Heavy Metal Fans Are NPR Listeners Too

The News Review:

- Heavy Metal Fans Are NPR Listeners Too
- Chuck Klosterman: I am the music man
- Sparkling with pistol-hot energy
- The Week Ahead | Highlights for Feb. 25-March 3
- A night of big musical dreams at EMP
- Leafs in a breeze
- The Buffalo News NY Donn Esmonde column: The measure of success?…

Heavy Metal Fans Are NPR Listeners Too
NPR – Feb 25, 2007
They feel outcast somehow” Bosler says. Accordingly metal led its fans along a couple of dark pathways. Down one: death and suicide gore and Satan. Down the other slightly less-morbid path: a Lord of the Rings-style fantasy world with monsters and hobbits. So things went through the ’70s and ’80s when British bands like Deep Purple Iron Maiden and Motorhead ruled the scene. A scene encapsulated by the 1986 cult documentary Heavy Metal Parking Lot which captured the excitement of teenage fans hanging out before the big show. Metal has done its best to change with the times — the so-called hair bands spandex-clad pretty boys in the 1980s even rap-metal in the ’90s.

Chuck Klosterman: I am the music man
Independent – Feb 25, 2007
Feted by Stephen King Douglas Coupland and Bret Easton Ellis he has published four collections: ‘Fargo Rock City’ (2001) on his boyhood love of hair metal; ‘Sex Drugs and Cocoa Puffs’ (2003); ‘Killing Yourself to Live’ (2005) about rock’n'roll death sites; and his new book ‘Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas’. Although he is widely celebrated Klosterman has irritated some critics by his reclamation of the uncool. Matt Thorne challenges him to defend his arguments in a frequently heated email exchange Sunday 25 February 2007Share… MT: Let me backtrack a little. I feel I haven’t really got enough about your work into the piece. My editor is a huge Led Zeppelin fan and when she commissioned the piece she asked me to get some Robert Plant stuff in here so were you disappointed when he was reluctant to classify his music as heavy metal and was disparaging about the hair metal bands that were an important part of your youth?CK:h Absolutely not. What’s so great about Robert Plant is that he no longer cares how his thoughts are interpreted by writers; he basically just says “You can think whatever you want about Led Zeppelin. I don’t give a damn. I know the reality of what our motives were (and what our consequence was) and your perspective is arbitrary and meaningless. ” That was one of my three or four favourite interviews of all-time.

Sparkling with pistol-hot energy
Toronto Star – Feb 25, 2007
we were as still and breathless as the night that held us. " Children still boy and girl share their music philosophies: punk was sent to "soothe" Bozak with the knowledge she was not alone anymore; heavy metal sounds to Dave like living in expletive-undeleted northern ntario. "When I heard Metallica I knew there was life out there that there was something else not this. " Such sentiments are felt by every messed-up teenager for a century or more. But that’s the parent in us observing and Bozak allows little time for reflection. Her narrative barrels along punctuated with a series of heroic challenges.

The Week Ahead | Highlights for Feb. 25-March 3
Seattle Times – Feb 25, 2007
ticketwindowonline. Seattle Repertory Jazz rchestra’s Tribute to Woody Herman and Floyd StandiferSAT-SUN The Seattle Repertory Jazz rchestra presents the music of the great swing band leader. Saturday at Benaroya Hall Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall 200 University St… The three-hour show moves at a clip covering all the main events and themes of Dickens’ saga. The quiet work of several key actors (Andrew DeRycke Todd Jefferson Moore Brian Thompson) is more compelling than the hyperactive hubbub of the peons.

A night of big musical dreams at EMP
Seattle Times – Feb 25, 2007
Making a living (let alone “making it big”) in this business is a longshot but who can blame these teenagers after Saturday night? Members of three young bands experienced adrenaline-pumping ego-inflating moments of bliss performing on a big stage under slick lights as hundreds in the crowd danced and applauded and screamed and even threw underwear toward the stage. As Brian Hurlow the singer of Army Corps of Architects put it: “This has been the best week of my life. His Bainbridge Island band finished third in an under-21 competition called “Sound ff!” The equally young — mostly highschoolers with adults sprinkled in — crowd at Experience Music Project’s Sky Church went nuts for a goofy Seattle disco-pop act called Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head. The judges were not swayed however going with substance over style and awarding first place to For Years Blue a serious-minded seven-piece band from Spokane. Ranging in age from 16 to 19 these musicians were sharp and polished as the band delved into long brooding passages. For Years Blue flirts with Dave Matthews Band territory with echoes here and there of Radiohead and (if you strain your ears) Pink Floyd. So it’s nice that this sixth “Sound ff!” was not a popularity contest.

Leafs in a breeze
Toronto Star – Feb 25, 2007
Kevin McGran SPRTS REPRTER PHILADELPHIA?The song "Voulez-Vous" by Swedish group ABBA was screaming from the Leaf locker room when Alex Steen yelled for someone to turn it off. "Sorry guys" deadpanned Steen insisting he had nothing to do with the choice of post-game music which is generally heavy metal. It was a moment of levity from the Swedish forward that was needed as much as the convincing 5-2 win that preceded it. Though they’re in the fight of their playoff lives ? still on the outside looking in ? the Maple Leafs are doing their best to stay loose. A laugher over the Flyers was just the ticket especially having blown a two-goal lead the other night on Long Island settling for a 3-2 shootout loss. "The team that’s going to have a chance to make the playoffs is the team that bounces back every time you get knocked down" said captain Mats Sundin who scored his team-leading 24th goal… "It’s not what’s expected of me. I think 30 to 35 is expected of me and I’m going to try to do that. "He has a chance overcoming the grief that accompanied his season last year after the death of his brother and the summer shoulder surgery that slowed him at the start of the season. "I don’t think he had an easy run and I don’t think the rehab we put him through was easy either" said coach Paul Maurice. "Give him credit he stuck with it. He’s an interesting player because when he gets a little of that confidence he can get hot. And we need him to.

The Buffalo News NY Donn Esmonde column: The measure of success?…
Free with registration – Buffalo News – AccessMyLibrary.com – Feb 25, 2007
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