The News Review:

- Spinal Taphas nothing on these dudes
- Dr. Masaru Emoto and the hidden messages in snowflakes
- The Gauntlet :: Scorpions – Heavy Metal – News – Scorpions Videos -…
- Accidental Revolution

Spinal Taphas nothing on these dudes
National Post – Sep 1, 2007
champion Jung to Finland and enters as the official Swedish delegate. Neither the 81-minute film nor its participants take themselves too seriously. After all air guitar is the name given to the practice of pretending to play wild chords while listening to heavy metal music. (It’s also spawned a retronym; just as “acoustic guitar” is now used to differentiate the original instrument from its electric brethren “there guitar” indicates a physical instrument as opposed to the non-corporeal air guitar. )f course in the world of imaginary guitar-playing definitions can get a little murky. “There is a guitar but people don’t seem to see it” declares Stan Kreich in one of the deleted scenes. He’s an air guitarist from a region known as Transalbania competing under the flag of Belgium.

Dr. Masaru Emoto and the hidden messages in snowflakes
PlanetMountain – PlanetMountain – Sep 1, 2007
Masaru Emoto from Japan the formation of ice crystals and snowflakes is influenced by different environmental conditions pollution human thought and even music. Studies undertaken by the japanese researcher have shown that aesthetically beautiful snowflakes are produced by pure water music from classical repertories written by Beethoven and Mozart and even positive thoughts and spoken words such as “Thank you”. n the other hand distorted and incomplete flakes developed when water molecules were exposed to heavy metal music and negative thoughts such as “You Make Me Sick I Will Kill You”. Emoto’s work is widely published worldwide but unfortunately at present has little hard scientific research to back it up. If the findings are true though then one thing is certain: with the current temperatures showing no signs of dropping in the Alps we’ll soon all be joyfully singing “Let it snow let it snow let it snow”.

The Gauntlet :: Scorpions – Heavy Metal – News – Scorpions Videos -…
thegauntlet.com – Sep 1, 2007
Being artists that travel all over the world we are in a position of being ambassadors of music. This is especially true when we play in Tel Aviv or Cairo. Music has a very powerful and healing effect. Music is connecting people. That is what we always did and that is what this album does. It is a very powerful and positive message. Hey let’s get our shit together so we can get out of this mess.

Accidental Revolution
publicbroadcasting.net – Sep 1, 2007
A constellation of young Seattle-based musicians answered the call. They dressed down in flannel favored unglamorous heroin over flashy cocaine and presented themselves as politically aware yet economically indolent. They packaged all this anti-glitz ideology into loud sludgy music that took its cues from Black Sabbath-style metal and wanky ’70s rock. Pace-setting grunge bands like Green River and Mother Love Bone with their working-class mien unwittingly sparked the “accidental revolution” that would topple the towers of hair while screwing up rock music for a good long while. Anderson’s book does a solid job of navigating the details of grunge’s brief lifespan. Like the ascent the burnout happened remarkably quickly: Cobain committed suicide; imitators like Candlebox diluted grunge’s claims to authenticity; the genre’s testosterone-fueled alienation metastasized into Nickelback’s grunge-lite and Limp Bizkit’s abominable rap-metal. Anderson correctly argues that the grunge explosion paved the way for the greater phenomenon of 1990s alternative music.