The News Review:
- The Savage Animal 06.24.09: First Impression – The Stooges
- New York punkers The Casualties refuse to die
- Can Chris Brown save career with plea deal in assault on Rihanna?
- Punk rock creamery takes stand
The Savage Animal 06.24.09: First Impression – The Stooges
411mania.com
That’s a very cool and respectable peer group if you ask this listener. At the same rate you can easily hear how many others after would be influenced by the work of The Stooges. Many attribute The Stooges as a huge influence on punk music. I’ve never been one to get into punk. The stereotypical punk song doesn’t have much musicianship and always seems sloppy to me. I don’t get that here with this band. “The Stooges” are the kind of punk that I can easily get behind.
New York punkers The Casualties refuse to die
klahoma Gazette
It?s the difference between visiting and living there. The Big Apple quartet has remained true to its old-school street-punk style for close to two decades crisscrossing this country an untold number of times to share a riotous high-energy show to the people like the Paul Reveres of i!While most musical fads ? be they skinny-tied synth-plinking New Wavers; flannel-clad complaint rockers; or bad-haired rap-metal mooks ? recede faster than a middle-age hairline The Casualties? brand of punk rock has stood resolute through many years and iterations in part said guitarist Jake Kolatis because of its underlying spirit. ?More and more as our society gets pigeonholed into the ?Eat live sleep and die here? kind of thing the whole ?You don?t need to this is already done for you? I feel like punk rock needs to exist. There has to be the other thing like ?What?s the alternative to whatever this is?? Kolatis said.
Can Chris Brown save career with plea deal in assault on Rihanna?
Los Angeles Times
" And her R&B duo with Ne-Yo on "I Hate That I Love You" lost to Chaka Khan and Mary J. Blige ("Disrespectful") and lost a R&B song bid to "No ne" by Alicia Keys. At this year's Grammys Rihanna lost dance recording again as "Disturbia" was bested by Daft Punk's "Harder Better Faster Stronger. " And her long-form video ("Good Girl Gone Bad Live") was edged out by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers ("Runnin' Down a Dream"). Brown remains a Grammy loser despite five nominations. Besides those two collaboration defeats he also lost R&B male vocal for "Take You Down" to Ne-Yo("Miss Independent") this year while last year he also lost bestcontemporary R&B album for his self-titled debut to Ne-Yo ("Becauseof You") as well as best new artist to Carrie Underwood. And now that he's tinged by scandal can he ever win with the Grammys? As.
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Punk rock creamery takes stand
Boston Globe
Some of the music in the Allston store has racy lyrics she said. “I’m not a prude but they make me blush. ’’It’s the kind of music Masse grew up with. She started working at the Allston Herrell’s in 2003 when her husband Derek Brown was playing in a punk band whose name cannot be printed in a family newspaper. In 2007 she and Brown arranged a management contract with a purchase option with the franchise owner Erica Kotin. (Cooper who moved on to run a creamery in Watertown with a contract to produce ice cream for Herrell’s still owns the building lease and the victualler’s license. )“We went into it with no money but drive and ambition’’ said Masse a short cheerful woman embellished with tattoos.