‘I am in a unique position to use my voice to affect change to this disturbing issue. The easy position would have been to walk away and leave policymaking to others hoping that someone addresses the problem,’ declared Jay Z
They gave a tight show at the Echo on Wednesday night, with little stop between the songs, just the right amount of chatting and joking, building an enormous rock sound, whatever Sam Coomes was behind his keyboard or playing guitar
Win and I started talking about the score about two years ago, and then it kinda seemed like the record sort of informed the soundtrack and the soundtrack informed the record a little bit, and there’s like a song on Reflektor — the last one, ‘Supersymmetry’ — that he wrote for the movie, but then it sort of became something else.
‘It’s such a brutal city. I think one little gift of kindness would be nice’, he declared to Sound Opinions. And this gift of kindness would be to bring music in each subway station in New York, turning the whole subway system into a giant orchestra
So now he has teamed up with hip hop/neo-soul band called the Roots for this new album ‘Wise Up ghost’ and I just wonder, does he make him a better candidate for all these late talk shows?
Google Glass allows you to interact with music, let you search for songs, scan through saved playlists and especially listen to music in high fidelity!
‘Win tripped and got super pissed, so I don’t think he enjoyed the second half of the song (I think he tripped on a photographer at the base of the stage because after the song, he was yelling “Get the f out!” really angrily
the NMPA is saying that lots of sites have not obtained licenses to publish the lyrics and it has sent take-down notices to about 50 sites, not leaving them any choice: they have to either obtain licenses or remove the lyrics from their sites
I am not saying these rock stars don’t have big egos, they still do, but they are nevertheless capable of nice gestures sometimes, even though their actions are often calculated
MUSO was able to identify the most pirated bands, and oh surprise, the Beatles are at the top of the list, based on the number of illegally uploaded files found on websites, which is exactly 186,876 files for the Fab Fours
The pages come from a class detention book that was rescued from a bonfire by a teacher who spotted the name Lennon at the top of some of these pages!
So can a guy best known for writing music reviews become credible as a songwriter and musician? I guess, since, on Friday night, Gowing was totally convincing, showing a great sense for melody and varied music arrangements.
Why would Jagger have paid for the legal fee for Sid if he were accused of having murdered Spungen? Was he convinced he was innocent? The story has always been very muddy, it’s once again one of these mysterious stabbings which has never been clearly elucidated
The short film – entitled ‘L’invitation au Voyage’, an obvious Beaudelaire-ian reference – features a hot-air balloon, Venice’s Piazza San Marco, American model Arizona Muse and a masquerade ball worthy of a Luchino Visconti or Stanley Kubrick film
‘I cold-turkeyed. For weeks and weeks, I didn’t smoke at all. And now I smoke a little bit at night, just, you know, for fun – but not to cope. That’s the difference. Marina was the only person who could get me to do that, and it was not intended to be rehab.’
The Collected Artwork’ has been described as ‘a comprehensive collection of the musician’s artwork’, ‘a treasure for art lovers and music aficionados alike, who will appreciate this extraordinary window on the life of a creative genius’.
Rolling Stone endorsed or not, this video really mocks the wannabe superstar DJs, the owners of the nighttime,… and honestly it’s refreshing to watch this when EDM has become so fashionable
Muse could have stayed at a Greek-theater modest format but they chose to expand at this Roman Empire format, and each song is performed as if it was an opening for the Olympic Games.
First, I read a few days ago that she had gone missing and her husband hasn’t had any information about her for 2 weeks, then we are learning she is on her way to a new penal colony of Nizhny Ingash in Siberia. This isn’t good news.
‘Did you feel so small? / You’re never lonely / Cause you’re never truly on your own’ sings John Gourley with his dreamy falsetto,… space,… music… classics like Bowie’s Space oddity will certainly also come to mind and yeah, there’s that sort of feeling in the song too,
The deluxe version of her album contains seeds, apparently incorporated in handmade paper, and Australians have expressed some concern as the seeds may be a weed foreign to Australia and so a plant that could raise some biological security concern.
Thanks to the gods of voodoo, the band has abandoned the papier-mâché giant heads, the Haitian culture as well as the exotic locations have even disappeared from sight, and once again the band is almost invisible the whole time just making an apparition at the end.
‘It was more like calling someone a bitch or a punk or asshole. So that word was just thrown around so freely back then. It goes back to that battle, back and forth in my head, of wanting to feel free to say what I want to say, and then [worrying about] what may or may not affect people.”
However, he was constantly focusing on his guitar play which was quite impressive, not at all ostentatious but full of intricate riffs, and I was enjoying the set even though I didn’t know any of these songs… until he played a Smiths song.
Ten years have passed, magazines have published their homage, people have made movies and books but nobody is facing all these discrepancies, and Schultz and Reyes have chosen to believe one version when the story presents so many contradictions they refuse to see.
If 99% of the artists can’t make a living out of their art, if they have no control over their creation, the future doesn’t look good for them, and for society in general, which will be deprived of great art.
