… Showing What Happens When One-Man Bands Bend Metal’s…

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- … Showing What Happens When One-Man Bands Bend Metal’s…
- Are you happy? Scott Kennedy singer
- Crooner James Blunt wows Jakartan fans
- Audio: May 24 | Books | The Guardian
- A love interrupted

… Showing What Happens When One-Man Bands Bend Metal’s…
New York Times – May 24, 2008
(Burrito budgets have gone out of control. ) This isn’t such a new trend in experimental metal: thinking hard on invisible dark forces requires concentration and alone time. But seeing two one-person experimental metal bands on a single bill like the one at Death by Audio in Williamsburg Brooklyn on Thursday is still rare. Preston has led (or been) Thrones for 14 years turning out seven-inch vinyl singles and the occasional CD while playing bass for various drone-metal and sludge-metal bands including the Melvins Earth and High on Fire. Alone with his instrument and his voice he makes weird symphonic creepy sound art sometimes with drum sounds and sometimes without. He’s not particularly limited by typical subgenre ideas about metal and he’s certainly not limited by aloneness; he seems broadened by it.

Are you happy? Scott Kennedy singer
Guardian Unlimited – May 24, 2008
We’re good friends – we started jamming in youth clubs. I’m the singer and I write the lyrics but our guitarist came up with the name Bleed From Within. It’s like extreme metal death metal a lot of different types of metal mixed up. It’s not exactly happy music. Old-school death metal isn’t positive at all but I’m not singing about the same things as like Cannibal Corpse. It makes me happy to be in a band. I don’t know where I’d be today without it.

Crooner James Blunt wows Jakartan fans
Jakarta Post – May 24, 2008
The concert which took place at Tennis Indoor Senayan was the last stop in the Asian leg of Blunt’s Lost Souls world tour which started in Scotland in January. "I’m having an amazing time going to different countries and doing something that we (the band) love" Blunt told The Jakarta Post in an interview before the concert. "Music is a great passion of ours and when thousands of people turn up (to our shows) and sing the words to us that’s a great pleasure" he said adding the tour would wrap up in February next year. After a few minor technical glitches the concert began with the British crooner walking on stage to rapturous applause opening with "Give Me Some Love" off his new album All the Lost Souls. One might be mistaken to think that a concert by a man renowned for ballads about lost love might be somewhat somber. But those who attended the performance would no doubt vouch that it was anything but. From the get go Blunt was full of energy running around on stage and playing up to the crowd until they were putty in his hands… It seemed as though Blunt and his band members became more energetic as the show progressed. In his last song of the night "So Long Jimmy" he completely let loose dancing wildly and throwing himself off the stage speakers. His actions and mannerisms seemed more akin to those of a heavy-metal rocker than a man known for his acoustic love songs. After he left the stage the audience practically begged for an encore to which Blunt gladly obliged. He reemerged saying he had been "saving the best for last" and went on to perform three final songs — "One of the Brightest Stars" "Same Mistake" and the nostalgic "1973". Before taking a final bow he assured the crowd he’d see them again soon and took a photo of them with his own camera. After his Jakarta concert Blunt left for South Africa where he was scheduled to perform three shows.

Audio: May 24 | Books | The Guardian
Guardian Unlimited – May 24, 2008
99)Compared with the treasure chest of fiction available on audio finding interesting non-fiction is a depressingly Mother Hubbard exercise. Still if you’re prepared to poke about in old catalogues or on the internet you can usually come up with something good like this beautifully put-together portrait of one of classical music’s most romantic and tragic marriages. It’s half text half music with readings from the letters and diaries of Robert and Clara Schumann every bit as glamorous and star-crossed as Romeo and Juliet. Clara Wieck virtuoso pianist was 21 when she married Schumann. Fourteen years later when he was confined to an asylum after a losing battle with his demons she returned to the concert platform to provide for their seven children. Brahms’s description of Schumann’s death with Clara kneeling by his bed is almost unbearably moving. Whether Johannes’s feelings for his idol’s young wife were more than brotherly is still a mystery but he remained devoted to the family and when Clara grew older composed piano pieces her arthritic fingers could still play… Clara Wieck virtuoso pianist was 21 when she married Schumann. Fourteen years later when he was confined to an asylum after a losing battle with his demons she returned to the concert platform to provide for their seven children. Brahms’s description of Schumann’s death with Clara kneeling by his bed is almost unbearably moving. Whether Johannes’s feelings for his idol’s young wife were more than brotherly is still a mystery but he remained devoted to the family and when Clara grew older composed piano pieces her arthritic fingers could still play. Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village by Ronald Blythe read by Stephen Thorne (Isis £41. 95) Return to Akenfield by Craig Taylor read by Stephen Thorne (7hrs unabridged Isis £24.
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A love interrupted
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription… – May 24, 2008
About This Story Journal Sentinel reporter Meg Jones and photojournalist Kristyna Wentz-Graff met with Kristen Nelson as she prepared a care package for her husband in February shortly before Jones traveled to Iraq to report on the Marines of Fox Company. Jones interviewed Ricky Nelson at Camp Habbaniyah in March. After his death Wentz-Graff and Jones spent many hours with Kristen and the Nelson family. We Remember A tribute to each of the Wisconsin servicemen and women who died in war in the past year in a… Perhaps a mistake had been made? They assured her he was dead along with another Marine Lance Cpl. Dean Opicka a 29-year-old Waukesha reservist who had been driving their Humvee when it was struck by a bomb. A week later when the Marines handed her his dog tags and she saw his name stamped in the metal she realized he was dead. Then when his two foot lockers arrived at his parents’ Pleasant Prairie home and Kristen watched a Marine officer gently go through the items and mark each off on a manifest she realized again he was dead. She knew when she looked at his cell phone at his iPod filled with country music and Michael Jackson at his jeans and favorite blue T-shirt picturing a limo and the words “This is how I roll. ” She brought the large plastic boxes to her apartment. Inside one were the things he wore: his camouflage uniforms socks underwear shower shoes workout clothes combat boots sneakers.