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MUSIC
Coheed and Cambria - Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV
November 11, 2005
Once again these guys come back harder than ever with fifteen action packed songs detailing the story from the equivalent comic book. Opening up with an orchestrated Keeping the Blade, a relaxing mix of violins and cellos pulls listeners in and shifts to creepy, deep sounding acoustic ballad entitled Always and Never. Lyrics from the album will either give you nightmares or…. Nope they’ll just give you nightmares. Aside from that, Welcome Home, the first single off the album clocks in at number three showing you that emo bands actually do know how to create mind blasting guitar solos and harmonization. From there on out it’s a wonderful arrangement of every instrument known to man filled with originality and creativity. The CD ends with a Pink Floyd-like jam, and an almost folk lick at the very end almost as if the CD were a movie with credit music. Definitely a buyer.
Adam Mularski
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Rock & Roll Auction II Featuring Styx
November 10, 2005
106.7 The Drive is proud to present The Rock and Roll Auction II featuring classic rock icons STYX to benefit The Rainbow Connection, 7pm Wednesday November 16th at The Emerald Ballroom in Mt. Clemens. The Rock and Roll Auction II will feature opportunities to bid live on one of a kind memorabilia items from several nationally recognized artists such as Van Halen, Bob Seger, Journey, Motley Crue, Billy Idol, Sammy Hagar and many more! All proceeds from The Rock and Roll Auction II will benefit The Rainbow Connection, a non profit group that grants the wishes of terminally ill kids from Michigan. Last year the first annual 106.7 The Drive’s Rock and Roll Auction raised over $25,000 for The Rainbow Connection, and hopes are to exceed that amount this year. All winning bids are tax deductible. Live Rock and Roll will be provided by national recording artists STYX, long known for such classic rock staples as “Renegade”, “Blue Collar Man”, “Miss America”, Snowblind” and many others. Tickets for this event are FREE and available exclusively to 106.7 The Drive Pit Crew members. It’s free to register to become a Pit Crew member, just log on to www.1067THEDRIVE.com and join today!
John Trapane
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If That Ain't Country..
A Personal Message from Chris Cagle
October 30 , 2005
"To All My Loyal Music Fans:
As many of you are aware, I had been anxiously awaiting the addition of a new baby to my life. The baby has been born and both mother and child are in good health. Since the birth, however, we have discovered that biologically, the child is not mine.
As excited as I was about becoming a new father, my disappointment is equally as strong. So out of respect for all that are involved, please allow this situation to remain private and know that I will not be commenting further on this very personal matter. I'm thanking you in advance for your kind cooperation and understanding.
Chris Cagle"
Anyone find it ironic that his latest single is entitled "Miss Me Baby." ? I hope at least that song is his. In earlier interviews, Cagle had credited his unborn son with inspiring him to stop drinking. He told the Tennessean that he gave up the bottle one month after he discovered his girlfriend, Tammy, was pregnant.
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Music City Remembers Their R&B Roots
October 24 , 2005
When most people think of Music City, Nashville, they think of Country music and the Grand Ole Opry. Most have forgotten about the 40’s, 50’s and 60’s when this area was a thriving Mecca for the R&B scene. Those years’ following World War II was when Nashville played a major role for the R&B scene and made it the recording capitol it is today. The Lost Highway record label is looking to remind people of those years and what they brought to the music heritage that the nation is listening to these days.
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MUSIC
Kanye West - Late Registration
October 13 , 2005
Well this would definitely have to be one of the first KICK ASS rap albums ever reviewed in the paper. Can I get some applause please? Like the last album, Kanye continues to rap about life in general in a way anybody can relate to. With songs like Gold Digger featuring Jamie Foxx, Heard em Say feat. Adam Levine from Maroon 5 and many other guest appearances, this album shows maturity in Kanye's career. Along with focusing on the catchy rhymes, Late Registration features plenty of classical, jazz and blues influences. A great listen for anybody who is into rap. Don't miss him at the Fox Theater on October 22 and stay tuned for an article on the show and his live performance.
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Patty Loveless, Dreamin' My Dreams (Epic Nashville)
September 30, 2005
I like country music for one reason. The shit is sad and someone just lost their wife or girlfriend or the place just went to hell. Stereotype it anyway you want, but add some good lyrics to a steel guitar, followed by a banjo and a fiddle, throw in an organ and hand me a cold beer, I just found heaven!
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MUSIC
The Saints
September 22, 2005
I've never written a review on a band before so forgive me if I use the wrong terminology to explain the effect this band has on me. I book bands to play in bars for a living and I hear a lot of different quality of sounds, some that I think might work for my area and some that I think “How the hell did they ever cut a C.D.” This band I booked around five years ago to play at a local blues bar..
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The Nillaz
September 11, 2005
Now don't get me wrong, I'm a fan of all kinds of music, including rap, but there's just something about suburban white guys rapping about hardcore sex and drugs that I can't stand. I mean, I really like some hip-hop and hardcore rap..
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Dream Big - Ryan Shupe & the Rubberband Capitol Nashville Records
September 7, 2005
I wasn't in the mood to listen to another CD from some new band that I've never heard of before and try and find something good out of it. I had some work to do on the computer and figured I'd pop it in and listen to it as some background music. An hour later my foot was sore from tapping to the rhythms coming out of my speakers. This is one of those CD's that you're going to put in and be in a good mood after your done listening to it..