In the video, Urie says he is still a big fan and loves her stuff but he can’t resist to call her ‘bitch’ during the interview… super classy dude! (he kind of overuses this dude term all along his short monologue)
I think in the world of people’s creations and things, it’s almost like, “Well, if the Flaming Lips did it, then I should do it!” I mean, I can see it going both ways, so yeah. And I like him, so I don’t have any — now if it was the Arcade Fire, then I’d have a problem with it.’
Media whores Kanye West and Kim Kardashian are suing Youtube co founder Chad Hurley! How can these two morons, who can’t do anything privately, justify such an act is beyond my comprehension but I gave up understanding anything related to Kanye West a long time ago
Before the Flaming Lips, Tame Impala played at the Greek Theater on Tuesday night and, if they didn’t use any crazy Halloween outfits and tricks, they impressed the crowd that was already very big this early in the evening.
So artists got more and more screwed up by Spotify, while their founders became richer and richer,…Jagger will survive but what about all these artists who will never receive more than a few dollars from the streaming service while seeing Spotify’s CEO and guru are getting richer?
It was a really cold night, I was freezing on my seat, and soaked in sticky blood as he was, he must have been chilled to the bones. ‘It’s the coldest night we ever had in LA’, he also said, “It must be the end of the world”
Beck has just announced a new album entitled ‘Morning Phase’ for February. Beck has in fact just signed with Capitol Records to release his 12th album, and fans are probably already salivating at the idea, since the famous musician hasn’t had a proper release since his 2008 ‘Modern Guilt’
The victim was hanging out in front of the hotel, then saw 2 women about to take a picture with Brown; he and a friend jumped into the photo op with Brown and the women, but Brown went mad and allegedly punched him in the face, breaking his noise
“We are sorry to not be able to play these Australian and New Zealand dates. We hope our Australian and New Zealand fans as well as Fleetwood Mac fans everywhere will join us in wishing John and his family all the best.”
They play the tune very gently, close to the way Elliott was playing it. Zac Carper takes his most fragile-broken-tired voice whereas the soothing guitars and beach-like noise in the background fit perfectly the melancholic, intimate and sweet ambiance of the song
“I think what Kanye West is going to mean is something similar to what Steve Jobs means. I am undoubtedly, you know, Steve of Internet, downtown, fashion, culture. Period. By a long jump.”
Mick Jagger is 69, Bob Dylan and Paul Simon are 72, David Bowie and Iggy Pop are 66, Paul McCartney is 71, and Leonard Cohen is 79! Even Bruce Springsteen is already 64, Stevie Wonder and Tom Waits are 63, and nobody is getting younger.
, ‘We wouldn’t have been able to make this album without Haiti’ said Win Butler to the Huffington Post, although these drums may have sometimes been a bit lost in these complicated sonic layers that compose the tracks.
As everyone can imagine, she isn’t the only one to have had this kind of problem, Lamb of God, Lady Gaga were also the victims of the same censorship, and of course you could say that Malaysians didn’t miss much (Ke$ha included of course), but I hate hate censorship
Fennell was saying that he wasn’t fired but ‘resigned’ from the band whereas Pollard declares he ‘was already fired’. To justify the auction, Fennell claimed he needed money because of the band’s inactivity, Pollard responded he made a fool of himself by asking such a large amount,
And honestly, they are gonna be even more confused when they see the artcover for the new Black Flag album! What.is.that? Isn’t this green cartoon really ugly… and is that thing puking? It’s not even ugly in a good way!
There were too many people in Elliott’s life and he only talked to a few of them, so he should not have made some grandiose declaration as if he had interviewed everyone close to him. It’s not the case at all. Actually, at this level he didn’t do much better than Benjamin Nugent
I actually like that, the fact I can’t make sense of it at once, that I can’t digest it in one meal. It is like a big fat cake sitting in front of you, that you want to taste piece by piece. Some songs sounded exciting at the first listening, some others will take time or will forever stay among the leftovers.
‘I didn’t come here to make bad people feel good. I came here to make dead people alive. That’s all I need from you is to show people the light — the light of truth in you.’ And he comes back later on, at the top of a mountain, ‘alongside a group of women back-up dancers dressed in white’… What? Jesus had back-up dancers?
There is no real surprise there, but the dancing beats certainly go on with a subjacent bombastic style that never totally explodes this time, while Win Butler’s clear vocals and Regine’s sweet backing voice bring a passionate and sensible component to the story… because story there is indeed.
Really difficult to understand that he was dead 9 months later in the circumstances that we all know. Almost 20 years after his tragic death, Cobain continues to fascinates us, and the animation is quite well-done
Best Coast is quite huge in its hometown! I arrived too late to see the big line outside the store, but there was one, a big one turning around the block. It was a crowd of girls, lots of Latino girls, with gay guys or straight guys, all looking very young to me, having that same Silver-lake-hipster-in-the-know look.
Do you think Kurt would have killed himself if he had known he had $54 million?’ I will never understand Courtney Love’s math, but that’s the least important point in this story, however, expect a lot of this ‘fraud’ in her memoirs,… I just want her to explain how she killed Kurt Cobain.
‘It took three transplants and a total of $21,000 to accurately lower my hair line, close off my temples and grow back my bangs,’ he says, add to this a $4.850 spent on eye surgery, and $30,000 on his lips to give this impression of permanent smile
