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
- Test Spin: Wavves
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.
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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.
Test Spin: Wavves
Cornell University The Cornell Daily Sun
Although it is well known that punk is dead as we can see with contemporary labeled punk bands like Against Me! being much more pop based than their 1970?s counterparts this new attempt by No Age illustrates a resurrection of old punk elements in a more progressive accesible form. This resurrection is embodied by Wavves a one-man act headed by San Diego?s Nathan Williams. Williams successfully makes punk seem all too cool again. His music sounds like: the Beach Boys and The Zombies meet heavily synthesized punk with a hint of New Wave and Goth. n Wavvves Williams? second LP in four months songs touch on topics like weed and being apathetic. In ?So Bored? Williams repetitively drones ?I?m so bored?; while in ?No Hope Kids? he sings of not having a car girlfriend family friends or god. Although the album seems a little lacking in overall structure and flow Williams is doing something refreshing and shockingly not clichéd.