The News Review:
- Music: ld-school punks to the rescue of one of their own
- Iggy and the Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton rallied punk generations
- Positive Punk
- Quick Takes
- January 16-22: Music Movies & More
- Freed from its former label Hed PE focuses on creating music on …
- Music: Palmer’s jukes it up
Music: ld-school punks to the rescue of one of their own
Minneapolis Star Tribune MN
Those are the picked scabs most often associated with the original punk rock movement of the late ’70s and early ’80s. But anyone who believes punk to be merely a middle-finger fashion statement would do well to know that the main ingredients that fueled hundreds of bands and scenes were and remain curiosity and community. Take the case of Laura Kennedy. The Cleveland native moved to New York in the late ’70s became a roadie for no-wave trouble funkers the Contortions and co-founded the Bush Tetras one of the first female punk bands whose "Too Many Creeps" stormed the college radio charts the same year the Police’s "Don’t Stand So Close to Me" hit the Top 40 (1980). Fifteen years ago Kennedy contracted Hepatitis C.
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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.
Positive Punk
Cincinnati CityBeat H
That assumption was put to rest by my girlfriend who has been dedicated to Cat Power and other depressing bands since she was introduced to music. The punk rock genre has always had a special place in my little heart. I remember after school and getting into Matt H’s car and driving around listening to AFI (.
Quick Takes
Los Angeles Times CA
Casino executives announced Thursday that the show will close March 28 to make room for an undisclosed production. The closing will leave Bally’s “Jubilee!” as the last full-scale showgirl revue left on the Las Vegas Strip. — associated press Indie 103 radio goes off the airIndie 103 the high-profile but low-rated alternative-music radio station ceased original programming Thursday morning a little more than five years after it debuted but said it will continue life on the Internet. the station bowed out by playing “My Way” both the versions by Frank Sinatra and late Sex Pistol Sid Vicious a nod to the genre-bending playlist that Indie often aired. After that listeners heard only a repeating loop of songs interspersed by a recorded announcement that Indie was moving to the Internet.
January 16-22: Music Movies & More
The regonian – regonLive.com R
Defector’s a punk zine so look to it to set the aesthetic tone for the night. Tuesday Rotture 315 Southeast Third Ave.
Freed from its former label Hed PE focuses on creating music on …
IdahoStatesman.com ID
“I don’t want to answer to other people” he said in a phone interview. This wasn’t necessarily something he considered thoroughly in starting Hed PE. And Gomes is loving every minute of the band’s underground non-corporate existence. “It’s the best thing ever” he said. The band’s career didn’t start out on this path though. Formed in Huntington Beach Calif.
Music: Palmer’s jukes it up
Minneapolis Star Tribune MN
To be fair though comparing Avenpitch leader and local electropunk ringleader Todd Millenacker to James Murphy & Co. also would have been apt with their two previous albums. Millenacker’s upbeat punchy songs avoid the dour goth-ish rut that too many other digi-rock bands fall into and he incorporates punk and metal influences bravely albeit sometimes clumsily. Avenpitch’s CD party is Saturday at Club Underground (9 p. Random mixAttention local Brit-rock fans: There’s a new blog in town called Brit Rock at the Top run by local tennis semi-pro Brody McCoy who has put together a lineup Saturday at the 400 Bar featuring three new local bands with overt U.