The News Review:
- Gatherings of unusual instruments make sweet music citywide
- Meat Puppets at the EARL
- Start-up company Jingle Punks helps musicians find commercial …
- Goings n About Town Night Life
- The Way: Christian venue covered with graffiti hosts rock bands …
Gatherings of unusual instruments make sweet music citywide
New York Daily News
“What we lack in numbers we make up for in grace and beauty” he joked before a rendition of Pilgrims Chorus. The third annual MMNY festival also hosted mass music events for more familiar instruments as well like harmonica flute guitar cello saxophone and trombone. The festival also included concerts with bands spanning genres from bluegrass to hip hop to punk rock playing neighborhood venues in every corner of the city – all of them free. There were only two drummers in the percussion duo.
Meat Puppets at the EARL
Examiner.com
The attention they garnered from this appearance was well deserved but unbeknownst to a great number of people who discovered them via "Unplugged" it was actually a hard-earned moment in the spotlight: the band founded in 1980 by brothers Cris and Curt Kirkwood (bass and guitar respectively) along with drummer Derrick Bostrom had been at it for more than a decade. The Arizona band was part of a wave of bands that emerged just after the West Coast’s initial late seventies punk rock explosion (if it can be called anything it can be called that) spearheaded by bands like.
Start-up company Jingle Punks helps musicians find commercial …
amNY
The Jingle Punks said they are selective about the artists they let into their catalog. They share royalties with the musicians ? 50-50. The library is carefully curated for that Jingle Punk sound Demole said. ?We ask ourselves: Do we want these guys to be a part of Jingle Punks? The music has to be commercially viable and culturally relevant? he said. ?If you search for Lady Gaga you don?t get a sound-alike you get nine or 10 other bands that just haven?t been discovered yet? Gutstadt said. The company is growing by adding music and attracting major media companies. The Jingle Punks count dozens of media outlets and brands among their client list from ABC to Pepsi.
Goings n About Town Night Life
New Yorker
Williamsburg Brooklyn (718-486-5400)—June 24: The lanky reedy-voiced Hank Williams III takes his musical inspiration from his granddaddy. An unapologetic proponent of living fast and high Hank III can work the purest bluegrass the fiercest punk-metal and practically everything in between. He appears with his band Assjack. PUBLIC ASSEMBLY70 N. Brooklyn (718-384-4586)—June 28: Pansy Division which helped inaugurate the “queercore” offshoot of San Francisco’s early-nineties punk scene has recently reunited and has evolved significantly.
The Way: Christian venue covered with graffiti hosts rock bands …
Lubbocknline.com
ne twice or maybe even three or four times a month the lonely little Alamo-esque building in the industrial land right off I-27 Exit 3A explodes with hardcore punk music and heavy metal: growls screams sludgy power chords karate disguised as dancing all of it sober some of it spiritual. He’s talking about the Bible study. Every Sunday night the rock ‘n’ roll testosterone and hipster posturing take a back seat to prayer fellowship and the fruits of the Spirit. Right now they’re reading the book of Acts.
Related from Defacedeath: RED deserves praise for different Christian metal sound