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- A Short Column About Music 4.02.09: Mission of Burma – Signals …
- NaNa: LA punk to its roots
- Music: Gaslight Anthem won’t be Bossed around
A Short Column About Music 4.02.09: Mission of Burma – Signals …
411mania.com
He’s also helped by Conley’s melodic bass lines that also sometimes stray but always find their spot in the song and make it memorable. This was part of Burma’s charm as they always seemed like they may go off the deep end into either pretentiousness or pointless jamming but they kept things in line and played like as tight a musical unit as you’ll ever hear. These weren’t young punks trying to put two chords together; this was a band of musicians that were able to create punk music that went beyond “fast and loud” while at the same time remaining energetic and visceral.
NaNa: LA punk to its roots
Los Angeles Times
NaNa continued to expand — adding two more storefronts along Broadway and splashing the exteriors with then-radical graffiti art — and it basically kept growing for two decades. Stores in Hollywood San Francisco and New York followed and NaNa launched several clothing and shoe lines in addition to stocking early Betsey Johnson and Sue Clowes who designed clothes for Bananarama and Culture Club and started BY London. NaNa’s shoes quite literally became the foundation for almost every alternative look that emerged from the underground music scene from mod to rockabilly to goth to grunge to Riot Grrrl. A cool hangoutNot surprisingly the store became a youth culture mecca. “If you knew about NaNa then I wanted to be your friend” says Danica Polack 43 an 11-year veteran of the company who used to take the bus after school from Long Beach just to hang out and was eventually hired. “If you hung around long enough they’d put you to work!” she adds with a laugh. As Kaufman describes it “Some of the interview process was ‘What bands do you like?’ and then ‘Do you know how to count?’.
Music: Gaslight Anthem won’t be Bossed around
Minneapolis Star Tribune
And then my biggest influences were bands like the Smiths and the Cure. "Before " ’59 Sound" the band definitely had more of a punk sound which earned them a slot on the Warped Tour and other punk-centric gigs. Recently the Anthem toured with Chicago’s popular sociopolitical punk band Rise Against testing the waters for how the Boss-like music on " ’59 Sound" would go over in front of a crowd of Rancid- and NFX-loving youths. "Actually the punks like their Springsteen" Rosamilia said. "I was surprised by it myself but I suppose there’s sort of a blue-collar unpretentious connection to him. "The band didn’t go into the making of " ’59 Sound" expecting to make such an E Street-sounding record Rosamilia said. "We wanted to do something that we were really proud of something that harked back to soul music and stuff from the late ’50s and early ’60s.
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