Extreme heavy metal at its best
The News Review:
- Extreme heavy metal at its best
- Imus shouldn’t give hip-hop a bad rap
- Rodrigo Y Gabriela Dominate KRCW’s Indie-Heavy ‘Sound Eclectic’ Event
- Comments on the breaking news
Extreme heavy metal at its best
PUC Chronicle – Apr 16, 2007
This night the police shut down the show during the final song of JFAC’s set after having interrupted the show three other times citing the pit’s behavior (which was typical safe and non-destructive) as the excuse. We sat down to talk after the show and their vocalist Jonny Davy said that happened four or five times last tour. When asked where the band draws inspiration from he continued by adding they all listen to pretty modern death metal bands [like Nile and Decapitated]. The band is still formulating a sound and long term perspective to music writing. While on tour the worst disaster strike happened when the band got stuck in the mud and the cops showed. Instead of helping the band they made them all exit their vehicle and got subjected to searches. The Chronicle: If you can say anything right now what would it be?Jonny: I like your facial hair.
Imus shouldn’t give hip-hop a bad rap
ESPN – Apr 16, 2007
Ice T’s single “Cop Killer” was deleted from the album “Body Count” and his band bearing the same name as the album was dropped by Time Warner because of the controversial song. William Bennett and the late C. Delores Tucker prompted congressional hearings on the impact of gangsta rap music in 1994 hearings that eventually lead to Time Warner selling its shares in Interscope Records and its rap subsidiary Death Row Records. Jennifer Lopez came under fire for her use of the n-word in the remix to her song “I’m Real” in 2001. A Nelly concert planned for Spelman College in 2004 was canceled because some of the women at this historically black woman’s college felt his video for the song “Tip Drill” was demeaning to black women. Jadakiss received a great deal of heat for his rhetorical question “Why did Bush knock down the towers?” on his 2004 single “Why?”The point is hip-hop history is replete with examples of the culture being challenged over its lyrical content in the court of public opinion as well as in the real halls of justice. To say that hip-hop has received a free pass on its language and sexual politics is simply uninformed and ignores the ongoing heated debate that has been raging for some time now on hip-hop’s societal impact… What is really great about America is there are choices. Haters of hip-hop don’t have to listen to it either. I don’t particularly care for heavy metal or country music but I’m not trying to censor it simply because I don’t like it. They wave Confederate flags at NASCAR events all the time but considering that NASCAR is not on my TiVo list I could care less. Let’s be real about this. Again context is important. What Imus did was insult a group of innocent young women for no apparent reason.
Rodrigo Y Gabriela Dominate KRCW’s Indie-Heavy ‘Sound Eclectic’ Event
Rolling Stone – Apr 16, 2007
pop princess Lily Allen and a surprise performance by Brit-rockers Travis. But the show?s true breakout act was the Mexican duo Rodrigo y Gabriela whose blend of heavy metal filtered through traditional Spanish guitar received standing ovations after every song. ?We play crazy music as you can see we love metal?trash metal? Gabriela Quintero told the crowd mid-set going on to play several cuts off their 2006 self-titled LP — including ?Ixtapa? — and a soulful Flamenco-style rendition of ?Stairway to Heaven. ? At the merch table the duo’s modest stock of CDs sold out about three minutes after their set?s end. They were an indisputably hard act to follow ?We were standing backstage shaking our heads saying “No no no. There?s no way we can follow that?? Travis frontman Fran Healy told us at the show’s after party. ?The thing is you don?t get that these days… ?[KCRW music director Nic Harcourt] is a good friend of ours so we flew in just to do it? said Healy. ?But we thought it would only be for like 100 people. ?In the past few years the Sounds Eclectic Evening has hosted notables like Coldplay Death Cab for Cutie Ben Harper Franz Ferdinand and once even Beck on a surprise duet with the Flaming Lips? Wayne Coyne on Sonny and Cher?s ?I?ve Got You Babe. ” Though each act on this year’s bill was excellent — with a predictably excellent set by UK pop sensation Lily Allen — the lineup failed to match the star power the event has boasted in years past. The night was far from a flop but it certainly didn’t live up to its own tradition.
Comments on the breaking news
NEWS.com.au – Apr 16, 2007
Stop drippling tripe about gun control and start improving security on buiding and institutions like this. Airport style metal detectors and scanners may seem heavy handed but isn’t this a fine example of how they would be a benefit? – Aaron Fyfe The worst thing about this tragedy is that Australia still holds the world record for the worst rampage by a coward with a gun on an unarmed populace. I bet Martin Bryant is eating his cornflakes in air conditioning and grinning in that knowlege. – Dave Jervis Peter Brown actually firearms arn’t bad firearms are inanimate objects. Following your line of reasoning then motorvechicles are bad because they cause more deaths than firearms. Now like most LICENCED firearms owners I have been through the rigorous screening process and education courses that are pre-requisite to be eligible for a licence… Relying on the LEAs to protect you here in Australia or anywhere for that matter from something similar is quite silly. "UTLAW GUNS AND NLY UTLAWS WILL HAVE GUNS" The police cannot (WILL NT)protect you from a mad man! He or she are a random event that cannot be predicted! With closing of our mental institutions and the re integration into mainstream society the risks of incidents increases. I note the abolitionists do not have the same intensity with the release of the road death figures! Using their argument of "if it saves one life it is worth it"lets change the laws to include the total banning of any drug or alcohol levels for all drivers not just the professionals. Yet the US government spends billions of dollars on ‘The War on Terrorism’ when purhaps it should be spent on fire arm control within its own country. – James Thompson Found this stat on the web: "29569 gun-related deaths in the US in 2004" That’s 81 deaths per day every day. Why is this fact less shocking than what happened in USA this morning? – John Jackson And this is the society that Australia seems so hell-bent upon becoming.