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The News Review:
- … Releases: Ryan Adams With America – News Story | Music…
- Trapped notes
- Cheetah Girls are a screaming success
- Riding a Wave f Radical Fun
- History special (II): Spring and Autumn Period – Qufu
… Releases: Ryan Adams With America – News Story | Music…
MTV.com – Jan 16, 2007
Videos by Grave (“Enraptured”) and Sinister (“Prophecies Denied”) also drop this week but if it’s just audio you’re after there’s plenty to feast on as well. Two reissues a piece hit stores this week courtesy these bands of yore: Atrophy Crimson Glory Gorguts Last Crack Realm Sadus Solitude Aeternus Toxik and Xentrix. It’s a Lock: Locksley contributed the theme song to MTV’s “Why Can’t I Be You?” and Payless Shoes has licensed two more of their tunes — now it’s time the Brooklyn New York band plants both heels at the plate with its latest LP Don’t Make Me Wait. Locksley have opened for K Go and She Wants Revenge but their music sounds more like the Kinks or Small Faces on songs like “It Won’t Be for Long” “My Kind of Lover” and “Why Not Me. Blown to Smithereens: You’ve probably heard about producer George Martin’s new Beatles project Love — or witnessed it firsthand as part of the Cirque du Soleil program of the same name — but if you’re looking for a different type of tribute try out Meet the Smithereens! For their first effort in more than seven years the New Jersey power-poppers recorded their own version of Meet the Beatles! from “I Want to Hold Your Hand” to “Not a Second Time. ” The album only lasts 28 minutes long but it’s a fitting salute to the classic album that celebrates its 43rd birthday on Saturday… It’s a Lock: Locksley contributed the theme song to MTV’s “Why Can’t I Be You?” and Payless Shoes has licensed two more of their tunes — now it’s time the Brooklyn New York band plants both heels at the plate with its latest LP Don’t Make Me Wait. Locksley have opened for K Go and She Wants Revenge but their music sounds more like the Kinks or Small Faces on songs like “It Won’t Be for Long” “My Kind of Lover” and “Why Not Me. Blown to Smithereens: You’ve probably heard about producer George Martin’s new Beatles project Love — or witnessed it firsthand as part of the Cirque du Soleil program of the same name — but if you’re looking for a different type of tribute try out Meet the Smithereens! For their first effort in more than seven years the New Jersey power-poppers recorded their own version of Meet the Beatles! from “I Want to Hold Your Hand” to “Not a Second Time. ” The album only lasts 28 minutes long but it’s a fitting salute to the classic album that celebrates its 43rd birthday on Saturday. Song Title of the Week:”Summat uttanowt” from the Stranglers’ Suite XVIther Notables:Stars of Track and Field’s Centuries Before Love and War: Issued exclusively on iTunes in late August the debut release by Portland regon’s experimental pop squad finally streets in hard form this week.
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Ha'aretz – Ha'aretz – Jan 15, 2007
A rich and ancient musical tradition faced the danger of extinction. Exiled DJ Shakeb Isaar 23 and Prof. Mirwaiss Sidiqi the head of the new Aga Khan Academy of Music in Kabul attest today that the situation has improved slightly. But the ugly scars on Isaar’s legs arms and back prove that the violence continues. He fled his country and today appears on a television show in Sweden where he received political asylum. “Millions of my countrymen aged 14 to 30 are my audience they support me and for them I perform. ” Scenes from Tiananmen During the Freemuse conference music was revealed as having many faces: It is on the one hand a means of self-definition and a tool for searching for freedom and identity; on the other hand it is a tool of control and power… The closure of Cuba’s borders by an “order banning commerce with the enemy” (1917) sentenced its cultural-musical treasures to oblivion. In Cuba as reported by Mario Masvidal Saavedra a professor of linguistics and communication at the Havana Academy of the Arts there is no expression of Cuban culture in the media: They are only open to rhumba salsa and mambo music which has become a hated symbol of conformism and collaboration with the regime. Rock heavy metal and rap are heard only in a negative context: anti-drug public service announcements. DJ Hezbollah The conference also included performances featuring musicians among them the Iranian sisters Mahsa and Marjan Vahdat and Fadal Dey of the Ivory Coast who excited the audience with his songs of protest. At the conclusion of discussions every day at 6 P. participants from dozens of countries around the world got to know one another and went out on the town.
