The News Review:
- Metallica: an unforgettable journey
- Press Release Distribution from 24-7PressRelease.com
- Heavy Metal in Baghdad
- Beethoven Hummel piano trios play with surprises restraint
- Cancer battle child inspires Sheryl Crow album
- Reader comments: Symphony help breathe life into video games
- A jungle out there
Metallica: an unforgettable journey
Pakistan Dawn – Mar 29, 2008
Great Metallica is an American heavy metal band formed in Los Angeles California in 1981 and has become one of the most commercially successful musical groups of recent decades and is considered one of the “Big Four” pioneers of thrash metal along with Anthrax Slayer and Megadeth. The band has sold more than 90 million records worldwide including 57 million albums in the United States alone and that makes them the most commercially successful thrash metal band of all time. Metallica’s music was inspired by bands such as Deep Purple Black Sabbath Venom and mainly British metal bands. They also took inspiration from punk bands like the Misfits and the Zeroption. Metallica was formed in Los Angeles California on ctober 28 1981 by guitarist and vocalist James Hetfield and Danish-born drummer Lars Ulrich. The early incarnation of the band went through a number of members including Dave Mus-taine and Ron McGovney. Metallica got its name when San Francisco-area metal promoter Ron Quintana asked Lars to help pick out a name for his new magazine promoting the US and British metal bands.
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24-7PressRelease.com – 24-7PressRelease.com (press release) – Mar 29, 2008
TalentGold: What are the three greatest memories of the heyday of the Stranglers? Paul Roberts: The first was playing the Albert Hall in front of my father and mother. Then there was the first club tour we did in 1991 it was awesome-so intense-always sold out-brilliant. Also travelling the world playing music – you can’t beat it when it is going well. TalentGold: It’s almost been two years since you left the Stranglers. Was it a difficult decision to leave? Why did you leave?Paul Roberts: No not at all – I had wanted to for sometime as I had realised that I had lost my voice within the unit – also the bass player and guitarist had been playing gigs without me for some reason – so I realised I had better look for another job… yes?????TalentGold: We have a number of tribute artists and bands on our TalentGold website. Everything from Frank Sinatra covers (like Michael Matone) to a number of heavy metal bands. You started a Santana tribute group – La Vida Santana – that sounds a little different from the Stranglers. Tell us about this – why did you start it and are you doing anything with it now?Paul Roberts: Well we are still gigging occasionally.
Heavy Metal in Baghdad
Aljazeera.net – Mar 29, 2008
Music journalists Suroosh Alvi and Eddy Moretti headed out to Iraq to meet the heavy metal band and make a novel short film that fitted the image of their magazine’s indie culture. However delving into the lives of the four 20 something Iraqis they uncovered a band who vented their anger at a war through their music. In a country where heavy metal was banned these heavy metal rockers thought life after Saddam would give them freedom to pursue their musical dreams. Their hopes were quickly dashed as their country fell into a bloody insurgency. Director Suroosh Alvi joins us to discuss how he followed Acrassicauda from war-torn Baghdad to refugee-filled Syria and got more than he bargained for as he listened to their soundtrack to war.
Beethoven Hummel piano trios play with surprises restraint
Dallas Morning News – Mar 29, 2008
Their Haydn-on-steroids approach puts a lot of emphasis on the symphony’s graceful last movement – as the CD’s bonus items suggest. These are the 12 contredanses and the finale of The Creatures of Prometheus ballet that previously used the finale’s main tune. BTTM LINE: Sometimes I wish Mr. Manze would just put the pedal to the metal but he has a lot of fresh things to say about this great music.
Cancer battle child inspires Sheryl Crow album
NEWS.com.au – Mar 29, 2008
I’ve always felt like I was meant to be a mum one way or another and it didn’t make sense to me to go to a sperm bank. It’s a gift to be able to give a home to a child who needs one. "Her house is tucked into a canyon high up in West Hollywood a private unobtrusive oasis of lush greenery blocked from view by an anonymous metal gate. Spacious and comfortable without being ostentatious the living room where we settle to talk has a grand piano a huge stone fireplace big sofas and a coffee table loaded with books. Through an alcove in the next room I can just see some of her nine Grammy awards on shelves with yet more books. Crow has never really fitted the stereotype of the rock chick – she dressed down to the degree where she was almost dowdy when she first came to fame because of her desire to be taken seriously as an artist – but in any case the life that was once lived here has moved on. When she talks of home she means the ranch just outside Nashville that she bought soon after being diagnosed with breast cancer in February 2006… The resulting threats made it necessary for Sheryl her brother and two sisters to be escorted to school by police for a while but this seems a small blip in what was otherwise the same kind of peaceful rural upbringing she plans for her son. What seems clear is that before her most recent break Crow had not been enjoying music very much. Under pressure from her label to record "more hip" music and from herself to continue looking young it seems she had an early mid-life crisis. Slim and fit she could pass for much younger but no longer wants to. "I can’t look 21 again. Even if I shot my face up with Botox and did all that stuff I don’t want to look 21. Although I don’t love the changes I see in my face I know that it goes along with who I am and where I am so to celebrate that I have to embrace it" she says.
Reader comments: Symphony help breathe life into video games
Deseret News – Mar 29, 2008
April 1 2008 The compositions of Mario and Zelda have been floating around the internet for a while but that's because they were not written by some Joe Schmoe that managed to get a professional Symphony to play his composition. It was fun to see the composers themselves introduce the Metal Gear Mario and Zelda songs however taped. They are great renditions of the Music and creating new compositions would require the composers to work with the original composers to do so and that's not really the point of the show. April 2 2008 Fantastic Concert enjoyed it with my friends and hope that it returns soon! I loved attending and hearing some of my favorite music performed live.
A jungle out there
The Australian – Mar 29, 2008
module-item –> n our arrival at the remote village of Mondrabat the villagers build a huge bonfire then the men decked in little but their birthday suits and enormous white masks leap into it. Gyrating amid the flames they seem made of asbestos. I awake next morning in this village so removed from the 21st (if not 20th) century that its people barely use items made of metal. Yet the first thing I see is almost as extraordinary as the dance: it is our expedition leader casually talking on a satellite phone while a tribesman holds aloft the aerial. Neither of these extremes — the ancient Baining firedance and its hypermodern contrast of speaking to a satellite — matches the experience of the Australian Diggers who dragged their starving bodies through here in early 1942. Having been told it was every man for himself the Australians retreated from Rabaul just ahead of 15000 Japanese invaders. Their only hope was to reach evacuation points on the far south coast of the Gazelle Peninsula… As we sit around the fire a Baining man begins beating a bamboo pole on a baseboard. The music is extraordinary its chanted harmonies and rising cadences sounding almost like native American song. "What kind of songs are they?" Peter asks. "The village is Christianised so these are church songs" says Weekli. "Nothing like the church I went to" says Peter. Night plays out its full philharmonic range of twitters screeches hoots whoops and things that go bump.