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- n the Beat: David Menconi on music
- The Billboard Q&A: Nikki Sixx
- ‘Smokey Joe’s Cafe’: Same ld Same ldies
- Life can be so sweet

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MTV.com – Apr 12, 2008
In 1999 guitarist Punch unexpectedly announced his decision to retire from music and Ben Stout one of Falgoust’s bandmates in Goatwhore was recruited to fill in his slot. With this new lineup intact the follow-up to Sewn Mouth entitled A Deleted Symphony for the Beaten Down was recorded in 2000 and scheduled for release in the summer of 2001. ~ William York All Music Guide.

n the Beat: David Menconi on music
News & bserver – Apr 12, 2008
He turned out to be the perfect drummer for “Yankee Hotel Foxtrot” and its uneven-but-fascinating 2004 follow-up “A Ghost Is Born. ” Kotche is also the drummer-of-record on Wilco’s current live album “Kicking Television” (Nonesuch Records). ### The mind wanders If you took the most eccentric songs from “Ghost” and “Yankee” — the metal-machine-music tones of “Less Than You Think” or the majestic sweep of “Poor Places” — and distilled them down to their rhythmic essence you would have something like Kotche’s new instrumental solo album “Mobile” (Nonesuch Records). Kotche’s third solo album “Mobile” is a fascinating synthesis of contemporary classical music African poly-rhythms and industrial-rock sonics. It also neatly demonstrates the rhythmic and textural qualities he brings to Wilco. “Reductions or Imitations” is extrapolated from Kotche’s drumbeats on two specific songs Wilco’s “Ghost” track “The Late Greats” and Minus Five’s “What I Don’t Believe” (from 2003′s cheekily titled “Down With Wilco”). ther songs hint at the influence of Steve Reich Laurie Anderson and Nigerian rhythmatist Tony Allen.

The Billboard Q&A: Nikki Sixx
Billboard – Apr 12, 2008
” Here Sixx talks with Billboard about his newest gig dirty rock’n'roll and what’s up with the Crue. Also check out an exclusive video from Chosen Son and a song stream from Trapt below. What makes being a label president appealing to you? CM8ShowAd(“Middle”); Nikki Sixx: They say the music you listen to in your formative years stays with you and leaves an impression for the rest of your life. For me the things that I fell in love with happened in the ’70s when artists were nurtured by record companies and it wasn’t about singles. It was about bodies of work an album. If you go back and look at it artists would break on like the second single third album. Bands don’t have that opportunity now… If you’re writing a song that is about an edgy subject and you feel it then write it. Don’t worry about format. There are formats out there whether you’re heavy metal or whether you’re a pop artist that wants to say something. Is there any news on the new Motley Crue album?It’s just about finished. I’ve got to tell you I’ve been writing songs for a long time and there’s something magical on this record. You make records and you do the very best that you can do and you like them. And then sometimes you listen back and you go “You know about 50% of that album was really magical and 50% was just kinda jammin’ and rock’n'rollin and it was cool.

‘Smokey Joe’s Cafe’: Same ld Same ldies
Washington Post – Apr 12, 2008
" The songs are for the most part agreeable the five-piece band plays capably and before you know it the music stops and the lights come up. The marquee show in a Carnival cruise nightclub does come to mind at times. The set — a pair of rolling metal staircases and several floor-to-ceiling panels of fabric that lurch uncertainly back and forth — looks very flimsy. Hillary Paul’s costumes for the cast of nine appear to be a blend of glitter and cheese; in "Jailhouse Rock" the singers are swathed in sparkly prison uniforms. Sporadically too black-and-white images are projected onto the movable panels and perhaps because of how the light is hitting them they often look dingy and washed out. A case of sameness infects much of the choreography although the oddest out-of-the-box choice comes in “Shoppin’ for Clothes” an effort at sartorial slapstick that proves to be er unsuitable. ne cannot fault the cast for its eagerness or for its ability to harmonize… Some of them might be better equipped for the demands of "Les Miz" than "Yakety Yak. "Smokey Joe’s Cafe music and lyrics by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. Directed and choreographed by Chet Walker. Music direction Josh Tuckman; set John Whiteman; lighting Jason Livingston; sound C. With Emilee Dupre John Ashley Brown Teren Carter Jasmin Walker Erich McMillan- McCall Jennifer Byrne Alexander Elisa Miles Johnson.

Life can be so sweet
NEWS.com.au – Apr 12, 2008
The couple are storytellers in song and they’re storytellers between them. They have the crowd in stitches then hit them with a song that’s raw heartbreaking. Australian music impresario Michael Gudinski who has signed Chambers and Nicholson to his label says he should put out their comedy album next. He’s also the guy who said he’d never put out a country record. Until he heard these songs. The crowd doesn’t know the material – the album is not released for another week – but clearly they are in turns charmed and thrilled with the new songs. It’s like a walk through the classic alt-country songbook: the ominous mystery of the title song; the trad country two-step of Most of the album was co-written by them but Chambers introduces a song called "It’s the most beautiful song I’ve heard in my life" Chambers beams at the audience… "You’d had a few drinks. And I was ‘hhhh he Later when they found themselves single again friendship and musical affinity brought them closer and closer. Nicholson who began his career playing hard rock and metal followed a more melodic path by the time he was signed to the Warner label with his band Pretty Violet Stain. The company liked them enough to send them to the UK to record their debut album with some big-budget producers although not enough to do much to promote Something of a perfectionist in the studio Nicholson finally settled on Nash Chambers to produce his solo debut He liked Copacabana. The place reminded him of Redcliffe. And one day he let his place go in Sydney and never went back. Through the Nash connection Nicholson went out as a support act to Kasey Chambers in Australia and on tour in the US.