Concert Preview: Former Swans singer Jarboe haunts the hall at CMU
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- Concert Preview: Former Swans singer Jarboe haunts the hall at CMU
- Secrets & serviettes
- Music takes another trip down the scapegoat road
- Drumming up the interest
- Yeltsin laid to rest at Moscow cemetery
- Rock up for feast-ival of music
- Mixed Breed – Music – C Weeklypage 1 – C Weekly
Concert Preview: Former Swans singer Jarboe haunts the hall at CMU
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Pittsburgh Post Gazette – Apr 26, 2007
The entrancing singer who laughs far more than one might expect is on the phone from Atlanta talking about a recent project she did with the extreme band Byla. “It’s like death metal a full wall of screaming guitars. I did multi-track guttural voicings that had me standing in a puddle of my own saliva at the end of the sessions. They had to get a bucket ’cause when you sing in that Cookie Monster style that’s what happens. The only puddles to watch out for when she plays Carnegie Mellon Friday will be outside. The dark ethereal singer will reach back through her 20-year career adapting a wide range of apocalyptic music to a duo format with acoustic guitarist Derrick Bonner (of Blood Promise)… And I really want to be seen as someone who can bring out the talent and skills of the people I’m working with. I’ve never been ‘It’s all about me baby. ‘ “Jarboe a cult figure whose range spans from No Wave to death metal is an Atlanta native who grew up with FBI agents as parents and was exposed at an early age to snake-handling and other intense religious practices. Her Southern upbringing also exposed her to a wealth of blues gospel and even country that would influence her sound. In 1986 she joined Swans two years into its existence as an abrasive underground noise-rock band that shared an underground scene with Sonic Youth. Jarboe had been doing performance art and saw Swans as being in that same vein. Swans’ frontman Michael Gira had other ideas.
Secrets & serviettes
South African Star – The South African Star – Apr 26, 2007
Now after more than a decade in the South African music scene and with the release of her chart-topping CD Colour of Me the mother-of-two has finally shaken off her title as the local music industry’s “best kept secret”. riginally recorded in Baxter’s lounge Colour of Me has already produced two local radio hits Who’s Sorry Now and Fade to Black. Dutch production outfit Noisia – with whom pop star Robbie Williams is expected to work in the upcoming months – have also worked on the CD touted as the album that could finally push South African pop into the international spotlight. Not bad for a woman who admits that she once sold female sanitary bins to make ends meet… “I think people like it because it’s substantial. The lyrics carry meaning and the songs are about real experiences. “From Baxter’s beginnings as the 12-year-old alternative band leader (”we played Herzlia” she says) she went on to embrace nearly every possible genre of music: hip-hop with the riginal Evergreens the enigmatic “Christian death metal” with Delay indie with Penelope Tree and dance with DJ Roger Goode. Arguably it was for her work with Goode that Baxter first got her first bite of fame. Her vocals on Little Angel a song she wrote for her baby daughter saw the track climb on to the UK dance charts. But after the video aired Baxter was nowhere to be seen. Instead an unidentified model mimed her words.
Music takes another trip down the scapegoat road
Sydney Morning Herald – Apr 26, 2007
The same goes for violent riffs. A 1993 study showed heavy metalinspired happy feelings in most fans with the small number ofthose who reported feeling worse more likely to already besuffering mental health problems. Australian researchers found rates of suicide among those aged15 to 24 fell in the month following Kurt Cobain’s death. For many young people music – however dark in hue – provides atribe. Like Manson and Alice Cooper the new breed of macabre bandssuch as My Chemical Romance have an irresistible element of fantasyand pantomime. By adopting the uniform and posturing of theirfavourite bands fans build an identity. What could be morelife-affirming than that?Emily Dunn is the Herald’s entertainment reporter.
Drumming up the interest
Channel News Asia – Apr 26, 2007
Billed as the first ever drum festival in Asia it will feature a marathon seven hours of drum performances every day. The acts slated to perform is a veritable list of 10 of the who’s who of high-profile drummers. These include Australia’s foremost drummer Grant Collins celebrated death metal skinsman Derek Roddy an alumni of celebrated underground bands Malevolent Creation and Hate Eternal who is best known for his extreme speed and endurance as well as Tony Royster Jr who was voted as the No 1 Up And Coming Drummer in Modern Drummer Magazine’s 2000 and 2001 readers’ poll. thers expected to make an appearance are veteran local drummer Jimmy Lee influential beats master and Eric Clapton collaborator Luis Conte and expert drum soloist Benny Greb. Julia Tan 20 spokesperson for organisers Drumfest Pte Ltd said the purpose of the event was to showcase the top talents of drumming from Singapore and the region. “Hopefully through this initiative musical enthusiasts will get a better idea on the history of contemporary music through the angle of the modern drum set” she said. “This way the younger generation will be exposed to more genres of music than the usual pop rock or punk music.
