The News Review:
- Holly’s legacy beats on
- Music Weekly: Franz Ferdinand and Jah Wobble
- Music Review Chords of Fame? These Bands Never Heard of Them
Holly’s legacy beats on
DesMoinesRegister.com IA
Ward for instance releases a new album Feb. 17 that includes a cover of Holly’s “Not Fade Away. ” And younger music fans are discovering classic rock in greater numbers as the songs flow freely from iTunes and other online digital sources. Valens is revered for his guitar technique and as the prototypical Latino rocker who anticipated the careers of everybody from Santana to Los Lobos and Los Lonely Boys. The Bopper wrote country music hits for other artists and is credited with creating the first distinct music video. “They are all different but of the same era – pioneers artists that really did catch the ear of the world not just America” said Terry Stewart president of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. The Bopper has yet to join Holly and Valens as an official Rock Hall inductee but the museum is co-producing a series of events Wednesday Feb.
Music Weekly: Franz Ferdinand and Jah Wobble
guardian.co.uk UK
First up on the eve of the release of their third album Tonight: Franz Ferdinand Alex Kapranos and Paul Thomson took the weight off in a swanky east London deli to chat with Paul MacInnes about jamming like the JBs living in a junkie squat and their return to the dancefloor. Elsewhere Rosie Swash takes time out with Jah Wobble the man who brought the dub to John Lydon’s seminal post-punk outfit Public Image Ltd. Wobble or John Wardle as he’s better known talks about his memories (fond and otherwise) of Sid Vicious how he established Chinese Dub rchestra and why he once gave up music to work on the London Underground. Sandwiched in between is bserver Music Monthly editor Caspar Llewellyn Smith on loan for the day to offer his thoughts in Singles Club. This week’s bag of goodies includes the latest offering from San Diego noise-maker Wavves a collaboration between Brazilian-American combo NASA Tom Waits and Kool Keith while Q-Tip joins forces with J Period to honour this momentous week with a track called Q-Tip for President.
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Music Review Chords of Fame? These Bands Never Heard of Them
New York Times United States
Collectively these five men and one woman don’t seem particularly goal-oriented. You wouldn’t want to call them musically progressive. They’re just putting pressure on punk rock seeing whether they can create transformative energy. Whatever the music is it’s intense and mystical and optimistic and has gotten very very good. ne of the band’s newer songs played on Tuesday is “Black Albino Bones. ” It might be about sex but look closer: it’s also about love of vinyl records as artifacts. (Pink Eyes has said he’s a devoted collector.