The News Review:
- Baroness gives heavy-metal fans a challenge
- Rage Against The Machine
- Yes | Music Artist | Videos News Photos & Ringtones | MTV
- Haneke’s lesson on cinematic violence is nasty to the point of…
- Emo and metal don’t cause suicide
- A fusion that turns everything into music
Baroness gives heavy-metal fans a challenge
pittsburghlive.com – Mar 27, 2008
open(targetUrl); } You’re not supposed to judge a book by its cover — but unfortunately more often than not you can easily judge a band by its album cover. Especially metal bands. Is there a skull? A monster? Some blood? Even a creepy Germanic font is a dead giveaway. But Baroness — in town Friday night at Garfield Artworks — is a different beast entirely which is obvious on the cover of “The Red Album. ” It would be hard to pick these otherwise nondescript hairy guys from Savannah Ga. But the cover is a stunningly weird psychedelic tableau of Greek goddess-like female figures with garlands of scarab-shaped jewels and other strange symbols — wheels made of birds heaps of flame-colored flowers… But the cover is a stunningly weird psychedelic tableau of Greek goddess-like female figures with garlands of scarab-shaped jewels and other strange symbols — wheels made of birds heaps of flame-colored flowers. You can’t pin down the music from the cover but it gives you some clues — something challenging expansive complex and very heavy is going on here. story continues below “For this album I asked everyone in the band to give me an idea — an image metaphor or something out of the blue that related to them and the process of writing this record” says guitarist-vocalist John Baizley who also does all the art for Baroness. “So I got a mixed bag of images and themes. Essentially I tied all those images and themes together representing everyone in the band and perhaps something deeper. Baroness is a metal band but a very strange one — full of unexpected melody long discursive instrumental passages acoustic interludes amid explosions of raging guitar.
Rage Against The Machine
Washington Post – Mar 27, 2008
This time Lefsetz — one of the music industry’s most influential analysts and certainly the loudest — is seething about the state of the concert business. Tickets are too expensive he howls. Service fees are out of line. Music fans are being “raped” by promoters. “Where is the CNCERT-GERS’ bill of rights?” he shrieks gesticulating wildly… 10 2007* * *nce Bob Lefsetz was a lawyer doing pickup legal work. But it was never his intention to become a practicing attorney. nce he was a talent manager for heavy metal bands. But nobody understood his creative vision. Nearly 40 years ago in high school he edited a student newspaper in the upper-middle-class suburb of.
Yes | Music Artist | Videos News Photos & Ringtones | MTV
MTV.com – Mar 27, 2008
And Yes played loud and hard; they were progressive but they weren’t wimps and they put on a better show than Emerson Lake & Palmer. Their music seemed to evoke the most appealing elements of heavy metal rock psychedelic music the work of composers as different as Igor Stravinsky and film composer Jerome Moross (whose “Main Theme From the Big Country” provided the basis for the group’s version of “No Experience Necessary”) and Eastern religion all wrapped in songs running upwards of 22 minutes — an entire side of an album. “Roundabout” would be the group’s biggest single success for the next 12 years but it was more than enough. Although they would continue to release 45s periodically including a cover of. n Fragile “Long Distance Runaround” as a three-minute song had been the anomaly; the band was clearly looking at longer forms in which to write and play their music.
Haneke’s lesson on cinematic violence is nasty to the point of…
New Statesman – Mar 27, 2008
You could applaud Watts’s convincingly distressed performance or regret the loss of the frisson that came from having Paul played originally by Arno Frisch who had portrayed the teenage murderer in Haneke’s 1992 film Benny’s Video and was doubly chilling when he turned up again as this older wiser killer. Yet neither picture whatever their respective pros and cons gets any more revealing than in the opening scene in which George and Anna challenge each other to identify various concertos playing on the car stereo. Thrash-metal music audible to us but unheard by the smiling couple suddenly overrides the classical soundtrack and you realise you are at the mercy of a sinister force: the director. The whole point of this remake is that it will play at multiplexes alongside the sort of trash it is attacking. In the decade since the first Funny Games the depressing phenomenon of “torture porn” (Saw Hostel) has added credence to the film’s argument that the viewer is complicit in any on-screen brutality. But Haneke is mistaken if he thinks the new picture will reach the audience that he believes should most heed its warnings. Few things in cinema are more off-putting than being told you have a lesson to learn.
Emo and metal don’t cause suicide
NEWS.com.au – Mar 27, 2008
f course society desperately wants to understand what makes a young mind snap. But no one has yet to offer a study which points the finger squarely at the kind of music someone listens to as the catalyst for suicide or murder. If music was indeed to be blamed for teens behaving badly why didn’t the lazy and ill-informed commentators weighing in on the impact of heavy metal on impressionable minds blame dance music for Corey Worthington’s anti-social party antics? Go to the fan site of that waste of MySpace and there’s an inane slice of harmless dance pop blasting. The only thing it would compel most teenagers to do is find another site to surf. As for heavy metal let me assure you it ain’t the genre you think it is – it has dozens of subgenres tangents and offshoots. While some of it is unlistenable in the ear of the beholder I’ve yet to hear a Led Zeppelin or Iron Maiden track exhorting me to kill my loved ones or those who are pissing me off big-time. No matter how many times I have played them backwards.
A fusion that turns everything into music
Dispatch nline – Mar 27, 2008
ne could hear a penny drop as Niggli took us to their sound. A film crew from Switzerland was there to document the band. n the floor were various “music” instruments – including an iron stick metal plates metal cooking pots filled with water lids and small wooden blocks. Their first set was chilled with a fusion of jazz and a bit of funk. The crowd had their eyes wide open when Zumthor started rubbing a violin bow against the edges of drum plates creating a buzzing melody. As if that was not enough Lamussene had us all amused when he began dipping the steel lid into a water-filled iron pot while carefully hitting the lid with a stick. The sound that came out was amazing as he continued dipping and hitting.