The News Review:
- Music Review | The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
- Emerald Jewels: Celebrating Real Irish Culture
- MTV’s March Madness Guide ‘” NCAA Brackets With A Musical Twist
Music Review | The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
New York Times
Feldman the singer and keyboardist Peggy Wang and the bass player Alex Naidus — neatly processes a whole range of styles. There’s a mild hauteur drawn from new wave a thickness derived from shoegaze-pop and a pulse passed down from dance-punk. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart might paint within the lines but they do so with panache. Here the group played most of its album faithfully rendered and with minimal flash. When not wringing notes out of his guitar Mr. Berman delivered his words solemnly helpfully leavened by Ms.
Emerald Jewels: Celebrating Real Irish Culture
Express from The Washington Post
Fusing traditional Irish folk with punk the Pogues with their booze-soaked incomprehensible frontman Shane MacGowan were one of the best-known Irish bands in the ’80s. Their politically tinged poetic lyrics and wild lurching sound are on full show on “Grace With God” which includes their biggest hit “A Fairytale of New York” featuring singer Kirsty MacColl.
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MTV’s March Madness Guide ‘” NCAA Brackets With A Musical Twist
MTV.com
Based on musical pedigree alone these guys could run the table. Pittsburgh — #1 seed East Region: Ninteenth-century composer Stephen Foster (”h! Susanna” “Camptown Races”) hailed from Pitt. So does punk act Anti-Flag.