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By The Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) - Moms push strollers through throngs of bare- chested, tattooed twenty-somethings. Dads in khakis dole out fruit drinks while guys sporting mohawks and ripped jeans sip beer. And the grade-schoolers cheer as loudly as the hard-core metalheads. Welcome to the new face of music festivals, where everyone from kids in diapers to retirees come for the same reason: to rock out. "I was too young for Woodstock. I didn't really start going to concerts until my...
By MARLI LEE McGARRAH Some people cringe at the sound of screaming vocals or the thought of anything "metal." The series of riffs and breakdowns mean nothing. Its just not good music. ... Sadly, they are very mistaken. I guess musicianship means absolutely nothing anymore when every trendy emo band can land Top 10 spots on the radio and MTV by sounding exactly the same. Luckily, there is a bright side to all of this that includes a group of highly talented musicians with noteworthy things to...
By Stephen McGinty IWOULD put my failure as a Heavy Metal fan down to my hair. While my peers in black leather biker jackets encouraged their follicles to grow into the most luxuriant manes, cascading rivers of black and brown hair that swept over their shoulders and dangled halfway down their back, my own barnet stubbornly refused to yield. For some unknown reason my hair was possessed by a most recalcitrant nature, namely its refusal to touch my shoulders, preferring instead to grow to...
By Jeff Miers Heavy metal refuses to die. On occasion, however, it gives off a decidedly pungent odor. Tuesday, during the Rockstar Mayhem Festival at Darien Lake, it became clear that modern metal is not so much at a crossroads as it is facing a dead end. If more than eight hours of the supposed cream of the modern metal crop is presented, and the best music heard throughout the day came during the set of a cartoonish near-parody band (Dragonforce) and select tunes acting as a mix-tape...
By Ron Gonzales For the Journal As much as metal music is enjoying unprecedented popularity, there seems to be a good amount of filler on the scene. It's for this reason that Joe Hernandez hatched the idea of Shred Fest, a showcase of bands that he says take a little extra care to create something different. "There's a lot of bands that seem to be rehashing the same riffs over and over," he told the Journal. "So we wanted to get the best technical bands in the state in here and let them...
By Deirdre Long, The Anniston Star, Ala. Aug. 7--Not much has changed about 11 W. 11th St. since it opened as the all-ages music venue Model City Records in the spring. There still isn't any furniture, just a sizable stage and even bigger dance floor. There's no bar and no food -- this is strictly a music venue. It's clean, it's safe, and it's rocking most Friday and Saturday nights. Model City Records is the third all-ages venue owner Tyler Vise has opened in this region in the past four...
By Dave Wedge, Boston Herald Aug. 6--Ozzy Osbourne and his traveling troupe took a pass on the summer circuit this year and that's turned out to be good news. Headbangers have been blessed with the Mayhem Festival, a gift from the metal gods. It's likely most of the acts on this 14-band onslaught would have appeared at Ozzfest anyway, but the absence of Ozzy provided an opening for the masked marauders of Slipknot to headline and the band seized the opportunity with both hands around the...
Jazz diva Diane Schuur, who appears tonight at Rams Head On Stage in Annapolis, (7 p.m.) is two-time Grammy Award winner has performed at both Carnegie Hall and The White House. She's been a featured artist on tour with greats such as Stan Getz, Dizzy Gilespie, Maynard Ferguson and Quincy Jones. Ms. Schuur carries on in the footsteps of her heroes, Dinah Washington and Sarah Vaughan. Diane Schuur made a record with B.B. King and another with the Count Basie Orchestra. While her newest studio...
By Patrice Wilding, The Times-Tribune, Scranton, Pa. Aug. 4--Sunday's Mayhem Festival at Toyota Pavilion at Montage Mountain more than lived up to its name. The inaugural summer concert tour featured a plethora of metal acts, including headliners Mastodon, Dragonforce, Slipknot and Disturbed. Attended by thousands of headbangers and self-described "metal heads," there were throngs of black T-shirts, long, straggly hair and studded wristcuffs as far as the eye could see. As the band...
By Britt Combs, The McDowell News, Marion, N.C. Jul. 17--A scary new metal group is ready to terrorize the Earth, starting with McDowell County. And my ears are still ringing. Check out a a video of Trailer Thrash! Click here! Trailer Thrash is four local boys from Dysartsville. Three of them are still in high school and one graduated this spring. Despite their relative youth, the boys form a tight, organized and determined thrash machine. The band will make its bar debut this...
