The News Review:
- Playback:stl hosts music conference and festival
- Boogaloo’s back
- District Community Events Sept. 20-27 2007
Playback:stl hosts music conference and festival
Free with registration – St. Louis Post-Dispatch – AccessMyLibrary.com – Sep 20, 2007
Louis Post-Dispatch (St. 20–Playback:stl hosts music conference and festival Laura Hamlett of online music magazine Playback:stl has been to more music conferences and festivals than she can rem.
Boogaloo’s back
Telegraph.co.uk – Sep 20, 2007
“They always emptied the dance floor but the week after Walk the Line came out everyone was asking ‘Have you got any Johnny Cash?’ I’d say ‘No but I’ve a thousand records just like him. ‘ It wasn’t long before he persuaded the club to give him Saturday night. Darge isn’t alone in pushing this music. Respected DJ Andrew Weatherall is putting out a mix CD Sci-Fi-Lo-Fi focusing on the rawer swampier end of things and retro-rocker teenagers Kitty Daisy and Lewis offer A to Z: the Roots of Rock’n'Roll whose subtitle sums up the multiplicity of styles on offer: “Boogie Woogie R’n'B Western Swing Jump Blues Swing Jazz Rockabilly Blues Country and Western”. Before the Second World War US pop music meant big-band swing but afterwards there wasn’t enough money for such set-ups. Returning GIs had cash to spend though so juke-joints popped up wherein thinned-down bands would perform making up for their lack of instrumentation with punchy rhythm sections and sassy lyrics full of double entendres. American folk forms were rowdily mutating coalescing in noisy bars to become rock and roll… Returning GIs had cash to spend though so juke-joints popped up wherein thinned-down bands would perform making up for their lack of instrumentation with punchy rhythm sections and sassy lyrics full of double entendres. American folk forms were rowdily mutating coalescing in noisy bars to become rock and roll. “Jump blues” is probably the best term to describe the era. “Most people have never heard of it” says Darge. “There’s a big rockabilly scene but it suffers from the problem of not wanting outsiders snobbishness about dress codes and so on. I was the top Northern Soul DJ in the early ’80s and I got sick of that nerdiness I just like seeing people switching on to the music and I think that’s why so many girls like it the fact that it’s not blokey geeky or macho. Darge’s unlikely fellow fans include Paul Weller Portishead DJ Andy Smith and ex-Jurassic Five turntablist Cut Chemist with whom he’s compiled the opening Lost and Found collection.
District Community Events Sept. 20-27 2007
Washington Post – Sep 20, 2007
$22; seniors and students $17; 17 and younger $8. DANCING N THE RIVER TERRACE with music by the Zagnut Cirkus rkestar a six-piece Brooklyn-based ensemble that plays traditional Balkan brass band music 9-11 p. ; Balkan circle dance lessons 8:30-9 p. Kennedy Center South Plaza and River Terrace 2700 F St… "HABANA BLUES" Benito Zambrano’s 2004 film about two young Cuban musicians who dream about becoming famous rock stars and leaving Havana. Chevy Chase Neighborhood Library 5625 Connecticut Ave.