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- Lou Reed: Still not afraid to grate
- … Tommy Lee’s Status In Metal File – News Story | Music…
- Keith Anderson | Music Artist | Videos News Photos & Ringtones…
- Pop and Rock Listings
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Lou Reed: Still not afraid to grate
News & bserver – Apr 25, 2008
Peder Zane & Danny HooleyComment on this story Lou Reed: Still not afraid to grateWay back in 1975 Lou Reed put out one of the most perverse albums of all time. Titled “Metal Machine Music” it consisted of a bit more than an hour of screeching feedback spread over four vinyl sides. Last year Reed put out an album that is either the evil or kinder gentler twin of “Metal Machine Music. ” Titled “Hudson River Wind Meditations” (Sounds True Music) it consisted of a bit more than an hour of increasingly grating ambience. Visceral impact aside these albums actually have a lot in common. Each consists of four tracks of “music” and each is utterly confounding in a not-very-pleasant way.

… Tommy Lee’s Status In Metal File – News Story | Music…
MTV.com – Apr 25, 2008
At the time the news first broke — by way of a lawsuit the band had filed against its former manager which stated “Lee recently informed [bassist Nikki] Sixx and [guitarist Mick] Mars that he was resigning from the band and his resignation was accepted” — the Crüe’s representatives would neither confirm nor deny Lee’s ouster. So ever since like most of the band’s fans we’d simply assumed Lee was done with the Crüe — that perhaps spinning records as a celebrity DJ was more his speed. Considering all this Metal File must admit we were awfully confused by Lee’s appearance with the band last week in Los Angeles when the boys revealed their upcoming. So when we had the opportunity to sit down with the band following the press conference we just had to ask: What’s the deal with Tommy?f course the Crüe have been in the rock and roll game long enough (make that 27 years) to know how to dodge a few questions — which is precisely what they did. “You know it’s so funny” started Sixx whose side project Sixx:A… “While all our spineless contemporaries reach for the stars we’ve returned to our roots” guitarist Justin Brannan said in a statement. “The new songs are short fast hard and mean. We wrote an album to remind us of the stuff we grew up on the music that got us into hardcore when we were teenagers. We harnessed that raw energy and power the unbridled passion of those days at CBGB and basements and VFW halls across the country sleeping on concrete floors and shoplifting for fun back when it felt like you were really part of something different. We’ve checked the rock and roll ambitions and delusional fantasies at the door and wrote a hardcore record like only we knew how.

Keith Anderson | Music Artist | Videos News Photos & Ringtones…
MTV.com – Apr 25, 2008
He started writing country songs and envisioned himself as country music star but he was getting more attention for his baseball-playing skills so much so that the Kansas City Royals approached him after one of his high-school games. A shoulder injury ended his baseball career but his physical rehabilitation program led to an interest in bodybuilding which led to him becoming the runner-up in the Mr. klahoma contest and eventually a part-time catalog model. After moving to Dallas Anderson hit the local nightclub stages while working various day jobs. Writing ad jingles for local radio became his first paying gig in music.
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Pop and Rock Listings
New York Times – Apr 25, 2008
AMERICAN MUSIC CLUB (Saturday and Sunday) Mark Eitzel’s husky weary voice holds the complete anatomy of melancholy and his band American Music Club ranges through genres to flesh out his every bleak mood from bristling cynicism to wistful ballad to folky introspection. Music Hall of Williamsburg 66 North Sixth Street Brooklyn (718) 486-5400. com; $15 in advance $17 at the door… It’s going out with a bang in what’s billed as its final world tour. Sharing the bill is Meshuggah the unstoppable Swedish thrash band whose high-speed songs flaunt the complexities of math-rock.

Jazz Listings
New York Times – Apr 25, 2008
Cornelia Street Café 29 Cornelia Street West Village (212) 989-9319 corneliastreetcafe. com; cover $10 to $12 with a one-drink minimum. (Chinen)SAMBA JAZZ AND THE MUSIC F JBIM (Tuesday through Thursday) This tribute to the great Brazilian composer Antonio Carlos Jobim features vocals by one of his former collaborators (Maucha Adnet) as well as a would-be inheritor (Chico Pinheiro). But the main draw is a cosmopolitan Brazilian-jazz ensemble consisting of the pianist Helio Alves the drummer Duduka da Fonseca the trumpeter Claudio Roditi and the bassist Eddie Gomez. ) At 7:30 and 9:30 p… com; cover $20 with a $10 minimum. (Chinen)WHPIE PIE (Saturday) The keyboardist Jamie Saft the tenor saxophonist Bill McHenry and the drummer Mike Pride make up Whoopie Pie a doom-metal-steeped enterprise with a new self-titled album on Mr. Saft’s Veal label. the Stone Avenue C and Second Street East Village thestonenyc.