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| Guardian |
 Anyone yearning for the pre-dancefloor, pre-electronic Franz Ferdinand is likely to be sated by the Rakes' third album. The two bands have been touring together, and it's clearly had an effect on the Rakes' sound, although you can also hear Maxïmo Park in their taut, punchy, energetic tunes. The surprise is how good those tunes are, from urgent opener You're in It to the terrific, breakneck That's the Reason. The band took time out from the "dull" London scene to record in Berlin, the same move that sparked the creativity of David Bowie, Iggy Pop and U2. While avant-garde adventure here is limited to echoes of Sparks on The Woes of the Working Woman and Mullers Rachet's piano motifs, the city has certainly sharpened the Rakes' focus. No song is longer than three-and-a-half minutes, and the whole album clocks in at under half an hour, giving anyone time to play it all again....full text |
| Uncut |
| In the “new Britpop” rush of 2004, The Rakes came over like a cross between Blur and Pulp – offering tuneful social observation, but on a shoestring. It’s a formula that served the band well through two albums rich in anecdotal detail (Capture/Release and Ten New Messages, both of which might as well have been called Got Pissed After Work), a method which, with minor adjustment is continued here....full text |
| Nytimes |
| The punks are invading the theater. A new musical production adapted from “American Idiot,” the best-selling album by the punk band Green Day, is scheduled to make its debut in September at the Berkeley Repertory Theater in California. Enlarge This Image Phil Mucci The band Green Day: from left, Tre Cool, Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt. Related Times Topics: Green Day Berkeley Rep is to announce Monday that the new work, also titled “American Idiot,” will have its premiere as the first production of the theater’s 2009-10 season, and run from Sept. 4 through Oct. 11. The musical is a collaboration between Green Day — the Bay Area rock trio consisting of Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tre Cool — and Michael Mayer, the Tony Award-winning director of “Spring Awakening.”...full text |
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