The News Review:
- Vets Protest Metal Concert – A Top Story This Week
- Rocking the system
- Mastodon Crack the Skye – Music Review
- Rockers chase their dream in feel-good documentary
Vets Protest Metal Concert – A Top Story This Week
antiMUSIC.com
Here it is again: (Green Bay Press-Gazette) Veterans say a festival that could include tobacco sampling a tattoo parlor and heavy metal music doesn’t belong near the Brown County Veterans Memorial on Armed Forces Drive. The village recently approved a permit for the Music as a Weapon event set to take place 2-6 p. May 17 at the Resch Center before a Disturbed concert later that night. rganizers say the event won’t happen near the memorial which sits on the corner of South neida Street and Armed Forces Drive but some vets are wary the scene will mock the memorial.
Rocking the system
Aljazeera.net
“If they’re able to take the stage down there [Dubai] and express themselves in a free way then I think that calls for some kind of reassessment on the part of the West in terms of just how progressively people are thinking down there. Despite all of the obstacles and struggles with authorities in the Middle East metal bands are connecting with fans and each other in the region and forging communities. For now heavy metal music and Islam remain uneasy companions brought together in a region where religion can be the rule and the music can offer a release. Playlist can be seen each week at the following times GMT: Monday 0530 and 1130; Tuesday 0130 1400 and 2330; Wednesday 0630 and 1630; Thursday 0300 and 1430; Friday 0600; Saturday 1930; Sunday 1030 Source: Al Jazeera.
Mastodon Crack the Skye – Music Review
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Each track twists and turns with astral guitar riffs and creepy atmospherics and the amorphous songs transition seamlessly from bone-crushing metal to spaced-out soundscapes. The lyrical content involves?from what I can tell?Tsarist Russia space travel spirits and wormholes (see the album cover?s ridiculous stoner art for a better idea). Like the previous three Mastadon albums there?s definitely a narrative here but it doesn?t seem quite as linear as that on the Moby Dick-inspired Leviathan. In fact the whole album requires repeated listens to fully grasp both lyrical and musical flow which means that this is either a triumph of artistic metal or a meandering waste of time. After a few listens I?d say it?s a little of both and that wasting your Friday afternoon (when you should be at work) listening to 10 minute songs about Russian mystics has its merits.
Rockers chase their dream in feel-good documentary
Mirror
‘ By the end they walk out going ‘these guys are real people with real families’ and regardless of what you think of heavy metal they are authentically connected with what they are most passionate about. ”Chuck Bartels an instructor at the Detroit School of Rock and Pop in Royal ak who plays bass with R&B artists Bettye LaVette and Thornetta Davis said he was a fan of metal music in the 1980s and was surprised when Anvil disappeared from the scene. “They were one of those bands that opened the floodgates for a lot of other bands” he said. “They were ahead of their time and they’re finally getting the recognition they deserve. They should have gotten it a long time ago. ”Call the Main Art Theatre at (248) 263-2111 for movie show times.
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