The concept, founded by Bono, is just self-promotion, buy any (RED) product and a certain percentage goes to Bono’s Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, meaning that not a penny comes out of Bono’s pocket. And that’s his genius, he passes for a humanitarian without giving away his money
For a girl who has declared ‘What’s going to make this band different is our live show’ it was an odd choice, but she probably knew she would not have to conquer anyone there, she was working with the devoted die-hard crowd.
many believe that the famous the line ‘it’s better to burn out than to fade away’ taken from his alleged suicide note (it is actually a line from a Neil Young song) was a bye-bye to the music industry rather than to life, as Cobain had become really fed up with the fame game
The idea is barely new or original, and Lana Del Rey automatically adopted the concept, because it is fitting so well with her façade of depraved poster-girl for the slutwave-sadcore who flirts with death.
There must be a middle ground between disinheriting your children and spoiling them to the bone marrow, some celebrities have a hard time finding balance it seems.
Morris invited the audience ‘to participate with enthusiasm in a festival which would destroy the stuffy conventions of traditional classical concerts’ and asked people ‘to bring beer into a standing ‘mosh pit’ in front of the stage’ even saying ‘Clap or whoop when you like, and no shushing other people.’
I have already noticed how a song can be strongly associated with a specific memory, and transport you in time better than any other time-machine (I know Proust had his Madeleine) but we honestly don’t understand why music, and apparently music better than anything else, can do that.
‘We are not at a funeral, please!’ said Angelique Kidjo during her free concert at Grand Performances, It made me laugh and she was right, people had to get up! She was ‘commanding’ people to stand up and dance, whereas most of them had been sitting since the beginning of the performance.
Despite R Kelly playing a weird sex-predator doctor and a naked Gaga masturbating in newspapers while being shot by Richardson, there’s nothing there really more shocking than in your usual shitty sexually-charged video. So may be the rest of the clip got wilder
It’s really weird because I found the CD booklet of the soundtrack of ‘Garden State’ on the ground when I was running outside this week. It was there, probably dropped by someone and lying open on concrete,… I picked it up, and I remembered how good this soundtrack was
It’s not pleasant asking a pop star if she thinks the idea of dying young herself is attractive – it’s a dark question, but it’s not a leading one. She has every opportunity to say no. And she can hardly complain about the subject matter: she’d been talking about her icons all dying young, she named her debut album Born to Die
I knew a bit about hydrothermal vents, these weird deep-sea openings which allow chemically rich hot water to erupt to be the beginning of the food chain for mysterious life. Contrarily to any other place on earth, the energy sustaining the biological communities which live there does not come from the sun but from dissolved materials coming from hydrothermal vents.
But let’s imagine for a minute all the possibilities for other bands. If it would be very easy to imagine any entrée inspired by the Smashing Pumpkins, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Meat Loaf, Salt-N-Pepa, Spice Girls, the Black Eyed Peas, Korn
I just hope that this time I will be able to keep these videos on YouTube a little bit longer than last time: I filmed them at the Echoplex back in February, and the video got more than 40,000 views!! I got in trouble with YouTube for ‘TOS violation’ as YouTube probably noticed some unusual large activity on the account
James Marcus Haney is a sort of dream fantasy for me, as he has done it at a completely different level, getting into Coachella in 2010 by hopping a fence, using fake bracelets around his wrist and spending a night in a porta-potty – when you know how these things smell, this is award-worthy
However, XL has Adele, Atoms for Peace, Jack White, Radiohead, Sigur Ros, Vampire Weekends and The XX, Domino has the Artic Monkeys, and 4AD has Bon Iver, TV on the Radio, The National, St. Vincent, Pixies, Iron and Wine…, so we aren’t really talking about obscure artists.
So it turns out that Cold War Kids’ Nathan Willett and Matt Maust have a side project with We Barbarians’ Nathan Warketin! They even have a debut LP ‘Is Exotic Bait’ out soon, on July 8th via Frenchkiss Records, and a free residency at the Satellite this month. I got the chance to see them and totally enjoyed a high-energy show with trumpet, sax and multicolor-hair back-up singers.
