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- The Gauntlet :: HeWhoCorrupts – Heavy Metal – News – HeWhoCorrupts…
- TV 101: Channel Drift (or what the hell happened to A&E?)
- … Murat Tepeli – Rhonda Vincent – Blind Boys of Alabama -…
- Worse than consequential pre-marital sex
- MUSIC UPFRNT – 19.01.08.

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The Gauntlet – Jan 19, 2008
I thought myself crazy to take a jaunt downtown on such a night but the line of fans waiting outside the doors of the venue (some of whom had been there for quite a while) made me seem tame. The wind chill was thankfully mild but even so it was a night cold enough “to freeze your boogers” as one fan put it. The local music scene in Chicago is nothing if not dedicated however and The Beat Kitchen’s narrow back room was filling up well by the beginning of the show. This was no less than I had expected considering the show we were getting and for all of $8 besides. This evening marked the sophomore record release of Chicago’s death-grind duo Plague Bringer entitled ‘Life Songs in a Land of Death’ with the added bonus of Yakuza and label-mates Holy Roman Empire and Hewhocorrupts opening the evening. Although I’ve lived in Chicago for a decade now and have heard numerous stories about Hewhocorrupts on stage this show marked my first experience with them (and all the other bands as well). The tales of their exploits were usually half-reverent half-bewildered and quite nebulous making them hard to understand… My hat is off to themfor now my pants stay on. Following them in one of the most jarring band-to-band shifts I have ever witnessed was Holy Roman Empire. Despite their heavy distortion this group has no metal to speak of at its core and their place on Hewhocorrupts Inc. is a mystery to me. The straight 8th note verses 4-5-1 progressions the catchy power chord-driven choruses and reverb-drenched tremolo leads are all clear and unabashed descendants of the alternative indie pop and post-rock movements of the past few years. Flyleaf meets a less methadone-addled Interpol to put it roughly. Still they can certainly write some solidly entertaining songs and everyone in the audience was polite at the very least while more of us were nodding along unconsciously with the beat.

TV 101: Channel Drift (or what the hell happened to A&E?)
TV Squad – Jan 21, 2008
Quinn: Medicine Woman?There was always something disturbing about it. Not so much that they had changed — everyone has a right to change — but because what they now were was different from the template you had made for them. When the universe doesn’t act like you expect it to you get uneasy; it’s a natural reaction. I couldn’t help but feel that way this week when I watched A&E’s new show… The kind of profit that attracted suit-wearing cigar-smoking baby-blood-drinking big-time business interest. nce MTV became a corporate entity it not only needed to repeat past success it had to top it. Thus a music channel with a reality show as its top rated program became almost overnight a reality channel that sometimes has music on it. You can’t remain true to a vision when ratings and profit are dragging you in another direction. I call this the Ronald Miller rule. If you remember Ronald Miller was Patrick Dempsy’s character in.

… Murat Tepeli – Rhonda Vincent – Blind Boys of Alabama -…
New York Times – Jan 20, 2008
But this three-man band — John Szymanski on keyboards Dave Shettler on drums and Marty Morris on guitar — doesn’t stay within any particular school or era. SSM also toys with electro progressive rock and punk-funk. What the songs share is a cantankerous rock spirit and behind it musings on life and death from “Let’s Make a Baby” to thoughts like “Before long you’re gone so prolong the inevitable” — which is tucked into a song called “Start Dancing. -producer team Prosumer (Achim Brandenburg) and Murat Tepeli. The tracks are often little more than a ticking brittle beat a nearly subliminal bass line and perhaps a chord or two — house music utterly deflated — behind the restrained vocals of Prosumer and a female singer Elif Biçer… SSM also toys with electro progressive rock and punk-funk. What the songs share is a cantankerous rock spirit and behind it musings on life and death from “Let’s Make a Baby” to thoughts like “Before long you’re gone so prolong the inevitable” — which is tucked into a song called “Start Dancing. -producer team Prosumer (Achim Brandenburg) and Murat Tepeli. The tracks are often little more than a ticking brittle beat a nearly subliminal bass line and perhaps a chord or two — house music utterly deflated — behind the restrained vocals of Prosumer and a female singer Elif Biçer. The album gradually moves toward commonplace functional club tracks with titles like “Makes Me Wanna Dance”; after all Prosumer is a resident D.
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Worse than consequential pre-marital sex
WeeklyDig.com – Jan 19, 2008
Eventually she considers turning her talents against her bad-boy stepbrother Brad (John Hensley) in retribution for beating up her father and causing her mother to be hospitalized. Weixler is actually a decent actress and she makes an admirable attempt to give some substance and poise to the ridiculous role but her efforts are undermined by Lichtenstein’s one-dimensional script and his insistence on presenting her as a caricature. She is followed around through half the film by overly stylized mock-innocent music on the soundtrack. She is given moronic lines like: "Even a PG-13 movie is going to have heavy making out" when she and some friends are trying to decide what film to see. There are far too many ominous shots of what looks like a nuclear power plant behind her house inexplicably bellowing smoke (like in The Simpsons). Lichtenstein is constantly making sure that Dawn and the plant are captured in the same scene. Presumably this is to insinuate that her mutation is the result of the nuke but Lichtenstein despite going out of his way to make the point never goes anywhere with it… Presumably this is to insinuate that her mutation is the result of the nuke but Lichtenstein despite going out of his way to make the point never goes anywhere with it. Her evil stepbrother is also presented as basically a cartoon. He’s constantly playing with guns and having kinky sex in his room as death metal blares in the background so that there is no doubt in our minds that he’s a bad seed. A big part of the problem with Teeth is that it refuses to admit that in the end it is just a stupid little variation on a slasher flick and that takes all the potential fun out of it. The joke is on me I suppose for hoping to encounter any depth in a movie with such a preposterous premise but if Lichtenstein had followed through on some of his more interesting themes he might have beaten the odds and come out with something a bit more clever-perhaps even a memorable film or at least an attempt at one.

MUSIC UPFRNT – 19.01.08.
Free with registration – Music Week – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jan 19, 2008
The Dey Walk Away (Remember Me) (RCA) The Little nes rdinary Song (Heavenly) ne Night nly Just For Tonight (Mercury) Siouxsie About To Happen (W14) These New Puritans Elvis (Angular) A magazine has already proclaimed These New Puritans to be one of 2008′s 10 best new acts and given their album Beat Pyramid a four-star review. The band are touring to support the release of single and album including a NME Brats show at the London Astoria. Albums Boy Kill Boy Stars And The Sea (Mercury) Cat Power Jukebox (Matador) Chan Marshall returns with her second covers album which includes a cover of her own song Metal Heart. The only newly-written track on the album is Song To Bobby a tribute to Bob Dylan which has been available digitally since late 2007 and has helped promote further interest in the album.