The Stamford Advocate Conn.: Concerts.
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- The Stamford Advocate Conn.: Concerts.
- Amy takes Texas by storm
- Frodo finds funk
- A crew unlikely to reach take-off
- Band brings more metal fans into their fold with live performances.
- ThugLifeArmy.com – A Total News Source for Tupac (2Pac) & Hip-Hop…
The Stamford Advocate Conn.: Concerts.
Free with registration – Stamford Advocate – AccessMyLibrary.com – Mar 22, 2007
tomorrow A protege of Quincy Jones Gore was the most successful singer of the girl group sound of the early 1960s scoring with “It’s My Party” “Judy’s Turn to Cry” and “You Don’t wn Me. ” Her popularity slipped when pop music became less innocent later that decade. Gore didn’t record from 1975 to 2005 when she returned with “Ever Since” which focused on her singer-songwriter side. Makes sense because during that recording exile Gore continued to write for others. The girl group sound has strangely become a major influence on a certain segment of alternative rock. The songs tell why that era formed a touchstone for most American pop that followed.
Amy takes Texas by storm
Telegraph.co.uk – Mar 22, 2007
“I dig the grackles” says the moustachioed bartender down at Darwin’s Pub “Those birds are real Austinites. Cocky bastards that like to make a lot of noise. With block after block of bars and music venues spilling out from its celebrated 6th Street Austin makes a lot of noise all year round. But for the week-long South by South West (SXSW) music festival 1400 bands and 28000 fans send the town’s volume soaring. At least a quarter of those roaming the cordoned-off streets have music industry laminates swinging from their necks. With my own press pass I’m handed a voodoo doll and a mammoth listings booklet. It takes a good hour over breakfast each day to trawl through the acts and plan a schedule that will inevitably prove impossible to follow… utside in the street the fans look grungier than they would at a British music festival. A local barbershop is offering free Mohicans and the crowd is big on leather dreadlocking piercing and tattoos. In a tattoo parlour I watch a death-metal band inked with matching marijuana leaves; another lad asks how much it would cost to have a portrait of Bill Murray on his leg. “How drunk does a person have to be for you to refuse to tattoo them?” I ask the tattoo artist. “hh-fish-alleh or un-oh-fish-alleh?” he chuckles. He’s been most impressed by the artwork he’s seen adorning the arms of the UK’s Amy Winehouse. “That’s purdy ink the lady has” he tells me “and a purdy great voice there too.
Frodo finds funk
Taipei Times – Taipei Times – Mar 22, 2007
It’s a labor of love: within minutes of meeting him those big blue eyes are fairly bulging out of their sockets as Wood enthuses about his favorite bands and labels with all the nerdy zeal of an obscurer-than-thou NME reader. “The last band I saw was Witchcraft from Sweden” he says lighting a cigarette in the bar of London’s Metropolitan hotel and beginning a stream-of-rock-consciousness monologue. “They’re not death metal; they’re calling it doom rock. It’s essentially an updated version of early 70s Sabbath. They’re amazing live. The Sundays were the first band that had a huge impact on me. When I was 11 someone gave me a copy of Sgt Pepper’s and it totally blew my mind… The McCartney ones are much more lush and dynamic. I love the stuff on Twisted Nerve and LA’s Stones Throw ¡X they’ve got an incredible underground hip-hop catalogue ¡X and I love Honest Jon’s: Damon Albarn is one of the heads and they do calypso and west African reissues. I missed Field Music last night at the ICA ¡X I love those guys they’re amazing. Wood finds a lot of music and musicians “amazing”: the Zombies’ late-1960s baroque-pop lost classic dessey & racle (although he prefers their even more obscure Begin Here: “h my God the drums on that record!”) Prince up to Lovesexy (”The last document of Prince as we knew him”) the Miles Davis Bitches Brew sessions (”Totally insane”) Tom Waits (”Real Gone was as good as anything he’s done”) and Gang of Four (”Were Franz Ferdinand influenced by them? Unabashedly!”). And now he is putting his money where his tastes are with Simian which releases its first album this month. That album is New Magnetic Wonder by the Apples in Stereo the band’s sixth release.
