The News Review:
- Mufin Player organizes songs by sound
- This year’s Voodoo music fest in New rleans will fall on Halloween
- St. Patty’s Day punks
- Pop-punk band makes good on promise
- Black Flag founder to play at 1982
- Director to Attend Screening of Music Documentary
Mufin Player organizes songs by sound
CNET News
” Acid-jazz and punk? In fact the songs do sound similar–noisy abrasive lots of cymbal. This is the kind of unexpected recommendation I was hoping for based on the sound of the music rather than the mostly artificial “genre” categories that artists and labels pick. nce they work the ID3 bugs out Mufin could become a useful piece of software. Still I don’t see it replacing iTunes any time soon–and for that matter neither does Mufin. If you want to apply Mufin’s similarity engine to iTunes the company offers a.
This year’s Voodoo music fest in New rleans will fall on Halloween
Dallas Morning News
Though the lineup has not been announced past acts have included Sinead ‘Connor Smashing Pumpkins Rage Against the Machine 50 Cent Eminem and 311. The festival celebrated its 10th anniversary last year with performances by Lil Wayne Stone Temple Pilots Nine Inch Nails Erykah Badu and Wyclef Jean. Besides the alternative punk rock soul and techno groups it hosts each year Voodoo also offers Louisiana favorites among them Walter “Wolfman” Washington Trombone Shorty Irma Thomas Dr. John Kermit Ruffins and Ivan Neville. Voodoo has grown into a hot spot for artists and fans alike luring more than 100 acts and more than 100000 fans. The festival’s one major backslide was in 2005 when it was held two months after Hurricane Katrina flooded 80 percent of the city. That year the festival was cut to one day and held free of charge to anyone who showed up.
St. Patty’s Day punks
In-Forum
The list of bands who?ve married Celtic folk tunes with the passion of punk is long. This makes sense to Barr. ?I?ve always said that folk music was kind of the first punk music ? music by the people for the people for the causes of the people. Punk and folk have more in common than they don?t? he says. ?The values and mindset behind both are definitely related. But it all goes back to The Pogues right?Yes it does says Barr whose band has often collaborated with members of the seminal Irish rock act.
Pop-punk band makes good on promise
ASU Web Devil
?A Day To Remember enlisted the help of Chad Gilbert guitarist of New Found Glory to produce its latest release. Since the band has been on the road for the better part of two years ?Homesick? focuses on the ups and downs of nonstop touring. In the opening song ?The Downfall of Us All? vocalist Jeremy McKinnon shouts ?I sold my soul to the open road? over the heavy-hitting guitars and booming double bass pedals. It is the perfect setup to an album that puts its foot on the pedal and never releases.
Black Flag founder to play at 1982
Gainesville Sun
art_main_pic { width:250px; float:left; clear:left; }Guitarist Greg Ginn might be a name unfamiliar to most pop music fans but in the punk world it’s unmistakable. He is responsible for starting one of the most influential revered and copied punk rock bands of all time: Black Flag. Black Flag was much like Black Sabbath was to metal; they broke all the conventions about what punk music could be. It could be satirical shrewd self-critical avant garde jazzy and of course furiously primal. Ginn wrote songs and played his guitar that way. He never used pedal effects instead he worked within the constructs of his craft to create noises in songs that sounded like shrieking pterodactyl babies. And he wrote lyrics that revealed what he saw in himself rather than in the world around him a typically backwards concept in punk music.
Director to Attend Screening of Music Documentary
University of Texas at Dallas (press release)
She will be available for question-and-answer session after the film’s showing. Punk’s Not Dead combines footage of live performances commentary from band members and behind-the-scenes anecdotes. The film chronicles the evolution of punk music from its anarchic roots to its use as a corporate marketing tool and acceptance into popular culture to its reinvention by more recent generations. UTD Cinematheque is sponsored by the.
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