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- … Showing What Happens When One-Man Bands Bend Metal’s…
- For those about to rock … heavy metal set to be the soundtrack of…
- Travel: Viva Las Vegas for live music
- Reward offered for Gadahn | Inland News | PE.com | Southern California…
- Shoalts: Music to my ears
- History Channel starts classic rock music series
- 35th Annual Topanga Days Fair Announces the First Set of Bands to…
… Showing What Happens When One-Man Bands Bend Metal’s…
New York Times – May 24, 2008
With his Gibson SG and a backing bass track Mr. Barr played portions of his new album “Annwn” (Hydra Head) a long suite of interrelated sections. Like Thrones Ocrilim presents a distorted cartoon of another metal cliché: fast staccato finger-buster music. Barr doesn’t resolve his solo and end it: he keeps going in logical almost baroque development using either chords or just fast patterns on a single string. It’s one long solo played in up-and-down picking but it’s not improvised: it’s composed and memorized. If you knew the record you might not have been surprised and yet his 40-minute set sounded like a near-heroic act of artistic obsession.
For those about to rock … heavy metal set to be the soundtrack of…
Guardian Unlimited – May 24, 2008
“Guitar Hero has had a big impact in bringing these songs to a new generation. iTunes has also had a big effect. However old you are you want to hear the best music” said Paul Brannigan editor of rock magazine Kerrang!The Download festival which began predominantly as a home for a wave of so-called nu-metal acts this year looks more like a retirement home for classic artists. Kiss the US group led by Gene Simmons and famed for their iconic makeup will play their only UK gig of the summer at Donington Park and Birmingham-born heavy metal pioneers Judas Priest will play their first gig there since Monsters of Rock in 1980. “It’s suddenly very cool whereas before people wouldn’t dare admit to liking this music” said Andy Copping vice-president music at concert promoter Live Nation. “More and more people want to relive what they were doing 25 years ago and it’s really taking off for these 1980s acts. For the most part these bands are just unbelievably good live – they put on big big shows… The setlist will concentrate on the band’s 1980s albums and feature a set design inspired by the 1984 release Powerslave. Artists nervously eyeing sliding CD sales have recently alighted upon band-related merchandise and touring as revenue generators that might fill the gap. But heavy metal bands have long relied on those twin income streams to survive away from the mainstream. Copping said some made more from merchandise than ticket sales. “If you take a band like Iron Maiden you can go anywhere in the world and you’ll see their skeletal mascot Eddie on T-shirts on everyone from five to 50″ said Brannigan whose magazine is planning a tribute CD with versions of Iron Maiden songs by more recent acts to coincide with their July concert. He draws a distinction between artists like Iron Maiden and Metallica who are still attracting new fans and the likes of Def Leppard and Whitesnake who appeal mainly to their original audiences. Meat Loaf the singer best known for his Bat Out of Hell trilogy of albums is also planning to tour this summer.
Travel: Viva Las Vegas for live music
Vail Daily News – May 24, 2008
They’ll be tearing the roof off the House of Blues. Guitarist Brian Patton said their Vegas show isn’t one to miss. “If you like rock and you like metal hopefully you’ll like us. If you haven’t [heard us] by all means check us out. Live is way better than the studio for us” Patton said. Rock ‘n’ roll holiday The weekend of June 13 might be scary if you aren’t a Reginald Dwight fan (Elton John if you didn’t know) as he rocks the Colosseum at Caesar’s Palace Friday night. Your other option is actor Jason Schwartzman’s band Phantom Planet… There’s always something going on there; it’s just a fun town. I’ve played there quite a few times from the big rodeo they have to some of the casinos with guys like Trace Adkins” Aldean said. Also on June 21: Gnarls Barkley goes crazy for the Outernational Music Festival at Mandalay Bay Beach and the UFC Ultimate Fighter show takes place at the Pearl Concert Theatre. Bette shares more than a feeling Some might say that the best was saved for the final weekend of June though. The Divine Miss M Bette Midler is headlining Caesars Palace on Friday June 27. That same night Smash Mouth plays the Hard Rock; Social D front man and quintessential Vegas rocker Mike Ness plays the House of Blues. Mike Ness said he always looks forward to playing Vegas since it was one of the few places that let Social Distortion play back in the day.
