The News Review:
- St. Patty’s Day punks
- Shortbus Pickup
- Mufin Player organizes songs by sound
- Pop itself: Black metal is misunderstood furthest genre from pop
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.
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.
Pop itself: Black metal is misunderstood furthest genre from pop
UWEC Spectator
It retained the radical philosophies but harnessed punk’s passion in a unique way. In post-structuralist thought critics argue that even opposed entities rely on one another in order to identify themselves. Though post-punks were fed up with “The Ramones” and wary about “The Clash” they depended on them for their own identity. When considering who directly refused to live pop the first movement that came to mind was New York’s “No Wave” in the mid-1970s. Performers like Lydia Lunch James Chance “Suicide” or Arto Lindsay barely even consider themselves musicians (many question No Wave’s validity as a musical movement and prefer to consider it a general cultural movement) but I think they still needed artists like Bruce Springsteen or “Earth Wind and Fire” to bounce off of. I needed to find something more naturally antagonistic for this column. It dawned on me that most black metal bands appear to be tucked away in the secluded regions of Scandinavia.
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