The News Review:
- Pop and Rock Listings
- … Us Just How Crucial Song Choice Is – News Story | Music…
- The Carolina Chocolate Drops
- CD Review: Black Keys Unlock Sounds Beyond Blues On New LP
- Duffy defends ‘blue eyed soul’
Pop and Rock Listings
New York Times – Apr 11, 2008
Music Hall of Williamsburg 66 North Sixth Street Brooklyn (718) 486-5400. (Sisario)MARCIA BALL (Tuesday) Marcia Ball plays two-fisted New Orleans barrelhouse piano and sings in a husky knowing voice about all the trouble men and women can get into on the way to a good time… King Blues Club & Grill 237 West 42nd Street Manhattan (212) 997-4144 bbkingblues. (Sisario)ROGUE WAVE (Saturday) Harking back to the weepy and grandiose “shoegazer” bands of the late ’80s and early ’90s Rogue Wave from Oakland Calif. paints dreamy washes with distorted guitars and maudlin pillow talk. (“You can never publish my love.
… Us Just How Crucial Song Choice Is – News Story | Music…
MTV.com – Apr 11, 2008
“I think song choice is a very personal thing” Johns told MTV News after his elimination. “If you can’t go out there and believe every lyric and it doesn’t have an emotional connection to you then it’s not gonna work. So what I chose throughout the entire competition was a representation of the kind of artist I’m going to be after [the show]… Hence sometimes brand-new songs — less than a year old — are extremely difficult to clear. Of course with a juggernaut like “Idol” the opposite can be true as well. Music publishers must lobby to have their songs rendered in front of 30 million people. “I think Idol is a big enough show that the producers can name who they want” Orland said. “I know as the show grows bigger and bigger and artists like Prince and Aerosmith and Maroon 5 start allowing their songs to be cleared the more exciting it becomes. “When we did it of course you couldn’t even touch the Beatles” said.
The Carolina Chocolate Drops
Maryville Daily Times – Apr 11, 2008
In the South he discovered brands he’d never heard of before drinks like Cheerwine and Sundrop and Mountain Dew. “All over the South you’ll find specific regional brands that don’t get out to the bigger market and the same goes for black secular music of the South” he said. “When commercial recording was coming along the demand for black music was primarily for the blues and spiritual music and later on jazz and R&B. When it came to field recordings people would cling to field hollers and work songs and those things are what tend to get represented as black music in modern times. “But all along there are other forms of black secular music reels which is the fiddling banjo; fife and drum; the mouth-bow. These other forms have always been there but people just haven’t taken an interest in it. For some reason now there’s an interest in it.
CD Review: Black Keys Unlock Sounds Beyond Blues On New LP
KIROtv.com – Apr 11, 2008
He’s proven adept at working in pop hip-hop and alternative rock (is it a surprise then that he’s rumored to be working with Beck?) Danger Mouse was originally brought in to augment a collaboration between the Keys and Ike Turner the notorious songwriter-producer who was arguably one of the founders of rock’n'roll. When Turner died unexpectedly last year Danger Mouse and the Keys opted to continue on without him. Instead of a Turner-sanctioned rhythm and blues revival the new record has Auerbach and Carney stretching out their three-minute-plus ditties with vocal harmonies synthesizers organs clarinets and the odd sample or drum machine. The infusion of fresh sounds brings forward other influences and textures buried under the duo’s customary dinosaur thrashing but without making the songs seem completely uncharacteristic of the band. The Keys have typically favored low-fi punchy production on their preceding discs and so credit goes to Danger Mouse for drastically improving the depth of field on the Keys new songs creating a richer overall soundscape… At the song’s harrowing apex Tom Waits sideman Marc Ribot delivers a terrifyingly ethereal guitar solo that howls like a distant bomb siren before dissipating back into the verses. Odder still but equally marvelous is “Psychotic Girl. ” The troika of Auerbach Carney and Danger Mouse experiment with a hybrid of country music and Dr. The cut begins with a banjo sparring with a strolling bass line and a funky drum pattern. A piano fills the role as Auerbach’s vocal foil plinking to reiterate the point of each verse. Near its conclusion Danger Mouse injects some Bernie Worrell keyboard squiggles that imply the P-Funk mothership might have landed somewhere very far a field — maybe literally in a field — and picked up some weird instruments and rhythms along the way.
Duffy defends ‘blue eyed soul’
BBC News – Apr 11, 2008
The chart topper has reacted to claims by Estelle another number one selling artist that the British music industry is unwilling to market black artists. Estelle also claimed the music of Duffy and Brit winner Adele is not genuine soul. But Duffy told Newsbeat:”If the talent and the desire is there I don’t really think it matters what colour you are. In an interview with the Guardian newspaper Estelle – currently enjoying chart success with American Boy – attacked the state of the music industry… She said: “I like a lot of obscure stuff. I think the darker and more mysterious and the more unknown something is the more you can make it your own. “I like to dig deep into northern soul and motown and blues. “I saw the Rolling Stones film the other night which was mind blowing and I remembered the first thing I really saw of music was The Rolling Stones on a video tape. “I was six years old no one told me they had been around since the 60s so for all I knew they were current. “I remember seeing it and thinking it was the most important thing I’d ever seen. “So they’re up there as one of my biggest influences because they married blues and rock and roll.