Okay, people, calm down, I know they may sometimes sound a bit too happy, too much like a bunch of love-is-all-around-hippies, while Ebert may take his messianic role a bit too seriously, but their songs are uplifting and despite the redundancy of their proclaimed (and indestructible) optimism
Animals do not exist to serve us or make us pretty on Instagram. They should be respected and wild ones should be left alone. And I am not even talking about Beyonce’s custom-made trainers incorporating the skins of animals including anaconda, crocodile and stingray, and other fur-wearer pop-stars!
And what if the album sucks? Well all this hype will have been for nothing, but right now, the hype is high and any detail about the upcoming Arcade Fire album, ‘Reflektor’, which is filtering through the info superhighway is the center of all attentions.
According to several tabloids (the Sun, Radar online,…), the diva rapper asked for the unbelievable, beating Maria Carey’s craziest demands: he asked for the walls of his dressing room to be all white with white curtains and white flowers, and he asked for the carpet to be ironed! What?
Last time I heard from him, he was part of Jenny & Johnny, and they were having fun, but this time he is alone at the top of a pile of dead bodies!
‘The guy’s a kook, you know. He has security frisking bands on the way in. I just told him, ‘If you open up my bag, we’re not playing. So I guess it’s up to you to have to decide whether we’re playing or not.’… You shouldn’t frisk my guys’
Born in Tennessee, she seemed to be a mix of elegance and style (just look at her on the cover of her album!) with deep rural roots, confusing eras, genres and races, singing like a poor white man living in Tennessee, while holding this crown of majestic dreadlocks on the cover of fashion magazines. ‘I ain’t fit to be no mother … I’ve been workin’ all my life’
The Hollywood Reporter says that Football officials have started an ‘arbitration proceeding’ against her for ‘breach of contract’, seeking $1.5 million in damages. This is ridiculous
‘Ski Mask’ is actually Islands’ fifth album and frontman Canada-born Nick Thorburn has quite a pedigree as he was also in the Unicorns (among several other bands) and is a third of the indie super group, Mister Heavenly
tTey were all wearing colorful black and red masks like a crew of Mexican wrestlers, and with their matching white outfits and numerous instruments, they looked a bit crowded on the small stage of the store
. Each song you have heard during a crucial moment of your life will be forever associated with this moment and listening to the song is a magic time traveling machine, an instant Proust’s madeleine, but much more powerful than the little cake.
The crowd was mostly there for the headliner as it is always the case, but the group of girls on my left asked me (people are always asking me for some reasons) who was that band,… ‘Oh Caveman!’ visibly appreciating what they were discovering.
They are brainy (their biggest influences are ‘80s post punk pioneers Echo & the Bunnymen, The Smiths and the Cure, but also romantic poets William Blake, William Wordsworth, and novelist Aldous Huxley), artistic (two of them attended art school) and they like black and white aesthetic
This whole scene makes me think about a Banksy piece I saw at the MOCA a few years ago: a guy with a pot of paint kneeling down as if he was praying in front of a giant cathedral-window-like graffiti, basically illustrating how street art has been diverted from its rebellious and outlaw origin
There was nevertheless a spectacular moment in the middle of ‘To Old Friends and New’, as Stickles stopped and looked at a guy making a big fuss of his crowd surfing, ‘That’s what you wanted?’ Stickles asked him,… a silence followed, ‘Now it’s on me again!’ he said before continuing the song
‘Isn’t Mercury a phone company or something, anyway? What’s that got to do with music? We’re banned by them, and do you know why? Because we’re not on Amazon or iTunes. That’s one of the qualifying criteria. You have to have major distribution or be on iTunes or Amazon.’
I don’t think this is making any sense, lots of people die because of alcohol too, I don’t see how a kid taking drugs and oding at a music festival is more rebellious than a 50 something getting drunk at a football game and having an accident while driving home!
Back in 2009, the chain Chipotle was already offering free screenings of ‘Food, Inc.’ to prove it does things differently. This new animated film encourages people to discard the big evil machinery producing processed food, torturing animals and killing the earth and to pick healthier options
The White Buffalo, is the quintessence of the American spirit, he picked his name right in the middle of some western mythology, and writes deeply emotional songs about outlaws, violence, redemption and lost corners of America
If you plan to buy the 20th anniversary ‘In Utero’ reissue or the Live and Loud DVD, buy them at one of the locations below. If you do, you’ll get a real tattoo of the Nirvana logo.
Pixies have new songs, ‘What goes boom’, ‘Blue eyed hexe’, ‘Bagboy’, ‘Another toe in the ocean’, we heard them, mostly around the second part of the show, and unfortunately, I became a little bored at this precise moment. Too bad, because I really wanted to be blown away at that show
It sounds like a total joke, but it’s nevertheless very true as Epitaph Records is announcing the album for October 29th… so way before Christmas and right on time for Halloween! But apparently this idea has been germinating in their heads for quite some time.
Is this the cover of the new Arcade Fire album? Some people say so, as New Zealand iTunes is using this picture, showing statues of Greek legends Orpheus and Eurydice by Auguste Rodin, for the upcoming album ‘Reflektor’.
MGMT has a new, self-titled album and you can already stream it on Rdio, a week in advance on its official release! I haven’t really started listening yet, the email popped up in my mailbox yesterday night and I was out for a show.
