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Bomb The Music Industry!
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Bomb the Music Industry!
Saturday · The Mad Hatter
Less a band and more a roving collective of musical provocateurs, Bomb the Music Industry! has been challenging the status quo with its methods, its music and its relatively irony-free moniker since the "band" coalesced in 2004.
BtMI! began four years ago in the wake of another New York Punk aggregation, the Arrogant Sons of Bitches, whose hiatus inspired songwriter/multi-instrumentalist/producer Jeff Rosenstock to explore new modes of creative musical expression on his own. Incorporating elements of Ska and DC Hardcore, as well as Synth Pop and Ambient looping, Rosenstock and his revolving collaborative (nearly 20 members have contributed to BtMI! in its brief history) have found the unlikely intersection of Minor Threat, Fishbone, Neutral Milk Hotel and Harvey Danger during the course of their three albums to date.
Bomb the Music Industry! might be moving away from the former and heading toward the latter on its next album, the imminent Scramblers. Described by Rosenstock as "not much Punk, not much Ska," the new BtMI! album is being touted as a turn toward a more traditional Indie Rock sound. It must be noted, however, that a band with a longstanding policy of inviting audience members who have learned one of their songs and brought an instrument to the show join them onstage clearly doesn't possess a point of view that could be considered conventional.
Rosenstock notes on the band's Web site (bombthemusicindustry.com) that the new album has been influenced by Pulp, +/- and Future of the Left, and features songs called "Gang of Four Meets the Stooges But Boring" and "9/11 Fever!" Or maybe not. What's in store for Bomb the Music Industry!? Only one way to find out and even that's not a sure thing.
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Teddy Thompson
Saturday #183 Molly Malones (Covington)
Forging a career in the music industry is challenging enough in its own right, but hauling the additional baggage of famous and critically acclaimed parents is daunting to the extreme. If there is an intelligent and classy way to go about it, surely Teddy Thompson has defined it.
The son of the lionized first couple of British Folk, Richard and Linda Thompson, Teddy Thompson joined his fathers band at age 17 and gained invaluable insight into recording and touring. Seven years later, Thompson finally released his eponymous debut album, and in doing so proved that having famous parents doesnt guarantee commercial success, as the album earned strong reviews but few sales.
For the next five years, other than releasing his slightly more successful Blunderbuss EP, Thompson focused his attentions on outward musical concerns. He joined Rosanne Cash as a member of her touring band, sang backing vocals on old friend Rufus Wainwrights Want album and convinced his mother to end her 17-year recording hiatus, co-writing, co-producing and playing on her spectacular 2002 comeback, Fashionably Late.
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Teddy Thompson
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Thompson finally concentrated on his own music with 2006s Separate Ways, his first album for Verve Records, then followed it a year later with the surprising and well received Country covers release, Upfront & Down Low. For his fourth album, the soon-to-be-released A Piece of What You Need, Thompson returns to his early rhythmic Pop direction and his brilliant songwriting skills, with brass and orchestral flourishes reminiscent of Van Dyke Parks, arrangements that Thompson credits to producer Marius DeVries.
Regardless of producer or parentage or Blackberry filled with famous friends, Teddy Thompsons successes have been a result of his own unique and formidable talents.
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