The News Review:

- Rockabilly Rebels Return
- … Josh Duhamel Are Reportedly Engaged – News Story | Music…
- Up & Coming – Music – Up & Coming – The Stranger Seattle’…

Rockabilly Rebels Return
Cleveland Free Times – Dec 26, 2007
30 with Megan Palmer and the Lost State of Franklin opening. – Jeff NieselMitch Karczewski TributeClub owner and band manager Mitch Karczewski (also known as the proprietor of Mitch's Britches tuxedo rental in Middleburg Heights) was a fixture on the Cleveland music scene for almost 30 years prior to his death in September of a heart attack at the age of 58. He owned co-owned or managed numerous rock clubs including Silky Sullivan's in the Flats Diversions and Shadows on the West Side and most recently the Flying Machine and the Red Parrot both in Lorain. Local metal radio host Chris Akin is hosting a concert organized by Karczewski's former assistant Laurie Ludeman paying tribute to Karczewski at the House of Blues Cambridge Room (308 Euclid Ave… – Jeff NieselMitch Karczewski TributeClub owner and band manager Mitch Karczewski (also known as the proprietor of Mitch's Britches tuxedo rental in Middleburg Heights) was a fixture on the Cleveland music scene for almost 30 years prior to his death in September of a heart attack at the age of 58. He owned co-owned or managed numerous rock clubs including Silky Sullivan's in the Flats Diversions and Shadows on the West Side and most recently the Flying Machine and the Red Parrot both in Lorain. Local metal radio host Chris Akin is hosting a concert organized by Karczewski's former assistant Laurie Ludeman paying tribute to Karczewski at the House of Blues Cambridge Room (308 Euclid Ave.

… Josh Duhamel Are Reportedly Engaged – News Story | Music…
MTV.com – Dec 26, 2007
The rapper recently inked a deal with the Canadian online gaming company’s music division and plans to put out both discs Walk With Me Now and You’ll Fly With Me Later next year. Bodog recently nabbed the international distribution rights for the new Wu-Tang Clan album 8 Diagrams… Megadeth have heart — the metal band’s frontman Dave Mustaine and his wife recently organized a Toys for Tots donation drive for families affected by. The toys were delivered to Camp Pendleton the North Coast Church — which the Mustaines go to — and the town of Fallbrook. “We live in a little town and this is nothing any neighbor wouldn’t do for another neighbor” he said in a statement.

Up & Coming – Music – Up & Coming – The Stranger Seattle’…
TheStranger.com – Dec 26, 2007
Youget the smug self-righteousness of a philanthropist and theinflated sense of invulnerability of an alcoholic. It’s a dangerouscombination. Booze! And for a good cause! Anyway if you get too hoppedup on do-goodery and spirits BlöödHag will slap some senseback into you with their patented barrage of science-fiction pulp andthrash-metal brutalism. peners Same Sex Dictator and We Lit the Fusewill not slap sense into you; they will abet your bad behavior withgrowling metal sludge and antisocial hardcore. Helms Alee whateveryour state are worth paying attention to—their dynamicthoughtful opuses mix shoegazing subtlety and stoner metal amp worshipwith great success… While others may outpace him in terms of traditional virtuosityhis playing is imbued with such an intense and emotive attention todetail that its subtlest gestures can be heartbreaking. Some of his mostconsistent collaborators in these works have been with violist EyvindKang and banjoist Danny Barnes themselves both players and composersof great eloquence and oblique intelligence.