Yeltsin laid to rest at Moscow cemetery
West Australian – The West Australian – Apr 26, 2007
Following an 85-minute ceremony that echoed with priests’ chanting and a choir singing funeral liturgy the coffin – draped in the Russian tricolour – was driven in a black Mercedes hearse on a winding seven-kilometre procession through the city centre and along the Moscow River. An armoured military truck then drew the army-green caisson the final steps to Novodevichy along a carnation-strewn lane escorted by an goose-stepping honour guard and a crowd of foreign dignitaries and church leaders. With the coffin resting on a metal cart that resembled a hospital gurney and suggested perhaps some of the ceremony’s improvisation Yeltsin’s tearful widow Naina – dressed in a black dress and scarf – stroked his shock of white hair and tenderly kissed his forehead and cheeks. White-robed rthodox priests chanted prayers and swung censers before pallbearers closed the coffin and lower it into the ground. All major Russian television channels broadcast live from the cathedral the funeral procession and the cemetery burial which culminated in an artillery fusillade and the playing of the Russian national anthem. Yeltsin who died of heart failure on Monday at age 76 pulled the country out from the Soviet Union and pushed it into a fitful democracy seeking to inject pluralism and vigour to Russia after decades of Communist repression and stagnation. The first freely elected president of Russia Yeltsin was admired for opposing the 1991 hard-line coup attempt but derided for his heavy drinking and despised for allowing insiders to snap up Russia’s industrial gems while millions of his countrymen plunged into poverty… “Fate has decreed that Russian liberators often are not understood – and are cursed by their people. But I think that history and mainly time will put everything in its place” Boris Nemtsov a former deputy prime minister said in comments to NTV. The last state funeral held in Moscow was for the death of Communist Party chief Konstantin Chernenko in 1985. Yeltsin’s funeral was improvised and in many ways unprecedented for Russia where in the past century the country’s leaders have been buried or interred in either aboveground church crypts in St Petersburg or alongside the Kremlin walls or in a mausoleum on Red Square. Nikita Krushchev is the only Soviet leader to be buried at Novodevichy alongside writers Anton Chekhov and Mikhail Bulgakov and composers Sergei Prokofiev and Dmitry Shostakovich. The day’s events were also mixed with political symbolism – the burial at Novodevichy religious services for a nominally pious man in a cathedral restored during his presidency; the playing of the national anthem whose music is the same as the Soviet anthem. As part of his crusade to rid Russia of Soviet trappings Yeltsin banned the Soviet anthem and replaced it with a tamer 19th century composition.
Rock up for feast-ival of music
Ilford Recorder 24 – Apr 26, 2007
And you could join them courtesy of the Recorder in our role as a sponsor. More than 50 artists and bands will perform at the inaugural festival hosted by Dagenham recording studio MusicTek which is expected to attract up to 15000 revellers to enjoy a variety of different types of music on four stages. Headlining the festival on the main stage will be leading emo rockers INME one of the most popular and successful Essex bands of recent years with a number of chart hits and sold out tours behind them. Retro-rockers Tokyo Dragons and hardcore rockers Hell is for Heroes both London-based will be headlining on two other stages… Retro-rockers Tokyo Dragons and hardcore rockers Hell is for Heroes both London-based will be headlining on two other stages. ther bands include Brentwood three-piece dirt blues riff band The Gourami and Essex indie kings Koopa. Local talent will include “1980s testosterone rockers” Retrofin pop rockers Resonance Ilford indie janglers Polanski Dagenham hardcore metallers Near Death Experiment operatic rock five-piece Adastreia and Romford metal band Dead Beyond Buried. Putting in appearances for the day’s softer “poppier” part of the event between noon and 6pm will be X Factor’s Robert Allen from Barkingside who will be performing songs from his new album. Also lightening the feel in the afternoon will be the eight finalists from the recent Star Search including the winners Lucy Norris 23 and Ava Perkins 15. There will be a karaoke stage for people to try out their own talents while other attractions include a 1966 Routemaster double decker bus converted into a stage and recording studio Camden Market stalls fairground rides and a beer tent. Gates open at 11am and tickets are £12.
Mixed Breed – Music – C Weeklypage 1 – C Weekly
C Weekly – Apr 26, 2007
Gangly puppets prancing around in celebration of the integer and letter that brought us today’s episode. But these six guys from New Jersey got the name from a different TV show—The Twilight Zone—and there’s nothing cuddly about the band’s exploded take on the infinite permutations of post-hardcore. The hooks are pure metal the vocals cry hardcore and the jerky rhythms and open spaces recall free noise meaning there are more genres in this single song than in some people’s entire record collections. kay so the Number 12 may not be fit for Sesame Street but they’re warmer and cuter than nearly every other post-hardcore outfit out there. And there’s something downright cartoon-ish about how many moods and sounds they cram into their records. Such a scattershot m.
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