I got a few times the Mogwai-fronted-by-Death-Cab-For-Cutie impression, but even this doesn’t completely define their sophisticated sound. There also was repetition, some krautrock-y feeling without being totally krautrock, these guys were definitively really hard to pigeonhole, and this is why they were interesting
I continue to have a problem with posthumous releases and I don’t trust them, they generally do not represent the artists’ intentions, they do not truly reflect his or her work, and I feel so uneasy when it happens to an artist I deeply care about. But there are posthumous releases and posthumous releases, they aren’t all equal on the moral scale
This time was not as smooth as usual since Kera was fighting with some technical problems. She first broke a guitar string then had some sound problems, but at the top of this, a very loud electronic dance DJ party had started at the other end of Chinatown
‘It’s been quite Disheartening to see the ‘Facebook’ Hatred thrown about by Our Former Friends/ Working Partners Kristeen Young and Tony Visconti. I do feel that Someone needs to Speak Up for Moz in this situation as it is unbearable to watch people you once trusted, Attack and Pick Away at your Friend.”
Lou Reed, Bob Dylan, Lana drops a celebrity name after another, she hangs out with street people but miraculously never gets an STD or a good beating. And She even pretends to still be doing this street wandering. Let’s sum up her myth so far, she has been homeless, alcoholic, she still sleeps with strangers she meets in the streets and she is so unhappy she wants to die
‘Multicolored manias abound as our young fuzz-master breaks the dials in search of the ultimate distortion, combing dark and light tones together into the long hair of seventeen songs. Fresh beats abound and savage rock sits heavily next to hip-shakin’ sunshine pop as Ty sets the kitchen sink on fire!’
She gave a short but intense set, all alone with her electric guitar and multiple pedals, producing some ambient, experimental lugubrious reverb-tinted soundscapes inhabited by her breathy and vulnerable voice, and it was part eerie, part haunting.
May be that’s a new outlet for Greg Ginn’s new band, I heard that the tickets were not selling as fast as expected? So I don’t know if Mike Vallely will change his language but last time I saw him he was saying a lot of fuck… Definitively not good for the kids. And what does stripped down mean in this case?
I have seen many incarnations of the Eels, and the one at the Orpheum on Wednesday night was a very lo-key, intimate and subtle one, with very quiet moments and people listening without making a noise, deeply submerged into Mark Oliver Everett’s son
Is Kanye West the new prophet? The new chosen one? The material is impressive, I had no idea Kanye’s insane verbal diarrhea could fit so well basically… with anything as long as it is scored by Jonny Greenwood’s ‘There will be Blood’,… or is it ‘the Master’? It’s so ironic
She appears on stage like a gracious and thin statuesque figure, quite dignified and she sang with a soulful and velvet voice,… I read that she interestingly describes her music as ‘a cross between Mary Poppins and Coldplay’, whatever this means, but I didn’t get the Coldplay vibe nor the Mary Poppins side, and I don’t think she was making allusion to her full-clothing
Perry has not sung with Journey since 1991, and Mark said he hadn’t performed in Los Angeles for 20 years! Nevertheless, his voice is still great, and although he said he was a bit out of breath after singing ‘Lights’, he can still totally hold the high notes in a very amazing way.
As she was wearing a long black skirt and a black top with a white collar, she might have looked like a sage schoolgirl entering catholic school had it not been for for her totally-Margot-Tenebaum dark eyeliner… And knowing that Mr Little Jeans is a name of a minor and humble character (the janitor) in Wes Anderson’s ‘Rushmore’, this makes complete sense
‘Where does it come from bro? And what’s fueling it ok? In [1989] it was used sparingly in small circles, now it’s mainstream. Why? … You saying black folk pinned it on themselves out of nowhere dude?’
The result was quite minimalist, Amelia’s vocals were always front, but everyone was cheering at each of her moves,… I was taking tons of pictures and they came up all great. ‘Wait! Small adjustment’, she said while they had to move their equipment away from the sun, visibly ‘not used to direct sunlight’ and ‘designed for pale people in a basement’ as Nick Sanborn notice.
‘For me, the issue of feminism is just not an interesting concept. . . Whenever people bring up feminism, I’m like, god. I’m just not really that interested. I’m more interested in, you know, SpaceX and Tesla, what’s going to happen with our intergalactic possibilities.’
