Choosing a moniker for your band is a hard thing to do, there are already so many out there that it is unavoidable some good ones are going be reused or even stolen? Is it ever acceptable to steal a name? If the band was an obscure music act that everybody has forgotten, why not? Although it is ethically questionable, hey they got the idea first, right? If it was successful band, forget about it, there’s no way you re gonna do better.
I stopped by the gallery on Saturday afternoon to take a look at these intimate portraits of Morrissey, and I saw him closing his eyes with delight, hugging fans after a show, singing with passion, literally trashing the stage, enjoying nature with bandmates or looking at his reflection on water.
Mark Ryden, this curious artist who wraps his curious and surrealist paintings both reminiscent of the masters and cartoons around big-eyed little girls and pop culture references, has a new exhibit called ‘The Gay 90s’ at the Kohn Gallery in Los Angeles.
The Horrors took the stage after 11 pm and I got immediately this strong 80s gothic new wave vibe, combined with frontman Faris Badwan’s foggy and monotonous vocals. Haven’t we heard this before? Sure, the deadpan delivery à la Ian Curtis mixed with some Morrissey’s lament chilling the atmosphere
Last month, Kliph Scurlock, the Flaming Lips’ drummer, quit the band, but we learnt a bit later that he was actually fired. And the reason couldn’t be more wrong: Kliph was fired for criticizing Wayne’s friend, Chrisstina Fallin , the daughter of Oklahoma governor Mary Fallin
It just gets worse. Every song on Beyonce’s last album has her basically looking like a slut and she does not need to do that. She’s gorgeous and so fucking talented. And they all take it as women’s liberation!’
It’s written on some San Francisco hotel stationery paper, it is undated and we don’t even know who wrote it, Kurt or Courtney? Was it a joke, was it a real sentiment than Kurt had for his wife before his death?
Her music was pleasantly surprising, bringing some novelty at each song, exactly like her vocals, going from the detached morose tone of her singing during certain songs to a more plaintive ambiance, from angelic dreamy vocals to long high-pitch howls screaming crazy,… she had quite a range
Brooklyn singer-songwriter Sharon Van Etten has shared a new song, the closing track to her upcoming fourth studio album, ‘Are We There’, and this is a gorgeous ballad sung with swagger and harmony galore.
On Monday nights, I can never decide where to go, there are several clubs offering free shows every week, and it is always a dilemma. I went to the Echoplex last week for the Mystic Braves residency, so, last Monday, I went to the Satellite for Mosco Rosco’s last evening of their April residency….
Advertised on Macca Facebook page, I realized that I was not the only one, ‘The link, it does work!’,… ‘Error 503?’,… I’ve been trying for half an hour to get tickets for L.A. The web site is NOT working. ‘Error 503 Service Unavailable’… ‘RIDICULOUS and Shameful. I got into a queue
David J looked like a gentleman among his gentlemen thieves, who was named after actor Peter O’Toole. With his hat – that he didn’t quit much during the show – his short blond hair, his thin glasses and classy costume
I am not sure to understand why promoters and show bookers expect people to hang around after 1 am on a Sunday night, but all I can say is that the evening turned out to be a long night of music, but it was good music, so every one should have stayed and skipped the bedtime.
Street artist Jay Shells has taken over the streets of the city, posting these red signs displaying the quotes of famous rap songs, at strategic places. He apparently did the same thing in New York City – but needed a car to accomplish the same thing in LA
May be I am blessed with a brain which does not exclude one to make room for the other, may be some people are unable to appreciate both at the same time, but I see as much greatness in science than in art. Of course there’s bad science, but there is also bad art so they are equal for this point
I find EDM obnoxious, boring and I have zero interest at attending an EDM event,… but may be I am old, too old for that repetitive one-note pumping for hours, may be EDM is gonna be mainstream soon, may be it will be the only type of music that the next generations will be listening to, but in this case I am happy I will be dead
What have these people accomplished exactly, beside making raunchy sex-charged pop music or happy-go-lucky to boring tunes? Is singing about sex being influential for a woman?
Unfortunately, Spotify put its foot down, the little game ended on Friday, and Spotify asked them to remove the album because it was violating its terms of service. Vulfpeck responded to Spotify by posting 3 new tracks of spoken words
Taylor, with a natural charisma, had the crowd at his fingers right away. He was controlling the sing-along and the clapping like a total pro, and was demonstrating a constant interaction with his public. Even though all this has been done before, he was doing it as if he had invented it a minute ag
‘Elliott was interested in the dark side, but I don’t remember any obsession with death, I don’t know that he had a death wish’, but interestingly, Schultz relegates another part of the conversation to the notes at the end of the book, in tiny print: ‘Schoenkopf told me that, if Elliott had wanted to commit suicide he would have done it by heroin overdose not stabbing!!’
OFF! played a long list of songs, but they are so short!! And, mid-show, a girl had already started to rip the huge setlist off the stage… ‘Ask, don’t take’ said Keith Morris while stepping on the large setlist duct taped on the floor… ‘Don’t be a republican,… or a democrat!’
I noticed specifically in the tour we did last year that I did not feel that anymore. I felt like such a rock star some nights that it was scaring me. I was probably able to convey it earlier, but I never really felt it until recently. I’m still totally awkward in life.’
