The News Review:
- CM Punk likes to rock the wrestling world
- Songs to Mock and to Love
- Los Cadillacs Roar Back and Pick Up New Fans
- Album Review: ‘It’s Blitz!’ transcends punk boundaries
CM Punk likes to rock the wrestling world
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.
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Songs to Mock and to Love
New York Times
Growing up in the 1980s Mr. D’Arienzo was more a fan of punk rock and New Romantic bands than hair metal acts. “I actually tried to avoid that stuff” he said “because it was the music of the people that wanted to throw me into a locker. ” But as in most show business tales Hollywood got him to change his mind.
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.