The News Review:

- RESTAURANT REVIEW | IPPUDO NY
- Reading goalkeeper Marcus Hahnemann relishing the pressure
- Cetan Clawson: “I just opened up the boundaries…” (MT…
- Music’s online options
- Native American healer cures Testament

RESTAURANT REVIEW | IPPUDO NY
New York Times – Apr 30, 2008
The restaurant is shaped like a horseshoe. You enter through the bar area at the top left of the U (where you cool your heels for a while waiting for a table unless you go on a weekday for lunch). Then you walk through a hallway into the main dining room where shouting cooks work in an open kitchen adding to the visual chaos and to the cacophony of the nu-metal music blaring through a tinny sound system. Round the corner is a narrow hallwaylike space with some extra tables: ramenya Siberia. Siberia or not loathsome music or (preferably) not the soup is always on point: the noodles are always cooked right and the tonkotsu broth is unwaveringly flavor-packed. Ippudo NY65 Fourth Avenue (Ninth Street) East Village (212) 388-0088. BEST DISHES Shiomaru NY ramen; akamaru modern ramen; tofu hot pot.

Reading goalkeeper Marcus Hahnemann relishing the pressure
Times Online – Apr 30, 2008
Not though Marcus Hahnemann the Reading goalkeeper. Like most custodians of repute Hahnemann veers towards the strange side ofnormal. The gunowning heavy-metal music addict and Xbox-devotee fromSeattle in the United States shatters the mould of the average stereotypicalcliché-ridden footballer. For him Reading’s plight near the foot of theBarclays Premier League with two matches to go is a veritable high. Thematch against Tottenham Hotspur at the Madejski Stadium on Saturday is to beeagerly awaited not feared. “All of a sudden the 38-game season is down to just two games” Hahnemannsaid.

Cetan Clawson: “I just opened up the boundaries…” (MT…
Detroit Metro Times – Apr 30, 2008
When you get on a stage you want to look your best. You want to look how you sound. We’ve played with some metal bands that’ve shown up with chains. Some people are like ‘Hah hah look at them!’ But it’s like no! They’re trying to look how they sound! So I gotta hand it to them. Besides I try not to dis anybody. There’s too much dissing going on in the music scene. “On that front Clawson’s seen some dissing himself… Some people are like ‘Hah hah look at them!’ But it’s like no! They’re trying to look how they sound! So I gotta hand it to them. Besides I try not to dis anybody. There’s too much dissing going on in the music scene. “On that front Clawson’s seen some dissing himself. He’s been accused of “guitar wankery” on a few of the local blogs a criticism he simply laughs off. “We’ve dealt with every type of critic and fan at this point in time” he says. “It’s some people’s thing; others just don’t dig it.

Music’s online options
Globe and Mail – Apr 30, 2008
“The band’s been out of sight for a while they need something to generate some excitement” Cross said noting that it takes a lot to stand out amid the hundreds of thousands of other music releases. “They need to shout very loud in a crowded marketplace in a year that there’s going to be a lot of rock records. ”Coldplay’s Internet freebie comes on the heels of an apparent change of heart by Metallica heavy-metal rockers notorious for their heavy-handed approach to file-sharing fans. In 2000 the band filed a lawsuit that ultimately helped kill the file-sharing program Napster but earlier this month drummer Lars Ulrich told Rolling Stone magazine the band was eyeing the Internet in a new light as they prepared to release their ninth disc. Ulrich was quoted by the music publication as saying they’ve been watching Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor and are “looking forward to everything in terms of possibilities with the Internet. ”The comments have sent the blogosphere buzzing with anticipation with several observers pointing out that Metallica has just one more album under their contract with Warner. Once freed from their label EMI Radiohead released a digital version of its album “In Rainbows” last October and invited fans to download it for whatever price they felt was fair.

Native American healer cures Testament
SF Weekly – Apr 30, 2008
FerrisSpiritual themes have been part of Testament’s music since its 1987 debut The Legacy. In 1994 Low balanced death-metal dabbling with a six-minute ballad “Trail of Tears” a song lamenting the bloody destruction of Billy’s Native American culture. His father grew up on a Pomo reservation but Billy was only vaguely aware of his heritage. He now says Native American traditions saved his life. In 2000 a friend randomly introduced Billy to a Native American medicine man.