The News Review:
- March of the punks
- Rock band Sugar Ray back in the ring as indie act
- Advertising Goes Punk In UK
- Mutiny Within
- Summer music preview #1: Indie faves roots-rockers and electric …
March of the punks
Edmonton Sun
Perhaps the barn-like acoustics didn’t help. The crowd 7000 strong — not too shabby for a punk show whose music doesn’t get played amongst the pimples of emo on the Bounce — already knew every single word of their favourite Rise Against songs which is to say all of them before they even came into the building. ne thing about these tunes: despite their roaring intensity they have good hooks and irresistible choruses. Various chants rose up throughout the evening: “We work to fix the work that you’ve undone” (Long Forgotten Sons). “The concrete calls my name again I’m falling through the cracks I slip” (The Dirt Whispered). And a real crowd-pleaser in Prayer for the Refugee: “Don’t hold me up now I can stand my own ground I don’t need your help now you will let me down down down!” Sensing a theme here.
Rock band Sugar Ray back in the ring as indie act
Reuters
“But that wasn’t the point. Contrary to popular perception Sugar Ray never broke up. The band’s original lineup of childhood friends from Newport Beach California moved from rap-punk to power-pop and from broke unknowns to wealthy platinum-sellers over the course of five albums on Atlantic. But by 2003 the writing was on the wall for bands like Sugar Ray and that year the group’s “In the Pursuit of Leisure” album — an attempted reinvention that included several songs produced by the Neptunes — flopped. McGrath took the TV job and the rest of the guys went back to the beach. They would reconvene every year for a few corporate gigs state-fair-type concerts and an occasional soundtrack song but Sugar Ray was on the back burner. Atlantic dropped the act in 2006.
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Advertising Goes Punk In UK
Billboard
“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.
Mutiny Within
Scarlet Scuttlebutt
“Andrew who started playing when he was 13 bounced around from punk rock band to punk rock band locals might remember the group Subject to Change until he heard a CD from the metal band Children of Bodom. “There was neoclassical music and Mozart and metal and technicality. I thought “Screw punk music this is the I want to do’ ” he said. An early version of the band featured Andrew on lead vocals. It was during a show with the old alignment at the former Hamilton Street Cafe in Bound Brook that a representative from Roadrunner first saw the band. “I knew who he was but I didn’t want to seem like a fan boy so I asked him who he was and he said “Guys I’m the man who can make things happen’ ” Andrew said. After that point Andrew decided to remove himself from lead vocals.
Summer music preview #1: Indie faves roots-rockers and electric …
Decider Austin
to Bob Dylan Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp like a minor-league baseball stadium. Are friends electronic?We have only this generation’s obsessions with the pop culture of the near past shallow electro beats bright color and being too fucking clever for their own good to blame for the sensory assault of Ear Pwr and Adventure? TV n The Radio’s David Sitek turned up the CMYK levels on Telepathe for the Brooklyn duo’s Dance Mother? Human after all?if not quite Daft Punk after all?Faux Punk attempt to distill Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter’s legendary Alive tour into something that can fit inside a medium-sized club? It’s hard out there for French dance acts not named Daft Punk or Justice but DAT Politics makes the best of its shortcomings with a repertoire of glitchy chiptune bangers? It used to be that musical androgynes only desired to come and meet you (though they thought it’d. We get something wrong?.