The News Review:

- … On ‘Desperate’ Album In Metal File – News Story |…
- A different kind of democracy
- Comments on ‘Electrosticky droid boffin in spider-gecko tech bitchslap…
- 5/26: Iron Maiden
- Business School: ‘Iron man’ wears many hats
- Eurovision soft diplomacy heals rifts and builds pride
- Spare Times: For Children

… On ‘Desperate’ Album In Metal File – News Story |…
MTV.com – May 23, 2008
Danish death-metal act Compos Mentis have been working on material for their next LP which they’ll start tracking June 23 with Christian Bonde. Lyrically the band said the disc will “be centered around the parish pump and different moments in Danish history as well as various aspects of a ‘typical’ Danish mentality.

A different kind of democracy
San Francisco Chronicle – May 23, 2008
tmpl –>The never-ending presidential campaign is enough to overload anyone’s senses. The themes and messages are mind-numbingly discombobulated – race class flag lapel pins NAFTA bowling photo-ops Iraq and of course endless promises of “real change. ” It is like the head-pounding noise of bad heavy metal music but the subliminal message isn’t a satanic code – it’s one telling us that presidential campaigns are always the most important arenas of democracy.

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Register – May 23, 2008
I’m off to listen to some of that new electrosticky music that the NME is about to feature. sticky robots By Stef Posted Friday 23rd May 2008 14:27 GMT… The same technique would work on this but for a different reason — electrosticky won’t stick to conductors. Watch out for metal bands around sensitive buildings. Yeh! Yeh! But does it.

5/26: Iron Maiden
AZ Central.com – May 23, 2008
“In the last few years it’s been teenagers from 14 15 upward to the mid-20s” says Murray 49. “The people who came to see us in 1985 are probably in the back. “Iron Maiden is definitely one of the innovators of the metal scene. I see a lot of kids come in here and I hear them playing a lot of the really heavy current stuff. But I also hear them pulling out stuff like Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath. ” Schwab theorizes that some of the young players were raised by metal-loving parents or discovered Maiden – named after a medieval torture device – through friends.

Business School: ‘Iron man’ wears many hats
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Pittsburgh Post Gazette – May 23, 2008
It’s OK if you think the guy looks like a punk guitarist with his scouring pad beard mussed-up hair and tattooed extremities. Because having played in a couple of local bands (you never heard of Shay’s Rebellion? Choke City?) Peter Lambert is in fact a bit of a punk guitarist. But it’s not his best instrument — for a virtuoso heavy-metal performance you ought to see him rock out with a hammer and anvil. He’s a rock star of a blacksmith so much as that sort of thing is possible designing and fabricating high-end wine cellars fireplace screens cocktail tables for the rich and famous or in many cases the merely rich. He and his team of metal workers built the ubiquitous “three rivers” bike racks that can be seen all over the city the decorative metal grapevines behind the bar at Sonoma Grille the boat racks on the North Shore riverfront. In other words you’ve probably seen his work — without realizing it — if you’ve ever eaten out walked through Downtown or frankly left your house in the past five years (or intend to leave it in the next 50). “That’s one of the great things about iron work… Lambert through a friend. “Pete he’s a good businessman but he’s a creative guy — half hipster-slacker and half hard-nosed ‘We’re really going to make this work as a business. ‘”Thanks to his own music roots and the acquaintances he’s made through office manager and Mr. Roboto Project creator Mike Q. Lambert has been able to tap the progressive community of artists actors “scrubby graffiti kid” punk rockers and food-co-op-shopper-types for ideas and creative energy — but not always for paying clients. “Pittsburgh has an incredible arts community.
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Eurovision soft diplomacy heals rifts and builds pride
NEWS.com.au – May 23, 2008
"It takes a tremendous amount of courage to be an artist in this contest honestly" said Poland’s Isis Gee after qualifying to the final. "I feel like God is really watching over me. "Philip Bohlman professor of Music at the University of Chicago said individuals and nations are attracted to the aspects of national and nationalist expression in Eurovision. "Sometimes national means sounding like folk music at other times projecting something more political even aesthetic like Lordi’s victory in 2006 for Finland a country with an extremely sophisticated metal culture. " Bohlman said. "The massive television audience for the finale is probably the single event in which the largest number of Europeans gather to witness the complexities and differences in their common identity. "PRIDE AND PREDJUDICESMusic has always had close links to cultural identity and nationalism… "I feel like God is really watching over me. "Philip Bohlman professor of Music at the University of Chicago said individuals and nations are attracted to the aspects of national and nationalist expression in Eurovision. "Sometimes national means sounding like folk music at other times projecting something more political even aesthetic like Lordi’s victory in 2006 for Finland a country with an extremely sophisticated metal culture. " Bohlman said. "The massive television audience for the finale is probably the single event in which the largest number of Europeans gather to witness the complexities and differences in their common identity. "PRIDE AND PREDJUDICESMusic has always had close links to cultural identity and nationalism. When nation states started emerging in the 19th century composers created national music by merging the folk heritage of their people into pan-European classical forms.
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Spare Times: For Children
New York Times – May 23, 2008
This Alice travels with an iPod and the music to which the actors sometimes dance and lip-sync often reflects the general absurdity. Although the company recommends the staging for ages 4 and older the language and the running time (close to two hours with one intermission) may be challenges for anyone under 6. As Alice learns if you really want to explore Wonderland you must be willing to lose your head completely. (Saturday and Sunday at 3 p… Advance tickets: $100; $50 for children. CLOISTERS FAMILY FESTIVAL (Saturday and Sunday) Children can learn all about the metal (and mettle) of the Middle Ages in this celebration at the Cloisters the medieval branch of the.