Peter Gabriel's 'Scratch My Back’ To Receive Soon Its 'I’ll Scratch Yours' Answer
Curiously only 40 seconds of Arcade Fire’s cover of ‘Games Without Frontiers’ showed up on Soundcloud,… and it sounds exactly like Arcade Fire!
Savages At The El Rey Theater, Wednesday July 24th 2013
Jehnny Beth – and this is mostly her I was looking at the whole time despite the excellent musicianship of her bandmates – had a fantastic and creepy presence on stage.
A Lana Del Rey Song Slamming Lady Gaga Appears/Disappears Online
‘You’re looking like a man, you’re talking like a baby/How the fuck is your song in a Coke commercial, crazy?/I don’t get it’
Watch Fiona Apple's Beautiful New Video Directed By Paul Thomas Anderson
The four minutes of it stylishly focuses on Fiona’s expressive and intense face, while she intricately harmonizes with her sister Maude Maggart,
A New Study Done By Spotify Says Music Festivals Increase Piracy: Why This Should Not Be Taken Seriously
ban music festivals? That’s ridiculous, since gigs and festivals are probably the main source of revenue for artists.
Gogol Bordello's 'Pura Vida Conspiracy’ Reviewed
I have seen Hütz and his band a few times, and although this guy may not be the most handsome man in the world, he is a total chick magnet, they are all crazy about him
Watch Hanni El Khatib's Steamy-Sexy New Video For ‘Pay No Mind’
I guess what you get here is the essence of rock’ n’ roll: it’s hip twisting, hair banging with hot girls losing their mind in front of cars
Liam Gallagher's New Video In Bed With Naked Women, Despite Lawsuit
In any case, he is keeping his sunglasses on the whole time, and there is absolutely no action going on, so everyone looking for anything naughty will be very disappointed.
Could Courtney Love Join Lauryn Hill In Jail For Not Paying Her Taxes?
Courtney Love received a $2.75 million loan from Frances Bean Cobain’s fund in 2010, so she has no excuse for not paying her taxes in 2011, or may be she had already spent everything in drugs and cosmetic surgery?
Metalachi At Universal CityWalk 5-Towers Stage, Sunday July 21st 2013
These guys must have studied the whole panoply of rock’ n’ roll, from Guns N’ Roses’ hippie-pirate foulards, to Poison’s metal frizzy hair, to punk patches and gloves
Not With The Band: About This Old Delusional Idea We Can Separate The Art From the Artist
There is this general consensus among people that we always should separate the art from the artist
'The Sun Is Sick', A New Comic/Cosmic Book By Wayne Coyne
As everyone can guess it, the comic has to do with Coyne’s own science fiction mythology: galaxies, dying stars and a princess heroine.
Scottish Band Mogwai Sees Its Sale Increase Because Of A Zombie French TV Series
“We were aware of trying to keep it not as a typical soundtrack, more just music that doesn’t necessarily do anything that has a bit of presence’…
Why Do Major Artists Have Opposite Views On Spotify?
Godrich and Yorke are accused everywhere to go against progress, Spotify is there, and like any other inexorable change in technology, there’s nothing we can do
An Old Kanye West Secret Tape Surfaces, And He Sounds Plain Ridiculous
Kanye West is a very troubled guy, he mixes everything, his mother died following complications after plastic surgery and he dares to talk about sit-ins in the same sentence!
The Manx At High Fidelity Records, Wednesday July 17th 2013
This was a wild party, with people moshing, bouncing and jumping, and let’s keep in mind it was a small vinyl place and not the Echo where I ordinarily see this kind of scene.
Fol Chen At The Hammer Museum, Thursday July 18th 2013
Sinosa Loa had a stage presence which was hesitating between a close-to-boredom languishment and an exotic sensuality…
David Lynch Signing 'The Big Dream' At Amoeba, Tuesday, July 16th 2013
Surrounded by two young assistants, Lynch looked serene during the whole time, talking to people, probably happy to see that so many people are buying him as a blues star. I am joking
Boston Marathon Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Is On The Cover Of Rolling Stone And Starts A Controversy
I already see this Tsarnaev picture pinned on the walls of adolescents’ rooms, since the guy has already a few female admirers.
