The News Review:
- Headbangers go into rhapsodies
- The Gauntlet: Down Metal News
- The Gauntlet: Look What I Did Metal News
- Monday ‘” March 17
- Scald: Fluke < Music | PopMatters
- Artists need sincerity Black Crowe says
- SUTH BY SUTHWEST EMBRACES HIP HP: Music festival adds Ice Cube…
Headbangers go into rhapsodies
Deccan Herald – Mar 17, 2008
And there was the nature adding to the frenzy: the unexpected downpour. No wonder the thousands of fans of the world’s most popular thrash metal bands — Megadeth and Machine Head — were transported into an ecstatic world at the one-day Rock in India International Rock Fest on Friday in the City. There was an element of expectation in the air well before the performance began. Screams of "All hail the king of hard rock is here" from frenzied fans virtually sounded like hosannas to what the kings of heavy metal unleashed.
The Gauntlet: Down Metal News
The Gauntlet – Mar 17, 2008
com web site because you deserve to be recognized! “When we play live and the lights are up I mean it when I tell you that I can really see all of you standing in the crowd! (I strain my weary old eyes to see all the people way in the back or on the sides but I do see you). As for the masses I can lay my eyes on face-to-faceI can truly feel and feed from your energy! I stare directly into your eyes and see your addictive fire and it’s hard to put into words the spiritual surge it sends through me! All of your voices singing every song night after night is the only true payoff! I take it to heart. When we walk out on stage and spend that designated intimate night with our most loyal horde that’s notoriously jamming side-by-side with us in a floor-quaking frenzy “It’s the NLY realistic reward! It’s all about the music! ur music is your music so in turn it’s all about you! “As I’ve stated many times before without you we’d be nothing. “It’s stirring to our emotions because it means so much to us that you’re out there! There’ no better sensation! “You are the next generation of true music fans (from 15 to 60+ yrs old!) who know that DWN is the band that fills the gap and sews up the wound that bleeds in the heart of music today. There’s a long prosperous road that we’ll travel together in the near future “P… When we walk out on stage and spend that designated intimate night with our most loyal horde that’s notoriously jamming side-by-side with us in a floor-quaking frenzy “It’s the NLY realistic reward! It’s all about the music! ur music is your music so in turn it’s all about you! “As I’ve stated many times before without you we’d be nothing. “It’s stirring to our emotions because it means so much to us that you’re out there! There’ no better sensation! “You are the next generation of true music fans (from 15 to 60+ yrs old!) who know that DWN is the band that fills the gap and sews up the wound that bleeds in the heart of music today. There’s a long prosperous road that we’ll travel together in the near future “P. : DWN hasn’t come halfway close to hitting every city in the U.
The Gauntlet: Look What I Did Metal News
The Gauntlet – Mar 17, 2008
Modernist Movement shares in the artists concerns for their career in the greater long-term picture. “Artist development is no longer available in this industry. Today’s companies can only be concerned with music as a product and only in the current product at hand. Artists need to be able to experiment and find themselves. We want to give our artists this luxury. We don’t want them to feel like every recording could end they’re career. I want to give the artistic control back to artists… Both releases are produced by Modernist Movement’s own Brian Virtue. These releases will be available through all major digital outlets the Modernist Movement online store at artist’s shows and at various specialty record stores around the country. “With retailers drastically cutting their recorded music floor space why go with a third party distributor only to be giving away a large portion of the profits? This money will end up with our artists. They will actually see real revenue from their music. I’m excited to have artists be able to make music a viable way to earn a living without compromising their visions. There are a lot of fans that still will give money to artists out there; they just want to know that the artist will see it. The public has learned how the industry accounting works and they don’t want to pay $13.
Monday ‘” March 17
NEWS.com.au – Mar 17, 2008
11 The Angry Hour (punk). Midnight The Power Team (metal). 7 – 1am Adelaide’s Best Music.
Scald: Fluke < Music | PopMatters
PopMatters – Mar 17, 2008
When you really don’t enjoy one things get a little bit tougher because all of the aforementioned traits of good metal albums can actually hold true on awful ones. Hence we get things like Scald’s Fluke which for all of its positive traits is really a mess. For one Pete Dempsey’s one-man-two-styles vocal attack just comes off as silly; he alternates the typical Cookie Monster metal scream style with a manic style that sounds like Mike Patton screaming all over “Cuckoo for Caca” except more intelligible. Imagine a really pissed-off Gilbert Gottfried and you’re most of the way to what Dempsey’s demonic alter-ego sounds like. Used on one track it would be purposefully annoying but fairly impressive in its execution… Imagine a really pissed-off Gilbert Gottfried and you’re most of the way to what Dempsey’s demonic alter-ego sounds like. Used on one track it would be purposefully annoying but fairly impressive in its execution. Used on all five of the proper metal tracks on Fluke and it’s just annoying. therwise everyone’s pretty good with their respective instruments and there’s lots of screaming about Catholic greed which is fine but the whole product just never quite gels into something that’ll hold your attention for more than a few minutes. Then there’s Fluke‘s final track: an atmospheric thing that’s longer than the rest of the songs combined not to mention bordering on unlistenable both for its choice of abrasive sounds and the boredom it inspires despite those sounds. What you end up with is a mini-album that just misses in almost every way possible.
Artists need sincerity Black Crowe says
stuff.co.nz – Mar 17, 2008
"Aren't we really here to learn something? Are we really here to consume?"People have become distracted from what reality is and what things mean he says. Robinson added he believed The Black Crowes would have succeeded regardless of what era they had launched into. When the band first emerged heavy metal ruled the world he said. "We were playing unfashionable music and we happened to do well. "By the time their second record came out Nirvana and grunge music had taken over. "We existed through grunge through N'Sync and all that horrible music through every possible fad there was – we just did our own thing.
SUTH BY SUTHWEST EMBRACES HIP HP: Music festival adds Ice Cube…
Eurweb.com – Mar 17, 2008
com Ad Dimension: Medium Rectangle – 300 x 250 –> *The ?world?s biggest music festival? South by Southwest held in Austin Texas has transcended its usual fare of metal acts singer-songwriters and indie-rock bands by adding hip hop artists to the list of perfomers. SXSW music programmer Matt Sonzala who has made it a point to increase the profile of rap at the festival ? but was having a hard way to go was responsible for securing Ice Cube Bun B The Clipse Dizzee Rascal 2 Live Crew Talib Kweli and the Cool Kids among the 150 hip-hop performers that are scheduled to grace this year?s event. “Early on I was trying to get artists to come down” Sonzala who has been working for SXSW for five years told The Associated Press on Saturday. “When I would talk to the labels people would tell me things like ‘Why would I send my artists to that hippie festival? Why would I send them to this rock festival?” But once labels started seeing the benefit of playing the SXSW – including garnering key publicity and making key industry contacts – Sonzala doesn’t have that much of a problem anymore. “?they see what it is it’s really the world’s biggest music festival” he said.