The News Review:

- SXSW Day Two Wrap-Up: Lou Reed Vampire Weekend Black Mountain and…
- … ‘ Hardcore Scenes In Metal File – News Story | Music…
- A Ying-Yang Week in Filmland

SXSW Day Two Wrap-Up: Lou Reed Vampire Weekend Black Mountain and…
Rolling Stone – Mar 14, 2008
D in soul” and by explaining how The Bourne Ultimatum is one of his favorite movies. In addition to discussing Berlin (”It’s about jealousy and in that sense it’s romantic”) and Julian Schnabel’s live document of the album Reed ripped into the rise of MP3s — “Here’s your song reduced to a pin-drop” “You have a lot available and it all sounds bad. ” He also gave an impromptu spoken-word performance of “Rock Minuet” praised the music of. Dog and Holy Fuck and left the door open for the possibility of full performances of Magic and Loss and Street Hassle although he called the Berlin shows “not an audition” for playing other albums live. A few hours later in the afternoon scads of… The death-metal-gone-prog act played the majority of last year?s Colors which features thrashing and bashing aplenty but also showcases a Mr. Bungle-esque dash of eclecticism and a proficiency that could be described as “tasteful wankery. ” “Ants of the Sky” jumped from soaring guitar solos to a saloon hoedown with banjo before diving right back into the metal grind while set closer “Mordecai” demonstrated the kind of epic melodic finale that most metal bands fear they can only attain by going harder and faster.

… ‘ Hardcore Scenes In Metal File – News Story | Music…
MTV.com – Mar 14, 2008
I think that’s going to be fun. Admittedly though Buechner’s not so sure younger audiences will be as enthusiastic about Earth Crisis’ resurrection — but he’s positive members of the bands that are popular today will be psyched. “ur goal as a band was to write songs that appeal to our taste in music and a lot of other bands to an extent will take elements from groups that inspired them and fuse it into their sound” the singer said without naming names. “Certain bands will sound similar to bands they grew up listening to and that’s almost inevitable. ur goals are the same as they were back in 2001. Hopefully we can make our old fans happy and get some of the younger guys into some of these ideas too. Plus today’s hardcore scene isn’t as vital as it was back when EC cashed their chips in… We here at Metal File don’t usually go the “blind item” route usually because it drives us mad when other news organizations do it. But we’ve heard a rumor that’s too good to pass up — and we can’t be more specific than that. Let’s just say one of the country’s best-known metal acts looks to be parting ways with its major label and plans to return to its original label home in the next few months. We’ll keep you posted and bring you more as it’s made official.

A Ying-Yang Week in Filmland
Boca Raton News – Mar 14, 2008
This one is set in America on Long Island. Ann (Naomi Watts) and George (Tim Roth) are a prosperous young couple off for a vacation with their 9-year-old son Georgie (Devon Gearhart) at their summer home on the water. The ominous mood is heightened when the couple’s playful name-that-opera-tune game is interrupted by a nasty blast of death metal “music. ” When the couple sees some neighbors hanging out with a couple of preppy young men dressed all in white Ann notes they are acting very strangely. In horror films victims never see clues even obvious ones like white gloves on a warm day. The boys in white are a pair of vicious sadistic psychos (Michael Pitt and Brady Corbet) out to terrorize torture and murder for the kick of it.