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Worcester Telegram – Worcester Telegram – Dec 17, 2006
“It’s actually really soothing” said her husband Dave Leto the tattooed drummer for the indie rock band Rye Coalition. It was the kind of reaction hook the parents never mind the kid that Lisa Roth was looking for when she founded Baby Rock the Los Angeles label behind the kiddie Cure album and lullaby tributes to Metallica Radiohead Pink Floyd Nirvana Led Zeppelin the Beach Boys Tool and Coldplay released this year. Almost the reaction anyway. “I’d love for the parents to say ‘Wow this is really funny’ and for the baby to fall asleep” said Roth 48.
2006 [reprise]: From local shows to blockbuster albums News Critic…
Free with registration – Buffalo News – AccessMyLibrary.com – Dec 17, 2006
17–There is no one unified theme connecting the best of 2006 in popular music. Taken together the music doesn’t present itself as a cogent novel — it’s more like a collec.
The best CDs of 2006
Boston Globe – Dec 17, 2006
The do-it-yourselfers were the fans not the artists. We read each other’s blogs listened to millions of songs online shared our discoveries and bought the music we liked rather than the music the suits tried to sell us. The Internet continued to weaken… Trumpeter Lynch has one foot in the Latin school and one in the post-bop tradition; he lends this generally smoking set angularity melancholy and the thrill of the unexpected. Kudu “Death of the Party. ” rganically grown in the East Village underground Kudu represents the best of the global wave of joyously bitchy electro-pop in which wildly divergent musical references are incorporated into a restless collage. ” As consummate an exploration of the gospel side of jazz as we’ve heard in years and a strong statement of intent from a young New rleans-raised trumpeter who’s been anointed by no less an authority than Wynton Marsalis.
Live Without Me. I’ll Understand.
New York Times – Dec 17, 2006
As the plane taxies the cabin is silent. A flight attendant wipes away tears. Without speaking we shuffle along the aisle and climb down the metal stairway. There are no exclamations no hugging no kissing the ground. Just the plodding of weary travelers debarking from a long flight. The pilot stands ashen-faced in the cockpit nodding as we file past but no one speaks to him and he offers no words of explanation. In the tiny airport lounge we scatter into clusters not making eye contact seemingly embarrassed to have shared this near tragedy… There is a wedding beautiful in its simplicity. Vows are exchanged and a marriage begins. There is dancing and music. We drink a little too much. My husband has a cigarette for the first time in months. THAT night in bed I cling to him much as I did on the plane and he tells me the same thing as when we were falling through the sky: “We’ll be.