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- News Roundup: 9/20/2010
A bust of Frank Zappa was brought to the pioneering musician’s hometown of Baltimore, MD on Sunday. A replica of a statue erected in a public square in Vilnius, Lithuania, the bust was donated to Baltimore by Lithuanian Zappa fans. The statue was dedicated in a ceremony that coincided with the 25th anniversary of Zappa’s testimony before Congress on freedom of expression for recording artists, and included Baltimore mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Zappa’s widow and three of his children, the mayor of Vilinus and Saulius Paukstys, the longtime president of a Lithuanian Zappa fan club who commissioned the original statue. The bust was placed on a 12-foot steel pole outside of an East Baltimore library; afterward, Dweezil Zappa’s band Zappa Plays Zappa performed. [Billboard.com]Lady Gaga will appear at a Maine rally on Monday to persuade the state’s two Republican senators to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” A Senate vote on the bill will take place on Tuesday and the senators, Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe, remain undecided on the issue. Gaga, who also posted a seven-minute video on YouTube last week in support of repealing the policy, will be joined by straight and gay members of the military at the rally. [RollingStone.com]
Guitarist Adam Kessler has left the Drums, leaving the rest of the band “devastated,” according to a statement the remaining members posted on their website. The band is currently touring the U.S. with Surfer Blood and is still scheduled to tour Europe and the U.K. in November and December. [Spinner.com]
Everyone already knew that Jay-Z and Beyonce were one of entertainment’s biggest power couples, but now it’s official. The pair will enter the 2011 Guinness Book of World Records as the “highest-earning power couple,” raking in $122 million in 2009. [Essence.com]
The Charlatans have canceled the rest of their U.S. tour following the collapse of their drummer, Jon Brookes, during their September 15 set in Philadelphia. The band released a statement, saying that Brookes was in a “comfortable condition” and that they hope to reschedule the dates “as soon as possible”. [Gigwise.com]
Vevo and MTV are waging a war of numbers to determine which is the top music destination site on the Internet. MTV claimed that its comScore traffic figures earned it the title, but Vevo claims that its number of streamed videos — 46 million in August, compared to MTV’s 18.8 million — makes the Sony Music and Universal Music Group-created site the winner. [TheDailySwarm.com]
Want to play with the songs from Phoenix’s most recent album? The band released audio stems from the album as a “present” before their upcoming Madison Square Garden concert. [TwentyFourBit.com]
Check out OK Go’s puppy powered, soon-to-be viral video for “White Knuckles.” [Gizmodo.com]
October is nearing, and that means it’s time to get in the Halloween spirit. Listen to a mix of classic horror film music by Quiet Village’s Joel Martin. [FactMag.com]
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Frankie Rose and the Outs’ self-titled debut album could have been viewed as a textbook case of bandwagon jumping when it came out in late 2010. The fuzzy, heavily reverbed take on classic girl group pop played and sung by women was quite popular — and on the verge of being overdone. Rose was no Frankie-come-lately, though; she played drums with an early lineup of the Vivian Girls (and wrote their best song, "Where Do You Run To") and was in the live version of the Dum Dum Girls (as well as the Crystal Stilts, though she was the only girl in the band). Her credentials being in order is only part of the battle, though; she'd need to make a decent album to escape bandwagon-jumping charges. Let the record show that she has exceeded expectations and all charges have been dropped. Together with her band, Rose has crafted something that serves as both a culmination of the girl noise pop sound and a hint of where it could go next. Tracks like "Candy" and "Girlfriend Island" utilize walls of noise, pounding floor toms, and huge AM radio hooks; "Little Brown Haired Girls” has vocal harmonies the Paris Sisters could appreciate; and "Save Me" has all the heartbroken drama of a Spector production. More intriguing are the songs that use girl groups buried under a blanket of hiss as a starting point and go off in interesting directions — for example, the drifting sections of "Memo," where the guitars linger over the notes while a bed of noise hovers in the distance, and the near a cappella cover of Arthur Russell’s "You Can Make Me Feel Bad" that shows off the group's beautiful vocal harmonies to full effect. It's also nice how there seems to be as much Cramps-style rockabilly in the band's DNA as there is Shangri-Las. Check the shivering guitar work of "Must Be Nice" or the rollicking, car-crash dramatic sound of "Don't Tred" for confirmation. The droning organs and languid tempos of "Hollow Life" and "Lullubye for Roads & Miles" show a nice range and give the album some depth. Rose probably could have just made a cookie-cutter noise pop record and people would have liked it just fine; that she and the group display lots of sonic imagination, a powerfully strong ear for melody, and a willingness to mess with expectations makes the record something special. Frankie Rose and the Outs have made a record that put her old band the Vivian Girls to shame, and instead of proving to be bandwagon jumpers, they instead made a record other girl pop bands can emulate and someday hope to equal.
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