A perfect day for Coldplay

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- A perfect day for Coldplay
- Weasel Walter: Revolt
- Manhattan Music This Week
- First Bands Announced For Asian Death Metal Festival 2009
- Tour is metal melting pot

A perfect day for Coldplay
The Gazette (Montreal)
It was enough to keep people occupied until the main draw emerged after sundown. Everyone seemed perfectly happy many camping out on the grassy hill facing the big stages at the back of the grounds staking out their turf. If the day was perfect the music sometimes came off a little soft. Kudos to Eagles f Death Metal The Roots The Stills and Silver Starling who all delivered high-impact sets; others engaged the audience to varying degrees. Mraz had by far the poppiest set of the day going for easy but winning his wager with a Bob Marley sing-along. All roads led to Coldplay of course. The masses converged around the main stages after dark ready to pay tribute to one of the biggest rock bands on the planet.

Weasel Walter: Revolt
All About Jazz
I was beginning to use a 16-inch floor tom as a kick drum something I still do to this day. At the time of mixing I was dissatisfied with the recording of the kick; it sounded too mushy and indistinct to me. I was very much used to hearing piercingly clean triggered kick drums in a death metal context and wanted that kind of clarity so we simply ran the original kick drum signal through co-producer Robert Wilkus’ modular synthesizer bank and created new voices for the kick sound. The sounds themselves are slightly different on every piece and basically the sound of the kick drum was electronically filtered. AAJ: It’s interesting you mention a setup that gives more space to the reeds and bass because so much sounds like it has been filled in at least with respect to improvised music as it’s usually presented. Please tell us how you define “space” in this context.

Manhattan Music This Week
Earvolution
Licorice and Rebecca Hart will play the Rocks ff Concert Cruise Series. Thursday you can take to the water with Donna The Buffalo for a Rockin’ the River Cruise. Alternatively the Eagles of Death Metal will rock the younger set at Webster Hall while the old school crowd can catch legendary crooner Johnny Mathis at the Beacon. Friday things start off early with Jason Mraz playing the Today Show Concert Series while Friday night the Big Takeover Band will be snuggling into the much more intimate Rockwood Music Hall. Lila Downs and Me’Shell N’Degecello are at Lincoln Center while Sugar Ray visits Irving Plaza (Fillmore). Grace Potter & The Nocturnals and Deer Tick will play “Celebrate Brooklyn” a free show in Prospect Park. With everyone likely heading to the Hamptons Saturday night is fairly quiet in the Big Apple.

First Bands Announced For Asian Death Metal Festival 2009
Metal Underground
(0 Comments) Trinity Records has issued the following announcement about the line-up for the upcoming Asian Death Metal Festival:”We here at Trinity Music with our desire to unify and to push the Asian Metal scene to worldwide recognition will be organizing an ASIAN DEATH METAL FESTIVAL (Tomahawk Metal Fest 4) this coming August 29 2009 in Hong Kong. The said festival is the first of many Asian Metal Fest series that we will organize. “We are just doing this to unify the Asian metal scene and push it to worldwide recognition and nothing more. This will probably be Hong Kong or Asia in general most extreme metal show will ever experienced. This will be total aural devastation from the first to the last band.
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Tour is metal melting pot
Akron Beacon Journal
”But for many fans metal is not just their favorite music to listen to it also speaks to and informs their lives. They are part of a global community of headbangers. n Friday the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival will stop at Blossom Music Center bringing with it a mix of new and old metal bands and a variety of metal subgenres. Metal has generally been considered masculine and adolescent and for much of its history it has been derided by critics nonfans and conservative and religious groups for its embracing and some would say glorification of the ugly side of human existence. Before the rise of gangsta rap any conservative group looking for a musical target could easily set its ideological cross hairs on metal. Bands such as Metallica and Disturbed sell millions of records and sell out arenas.