Gaga’s voice, doing its best Christina Aguilera impression, and Kelly’s autotuned moaning and crooning vocals will probably please the fans, and I am sure that the tune is going to be fine (even big) in dance clubs all over the planet, but the song is totally unoriginal like the supposedly sexy lyrics ‘Do what you want with my body’?
I was raised in a religious environment, and like Richard Dawkins I had a sort of belief in a creator when I was young, and like him it didn’t last very long, although I never had a religious-Presley-like experience. But I wonder, do artists we like and admire have a strong influence on us? Do we share the same ideas on religions with the artists we like?
In 1999, Elliott spent some time in Paris
Nobody can really guess what’s going on there, but it sure doesn’t seem too pleasant, it’s unsettling even though we don’t know whether she is the victim or the threat… the music navigates between the obscure and these uplifting choruses ‘You never held it at the right angle’
I almost didn’t recognize him first. He was looking a bit fuller, in really great shape, jumping behind the drum set at times, moving fast, looking quite different from the weak Elliott I had met at the Echo in October. After the show, I talked to him once again, I guess it had become a habit!
Three days is a lot of music, and a lot of commitment so it’s possible that many people had to change their plan? Economists suggest that, even though the festival didn’t suffer at all this year, it is not a good sign, as it is obviously a sign of decreasing demand. Plus customers of the first weekend must have been extremely mad to have paid full price,
This woman is really trying too much, she is trying to be this all-time light-jazz-easy-listening singer and this edgy provocative-dresser-pseudo-artsy-fame-monster, she wants to be everything so that, at the end, we don’t know who or even what she is anymore. Too much is too much,
It’s all about moving sand, fantastic landscapes of golden and rainbow rocks, blue skies, and Thom Yorke, giant sandman crumbling in ruins, sinking with entire cities, re-appearing among stalactites.
He started selling drugs at 12, he was a school dropout at 17, he was arrested for drugs and weapons charge, he was arrested for parole violations, he was arrested in North Carolina for crack cocaine, in 1996 he was again arrested for assault, he had a violent death and physically the man is not exactly a role model for youth.’
But first of all, Numan looked super elegant with his white shirt and sleeveless suit vest, he had his usual black raven hair and a passion in his delivery. Surrounded by four musicians and no less than two synths, the beats were violent, the tempo aggressive and the delivery both sensual and cold.
The police found the small plastic bag containing meth inside the patrol car where Murphy was already sitting, handcuffed. Could this bag have been inside the car, before Murphy got in? This is the question asked by the attorney
always great when a talented and famous musician, who has a clear insight into Elliott Smith’s work, speaks up his mind the way he does, as so many other people remain silent, probably too concerned by their own career? It’s always hard and courageous to take a stand
armies of hostile aliens attacking the earth, big and noble veterans played by tattooed-face Ben Kingsley and Star-Wars-resurected Harrison Ford, and next great hope young hero Ender Wiggin (played by Asa Butterfield) who will probably save the Earth
‘The lyrics are about love and relationships. All of the lyrics on the albums, and the ones I sing during parties, are all about love and affection between people. Here they don’t understand that, but I believe it’s possible they can feel it.’
However, two decades ago, France had troublemaker, provocative, satirist, joker, and scandalous Serge Gainsbourg. But you can’t say you have reached a certain level of icon-ness before something nasty,
The recording is very weird and amazing, it sounds like the high-pitched voice of a crazy woman over a deeper more masculine voice, going faster and faster, so that you can feel a panic rising from the recording before everything calms down. The two men think they may have developed a tool to listen to the brain
it is interesting to note that he was very unwilling to recognize he had felt that way a few years ago. Of course, it was before he had met with Jennifer Chiba… She approached him later on, said she wanted to participate in the movie, and everything changed.