A crew unlikely to reach take-off
Times nline – Mar 22, 2007
In Luxembourg a game of Boggle. (I may have got some of these wrong. ) But it’s all a glorious irrelevance to 180 million or so lovers of Eurovision who mark European union annually with a televised festival of detachable skirts and extraordinary hair decisions annexed to some of the most confusing music ever performed. To the catalogue of which we can now addFlying the Flag (For You) wherein Scooch (two boys two girls) dress as cabin crew and bounce around asking among other things: “Would you like something to suck on for landing sir?” Even though last year the contest was won by a Finnish death metal band in horror masks meaning that nothing can be safely predicted the UK’s catastrophic recent Eurovision form suggests that our cabin crew would now do well to take a moment to locate the exit nearest to them. html”–>Conventional theory puts the UK’s failure down to politicised voting between the Balkan states. Under this analysis one of the less likely consequences of the reordering of Middle Europe has been the destruction of the career of Jemini (pointless in more senses than one in Riga in 2003)… (I may have got some of these wrong. ) But it’s all a glorious irrelevance to 180 million or so lovers of Eurovision who mark European union annually with a televised festival of detachable skirts and extraordinary hair decisions annexed to some of the most confusing music ever performed. To the catalogue of which we can now addFlying the Flag (For You) wherein Scooch (two boys two girls) dress as cabin crew and bounce around asking among other things: “Would you like something to suck on for landing sir?” Even though last year the contest was won by a Finnish death metal band in horror masks meaning that nothing can be safely predicted the UK’s catastrophic recent Eurovision form suggests that our cabin crew would now do well to take a moment to locate the exit nearest to them. html”–>Conventional theory puts the UK’s failure down to politicised voting between the Balkan states. Under this analysis one of the less likely consequences of the reordering of Middle Europe has been the destruction of the career of Jemini (pointless in more senses than one in Riga in 2003). The counter-argument that Balkan states vote for each other because their neighbours make the kinds of noises they like to hear is rarely mounted.
Band brings more metal fans into their fold with live performances.
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22–God Forbid prides itself on reinventing its sound with every new album. It tries to bridge the gap between metal styles — not too much death not too much pop.
ThugLifeArmy.com – A Total News Source for Tupac (2Pac) & Hip-Hop…
thuglifearmy.com – Mar 22, 2007
Then there is the constant force of brutality committed against African and Latino people by American police agencies. Another factor that one should consider is the ever-increasing military industrial complex and operations carried out by the armed forces of the United States against people of color throughout the world. With all of the above mentioned is there any wonder why a musical genre from the victims of American generated violence would reflect anything but the violence it is surrounded by? Could it be that the violence in America is the cause for the Violence in Hip Hop? No one can deny that mainstream Hip Hop music has a large amount of violent images lyrics and persona to it. Many of the popular songs are about Black men killing other young Black men. A large number of the videos and album covers show the artist as someone that is engaged in war & not as a musician. This type of imagery can have a very damaging effect on the mind of a child who is unable to differentiate between what is supposed to be entertainment & what is reality. As a result she or he may try to handle real life situations with make believe ideas… Those movies have a tremendous amount of violent scenes. However he is not subject to the same ridicule and scorn as Hip Hop artists for using entertainment to make money. Many heavy metal & rock bands have extreme lyrics and fixations with death. The parties that they sponsor known as “raves” are widely know for its drug use and violence. Yet they are not blamed for violence as much as Hip Hop is. It is important to mention these specific instances because the above are primarily organized and geared toward white America. Which poses the question; could nationality be a factor when associating violence with Hip Hop? At what point do the White owned corporations retail stores radio stations & other media outlets that continue to promote sell and profit billions of dollars because of these violent images take some responsibility.
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