The News Review:
- 50 ways to love your Valley: Must hear/do
- Steve Miller Still Sings the Blues
- Inside world of Chaka Khan
- REVIEW: Compassion love battle bleakness in Blues
- Saturday ‘” May 31
- The Big CD: The Zutons – You Can Do Anything
- Concert Wrap ‘” Murder By Death May 30 @ The Music Hall
50 ways to love your Valley: Must hear/do
AZ Central.com – May 31, 2008
Alma School Parkway 480-585-9430. Shades of bluesTake in a gritty set of blues music at the Rhythm Room the Valley’s best blues club. For 17 years the cozy venue has served up local and national blues rockabilly and roots music nightly. The atmosphere is casual the patrons are friendly and the cover charge is affordable. Indian School Road Phoenix 602-265-4842 rhythmroom.
Steve Miller Still Sings the Blues
wsj.com – May 31, 2008
“I mimeographed letters to every fraternity in the area. We worked every weekend through the 12th grade. ” Boz Scaggs was in the band which played blues and R&B particularly the music of Jimmy Reed and Bobby Blue Bland. If being a 12-year-old agent prepared Mr. Miller for the cut-throat Chicago scene his appetite for performance honed his skills. From its San Francisco base the Steve Miller Band toured relentlessly across the U.
Inside world of Chaka Khan
NEWS.com.au – May 31, 2008
Even though Chaka Khan is always associated with the music with which she made her name – funk – her musical career has been as diverse as the city where she grew up one of the richest musical stews that there has ever been. Chicago the city where the great migration of African-Americans from the south produced a stunning diversity of music from jazz to blues and gospel to rock’n'roll. Not forgetting its famous orchestra the. Child prodigy Herbie Hancock performed with the Symphony long before Miles Davis discovered him.
REVIEW: Compassion love battle bleakness in Blues
London Free Press – May 31, 2008
There are hints of big money and big names involved in the sex-and-drugs exploitation of young people notably at a multi-day party at a Barrington Street penthouse some years back. Despite some opposition within his own law firm Monty isn’t about to file the lawsuit papers until he knows for sure who has done what to whom in the past as well as the present. Grim pursuits require relief and the joys in Monty’s life come from music — he plays in a local blues band and sings in a choir conducted by an old friend a priest — and from his children a teenaged son and a young daughter. He gets no joy from his estranged wife with whom he hopes to achieve reconciliation until she comes up pregnant by somebody else identity unknown. Still with the help of a good deal of booze and the occasional rampage of his own Monty plugs on with his inquiries often surprised but never defeated. Emery whose third crime novel this is lives in Halifax and has worked as a lawyer and a legal affairs reporter so she’s bringing lots of expertise in both local geography and law to her fiction. She also brings clever dialogue sympathetic as well as wicked characters a nifty fast-moving plot and dabs of genuine emotion uncluttered by mere sentimentality.
Saturday ‘” May 31
NEWS.com.au – May 31, 2008
Noon The Science Show. 1pm All In The Mind. 35 The Philosopher’s Zone… 8 Rhythm Stick (spotlight on percussion). Midnight Democracy Now.
The Big CD: The Zutons – You Can Do Anything
Times Online – May 31, 2008
“It’s like bingo music” says theman who hit the jackpot by writing Valerie the track given an injection ofglobal hit hormones by Mark Ronson and Amy Winehouse. “You grab a ball andhope it’s a good one. It’s more quirky retro rock for young men who yearn to grow morefacial hair and have a girlfriend such as the saxophonist Abi Harding aformula that has not done them any harm at all so far. However some of the doubts that have dogged them since their debut WhoKilled… You CouldMake the Four Walls Cry bolstered stridently by vocals from Harding soundsunhappily like Space while Freak about working as a gigolo is a nobleattempt to earn the tag “gritty vignette” yet ultimately lacks the tang ofreal experience. html”–>There are moments that convey the thrill of getting it right: Always RightBehind You is Tiger Feet in trainers a brassy glam racket redolent of Brutand Skol; What’s Your Problem is a text message version of Dexy’s; and Put aLittle Aside’s infidelity blues comes closest to Valerie’s soulful appeal. Yet You Can Do Anything still sounds like a band struggling to come of agedesperate to look grown-up yet not quite able to grow convincing rock’n'rollsideburns. After the hitmaker’s full house of Valerie this album ishalf-way there. (Deltasonic TMS £11. 99 call 0845 6026328).
Concert Wrap ‘” Murder By Death May 30 @ The Music Hall
nwanews.com – May 31, 2008
Maybe some more of you were down on Dickson Street catching a live music event there and I can?t blame you for that. But all of you sitting at home wishing there were cool things to do or wondering why innovative bands never come through Northwest Arkansas you?re partially to blame for any lack of activity. About 100 people mostly young hipster types showed up May 30 at… He was the most entertaining of the quartet which played acidic pop rock. Instrumentally speaking the band was solid but the echo-drenched vocals couldn?t keep my attention. The first opener Gasoline Heart is no stranger to The Music Hall previously performing at the venue as The Kicks. The crowd of 30 or so they played for caused Louis Defabrizio the band?s lead singer to remark that it felt like he was playing at a talent show and I can?t blame him for the assessment. Gasoline Heart was melodic catchy and had a few dedicated fans among the sparse audience. One of those fans was called up on stage during the set to sing the chorus of the band?s closing song ?All The Way. ? A band with so few audience members is only playing for pride and it certainly has nothing to be disappointed in with its performance on Friday.