Skinny Puppy Is Asking For $666,000 After Music is Used In Guantánamo Torture Camp
I can name, you know, thirty Norwegian death metal bands that would make Metallica sound like Simon & Garfunkel.
Rapper T-Pain: Some Rappers Won't Work With Frank Ocean Because He's Gay
‘Like, he was on [Jay Z and Kanye West’s] ‘Watch the Throne’ album before he came out, and then when he came out, it’s like he can’t get in the studio with Jay and Kanye right now. It’s so fucking terrible. … It’s in his fucking genes. It’s not a fucking choice. The man came out like that, and you can’t just fucking disown this man’
'White Fire', Angel Olsen's Devastating New Track
White Fire’, the new song off her upcoming and second album is a slow and long one, ruminating longing, regret and hurt, it’s simply devastating and the song will remind you the style of her debut album ‘Half Way Home’ that she released in 2012. Her druggy-sleepy voice, like numbed by the pain
A Map Made Of Song Titles?
It’s certainly very convenient, plus it obviously comes with the playlist on Spotify which will make the Map alive and provide 23 hours worth of music. That’s fantastic, and beside the fact that a few tracks are absent from the Spotify list, it includes artists of all horizons, mainstream and indie ones or legends.
Queens Of The Stone Age’s Josh Homme Throws A Fan Off Stage During Concert
I think Homme simply got scared! A lot of musicians have been attacked on stage and Lennon was shot by a fan after all. Imagine being immersed in the music and suddenly seeing this guy jumping at you and wanted to do god-knows-what?
Not With The Band: What Can We Learn About Music From Blind Mice?
They didn’t play music to the animals but sounds of different frequencies and intensities and the results showed that neurons of the mice kept in the dark could ‘hear much softer sounds’ than the other animals. ‘They also have much finer discrimination ability as far as identifying pitch goes,’
Pussy Riot's cat fight?
It’s very sad that Pussy Riot got divide this way, this is what Putin wants after all, but may be Nadia and Masha got a big ego after all
Kera and the Lesbians at the Echo on Monday February 3rd, 2014
Kera is not your average frontgirl, she is so dynamic, so full of life, looking like a little happy volcano always ready to explode at any moment with her songs, that the show was pure joy and fun. The band may have found the right description to fit their cute songs bursting at your face in repeat, ‘bipolar folk’
Out Of The Blue, Axl Rose Weighs On The Red Hot Chili Peppers' Super Bowl Performance
what does Axl Rose have to do with all this? He just put his two cents in the middle of this non-controversy, and wrote this long and semi-hilarious post on the Hollywood Reporter, entitled ‘In the Name of Science’
Let's Hope Madonna Is Not Watching Irish TV
Yeah… Madonna may be ‘cool’ but there’s no way the Pussy Riot girls will take her seriously. And I understand, she is this rich entertainer who visits African orphanages wearing allergy mask and holding hand sanitizer
Like Everybody Else, The Red Hot Chili Peppers Were Faking Their Super Bowl Show
the point being that these shows are always too big to be real, and there was a question on many lips… were the Red Hot Chili Peppers really playing or were they faking it?
Bob Dylan Takes Over The Superbowl And Becomes A Car Saleman?
some real awkward statements such as let Germany brew your beer/Let Switzerland build your watch/Let Asia assemble your phone/We will build your car’… wow, did Dylan the poet actually say this?
Spotify Is Now Spending More Than $9 Million In Rent Per Year For Its NY Headquarters
So why are they spending so much money for their headquarters when they pay artists $0.012 per stream or something of this order? I will never understand the financial world and the Wall Street culture
Not With The Band: On The Difficulty To Judge The Artists We Admire
Are we ever able to objectively judge the artists we like and love? I guess not, being bias is part of the game of being a fan, that’s why anyone famous can easily get away with murder.
Jesus Sons At Permanent Records, Saturday February 1st 2014
Permanent Records fortunately still had a few copies – and this is another proof that people are still buying records when they are this good and when they give you the feeling of riding an old classic motorcycle along the 60s highways.
Kid Rock And Alan Jackson To Play Sea World's Controversial Concert Series
What part of animal abuse Rock and Jackson do not understand? Since the release of the powerful documentary ‘Blackfish’ nobody can ignore what’s going on in these amusement parks, and how wrong we are to believe we can keep these animals in captivity for the sake of our own entertainment
Conor Oberst Announces A New Country-Flavored Album And His Hatred For The Internet
” ‘I don’t know if it makes me an asshole to not want to talk to my fans. But I’m not going to sit on a fucking computer and try to talk to some fucking 16-year-old in wherever-the-fuck. I try to remind myself to be grateful. I’m not a fucking superstar.”
