The News Review:

- Music Review – Pianist Bruce Brubaker Gives Modern Pieces a Clasical…
- Dallas rock star insurer issues policies for events
- BIG-$$ TUNNEL OF KINKY LOVE
- The Nothing – A Warm Gun

Music Review – Pianist Bruce Brubaker Gives Modern Pieces a Clasical…
New York Times – Jun 7, 2008
Duckworth’s “Time Curve Preludes” composed in 1978 and 1979 have been cited as the starting point for post-Minimalism: music that takes its lead from the diatonic tonality and repetitive rhythms of Minimalism but deviates in matters of duration and style. What unites these 24 succinct pieces are the harmonic drones that ring and ripple quietly throughout each created by placing metal weights on bass keys. But each prelude has its own profile. Brubaker played — Nos. 1 2 5 6 and 11 all from Book 1 — suggested the coruscating spirals of gamelan Debussy’s luminous mystery Ligeti’s prickly intensity and more.

Dallas rock star insurer issues policies for events
Dallas Morning News – Jun 7, 2008
Chippendale chuckles. "That’s followed with: ‘Why?’ " Charlie Walker an owner of Austin-based C3 Presents a major independent promoter hires CSI to provide insurance and risk management for two of the country’s largest music festivals Austin City Limits and Chicago’s Lollapalooza which each draw 250000 attendees. Coverage which costs several hundred thousand dollars annually includes event cancellation equipment workers’ compensation general liability and liquor liability. "CSI actually gets involved in our business" says Mr. "It helps us not only select the best coverage but more importantly reduce our exposure through best practices… It can be as little as 15 cents a head for a classical concert up to $1. 50 a head for a hip-hop heavy metal or rap show. "In heavy metal you’ve got crowd-surfing and stage-diving issues" Mr. "Occurrences [read that trouble] at hip-hop and rap concerts usually happen in the parking lot after the event. " The much tamer George Strait and Kenny Chesney tours in 2003 and the Dixie Chicks in 2002 ran about 25 cents a pop. Two catastrophes propelled his event insurance growth.
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BIG-$$ TUNNEL OF KINKY LOVE
New York Post – Jun 7, 2008
He gave millions of his new wealth to philanthropic interests – and spent even more on himself buying a red Ferrari and a black Lamborghini along with a Harley-Davidson motorcycle. He flies around on two leased private planes. He's a fan of heavy-metal group Metallica as well as Linkin Park and Orgy – whom he hired to play at his 40th birthday bash at his mansion. His arrogance and penchant for partying and blasting loud music hasn't endeared him to the neighbors. One neighbor recently told the Los Angeles Times that the parties are at "the Dennis Rodman stage" in terms of excess and debauchery… He flies around on two leased private planes. He's a fan of heavy-metal group Metallica as well as Linkin Park and Orgy – whom he hired to play at his 40th birthday bash at his mansion. His arrogance and penchant for partying and blasting loud music hasn't endeared him to the neighbors. One neighbor recently told the Los Angeles Times that the parties are at "the Dennis Rodman stage" in terms of excess and debauchery.

The Nothing – A Warm Gun
nzherald.co.nz – Jun 7, 2008
While he might have subsumed himself in the band name multimedia wonderboy Knox is still the voice and songs of the outfit. And as he bounces through the 12 tracks sounding like a man still in a youthful first flush of rock fervour – not one nearly 30 years and 20 albums or EPs into a music career – it’s hard not to get caught up in Knox’s natural exuberance. Or when he delivers that trademark yelp – surely something that should get its own tribute on an upcoming episode of Rocked the Nation – it’s a reminder that the old boy still knows how to make this stuff sound like fun. Even when it’s heading a bit glum in the lyric department. And as ever it’s as catchy as all get-out too whether it’s the yelp-happy All I Want is You (even when it gets rhythmically out of sorts towards the end) the amusingly metal Empty the jagged scathing-wit ballads Song Of The Tall Poppy and Out of the Abyss or the grim failed-relationship portrait that Knox’s words draw in She’s Leaving Him. But there’s room too for another devotional love song – echoing his classic Not Given Lightly – on In My Heart… Or when he delivers that trademark yelp – surely something that should get its own tribute on an upcoming episode of Rocked the Nation – it’s a reminder that the old boy still knows how to make this stuff sound like fun. Even when it’s heading a bit glum in the lyric department. And as ever it’s as catchy as all get-out too whether it’s the yelp-happy All I Want is You (even when it gets rhythmically out of sorts towards the end) the amusingly metal Empty the jagged scathing-wit ballads Song Of The Tall Poppy and Out of the Abyss or the grim failed-relationship portrait that Knox’s words draw in She’s Leaving Him. But there’s room too for another devotional love song – echoing his classic Not Given Lightly – on In My Heart. And as always Knox the rockologist pays due reverence to his Fab forbears on that title (a reference which also cropped up on the last Nothing album) and on Then She Exploded which comes with a barrage of string crescendos seemingly copped from the famous end of A Day in the Life. It’s a grand touch to an album that might not have his name on it but is one of Knox’s better sets. Russell Baillie Comments Submit a comment.