Why getting tired, walking all day in a complete dehydrated and starving state, that could you make buy MGMT for Pink Floyd or the Foo Fighters for Nirvana. It’s true, after your 30th something band, there is no way you can make sense of what you see and hear.
It’s all about inspiring gospelic choirs, soaring voices ending up in the celebratory mode of a love fest with hippie people dancing and skating around multicolor ribbons on a rooftop!
I feel so honored because I participated in the making of the video!!! I filmed them during one of their night residency at the Silver Lake Lounge, and they asked me to use some footage. And I said yes of course.
It is strange to review this Coldplay song after the Arcade Fire leak, it falls flat on its face and it’s not pretty to see. I mean Arcade Fire just reached some new epic levels, so effortlessly, and epic is precisely what Coldplay’s ‘Atlas’ intends to do, but never manages
Schultz told me he spoke for three days to Dr Scheinin, who did the autopsy… and he doesn’t bring any new insight? He doesn’t put the controversy to bed, he ignores it.
The song turns epic, going hot and steamy like a wild jungle, with electronic chaos and an enormous sound sprawling like a monster, fueled by synths, horns, saxos, and what it seems to be David Bowie’s voice?
There is absolutely no doubt that PONO will offer much better quality files, but is this really what most people want? Most people do not listen to music at home, comfortably sitting on a couch. They listen to music on-the-go, while walking, running, shopping, and driving, they don’t care that much about quality
“Nine Inch Nails are a huge band and they’ve been headlining loads of festivals everywhere and I think their manager or someone told him they weren’t headlining Reading and Leeds, god forbid, and he basically spat his dummy out and decided to take it out on us”
I should have mentioned first that these guys were young and super cute, that they spent four years non-stop working and touring, finally headlining a show at not other than London Wembley Arena in December 2011… So they are big in England, big in the dark post-punk tradition
it is important to mention this event anyway because Bragg and Kramer are the founders of Jail Guitar Doors, USA, a non-profit organization providing musical instruments and opportunities to help rehabilitate prisoners. The duo will also perform at the Ford Theater today September 6th to benefit their organization
According to the online poll, the most unwanted elements in a song are ‘cowboy music, bagpipes, accordions, opera, rap music, children’s voices, tubas, drum machines and advertising jingles’.
New York duo Sleigh Bells just announced their third album by posting this video for the title song,… was anyone even aware they were ready for a new album? It follows their 2012 ‘Reign of Terror’, meaning these two never rest!
One thing is sure, the Canadian band has nothing against the evil stream machine, at this level, they aren’t in many other famous musicians’ camp, they even use Spotify as part of their long teasing campaign which started with these street art signs posted everywhere in cities around the world
Those who only took exercise improved their capacity by 29 % (significantly lower than the 2nd group) and those who only listened to music improved their capacity by 19 %,.. not too shabby for couch potatoes!
Alll these visions occurred a bit apart in time, but still, what is this recurrent obsession with English punk rockers in Los Angeles? I can’t help it I see Joe Strummer’s signs everywhere, and I swear I am not looking for them.
The problem is that Nursultan Nazarbayev is the corrupted president of Kazakhstan, which despite being Borat’s country, isn’t really a funny place to be. The man is described by the BBC as power-hungry
In the middle of nowhere, thousands of people gather in a sort of dusty camp city, play MacGyver and build artsy stuff just to be able to see it disappear in flames
Pitchfork of course totally ignores her but she gets good press in the Huffington Post and Billboard magazine, she seems to be the sweet girl you don’t want to criticize because she is precisely just this, the sweet and harmless friend in so-called romcoms
People were very rude… but what was she expecting? Why did she accept to perform at such an event? These mondains weren’t here to listen to music, they were there to be seen and Fiona should haven’t been there in the first place
in this episode, RuPaul helps his friend pick up a large artwork (it’s Clash related!) and he discusses with the Black Flag man the most important thing ever: love
Nine Inch Nails has announced a surprise and super intimate show at the small club on September 3rd, and good luck if you want to get in! You can try to enter your info on the KROQ website, (the radio runs the contest) but if you win do not forget about me, since you get a pair
‘Miley, don’t let them get you down, they are all jealous’. If you watched his vine, be aware that it is quite horrific, but why is he doing this? I know trash will always rally with trash but what is he expecting?
From fragile pop to pure and quiet lullaby-like melodies, Ira Kaplan was switching place between guitar and keyboard, while Georgia Hubley left her drum set to take the spot behind the mic during a song ‘about Hollywood stars’
She said her mom was there, and as a true professional she disappeared and came back for an encore as if she was the headliner of the night… and she actually wasn’t, Holy Ghost! was playing next on the same stage.
But there was no regret as TV on the Radio was fantastic, bringing their funky psychedelia to a powerful level on the Carrie stage. When I say ‘fuck,‘ you say ‘yeah!’ When I say ‘fuck,‘ you say ‘yeah!’ shouted singer Tunde Adebimbe to the crowd, playing with the full name of the festival
Next, back on the Carrie stage, were The Breeders fronted by ex-Pixies Kim Deal. ‘We were told to play ‘Last Splash’, announced Deal leaving no mystery for their set, and starting to play the 20-year-old album…