Mike Doughty Responds To The Outrage Following The Release Of His EDM Tracks Sampling Elliott Smith
All this focus on the respect of the music has always made me laugh a bit when so little respect is accorded to Elliott the person… Aren’t there other people using Elliott persona to sell books and movies, molding him according to their preconceived ideas of the Elliott Smith myth?
Listen To Pony Boy's New Song ‘Happy Ever After’
Marchelle describes her music as ‘junkyard country’ and her tunes as ‘the simple songs about those feelings of longing for someone you can’t hold onto or seem to let go of against one’s better judgment’. One of her songs will probably end up on the soundtrack of some cool TV hip series
Insult Kim, Receive Kanye's Beating And Get $250,000? What A Deal!
a random guy, at the right place and at the right moment, insulting a celebrity and getting rewarded by a large amount of money for this? He probably knew that he didn’t have to push very hard on the West button to get a reaction, and he milk the cow!
Eels Announces 'The Cautionary Tales Of Mark Oliver Everett' With Single 'Agatha Chang'
Who can remember the Eels’ last effort, ‘Wonderful, Glorious’? Not a very memorable one but it is possible that the prolific songwriter is back.
Ex-Clash Drummer Terry Chimes Has Become A Chiropractor And A Catholic?
At the end, what does this tell us? That there is a life after punk rock? But do we need to know… I already wasn’t very found of chiropractors and their new-age-y-pseudo-medicine (it’s wacky what can I say) but a catholic chiropractor?
Elliott Smith And Mike Doughty's EDM Collaboration?
Feel free to like it or hate it, it’s not Elliott’s, it’s something else and I certainly can’t speak for him. But I am not someone who could get outraged for this sort of ‘blasphemy’.
Pussy Riot's Appearance At Amnesty International Concert Does Not Please Brooklyn Russian Priest
They don’t want to go on tour, or record an album or even become a real punk band. They have never been a real punk band to begin with, they were not even real musicians, and Pussy Riot was part of a bigger art movement protesting against Putin.
Trent Reznor Performs, Loses and Gets Mad At The Grammys
But these Grammys were also about lots of old school stuff: Paul McCartney, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson performed!! So there is room for everyone. I wonder whether Trent did a good or detrimental thing with this tweet.
Party Animal Justin Bieber May Have Had Some Big Help From His Father?
The classic story of the young pop star with too much money and too many options, we have seen this so many times before I couldn’t care less. But The Guardian is reporting there may be another element in this too common story
My Answer To W. T. Schultz's Last Interview
Apparently Schultz hasn’t talked to a lot of fans, because I met quite a lot of them who are even more certain than me about what happened to Elliott! Saying that I am a murder theorist is so laughable, when he has developed an obsession with artists who have committed suicide,
Not With The Band: What Makes A Great Music Video?
I always prefer to discover a new song without a video, but it’s rarely the case these days. So I didn’t get a lot of this during their conversation, I guess music videos are a given now and we don’t even question their existence anymore
Tim Armstrong's 'Avenues & Alleyways’ At Subliminal Projects, Friday January 24th 2014
I quite liked it right away, it was raw and jumping in your face, with a real interest into people, faces, guitars, skulls and revolvers, certainly more spontaneous than refined, and following the principle that ‘passion is more important than precision’. Some of these women were like a modern and punk version of Toulouse Lautrec’s
Because We All Need A Cassette Coffee Table!
TAYBLE is run by three young entrepreneurs ‘who set out to make a product that would not only be a functional piece of furniture, but also a nostalgic piece of art. Influenced by homemade mixtapes, pop-art and modern design TAYBLE caters to musicians, artists and the young at heart’.
OFF! Are Back And They Want to 'Void You Out'
They are enraged, they want to crush everyone against the wall and disintegrate the world, your neurons included, but sometimes you need a little bit of OFF! in your world. It may sound like some good all-fashioned hardcore, but damn it’s efficient, and Greg Ginn should feel sorry
Mogwai Has It Own Whiskey To Go With Their 'Rave Tapes'
I am not sure why, but I had never associated Mogwai with old age whiskey, it’s not because they are both from Scotland that I should assume they go well together. However The Good Spirits co. In Glascow is releasing a special Mogwai edition to celebrate the release of Mogwai’s new album ‘Rave Tapes
Jesse Woods, La Luz, & Pure Bathing Culture At The Bootleg, Wednesday January 22nd 2014
His songs had a very familiar melancholy, but unexpected detours in the melodies, with those kinds of inflections in the voice that suddenly make the whole song for you. Just listen to ‘Cold Blood’, one of my favorites off his debut full-length album ‘Get your Burdens Lifted’,
Aberdeen Will Have Its Kurt Cobain Day (Or Week)
Will they invite bands to cover Nirvana songs? Will the Foo Fighters be there? Will they screen that dreadful Gus Van Sant’s movie? And most important, will Courtney Love be invited? I hope not, and anyway she is currently way too busy crying at the stand
Saint Motel Revives Italo Disco In The New Video For 'My Type'
The Los Angeles indie band, which always do it with class and cinema, has just released a black and white video for their song ‘My Type’, a song that will be featured on their upcoming LP, the follow-up to their 2012 album ‘Voyeur’.
