The Gauntlet: Vile Metal News

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- The Gauntlet: Vile Metal News
- … Join prah At South African School – News Story | Music…
- Singles Going Steady
- The Young nes – Features – The Stranger Seattle’s nly Newspaper
- Josh Aran searching for the perfect skipping stone
- News briefs for Palm Beach County.

The Gauntlet: Vile Metal News
thegauntlet.com – Jan 3, 2007
What is our attraction to this type of music why do we have it and what influence does it have on us and others? “f course I can only speak for myself but I think that some of my reasons will resonate with others. For one I am attracted to the musicianship but also I am attracted to the fact that what we do is rebellious. It’s not paid much attention to by the mainstream. “Why does that matter to me? Well since I was young I have always felt that there is something wrong with the way people follow what is popular.

… Join prah At South African School – News Story | Music…
MTV.com – Jan 3, 2007
According to a report in The Washington Post a detainee at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay Cuba was forced to listen to satanic black-metal music for several hours before an interrogator dressed as a Catholic priest performed a faux baptism on him. FBI documents released Tuesday claim some agents also observed possible mistreatment of the Koran at Guantanamo Bay and one agent was told that while questioning male prisoners female interrogators would sometimes wet their hands and touch detainees’ faces in order to disturb their daily prayers — an act that would lead some Muslims to consider themselves unclean and unable to continue praying. A Pentagon spokesman told the paper that “the issues and facts raised” in the released documents “are not new” and that a dozen reviews of prisoner treatment at the facility have shown there were no Defense Department policies that condoned such abuses.

Singles Going Steady
Phoenix New Times – Jan 3, 2007
CSS Cansei de Ser Sexy (Sub Pop): With Le Tigre on hiatus the Brazilian sextet CSS stepped up for booty-dancers staunch feminists and electro-pop fanatics everywhere with their high-energy debut. “Let’s Make Love and Listen to Death From Above” begs to be blared during a Jazzercise class for hipsters “Artbitch” sounds like a deconstructed Yeah Yeah Yeahs song stitched back together with diagonal big-beats and the bubble-bath-synth groover “Fuckoff Is Not the nly Thing You Have to Show” resembles Ladytron trash-talking with Cyndi Lauper. Def Leppard Yeah! (Island): Critically maligned arena-rockers Def Leppard sure sound like they have something to prove on their fantastic covers record Yeah!. And who can blame them? They’ve always drawn inspiration from seminal U. glam and metal bands but can’t seem to escape being seen as poof-rock hacks… “Let’s Make Love and Listen to Death From Above” begs to be blared during a Jazzercise class for hipsters “Artbitch” sounds like a deconstructed Yeah Yeah Yeahs song stitched back together with diagonal big-beats and the bubble-bath-synth groover “Fuckoff Is Not the nly Thing You Have to Show” resembles Ladytron trash-talking with Cyndi Lauper. Def Leppard Yeah! (Island): Critically maligned arena-rockers Def Leppard sure sound like they have something to prove on their fantastic covers record Yeah!. And who can blame them? They’ve always drawn inspiration from seminal U. glam and metal bands but can’t seem to escape being seen as poof-rock hacks. Which is too bad since their faithful (but not derivative) renditions of classic cuts from Bowie T. Rex Roxy Music Sweet EL and even The Kinks — in the form of a gorgeous copper-burnished “Waterloo Sunset” — more than cement their musical talent.

The Young nes – Features – The Stranger Seattle’s nly Newspaper
TheStranger.com – Jan 3, 2007
Way back in March of 2006 local superstars Thee Emergency Speaker Speaker the Pharmacy and Common Market were little names on our Big Shot ballot. Seattle’s music scene seems to rejuvenate itself annually with a fresh crop of bands—and this year is no exception. There’s a new flock of young bands in town who are playing their first shows in basements and making their first records in living rooms. We wanted to introduce you to some of the most exciting ones. There may not be any familiar names on this list of emerging bands—some of the best in the city—but thanks to their drive and talent you’ll be hearing from them in 2007. Stranger Personals… Peterson—recently recorded an album’s worth of tracks at the House of Breaking Glass opened for comedian Todd Barry and shot a video at Seattle’s Pretty Parlor. So plans are laid: 2007 should be the year Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground blow up. ERIC GRANDYLESBIANForged over a bond built on a mutual love of instrumental underground icons Swarming Hordes and christened with an unforgettable—if questionable—moniker Lesbian bring together psychedelic metal and prog rock with unexpectedly agile and concise results. It was undoubtedly this adventurous approach that recently attracted the attention of the forward-thinking Holy Mountain label which plans to release Lesbian’s long-anticipated full-length debut this March. Lesbian also recently wrapped up a split LP with like-minded locals Book of Black Earth. HANNAH LEVINDYME DEFWhy should you the discriminating hiphop fan be interested in Dyme Def? Simple chief—the trio of MCs (Brainstorm Fearce Vill and S.

Josh Aran searching for the perfect skipping stone
Minneapolis City Pages – Jan 3, 2007
“Veni Vidi Vici” however is a quick little ditty about global warming. ” (Aran says a friend commented that he mistakenly thought the song was about the death of Aran’s father who passed away from cancer in 2003. )The bonus track is a cover—and quite possibly one of the album’s best songs. You may recognize it right from the opening minimalist guitar riff but you will fumble to put a name to the melody until the chorus kicks in. After all an ethereal acoustic version of Def Leppard’s “Hysteria” might be difficult for even the most die-hard hair-metal aficionado to identify. “I started out really into the whole cock-rock thing… “I remember the first time I heard U2′s Achtung Baby I hated it. Three years later I loved it. It’s hard for me to dismiss different styles of music now because there will probably come a time in my life when I get it. write your comment loadMgr.

News briefs for Palm Beach County.
Free with registration – South Florida Sun-Sentinel – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jan 3, 2007
The second public hearing and a final reading are scheduled for Feb. Greenacres Suspect is charged in hit-and-run death Police arrested a Greenacres man they said ran over and killed a 79-year-old man who was mowing his lawn. Investigators charged Juan J. Macias 48 with hit and run and failing to stay at the scene of a crash involving death. He was being held in the Palm Beach County Jail without bond. Macias was driving a Dodge van in the 5600 block of South 38th Court when he struck Jose Solis who died at the scene about 12:16 p.