The News Review:
- The Color f Violence Readies Debut Album
- Music Preview: PS at Harper’s Ferry Tonight
- Ska reggae and punk
- Tear It pen
- AT THE ADMIRAL: No Jive ‘” Royal Crown Revue’s the Swing Thing and …
The Color f Violence Readies Debut Album
Metal Underground MD -
“The premise of the band was to be spontaneous and lighthearted while at the same time making intense music. ?I feel like the whole mood of punk music has changed. r maybe it hasn?t and I have just romanticized the hell out of the whole thing. Either way I look at the early 80?s punk movement even just on the west coast there is so much diversity from bands like the Weirdos to Black Flag to Bad Religion to X. Take it worldwide and you get bands like GISM Siouxsie Sioux or the creatures Nina Hagen etc. I don?t see that anywhere now.
Music Preview: PS at Harper’s Ferry Tonight
Bostonist MA -
a member of the Minneapolis hip-hop collective that lives under the Rhymesayers record label. Next to label founder and Atmosphere rapper Slug Alexander may be the most prolific talented and artistically-flexible musician in the Midwest. Alexander cut his teeth on punk with his band Building Better Bombs before moving on to focusing on hip-hop. Since 2003 Alexander has released two excellent albums as P. and one as part of his Minneapolis hip-hop super-group.
Ska reggae and punk
Santa Rosa Press Democrat CA -
Last Modified: Thursday February 19 2009 at 11:30 a. An evening of ska reggae and punk music are on the music menu as the Uptones MMFM Hectic and The Agent Deadlines headline at the Phoenix Theater on Feb. art_main_pic { width:250px; float:left; clear:left; }.
Tear It pen
Aversion -
It’s all there from the feisty twang of Johnny Cash’s legendary early songs to the steam-train power of classic rockabilly to the unbridled energy of surf. There’s also a bit of harmonica — thick with a bit of Texas roadhouse dust — and even traces of something we can only guess is appropriated from Golden Age country. It’s almost a virtual compendium of white music from Elvis to minutes punk broke out of the Bowery all swirled together glossed over and turned into legend as only the separation of decades and transcontinental distances can do. Tear It pen plugs into the band’s love of all things Yankee rock filters it through the band’s distinctly Scottish sensibilities and revels in all the secondhand nostalgia available only to one with the temporal and geographic distance it enjoys from its primary influences. “utlaws” opens the album with those galloping guitars and Texas two-step bass lines that are the stuff of country legend; only a dose of note-bending distorted soloing toward the end saves it from rock cliché. After that things get a lot less predictable. “The Stand ff” melds rockabilly riffs and punk energy in a way that The Living End did in its heyday while “Slow Decay” melds country acoustic guitar figures with pumped-up Chuck Berry-cum-Ramones riffs rilling it up.
AT THE ADMIRAL: No Jive ‘” Royal Crown Revue’s the Swing Thing and …
Kitsap Sun United States -
(They recently were reunited with KISS’ Gene Simmons to play with him on episodes of his reality TV series “Family Jewels. “)”Swing” is only the beginning of the musical concoctions RCR’s been putting a charge into since they formed in 1989 according to Glass. “That’s what’s really cool about the Royal Crown Revue” he said “is that a lot of us came from a rock or ska or punk background. We play classic American music and we try to bring the youthful energy and rebellious spirit to it that it had in its day. “Back in the 1930s this was the music of youth” he said. More than any of the other bands to emerge during the early 1990s the Royal Crown Revue is credited with spearheading the resurgence of neo-swing music — and with giving a wave of young fans an alternative to the dour grunge movement and an avenue to the dance floor. Their energy and their aesthetic is captured well in the 1994 Jim Carrey movie “The Mask” which included their performance of the breakout hit “Hey Pachuco!” Licensing problems kept them out of another iconic period film “Swingers” which instead made stars of Big Bad Voodoo Daddy (remember “Zoot Suit Riot?”).
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