The News Review:

- nline edition of India’s National Newspaper
- Metal dreams: Four young guys have passion to make music
- SXSW music: Blue Cheer stays true to heavy-metal roots
- Teenager finds refuge in dual-purpose basement
- Free Music? nly With a Fight
- Car parts rchestra: the man who turned a family hatchback into a 30…
- n the Beat: David Menconi on music

nline edition of India’s National Newspaper
Hindu – Mar 15, 2008
Ask about his frequent line-up changes and he snaps: “Nick Menza lies about having cancer Poland was hooked onto alcohol Jeff went out with my fiancé… need I say more?” But the answer lies closer to what his buddies and band mates have often said about him: that Dave Mustaine the musician is a perfectionist who doesn’t settle for anything less. The man spells commitment to metal. Moving out of Metallica was probably the best thing for this metal-head who stuck to guitar-centric aggressive metal even when Metal music seemed to be on a slump. He fights shy of definitions when he says that all he knows is that he plays heavy metal and only wants to make his fans happy. Simple don’t you think? But obviously there’s more to Dave than that. Here is a man who follows the news who knows where India is on the map and makes strong well thought-out political statements on topics ranging from UFs to conspiracy theories. If the interview wasn’t a mere fifteen minutes I would have asked him all this and more.

Metal dreams: Four young guys have passion to make music
Naples Daily News (subscription) – Mar 15, 2008
byline –> Saturday March 15 2008 ne is an anthropology student another studies art and history the third is a “Mr. Fix-it” of anything mechanical and the fourth is still in high school. Their common thread is that they’re exponents of “Death Metal” music the frenetic balls-to-the-wall kind of stuff that’ll shake rats out of the roof. But for band members T.

SXSW music: Blue Cheer stays true to heavy-metal roots
Dallas Morning News – Mar 15, 2008
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Teenager finds refuge in dual-purpose basement
Topeka Capital Journal (subscription) – Mar 15, 2008
He lives with his parents and younger sister in a beautiful two-bedroom house; but with only two bedrooms Michael has had to share a room with little sis for the better part of his life. –>Teenager finds refuge in dual-purpose basementBy Candice lsonHGTVPublished Saturday March 15 2008 Michael is an energetic 15-year-old who loves hockey video games heavy metal music and hanging out with his friends. He lives with his parents and younger sister in a beautiful two-bedroom house; but with only two bedrooms Michael has had to share a room with little sis for the better part of his life. He recently got the green light to move into the basement but even though he was enjoying his independence in his new lair he didn’t know how to make the cold barren space his own.

Free Music? nly With a Fight
New York Times – Mar 15, 2008
They include MCA Records’ decision in 1989 to pass on a Seattle upstart band called Nirvana while also betting big on “Leather Boyz With Electric Toyz” the debut album of a hair-metal band called Pretty Boy Floyd. The worst record-label mistake ever according to Blender was the labels decision to sue.

Car parts rchestra: the man who turned a family hatchback into a 30…
Telegraph.co.uk – Mar 15, 2008
In attendance is their inventor a thin man in his fifties who – with pony tail goatee and specs – looks as if he’s from central casting but is actually just off the plane from New Jersey. Bill Milbrodt was approached by the production company commissioned by Ford to shoot the ad for the simple reason that his is the name that comes up when you Google “car parts + music”. A composer of incidental music for corporate meetings on the East Coast who plays guitar “at the level of a high-school student” he chanced upon his career path in 1994 when his own car was ready for the knacker’s yard. “I decided to turn it into a series of musical instruments. I’ve always had a leaning towards the avant garde – John Cage Frank Zappa people who changed the language of music. I had a car I couldn’t sell so I thought why not?” Working with a metal sculptor he stripped the car down to nuts and bolts and came up with two prototypes: a xylophone made from window glass which he called a doorimba and “a guitar that was more like a ukulele”. In 18 months he had produced enough instruments – with quirky names such as dijeriduba exhaustaphone and tank bass – to form the Car Music Project with like-minded musos… “I decided to turn it into a series of musical instruments. I’ve always had a leaning towards the avant garde – John Cage Frank Zappa people who changed the language of music. I had a car I couldn’t sell so I thought why not?” Working with a metal sculptor he stripped the car down to nuts and bolts and came up with two prototypes: a xylophone made from window glass which he called a doorimba and “a guitar that was more like a ukulele”. In 18 months he had produced enough instruments – with quirky names such as dijeriduba exhaustaphone and tank bass – to form the Car Music Project with like-minded musos. They did gigs in New Jersey performing Milbrodt’s own compositions. As recently as last summer they had a prestigious booking in the plaza outside the Lincoln Centre in New York. Ford approached Milbrodt last August.

n the Beat: David Menconi on music
News & bserver – Mar 15, 2008
But the third part is more nebulous and even dare I say it spiritual — to try and reconnect with why I do what I do. Covering music for a daily newspaper you inevitably find yourself writing about topics you might find. I’m not complaining because it comes with the territory; I’m just pointing out that when you’re up to your ears in deadlines and details it can be difficult to remember the joy and the passion and the rockin’ out that made this job appealing in the first place… The crowd appeared to be mostly trendy Eurokids. Unknown — A band whose name I didn’t catch because they were playing behind the fence of a parking lot on Sixth Street. Pretty standard punk-metal power-trio long on speed and volume. By next year maybe they’ll have enough precision to rate an actual SXSW showcase slot.