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- Heavy Metal in Baghdad: Masters of War
- Pawtucket music store closing
- Lil Mama’s VYP: Voice of the Young People
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Girls Rock!: Movie Showtimes and Reviews on washingtonpost.com’s…
Washington Post – Apr 4, 2008
ShowtimesNTE: Showtimes are currently unavailable for this movie Editorial Review “Girls Rock!” a documentary that follows preteens and teens at a rock music camp in Portland re. makes an eloquent case for giving girls room to breathe away from the patriarchal scheme of things. The kids in this freewheeling film aren’t thinking “female empowerment” as they scream into the mikes flail like Pete Townshend on their electric guitars or wail on drum sets with unfiltered abandon. But they sure as heck are living it… Directed by Shane King and Arne Johnson the film follows girls ages 8 to 18 at a rock-and-roll camp. Picking up instruments they have never played they form spontaneous hierarchies of drummers bassists guitarists and vocalists (we hesitate to use the term “singer”) and do their very idiosyncratic thing. We hear from highly spirited 8-year-old Amelia whose central muse is her dog Pippi; a Korean American named Laura 15 who likes death metal; and recovering meth addict Misty 17 whose passion for music is informed by tough life experiences. We may not get to their innermost feelings which would have taken this documentary to a deeper maybe darker level but the movie’s purpose is celebratory. As such it’s a satisfying experience. — Desson Thomson (April 4 2008)Contains mild profanity.
Heavy Metal in Baghdad: Masters of War
Village Voice – Apr 4, 2008
The band began rehearsing and writing songs in a Baghdad basement in late 2000. Their sound was—and still very much is—informed almost entirely by the golden age of American metal. “We listen to a lot of stuff—jazz pop traditional Iraqi music—but our metal tastes are very old-school” Riyak tells me. “We love the classics like Slayer Metallica and Megadeth. ” The band was also lucky enough to gain the support and musical instruction of Saad “Yngwie” Zai a virtuosic guitarist and one of Baghdad’s most prominent underground musical figures; by 2001 Acrassicauda felt confident enough to start booking shows. “When we were just starting out in the early part of the decade we booked six gigs three of which we did before the war began in 2003″ Talal says. “At both our first and second show nearly 450 people showed up which we were really happy about… A club official trotted to the microphone and ordered everyone to sit down but the band played right through the announcement and half the crowd remained standing. The official promptly cut the power and ushered the band offstage causing Talal to swear intensely at him to the delight of the fans. Soon after the botched show though Acrassicauda began receiving death threats (accusing them of Satan worship) in their practice space which they assumed came from one of the many fundamentalist sects carrying Baghdad closer and closer to chaos. Also around this time Suroosh Alvi a co-founder of Vice magazine got in touch with Talal and announced his intentions to make Heavy Metal in Baghdad. The documentary follows Alvi and Eddy Moretti the director of Vice’s film division as they meet the band for the first time in 2003 and goes on to record the eventual ousting of Saddam and the subsequent fall of Baghdad through the band’s eyes. In 2005 Vice organized what was to be Acrassicauda’s last concert in their own country at the famed Al-Fanar Hotel. When a mortar exploded next-door in the middle of the set the band didn’t drop a beat.
Pawtucket music store closing
Providence Journal – Apr 4, 2008
Business has dropped so sharply that lately Luke’s has been opening just two days a week. It was different after Dec. 8 1980 when the death of John Lennon put Luke’s Record Exchange on the map. At that point Luke’s had been open about a year. The store was known for having a big collection of Beatles records. But business was slow. “I almost threw in the towel” Renchan recalls… The album was worth a lot of money he says. It was one of the rare copies with the cover showing the Beatles butchering dolls. r all the times a fan of heavy metal music came in to sell his record collection. The guy would tell Renchan he had entered Alcoholics Anonymous or become a Christian. “I probably heard that several times in my career” Renchan says: ‘I can’t listen to this music anymore. ’ ” ccasions like that were windfalls for a used-record dealer.
Lil Mama’s VYP: Voice of the Young People
Village Voice – Apr 4, 2008
’s Murmur Revisiting the debut they never quite topped Meet the Web Sheriff Fighting music piracy via ominous blog comments and pre-written apologies n Britney Spears’s Sadly Generic Circus More blandishments from the dance floor Bitching about the music industry is as pointless as complaining about all the hipsters invading your neighborhood. Yet you can’t ignore Jive’s utterly mystifying decision to repeatedly shelve Lil Mama’s full-length debut all but squandering the buzz surrounding the hit single “Lip Gloss” which dropped when she was 17. Which was a year ago. r in hip-hop time 2001. With a bare-bones track pleasantly echoing Audio Two’s “Top Billin” her ode to the sticky-icky (yes it’s included on VYP) is that rare rap record that’s genuinely street sassy spunky… Naturally there’s a handful of party tracks including current hit “Shawty Get Loose” featuring Chris Brown and T-Pain: not bad kind of frisky but standard-issue club. Mo better is “What It Is (Strike a Pose)” with its slurred go-go groove and (once again) T-Pain who is miraculously painless. But somewhere amid all the smart rhymes (”I’m so ahead of myself I gotta start a new life”) and sincere emotion there appears “Truly in Love” wherein Lil Mama’s vocals are so girly that Madonna’s “True Blue” sounds like Norwegian death metal by comparison. Not a bad debut finally but someone should tell her that speaking for the young people doesn’t mean merely becoming Shanice with attitude. Recent ArticlesMore by Amy LindenNe-Yo’s Fantastic R&B Finds Strength in VulnerabilityThe Year of the Gentleman proves soft is the new hardLil Mama’s VYP: Voice of the Young PeopleYes it’s finally outThe Slow Blackout of Amy WinehouseHow a troubled r&b mega-talent’s breakout hit turned against herThe Harlem RenaissanceJay-Z’s heroin-soaked retro moves push things forwardThe TreadingThe Boss evokes those glory days but doesn’t exactly push things forward.
Pop and Rock Listings
New York Times – Apr 4, 2008
ABSLUTE BDY CNTRL WLF EYES (Friday) Absolute Body Control from Belgium follows closely in the footsteps of the 1970s New York band Suicide with a claustrophobic minimalism that turns electronic dance-rock into psychic trauma. The duo makes its American debut at the Music Hall of Williamsburg with Wolf Eyes the self-described “the… with Violens and Jon Benjamin at the Bowery Ballroom 6 Delancey Street near the Bowery Lower East Side (212) 533-2111 boweryballroom. (Sisario) TESTAMENT (Saturday and Sunday) A canonical thrash-metal band Testament emerged from the same 1980s San Francisco scene as.
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