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U2 Rock Fordham University: On the Ground at the “Secret” Set

Photo: Mazur/WireImage “I joined a rock & roll band so I could get out of going to college,” Bono told students at New York’s Fordham University at 8 a.m. this morning, during a somewhat-secret six-song U2 set at the school’s picturesque Bronx campus that was aired on Good Morning America. “Maybe if it looked like this, and felt like this, things could have been different,” he added. The show — which capped the band’s first-week publicity blitz for its new No Line on the Horizon — took place on the steps of the university’s gothic Keating Hall, in front of a snowy, packed quad of Fordham students and staff. A Fordham ID was required to enter the School of Rock-esque spectacle. “Edge, what would have been your major?” Bono asked. The guitarist’s response: a “Major key.” Bono and Co. tore through three tracks off of No Line on the Horizon (”Get On Your Boots,” “Magnificent,” and “I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight”), receiving an overwhelmingly positive response from the crowd of ecstatic students who may have still been in shock that classes were canceled for a surprise U2 concert at “Edward’s Parade,” a popular quad where students usually play Frisbee or catch rays. “I hope you like our new direction,” Bono told students before jumping into their second song. (Check out photos from U2’s Fordham gig — and the rest of their big week in the Big Apple.) Students lined up as early as 1:30 a.m. to land a spot close to the band, and started chanting for “Bono!” as the sun came up. Despite their sleeplessness, students went wild, jumping around with Bono and maintaining their high energy throughout the show. Most of the college crowd seemed unfamiliar with the new songs, but ecstatic about the performance nonetheless. “Everyone probably downloaded U2’s new album last night,” said Andrew Inks, a Fordham junior. “This song was written about Fordham University’s campus,” Bono said before introducing one of the new tunes. “Particularly Friday nights at the Fordham Univ

Published: 2009-03-06
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News

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Fricke’s Picks: The Dictators, The Pretty Things and The Wildbirds

Weekend Warriors In August 1973, the Ramones were a year away from their first gigs, sitting around in Queens, looking for something to do, when Bronx-bred bombers the Dictators went into a Columbia Records studio to make the five-song demo that opens Every Day Is Saturday (Norton). It’s a rock-city set of work tapes and outtakes, mostly from the band’s first decade, that doubles as iron-fist proof that the Dictators were punk even before CBGB. The founding triad of singer-bassist Andy Shernoff and guitarists Ross the Boss and Scott “Top Ten” Kempner was deeply glam, too — and truly heavy — in its hooks, slash and crush. With Shernoff’s smart, acerbic songwriting, the Dictators were also arguably America’s funniest and most fearless (if not famous) explorers of the American teenage wasteland. “Sleepin’ With the TV On,” “Faster and Louder,” “Baby Let’s Twist” and “I Stand Tall,” all here in rough, exuberant blueprints of later LP versions, are the equal and more of Killer-era Alice Cooper — atomic pop about fast food, warm beer and salvation noise, sealed with the subway-soul bravado of microphone bruiser Handsome Dick Manitoba. Ironically, the Dictators, who have made only four studio albums since those ‘73 demos, outlived the Ramones, still popping up on singles and stages. “The joke’s on you!” Manitoba crows in “Laughing Out Loud,” cut in 1999. Save your bread for Saturday, and know why he’s right. Also note the radio ad here for the Dictators’ 1977 stand at the Whisky A Go Go in Los Angeles: You could get in for a buck, and some lucky folks got a free copy of the band’s Bloodbrothers album. Those were the days. The Long View For longevity and sheer bloody-mindedness, even the Dictators can’t compete with the Pretty Things, founded in London in 1963 by singer Phil May and guitarist Dick Taylor, an early Rolli

Published: 2008-01-16
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Fricke's Picks, Rock Daily

K!'s SXSW blog (Part Two)

