Get a healthy dose of folk death metal and rock

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- Get a healthy dose of folk death metal and rock
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- News of the weird
- Music Preview: The DiMonick Code: Sex mascara and rock ‘n’…

Get a healthy dose of folk death metal and rock
Spartanburg Herald Journal – Spartanburg Herald Journal (subscription… – Aug 9, 2007
Last Modified: Thursday August 9 2007 at 12:00 a. Michael Reno Harrell is one of those performers whose music often goes underappreciated. But once you delve into the North Carolina-based singer-songwriter’s tremendous body of work it’s hard to resist his gritty blend of traditional Appalachian folk and contemporary Americana. Having recently released his eighth album “The River” Harrell makes a stop at The Showroom on Friday… Described as a “one man killing machine” Bloodsoaked is a single musical artist from Raleigh N. who handles his own vocals guitars bass and drum programming while creating some of the fiercest death metal around. Influences include Morbid Angel Cannibal Corpse and Deicide. Bloodsoaked performs Saturday at Ground Zero on a bill that also includes Apotheosis Atrocious Abnormality Chaos Ego and Downbreak.

Pike Place Market will be jumping with centennial celebrations
Seattle Post Intelligencer – Aug 9, 2007
CMING UPPIKE PLACE MARKET CENTENNIAL DAYSWHEN: Aug. Between now and Aug. 17 (the market’s centennial) dozens of activities — from chef demonstrations to live music to historic re-enactments — commemorate decades of commerce and culture at the historic open-air market in the heart of downtown. Most activities take place Aug. 17 concluding with the Market Party a live concert from 6 to 10 p… 11Centennial Days Stage opens with music by Total Experience Gospel Choir at 11:30 a. and Deems Tsutakawa Group at 1:30 p. ; chef demo begins at 1 p.

News of the weird
Herald-Times – The Herald-Times (subscription) – Aug 9, 2007
A caretaker of the site told Reuters that the stalagmite is melting rapidly though it has varied in size from year to year with the lean years thought to represent Lord Shiva’s displeasure about something. Can’t possibly be trueSweden’s English-language news outlet reported in June that the government’s employment service had granted Roger Tullgren 42 supplemental income benefits based on his illness of addiction to heavy-metal music. Tullgren (with long black hair tattoos and skull-and-crossbones jewelry and who said he attended nearly 300 concerts last year) said he had been addicted for 10 years but finally got three psychologists to sign off on calling his condition a disability. His employer now permits Tullgren to play his music at his dishwashing job. hio inmate Keith Bowles may spend the rest of his life in prison just because a federal judge miscalculated Bowles’ deadline for appealing his case. Bowles was convicted of murder in 1999 and his federal petition for a writ of habeas corpus was denied in 2004… They paid teenager Charles Green $25 to do that and House completed the mission. Green was convicted and imprisoned for “participating” in the murder. House got the death penalty but as a result of legal challenges was recently released. House’s companion was never convicted. Thus the only one of the three still in prison 22 years later is the one who just knocked on the door. In August a judge is scheduled to hear Green’s latest petition for a new trial. Unclear on the concept(1) Jenny Brown 62 entered her sponge cake in a contest sponsored by an organization in Wimblington England in July was informed by judges that she had won “second place” and was only later told that she was the only entrant (but was also told that she could not have first place).

Music Preview: The DiMonick Code: Sex mascara and rock ‘n’…
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Pittsburgh Post Gazette – Aug 9, 2007
Though theyadmire and are influenced by those bands they’re just as affectedby an array of artists from different eras ranging from AliceCooper to Harry Connick Jr. “You can sort of combine elements of the ’70 ’80s and the ’90sbased upon what you grew up with and what you’re influenced by andjust try to combine them to make what you put out now. That’spretty much what we’re doing” says bassist J… Those are out-there lyrics. ‘ It is a bit of asurprise” DiMonick said. While they want the music to enrapture listeners they also wantto entertain people visually. That might explain why DiMonick wearsheavy makeup and paints his fingernails. Showmanship is one thingthey took from the fallen genre of hair metal. “Now there’s no stigma attached to being influenced by MotleyCrue” DiMonick said. “That’s not to say we’re walking around withpoodle perms and writing an album full of cheesy ballads.