Listen to Youth Lagoon's 'Worms' For The Space Project
Youth Lagoon and his spacey sound were quite perfect for this, and this young guy never ceases to amaze me! His vocals, which start the track, have never been weirder or more emotional
Ivory Deville And Bones Muhroni At The Satellite, Sunday January 19th 2014
Was it yesterday that I thought that classic rock was totally dead according to Google play users or whatever it was? Apparently the band Ivory Deville didn’t get the message and its members are bringing back some real good old time of rock’ n’ roll with great dynamism and a modern twist
Beck Has Released A New Song: Listen To 'Blue Moon'
just listening to this warm melancholic chorus brings me back years ago, these ooooooos are definitively very Sea Change, the tone is just a bit more upbeat. And if this had escaped you, the rainbow in Beck’s face is there to remind you about the cover art of ‘Sea Change’
Watch Savages' New and Camus-Inspired Video For 'Strife'
The British all-female post-punk band Savages has released a new video for the song ‘Strife’ off their album ‘Silence Yourself’, and it is supposed to be directly inspired by Albert Camus’ ‘The Stranger’.
Not With The Band: Exploring Google Music Timeline
But may be we have to be careful with these kinds of statistics for several reasons: First of all how many Google play users are out there? The Guardian writes that they represent a ‘pretty small subset’, and there are so many services these days that it is difficult to know if they represent a good statistical sample of music lovers
Madonna Apologizes For Using The N-Word?
‘I am sorry if I offended anyone with my use of the N word on Instagram. It was not meant as a racial slur.. I am not a racist. There’s no way to defend the use of the word. It was all about intention.. It was used as a term of endearment toward my son who is white. I appreciate that it’s a provocative word and I apologize if it gave people the wrong impression. Forgive me.’
Steven Malkmus Still Hates The Eagles And Finds Evil In Classics
‘It’s almost like when Pavement did “Crooked Rain,” we thought “We’re going to do the Eagles and Free, but like, indie rock. We’re going to see how much of this people can take, or how much we can take.” There’s a certain self-hate involved in it or something.’
Connan Mockasin At Amoeba, Friday January 17th 2014
With his band, he produced a spacey, trippy, surprising and very funky sound, sprinkled with R&B and danceable groves, stretching into extended jams, wandering around jazzy minimalism but… I am not sure I even knew what I was exactly hearing, his music was a head trip
Lykke Li And Sharon Van Etten Will Both Release An Album In May
Spring always looks great, but this year it will even sound very good: two women with foreign-sounded names and whose music I really like, are going to release an album in May.You can all find them on Youtube, but I prefer not to spoil everything in advance. The month of May us gonna be glorious.
When Patrick Stickles Talks With Marc Maron, It's Fantastic!
When Keith Richards was young, guitars were the answers of everything, but it is not that way anymore’… ‘So many people were competing for the perfect rock song,… Now you get a computer.’
Academy Award Music Nominations: Do Win Butler And Karen O Even Have A Chance?
‘Her’ is nominated for best original song with ‘The Moon Song,’ a collaboration between Karen O and Spike Jonze, and best music (original score) with Arcade Fire’s Win Butler and Owen Pallett’s score. The question is, does any of them even have a chance?
Listen to Two New Songs By Angel Olsen,… My Next Favorite Songwriter?
Her voice may remind you something old, half Roy Orbison half Loretta Lynn, tremolo-ing like some authentic and intimate entity, while the guitars vibrate and make your head spin like this disco ball… ‘Are you lonely too?’ she sings, ‘High five – so am I’…
Outkast Will Headline More Than 40 Festivals In 2014!
It looks like 2014 will be Outkast’s year, according to the San Francisco Weekly, the rap duo will be playing more than 40 festivals this spring and summer,
The Flytraps, Chad & The Meatbodies, Death Hymn #9 & Criminal Hygiene At The Echo, Monday January 13th 2014
It’s very hard on weeknights for everyone but these Criminal Hygiene Mondays residencies are full of super badass bands, and last Monday, presented by Dirty Laundry, was no exception
What? Judas Priest Is Not Death Metal?
Judas Priest: a character in the episode referred to the band as ‘death metal’, something which didn’t sit well with Judas Priest’s fans and überfans, and Bart Simpson had to apologize in his usual old-fashioned classroom punishment, writing a hundred times on the blackboard ‘Judas Priest is not death metal’.