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- Slayer bringing metal to the masses: PP MUSIC: Slayer guitarist…
- Investigating an utsourced War
- Egyptian Cock Rock – Music – Broward-Palm Beach New Timespage 1 -…
- Loudside.com – Music – Interviews
- Hilly Kristal 75 Catalyst for Punk at CBGB Dies
- Visual Art: ’24 Illustrations for Schubert’s “Winter…
- This week in MUSIC

Slayer bringing metal to the masses: PP MUSIC: Slayer guitarist…
Free with registration – Dallas Morning News – AccessMyLibrary.com – Aug 30, 2007
30–To Kerry King a Grammy Award means nothing. As if winning one of those last February was going to swell the shaved and tattooed head of the longtime Slayer guitarist a.

Investigating an utsourced War
americanprogress.org – Aug 30, 2007
They hooded him interrogated him ruthlessly and blasted his cellwith heavy metal music. He was accused of selling weapons to terrorists. Hisreal crime appears to be telling the FBI about corrupt contracting practices inIraq. Vance is among a select group of state enemies: whistleblowers. We know thisbecause of an Associated Press story that.

Egyptian Cock Rock – Music – Broward-Palm Beach New Timespage 1 -…
Broward New Times – Aug 30, 2007
But Nile isn’t built to be some grand esoteric display of arcane knowledge. That’s just part of the fun. I kind of personally dig that and it’s fun but it’s still music. We’re still a band that you go watch and bang your head to. It’s still metal — and I try not to lose sight of that. Still Sanders encourages fans to dig. “They can read something else about the stuff I’m talking about” he says.

Loudside.com – Music – Interviews
Loudside.com – Aug 30, 2007
com: k now you guys are zzfest Alumni having been on the tour back in 1999 and 2000 and now you’re back on it in 2007. After such a long stretch and the face of metal having changed rather significantly since then how does it feel to be back on zzfest?Wayne: h it’s awesome man. We’re really happy to be back and having a great time and uh… With that having become somewhat of a staple for Static-X why did you decide to not have that show up on ‘Cannibal’?Wayne: It’s very simple. I just got tired of it ya know. I like to challenge myself and I like to have a good time making music and it got to a point where it was like ‘I’m tired of this bullshit’ and I wanna do something else ya know. (laughing) Like there’s no reason we HAVE to do it ya know. It was just fun to do. It’s fun and challeging for four albums to try and come up with some new thing for it and now I’m over it. (laughing)Loudside.

Hilly Kristal 75 Catalyst for Punk at CBGB Dies
New York Times – Aug 30, 2007
and studied classical violin as a child. He moved to New York and sang in the chorus at Radio City Music Hall and managed the Village Vanguard before he opened his Bowery bar. A lifelong lover of folk music he kept an acoustic guitar at his desk and named the club CBGB & MFUG an abbreviation for the kind of music he had intended to present there: “country bluegrass blues and other music for uplifting gourmandizers. “Within months after CBGB opened young musicians and poets like Tom Verlaine and Ms. Smith became curious about the bar as they passed it on their way to visit the beat writer William S. Burroughs who lived a few blocks down the Bowery… Kristal who kept office hours until the end answering the phone “CB’s” in a phlegmatic baritone resisted any changes to the club a narrow dark room that still held remnants of its history as a 19th-century saloon. In the ’80s and ’90s the club began presenting metal bands and especially young hard-core punk groups in all-ages matinees. Though less celebrated than the ones in the club’s 1970s glory days these shows drew in new generations of fans. They also allowed the club to book two shows a day one in the afternoon for fans under 21 and another at night for a drinking crowd. Critics began to complain that CBGB had lost its edge.

Visual Art: ’24 Illustrations for Schubert’s “Winter…
San Francisco Chronicle – Aug 30, 2007
He wrote almost 1000 songs. It’s clear that when you compare listening to Schubert to pop music of the 20th century he was a very nuanced composer. Nelson whose book “All Known Metal Bands” will be published this spring has done work around music before. ne project “140 Ways to Make a Cassette Unlistenable” documented exactly what the title says – through sculpture photographs video and testimonial he showed ways for a plastic cassette to get trashed. For this show Nelson worked through all the songs in order. He wanted to match Schubert’s musical discipline – there is only a voice and a piano in “The Winter Journey” – by using only black-and-white. “I was interested in getting maximum effect of minimum tools – sort of similar to a Matisse line drawing where a single line fills in a picture” says Nelson.

This week in MUSIC
Charleston Post Courier – Aug 30, 2007
Spending a lot of his time in Nashville Tenn. the salt-of-the-earth songwriters eclectic combination of country garage-rock and folk didnt always fit in w… ” there’s a wide range of possibilities and assumptions that begins to swirl around a musical group. Surprisingly the Myrtle Beach sextet is not a group of Gothic groaners or a metal-core band. It’s also not a brothel for creatures of the night. The group will perform at The Map Room 1650 Sam Rittenberg Blvd. Friday with doors opening at 10 p.