Death Metal Takes a Holiday
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- Death Metal Takes a Holiday
- Letter: Spending locally helps local kids grow up right
- Dred Scott! – Music – Broward-Palm Beach New Timespage 1 – Broward…
- copyright law is killing niche programming: reader comment from…
- ‘We’re Like Everyone Else’
Death Metal Takes a Holiday
Washington City Paper – Mar 8, 2007
Godflesh influenced a wide swath of bands including Sebadoh which played folksy indie rock with the occasional brown-note tuning and Korn which hybridized electronic music and metal into a mega-selling formula. Godflesh was hardly the first band of Broadrick’s to alter the sound of modern rock. In 1987 while still in his teens he and two of his Birmingham buddies made heavy-metal history with Scum Napalm Death’s fast fatalistic debut album. That record informed much of the extreme metal that followed but it’s a heritage that Broadrick’s latest group Jesu does little to embrace. Broadrick’s new sound doesn’t lack for heaviness but metal is no longer prominent. ddly enough the music is foregrounded with the kind of mopey-yet-majestic melodies that are most commonly associated with Britpop. n Conqueror its second and more tuneful full-length Jesu is about as menacing as the heaviest of the early-’90s shoegazer acts like Swervedriver and My Bloody Valentine… That record informed much of the extreme metal that followed but it’s a heritage that Broadrick’s latest group Jesu does little to embrace. Broadrick’s new sound doesn’t lack for heaviness but metal is no longer prominent. ddly enough the music is foregrounded with the kind of mopey-yet-majestic melodies that are most commonly associated with Britpop. n Conqueror its second and more tuneful full-length Jesu is about as menacing as the heaviest of the early-’90s shoegazer acts like Swervedriver and My Bloody Valentine. Which is to say not very menacing at all. (A colleague calls the band “metalgaze” which does a pretty good job of conveying the breadth of Jesu’s aesthetic. ) The band which includes bassist Diarmuid Dalton and drummer Ted Parsons typically begins each track with a no-frills foundation of low-end riffing and bricklayer beats.
Letter: Spending locally helps local kids grow up right
Wallowa County Chieftain – Wallowa County Chieftain (subscription) – Mar 8, 2007
This is what makes them such interesting characters – that and their knowledge of screamo and death metal bands. A lot of them eventually realize that it’d be great here with the mountains and the people and all if they could get their moms to support them and go hiking and fishing all the time. Some of them come back as tourists. The ones who got busted for being young or dumb have to stew in their discontent here and plot against society. The more they do that the more we have to pay peace officers to keep them from taking their frustration out on “the man” – which it turns out is all of us… Don’t get me started on the money I’ve spent on local police (paying tickets) insurance and movie rentals. The reason I’m writing this after-school special on developing our local economy is that I was at a party last weekend when a fella – who probably bought his suit from the thrift store section of Wallmarche instead of Soroptimists and had grayish hair and hated puppies – started talking about how much he loved spending all his money online and whoring out the internet as the lazy man’s Wallmarche. To this I replied “What kind of music do you listen to?” Because I’m not fond of telling simple strangers that they should stay home and order groceries online and become a big blabbering mouth of self importance alone where he can’t infect others with his disease of convenience and laziness. Besides he seemed content with his teat suckling lifestyle he’d probably been born into. If he’d spent his money at my store I’d spend it at Lear’s that day. Cathy would spend it on Guinness the wonder dog by buying dog treats from Mike Goss at the Dollar Stretcher Mike Goss would tip it to JC at TG who’d spend it on her boyfriend buying him a haircut from John Morrow. John Morrow would buy a paper at the Chieftain where Cory Wicks would get four quarters from the box while pretending to put in three and spend it at the Range Rider playing video lottery which paid for the sign that warned you about the slow children at the high school.
Dred Scott! – Music – Broward-Palm Beach New Timespage 1 – Broward…
Broward New Times – Mar 8, 2007
f course we throw him some love in this issue but perhaps not like you’d expect. The same goes for the Widespread Panic at the Disco Biscuits machine that hits most of these jamtastic festivals every year. The music world is a diverse planet and while Langerado may have started out as a hippie happening other genres are stealing the spotlight. So stop being surprised to see Michael Franti’s mug staring out at you on newsstands. The same goes for Brooklyn barstool legends the Hold Steady whom you’ll find after you flip this page. Not your favorites? You have 43 others to obsess over. But where are the locals? We called Ethan Schwartz co-producer of Langerado to ask what had happened to the Florida Native stage which was supposed to provide a venue for local talent… ” Maybe that sits well with the folks at Langerado but I for one don’t think the messageboarders from parts unknown should control the creative content of the best music festival Broward County has ever seen. That’s not to say there isn’t a lot to celebrate this year. I’ve had Toots & the Maytals’ CDs playing all week in anticipation of seeing them live and the same goes for Mexican death-metal thrashers Rodrigo y Gabriela. This year has plenty of bands that will throw some of those Phish-loving kids for a loop and hopefully it will turn them on as well. Because for $145 (the price for all three days) folks should find a way to dance until the wee hours of the night no matter what genre of music is on stage. write your comment loadMgr.
copyright law is killing niche programming: reader comment from…
CNET News – Mar 8, 2007
I had DMX music for over 10 years and have seen many formats get totally 86ed to make room for minor variations of existing formats well represented — essentially the same playlists — kinda like a replay of what happened to FM radio. Hey! I have nothing against those formats appealing to the masses — that’s good business practice. What irks me is the moves afoot that kill off music that is not so “popular” be it a source of music by some budding death metal band the music of Mantovani and Richard Clayderman polkas Dixieland or German Schlager. The Internet offered a promise of untold diversity. now the copyright folks are killing that. Always thought that if the former USSR has used copyright law to keep out media “subversive” to them there still would be an evil empire over there to this day.
‘We’re Like Everyone Else’
Washington Post – Mar 8, 2007
During his deployment from September 2004 to March 2005 he made a video montage set to heavy metal music that includes a rocket firing through a narrow Iraqi street and an airplane helping rescue his squad from a dangerous situation. At a recent panel discussion at Montgomery College’s Germantown campus these veterans and others talked about their experiences in Iraq hoping to offer a glimpse into their wartime routines. They talked about the heat the difficulty of being far from home the bonds they formed and the long bouts of downtime spent watching movies or finding other distractions. The organizers of the event Montgomery College anthropology professors John Bornmann and Lucy Laufe said its purpose was to give veterans a chance to be heard. Most of the panelists all in their 20s grew up in Montgomery County and are now students at the community college… “There are a lot of positive things going on there but unfortunately that doesn’t get covered. “These veterans know they are lucky. They escaped serious injury or death unlike many other members of the military in Iraq. As of Tuesday the number of U. troop deaths since the March 2003 invasion of Iraq had reached 3176 according to the Pentagon. More than 23000 have been injured in action.