You can look at all these fantastic renditions on his website, and I thought that the next painting was more realistic than the previous one! You can almost smell the sweat and heat coming out of these mountains of human flesh. It reminds me some of Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch’s work
Immediately, the tone of the evening was given, a very psychedelic ambiance with a lot of fuzziness, yes, dark and dense layers of fuzz wrapped around reverb and drone, filled up the place
The Mystic Braves’ music is not even close to punk, but whatever, people were showing their appreciation while having fun! The quintet effectively plays this awesome 60s-drenched surf-guitar music which sound like a trip to the south of the border revisited by the Doors
You could win tickets by listening to Alt 98.7 all day. Great! Another opportunity for unemployed people who can listen to the radio all day long and spend the whole day hooked on the busy tone of their smart phone. This is nothing new, a lot of ‘secret show’ giveaways work this way
If you go on eBay, you will find tons of items already on sale! The Cake 12” vinyl box set for $499.99 (original price $124.99), R.E.M. Unplugged RSD vinyl box set $499.99 (original price $89.98), Crosley Peanuts Cruiser turntable $299.99 (original price $119), LCD Soundsystem ‘The Long Goodbye’ 5LP Box set $235.24 (original price $129.98),
Let’s see: How do you most often listen to music? 49% the radio? I had a hard time to believe this one, and this revealed right away the age of the people who answered this survey, what about 50s-60s old guys and gals?
Iron and Wine’s Sam Beam to Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon, Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold, Passion Pit’s Michael Angelakos, Les Savy Fav’s Tim Harrington, Fucked Up’s Damian Abraham, Ray LaMontagne, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros’ Alex Ebert, Band of Horses’ Ben Bridwell, The Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach
I went to three record stores on Record Store Day and drove by two others and, from what I saw, I can tell it was a total success! After visiting Record Parlour for a performance by Alexandra and the Starlight band, I headed up to Amoeba a few blocks away
If their style was classic rock and blues, with a large dose of soul, or even a gospelic twist assured by the vocals of their back up singer, their attitude was a powerhouse. They seemed to be well aware they were playing the real thing
‘I have 50 pieces that are on LPs that I have collaged on top of and printed new images. I have put all my favorite records in a record store installation in the space with two turntables. People can take any of my records, whether it’s rare, whether it’s signed, listen to it and hopefully put it back.’
More and more EDM DJs every year? EDM promoters have had some difficulties to find a venue around LA, and since the Los Angeles State Historic Park (home of Hard Summer and Insomniac) is currently closed for renovation, it is crucial for them to find a new venue, and that’s why the EDM promoters are all eyes for Grand Park.
At Amoeba, with the only help of her acoustic guitar and strong smoky voice, she played most of the songs alone, songs such as ‘Little Black Train’, Give Me The Roses’ – a song about how she wants to live her life, she added, ‘give me the roses while I am alive’.
Coldplay is about to release a new album ‘Ghost Stories’ and a band like them usually embarks in a massive world tour, booking giant size arenas from Australia to Stockholm,… No such thing here, not even a festival headlining, just 6 dates in tiny places?
15% of people who do buy music on CD, vinyl or cassette tape, never plan on playing them! And this largely concerned the young people, among the 18-24 years old, 26% bought music without having the intention to play it… so all these vinyl purchases are just to decorate their bedroom shelves?
His Made in America festival is coming to Los Angeles. He and Mayor Eric Garcetti announced this morning that the festival will take place in the new Grand Park downtown LA, during Labor Day weekend (August 30th-31st).
According to the Movoto blog, music choices ‘aren’t just about music, they are about fashion, philosophy, lifestyle, too’… after all this is a real estate blog and they may want to use these data for other purposes, may be to sell more houses depending on people’s preferences for music?
All these articles were published by Spin magazine, only this year. Has Spin magazine become Courtney Love’s personal diary or free promo-platform? Or is it really free? At one point a magazine stops doing journalism and become a kiss-ass rag for some declining and controversial rock figure?
I have more than once complained about certain music being too repetitive, ‘Music is about repetition’ answered me Iman a long time ago. Yes, he was right, and this new study demonstrates it even more. Dr. Elizabeth Margulis , associate Professor at Peabody Conservatory of Music at Columbia University decided to do a simple experiment
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It is hard to believe such darkness can come from 12 year-old kids (I read that they are in 7th grade!), but frontboy Malcolm Brickhouse was playing a mean guitar while being scarier than Ozzy even in his younger days
Every year they have to top the previous year. A few years ago we had the Tupac hologram, and what could be next? More celebrities paid to pause for selfies with complete strangers? Looking at my Twitter feed, people really love those! In fact some people go to Coachella just for the celebrity sightings.
A great advantage of this Coachella-in-your-living-room is the ability to switch from one stage to another at the click of the mouse, the stream is not even buffering and only for this it’s worth it, as they have greatly improved the technology
A graph published by the Los Angeles Times really surprised me: 69 of the 169 (40.8%) acts playing Coachella this year are classified as EDM, and only 62 are rock acts (36.7%)
Status update on my Facebook: Still not going to Coachella! Attending Coachella may have been fun and cool 10 years ago, but, after reading a few articles about this weekend festivities, there is absolutely no chance I will ever pay to attend
The picture above shows Isaac and the 1000 shirts, but he is pushing the project further, and the last entry (a funny one from The Soft Pack) had the hashtag 1,005… How far can he go?
The Talking Heads are the first reference that comes to mind, Sean Guerin‘s vocals are very reminiscent of David Byrne’s monochord and unique style, but all this is also so James Murphy in the most LCD Soundsystem sense of the term, that you will end up dancing in the street
Of course, I am not going as I have the feeling that this hyped festival has less and less to do with music,… it’s now all about fashion, money and show-off, and I realize, about just getting one of these expensive tickets!
Man, was the line really long!! I didn’t really expected it, I saw them at Vacation Vinyl when there were 20 people on line, but I guess all this Black Flag nostalgia has found its way to OFF!
