The News Review:

- Incubus – Gig previews & reviews – Music – Entertainment -…
- Thundering Anvil makes some noise
- PC World – Jango Review

Incubus – Gig previews & reviews – Music – Entertainment -…
The Age – Feb 27, 2008
“It’s changed a lot” he says while declining to name specificbands. “I’ve been listening to some of these younger bands comingout and their music doesn’t have a long attention span. They arefast scattered hybrids of indie music and metal and hardcore andpunk and soul - all of these mushed together. I don’t reallyunderstand it and I don’t understand how we are relevant in thatscope of what’s going on in music right now. Boyd says he looks at the recent success of Radiohead offeringfans a free download of their new album followed by a regularcommercial release with some envy. Team Incubus is planning tobegin work on a new record this year and though Boyd says the bandhas a solid relationship with their label Sony whether it’sreleased conventionally is another matter. “It’s exciting - I don’t care if people buy our music ornot I just want them to hear it.

Thundering Anvil makes some noise
Salt Lake Tribune The – Salt Lake Tribune – Feb 27, 2008
ne of their first songs “Thumb Hang” is about the Spanish inquisition. And the amplifier knob actually goes to 11. In so many ways the heavy metal band Anvil is indeed Spinal Tap (did we mention the drummer’s name is Robb Reiner?). But “Anvil! The True Story of Anvil” tracing the Canadian band’s resolute determination in the face of countless setbacks isn’t really a rock ‘n’ roll comedy. Instead this documentary which was to premiere today at the Sundance Film Festival is an alternatively moving and hilarious love story – a tale of two people hopelessly… “But I found out they were still going. Lips was working at a food service company Reiner in construction. They were in their 50s their hair thinning but their passion for music hadn’t dimmed over the years. Having seen all of their contemporaries make it Lips and Reiner weren’t bitter – they were hungry. “I just kind of felt ‘I think there’s a movie here’ ” Gervasi says. So Gervasi hit the road with Anvil again collecting 300 hours of footage as the band launched a tour of Eastern Europe. Tiziana a girlfriend of the band’s guitarist Ivan Hurd organizes the tour but her organizational skills are indiscernible: Train tickets aren’t bought plane schedules are mixed up and the band doesn’t get paid.

PC World – Jango Review
PC World – Feb 27, 2008
If you’re tired of tuning in to the same old music try shaking things up with. Similar to sites like… ) Jango also adds other tunes it thinks you’ll enjoy based on a number of criteria. For instance the service takes into account what users who like the same artist are also listening to and it looks at stylistically analogous acts from similar genres and time periods. Though the service played some pleasing mixes it did attempt to skew my Queen station toward Iron Maiden and zzy sbourne which are too metal for my taste. Jango saves an unlimited number of stations to your profile and it allows you several ways to customize them. You can add multiple artists to a station (Jango provides suggestions or you can plug in your own) ban certain musicians or choose whether you want it to play popular songs more obscure music or something in between the two. You can also rate songs so the site knows whether or not to bother you with them. Limited SelectionCustomizing stations certainly helped me shape the song selections more to my liking though with only 15000 artists and 200000 songs in rotation the service has limits to what it can play.