The News Review:
- ’21st Century Breakdown’ by Green Day
- KRQ’s 2009 Weenie Roast goes outside the bun
- What Bach and Beethoven have to say to Bjork
- Must List Live!: Can Adam Lambert of ‘American Idol’ actually lose?
- Q&A: The Meat Puppets’ Curt Kirkwood
- Recap: Chain And The Gang and The Hive Dwellers at Emo’s
- N STAGE | SASQUATCH: What a Concept: Decemberists Tell a Story
’21st Century Breakdown’ by Green Day
Los Angeles Times
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KRQ’s 2009 Weenie Roast goes outside the bun
Los Angeles Times
com-era fans with deep cuts from its 1999 album “Clarity. “Kings of Leon had a similar hugeness to its choruses and even inescapable goofy love-god tunes like “Sex on Fire” and “Use Somebody” seemed refreshed by night breezes and a few thousand lighters in the air. The grotty punk quartet Rancid has a long-anticipated new album coming out soon but the band largely stuck to its considerable catalog of steel-toed hits like “Bloodclot” and “Roots Radicals. ” The band has only gained vitality with new drummer Branden Steineckert and its live set was like watching a gang of rowdy old sailors pulling into port — singing gang-chant odes to their own longevity and spirit and maybe leaving a black eye or two in their wake. The Airborne Toxic Event and Silversun Pickups illustrated different paths to fame (and whatever counts for fortune in today’s music industry) for L.
What Bach and Beethoven have to say to Bjork
Brisbane Times
But if you’re listening to a Bjork song or TerryRiley’s In C or any number of recent classical contemporarypieces then it can be difficult to find the line between ‘popular’and ‘classical. ‘ “Ross discovered these popular-classical connections working as apresenter for his college radio station. “I had a show right beforethe punk rock show and I was playing this very dissonant complexmusic. The punk rock people would come on next and I realised thatbands like Sonic Youth and Pere Ubu also used dissonance – and acertain amount of anarchy as some of my favourite composers weredoing. As for the digital age Ross predicts that the MP3 iTunes andstreaming music will be the way of the future for classical music. “Ten years ago the way you picked up a classical music recordingwas to go to a record store and go into this enclosed room. There’dbe thousands of recordings there.
Must List Live!: Can Adam Lambert of ‘American Idol’ actually lose?
Entertainment Weekly
Think for yourselves Danny fans. PeterBilt The Nature Boy Mon May 18 2009 at 04:11 PM ESTI’m sure you punks at Ew hope he wins. Since you helped his votes with your cover of the fruit basket. What was there no new pictures of The cast of Twilight you could have shown?lisa Mon May 18 2009 at 04:10 PM ESTthey are both winners. adam is definetly my favorite but kris is very gifted also.
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Q&A: The Meat Puppets’ Curt Kirkwood
American Songwriter
I really like any interaction with other musicians. It kind of felt like not necessarily limited by their band but we had always come from a huge musical circle. There wasn’t much of a music culture down there (Meat Puppets were originally from Phoenix) so it was always just kind of punk rock. We were always looking for a larger circle of friends to play with. We had played with Black Flag some some other solo punk rock acts and just jam out. It was fun to play outside of that and just play some of their songs and be a guest musician. They were a cool group.
Recap: Chain And The Gang and The Hive Dwellers at Emo’s
Decider Austin
Both men came of age in the punk counterculture of the 1980s finding their own aesthetic amongst a mob of identically “nonconformist” hardcore youth. As the years went by and the other punk polemicists got married got old and dropped out Johnson and Svenonius kept at it turning near 180s in musical direction with funk-dancehall outfit.
N STAGE | SASQUATCH: What a Concept: Decemberists Tell a Story
Kitsap Sun
n a musical level the fact that Meloy drew from folk music on “The Hazards f Love” comes as no surprise. Folk has flavored much of the music Meloy has written for the Decemberists (whose lineup also includes guitarist Chris Funk keyboardist Jenny Conlee bassist Nate Query and drummer John Moen) since he started the band in 2000. Along the way he has also given the band a decidedly modern edge by blending into the Decemberists’ sound healthy bits of punk classic pop and edgy rock. n “The Hazards f Love” Meloy continues to draw on those styles creating a rich musical work that runs from being graceful and pretty to forceful and foreboding. The predominant musical ingredients come from seemingly opposite sides of the musical spectrum – English folk and heavy metal. “I think that there’s a strong connection between British folk revival music and the nascent metal (scene) and they shared a lot of similar fascinations and influences” Meloy said. “In that sense they go really well together.