The News Review:

- New Music From Animal Collective Houston Person with Ron Carter…
- Music to Excrete By
- n the Beat: David Menconi on music
- Coachella festival casts a wider Net
- The Gauntlet :: – Heavy Metal – News – Videos – Ringtones – mp3s -…
- Gang culture rife in schools

New Music From Animal Collective Houston Person with Ron Carter…
New York Times – Apr 27, 2008
“I want to be like water” sings Avey Tare on that opener the title track invoking potions streams and an “ocean of drool. ” Then on the beautifully warbled ballad “Street Flash” the band’s other singer Panda Bear sings soothingly against a sampled backdrop of disquieting cackles. There are many outside appropriations in this music — the chorus of “Cobweb” is harmonized in a South African vocal style — but the end results feel like a new thing altogether which is clearly the point. (“Water Curses” is due out on Domino on May 6; the title track can be heard now at. ) Houston Person with Ron CarterThe tenor saxophonist Houston Person and the bassist Ron Carter jazz sages in their 70s have recorded memorably as a duo before more than a decade ago… Carter fills the open space with his sound. Together they make this an easeful and beautiful record of a sort you don’t hear much anymore. StebmoSteve Moore a keyboardist and trombonist from Seattle has a higher profile in the jam-band indie-folk and doom-metal subcultures than in any jazz circle except maybe the one in his hometown. That’s because of the company he keeps; touring and recording with Skerik Laura Veirs and Sunn 0))) will have that effect on a career. (At the moment he’s on tour with Earth a drone band due to appear Tuesday at the Knitting Factory. ) “Stebmo” (Southern Lord) Mr. Moore’s debut produced by Tucker Martine should alter perceptions at least a tiny bit.

Music to Excrete By
Seattle Post Intelligencer – Apr 27, 2008
I collect music and I collect music collections. I even have collections of music collections. I have so many playlists (200+) on my Mac that they are organized like essay outlines.

n the Beat: David Menconi on music
News & bserver – Apr 27, 2008
“You’re supposed to say Daddy’s song is your favorite!” Amy says laughing. But one way or another all 18 tracks on “Songs for Sixty Five Roses” are her father’s songs. John Plymale a mainstay of the Triangle music scene for 25 years recruited people he has worked with as a performer and a producer to contribute songs to the project. Subtitled “Re-Working the North Carolina Jukebox” the album features North Carolina acts covering North Carolina songs from Portastatic Southern Culture on the Skids and other veterans to newer acts such as Tift Merritt and Claire Holley. The album spins out a web of connections Plymale forged in a career that began well before Chapel Hill was touted as “the next Seattle” in the early 1990s. Consider the Portastatic strand. Plymale first hit the stage in the early 1980s as part of the Pressure Boys a horn-accented ska-rock band years ahead of its time… ‘ ” “Every Word Means No” was written by Mitch Easter who recorded it with Let’s Active in 1983. Easter also produced the Pressure Boys’ first album “Jump! Jump! Jump!” n “Sixty Five Roses” “Every Word Means No” is performed by former Archers of Loaf leader Eric Bachmann — who records for Merge Records the label co-owned by McCaughan and Superchunk bassist Laura Ballance. And “Daddy’s song”? Plymale sings the garage pop number “Mister Flavor” by Metal Flake Mother whose members included guitarist Jimbo Mathus. Mathus went on to found the popular hot jazz ensemble Squirrel Nut Zippers another Plymale production client. It all connects up. ### Reaching out Ask a child to say “cystic fibrosis” and what comes out is “sixty-five roses. ” Hence the album title “Songs for Sixty Five Roses.

Coachella festival casts a wider Net
USA Today – Apr 27, 2008
— The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival kicked off an American summer music festival season last weekend that didn’t exist when it was founded nine years ago. Coachella based here 140 miles east of Los Angeles isn’t as old or as big as the ongoing New rleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. But it was the first major destination music festival to focus on music found on the Internet instead of radio… it was too hot for the crowd to connect with anything cerebral. •Best installation art: Art creates the Coachella vibe and one of the most popular pieces this year was the Big Rig Jig a giant piece built by seven artists for the annual Burning Man gathering in Nevada. Two big rigs were joined by a giant metal tube with one cab hanging upside down as if it were leaning to kiss the other cab. •Best free entertainment: Coachella brought a little Cirque du Soleil-style entertainment as Lucent Dossier presented acrobatics choreographed dancing and even a little burlesque-type costumed comedy. •Musical highlights: The Black Kids lived up to their Internet hype with a fresh vibrant sound — like The Cure on happy pills. The Raconteurs ably showcased new album Consolers of the Lonely. Portishead gave a deeply personal finely sculptured electronic performance.

The Gauntlet :: – Heavy Metal – News – Videos – Ringtones – mp3s -…
The Gauntlet – Apr 27, 2008
Bilocate would like to give their gratitude to Christphe for his outstanding work & efforts in creating Bilocate’s new great logo. Ramzi Essayed (Vocalist) commented: “it was a challenge for the band to have our vision & music translated into a single identity in front of the music world but working with such a talented creative & amazing artist like Christphe made it happen A true lord of logos indeed. A humble artist which I never dealt with such before. special thanks from me & Bilocate members to Christophe”.

Gang culture rife in schools
NEWS.com.au – Apr 27, 2008
The guys love them but they’re called Plastics because they’re so false. "The female schoolgirl obsession with good looks surfaced last week at St Patrick’s College in Mackay where students had ranked themselves from 1 to 21 – they write the number on their wrists – as part of Club 21 or Big 21. Gothics are identified by their dark clothing and heavy-metal taste in music and Emos (from "emotion") by being sensitive introverted types obsessed with depressing rock bands. But it is the group stealing the US gangsta-style culture with its love of violent rap music which students fear the most. A gang of suburban teenagers armed with bats machetes and a sword stormed a school assembly at Sydney’s Merrylands High School early this month injuring 18 students and a teacher. Queensland students told The Sunday Mail they were aware of similar gang members carrying pocket knives around secondary schools in southeast Queensland. "They all have baggy clothing they’re all bling they have the hats with the stiff shades worn backwards and the pants around their knees showing their undies" the 18-year-old said.