The News Review:
- My 4 nights of Blowout rock-fest jams in Hamtramck
- Former ‘Idol’ Kelly Clarkson has all she ever wanted
- Live Review: Harvest of Hope Fest in St. Augustine FL
- 5 questions for nerdcore rapper MC Lars
- 2009 SXSW Music Show Lineup
- Devo Announce World Premiere of “Q: Are We Not Men?”
My 4 nights of Blowout rock-fest jams in Hamtramck
Detroit Free Press
Battling Siki: The Atlas Bar was crammed Friday with fans treated to some blues-inspired soul-rock courtesy of this group of scene vets. Gorevette: Inside the Knights of Columbus lounge fans crowded the stage Saturday for a glance at this girl-rock hybrid featuring two darlings of Detroit — Nikki Corvette (Nikki & the Corvettes) and Amy Gore (Gore Gore Girls). Retro ’60s girl-group sounds twangy guitars and loads of punk rock attitude filled the set. Detroit Cobras: For more than a decade the Cobras have been providing garage-rock takes on R&B and soul classics. At Saturday’s festival closer you couldn’t help but dance among the group’s longtime fans as singer Rachel Nagy shimmied across the stage in the nearly full Knights of Columbus hall. Love Meets Lust: This new wave electronic outfit was a breakout from last year’s Blowout and debuted a couple songs Thursday from “In Disguise” its upcoming free digital release. The Crooks: I wasn’t previously familiar with this trio of young’ns who played some blistering blues-inspired rock Saturday at Jean’s Bar.
Former ‘Idol’ Kelly Clarkson has all she ever wanted
USA Today
1 single with the thumping My Life Would Suck Without You. Clarkson co-wrote a number of songs on the album her collaborators this time including pop savants such as Ryan Tedder Sam Watters and Louis Bianciello and veteran rock producer Howard Benson. She acknowledges that “a lot of cooks” helped determine the lineup. “There’s the team at my label my management and me. But for this album pretty much everyone agreed on most of the songs. Dark ‘December’ By most accounts including Clarkson’s own the process behind her last album was more tortured.
Live Review: Harvest of Hope Fest in St. Augustine FL
LiveDaily.com
Southern rockers The Takers attracted a small crowd of country fans to their set. Later Gainesville-punk vets Less Than Jake encouraged onlookers to create a massive circle pit that extended around the sound booth but the majority of attendees were at the stage next door dancing rave-style to the remix mashups by Pittsburg DJ Girl Talk. The love-hate for Girl Talk among those present was obvious when New York ska-punks Bomb The Music Industry! mockingly dedicated a Green Day song to the mix-master. When the band’s set ended the crowd repeatedly chanted “F— Girl Talk!” Saturday featured a more subdued gig from Atlanta’s Deerhunter ‘experimental indie rockers who were once well known for their interesting live antics and obscure sounds. Skeletal frontman Bradford Cox admitted to being “a total a–hole” when he announced that most listeners there were probably unfamiliar with his band but when he asked for a show of hands more than half the crowd claimed to know the group. Across the way the hardcore None More Black inspired a mosh-pit and shared their passionate political views between songs. Later that day Nebraskan indie poppers Tilly and The Wall livened up things at their stage just before one of the biggest draws of the night Florida punk rockers Against Me! performed; the group has been dedicated to helping the Harvest of Hope Foundation for several years.
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5 questions for nerdcore rapper MC Lars
San Francisco Chronicle
tmpl –>MC Lars the Stanford-educated rapper best known for the hit “Hot Topic Is Not Punk Rock” is back with a new album “This Gigantic Robot Kills. ” Mixing hip-hop beats and punk guitars with free-association rhymes about computers and comic books the 26-year-old Pacifica resident has become one of the most prominent figures of a musical sub-genre called nerdcore. n Thursday Lars (real name Andrew Robert Nielsen) performs at Amoeba Music in San Francisco. We asked him for a syllabus.
2009 SXSW Music Show Lineup
Associated Content
This annual conference features musicians recording companies filmmakers and more with one thing in mind — all things music. The 2009 SXSW music lineup is scheduled to feature a little bit of everything for everyone. There are multiple venues loaded with a plethora of musical talent each of the five days of the music festival. Musical genres such as pop rock alternative alternative country hip-hop Latin.
Devo Announce World Premiere of “Q: Are We Not Men?”
All About Jazz
Devo evolved into a cult sensation helped in part by their concurrent emphasis on highly stylised visuals and achieved mainstream chart success with the smash single “Whip It” (the single made it to #14 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart) whose memorable video was made a staple by the fledgling MTV network in the early 1980s. ver the years the band have released an collection of unforgettable songs including “Jocko Homo” “Mongoloid” “Come Back Jonee” “Secret Agent Man” “Freedom of Choice” “Through Being Cool” “That’s Good” “Girl U Want” “Beautiful World” “Peek-A-Boo” and a deconstructed version of the Rolling Stones’ “Satisfaction. “Their style has been variously classified as punk art rock and post-punk but they are most often remembered for their late 1970s and early 1980s new wave music which along with other name bands ushered in the synth pop sound of the 1980s. Devo’s music and stage show mingle science fiction themes surrealist humor and mordantly satirical social commentary via sometimes-discordant pop songs that often feature unusual synthetic instrumentation and time signatures. After a critically acclaimed 35- year long run a staggering discography and a solid inimitable personality Devo continue to push the envelope and remain both an innovator and driving force on the ever-changing technological world of music.