The News Review:
- How to punk St. Paddy
- The members of Bad Weather California are just young punks at heart
- Dreadnoughts put punk edge on Celtic seafaring tunes
- Essentials: This weekend’s live music picks
- Q&A with Dan Whitford of Cut Copy
How to punk St. Paddy
Park Record
The Wailing ‘Sheas a Utah-based tribute band borrows from the songbooks of Flogging Molly and Dropkick Murphys. During a four-show sweep into Park City that begins at the Canyons’ Spring Concert Series Saturday March 14 at 4 p. The Wailing ‘Sheas said they hope to bring the spirit of Ireland alive.
The members of Bad Weather California are just young punks at heart
Westword
It’s still doable today. It’s just a tribute to everyone who’s doing that instead of just coming in and being like ‘h lets be in the industry without knowing the history of it without knowing the history of why Modest Mouse is able to sell out Red Rocks without understanding that Modest Mouse played plenty of punk house shows. ‘”"I was a young punk who overlooked a lot of things” he adds. “Punk music is great and that whole culture you know ideology. I feel like our band is punk. But being a young teenage punk you overlook a lot of things. Things like say working at becoming a better guitar player.
Dreadnoughts put punk edge on Celtic seafaring tunes
BCLocalNews
?All the songs are about drinking and prostitution and we talk about squid?there are lots of old songs about being dragged to the depths by squids. ? Sound weird? Not so much said Smyth. Their music is actually the culmination of what Canadians and university-entrenched guys have loved for some time?folk and punk music respectively. It?s also a genre that?s gaining attention these days. ?There?s a resurgence of punk folk music? he said. ?A lot of Irish Celtic folk music is based on sea shanty traditions and dirtier Irish folk comes from the bars and pubs. We just added the punk edge.
Essentials: This weekend’s live music picks
San Francisco Chronicle
tmpl –> WildildlifeTonight @ Hemlock Tavern: This Seattle trio picks at the corpse of weird ’80s hard-core bands like Deep Wound and early Meat Puppets N. noise lympia punk and nearly everything sonically cathartic and explosive since then. With releases on labels including Get Nice Bodies of Water and the group’s own Chicas De Hoy there should be plenty of destroyed-sounding rockers to go around. With Gunslingers and White Pee.
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Q&A with Dan Whitford of Cut Copy
Westword
Needless to say Whitford had much much more to say about the act’s sound he and his bandmates’ progression as musicians recording the album the inspiration for the artwork and much more. Read the entire conversation after the jump. Westword (Tom Murphy): The artwork for Bright Like Neon Love reminds me of some of those great new wave and post-punk records of the early 1980s whereas the artwork for In Ghost Colours looks a lot more modern even haunted. Does this reflect a shift in your aesthetic outlook and perhaps a shift in direct musical inspirations as well?Dan Whitford: I do all the artwork for the Cut Copy records myself so it’s a pretty direct reflection of what we’re into. For me the real advantage of being able to do your own artwork is that you get to directly reference the things that you’re referencing in the music when you’re writing the record. For that first record it was very much about us learning to play together and be in a band. We’re barely played any shows before we recorded so it was very much this fun experience of learning things almost like a school thing.