Riding the Mishka wave into Vail
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- Riding the Mishka wave into Vail
- Dub Trio w/ The Feral Kids to perform April 15 at the River Music …
- Amy Winehouse’s Label Rejects Her New Album
- Military recruits emerging bands to tour bases entertain troops …
- LETTER F THE DAY – ‘Misleading report on history lecture’
Riding the Mishka wave into Vail
Vail Daily News
Who: Mishka with The Dirty Heads. Johnny Schlepper of the MTHDS will open with an acoustic setWhere: The Sandbar West VailWhen: 10 p.
Dub Trio w/ The Feral Kids to perform April 15 at the River Music …
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From the dramatic shoegaze-style post-metal of “Respite” and the straightforward roots-reggae nods in “Mortar Dub” to the contrapuntal lid-peeling violence of the closing track “Funishment” the album showcases Dub Trio”s chops and vocabulary (all three members are also seasoned session players) as much as it finds them swinging grooving and pummeling with wrecking-ball force. n the Peeping Tom tour they shared stages with the likes of Gnarls Barkley and The Who while opening for and being part of the headlining act proved that Dub Trio”s sound crossed genre and audience barriers as much as it bridged them. comThe Feral Kids – Grown out of the deep recesses of the QC music scene the Feral Kids fuse metal jazz and movie music to create a palate as bizarre as Indian food.
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Amy Winehouse’s Label Rejects Her New Album
Cleveland Leader
The demo tracks for her third album which were recorded in the Caribbean and are heavily influenced by the local reggae music have left her label less than pleased. Now they’re asking her to come up with an entirely new set of songs. A source says:?Amy was very productive during her stay in St Lucia. She wrote a hell of a lot of songs but the majority of them just aren?t hitting the mark. She seems to have ditched her trademark vintage soul sound and is now heavily influenced by reggae.
Military recruits emerging bands to tour bases entertain troops …
Dallas Morning News
The recruiters approached interviewed or listened to about 300 bands during SXSW and in the next few weeks after the evaluations done in triplicate they’ll sign about 20 bands – the few the proud – to travel overseas. Some might get the South Pacific or Europe. There are 371 bases filled mostly with 19-to-25-year-olds who could use some reggae or rhythm and blues. But many of these get-up-at-noon sneaker-footed stringy-armed musicians will be issued Kevlar vests and combat helmets and sent to small stations with tents and dirt floors. Some are in harm’s way but none has been hurt Shock said. “There have been mortar attacks. It’s real” he said adding with a slight wry smile “but we haven’t lost any.
LETTER F THE DAY – ‘Misleading report on history lecture’
Jamaica Gleaner
The new-found acceptance of dancehall and reggae music on the international scene had only given rise to the foul hypocrisy of the cultural elite in its treatment and acceptance of the language of the masses. ” This is hyperbolic and grossly misleading! I certainly never used the term “foul hypocrisy”. “Hypocrisy” yes; there is a huge difference. Besides I am not sure I understand the sentence anyway. Misguided questTo “fast-forward to 2009″ from 1865 as your reporter does completely ignores the entire core of the lecture which analysed not just upper but especially middle-class attitudes to the culture of the lower classes in the context of a misguided quest to “civilise” them.
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