exactly make band members rich. Griffin called it a "disaster" and in a 2005 interview told music writer Diane Roka that the decision was a dubious one that challenged their fans' loyalty: "People felt when all is said and done that how can this band the Long Ryders be these hip cutting-edge guys rebellious and have songs that are anti-war and questioning this and that and sign up to a big American corporation? And that's a really good question to ask.