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- Bluegrass pickers jam at Music House
- … Matt Costa & More: New Releases – News Story | Music…
- Music Review: Cat Power’s ‘Jukebox’
- A good exercise playlist has the right tempo
- Bate and Switch page 1 – Music – Village Voice – Village Voice
- Pascal: Galgberget < Music | PopMatters
- (Jeff Neumann The Denver Post )

Bluegrass pickers jam at Music House
News & bserver – Jan 22, 2008
comp –> Hyatt is the little woman with white hair perched on a metal stool off to one side clapping her hands and softly singing along with her favorite tunes. At 90 she still welcomes musicians into her home where they’ve come for 60 years making this likely the longest-running old-time music jam in these parts. “We grew up a-singing” Hyatt said and she plans to keep singing for as long as she lives. There is nothing fancy about Nelia Hyatt’s Music House. Worn linoleum covers the floor… At 90 she still welcomes musicians into her home where they’ve come for 60 years making this likely the longest-running old-time music jam in these parts. “We grew up a-singing” Hyatt said and she plans to keep singing for as long as she lives. There is nothing fancy about Nelia Hyatt’s Music House. Worn linoleum covers the floor. The light is fluorescent. The furniture is a mishmash of folding wooden and metal chairs and old car seats propped against the walls of the garage. ff to one side there’s a coffee pot and sweets and snacks.

… Matt Costa & More: New Releases – News Story | Music…
MTV.com – Jan 22, 2008
href} {button:true} ); The Northeast and many other parts of the country are locked in the dreary winter blues at the moment with the denizens nipping at their frostbitten fingertips and gnawing on their chapped lips in anticipation of sunnier days and warmer nights. But lucky for the music fans among them a magical spring awaits inside your local CD store! Grab a light jacket and a pair of binoculars and take a stroll with us as we check out this week’s New Releases… Biirdie — who have a nest in Glendale California — flutter their wings to the country-infused orchestral sounds of their Catherine Avenue album. Giving us a Hitchcockian scare the Birds of Prey swoop down. The flock — which includes members of Baroness Municipal Waste and Alabama Thunderpussy — peck away at us with their metal-icious second album Sulfur & Semen. Philadelphia’s Birds of Maya start biting into us too with their loud new Holy Mountain release Vol. “Those Birds Are Bats” our friends Mahjongg tell us before busting out some dance moves and enigmatically adding “Kontpab. Where there are birds there are bees and both are as one on Birds by Collections of Colonies of Bees.

Music Review: Cat Power’s ‘Jukebox’
San Francisco Chronicle – Jan 22, 2008
Most of the songs have a little organ a little slide guitar and new interpretations that are nothing like the original. She slaps the dust off The Highwaymen’s “Silver Stallion” and passes away a rainy afternoon with Joni Mitchell’s “Blue. She even gives herself the treatment re-imagining her own song “Metal Heart” from “Moon Pix” the first album that showed her unbounded promise. As she has with most of these covers she adds gravitas in the arrangements and vocals scarred by liquor and cigarettes. While we’d rather have an album of original material “Jukebox” is a nice way to pass the time while we wait. CHECK THIS TRACK UT: Power offers one new original “Song to Bobby. ” It’s the singer’s recounting of the first time she met Dylan.

A good exercise playlist has the right tempo
San Diego Union Tribune – Jan 22, 2008
But are certain songs more effective than others?Generally speaking there is a science to choosing an effective exercise soundtrack said Costas Karageorghis an associate professor of sport psychology at Brunel University in England who has studied the effects of music on physical performance for 20 years. ne of the most important elements Karageorghis found is a song's tempo which should be between 120 and 140 beats-per-minute or BPM. That pace coincides with the range of most commercial dance music and many rock songs are near that range which leads people to develop “an aesthetic appreciation for that tempo” he said. It also roughly corresponds to the average person's heart rate during a routine workout. Karageorghis said “Push It” by Salt-N-Pepa and “Drop It Like It's Hot” by Snoop Dogg are around that range as is the dance remix of “Umbrella” by Rihanna (so maybe the pop star was onto something)… Much of the research done on music and exercise is geared toward aerobic workouts like jogging and cardio. But as anyone who has heard Metallica blasting from a weight room stereo knows music is a motivator in strength training too. “The vast majority of bodybuilders are fans of heavy metal if not in their personal life at least in the gym” said Shawn Perine a senior writer at Flex magazine. Loud aggressive music he said “keeps you elevated especially in between sets. ”Perine prefers to work out to hip-hop. “Let's say you've done a grueling set of squats” he said. “You're out of breath and L.

Bate and Switch page 1 – Music – Village Voice – Village Voice
Village Voice – Jan 22, 2008
” The Mars Volta have been onstage for two and a half hours. Another minute longer and they might go blind and we deaf. The din here on a frigid Monday night in the cavernous tightly packed not-terribly-appealing-in-any-regard midtown club Terminal 5 is pulverizing an aural prog-jazz-metal swamp that hits like a brutish physical force like an enormous pie to the face. with wailing falsetto howls 15-minute wheedly-deedly-doo guitar solos and in Prigden’s case a percussive style best described as ne Giant-Ass Drum Fill. Every time he hits a cymbal an uppity Sam Ash salesman dies. This is all slightly awesome and severely wearying.

Pascal: Galgberget < Music | PopMatters
PopMatters – Jan 22, 2008
A few scattered bloggers wrote about the group in non-Nordic languages: English Italian and French. Now one year later to the month the group is releasing a follow-up. The music has a garage band roughness nice and loose. There are touches of psychobilly and touches of Britpop scraps of Elvis early rock punk metal the Ramones storming guitars a variety of things. Galgberget is nothing revolutionary but it’s full of heart and commitment. When Isak Sundström screams it’s not a stage-managed stadium cockrock scream it’s a good full yell of pleasure. Isn’t it glorious the musicians seem to be asking to make this much noise to be alive like this?The majority of the Swedish acts that have made names for themselves in the English-speaking world have been poppy—ABBA Roxette or the Cardigans—bands that can turn out a good single.

(Jeff Neumann The Denver Post )
Denver Post – Jan 22, 2008
comMarilyn Manson Feb. 13 Fillmore His shows are more about the spectacle than the music but Manson still draws the kids in with his gothic-minded industrial-rooted rock. 50-$44 ticketmaster. comDax Riggs Feb. 15-16 Larimer Lounge Yes Riggs fronted cult metal band Acid Bath but more relevant to his current solo work is his past fronting Deadboy & the Elephantmen… 50-$44 ticketmaster. comDax Riggs Feb. 15-16 Larimer Lounge Yes Riggs fronted cult metal band Acid Bath but more relevant to his current solo work is his past fronting Deadboy & the Elephantmen. With his solo work expect garage rock dirges and intense ballads a la Deadboy. $8-$10 bigmarkstickets. comNew York Dolls Feb. 26 Gothic The latest legendary punk group to crawl out of their hole for a sub-par reunion tour is noteworthy sure.