The Cribs – ‘Men’s Needs Women’s Needs Whatever’…
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- The Cribs – ‘Men’s Needs Women’s Needs Whatever’…
- New Releases: – News Story | Music Celebrity Artist News | MTV News
- Dreams Nightmares and Sonata Arctica
- Bloomberg.com: UK & Ireland
- The day I tried to kill Sharon
- Medal of Honor: Airborne
The Cribs – ‘Men’s Needs Women’s Needs Whatever’…
gigwise.com – May 21, 2007
Follow this with ?Girls Like Mystery? and ?Men?s Needs? shows The Cribs know how to fill a Barfly dancefloor but also show they have not moved on musically one single iota. Every song on this album would quite happily slot onto ?The New Fellas? or even the bands debut album. It?s not that we want to see The Cribs become a folk band or a death metal outfit but there is a point when the same song with different lyrics stops being fun and becomes offensive. The one track that stands out however is ?Be Safe? the spoken word duet with Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth. A slow paced grungey drone of guitars is Ranaldos canvas and he spreads his magic across it the combination of spoken word and Gary Jarmans haunting strained vocals is devastatingly brilliant. We say devastating as it shows how good a bit of creative intelligence can make this album sound. The albums closing track ?Shoot The Poets? again shows that moving away from The Cribs blueprint pays dividends with Ryan Jarman taking vocal duties and delivering a beautiful and simple acoustic shanty.
New Releases: – News Story | Music Celebrity Artist News | MTV News
MTV.com – May 22, 2007
Also cropping up this week — even though they don’t have any new original material out — are Metric. They chalk up a reworked version of Stars’ “He Lied About Death” for the band’s Do You Trust Your Friends? comp which also features Apostle of Hustle the Dears and the Stills. Frontwoman Emily Haines is slipping out her new EP What Is Free to a Good Home? exclusively on iTunes this week with a CD version dropping July 24. The set features five songs that didn’t make the cut on her Knives Don’t Have Your Back debut LP as well as a remix of the album track “Mostly Waving. ” And tour pals the Death of a Party pipe up from San Francisco to christen Double Negative Records with the first album released by either party The Rise and Fall of Scarlet City. Who Are You?: Expect to find a few people you might know in a few places you might not expect this week… And Tim Armstrong finally puts out his A Poet’s Life — which has been available for free online since mid-April — in CD form (with a bonus DVD so you can get your money’s worth). ut of Sight: Deeper within the dense thicket of this week’s releases lie a handful of titles that won’t be screaming at you from the ends of the record racks. Metal spazz-out fiends the Number Twelve Looks Like You crank out a limited-edition four-track EP through Hot Topic featuring the new song “Sleeping With the Fishes See?” Equally far-out electro-experimentalist Cex ekes out just 1000 copies of his new Sketchi LP through Temporary Residence. Mont de Sundua — a clangy rock project courtesy My Morning Jacket’s Jim James and members of the Insects — issue an eponymous LP that’s only available at select Think Indie consortium record stores. And if you’re into the whole multi-channel thing Mobile Fidelity has a treat for you: The Super Audio CD version of the Pixies’ watershed album Surfer Rosa. Song Title of the Week:”Guess the Baby’s Weight” from Young Knives’ Weekends and Bleak Daysther Notables:Battles’ MirroredAfter four warm-up EPs the New York band comprising members of Tomahawk Helmet and Don Caballero has finally mustered up the guts to put out a proper album — and The Guardian and Pitchfork have been falling head over heels for it. The band incorporates lyrics for the first time on the math-rock release which features “Leyendecker” “Prismism” and “Ddiamondd.
Dreams Nightmares and Sonata Arctica
PopMatters – May 21, 2007
“I think it’s because the melodies there are kind of sad often beautiful in a way” he says. “And we are this sad Slavic country and the culture is from that side so the most popular music in Finland is generally kind of sad. So it’s kind of easy for us to make this sad beautiful music and then when you apply the whole metal thing you have that melodic metal sound. There are many different musical cultures layered in Finland but metal is a really big thing at the moment. ”Kakko is in New York City doing promotional work for Unia Sonata Arctica’s fifth studio album. Formed in 1996 the band displayed extraordinary skill at relentlessly contagious power metal from day one and over the last eight years have amassed a very impressive back catalogue highlighted by such gems as “Fullmoon” “8th Commandment” “Black Sheep” “San Sebastian” “Victoria’s Secret” and “The Cage” with 2004’s Reckoning Night selling especially well in Europe and Japan and topping the charts in their home country.
Bloomberg.com: UK & Ireland
Bloomberg – May 21, 2007
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The day I tried to kill Sharon
This is London – May 21, 2007
Sharon is responsible for most of it – the clusters of Jo Malone candles the portraits of dogs the acres of embroidered cushion and pretty lace curtain – but it’s zzy’s influence that makes it such fun. In the hallway a lectern in the shape of an eagle sits beneath a grand wooden staircase and in the library – a room in fact devoted to the state-of-the-art music system (the books that line the walls are all fake) – iron crosses loom over deep comfy sofas. The house does contain real books though not for the benefit of zzy who’s profoundly dyslexic. n one coffee table next to a framed letter from Sir Paul McCartney I spot a self-help book called The Seven Day Parent Coach a quick fix for stressed-out mums. But the best thing about the sbournes’ place is that – oh irony – it was built by Quakers and sits next to the prettiest Quaker village you ever did see. Just imagine how many times zzy got wrecked to the point of oblivion here in a house erected by the most famously abstemious sect in 17th-century Britain… He recounts the story by way of explaining just how powerful alcoholism is for even that shameful episode didn’t stop him drinking. “ne of my daughters – Kelly – is 22 and she was just born when I first wanted to get help so it’s taken me all this time to finally do it. I mean you can guarantee one of three things if you drink like I did: death if you’re lucky insanity or jail. “I used to black out a lot. And my biggest fear was waking up in a police cell and having an old lady say to a police officer yes that’s the guy who ran my husband down or that’s the guy who hit my son over the head with an axe. It used to terrify me.
Medal of Honor: Airborne
CVG nline – May 21, 2007
10 Comments At first it’s familiar territory. The clumsy clang of your M1 Garand rifle sombre trumpet music wafting gently over low-key menus and men in tin hats bellowing at each other over the sound of cracking gunfire. But then you play it and realise that finally Medal f Honor has evolved and is now better than Call f Duty. Duty’s problem is that it’s too stiff. You feel yourself shuttling through a defined predictable path which is the complete opposite of what war actually is – an incalculable ruthlessly unforgiving mess where nothing ever goes to plan. And that’s what defines MoH: Airborne – unpredictability… But what we really love about Airborne is how brutal the combat is. Fighting feels like a real blood-and-guts battle to the death. The weapons are big and loud and there’s chaos everywhere. We played it with a fairly hefty surround sound system and it was terrifying like plugging your brain into an actual conflict. Going back to Call f Duty; while the combat in that was accomplished it felt slightly limp lacking the visceral intensity of the films that inspired it like Saving Private Ryan. Airborne captures this perfectly and it’s so violent it might give you nightmares.