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- Iggy and the Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton rallied punk generations
- Atlanta’s Rock Music Scene
- Party at updated library
- LCAL BAND SPTLIGHT: Lies Unknown
- Thrash metal at Yorkshire House
Iggy and the Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton rallied punk generations
El Paso Times TX
I conceded that in a recent e-mail exchange. Yes I noted he was not the most technically gifted guitarist in the land but that was not as important when it came to the punk music archetypes he helped create as it was to play with feel just like the old blues masters jazz greats and rock ‘n’ roll’s forebears. This electronic discussion was prompted by the Jan. 6 death of the Iggy and the Stooges guitarist at age 60. He was found dead of an apparent heart attack on his couch in Ann Arbor Mich. where the fun and the fun house began in the late 1960s.
Atlanta’s Rock Music Scene
West Georgian (subscription) GA
jpg” >By Bobby MooreGuest Writerbobby@douglascountysentinel. comBefore this column gets down to the business of chronicling Atlanta’s finest punk power pop and garage bands here’s a quick primer of what goes on in Georgia’s capitol city. No scene can exist without bands and Atlanta has two heavy-hitters which have gained worldwide notoriety: Deerhunter and The Black Lips. Both bands are very different style-wise. Deerhunter plays what can be best described as ambient indie-rock and The Black Lips play rougher-around-the-edges psychedelic garage rock. Despite their different musical approaches each has reached the same heights internationally and maintain very busy tour schedules.
Party at updated library
The lympian WA
If punk doesn’t seem library-friendly consider that the Musn’ts (the band’s misspelling not ours) is a Shel Silverstein tribute band. “I grew up liking Shel Silverstein” said Tim McBride the man behind the Musn’ts and a circulation assistant at the library. “It’s his words from ‘Where the Sidewalk Ends’ and then the music is punk music – rock-and-roll Ramonesy kind of punk music not hardcore punk. “Last winter he recorded the songs to amuse himself during the snow. “It was sort of a one-time project” he said. “I had never thought of playing it live. “But a co-worker asked him to and he assembled some friends to create an impromptu band named for Silverstein’s poem “Listen to the Mustn’ts.
LCAL BAND SPTLIGHT: Lies Unknown
Detroit Free Press United States
But not only that their message was unity and it was love. Who could fight that? That’s a great thing. “THE SUND: Despite Alexander’s love for punk his sound isn’t necessarily straight-up punk. He is clear-voiced in his singing and he calls the music “multidimensional rock ‘n’ roll”: “I do think that we sound like a Detroit band. I just think that it might take Detroit a little bit of time to acknowledge that. The angst in our music I think is there. You can tell that we’ve played punk.
Thrash metal at Yorkshire House
Lancaster Today UK
The men behind the event Thom Bleasdale and John Bassett both 20 from Lancaster and Hornby have put together a line-up of bands that would probably have Kurt Cobain turning in his grave. Thom started organising gigs at the Yorkie four years ago setting out on his own as Leeches on the Beaches before deciding to start a record label and settling on the name Slow Riot taken from the Godspeed You! Black Emperor EP Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada. Thom said: “A lot of people see punk music as anti-social putting up two fingers or whatever but I don’t see it that way. “There is a certain amount of ‘anti’ amongst the punk and DIY population but it is usually focused at social change and making the world a better place. “Some choose to show their anger through destruction but most would rather build on the good parts of society and challenge the bad parts instead of just acting up. In my eyes it’s a positive force. “Slow Riot’s next release will be Manchester post rock band Day For Airstrikes’ second album on 12″ vinyl.
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