Cheetah Girls are a screaming success
CRegister – Jan 15, 2007
A Disney Channel confection their two movies were huge hits on the cable network telling the story of four perky gals working to become song-and-dance stars. The two soundtrack albums that followed sold millions and the current tour has packed arenas like Honda Center with thousands of wide-eyed young fans and their parents. Their tween fans kids roughly 6 to 13 are an overlooked but influential demographic invisible if you don’t happen to have one in your house sort of like fans of opera or death metal only not as old and more likely to wear pink respectively. With fans this innocently worshipful a Cheetah Girls concert is more or less immune to the normal practice of concert criticism. There is no band for instance just backing tapes but the kids don’t care because what they all came to see is front and center: Cheetahs Sabrina Bryan Kiely Williams and Adrienne Bailon singing and dancing in a high energy stage show (the fourth Cheetah Raven-Symon?does not tour with the group). “Anaheim are you ready to party?” shouts Bryan a Yorba Linda native and Chapman University student at the close of the first song and again the response is deafening. “It’s good to be home in range County!” In quick succession the Cheetahs tackle their hits staples of Radio Disney and elementary schoolyard boom boxes… The fans wave Cheetah Girls glowsticks at $5 the cheapest souvenir for sale and chant “Cheetah! Cheetah! Cheetah!” until the girls re-emerge on stage this time in costumes that look like girly-fied and cheetah-accented Jungle Cruise uniforms. The girls sing “Strut” and a new song “Falling For You” and lead the stadium in a contest to see which section can shout “Cheetah-licious!” the loudest. After “Cinderella” a hit from the first “Cheetah Girls” movie and soundtrack they act out a little skit about getting a date for Sabrina who ends up doing a dance number with one of the boy dancers a tango-inflected number from “Cheetah Girls 2″ in which the girls travel to Barcelona for a music festival. We get another costume change Spanish-tinged girly bullfighters and songs such as “Girl Power” and “Cheetah Sisters” before the big confetti-blasting finale of “Amigas Cheetahs. ” “Good night everybody!” the three Cheetahs yell as they wave and leave the stage after one hour and 12 songs. “We love you!” We shop for souvenirs a $20 program filled with glossy photos and Cheetah bios for my deputy a $10 poster for her little sister back home and then rehash the show as we look for our car in the freezing dark parking lot. r perhaps more accurately my sidekick reviews the show in an exhilarated stream-of-consciousness monologue: “That was awesome!” she says skipping along the sidewalk.
Riding a Wave f Radical Fun
New York Sun – Jan 15, 2007
Radical performances want complacent audience members shifting on our cushions confused and questioning all our cherished old ideas. But the lovable scamps at Radiohole while rooting around in the same bag of tricks do it all in search of a communally good time. Sure there’s a superficial divide between those on the bleachers and those driving motorized dinghies around onstage but we’re all drinking the same (free) beer. Entering “Fluke” the hapless but giggling ticket-holder is already part of the show… ) Since the digital age has significantly loosened the physical restrictions on being in a “collective” Mr. Gillette has a cushy gig: He camera-phones in his performance from Vermont. The rest of the actors performing in the physical theater act out a hyper-kinetic elaborate rite about exorcising and exercising obsession snagging text from “Moby Dick” and downbeats from the death-metal band Rammstein. Eric Dyer seems to be Ahab with a pointe shoe in place of a peg-leg but he is also addressed as “Eric” and scolds his fellow actor on the correct New England pronunciation of “Gloucester. ” While Erin Douglass zooms around on a pintsize boat the arch Maggie Hoffman murmurs nautical coordinates and seems to be covering up some awful loss. She seems just a bit too interested in what whales see on the ocean floor is it just drowned men? Is Noah down there?Snug as a womb the theater’s space feels like a garage converted into a theater then caught halfway through conversion back into a garage. A staggering amount of electronic equipment dangles from makeshift jibs or careers precariously out over the audience.
History special (II): Spring and Autumn Period – Qufu
央è§åé – Jan 15, 2007
Usually every year solemn sacrificial ceremonies were held where emperors would make a special trip to Qufu. The pompous ritual included music dances and costumes. The music is composed of eight different tones or the sounds produced by eight musical instruments made of metal jade stone earth leather silk wood and bamboo. write(“”); if(pagenum>1){ if(isNews){ if(pageno>1){ document.