I pointed out I have talked to people who don’t believe it was a suicide! He seemed to be more and more pissed off, probably already regretting to have come to LA to argue with this crazy woman… What can I say, you can’t sell me stabbing in the chest as a current form of suicide, and Schultz was particularly mad at me because I wasn’t impressed by his Scheinin interview.
his parents who got divorced when he was 7, his stepfather who was beating the hell out of his mother, and his kindergarten teacher telling him he was smart, suddenly he dropped a bomb which almost stays unnoticed in this flow of talking:
I saw both bands this summer, and thought that Morris-Dukowski’s Flag was much better than Ginn’s Black Flag, but this is beside the point. In any case, when they all have been in the same band, I can’t understand how one of them could own the name
We should readjust our values because in the web-based world we are told that monopoly is good for us. The major record labels usually siphon off most of this income, and then they dribble about 15-20% of what’s left down to their artists. Indie labels are often a lot fairer
He is a restless performer
I would not care at all if it were not for these shouting bras,… move over Katy Perry! But what’s the hell Charlie Sheen and Mel Gibson are doing there? I see it’s supposed to be edgy, super violent, with sexy women and controversial actors trying to scream louder than Gaga, good luck with that!
You would think that fans can understand a cancellation if the guy is sick or the weather has destroyed the equipment, I mean I totally would! However, the band took the time to post a very long letter on their website to explain all the reasons why bands cancel shows…. Illness, mental illness, weather conflicting schedules… Why?
anyway hasn’t Sinead O’Connor written one hundred open letters to straight this girl up? Four letters actually, but it seems like one hundred because I must have read about this sooooo many times I have lost count. Then the worst happened when the omnipresent and always-opinionated Amanda Palmer wrote to Sinead in defense of Miley
Folk is an old genre, and nobody knows it better than Frank Fairfield who played his mix of old-time Appalachian fiddle, banjo and guitar on the carousel stage. He is a real phenomenon, playing old tunes as if he was a time machine. But he is the real deal, he talks like a guy on an ancient recording, he laughs like a 90-year-old man, and he must barely be in his early 30
Sure the trailer is very short, but the whole thing runs like a super production of a retro sci-fi movie soundtrack-ed by some Daft Punk-meet-the-Bee-Gees’ leftovers. It seems to be a big deal, all the big publications are mentioning it, I just hope they give a break to this faux-disco on the rest of the album.
Jay Sweet, the organizer of the Newport Folk Festival, who has decided to bring the West Coast version of the festival on the Santa Monica Pier because ‘it’s an iconic place that’s not a traditional music venue’, had warned Conor, ‘no rock songs, only folk ones!’ Conor certainly followed the rules, and played lots of his most touching tunes
On stage, they have a charming presence and a great assurance, way beyond their very young age: 20-year-old Klara sings lead for most of the songs while playing guitar and 23-year-old Johanna plays keyboard while constantly harmonizing with her sister, giving an ethereal dimension to their compositions
Listening to him and his non-stop flow of words, you could have imagined this guy doing about anything, touching elbows with the greatest but staying weird enough to be at the edge of mainstream culture. He looked like a cross between John Waters and Kenneth Anger, this kind of iconoclastic and colorful character who rarely exists anymore these days
Santa Monica is only 30 minutes away, but there is the traffic, then the parking,… I was still undecided when I look up at the line up again. I couldn’t miss Conor, right? And did I make the right decision! The festival lasted two days, but I only bought a ticket for Sunday afternoon (Conor Oberst’s night) and I had a blast.
I had instantaneously liked his song ‘July’ of his previous album ‘the Year of Hibernation’ when I heard it for the first time, and the songs off his new album ‘Wondrous Bughouse’ are all dealing with a bigger, fuller, and bolder sound, which was totally well-served by the full band playing with him on stage.
As ‘Torment Saint’ continues to receive rave reviews and to be quoted everywhere as if it was the bible bringing new revelations, I continued to dig into it and find inconsistencies, discrepancies with previous reports. Of course, this is based on what I know about the case, and most people don’t pay attention to important details, which makes Schultz successful in his demonstration toward suicide
I have never seen someone like Fiona Apple, on stage, she is a fragile and vulnerable person giving fierce performances and her songwriting is brilliant, pure and so authentic she makes me cry each time. After all that has been said about her physical appearance, she demonstrates a tremendous courage to show up on stage
Honestly, I have a hard time recognizing Ira, Georgia and James, but if you’re familiar with Woodring’s work you shouldn’t be surprised. The short animation coming with the dolls, curiously doesn’t feature any music and I am just wondering why on earth someone would want to buy these crazy creatures,
I don’t know, many people choose to ignore them, but that’s true they are becoming really freaky annoying with their endless funerals picketing. I am all for freedom of expression but these people need to be slammed on the face very hard.
