The News Review:
- U2′s ‘No Line on the Horizon’: Three stars
- As Mardi Gras Rages New rleans’ Music Scene Struggles to Recover
- UNDER THE SCPE: Cancer Bats’ lead singer chats about tour
- Where’s college radio headed?
- New metal imitators set out to pillage music scene
U2′s ‘No Line on the Horizon’: Three stars
Los Angeles Times CA -
" As the writer and Roxy Music biographer Michael Bracewell has noted the approach Eno would develop in that band and as a mastermind of art rock centers on devising formulas that "reconfigure subject concept material purpose and process" — methods for drawing lines around the "nothing" experience of random sound or half-formed self-expression and giving it meaning. r to put it another way tools for finding lines on the horizon. A decade later teenage guitarist David Evans developed a nickname — the Edge. It suited the sound he was creating with the band he’d signed on to for life.
As Mardi Gras Rages New rleans’ Music Scene Struggles to Recover
Rolling Stone -
But due to a number of factors includingthe cost and bureaucratic nightmare posed by the Road Home RecoveryProgram many homeowners are still unable to rebuild or repairtheir houses and lives. The city’s musician population is similarly back to nearly 75percent of its former self and it still shows the damage ofKatrina’s floodwaters. The heavy metal scene has largely goneunderground since its clubhouse the Dixie Tavern in Mid-City wasflooded and lost. The Rebirth Brass Band and the Hot 8 Brass Bandsuffered Katrina-related tragedies. Terrell Batiste of the Hot 8was crippled during the evacuation when his car broke down on anAtlanta freeway and he was hit while trying to change the flat. Drummer Dinerral Shavers was killed by a bullet intended forsomeone else. Rebirth’s Kerwin James suffered a stroke that friendsand family attributed to the stress of evacuation and he passedaway earlier this year.
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UNDER THE SCPE: Cancer Bats’ lead singer chats about tour
Daily Aztec CA -
Touting a mix of punk rock vocals metal guitars and hard-core influence Canadian band Cancer Bats has climbed aboard the Winter Warped Tour also known as the Rockstar Taste of Chaos tour. We sat down with the self-proclaimed “lyrical assassin” Liam Cormier to talk tours venues and brain damage. The Daily Aztec: What record label are you represented by?Cormier: In the United States we are on a label called Blackmarket Activities which is attached to Metal Blade. So we’re like part of the Metal Blade family. We kind of say that we are on Metal Blade.
Where’s college radio headed?
Sioux Falls Argus Leader SD -
The host for KAUR’s heavy metal show “Anthems of Rebellion” Michael Scott gauges that most of the audience is made up of community members including a following at the South Dakota State Penitentiary. (2 of 3)At one time Scott received two to three request letters and artwork per week from inmates. It’s difficult to find hard metal music broadcast elsewhere. Like KAUR KCFS also hosts community-run radio stations including the only Ethiopian language program in the state. The program began about a year ago and has two weekend shows.
New metal imitators set out to pillage music scene
UW Badger Herald WI -
“Don’t let your girlfriends near Lords of the Trident ‘cause our music is guaranteed to make panties explode” the band says. What is left to question is whether their music really results in loss of chastity or bursting pink thongs. A recently emerged metal group Lords of the Trident blends 1980s metal with contemporary influences and an avant-garde outlook on musicianship. To say this first album is unconventional would be quite an understatement. A cross between Spinal Tap Tenacious D and a “World of Warcraft” crusade the Lords pack their breakout album with fierce drumming complicated guitar solos and the “oh-so-cliché” screaming and groaning that accompanies most heavy metal. ozing with rampant disorder and hellish ferocity the album is not meant for the faint of heart.