The News Review:
- Bonnie Prince Billy rules backwoods music
- Manipur hosts punk music festival
- Green Day Announces Stage Version of American Idiot
- No Fear of Music: Fear’s multi-talented founder Lee Ving is more …
- Jon Ginoli’s story so far? Dreams do come true
Bonnie Prince Billy rules backwoods music
San Francisco Chronicle
The last time he came through town at the 2008 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival he was wearing overalls and sporting a beard bushy enough to land him on a cough drop box. ldham like some kind of backwoods post-punk Neil Young is a man who keeps reinventing himself. He is the darling of the underground profiled in the New Yorker included on a Wim Wenders soundtrack anointed as the hillbilly hipster who found the previously unknown common ground between bluegrass punk Americana and indie rock. His two-hour performance concentrated on selections from his recently released CD “Beware. Pointing his finger in the air for emphasis hopping up and down on his toes or simply lifting up his foot and holding it in his hand while singing he cut a singular figure onstage.
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Manipur hosts punk music festival
Newstrack India
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Green Day Announces Stage Version of American Idiot
Business Wire (press release)
“When they were 15 years old Armstrong and Dirnt first ventured to the punk-rock all-ages club 924 Gilman Street Project and everything changed. Located beside a canning shop in the gritty warehouse district of Berkeley 924 Gilman was a graffiti-etched nonprofit drop-in center for legions of tattooed and mohawked punkers who ran the place on a volunteer co-op basis. Gilman was where Armstrong and Dirnt first fell in love with punk music and it’s where they cut their political teeth. Apart from their political awakening something else happened at the Gilman that would have an incalculable effect on their future. They met a fellow teenager and Gilman regular who already bore the stage name Tre Cool… Apart from their political awakening something else happened at the Gilman that would have an incalculable effect on their future. They met a fellow teenager and Gilman regular who already bore the stage name Tre Cool. By 1990 Armstrong Dirnt and Tre had coalesced into Green Day.
No Fear of Music: Fear’s multi-talented founder Lee Ving is more …
Riverfront Times
So it was a very advanced musical platform that gave birth to this punk-rock band. Which I think is reasonably unusual. Well you know I was aware that there was this straight-edge thing but it just seemed ridiculous to me. I didn’t believe it for a minute. And it’s K to say what you believe in and it’s K if you do that. It just didn’t seem like something that was real.
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.