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Rise Against
September 2 , 2005
Recently at Saint Andrews hall, STLD photographer's Dave Stone and Dave Carlson were fortunate enough to get an interview with Tim McIlrath of Chicago 's Rise Against, a self-proclaimed outcast of a band amongst its peers of punk bands. Rise Against has taken the opposite approach to Punk than most other bands and steered away from the negativity surrounding the culture.
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BANDS
Dropkick Murphy's - The Warrior's Code
August 20, 2005
Who can't love the good old sounds of punk rock with a little mandolin and a splash of accordions and bagpipes? I'm talking a beer drinkers dream! It's like St. Patty's Day every time I pop this in the CD player. There's just something about Irish punk rock that makes me wanna drink, fight and smoke all the while leaving me in a great mood.
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The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
August 15, 2005
Incredible is an understatement when it comes to these guys and their new album. This shit is the most engineered, jaw-dropping music I've heard in all my years, and also the most innovative. Frances the Mute is a 75 minute rock opera created around a journal found by deceased band mate Jeremy Ward, with whom he found many aspects of his life too similar to the author of the journal.
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The Warped Experience
August 5, 2005
What do you get when you throw thousands of hot girls, dozens of punk rock, ska and metal bands, and local skate boarders all in one place? WARPED TOUR 05' baby! Held in the Silverdome's parking lot for the third time in a row, Pontiac boasted the largest crowd on the US Tour this year! The line-up included many newbies, such as Fallout Boy, Halifax , Hawthorne Heights and My Chemical Romance, while sticking true to the veterans and booking bands like The Suicide Machines, Dropkick Murphys, Millencolin and Strung Out.
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Franz Ferdinand's "Take Me Out"
June 28, 2005
The single has been on the airwaves for more than a year, and most of you still don't get it. Every girl thinks its all about some cute scrawny neo-hipster with tight jeans begging them to take them out on a night on the town. It's this happy upbeat song thats fun to dance around like an idiot to.. right? Wrong. Let me try to explain.
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Anti Gangsta Rap album review
June 26, 2005
LOS ANGELES, CA - June 24, 2005 - In light of growing violence within
the Hip Hop world, and the pointless deaths of major rap stars Tupac
Shakur, Notorious B.I.G., Jam Master Jay and others, Future Austin, an underground rap star has had an epiphany.
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BANDS
Motley Crue
February 18, 2005
Thanks to the efforts of Mags Revell, a UK
promoter with Metropolis Music Group, Motley Crue has
launched their Red, White and Crue 2005...Better Live
than Dead tour! Motley Crue stopped playing together
six years ago when drummer Tommy Lee quit to form a
short lived side project and deal with marital and
family issues. So, Revell took a grass roots approach
by advertising in the UK media and enlisting the help
of fans via the Internet in hopes of a Crue reunion
and it worked! This reunion has also produced three
new songs entitled "If I Die Tomorrow", "Street
Fighting Man", and "Sick Love Song", all to be
released on the new anthology album, Red, White and
Crue on February first.
Vince Neil has been singing solo since the
breakup of Motley Crue with tours each year in North
America and Japan . His new solo single "Promise Me"
was released in earlier in January. Neil also
appeared on television in "The Surreal Life", "Greetings from Tuscon", and the sitcom "Still
Standing". Some may have even seen Neil get a face
lift and makeover on VH1's reality show.
Tommy Lee has been busy dj'ing at clubs across
California and touring with his own band, Methods of
Mayhem. He also released his biography Tommyland in
October of 2004. It even landed on the New York Times
best seller list! This candid and shocking memoir of
his life tells much of that has never been known or
told. Lee also plans on debuting his own solo album
sometime soon. In the meantime, look for him in the
NBC reality show attending the University of Nebraska .
Guitarist Mick Mars has been recuperating from
hip replacement surgery that was necessary due to a
condition called ankylosing spondylitis, a severely
degenerative rheumatoid disease that fuses his
vertebrae. He hasn't let the illness dampen his
creative spirit, as he has been writing music for use
in film, TV and recordings.
Nikki Sixx, Motley Crue's bassist has been seen
world wide with his band Brides of Destruction and
also released an album "Here Come the Bride's". Sixx
also recently co-wrote hit songs for Meatloaf and
Saliva. VH1 will publish The Heroin Diaries this
month compiled by Sixx from 1986-1987 during the
height of his addiction that actually flat lined him.
All members of the band are looking forward to
The Red, White and Crue...Better Live than Dead tour
set to kick off in beautiful San Juan , Puerto Rico ."We wanna be louder, we wanna be f---n' ruder. We
want more, more, more. That's f---n' Motley Crue
style" Sixx said. "We're back in...It's gonna freak
you out. Trust me, no one's seen anything like this
in years." Uh-Oh!
Amazing what fans and grass root activists can
accomplish! This tour is truly for the die hard
Motley Crue fans. Who wouldn't want to hear Kick
Start my Heart, Dr. Feelgood, Smokin' in the Boys
Room, Looks that Kill, and so many others that set the
standard for rock and roll today! If you can't make
it to the show at the Palace of Auburn Hills on
February 25, Motley Crue will be at Van Andel Arena in
Grand Rapids on April 27 and should be visiting Pine
Knob between August and September!
Scott Garner
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