The News Review:
- Power Banjo Extreme Jazz and a Bit of Twitchy Punk
- Jay Reatard gets ‘wimpy’ rocks out with The Adverts’ TV Smith
- Deer Tick Latches n
- Nightlife Agenda
- A Summer Staple
Power Banjo Extreme Jazz and a Bit of Twitchy Punk
New York Times
The music of Seabrook Power Plant — the name is a riff on a nuclear station in Seabrook N. — descends both from the extreme wing of avant-garde jazz and the twitchier strains of hardcore punk. Some songs on the band’s self-titled debut just out on Loyal Label also reveal a fruitful affinity with the lumbering churn of stoner metal. ne such tune “I Don’t Feel So Good” was a highlight of Tuesday’s set.
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Jay Reatard gets ‘wimpy’ rocks out with The Adverts’ TV Smith
Nashville Scene
” So observed one fan trying to articulate the appeal of the Memphis garage musician. The claim is both a description of the music which takes the punk of the ’70s (and that music’s ’80s and ’90s revivals) as its obvious influences and a ringing endorsement—Reatard’s songs encapsulate the high-speed low-fidelity and flamboyantly dramatized bad moods that fans of the genre seek out. Touring in support of his latest album Watch Me Fall his three-piece band will offer audiences a chance to see the controlled chaos and ferocious energy of their live show. The band (other members are bassist Stephen Pope and drummer Billy Hayes) most recently played a show at the Mercy Lounge in April 2008 that Reatard remembers as “the smallest.
Deer Tick Latches n
Dallas bserver
I got picked on was goofy-looking and the girls didn’t like me. A pretty typical miserable high school experience” McCauley offers on his band’s way to a show in Portland. “Punk rock was my sanctuary for a bit then I stumbled on country music. Everybody was just as pissed off and miserable as I was. He began writing songs drawing on the country and roots traditions. He found a drummer and began playing around but by the time Viking Moses singer-songwriter Brendan Massei invited him along on tour McCauley was alone again. Deer Tick suffered through several incarnations but McCauley had trouble finding permanent members.
Nightlife Agenda
Washington Post
’s Fight Club and that’s spawned lots of “hot” bands like No Age and Mika Miko. Abe Vigoda isn’t nearly as loud and thrashy as those bands — in fact there’s a tropical vibe that permeates most of the quartet’s songs. This isn’t tiki bar music but there’s more than just “1-2-3-4!” rinse repeat. peners Talbot Tagora (.
A Summer Staple
Cleveland Scene Weekly
Here’s our guide to the bands that are worth checking out. ANTI-FLAGPittsburgh’s Anti-Flag have railed against social and politicalinjustice for over a decade. The band’s lyrically aware fast-pacedsongs only recently found their way to RCA just as major labelsstarted recognizing political punk as a viable commodity. But nowafter two major label albums the band has signed to SideneDummy andjust released its ninth album The People or the Gun. The newsongs are contemporary and — as with most of Anti-Flag’s music— highlighting the crumbling American economy and the currentstate of American politics. It’s hard to believe Anti-Flag is now oneof the oldest bands playing Warped Tour but it’s not so hard tobelieve that it’s one of the only truly punk bands still playing thetour screaming about politics alongside young bands that have probablynever read a newspaper. — Emily ZemlerBAD RELIGINAt this point in its long and storied career it would beunderstandable if Bad Religion were as irrelevant and passé asthe rock dinosaurs it railed against when it began almost 30 years ago.