The News Review:
- Rock star Peaches promises to make aging cool
- An Eye for Music
- Pilot of ‘Glee’ fall series about a high school music group to …
- Who rules the music universe? Taylor Swift
- Aggronautix Launches a Line f Punk Rock Bobbleheads
- More than just a great Pretender
- New York Dolls come full circle
Rock star Peaches promises to make aging cool
New York Daily News
While “Cream” features plenty of Peaches’ typically transgressive and witty bon mots – as well as generous portions of her trademark synth-punk music – it jars more by bringing in something new: yearning. In the song “Talk to Me” Peaches begs a lover to return. In “Lose You” she peers into the well of loneliness. “At the beginning of my career I wanted to present music in the strongest way possible” Peaches says. “This time I wanted to push my own boundaries by pushing the vulnerability.
An Eye for Music
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com’ ‘ladowntownnews. During the 1970s and ?80s he captured dozens of up and coming punk rockers and pop artists from The Screamers to Madonna when they were still as Brakha says ?penniless. ? Always more comfortable behind the lens Brakha born in 1947 has his first major show ccupation Dreamer at the Grammy Museum. It runs through Aug. Los Angeles Downtown News: Why the title ccupation Dreamer?Moshe Brakha: Either you can dream or you fall asleep.
Pilot of ‘Glee’ fall series about a high school music group to …
San Jose Mercury News
Without the song-and-dance production numbers this Fox pilot would be just another high-school-set comedy-drama albeit one with a tonal mishmash that careens from dark humor to earnest drama. Take away the music and “Glee” isn’t awful just ordinary. Thankfully Tuesday’s pilot episode bursts at the seams with musical performances as it tells the story of hio high-school students who are to show choirs what the Bad News Bears were to Little League. High-school teacher Will Schuester (Broadway veteran Matthew Morrison) takes over coaching the school’s glee club despite a lack of support from his fellow educators. The chorus is a motley crew made up of diva-in-training Mercedes (Amber Riley) dramatic soprano Kurt (Chris Colfer) wheelchair-confined guitarist Arty (Kevin McHale) punk rocker Tina (Jenna Ushkowitz) and self-proclaimed star Rachel (Lea Michele). In high-school terms they’re all losers.
Who rules the music universe? Taylor Swift
Seattle Times
In the late ’90s alternative rock was the first music to blur the line between underground and mainstream. (Remember Nirvana sold millions of records. ) A couple years later pop-punk and hip-hop — in the process described above — sealed the deal. Formerly outsider music from urban centers — grunge rap punk — was embraced by suburban mass-markets. Ten years later it all coexists. These days Pitchfork reviews Beyoncé Solange Ciara and Rihanna. Megaselling artists particularly in R&B and hip-hop sit alongside indie obscurities in comfortable solidarity.
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Aggronautix Launches a Line f Punk Rock Bobbleheads
About.com: Punk Music
This is the case with the company Aggronautix which has just announced their line of “Throbbleheads” immortalizing punk’s more colorful personalities. The honor of being first two to be immortalized in limited-edition plastic production goes to.
More than just a great Pretender
Irish Times
Talented? No question. Could she sing? Could she ever. She was older than the many punk-rock people that overran the scene though and it was this – coupled with the knowledge that she was a blow-in from the US and had an attitude that could kickstart a Sherman tank – that nudged her into the spotlight ahead of her shrinking violet UK counterparts such as Poly Styrene and Gaye Advert. The remainder? Just wallflowers. “The punk scene in the UK then” recalls Hynde in an interview conducted solely to promote the forthcoming Pretenders album Break Up the Concrete “was a small scene and it was just as much fun as it looked. But you know I don’t look back much.
New York Dolls come full circle
North County Times
Their brief tenure in rock ‘n’ roll was marked by ferocious performances onstage and infamous debauchery offstage. The glam-punks never charted a hit song or achieved any real commercial success by the time they disbanded in 1977. However the band’s influence on rock music namely the punk and glam variety is immeasurable. Among the very first punk-rock acts the Dolls set the standard for future genre stalwarts from the Clash to the Ramones. Their penchant for performing their irreverent songs in full make-up and gender-blurring outfits served as a blueprint for everyone from Kiss to Motley Crue. And yet it was British alt-rocker Morrissey who was responsible for getting the band back together in 2004 after a near 30-year hiatus. “I do credit Morrissey” said guitarist and founding member Sylvain Sylvain from his home on the outskirts of Atlanta.