K! editor Paul Brannigan reports from this year's South By South West festival. Thursday, March 19 Day two of SXSW is set aside for a Kerrang!/Guitar Hero party at The Wave on Sixth Street. Over the course of the afternoon Gallows, Justin Hawkins from Hot Leg and Lips and Rob from Anvil will all pop in to check out the five band bill. That and there's free beer for everyone probably helps pack the venue too... Rolo Tomassi kickstart the day with their disorientating spazz-jazz noise attack. In 100 degrees heat the young Sheffield quintet do an impressive job conjuring up Hell with their shrieks, screeches and squawks, with Eva Spence melting hearts with her unique voice. Attack! Attack! have an infinitely more straightforward approach with their classic power-pop structures and the South Wales quartet have heads nodding appreciately as they hammer through the sun-kisses melodies of Honesty. Next up our old friends The Bronx are in blistering form, performing a set dictated by audience requests. Dropping sweat throughout, Matt Caughtran wears a sixty mile smile as he cheerily abuses audience members and the likes of Knifeman and White Guilt go down like a cold Corona on a summer's day. Awesome. There's a change of pace, but no less love for Frank Turner. The hardcore troubadour performs today with a band he met just 24 hours previously, but you'd never guess that from this slick and assured performance. Like former tourmates The Gaslight Anthem Turner exudes warmth and Everyman charm and his tales of booze, bruises and bereavement are sung back at him by hoarse-throated Texans with fists in the air. Closing the show, Enter Shikari are dealt an unfair hand when the PA cuts out several times during their set, forcing songs to be halted, and their frustration is as obvious as it is understandable. But in the face of adversity the St. Albans quartet dig deep, channeling their anger into a gutsy set heavy on new politically-charged material. Ditching hits like Sorry You'r

Published: 2009-03-21
Provider: Kerrang!

K!'s SXSW blog (Part One)

K! editor Paul Brannigan reports from this year's South By South West festival. Wednesday, March 18 The city fathers of Austin, Texas grandly refer to their hometown as 'the live music capital of the world'. During the annual South By South West festival you won't hear any dissenting voices. What you will hear, is music pumping out of every bar, restaurant and tattoo parlour, as hundreds of up and coming bands slug it out for Next Big Thing status. The competition is fierce - at any given hour there are 50 or 60 shows taking place simultaneously across the city - but the sheer variety of music on offer makes SXSW a fabulous, fascinating festival to attend. A wristband or SXSW badge gives you access to every show...the only problem being deciding where to start. Our SXSW starts at the legendary Emos venue, with the hardcore fury of Trash Talk, an impressively belligerent quartet from Sacramento. Reminscent of Black Flag at their most antagonistic, the quartet deal in short brutal bursts of noise with scant regard for melody or harmony. That their singer ends the show dripping blood and vomit tells you all about their commitment to pushing extremes. K! favourites The Bronx are up next, playing the first of what will be three shows today. They are, as ever, fantastic, slamming through a 35 minute set to a packed room, More on them later... At 7 o'clock it's Gallows turn to wreak havoc, over on Emos' outside stage, opening a bill which will later feature hardcore heroes Circle Jerks and former Bad Brains' frontman HR's new band. But there is nothing nostalgic about the Brit punks' set: indeed Frank Carter abandons Abandon Ship halfway through with the words "You get the gist" so that his band can focus on showcasing tunes from their upcoming Grey Britain album. Trust us, this album is immense and tonight songs like Vultures and Misery are given their US premiere in the most savage way. Carter's stage dive from the venue's roof is almost as impressive. As Gallows set cli

Published: 2009-03-20
Provider: Kerrang!

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Falling Dollars

Photo: Wolfgang Rattay/ReutersGas may have fallen to a mere $4 a gallon in the city last week, but it didn’t seem like anyone else was getting their money’s worth. Leaked memos from Hillary Clinton’s $243 million campaign showed that strategist Mark Penn had advised her to avoid being too likable and to model herself after Margaret Thatcher. No one was buying John Edwards’s story that he knew nothing about $15,000 monthly payments to ex-lover Rielle Hunter. Governor Paterson recommended a healthy half-billion-dollar cut in the state Medicaid budget.The FBI asked if anyone was missing any rare art, since the priceless trove left behind by collector William Kingsland includes stolen works (even a few Picassos). The NYPD rolled out a plan to ID every car that enters the city. A Pakistani scientist was asked to explain why her purse contained chemical-weapons recipes and a list of potential targets, including the Statue of Liberty and Times Square. Gumball-size hail fell in Queens and the Bronx, while glass continued to rain from the sky at the Bank of America building on 42nd Street. The City Council threatened to fine stores that crank the A/C and leave their front doors open. News broke that three sneaky straphangers had screwed the MTA out of $800,000. Preppy killer Robert Chambers dropped his drug-insanity defense and copped a plea for dealing coke. NBC execs let out a $900 million sigh of relief as Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps struck ratings gold. Wall Streeters wondered who’d laid down a late $1.7 million bet against Bear Stearns that paid off at 158 to 1. Justin Timberlake signed up for double duty at the fall fashion shows in Bryant Park, both as performer and proprietor of his William Rast collection. Clint Eastwood’s Changeling (starring Angelina Jolie as a 1920s mom) was selected to headline the New York Film Festival. And Bob Dylan turned back the clock, playing an electrifying “Masters of War” in a set at the Prospect Park band shell.

Published: 2008-08-16
Provider: New York Magazine

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