The News Review:

- Music Review
- How Imus’ media collaborators almost rescued their chief &…
- Q&A | Dave Mustaine Metal takes toll on rocker
- Marcus Hahnemann: From Seattle to Reading (via Rochdale)
- Sound of Rage Music
- New Millennium Ensemble – Review – Music – New York Times
- Music fashion go hand in hand

Music Review
New York Times – Sep 22, 2007
” Vreth’s flayed-throat vocals emphasize the band’s links to black metal. His fury only makes the blasts of good cheer the boinging of a mouth harp or the wheezing of a synthesized accordion seem that much weirder. For Finntroll as for many Scandinavian metal bands Norse mythology is no joke. Evocations of old pagan societies fit well with the genre’s longstanding anti-Christian rhetoric. (“Ur Jordens Djup” ends with a short singalong about an irate troll who burns down a church. ) Finntroll’s keyboardist known as Trollhorn also plays in a darker weirder band called Moonsorrow. (Moonsorrow’s most recent CD is “V: Havitetty” an engrossing hourlong album that consists of two epic tracks… The members’ real innovation is their embrace of a Finnish polkalike genre called humppa which sounds well like it sounds more or less. It’s a rhythm that easily transcends language barriers and on Thursday night whenever a galloping riff gave way to that exuberant rhythm hump-pa hump-pa hump-pa there was a roar from the crowd. This is music that goes well with a tankard of Bud Light. (Available for $7 tankard not included. )There was something odd about seeing this band play for a relatively small well-behaved audience. (The endlessly entertaining video for “Trollhammaren” much viewed on YouTube shows the band members carousing and feasting in their native environment. ) But Vreth did his best to keep the energy high asking “Are you ready to mosh-pit?” In response a pair of bouncers assumed positions on the dance floor ready to enforce the club’s longstanding rule against turning nouns into verbs.

How Imus’ media collaborators almost rescued their chief &…
Free with registration – Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Sep 22, 2007
Moreover the fact that the shooter Cho Seung-Hui was a fan of Guns N’ Roses–he named a play” Mr. Ignoring the misogyny of heavy metal music is in keeping with the media’s two-hundred year old policy of playing up black pathology and playing down pathology when it occurs among whites; when white journalists aren’t doing the job their African-American farm team is summoned. The President of Nuc News Steve Capus was disingenuous when he claimed that Don Imus the shock jock was fired solely because employees at auc were outraged at Imus’ description of the members of the Rutgers women’s basketball team as “nappy headed hos. ” That might have been part of it. But it was the multi-billion dollar purchasing power of African-Americans and organizations like the National Association of Black Journalists a more difficult target for Imus’ fans than Sharpton and Jackson that gave the African-American community its greatest victory against a racist media that has been its bane since the first slave ships arrived. Before television and radio it was the newspapers alone that raised lynch mobs on African-Americans.

Q&A | Dave Mustaine Metal takes toll on rocker
Columbus Dispatch – Sep 22, 2007
Every lineup has a different deck ofcards and you have to deal with the idiosyncrasies of these people. I believe that me growing up in a broken home and having to move around as much as I did as akid and always being the new kid in school almost every single year (in various southern Californiasuburbs) made it easy for me to meet people and also be able to read people. Q: What about heavy metal still inspires you?A: I still love the way great rock and metal music makes me feel. It makesme feel victorious. I still really dig the way we have our relationship with fans. Now people can call my cell phoneand leave me messages. At concerts we leave that number for the fans to call up and leave whatthey liked and didn’t about the show.

Marcus Hahnemann: From Seattle to Reading (via Rochdale)
Independent – Sep 22, 2007
If you are into that sort of stuff it’s really cool. “When Hahnemann is not riding off road in jeeps or firing machine guns he enjoys flower arranging. Actually he doesn’t – he likes to listen to what used to be called heavy metal music which means combos glorying in the name of Slipknot Mastadon Disturbed and his favourite Tool. Sadly this enthusiasm causes ructions at Hahnemann Towers where his wife is keen for her boys not to become acquainted with the wicked world of pouting and power chords. Hahnemann is well served with diverse interests but his career path attests to a character driven to achieve at the highest level. Having progressed to a full-time spot with the Major League Soccer side Colorado Rapids he travelled repeatedly for trials in Europe before being signed for Fulham by their then manager Paul Bracewell. But with the arrival of Jean Tigana three years of frustration lay ahead as he had to shadow the first-choice keeper Maik Taylor.