First, they were playing their most nonchalant songs, which did not prevent people to start crowd surfing right away, then frontman John Paul Pitts said they were going up a notch, and suddenly they were playing much faster with people going crazy along the very good and sunny harmonies of ‘Miranda’
With crowd’s favorites like ‘Feed me Now’, ‘Honest Feedback’ and ‘Benny Goodman’, they set the tone for a feel-good summer-time, yes it was a beautiful day and the music was driving the crowd into a festive and playful mood… but I almost forgot, just before their set, a wedding proposal happened on stage
He was charming the crowd with his melodious soul-jazz songs like ‘Dwell in the dark’, ‘Plastic’ and you could almost hear the rain tapping on the window,…they sounded like soothing lullabies, and then he joked about his new video for his song ‘Man on the Moon’, saying he was barely using the internet, ‘so it has been a struggle
Sure there is worst than this, there are entertainers who perform for tyrants and dictators in foreign countries, but this is as close as you can go to the same thing while staying in the US. On Friday, Pharrell Williams as well as Harry Connick Jr., Robin Thicke, Sarah McLachlan, and Aloe Blacc, performed at Walmart annual shareholders gathering
According to Texas Monthly, the Red River Cultural District is the place ‘where all of the artists who’ve emerged from the city’s vibrant music community over the past fifteen cut their teeth, made their bones’, is one of the most vital music districts in the country, and is Austin’s live music identity
I hate rapping. It puts you in this box. … I’m talented enough to do other things. I don’t know, I’m pretty bored with it. It’s not interesting. In the future, I want to do films. I want people to mention my name next to Wes Anderson or Quentin Tarantino. I don’t want my name to be mentioned next to other rappers at all.’
Not only is Metallica frontman James Hetfield a member of the NRA, but he is also an absolutely disgusting hunter enthusiast. On top of this, he has made the decision to narrate a new TV series about Alaskan bear hunting, which obviously didn’t please a lot of people.
Sure, there is this video of them in the studio (below), revealing these isolated and haunting guitar notes or piano keys, these milliseconds of songs here and there, these long silences and these guitar riffs at 1:09, so typical-sad-Interpol that you would recognize them in the middle of chaos
The short clip shows Bieber parodying his own hit ‘One Less Lonely Girl’, using the n-word and joking about joining the KKK. What the fuck Bieber? Are you that ignorant redneck that almost everyone suspected you would be? I guess so….
They still look like kids and once again the loud guitars are super melodic and the tune filled with a hooky chorus that may stick in your head a few days. They have tamed down a bit the punk-grunge side and have stayed on the fuzz-power-pop side, but I just wonder why these guys never got bigger with hooks like these
From start to finish, the music was loud, upbeat and very melodic, but played with a hardcore energy and a punk ferocity. The guitars – actually there was only one, the other one was a bass – were powerful and Bob Mould was getting the biggest sound ever of his instrument.
Just One of the Guys’ was produced by Beck – although I can’t really recognize anything Beck-like in this song, it is a true Jenny Lewis tune – and it is also the first single of her upcoming album ‘The Voyager’, on which she collaborates with many different artists such as Ryan Adams and her boyfriend Jonathan Rice
By the way, a lazaretto (and I didn’t know this) is a quarantine station for maritime travelers or a leper colony (named after the parable of Lazarus the beggar). Does Jack White feel in quarantine in the music world, does he think he is the leper of these times?
‘As creative as it is, make no mistake, your video is an advertisement that is designed to sell a product, and long ago we made a conscious decision not to permit our music and/or name to be used in product ads.’
GoldieBox agreed to pay $1million, and the money was given to a charity supporting science, technology, engineering and/or math education for girls! Isn’t it fantastic? This is what I call having some ethics.
For a first album, it is totally remarkable and unique, Kan Wakan have built a mysterious and magnificent sound and their musical approach matches the art cover of their album, it is a symphonic super-production, both colossal and Sisyphean.
According to this article, ‘traditional stringed instruments do not discriminate against left-handers at all, because the left hand (which performs the fingering, chords, etc) actually has the more difficult job, requiring most the dexterity.’ So would left-handers have an advantage?
By the same token he did trash Lana Del Rey, Adele who ‘would not have happened if Amy Winehouse was alive’, and the media recently reminded us he also had a few nice words about his ex-wife and bandmate Meg White, who was ‘uninterested’ and who wasn’t apparently worshipping him as she should hav
