Schizoids playing punk rock with a purpose
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
The Schizoids is the Frankenstein’s monster of local punk bands. Formed from the former members of nearly every punk band in town – the Sour Mash Kats, the Staggerers, Flamingo Nosebleed, Centerfold Massacre and on and on – the band h...
Grammy Wars: Alicia Keys Beats Beyonce
FOX News
Chrissie Hynde , god bless her, doesn’t give a (bleep) about the current nostalgia for punk music. That’s what she told us Tuesday night at the Highline Ballroom during a 90-minute show that rocked hard with a mixture of blues, country, dir...
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Arkansas Online
Sho’Nuff Downhome Country Music -- 7 p.m. to 10 p.m., Bill’s Country Dance ($4) Happy Feet Dance Club For singles, families, senior citizens. -- 7 p.m. to 10 p.m., Senior Center (Free) Ray's Country Dance Smoke-free environment. Fiddle musi...
Coldplay win two top Q music awards
Reuters India
LONDON (Reuters Life!) - British band Coldplay won two top prizes at the Q music magazine awards on Monday, taking the Best ... their third album "Perfect Symmetry", and U.S. indie rock band Vampire Weekend scooped the Best Video title with...
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The Times-News
Among the dusty fields and smoky burn piles, in a warehouse outside TwinFalls, hid an oasis for teenage music fans. Corey McCombs, 22, and Mikey Eveleth, 20, stood guard in the door, greeting by name concertgoers who exchanged $5 for a wris...
A twist in the story of John Vesely
Newsday
In 2005, John Vesely was desperate. He was working at Neiman-Marcus, playing bass in Menlo Park, Calif., punk and ska bands on the side, but he knew he had to record the pop songs that were swirling around in his head. So he took all the mo...
Popular pop-punk band prepares album for new label
The Post and Courier
Little more than 10 years ago, the notion of playing in a pop-punk band was a joke for the founding members of New Found Glory. A decade later, there are many pop-oriented punk bands. Until recently, the band — Jordan Pundik, Steve Klein, I...
Live Music!
Portland Tribune
FOLK The Kingston Trio Though the Kingston Trio has undergone a dizzying number of lineup changes, their distinctive, harmony-laden brand of folk has remained intact and opened the world of folk music to millions of listeners over the years...
It was about the songs, not about starting a social revolution
Times Online
There have been moments when music has reflected the mood of cultural change and the feelings of a new generation - rock'n'roll in the Fifties, Sixties pop, Seventies punk. But despite the pretensions of many artists, pop music has never st...
Kylie Minogue - Double Win For Kylie At Bt Digital Music Awards
ContactMusic
Kylie Minogue took two prizes at Wednesday night's BT Digital Music awards in Camden, north London.The Australian pop pixie took the best pop artist prize at ...
Zombies set their sights on Madison for yet another Halloween
Isthmus
Now that the ghouls of public disorder at the Halloween revelry on State Street look to be departing thanks to the tuneful sounds of pop-punk and college-jam bands at Freakfest, a new menace is rising in Madison to disturb the scary season....
Music Review: Shudder, Bayside
Cleveland Leader
Music Review: Shudder, Bayside Ringo Starr Video:Pleads For No More Fan Mail! Columbus Day Isn't the Only Holiday This Week ... on this release as it’s more positive than the previous two songs, but it keeps to the harsh tones and influence...
Echo and the Bunnymen Get Nostalgic in New York
Spin
Liverpool-bred post-punk legends Echo and the Bunnymen commanded New York City's iconic Radio City Music Hall Wednesday night with a set of lush, ornate anthems that illustrated just how many bands they've influenced. How many? Seemingly ...
If you think punk's dead...
Hour.ca
One of the most innovative and, simply put, awesome series taking place during the mass of Pop Montreal 2008 is the Weird Punk showcase featuring a ton of killer, on-the-edge bands from here and abroad (i.e., the USA). Conceived by the geni...
CD reviews
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Righteousness grows more tuneful with every album by this Chicago band. In the punk and hard-core heritage that Rise Against has proudly continued, galloping beats and relentless guitars backed up testimonials of stubborn alienation on the ...
MUSIC REVIEW: ‘Object 47’ by Wire
Holland Sentinel
Robert Grey’s incessant drumming never strays far from his punk roots, but melds enough funk and ragga into the mix to give the music less urgency and more pop structure. The overall sound is expansive, think Gang of Four meets Sly Stone on...