Sound of Rage Music
Frontline – Sep 22, 2007
“But after our live-acts clicked there was no looking back” he adds. The band was one of the first Kerala-based rock bands to perform live on television courtesy Rosebowl that had featured their concert. Their music owes its influences to various thrash metal bands of the 80’s. “I would cite ‘Metallica’ ‘Dream Theater’ ‘Iron Maiden’ and other 80’s rock bands as our major inspirations” says Pramod the rhythm guitarist of the band. “In fact we have been playing covers of these artists at most of our concerts” adds Abin who plays the bass guitar for the band. Covering songs of major artists is not all what the band is about. “We have even played one of our own compositions such as ‘Rage’ at a couple of concerts and it has been well received.

New Millennium Ensemble – Review – Music – New York Times
New York Times – Sep 22, 2007
The oboist Jacqueline Leclair a guest soloist played with finesse and flair. The program also included Richard Festinger’s “Construction in Metal and Wood” (2005) a virtuosic duo for piano and mixed percussion that veered from rambunctious to contemplative. In Melissa Hui’s intimate and effective “Solstice” (1994) the four instrumentalists including piccolo and piano played only a few pitches around an evocative oboe d’amore melody. Samson Young’s spare abstract and dissonant “Resonance Studies I II III IV” (2006) did not leave much of an impression. “Language Instruction” (2003) Derek Bermel’s witty entertaining and theatrical comedy is based on his experience studying Brazilian Portuguese from tapes. The clarinet takes the role of a perky teacher patiently repeating with phrases that are first mauled then mastered by his students some bright and some dimwitted represented by a violinist a cellist and a pianist… The New Millennium musicians clearly enjoyed themselves. For many listeners outside academic circles some musical languages which can seem rather last millennium in these excitingly visceral compositional days will always be harder to learn. But the New Millennium Ensemble was an excellent translator playing sometimes difficult music (for both performer and listener) with conviction polish and understanding.

Music fashion go hand in hand
Jakarta Post – Sep 22, 2007
The fashion world is an industry that is difficult to penetrate or even comprehend not to mention that it has been worshiped for a long time by a bunch of brand-minded followers thanks to the images propagated by all the (in)famous fashion brands. So why bother staying in it for so long and withstanding all the risks with something as seemingly feeble for ammo as an indie clothing brand? Indra Wibisana a name that has been in the battle zone for four years with his King of Queens brand puts forward two reasons: originality and different marketing targets. It is well-known that many independent clothing lines categorize themselves according to certain music genres and perceive music as a critical influence on their products’ styles from emo-rock with My Chemical Romance Fall ut Boy and Avenged Sevenfold to metal with Black Sabbath Van Halen and Judas Priest. From indie pop with Camera bscura Broken Social Scene The Softies and Bishop Allen to indie rock and indie punk with bands like Green Day Rancid and Bad Religion — all have big impacts on skater communities and the SoCal Punk Movement. Besides music sociopolitical conditions also play a pretty big part. This proves that Indonesia’s younger generation is critical and has their own ideas about what is going on around them… It is well-known that many independent clothing lines categorize themselves according to certain music genres and perceive music as a critical influence on their products’ styles from emo-rock with My Chemical Romance Fall ut Boy and Avenged Sevenfold to metal with Black Sabbath Van Halen and Judas Priest. From indie pop with Camera bscura Broken Social Scene The Softies and Bishop Allen to indie rock and indie punk with bands like Green Day Rancid and Bad Religion — all have big impacts on skater communities and the SoCal Punk Movement. Besides music sociopolitical conditions also play a pretty big part. This proves that Indonesia’s younger generation is critical and has their own ideas about what is going on around them. The initiators of independent clothing lines usually come from the indie communities themselves. Seizing the opportunity to produce clothes and accessories for people with similar tastes they select and recognize their targets well.