The News Review:
- God save the brand? Punk musicians power UK ads
- Music a ‘mega-vitamin’ for the brain
- Sound Affects: Music Reviews and Ratings
- Punk’s Purple Passion
God save the brand? Punk musicians power UK ads
Reuters
“John’s independent views are a huge part of his consumer appeal” he says. “And this has obviously struck a chord with our consumers. Punk music-licensing deals are also on the rise and in the fall an ad for the upmarket British supermarket Waitrose used the Stranglers hit “Golden Brown. ” Although it’s one of the band’s gentler tracks it’s a hymn to drug use — a fact that Stranglers bassist and “Golden Brown” co-writer JJ Burnel feels may have escaped Waitrose. “When our manager told us I thought it was very funny” he says with a laugh. “My first reaction was: ‘Are they advertising Christmas heroin or something?’ I’d have thought everyone had guessed by now (what the song’s about) but maybe not. ” Waitrose did not return calls for comment.
Music a ‘mega-vitamin’ for the brain
CNN International
By 2003 with the help of funding from the Parkinson’s Disease Society the resulting ensemble "Sing For Joy" was up and running rehearsing weekly and soon graduating to public performances. The group now consists of around two dozen singers including sufferers of Parkinson’s and multiple sclerosis others recovering from conditions including stroke or cancer plus their carers family and friends. Led by acclaimed jazz performer Carol Grimes the group’s genre-defying repertoire ranges from Cole Porter classics to ethnic punk.
Sound Affects: Music Reviews and Ratings
California Chronicle
“Let the Dominoes Fall” serves as the true logical follow-up to their last proper release on Epitaph the group’s masterful misunderstood 1998 double LP “Life Won’t Wait” a record that flexed Rancid’s abilities to stretch past the boundaries of their punk roots by massaging in elements of dub funk reggae and even hip-hop into what some consider to be their magnum opus. While the primary crux of the new record’s 19 tracks remains the teeth-shattering street punk bombast that has been the group’s calling card for over 15 years with many of the tracks clocking in at no more than a minute-and-a-half-to-two minutes there are plenty of sonic left turns that will surprise longtime fans while enticing new listeners to harbor a new appreciation for Rancid. The most poignant of which is the album’s clear centerpiece “Civilian Ways” a touching folk-country ballad sung by Armstrong about a soldier returning home from the war in Iraq only to continue to battle the ghosts of the horrors he witnessed out in the desert and how it has affected him upon his return to civilian life. Easily the band’s most political album to date Tim Armstrong Lars Fredriksen and Matt Freeman trade verses on a slew of topical issues of today that paint a bleak incendiary portrait of America in 2009. “We got it right you got it wrong we’re still around” Armstrong proclaims on key single “Last ne to Die. ” With this exceptional comeback album Rancid back up that boast in spades and prove they are the only punk band of their generation who still matters _ regardless of their age.
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Punk’s Purple Passion
PopMatters
We probed his back catalog resurrected classics like “When U Were Mine” and “Head” from Dirty Mind. We marveled at the man’s range and sat silently as he worked his way through a heavy groove. As the later part of punk was teaching us music didn’t have to sound like rage and fury exclusively. It could be strange and synthesized danceable and deranged and still rebel against the strictures of a staid social structure. So naturally Prince was one of our pied pipers and the minute tickets went on sale several of us took the leap. That night we got dressed in our best punk attire. Two members of the local band The Slut Boys suited in up their dirty shirts and torn jeans.