The News Review:
- Jon Ginoli’s story so far? Dreams do come true
- Blink-182: The Continuation of a 17 Year Legacy
- Stoking Careers in Frenzy of South by Southwest
- Review: Karole Armitage still crafty minds her craft too
- Gavin Rossdale on Son Kingston: ‘A Punk Rocker in the Making’
- Loud Fast Rules
Jon Ginoli’s story so far? Dreams do come true
San Francisco Chronicle
It wasn’t until Ginoli came to San Francisco in 1989 that he could envision an audience for his idea “because it seemed so preposterous. Ginoli’s timing was perfect according to Matt Wobensmith who founded the utpunk fanzine and record label in the early ’90s. “Pansy Division is super ballsy” said Wobensmith who released one of Pansy Division’s early singles “Bill & Ted’s Homosexual Adventure. “When I first met them I thought there’s no way in the world this is going to fly. Lots of people thought they were crazy. But the band (Ginoli bassist Chris Freeman and then-drummer Jay Paget) took advantage of the rebellious cultural climate to build a following.
Blink-182: The Continuation of a 17 Year Legacy
Anchor
They released their first album When Your Heart Stops Beating in November of 2006. Blink 182 is to be featured in a documentary narrated by Tony Hawk. The documentary entitled ne Nine Nine Four is going to be about modern rock and punk music and includes bands such as The ffspring NFX and Green Day. However February 8 2009 was a day that Blink-182 fans will remember forever. At the 51st Grammy Awards all three members appeared on stage for the first time since December 2004. Travis Barker announced that the band is back together stating “We used to play music together and we decided we’re going to play music together again…Blink-182 is back!” The official web site declares the same news with the announcement of the tour for Summer 2009 in letters large enough that you’d have to be blind to miss it. The band explains “Hi.
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.
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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:.
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.
Loud Fast Rules
Baltimore City Paper
This Ain’t the Summer of Love takes as a given that punk and heavy metal were defining 1980s subcultures–”the two dominant examples of youth attempting to create and hold onto their own distinctive and unassimilable culture” he notes quoting sociologist Deena Weinstein’s essential Heavy Metal: The Music and Its Culture. How he explores them though is what gives his book its power. First Waksman is obviously a music fan. Ain’t begins in a recollection of a punk vs. metal battle played out in reader’s letters to Creem magazine in the late 1970s and liberally quotes these missives’ blatantly homophobic and virulent tirades back and forth. Waksman often quite brilliantly fuses the fan and the critic into a rich voice for music criticism.