The Minutemen’s Mike Watt, the Runaways’ Cherie Currie, Eddie Spaghetti, Josie Cotton and more punk luminaries have teamed for a new Covid-19 benefit song, “Flatten the Curve.” Proceeds from the track will benefit the Jubilee Consortium and the Sweet Relief Musicians Fund.
“Flatten the Curve” was organized and produced by manager and musician Bruce Duff, while his Streetwalkin’ Cheetahs bandmate Frank Meyer wrote the tune. In all, 31 musicians contributed to the four-minute ripper, which grapples with the strangeness of social-distancing while still hammering home its necessity: “Hey, you gotta spread the word,...
“Flatten the Curve” was organized and produced by manager and musician Bruce Duff, while his Streetwalkin’ Cheetahs bandmate Frank Meyer wrote the tune. In all, 31 musicians contributed to the four-minute ripper, which grapples with the strangeness of social-distancing while still hammering home its necessity: “Hey, you gotta spread the word,...
- 5/5/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
One particular track on the soundtrack to Due Date, the new road trip comedy with Robert Downey, Jr. and Zach Galifianakis, exerted a curious fascination for me – This is Why I’m Hot, by the modest Mims. Mind, it wasn’t so much the song itself as one specific lyric, which (if I heard it correctly) sounded very much like: “I’m representing York”. Now, if that is indeed the correct interpretation, then I can only wholeheartedly applaud the sentiment. It’s about time the northern cities of the United Kingdom were celebrated in contemporary song. One minor quibble would be Mims’ neglect to devote a verse to the prodigious merits of the Jorvik Viking Centre, but you can’t have everything, can you?
Indeed not. Just ask Christophe Beck. His is the name you will see attached to the ‘music by’ credit if you go and catch Rdj and...
Indeed not. Just ask Christophe Beck. His is the name you will see attached to the ‘music by’ credit if you go and catch Rdj and...
- 11/14/2010
- by Paul A. Martin
- Movie-moron.com
When a band deals mainly in straight-ahead, no-frills rock, it helps to have a secret weapon, and The BellRays have one in frontwoman Lisa Kekaula. The singer's equal adeptness at balls-out, arena-sized shouting and soulful crooning earns the group its "rock 'n' soul" descriptor, and lends interest to its otherwise by-the-numbers garage rock. Not that there's anything wrong with good, solid riffs, something else the group's eighth album, Hard, Sweet And Sticky, has in spades. After 18 years together, The BellRays are in clear command of the sounds they crib from, alternating between trashy, thrashing punk-laced tunes like "Infection" and "Psychotic Hate Man" and sultry slow-burners like "The Fire Next Time" and "Wedding Bells." It sounds a bit too spit-shined at times, and the chugging riffs, while propulsive, can be a little same-y—but that doesn't make the album any less exhilarating, especially when Kekaula shows what she can do. Hard,...
- 5/27/2008
- by Genevieve Koski
- avclub.com
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