The News Review:
- Not exactly normal” punk music opened new venue
- Latino pop-rock is the best of many worlds
- Still spinning — Pittsburgh’s independent record stores
- Coachella: Morrissey and the Smiths’ influence is apparent
- Rocky Road: Pop music’s original punks get a highway named after …
Not exactly normal” punk music opened new venue
Click Liverpool
The King Blues mixed together ukuleles and acoustic guitars with the odd line of poetry creating not exactly the normal tone of punk music. But then this band are not a conventional punk outfit. The set consisting of tracks from both their debut album – Under The Fog – and their recently released second album – Save The World. Get The Girl – brought together the sounds of ska reggae and folk into a complete energised performance. Particularly in the form of lead vocalist Jonny ?Itch? Fox.
Latino pop-rock is the best of many worlds
Los Angeles Times
“Lara’s self-consciously trans-border approach to music making echoes that of most of the other nominally “Latino” acts performing at Coachella this year which include the Argentine-Uruguayan collective Bajofondo and two veteran Mexican rock outfits Molotov and El Gran Silencio. The eclecticism and growing international standing of these bands indicate how globalized Latin rock has become in the roughly two decades since the beginning of the so-called rock en español movement. Twenty years ago punk-rock ska and hip-hop were the main genres that shaped the sound of emerging Latin American bands. Today electronica is filling that role. And as was the case with punk and ska the more risk-taking Latin bands are tweaking and customizing electronica to suit their cultural and aesthetic objectives rather than merely imitating existing U. and European electronica outfits.
Still spinning — Pittsburgh’s independent record stores
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Named last year by Paste magazine as one of The 17 Coolest Record Stores in America. Millions of records in stock and not a single CD. ut of the rdinary Music 733 Monongahela Ave. Glassport 412-672-2323. ne-stop shop for punk metal surf and horror music and movies. Paul’s CDs 4526 Liberty Ave.
Coachella: Morrissey and the Smiths’ influence is apparent
Los Angeles Times
But the Smiths? most important quality might have been their intellectualism especially in Morrissey?s lyrics which resembled the drizzly anti-romantic poetry of Philip Larkin ("there?s more to life than books you know but not much more") and included references to Keats and Yeats. Mozz?s passion for oversized glasses further underscored that stance. After punk?s machismo and extroversion this was gentle often introspective music that reached across the bedrooms of disaffected teens and young adults across Europe and beyond. It wasn?t hard to imagine Morrissey dreaming up songs like "Heaven Knows I?m Miserable Now" alone in his book-lined bedroom festooned with posters of the New York Dolls and scar Wilde. "The Smiths is seen as a hugely influential and important band here and have a lot of die-hard fans including a lot of musicians" said Scandinavian Peter Morén of Peter Bjorn and John who are set to play Coachella on Sunday. "I think their influence and status continues to grow with every new generation and it also crosses over a lot to people that wouldn?t normally be into indie. "Morén who?s especially fond of Morrissey?s solo album "Vauxhall and I" remembers hearing the Smiths? "Girlfriend in a Coma" on Swedish radio as an 11-year-old.
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Rocky Road: Pop music’s original punks get a highway named after …
Memphis Flyer
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