The News Review:
- Music of anger and protest in “Vortex”
- Jon Ginoli’s story so far? Dreams do come true
- Stoking Careers in Frenzy of South by Southwest
- Top three Replacements songs that should be household hits
- Gaslight Anthem Explain Springsteen Comparisons
- It’s songs (and hard truths) at singer-songwriter event
- Blink-182: The Continuation of a 17 Year Legacy
Music of anger and protest in “Vortex”
The regonian – regonLive.com
Folk and rock music have proud traditions of protest songs from “Go Down Moses” to “This Land Is Your Land” to “Eve of Destruction. ” Punk music was a backlash against Margaret Thatcher’s no-jobs no-future Britain. Even classical music whose refined image is rooted in the church and aristocracy has a formidable history of protest from Haydn Beethoven Prokofiev Shostakovich Britten Corigliano and many more. No musical voice in the Northwest is more original impassioned or memorable than his.
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.
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.
Top three Replacements songs that should be household hits
Examiner.com
(Plus how random for the San Jose Culture Examiner to discuss Minneapolis pop-punk from the mid-’80s right? Yet here we are. Life is music music is culture. Besides there’s news in the next paragraph. )Decades (almost) after the group’s dissolution fresh evidence of their greatness is on a slew of reissues of their ouevre a treatment that.
Gaslight Anthem Explain Springsteen Comparisons
ChartAttack
The punk thing I think is based more on our ethics than our sound these days. [2007's] Sink r Swim was definitely more of a punk rock record. f course the word has been rendered almost meaningless now in terms of music. Definitely punk music as what it was meant to be is no longer what it is. I actually think what we tried to do with The ‘59 Sound by doing what we wanted to do and not trying to do something that other people wanted to hear was probably more punk rock than those people that write "punk rock" records these days. How displaced did you feel when suddenly you jumped up a level on this last record? Usually it’s tour and record tour and record and now there’s a lot of talk about a record.
It’s songs (and hard truths) at singer-songwriter event
Press of Atlantic City
“And then suddenly it was Weinstein with his head ducked in his hands. His demo had been pulled from the box. But rather than playing any of his original songs the panel opted for his rough punk cover of Nina Simone’s “Be My Husband. “”I wanna hear this recorded on one microphone with the singer standing in a dumpster” said Brown. But wait – was that a rave?”How did you get that throat-clearing effect” asked a couple of panel members their own voices betraying a little respect as Weinstein said he had used a handheld microphone to alter the vocal quality. Despite his critical reaction even Weinstein got a lesson in the music industry’s need to match image with content. “I’m surprised to see it was you” laughed Jay when Weinstein peeked out from under his baseball cap and owned up to his track.
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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.