Reward offered for Gadahn | Inland News | PE.com | Southern California…
Press-Enterprise – May 24, 2008
The family had Muslim friends and his father slaughtered animals in accordance with Islamic dietary law. Gadahn and his siblings were home-schooled which exposed them to "fundamentalist Christianity" he wrote. Blames Heavy Metal Gadahn said relations with his parents became strained because of his obsession with "demonic Heavy Metal music" and because he ignored personal cleanliness. He moved to Orange County to live with his grandparents. Using his grandmother’s Internet connection he started to read about Islam and was intrigued. "Having been around Muslims in my formative years I knew well that they were not the bloodthirsty barbaric terrorists that the news media and the televangelists paint them to be" he wrote. Gadahn went to the Islamic Society of Orange County in Garden Grove and converted to Islam.
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Shoalts: Music to my ears
Globe and Mail – May 24, 2008
Not even the sports writer’s favourite word – free – would move them. “Who’s Solomon Burke?” said Pierre LeBrun of The Canadian Press. Since LeBrun was raised in the Northern Ontario music hot beds of Hearst and North Bay and thinks ’80s metal is the height of musical achievement I shrugged it off. But the same question came from famed boulevardier Michael Farber of Sports Illustrated. That Farber a man who spends his days and nights swanning about the salons and bistros in his Montreal base would profess ignorance of Burke was astounding. I know Burke was always more revered within the music industry than the general public but this was too much.
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History Channel starts classic rock music series
Daily News & Analysis – May 24, 2008
The channel will kick off the rock fiesta with a capsule on Metallica’s classic album “Black” which grabbed headlines in the 1980s. The group was billed as the world’s biggest thrash metal band serving music that was faster and louder than anything that mainstream western music had ever heard. A documentary June 12 will probe the making of U2′s classic album “Joshua Tree” and a behind-the-scene movie on the iconic 1973 Pink Floyd album “The Dark Side of the Moon” will be telecast June 19. A documentary on Jimi Hendrix’s “Electric Ladybird” will be aired June 26. Other episodes according to the History Channel will include those on Elvis Presley Rolling Stones The Doors The Who Queen Deep Purple and Santana. Home | After Hrs 0 Latest in After Hrs: I will strip for a film: Emma Watson Hudson returns to work after family tragedy Winslet learns to live with her imperfections Will Parvathy win the Miss World crown? India no longer cheap shopping destination: Ritu Kumar.
35th Annual Topanga Days Fair Announces the First Set of Bands to…
PR.com – PR.com (press release) – May 24, 2008
Confirmed musical acts performing on the two stages include Chevy Metal (Foo Fighters’ Taylor Hawkins) Jim Lauderdale & The Dream Players (feat. James Burton & Al Perkins) Jonathan Rice Brian Wright & The Waco Tragedies Shurman Gary Louris The Living Sisters (feat. Inara George Eleni Mandell and Becky Stark) Tim Easton and many others… Situated in an idyllic canyon within the beautiful Santa Monica Mountains just 6 miles north of Pacific Coast Highway and 6 miles south of Ventura Blvd. Topanga Days is a short journey and welcome respite from the daily grind of life in a sprawling metropolis. As Topanga Days 2008 celebrates its 35th anniversary the festival promises to be better than ever. Confirmed musical acts performing on the two stages include Chevy Metal (Foo Fighters’ Taylor Hawkins) Jim Lauderdale & The Dream Players (feat. James Burton & Al Perkins) Jonathan Rice Brian Wright & The Waco Tragedies Shurman Gary Louris The Living Sisters (feat. Inara George Eleni Mandell and Becky Stark) Tim Easton and many others.