‘Aqua Teen’: Do you want plot with that ‘Colon Movie…

The News Review:

- ‘Aqua Teen’: Do you want plot with that ‘Colon Movie…
- Bassnectar’s breakbeats carry potent politics
- Zombies Alive – Music – Broward-Palm Beach New Timespage 1 – Broward…
- District Community Events April 12-19 2007
- Bass dyssey’s Squingy falls at ‘Death Before Dishonour’
- VBS.tv: Reporting off the beaten path

‘Aqua Teen’: Do you want plot with that ‘Colon Movie…
USA Today – Apr 12, 2007
Frylock the scientific brains is a carton of french fries who can fly. Meatwad is a dim expired meatball. For most the movie will be almost unwatchable. You either get it or you don’t. And the ear-splitting death-metal music at the start is not going to sweeten the deal.

Bassnectar’s breakbeats carry potent politics
Georgia Straight – Apr 12, 2007
More than a decade later Bassnectar has become a prime mover in the dance scene but his heavyweight tracks still bear the influence of his adolescent infatuation. In their crushing grooves and lurid riffs they resemble death-metal in every respect except one: where the latter form embodies all that is awful about existence Bassnectar’s tunes always churn cheerfully upward hinting that life’s a lot better when you’re not a teenager. “Death metal was always important to me but it lacked a certain gentleness” explains Bassnectar reached at the Winter Music Conference in Miami. “It’s such a tough aggressive form of music that represents all this churning internal turmoil but there’s so many other sides of life that it denies. Working with electronic music just allows me to explore an entirely different universe. ” For local dance enthusiasts Bass­nectar has long been associated with Shambhala a riotous rave festival held every August in the Kootenays. Because he’s played so often at Shambhala and other hippie-friendly parties like Nevada’s Burning Man and because his tracks have contained vocal samples from lefty icons like Noam Chomsky and Michael Ruppert the producer’s earned a reputation as dance music’s leading left-winger?a responsibility he’s wary of assuming.

Zombies Alive – Music – Broward-Palm Beach New Timespage 1 – Broward…
Broward New Times – Apr 12, 2007
” Half of those songs still don’t amount to very many because the Zombies! rganize!! just started organizing last spring playing their first live show in July at Duck Soup in akland Park. By all accounts the band started as a complete joke. Mary Sheffield AKA Mary Magdalen the poet took a picture in which she looked like a teenaged death-metal boy. So she made up a MySpace profile for this imaginary playmate Patrick which piqued the interest of friends and family. Then Sheffield and Gibiden — an on-again off-again couple since high school — began writing songs as Patrick and hilarity (plus a MySpace following) ensued. Gibiden wrote a song on a drum kit designed for toddlers bought an accordion and got good at making beats with FruityLoops and a Roland TR-808 drum machine. Mary joined in on vocals beats and keyboards and without any legitimate sense of direction the Zombies stirred slowly to life.

District Community Events April 12-19 2007
Washington Post – Apr 12, 2007
FLK AND PP MUSIC by musical duo Trout Fishing in America including Keith Grimwood and Ezra Idlet. National Geographic 17th and M NW. $15; age 12 and younger $12… Free; reservations required. Thursday 19SMITHSNIAN CRAFT SHW artists working in basketry ceramics furniture glass jewelry metal paper mixed media wearable art and wood sell their works and discuss their creative process.

Bass dyssey’s Squingy falls at ‘Death Before Dishonour’
Jamaica Star nline – The Jamaica Star nline – Apr 12, 2007
“We still have to give thanks. When we saw him coming down we thought he would have had more injuries or even died. Squingy fell close to some long metal pins which are used to anchor the rigging and Walford said “he claims he saw the pins and twisted his body around them”. The fall came when Squingy after climbing the metal support to the left of the stage (facing it) attempted to go to the section across the top. He swung by his hands for a split second before falling feet first the right side of his body hitting two lights as he tumbled over 15 feet to the ground below. “Whe a ambulance deh? Lef foot bruck!” a selector from Bass dyssey said. rganisers and selectors gathered on stage to look down at the injured Squingy demanding persons in the VIP area to stop crowding him and those pressing against the separating fence to step back… They are going to continue the round. We just want to make sure he is K” Chin said. And before the music continued there was an explanation from the fallen Squingy who said “me want oonu know sey when me go up desso while a go suppen shock me. Nutten no wrong wid dat. If me have a bruck han an foot de party haffi gwaan.

VBS.tv: Reporting off the beaten path
Gauntlet – Apr 12, 2007
Credit: courtesy VBS Watching the news on television can be a frustrating experience. In a world where media conglomerates have a death grip on the medium it can be hard to get the real message. However VICE Magazine has come up with a novel solution: taking TV out of the hands of mainstream media by moving TV to the land of blogs email and pornography. They put it on the Internet in the form of VBS. Currently publishing out of New York City VICE Magazine started out in Montreal in 1994 and slowly evolved into the mag that scenesters know and love today… Millions of people see your stuff and it’s totally done free from mainstream media. “Being one of the little guys has proved to be an interesting experience for VBS. For their Heavy Metal in Baghdad show they weren’t allowed to enter Iraq because they weren’t affiliated with any of the major news networks. So they snuck in instead. “Sometimes we get in through the front door and if not we get in through the back door” says Smith. “I think that frees us up a lot. Major news companies couldn’t get into Darfur and we did.