The News Review:

- Skullcandy Full Metal Jacket Headset for iPhone and Curve
- Metro Plus Bangalore
- Lighting music help isolate ‘hostile intent’
- Chiodos | Music Artist | Videos News Photos & Ringtones | MTV

Skullcandy Full Metal Jacket Headset for iPhone and Curve
Legit Reviews – Mar 31, 2008
They look very funky with their aluminum foil looking coiled metal cable and cool skull logo on the side. Besides a nice little carrying case the iPhone FMJ also comes with 3 sets of ear tips for a custom fit to your ear. After using the FMJs for a few weeks now I am actually convinced that the CMPLY foam tips that Skillcandy includes are some of the best I?ve used in an earbud. While not being the most pleasant things to look at the CMPLY tips are made out of a soft-moldable material that forms to and seals your ear canal every time you put them on… The button on the microphone worked well for not only picking up phone calls but to pause and start the music that we happened to be listening to. Like all iPhone headsets if you are listening to music when a call comes in the button on the headset will allow you to answer the phone simultaneously pausing your music until the conversation is complete. verall sound quality when listening was superb! It is widely known that Skullcandy has been making very nice earphones and ?active electronics? for an active population for years now. Skullcandy is not about glitz and glamour but about style and function.

Metro Plus Bangalore
Hindu – Mar 31, 2008
125 Pavan Kaul’s Bhram An Illusion sounds like a threat at the outset and quite proves itself to be so over the course of its six tracks. With music by Pritam and the new Bollywood director duo Siddharth-Suhas it reinforces the adage that three is definitely a crowd. “Jaane kaisa hai tu” is a peppy number very typical of Shaan very Indipop and raasta sort of song. The album is so average I cannot imagine it’s from the same Pritam who did the stunning Life in a Metro. f course it would be convenient to blame the failure of the album on Siddharth-Suhas. Pritam does only the opening track and then winds up the tail end of it with the last track… It is something of a unique sound and genre that Avial breaches with its music. The quality of production and composition is excellent. Rubbishing notions about not being able to adapt the local tongue to what is still considered an alien form of music Avial questions that tendency in rock and metal fans which makes them worship bands such as Rammstein that sings in German even while rejecting indigenous music if sung in the native tongue. So here’s a band that sticks to its guns and does a classy job while at it; purely unapologetic. DEEPA KURUP Printer friendly.

Lighting music help isolate ‘hostile intent’
USA Today – Mar 31, 2008
“This is the first significant change to the checkpoint since the 1970s” TSA Administrator Kip Hawley said. The checkpoint to be tested in May at one terminal in Baltimore is based on a simple premise: serenity adds security. Mauve lights glow softly soothing music hums and smiling employees offer quiet greetings and assistance. “A chaotic noisy congested checkpoint is a security nightmare. Chaos gives camouflage” Hawley said. “A chaotic environment puts subtle pressure on (screeners) to rush the job. “Hawley has sought to “calm the passenger” as he has focused the TSA on intercepting terrorists before they get to checkpoints where they could slip plastic explosives past X-ray machines… The TSA test in Baltimore will refine the strategies which could be exported to other airports. The test will include a machine that uses harmless radio waves to scan passengers under their clothes for hidden weapons. Passengers will be selected randomly for the scanning after they go through a metal detector. Screeners will view images of passengers’ bodies in a remote room and delete them. Charles Chambers head of security for the Airports Council International said the new checkpoint could speed security lines and reduce crowds that may invite a terrorist strike. “Some airports do have concerns about large groups of people” Chambers said. “Anything you can do to disperse people quicker is a good thing.

Chiodos | Music Artist | Videos News Photos & Ringtones | MTV
MTV.com – Mar 31, 2008
The release along with the band’s energetic and powerful live show helped bolster a notable local following. They next self-recorded and produced the seven-song The Heartless Control Everything in McManaman’s bedroom which was subsequently issued by Ann Arbor-based indie Search and Rescue in January 2003. Following the release the guys hit the road hard trekking across the nation seven times over including shows with… wens was also involved for a time in the rotating cast of musicians that made up the Sound of Animals Fighting. After returning to the studio this time with producer Casey Bates the band titled their new album Bone Palace Ballet after a book of poems by Charles Bukowski and scheduled to release it in September 2007. ~ Corey Apar All Music Guide.