The News Review:
- Stoking Careers in Frenzy of South by Southwest
- Gavin Rossdale on Son Kingston: ‘A Punk Rocker in the Making’
- Review: Karole Armitage still crafty minds her craft too
- Condo Fucks – Fuckbook
- Ex-DJ’s turn to face the music
- Music world gathers to hear and be heard
Stoking Careers in Frenzy of South by Southwest
New York Times
”But most musicians here were less concerned with the interests of the music business than they were with reaching listeners. They might be quiet like the Low Anthem a Rhode Island trio that played somber songs pondering fate and eternity. They might be hectic like the Arkells a Canadian group that played upbeat folk-rock songs with the manic intensity of a punk band. They saw their future not in stadium tours or rock-star indulgences but in the pragmatic steps of setting up another tour or doing another studio session. Mica Levi leads one of the most innovative bands I heard at the festival Micachu and the Shapes: a trio wielding unconventional instruments in the smart snappy jaggedly off-center songs they recorded on their debut album “Jewellry” (Rough Trade). Her ambition? She shrugged. “I’d like to make another album” she said.
Gavin Rossdale on Son Kingston: ‘A Punk Rocker in the Making’
Entertainment Tonight News
“It’s a charity I really like and respect putting music into schools” he says “and it’s such a great way for kids to express themselves and communicate with each other through music so what a great thing to do. As for his upcoming North American tour Gavin is busy rehearsing and says he’ll include Bush and Institute tunes in the playlist along with his solo material.
Review: Karole Armitage still crafty minds her craft too
Los Angeles Times
She was a celebrity in addition: New York?s hip downtown ballerina choreographing to punk music and running with superstar artists such as longtime collaborator painter David Salle. She spent 15 years in Europe and that sojourn undoubtedly seasoned her. But perhaps just maybe all the early hype overshadowed a classical craftsmanship that had simply won her less notice. This is not to say that she didn?t like a little notoriety and such a thirst dies hard. So Armitage has put a too cutesy exclamation point front and center in her company?s name:.
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Condo Fucks – Fuckbook
DA
And more than likely if you played this for someone thirty years from now odds are they would have an arduous task even placing it in the correct decade. No it’s not polished and no it’s not even really finished but what it lacks in clarity it more than makes up in style realness and downright confidence. Punk music was always an exercise in futility and these guys (and gal) have proven their worth yet again. But if the proper album is on its way then this is just a new side to the beloved band. It’s not meant to be taken seriously and if you find yourself questioning its significance then you are barking up the wrong tree. The mistakes are left in the band counts off every song (even starting at nine on the aforementioned “Shut Down Part 2″) and they even decided to start over a few times without starting a new cut. Much like Yo La Tengo’s Fakebook this is just a teaser to a world of new opportunities.
Ex-DJ’s turn to face the music
Daily Nation
Rajoelina?s takeover is a ?variation. ? He couldn?t have carried on his punk politics to the extent he did without tacit support from elements in security organs. The reasons for rejecting Mr Rajoelina?s presidency are obvious: illegalities. In a continent where the youth seek to assume political leadership from a dinosaur-way-headed lot it can only be hoped Mr Rajoelina?s coup through punk politics isn?t the sound of the future.
Music world gathers to hear and be heard
Philadelphia Inquirer
My mother called me when she heard about it. ""The best things that happen at SXSW are things you don’t plan" said British songwriter John Wesley Harding who is moving from Brooklyn to Philadelphia. That could mean walking down Sixth Street and discovering a great band like Atlanta’s punk quartet the Coathangers. r it could mean what happened to the singer whose real name is Wesley Stace at the Austin Convention Center on Thursday. Stace and Dresden Dolls singer Amanda Palmer were to appear on a panel called "Do a 360 Deal With Yourself" focused on musicians turning themselves into self-contained small businesses keeping a piece of everything from touring to T-shirts. That was a common theme at the conference where there was a lot of chatter – and tweeting on Twitter – about the need for an emerging "artistic middle class. "Because Jones’ talk went long Stace and Palmer were forced to entertain the crowd outside the conference room which they did with an impromptu ukulele rendition of Radiohead’s "Creep.