The News Review:
- 1090 Club – Natural Selection
- Will ldham keeps focus on music as Bonnie “Prince” Billy
- God save the brand? Punk musicians power UK ads
- asis Bar & Grill combines original live music with good drink …
- Iggy Pop
- Essentials: This weekend’s live music picks
1090 Club – Natural Selection
DA
1090 isn’t as blood curdling or brooding but the group supplements those qualities with more melody. Akin to Cursive 1090 Club uses the ebbs and flows of punk music to cultivate its tone and overall sound while the members refine and polish their music with liberal use of the violin and jabs at the piano. The violin is certainly the MVP of the album it’s beautiful and even haunting at times. It screams during aggressive breakdowns in a song and weeps in tender moments. pener “ITSN” is fantastic. It has the perfect amount of catchiness edge and tone.
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Will ldham keeps focus on music as Bonnie “Prince” Billy
Houston Chronicle
He’s frequently reviewed often favorably. But certain generalizations — shorthand to describe his sound — bubble up time and again: Americana; gothic; eerie; depressing; Appalachian; and a personal favorite found on Wikipedia “Appalachian-post-punk-solipsist. ”His career in fact post dates punk rock. But ldham’s native Louisville Ky. is west of Appalachia and the music he’s released suggests nothing solipsistic at all. It’s a description more related to his disinterest in dissecting his work and to the way its released (frequently and with minimal promotion). ldham is sort of like a music journalist who crossed over the only one of us smart enough with melody and diligent enough with rhyme and the sound of words to create a distinctive body of music.
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.
asis Bar & Grill combines original live music with good drink …
Charleston Post Courier
I’ve seen plenty of bands playing different kinds of music at the asis but in recent years the venue has carved its own niche in catering to metal punk and indie music crowds. n any given evening you might find the parking lot full at the asis with no doubt live music as the primary attraction. Kallie Knight of Knight Booking has done a great job of scheduling acts that fit the venue well. All-ages shows which are rather hard to come by these days yet so vital to the music scene are also a regular feature at the asis. asis Bar & GrillAddress: 788 Folly Road.
Iggy Pop
Las Vegas Weekly
Whether fans of his scuzz-garage side or unhinged-punk persona will warm to the subdued album is another matter entirely. More Iggy Pop.
Essentials: This weekend’s live music picks
San Francisco Chronicle
Peaches) has been like the second coming of Prince: She’s got a dirty mind and boy is she not afraid to speak it. This Canadian performer sure likes to dish out the goods hatching sex anthems of dirty electro-clash ’80s free-style and dance-punk that’ll make the guys and gals wiggle it just a little bit. Drums of Death open.