The News Review:
- CM Punk likes to rock the ring
- Los Cadillacs Roar Back and Pick Up New Fans
- Album Review: ‘It’s Blitz!’ transcends punk boundaries
- Q&A Greg Prato author of “Grunge Is Dead”
- A Short Column About Music 4.02.09: Mission of Burma – Signals …
- NaNa: LA punk to its roots
CM Punk likes to rock the ring
Houston Chronicle
He also hopes to sweep Sunday’s Money in the Bank Ladder Match for a second year in a row. But CM Punk as his name suggests has another passion. He’s a self-professed “metal and punk-rock guy” with an iPod weakness for Justin Timberlake and an itch to start his own band. Q: Entrance music seems to be an important part of a wrestler’s persona. A: Your music that you come to the ring with I think is an extremely important part of your character. It needs to reflect aspects of your personality and it needs to be you.
Los Cadillacs Roar Back and Pick Up New Fans
New York Times
” Sergio Rotman the saxophonist added: “This was an obvious and necessary crisis but it wasn’t set off by anything particular like one guy falling in love with another guy’s wife. We had families and children and we just needed to stop and see where we were going. ” In its heyday Los Fabulosos Cadillacs was a pioneering band and not just because its music mixed ska punk reggae salsa and funk in unpredictable ways. Its quick embrace of MTV Latino as soon as that channel went on the air in 1993 led to a string of powerful videos charged with political imagery and the recording of MTV Latino’s first “Unplugged” helping make it one of the first rock en Español bands to become popular throughout Latin America rather than just in its native country. But the six core Cadillacs are returning to a musical landscape that changed enormously while the band was dormant. In addition to the different economics and technology of the music business the Latin music market is now dominated by genres that barely existed in 1999 or were of minimal importance like reggaetón and cumbia. With another group that might raise questions about the ability to remain relevant.
Album Review: ‘It’s Blitz!’ transcends punk boundaries
Kansas State Collegian
Band members Karen Brian Chase and Nick Zinner have come a long way musically since their bare-bones punk noise-rock debut "Fever to Tell" in 2003 and often uncomfortable middle of the road sophomore album "Show Your Bones" in 2006. "It’s Blitz!" as a title seems misleading considering this album of primarily love songs doesn’t pack the confrontational in-your-face romps about crude sexual lust well known on "Fever to Tell. " The discontinuity between title and songs indicates a reinterpretation of what the Yeah Yeah Yeahs regard as appealing and ear-catching music. The first single "Zero" opens like an ’80s dance hit with Karen progressively moaning about a loss of identity. Karen sounds like her normal chaotic self on dance-floor worthy "Heads Will Roll" while she sounds soft and reserved on disco-infused "Dragon Queen. "The album shows influences from other alt-rockers. "Dull Life" borrows Franz Ferdinand-like riffs as Karen sings with anguish about captivation in an undisclosed location.
Q&A Greg Prato author of “Grunge Is Dead”
Newsday
Why did you want to write about grunge? In 1990-91 it really opened a door for me. It introduced me to punk music to alternative music. Those bands really did change things and I don’t think the genre has been forgotten. but I don’t think there was ever really a book that was focused on it.
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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?’.