The News Review:
- Minireview: Guitar Hero Metallica
- Born Again (to be wild that is)
- Web series hope viewers follow the music
- ‘Metal Machine Music: Nine Inch Nails and the Industrial Uprising …
- LIVE AND DANGERUS: Parkway Drive frontman gets hot and heavy
- Business As Usual at 2009 SXSW Music Festival
- More metal fit to print: “Anvil! The Story of Anvil” and Iron …
Minireview: Guitar Hero Metallica
San Jose Mercury News
This is what Guitar Hero should be: the game without all that non-metal music. The tracks are naturally great. The animated sequences have a very.
Born Again (to be wild that is)
Tacoma Weekly
Bui said Goldy McJohn and Friendz are in the process of recording their first CD and are also the subjects of a documentary being produced by VH-1. Filming will take place during their Jazzbones gig. Bui mentioned that this film could very well finally solve a couple of questions that have been bandied about for decades in the annals of rock history: Was “Born To Be Wild” the first ever heavy-metal song and did it spawn heavy-metal music? Bui says yes as this song marked the first time in recorded history the term “heavy metal” was used. See the film to hear other people’s thoughts on the matter. The band is also touring with future dates in Everett and Bellingham then into regon and Wyoming. Tickets to their Jazzbones show April 25 are $10 (21+ only) available in advance at.
Web series hope viewers follow the music
USA Today
Besides I think five minutes is about my attention span these days. Schwartz says he aimed for a “Jim Jarmusch-meets-Robert Altman style using behavior as story and plot. ” But he also says it’s a relief to have good music — from rockers Eagles of Death Metal to Swedish singer Lykke Li — serve as a distraction for any viewer losing interest in the emotional gyrations of the characters. says viewership figures won’t be available until closer to Rockville’s finale in May. )Rockville and $5 Cover are symbolic of the coming online entertainment shift from amateur to professional says Nancy Miller senior editor at Wired magazine. “For studios the Web serves as an inexpensive playground where you can test out new ideas while keeping some of your stars like a Josh Schwartz in the public eye” she says.
‘Metal Machine Music: Nine Inch Nails and the Industrial Uprising …
FEARnet.com
Although Reznor does not participate in or endorse the content it does bring a fair amount of historical background to support this idea making Metal Machine Music one of the more detailed documents of the cultural and artistic elements that paved the way for the Nine Inch Nails phenomenon. I’ve mentioned many times on these pages how the industrial genre began life as something very different than the loops samples and drum machines that most associate with it today and this history effectively forms the first quarter of this documentary. With archival footage and interviews the filmmakers explain in detail how the movement began with bands like the UK’s Throbbing Gristle who arguably coined the term “Industrial music” with the creation of their own label Industrial Records and Germany’s Einsturzende Neubaten who used heavy machinery factory scrap metal and power tools to create alien rhythms. Even the sampling technology that quickly found its way into the driving rhythmic styles of the ‘80s and ‘90s owes a debt to the pre-digital “musique concrete” techniques that often used triggered tape loops to transform non-musical sounds into new rhythms and melodies. The main thread tying this doc’s early chapters together is the emphasis on the DIY aesthetic employed by those early innovators who threw out the rock ‘n’ roll rulebook even more completely than their punk-rock contemporaries and cobbled together strange new instruments out of junk trying to coax new disturbing and provocative sounds out of them in an attempt to capture the attention of open-minded listeners.
LIVE AND DANGERUS: Parkway Drive frontman gets hot and heavy
Daily Aztec
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Business As Usual at 2009 SXSW Music Festival
Voice of America
Record sales have plummeted. Music stores are closing and record companies are slashing jobs at a record pace. ” So it was business as usual at the 23rd annual South By Southwest Music Conference or SXSW held in mid-March in Austin Texas. The number of official registrants this year was down due to the economic recession. But the amount of live music was greater than ever with close to 2000 acts performing.
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More metal fit to print: “Anvil! The Story of Anvil” and Iron …
Staten Island Advance – SILive.com
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