The News Review:
- Shortbus Pickup
- Mufin Player organizes songs by sound
- St. Patty’s Day punks
- WWE Raw/ECW brand house show results
- Indie-pop mainstay Ben Kweller changes direction on ‘Changing Horses’
- This year’s Voodoo music fest in New rleans will fall on Halloween
Shortbus Pickup
Findlay Living
Epic Core is what they call it and it?s nothing like you?ve ever heard before. Their band called Shortbus Pickup will make you want to jump off the bandwagon and wait by the bus stop to hitch a ride to speed metal and punk music heaven. With members including Elijah Wilkins on the drums Jared Wentz on guitar and Joey Bishop supporting lead vocals these guys will show you an ?epic? time. ?Everything we do is epic so we kind of made our own genre called Epic Core? said Wentz. ?ur friends who come to our band practices refer to everything great as ?epic. ? We?ll be playing a song and they?ll say ?dude that was so epic? and we?ll just laugh and say we know!?Epic Core is their trademark and it describes what sets them apart from every other band.
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.
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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.
WWE Raw/ECW brand house show results
Pro Wrestling Torch
com correspondent (1) Intercontinental champion C. Punk beat William Regal. This was a longer version of their TV matches which is not a bad thing in my book. A lot of stiff shots by both guys. Fun match and a good way to start the show.
Indie-pop mainstay Ben Kweller changes direction on ‘Changing Horses’
The Tennessean
” I got really into punk and that’s when I wanted to form my own rock band. So once Radish came out I wasn’t downplaying my Texas thing because that was always mentioned. I guess I just didn’t talk that much about country music because I was so into indie-rock and punk at the time. But I was writing country songs throughout my career. I’ve just been saving it basically. (2 of 2)n your earlier rock albums did you ever write a song and think it was “too country” and change it to sound more familiar to fans?.
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.