The News Review:
- FF THE WALL
- Live Music Preview: March Into Darkness festival
- Like a Kid in a Rock Candy Store
- SXSW highlights: David Banner Bon Iva MGMT Clockcleaner and Dark…
- It’s Warney’s life in song
FF THE WALL
San Diego Union Tribune – Mar 19, 2008
What did you listen to when you were growing up?Well when I was a little kid I listened to the radio all the time. And then in junior high I started listening to heavy metal music because that was in the early ’80s. Listening to zzy sbourne and The Scorpions and things like that. Like melodic heavy metal. And I got into Cheap Trick and David Bowie. Those are kind of my transition things when I started high school and started listening to other things.
Live Music Preview: March Into Darkness festival
oregonlive.com – Mar 19, 2008
” A band like akland’s Asunder for instance who headlines the last night of the festival certainly defies any MTV notion of metal. Known to perform in candlelight the four-piece alternates between cello-driven mourning and slow guitar thundering in compositions that can last as long as 50 minutes. Many of their most metal moments (which like Witch Mountain’s music are termed “doom metal”) seem more geological than emotional. Though electrified their music is intensely earthy. Saturday’s headliner — and Portland’s most well-known metal band –.
Like a Kid in a Rock Candy Store
wsj.com – Mar 19, 2008
“I turn 60 on the 18th” he told me before the show “and I think my voice is stronger than ever. ” It might very well be. Wafting music beckoned as you roamed Austin’s downtown streets — though I don’t know if pounding hard rock and screeching heavy-metal music actually waft — and by keeping their windows open the bars on Sixth Street drew in passers-by. I heard a blues guitar that at first I dismissed as a Stevie Ray Vaughn sound-alike. But as the raspy stinging playing grew fiercer and flashier I went in to listen and found Trent Turner a local musician — and a physician who had to run off to a 12-hour emergency-room shift at Johns Community Hospital. Another local band Horse + Donkey won me over with its twangy punk. I watched the band from the sidewalk peering over the drummer’s shoulder and splash cymbals.
SXSW highlights: David Banner Bon Iva MGMT Clockcleaner and Dark…
SF Weekly – Mar 19, 2008
0012 –>write to the editor | email a friend | print article | write your commentSXSW highlights: David Banner Bon Iva MGMT Clockcleaner and Dark MeatBy Jennifer MaerzPublished on March 18 2008 at 2:26pmAfter spending five days in Austin for SXSW doing tasks one at a time seems odd. Why eat dinner at a table when you can be scarfing beans and tortillas by the taco truck while cross-checking club schedules until your eyes blur? Why listen to one metal band when you can hear ten different metal bands playing on the same corner while fighting your way upstream on Austin’s main drags of Sixth Street and Red River? And why get a decent night’s sleep when there are afterparties (with Playboy Bunnies! And Carson Daly! r Britt Daniel! And Diplo hitting beach balls!) and you can power nap before waking up to free cans of liquid “energy” Pit Bull drinks being handed out of a van? After eight years of hitting the country’s biggest consistently best music festival I still can’t shake the feeling that no matter how much multitasking I’ve done there I’ve spent my whole time in Austin missing out on something totally awesome. That is except when I was actually seeing something totally awesome. And so here are my top five performances of SXSW 2008: Jennifer Maerz… As I blogged last week the Mississippi rapper was pissed (at George Bush at Universal Records at divisions among the races — “All our parents were fucked up!”) he was pumped (about white people in the crowd who get into the music and “don’t just stand there”) and he was aggro (about everything). All that pent-up energy gave him frantic momentum. Backed by a full band and two DJs Banner rapped while he ran up into the bleachers. He rapped while he threw a female fan onto his shoulders and she bounced around above him. He rapped while doing backflips and stage dives and jumping on the shoulders of San Francisco photographer Misha Vladimirskiy.
It’s Warney’s life in song
The Age – Mar 19, 2008
Perfect unveiled his warts-and-all tribute to the scandal-pronecricket legend to 4000 people at the Melbourne Comedy Festivalopening at Vodafone Arena belting out the show-stopper What anSMS I’m In. The song is one of 27 Perfect has written for hisunauthorised Shane Warne the Musical which will have itsworld premiere at the Athenaeum Theatre in December. Described as a musical play that combines heavy metal musicopera soul and power ballads Perfect a cast of seven and afour-piece band will play roles including ex-wife Simone Warne’smother singing Take the Pill and the entire Australiancricket team singing We Never Cross the Line. A Bollywood-style dance number explores the excesses of briberyscandals. Last night’s snippet was one of a series of public airings ofthe much-awaited musical first seen at Adelaide’s Cabaret Festivallast year. These continue from tomorrow with five “work inprogress” shows at the city’s Hi-Fi Bar during the ComedyFestival. Perfect who has never met the former Australian cricketer saidWarne and “his people” had been invited to see the show.