The News Review:
- New Classics 101: Where did punk music start?
- Stew and Heidi Rodewald to Develop New Show at NYMF
- Gang leader charged in scheme to control punk rock
- Uptown Magazine – Winnipeg’s nline Source for Arts Entertainment …
- Punk rock’s secret Jewish roots
- What The Hell Happened To… 07.27.09: David Bowie – Lodger
- wner may close door on downtown St. Pete’s Garage music club
New Classics 101: Where did punk music start?
Examiner.com
To its originators if punk could be defined then it was no longer punk. It instead represented a freedom of artistic expression that had no designated fashion or sound. It didn’t even have a name; it was only called punk music in retrospect.
Stew and Heidi Rodewald to Develop New Show at NYMF
TheaterMania.com
In the piece rebellious blue blood Clare can’t get accepted into the early ’80s London post-punk music scene so she escapes to Manhattan with American hustler named Andy. Together they reinvent her past as a “Watford slumdog” and launch Clare into musical stardom. Additional programming will also include two dance musicals. Andy Warhol Was Right features a concept by Melinda Atwood Sammy Buck Dan Acquisto Daryl Gray and Shea Sullivan with book by Sammy Buck and music by Dan Acquisto. Giovanna Sardelli directs with choreography by Daryl Gray and Shea Sullivan.
Gang leader charged in scheme to control punk rock
Reuters
Elgin Nathan James a self-proclaimed founding member of Boston-based FSU — which stands for “Friends Stand United” — was arrested on Monday by FBI agents at his Los Angeles home. The attempted extortion charge was then unsealed by the prosecutor’s office in Chicago. FSU boasted in videos dating to 2004 about beatings it administered to punk music fans and performers. The aim was to establish control at clubs and concert venues and drive “Nazi skinheads” out according to prosecutors. The victim in this case was a “popular recording artist from the Chicago area” who was not named. The victim and his friends were beaten and repeatedly threatened by FSU members while on tour in late 2005 and early 2006 prosecutors said. Cooperating with the FBI the victim tape-recorded James seeking to extort money from him in a telephone call and agents observed James accepting a $5000 payoff at a club to stop the harassment.
Uptown Magazine – Winnipeg’s nline Source for Arts Entertainment …
Uptown
The Punks are Alright begins rather innocuously with a look at the current life of Forgotten Rebels’ singer Mickey Gerlecki (aka Mickey De Sadist). Seated in his house Gerlecki explains how punk music was like a lifeline for him in the mid-to-late 1970s and outlines how punk has always symbolized freedom. Action then switches almost inexplicably to Sao Paulo Brazil and a punk band called Blind Pigs fronted by a singer called Henrike. The effusive English-speaking vocalist who spent a decade as a kid in Ann Arbor Mich. describes how his father a nuclear engineer in the Brazilian navy was the man who first turned him on to punk music – and The Forgotten Rebels’ Surfin’ on Heroin.
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Punk rock’s secret Jewish roots
Ha'aretz
So was the genre?s forefather Lou Reed. British punk?s notorious ringmaster Malcolm McLaren is the son of shmatte factory owners. Is this merely a coincidence or is there something particularly Jewish about the music itself?”There is a sense of being an outsider in music” Kaye said just as growing up in a religious minority may have isolated some Jews who became punks. In a later phone interview he also cited the cultural influences he had derived from Judaism ? “a love of the minor key a sense of community and clan. ” The setting for the music was important too he said because ?CBGB?s was a kind of strange ghetto with its own vocabulary and customs. ?Panelists also praised the influence of Jewish artists entertainers and activists on punk music. Ramone credited Bill Gaines’s Mad Magazine and pulpy EC Comics for teaching him that “sometimes being outrageous is important.
What The Hell Happened To… 07.27.09: David Bowie – Lodger
411mania.com
jpg>What Else Was Going n In 1979?I’ve long held a theory that you’ll find the most influential music in the last and first year of every decade. 1979 goes a ways toward proving that theory. While the Sex Pistols were winding down punk music was stronger than ever with the release of the Clash’s iconic London Calling the Buzzcocks nearly perfect Singles Going Steady the Ramones End of the Century. and 999’s self-titled release. Some of the best new wave albums were released in 1979 by the likes of Elvis Costello Devo XTC the Talking Heads Squeeze the Jam and Joe Jackson. Album rock proved to still be as strong as ever because of important albums from Tom Petty Cheap Trick Fleetwood Mac and the Electric Light rchestra.
wner may close door on downtown St. Pete’s Garage music club
Tampabay.com
If not then the Garage will be closing its doors Aug. “The venue’s greaser aesthetic good stage and sound system and funky Vitale Brothers art on the walls made it a unique venue for oddball rock punk and rockabilly acts like Buckethead the Legendary Shack Shakers and the Vibrators. Schwab said business has been okay at the venue even though it doesn’t have a liquor licence and is open only on concert nights. But he’s become disillusioned with the local scene in the past few months. Specifically he cited several fistfights that have taken place outside his club as prime reasons he’s ready to pack it in. “It’s hard for me to draw a crowd into the Garage when there’s rumblings of a shooting that’s happening out front” he said.