Metallica: an unforgettable journey
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- To finish new songs the South Austin Jug Band spent a week holed up…
Metallica: an unforgettable journey
Pakistan Dawn – Mar 29, 2008
Great Metallica is an American heavy metal band formed in Los Angeles California in 1981 and has become one of the most commercially successful musical groups of recent decades and is considered one of the “Big Four” pioneers of thrash metal along with Anthrax Slayer and Megadeth. The band has sold more than 90 million records worldwide including 57 million albums in the United States alone and that makes them the most commercially successful thrash metal band of all time. Metallica’s music was inspired by bands such as Deep Purple Black Sabbath Venom and mainly British metal bands. They also took inspiration from punk bands like the Misfits and the Zeroption. Metallica was formed in Los Angeles California on ctober 28 1981 by guitarist and vocalist James Hetfield and Danish-born drummer Lars Ulrich. The early incarnation of the band went through a number of members including Dave Mus-taine and Ron McGovney. Metallica got its name when San Francisco-area metal promoter Ron Quintana asked Lars to help pick out a name for his new magazine promoting the US and British metal bands.
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Hindu – Mar 31, 2008
125 Pavan Kaul’s Bhram An Illusion sounds like a threat at the outset and quite proves itself to be so over the course of its six tracks. With music by Pritam and the new Bollywood director duo Siddharth-Suhas it reinforces the adage that three is definitely a crowd. “Jaane kaisa hai tu” is a peppy number very typical of Shaan very Indipop and raasta sort of song. The album is so average I cannot imagine it’s from the same Pritam who did the stunning Life in a Metro. f course it would be convenient to blame the failure of the album on Siddharth-Suhas. Pritam does only the opening track and then winds up the tail end of it with the last track… It is something of a unique sound and genre that Avial breaches with its music. The quality of production and composition is excellent. Rubbishing notions about not being able to adapt the local tongue to what is still considered an alien form of music Avial questions that tendency in rock and metal fans which makes them worship bands such as Rammstein that sings in German even while rejecting indigenous music if sung in the native tongue. So here’s a band that sticks to its guns and does a classy job while at it; purely unapologetic. DEEPA KURUP Printer friendly.
Scars n Broadway Throw n ut There
Undercover Music News – Mar 29, 2008
Rick Rubin has been in the studio with Scars on Broadway and the first live appearance will be unveiled at Coachella in April. Apart from ‘They Say’ which you can now hear other songs in the pipeline for Scars on Broadway include ‘Universe’ ‘World Gone Wrong’ and ’3005′. Malakian describes the sound as "something electronic mixed in with traditional Armenian and thrash death black and doom metal influences". Don’t be too scared by the description. He also says the project has been influenced by Neil Young David Bowie and Roxy Music.
To finish new songs the South Austin Jug Band spent a week holed up…
Austin 360 – Austin 360 (subscription) – Mar 31, 2008
Hyland had started writing some new songs but he couldn’t finish any. A dramatic change of scenery was called for so Hyland took band mates Brian Beken and Dennis Ludiker to a haunted place to see if the SAJB could be reborn. They checked into Manhattan’s Chelsea Hotel where Dylan Thomas drank himself to death and Sid stabbed Nancy. The Chelsea is also where Jack Kerouac wrote “n the Road” and where Bob Dylan penned “Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands” among other songs. “There were a lot of ghosts” Hyland says “and we just soaked it all in. ” The three rented two adjoining rooms and went to work on finishing “Strange Invitation” an album that Hyland envisioned to be quite different from the band’s first two. They ended up recording nearly a dozen demos on their Mac Powerbook without registering a single noise complaint during their week at the Chelsea… They were doing fine on their own as the ranks of Jugheads expanded at an organic rate. But then popular fiddler Warren Hood left to go to Boston’s Berklee College of Music and was replaced by Ludiker a shy 18-year-old from Washington state. Matt Slusher whose heavy metal mandolin style gave the drumless (and Jugless) band its drive was the next to leave two years later replaced by Beken another shy 18-year-old. Each time SAJB lost a key member the invisible jug seemed to get heavier on the road uphill. But on that recent Friday night at Momo’s the South Austin Jug Band in no way resembled a group trying to get back what they once had. Though not yet official SAJB members tasteful unobtrusive drummer Rob Kidd and adventurous standup bassist Matt Mefford give a creative new kick to the sound. This band could always rip but the core of such new songs as “Dive Bar” inspired by McSorley’s in Greenwich Village and the anti-war (on drugs) protest number “Avenue of the Americas” resonate deeper than the wicked fretwork.