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The News Review:
- Want To Be Avril’s Merch Model? – News Story | Music Celebrity…
- Teenage Alienation Goes Global
- Album Spotlight: Josh Homme Spills on New Queens of the Stone Age…
- … Releases: Bobby Valentino Vs. Bjork – News Story | Music…
- The Gauntlet: Dir En Grey Metal News
Want To Be Avril’s Merch Model? – News Story | Music Celebrity…
MTV.com – May 8, 2007
Three singers — Tiffany Evans Paula Campbell and Samantha Jade — are currently competing for listener votes at Glamour. Pink’s video for previous Reel Music contest winners Pretty Boys debuted in January. Kelly Clarkson doesn’t want fans to have to wait until the winter to hear her third album: The singer has pegged July 24 as the release date for My December… The Columbus Dispatch reported Saturday that the lawsuit was dismissed last week after Abbott’s family and two band employees injured in the shooting agreed to a “nominal settlement” according to Rebecca Price an attorney for the club. She would not disclose additional terms of the agreement. The suit claimed the club’s owners were negligent in not stopping Nathan Gale Abbott’s killer from entering the club with a gun and ammunition.
Teenage Alienation Goes Global
TIME – May 8, 2007
They’ve waited all night for this the headline act of Headbangers in Hell a night that has featured Painkiller Thrashline Accidental Hero and 20 other bands. We’re not at the Toledo Speedway or a dive bar in New York. This is JK7 the latest Jakarta venue brave enough to host the growing metal scene that forms just a small part of a burgeoning Indonesian alternative music scene that includes hundreds of indie pop electronic and rock acts. More than 1400 bands auditioned for the 12 spots on a recent compilation album called LA Lights Indiefest all of them from far outside Jakarta. tiiQuigoWriteAd(755777 1391588 142 225 -1); “The fact that independent bands are getting radio play and packing venues is a sign that things are really changing in the music industry” explains Ricky Siaahan senior editor at Rolling Stone Indonesia and guitarist for Seringai one of the hottest metal bands in the country. “Even my band is about to sign with a major label and there was a time when that was almost unheard of. Most indie kids would rather spend their money on imported CDs from bands like Interpol and Arcade Fire than on the drugs or discos with which their club-going peers prefer fill their weekends.
Album Spotlight: Josh Homme Spills on New Queens of the Stone Age…
Dose.ca – May 8, 2007
I think reality is more beautiful than the utopian version. I like faces with character. “Homme has released 17 albums with his main projects (Queens of the Stone Age Kyuss and Eagles of Death Metal) appeared on dozens of other records and worked with a long-list of artists (Peaches Foo Fighters PJ Harvey Melissa Auf Der Maur and A Perfect Circle among others). He rationalizes his massive output is due to the fact that making music “is a need not a want” for him something he truly loves – like women. And Homme insists rock ‘n’ roll and the fairer sex have a lot in common in his eyes (and ears). “When music leaves the speakers you hear it but you don’t see it: it’s an intangible. I think that’s why it’s probably one of the best descriptors of other intangibles like love and fear and obsession and anger and all the things that you can’t see but are real” he notes… I like faces with character. “Homme has released 17 albums with his main projects (Queens of the Stone Age Kyuss and Eagles of Death Metal) appeared on dozens of other records and worked with a long-list of artists (Peaches Foo Fighters PJ Harvey Melissa Auf Der Maur and A Perfect Circle among others). He rationalizes his massive output is due to the fact that making music “is a need not a want” for him something he truly loves – like women. And Homme insists rock ‘n’ roll and the fairer sex have a lot in common in his eyes (and ears). “When music leaves the speakers you hear it but you don’t see it: it’s an intangible. I think that’s why it’s probably one of the best descriptors of other intangibles like love and fear and obsession and anger and all the things that you can’t see but are real” he notes. “I think you go through all those emotions when you’re dealing with people and women.
… Releases: Bobby Valentino Vs. Bjork – News Story | Music…
MTV.com – May 8, 2007
“You’re a Wolf” “The Garden You Planted” and “I Don’t Know if I’ll Be Back This Time” are featured on the disc which is issued by the red-hot Dangerbird Records (Silversun Pickups All Smiles). Yo Momma – Family Feud: Mother Mother’s Touch Up vs. Mothernight’s Mothernight>>> Last Gang Records — which brought you Metric and Death From Above 1979 — rolls out the carpet for its latest hopefuls Vancouver British Columbia’s jazz- and classical-influenced popsmiths Mother Mother. Their first set was produced by New Pornographers collaborator Howard Redekopp and features “Polynesia” “h Ana” and “Ball Cap. >>> Also being introduced are Mothernight an industrial-metal band from Warsaw that sounds nothing like the above. Fronted by Freya the four-piece found a strange time to put out its maiden release — after all Kurt Vonnegut who wrote a book called “Mother Night” died less than a month ago… Their first set was produced by New Pornographers collaborator Howard Redekopp and features “Polynesia” “h Ana” and “Ball Cap. >>> Also being introduced are Mothernight an industrial-metal band from Warsaw that sounds nothing like the above. Fronted by Freya the four-piece found a strange time to put out its maiden release — after all Kurt Vonnegut who wrote a book called “Mother Night” died less than a month ago. The song titles featured on Touch Up however don’t quite mesh with Vonnegut’s dark comedy — among them are “Someone to Feed n” “Shadowsblack” and “Infect Your Soul. Song Title of the Week:”Crackle Rotcha Tee Thout” from Chasing Victory’s Fiendsther Notables:Lavender Diamond’s Imagine ur LoveThese country folksters have been making some pleasant noise in their Los Angeles hometown and beyond lately and Matador is hoping they become the label’s next Belle & Sebastian or New Pornographers. Giving Lavender Diamond — who are led by cool singer Becky Stark — an extra boost is their recent performance at South by Southwest overseas deal with Rough Trade and recent tour with the Decemberists.
The Gauntlet: Dir En Grey Metal News
thegauntlet.com – May 8, 2007
fans starting with their SXSW appearance in 2006 and continuing as one of the main stage acts on last year’s Family Values Tour. The band launched their month-long North American leg of their “INWARD SCREAM” tour in February and sold out a number of venues in major cities including New York (Nokia Times Square Theatre) Los Angeles (The Wiltern LG) Chicago (House of Blues) San Francisco (The Fillmore) Minneapolis (Fine Line Music Club) Atlanta (Roxy Theatre) and Toronto (House of Blues). ” Elsewhere the Dallas Morning News stated that DIR EN GREY “threatens to invade metal’s American sanctum as no other heavy Japanese act has as it’s become a truly original live act… ” Elsewhere the Dallas Morning News stated that DIR EN GREY “threatens to invade metal’s American sanctum as no other heavy Japanese act has as it’s become a truly original live act. which was named one of the Top 10 Hard Rock & Metal albums of 2006 by Amazon. The video for album track “Saku” was also named #1 video of 2006 by Revolver in conjunction with MTV2′s Headbanger’s Ball.