The News Review:
- BBC 6 Music sniffs out ‘cutting edge’ animated ad campaign
- Ron Asheton: ‘You just play ’til you drop’
- Addicted to Peter Lorre (That Voice Those Eyes)
- Get your punk music fix
- Holy rock’n'roller
BBC 6 Music sniffs out ‘cutting edge’ animated ad campaign
guardian.co.uk UK
In the ad an animated “street art” character with a very long elephant-like snout on the brick wall of a building comes to life and makes its way along urban walls on the hunt for music. The ad uses stop frame animation to show the character “sniffing out” music and then gorging itself on songs. The character grows bigger and bigger and as it listens to more music taking over the side of a building and then it morphs into the “6″ of the 6 Music logo. “Such a cutting edge and fresh digital.
Ron Asheton: ‘You just play ’til you drop’
Entertainment Weekly
And I’ll always play electric guitar thanks to Ron Asheton. Todd Deltuva Thu Jan 8 2009 at 12:46 AM ESTGoodbye Ron. Thanks for all the great music YU created. Thanks for helping me learn to play guitar and bass. If there is a Punk Rock heaven you know they have a hell of a band. Denise Wed Jan 7 2009 at 06:04 PM ESTI am very sorry to hear about Ron. My memories of him and the Stooges at the Grande are so clear and precious to me.
Related from Johnlawtonband: Social Distortion’s Mike Ness on Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton
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.
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.
Holy rock’n'roller
Sydney Morning Herald Australia
Kuepper 53 glides throughit all with that strange serene cool that is seemingly thepreserve of ancient martial arts masters and grown-up rock gods. Helooks supremely fit smiles easily and is not at all difficult. Even a mandatory early question about his time with the Saints andtheir position in the punk pantheon elicits just a soft smile andelegiac tone. “I never thought the Saints were punk” he says. “Nowadays it’snot something I can be bothered arguing about but I used to makethe point more strongly because the Saints were around beforepunk. We didn’t want to be appropriated by this movement which wasessentially a UK phenomenon. We weren’t from there … [and] bythe time we got there punk had become a very marketable commodityit was just a fashion thing.