The News Review:
- Rock fans head to Iowa to recall day music died
- Bringing the sickness back to San Jose
- Never too metal to cry
- Show at Harpos brings together 20 metal bands for one intense night
- Panel wants limits on music at Bradford Beach
Rock fans head to Iowa to recall day music died
The Associated Press
The crash site is on private property a five-mile drive from Clear Lake and half-mile walk off the road. Corn grows high in adjacent fields during the summer but in winter the fields are covered with snow and a path to the small memorial is often thick with ice. The memorial features a small cross and thin metal guitar and records all of which are draped in flowers during the summer. “It’s a much nicer trip in the summer” said Jeff Nicholas a longtime Clear Lake resident who heads the Surf Ballroom’s board of directors. “But in the winter you get more of a feel of what it was like. “No one tracks the number of visitors but fans stop by throughout the year and on some summer days visitors to the crash site can create the oddity of a corn field traffic jam. Stewart said the deaths still resonate because they occurred at a time when rock ‘n’ roll was going through a transition of sorts.
Bringing the sickness back to San Jose
The Spartan Daily CA
Guitarist Dan Donegan plays long and complicated solos that even an untrained ear would appreciate. Donegan also creates the electronic aspects of the Chicago-based band’s music that make it’s songs not easily comparable to other rock band’s. The nu-metal genre which the music of Disturbed falls under draws its influences from classic heavy metal bands such as Metallica. The other featured band Sevendust takes heavy guitar riffs and the sweet melodic vocals of Lajon Witherspoon to create a sound easy on the ears. Their music is both soothing and heavy at the same time. There may be plenty of opportunities to whip out a lighter and sway it back and forth during their songs. Some of their other works are filled with crazy licks that make you want to show off your airguitar skills.
Never too metal to cry
North by Northwestern IL
northbynorthwestern. “Why can’t music be about having a good time?” laments Rourke. Randy the Ram does a good job of summing up the feel-good metal music that was so big in the 80s and 90s. It was about having “nothing but a good time. ” However once in a while these rock stars got a little sad and picked up an acoustic guitar. Such occasions were so rare that they were worthy of their own compilation album (re: Monster Ballads).
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Show at Harpos brings together 20 metal bands for one intense night
Detroit Free Press United States
What other show can a band go to and play and have 19 other bands there that they can talk to?”While Detroit has plenty of metal bands of its own and has seen a few such as the Black Dahlia Murder go on to bigger things the scene hasn’t yet developed a signature sound. What it has done though is spread beyond the metro area to the western side of the state where some kids are eschewing a Warped Tour-style for the more demanding rigors of true metal even if they don’t necessarily appear to have been inspired by mid-’80s Megadeth. “Metal we love it because it’s a really talented kind of music” says Drew Kunkel the drummer for Grand Rapids young metal outfit Look Left Swing Right. “It’s brutal and we love the intensity of it. We all have our different reasons. I started off listening to hardcore alternative rock and then it just kept getting heavier and heavier and it came to this. We love playing music and this is the most intense kind of music we can play.
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Panel wants limits on music at Bradford Beach
TMCnet
Heavy metal music sometimes featuring objectionable lyrics "got so bad it would just blast through our house" Barry said. The new contract bans music with sexually explicit or foul lyrics. Several residents defended the Bradford concession operation saying the firm’s events had helped restore popularity to the beach. The contract requires the firm to make $100000 in improvements to the bathhouse and to pay the county a sales commission of 6% for the first three years and 10% after that. To see more of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel or to subscribe to the newspaper go to.