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- Metal File: Number Twelve Looks Like You & More – News Story |…
- Music briefs: Itzak Perlman memorial for Thomas G. Brophy Kittie
- Dance Listings
- Rock/Pop Listings
- Museum and Gallery Listings
- Social Impact of Rock-n-Roll

Metal File: Number Twelve Looks Like You & More – News Story |…
MTV.com – Apr 20, 2007
href} {button:true} );It’s impossible to compartmentalize a band as chaotic as the Number Twelve Looks Like You. Hailing from the tainted soil of New Jersey’s Bergen County the frenzied six-piece — the masterminds behind Mongrel which lands in stores June 19 — meld elements of extreme metal death metal jazz grindcore and hardcore to create an unclassifiable sound that’s poles apart from other bands’. And singer Jesse Korman says that’s just the point. “We don’t want to sound like anybody else” he explained. “We stepped it up to the point where we’ve killed everything we’ve ever done previously while a lot of bands that started out heavier have seemed to be going more melodic and easier on crowds — at least that’s the trend. It seems to be the path a lot of these heavy bands are going these days and we didn’t want our fans to be like ‘h no it’s all just going to be melodic… “We love looking forward to seeing who’s going to show up because we can never ever figure out our fanbase — and when we think we have we’re just so wrong. It’s a mutt of a crowd but you never want to hold yourself back from more fans. While there’s no thematic link between the Mongrel and the LP artwork Korman said the cover features a humanoid creature that suffers from schizophrenia and that it embodies the unruliness of the music. “We tried to make every song as different as possible so the whole theme behind the album is mongrel” he said of the album which features 10 tracks in all including “Jay Walking Backwards” “Alright I Admit It. It Was a Whore House” and “Paper Weight Pigs.

Music briefs: Itzak Perlman memorial for Thomas G. Brophy Kittie
Times Herald-Record – Apr 20, 2007
An all-girl group full of hotties Kittie’s played zzfest and combines glam rock death metal and kick-ass chicks. The Chance is at 6 Crannell St. Tickets are $16 in advance and $18 at the door.

Dance Listings
New York Times – Apr 20, 2007
Faye Driscoll’s “Wow Mom Wow” follows on Thursday and runs through April 29. Driscoll describes the piece as “postmodern dance meets pop musical meets death-metal fantasy. ” Tonight tomorrow and Thursday nights at 8 Sunday at 3 p. Dance New Amsterdam 280 Broadway at Chambers Street TriBeCa (212) 279-4200… (Dunning) ★ STEPHEN PETRNI CMPANY (Tuesday through Thursday) Stephen Petronio has a reputation for making provocative sexually charged dances but his work can often be as much about identity as about sexuality. A new solo “For Today I Am a Boy” is set to the music of the avant-garde British singer Antony and seems set to explore such issues. Also on the program are another new piece “Without You II”; a revival of Mr. Petronio’s 1997 “ReBourne”; “The Ship Song” (part of a work made in 2003 for the Sydney Dance company); and last year’s enjoyable “Bud Suite. ” Tuesday and Wednesday at 7.

Rock/Pop Listings
New York Times – Apr 20, 2007
(Sisario) CLIPSE (Thursday) Comeback stories in rap are rare and sweet. In 2002 this Virginia duo rose to the Top 10 with sly rhymes about the cocaine trade and brutally minimal rhythm tracks by the Neptunes. With Monica and Jovan Dais… (Sisario)DIMMU BRGIR (Thursday) Dimmu Borgir is a Norwegian black-metal band: black as in dark and dismal with haunted-house keyboard arpeggios and vocals rendered in an electronically processed monster growl. It’s good for a shudder; few kinds of fans are as deeply into their scene as those who attend these shows and the band doesn’t come to the United States often. With Unearth DevilDriver and Kataklysm.

Museum and Gallery Listings
New York Times – Apr 20, 2007
Simon is best known for “The Innocents” a series of portraits of men and women who were wrongly convicted but later cleared by DNA test results. Simon can work as long as a year to gain permission to photograph high-security zones like the government-regulated quarantine sites nuclear waste storage facilities prison death rows and… com through April 28. (Cotter) ★ WALTER DE MARIA Counting and space important to both Minimal and Conceptual Art come together with unusual clarity if a bit too much in the way of gleaming metal in two large installations by the creator of “The Lightning Field” earthwork. Both pieces consist of several dozen shiny meter-long stainless-steel rods presented in spaces that couldn’t be much more pristine. Experience the spatial levitation and note the number of sides on the rods; in both cases they increase row by row. Gagosian Gallery 522 West 21st Street (212) 741-1717 and 555 West 24th Street (212) 741-1111.

Social Impact of Rock-n-Roll
Merinews – Apr 20, 2007
During the past four decades rock music lyrics have become largely popular particularly with reference to drugs sex and violence. This has become a matter of great concern specially the lyrics on sexual violence. Heavy metal and rap lyrics have elicited the greatest concern as they compound the environment in which teenagers increasingly are confronted with pregnancy drug abuse acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and other sexually transmitted diseases injuries homicide and suicide. Suicide is a prominent theme in music as a generation cries out having no hope. Today death and suicide are a consistent part of rock music lyrics as the artists voice their own despair in living in a fallen world. This prompts people to take others’ lives as well as their own. zzie sborne became famous many years ago through the “Suicide Solution”: Suicide is the only way out… Heavy metal and rap lyrics have elicited the greatest concern as they compound the environment in which teenagers increasingly are confronted with pregnancy drug abuse acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and other sexually transmitted diseases injuries homicide and suicide. Suicide is a prominent theme in music as a generation cries out having no hope. Today death and suicide are a consistent part of rock music lyrics as the artists voice their own despair in living in a fallen world. This prompts people to take others’ lives as well as their own. zzie sborne became famous many years ago through the “Suicide Solution”: Suicide is the only way out.