The News Review:
- Music Snob’s Concert Picks
- 80’s indie rock: A retrospective
- Green Day’s ‘Breakdown’ racks up sales
- Live from the Idoldome: What you didn’t see on TV — the final night!
Music Snob’s Concert Picks
NBC Washington
This trio came from the other half of Yummy Fur though it took about five years to form. This band is more playful and more light-hearted than Franz but just as danceable. It’s also less post-punk and more pop rock. The cleaner production of the group’s second LP "Kicks" is a disservice to their music. Sapped of its toughness the band sounds more like sap. Hopefully that’s just a problem in the studio not on the stage. Isis and Pelican Saturday at the Black Cat.
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80’s indie rock: A retrospective
Examiner.com
Ian MacKaye had taken punk rock to a new maturity with earnest meaningful movements both sonically and socially. More traditional sounds sprouted out of the movement with emotive and sensible bands like Rites of Spring and Embrace mixing the earnestness of hardcore with the humanity of pop music. The 80’s transformed punk rock music from a frenzied and disgusted movement into a purposeful progressive response. My Bloody Valentine released Isnt Anything toward the end of the decade as a reaction to the focused and determined sounds coming out of Washington D. While American bands were embracing poetic musings and emotional solemnity My Bloody Valentine disappeared behind a wall of sound. Almost incomprehensible the lyrics meant little in comparison to the sound.
Green Day’s ‘Breakdown’ racks up sales
Los Angeles Times
99 — CDs at the higher end of the price spectrum will be bundled with T-shirts or autographed prints. Epitaph will do a similar rollout with its hotly anticipated release “Let the Dominoes Fall” from punk veterans Rancid on June 2. “What you’ll see is a more flexibility and changes in pricing” said a major label executive who spoke on the condition of anonymity not wanting to appear as a spokesperson. “Tracks won’t sell for 99 cents and albums won’t sell for $9. You’ll see premium albums at $14.
Live from the Idoldome: What you didn’t see on TV — the final night!
Los Angeles Times
"I know Adam's gonna win. " The self-described "punk rocker" was also excited about tonight's free drinks! — LW3:26 p. : Janice Dickinson declares that Adam will win without question.