But it’s all about how we change the way we listen to music, it’s all about what happens next in terms of technology, in terms of how people talk to each other about music, and a lot of it could be really fucking bad. I don’t subscribe to the whole thing that a lot of people do within the music industry
Secretly acquired? What is this, the t-shirt mafia? I don’t want to give people bad ideas, but all these designs can be easily ‘stolen’ from the site and reproduced with a simple transfer, I have made cool t-shirts to myself using $5 plain white t-shirts! The DIY way, because honestly, there is nothing punk about a $1,000 Sex Pistols shirt.
Okay, so does it mean that Radiohead’s music sends more vibrations than other types of music? May be, but Willow exposed them to other bands such as Sigur Ros, Earth Rise Sound System, Andrew Bird, Inspired Flight, The Beatles, Pink Floyd and MC Yogi, and she noticed they also liked The Beatles and Pink Floyd,… ha these animals are so classy!
Because the music director doesn’t like a band, it’s banned from the radio? Let’s see, I am not a fan of rap, I even think most of it is bad, so if I were at the head of the music programs I would ban most of rap declaring it’s not good enough for BBC? It’s a personal taste, who are they to decide what is good or not?
So… does she need help or not? I am not the kind of person to make fun of people taking drugs, that’s ridiculous, addiction is a serious habit that can kill you, but it’s hard to believe she and her boyfriend aren’t on drugs when they were caught with so much smack in their possession!
One thing is sure, these guys were cool and not the type to give a lecture on how people should enjoy their live moment and leave their phones alone for an hour or two,… I guess I had never seen so many iPhones raised at the same time than during the great elastic-bluesy guitar noise of ‘Don’t Sit Down ‘Cause I’ve Moved Your Chair’ or their hit ‘I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor’,… the whole concert must have been entirely recorded bit by bit, with this constantly-erected electronic forest
As the song is blasting through my speakers, I can tell you this is not a joke, this is a furious tune with a hardcore spirit – more in the vocals than in the music – and a fast rock n’ roll pit-moshing number. It’s short and fast like a bullet (or a Black Flag song), with several aggressive punches in the stomach and some fun madness
Neil Postman wrote that, when asked about the quality needed to be a good writer, Ernest Hemingway declared, ‘Yes, a built-in, shock-proof, crap detector’, and it seems that too many forget about this. And this applies to readers too, readers should be able to detect crap/bullshit too! Postman was citing pomposity, fanaticism, inanity, superstition (I would say belief) as major role players in bullshit non-detection
Some of the cameos were odd, the humor quite bizarre, except Zach Galifianakis screaming ‘you don’t need three drummers’ which was actually funny… but I could have go without it! The special was directed by Roman Coppola and apparently even Ben Stiller and Bono Showed up? Jeeez! Bowie, Bono, is there someone the Montreal band can’t get?
his income from music has gone down by 92% in the past decade! And isn’t Spotify partly responsible of this? I really don’t get his reasoning. Just suppose his calculation was correct, how could Spotify possibly grow this much during his lifetime, it’s totally unrealistic.
I met Abigail Russell about a year ago, she had contacted me through Facebook after reading a few of my posts about Elliott Smith. We exchanged numbers and even met at a coffee shop, Abigail had a lot to tell me, she had been in rehab with Elliott, had met him quite a few times and was missing him greatly.
But there’s a big difference with this new one as it will contain both Simon & Garfunkel recordings and solo hit singles and tracks from Paul Simon solo album catalog, a long career summed up in only 20 songs, in chronological order, from ‘The Sound of Silence’ to ‘Love and Hard Times’ off his last studio album ‘So Beautiful Or So What’.
Kimmel mocking his fantastic and ever-expanding ego? The comedian got several answers from the rapper in the form of all-caps tweets. But the problem is that Kanye should have stayed quiet, very quiet, his arguments were those of a 10-year-old, his insults had the face of SpongeBob SquarePants and all he could say were things like ‘YOUR EX-GIRLFRIEND IS FUNNIER THAN YOU !’
I dare her or Schultz to find any misquotation in what I wrote. Unlike Schultz, I didn’t twisted what I have heard one way or another. ‘This interview did not bring any answer’ I wrote at the end of the post, and this was true. Conversely, Schultz seems to have found his, the one that fits so well with the title of his book
