The News Review:
- ‘American Idol’s’ bigger message
- CD REVIEW: Maryland band takes a step forward
- Seven nights of music
- Holy diver
- Screen Plays
- A group of good-for-nothing punks
‘American Idol’s’ bigger message
Los Angeles Times
who was doing missionary work in Asia and Africa during the years Lambert was building his pop resume. Allen was one of several actively Christian musicians to make this year's Top 10 who will tour as a group this summer. Lambert and Allen have a musical connection: Both specialize in variations of the form of alternative rock known as emo an emotionally forthright catchy variation on American punk music. While Lambert's dyed-black hair and eyeliner recall bands like My Chemical Romance Allen's warble and his love of acoustic guitar link him to artists like Dashboard Confessional's Chris Carrabba who himself is open about his Christian faith. "Adam Lambert belongs to the more theatrical strand with the black nail polish and the black hair the darker expression of emo" said Karen Tongson an assistant professor of English and gender studies at USC. "Kris Allen comes from the folkier more acoustic clean-cut element of emo. The connection between Christian rock and emo has always been there in the folkier strains.
CD REVIEW: Maryland band takes a step forward
Central Michigan Life
” Perdomo was able however to deliver his words with more passion and sincerity. The band takes the listener through eleven tracks of life and its struggles. The album’s strength lays in the final three songs. “Northern Lights” “This Is War” and “Never Feel Alone” close out the album perfectly with Perdomo almost singing with the urgency and sincerity that his lyrics portray. However there are some weak points in the album. Perdomo’s deeper raspier voice will never leave people blown away and much of the music is very similar sounding and not in a good way.
Seven nights of music
Austin 360
Like ska it seems to be an entry point for young fans. After all this crew was started by two folks (Kelly gden and Luis Cabezas) who had known each other since eighth grade. Their newest album ‘Because I’m Awesome’ is on Blackheart Records home of San Antonio punks Girl in a Coma. With the Action Design and the Sweethearts.
Holy diver
City Pulse
Since Burton 58 began stage diving and crowd surfing over two years ago the Mac’s Bar janitor has made a name for himself in the Lansing music scene. He is best known for loving punk music getting wild at shows and partying hard all while he is “on the clock. ” “It’s obvious he’s done a lot of partying” Mac’s Bar show promoter Skotty Bell said. “He is the poster child for what years of hard living will do to you. ” The grey-haired mohawk-sporting Burton said he started working at Mac’s Bar in 1993 but is known more for diving than dynamic custodial skills. “He’s a terrible custodian just look at Mac‘s Bar it’s a dirty place” Mac’s Bar owner Chuck Mannino said.
Screen Plays
Houston Press
Besides a stellar slide-driven Ry Cooder score Wim Wenders’s dreamlike Paris Texas (1984) features Houston femme-punks the MyDolls rehearsing during one nightclub-set scene while Albert Collins instructs Elisabeth Shue and her young Chicago charges “Nobody leaves here without playing the blues” during another in 1987’s otherwise completely forgettable Adventures in Babysitting. Don’t forget John Cusack’s ex-girlfriend packing her stuff while he defiantly blasts the 13th Floor Elevators’ “You’re Gonna Miss Me” during the opening of 2000’s High Fidelity. Local ’90s pop-punks Fourth Grade Nothing’s cover of Kim Wilde’s “Kids in America” may be the only reason anyone remembers the dreadful Pauly Shore “comedy” Bio-Dome at all. Rent the 2001 straight-to-DVD Steven Seagal action flick Ticker (he plays a San Francisco bomb-squad captain battling terrorists if you’re curious) and you can catch Gulf Coast country-blues legend Gatemouth Brown and Houston-born Beatles protégé Billy Preston in the onscreen band. Documentaries may be the richest category of all and only getting richer.
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A group of good-for-nothing punks
PSU Daily Vanguard
“When we made that song five or six years ago everyone was like ‘h my God you can’t you can’t do that’” Sex bject says. “Bullshit we can’t we’re here in the bar and talking to all our friends and everybody else is saying it … basically every song we’ve written has been written by somebody else in the context of somebody will say something we overhear it and then immediately we start cracking up and there’s a song. ”The Punk Group’s own name is a jab at the music world itself particularly upon their feelings regarding the punk scene which has become as authentically rebellious and unique as a mob of Dave Matthew’s fans. By calling themselves The Punk Group and then playing music that is inherently not the set standard mesh that is “punk” they are in a way turning the genre on its head as they take over playing actual unique and original content while spouting jaw dropping lyrics. However shocking or comedic their songs have been one thing is for sure they’re working and people like what they hear. After only eight years as a band The Punk Group is getting their own tribute album titled Shower Time with renditions of their own tunes from artists all over the world. According to Sex bject the album should be coming out sometime within the next month.