The News Review:
- Music Review | Los Fabulosos Cadillacs
- Mideast Rock Blends Traditional Modern Music
- Bamboozle Left brings out a full range of punk sounds
- CM Punk likes to rock the wrestling world
- Bamboozle Day Two: Heavy music rules in Irvine
- Songs to Mock and to Love
Music Review | Los Fabulosos Cadillacs
New York Times
n Sunday night the floor at the Hammerstein Ballroom started quaking from this Argentine band’s first song and that was just a midtempo reggae tune. Things got even more frenetic — with doubletime pogoing and pockets of slam-dancing — when Los Fabulosos Cadillacs accelerated into punk-speed ska. Skip to next paragraph Related.
Mideast Rock Blends Traditional Modern Music
Voice of America
n stage warming up with the group was a longhaired American musician and Mideast scholar Mark LeVine. LeVine teaches Middle East history at the University of California Irvine and is the author of a book called Heavy Metal Islam. It looks at the rock heavy metal hip hop and punk music scenes in the Muslim world. He says he is impressed with their sound and creative energy. “They’ll bring in hard rock metal then bring in a darbouka a Middle Eastern hand drum [and] an oud [a stringed instrument].
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Bamboozle Left brings out a full range of punk sounds
Los Angeles Times
” After that interlude Senses Fail’s two guitarists promptly pointed their instruments skyward kicked their feet up on the stage monitors and played dueling harmonized solos in the vein of Blue Öyster Cult. It just goes to show that what counts for modern punk rock today is anybody’s guess and every stripe of it was on display at last weekend’s installment of Bamboozle Left. The two-day festival further proved that today’s emo scene is less determined by the music than by the kind of person who listens to it and be it grindcore doofusy stoner rap or frothy disco every permutation of teenage taste was up for spirited debate. Even the headlining Chicago band Fall ut Boy which alongside Green Day is one of the only punk-allied bands to regularly top pop album charts today was greeted with ravenous cheers and a few withering quips from curmudgeonly scene vets who looked to be around the ripe age of 20. While bassist Pete Wentz has made tabloid rounds for marrying Ashlee Simpson and the birth of his son Bronx the band’s recent album “Folie à Deux” is a swaggering and sonically ambitious LP that they did absolute justice to onstage. Drummer Andy Hurley enlivened earlier hits with some metal-worthy kick drum chops and more recent cuts like “I Don’t Care” swung with a self-aware sass that would please T.
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.
Bamboozle Day Two: Heavy music rules in Irvine
CRegister
By NIYAZ PIRANI The range County Register Comments | Recommend While the first day of the third Bamboozle Left was a light-hearted neon-plastered party for younger fans day two was a darker heavier fest that satisfied an older and less brightly-dressed crowd. They came to rock on Sunday at Irvine Verizon Wireless Amphitheater and a stacked list of rock punk hard-core and emo acts didn’t let down. Sacramento’s Deftones led the brutal assault with a seething 12-song run. The performance was especially heartfelt as it was the band’s first without bassist Chi Cheng who has been in and out of a coma since November because of an auto accident. Former Quicksand bassist Sergio Vega who filled in for Cheng in the past resumed the role here. The loss and frustration came to a boiling point near the end of the Deftones set when singer Chino Moreno who dedicated the song “Headup” to the injured bassist repeatedly screamed out “Chi Cheng!” “Chi Cheng!” “Chi Cheng!”Though the band didn’t unveil songs from its in-the-works effort “Eros” the crowd got a taste of each previous work from the hauntingly pretty (”Digital Bath” “Change”) to brain-bashing brutality (”Elite” “7 Words”).
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.