Month: September 2007

Posted on: September 29, 2007 Posted by: James McQuiston Comments: 0

Os Mutantes Scheduled To Release ‘Live at the Barbican’

OS MUTANTES LIVE – RECORDED AT THE BARBICAN, LONDON 2006 Double CD/DVD How did 60s Brazil produce the wildest, most psychedelic rock ‘n’ roll group of them all? And why, three decades on, has the rest of the world gone crazy over them? As the Daily Telegraph put it “people talk about cult bands, but there should be a separate category for Os Mutantes, who have had a fanatical following…

Posted on: September 29, 2007 Posted by: James McQuiston Comments: 0

TV Party: The Documentary

TV Party: The Documentary / 2006 MVD / 91 Minutes / http://www.mvdb2b.com / TV Party was a television show that took place in New York City in the late seventies and early eighties. This is after the punk scene started to fizzle out in that area, leaving only the art students to mount anything that resembled a revolution. This is a documentary about TV Party and the effect that it…

Posted on: September 29, 2007 Posted by: James McQuiston Comments: 0

Drug Rug Gets Mad Props From Everywhere

NPR “Open Mic”: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12679190&ft=2&f=1094 Spin.com Artist of the Day: http://www.spin.com/features/band_of_the_day/2007/09/070911_drugrug/ CMJ Daily “Freeload” for “Day I Die” Up Today http://cmj.com/ AOL/Spinner.com Listening Party: http://spinner.aol.com/artists/new-releases-full-cds?defaultTab=8 My Space / Snocap Featured Artist Of The Week: http://www.myspace.com/snocap MTV.com Album Cover Of The Week: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1569873/20070917/index.jhtml

Posted on: September 29, 2007 Posted by: James McQuiston Comments: 0

Botox Party – E.P.

Botox Party – E.P. / 2007 Upchuck / 6 Tracks / http://www.myspace.com/botoxpartyva / http://www.upchuckrecords.com / Aside from some crust punk albums, the runtime of “E.P.” has to be some of the shortest I’ve ever heard. This does not mean that the harder edged punk music of Botox Party is forgettable. In a way, a track like “Problematic Emotions” calls forth bands like Pulley and “Cheshire Cat” or “Buddha” era Blink…

Posted on: September 29, 2007 Posted by: James McQuiston Comments: 0

Stiff Little Fingers – Handheld & Rigidly Digital

Stiff Little Fingers – Handheld & Rigidly Digital / 2006 MVD / 87 Minutes / http://www.mvdb2b.com / I am not sure what the impetus was for this concert to be captured on a digital, miniature camera. There is definitely an older feel to this footage, but that is due to the fact that the digital camera is no substitute to the high-level cameras that are available to production crews. The…

Posted on: September 29, 2007 Posted by: James McQuiston Comments: 0

TV Party – The Crusades Show

TV Party – The Crusades Show / 2006 MVD / 58 Minutes / http://www.mvdb2b.com / http://www.brink.com / For those individuals that have had a chance to see “The Time & Makeup Show”, “The Crusades Show” is a year and a half later. Things have changed. If one event could be chosen as being the most momentous between 1979 and 1981, it would have to be the election of Ronald Reagan…

Posted on: September 28, 2007 Posted by: James McQuiston Comments: 0

The Hazey Janes – Always There

The Hazey Janes – Always There / 2006 Measured / 3 Tracks / http://www.thehazeyjanes.co.uk / “Always There” is the first track on this EP, and it sounds like The Hazey Janes have heard a lot of “Big Me”-era Foo Fighters. The opening strains of the track have a high amount of this influence, with only later the band taking a sixties boy band (think a blend of equal part Beatles…

Posted on: September 28, 2007 Posted by: James McQuiston Comments: 0

All Time Low Gets Middle Schoolers Suspended

A pretty amazing story has surfaced regarding the infamous All Time Low promo photos for their new album So Wrong, It’s Right which comes out September 25th on Hopeless Records. A girl by the name of “Rea” who goes to school in ATL’s home state of Maryland at Magnolia Middle School in Harford County was suspended from school for THREE DAYS for having this photo (http://www.media.wmg-is.com/media/portal/media/cms/images/200708/all-time-low-1-extralarge_1187366032969.jpg) hanging outside her locker.