J Mascis At Amoeba, Sunday July 14th 2013
His singing voice, going from morose to falsetto, seemed to be the only thing absorbing everyone’s attention, then he got loud, very loud with his only guitar, then go back to his quiet morose-depressive tone
Watch David Bowie's Latest Video For 'Valentine's Day'
The video is much more visually stripped down than the previous ones, no storyline here, just Bowie and more Bowie, rocking with his small red guitar in a bleak industrial place and making scary faces after scary faces.
Black Flag (And Others) At The Vex, Sunday July 14th 2013
I was looking around and found a place on the side of the stage, as usual,… the front looked way too scary for me as I was anticipating more chaos to come
Rapper Pharoahe Monch Releases A New Trayvon Martin Protest Song
Monch, a musician I knew nothing about, is not afraid, his song is a clear statement, determined to raise your IQ with intelligent and effective lyrics:
The Psychedelic Furs At Pershing Square, Saturday July 13th 2013
So I was watching them 2 or 3 decades after their peak – they broke up in the early 90s and their discography stops at 1991– and they still kicked ass
Not With The Band: Are We Witnessing The Birth Of A Religious Cult?
Why Jackson and not Jimi Hendrix or Ottis Redding (if you want another black musician) or anyone else in music who died young?
Portugal. The Man At The Wiltern, Friday July 12th 2013, Reviewed
I saw them melt mountains, melt their songs together, melt ‘Sleep Forever’ into ‘Hey Jude’ and I saw them melt everyone’s hearts, mine included
More Proof That Jennifer Lopez Is A Corrupted Entertainer
She has actually received more than $10 million from different Russian dictators and corrupted businessmen, and she has apparently repeatedly forgotten to google any of their names
Blast From The 90s: TV Trailer For 'In Utero' To Promote The Album's Reissue This September
Very pregnant (and young) Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl are about to give birth under the supervision of Bobcat
Alice Cooper Slams Mumford & Sons And The Lumineers, I Slam Alice Cooper Back
Alice Cooper is an idiot, he may have contributed to rock music in the past, but he is so irrelevant
Heloise and The Savoir Faire (With DJ Jamie Starr) At Amoeba, Wednesday July 10th 2013
Elijah Wood was DJing before Heloise and the Savoir Faire’s set at Amoeba, well, we shouldn’t be surprised, it’s Hollywood
MT. OSSA At The Echo, Wednesday July 10th 2013
a good-sized crowd had come to plunge into their surfing-dancing psychedelia
Listen To Two New Tracks By Blue & Gold, An Up And Coming Brooklyn Band
Yeah, we, women, have heard this before!
Jay-Z Performs 'Picasso Baby' For Six Hours At NYC's Pace Gallery, Marina Abramovic Shows Up
Less ladies who stare and more holy grail?
Future Bible Heroes At The Echoplex, Monday July 8th 2013
The delicate and delightful – looking at their accomplice’s smiles all night long – task of performing Merritt’s new songs.
More On Cell Phones During Concerts, Or An Idea How Elliott Smith Would Have Handled Them
I respond very badly to such authority, if you tell me I can’t use my phone because you, people in the band, are soooo important right now, I certainly will use my cell
Off Sunset Festival, Sunday July 7th Part Two
the five or so girls attending the festival were already front row, all wide eyed for this high-energy rock band, who is, by the way, about to go on tour with Adam and the Ants next week
Quasi Announces A New Album, 'Mole City'
‘a set of anthems for the refuseniks, Molotov tossers, pacifist soldiers and bug-eyed freaks’,… okay!
Not With The Band: What It Takes To Become A Rock Star
Jimi Hendrix was probably the last black rock star, and despite Kanye West claiming everywhere he is the greatest rock star, he isn’t
The Neighborhood Bullys At The Redwood Bar, Friday July 5th 2013, Reviewed
The band seemed excited as if they were playing for the first time, or as if they had been having the rock’ n’ roll energy drink since birth
Taylor Swift Quotes Her Lyrics On Signs Around Her Beach House?
Who does she think she is? Is she that proud of her cheesy lyrics?
You Still Think That Vinyl Sounds Better Than CD? Listen To The Experts
Between Vacation vinyl, Origami vinyl, Amoeba, High Fidelity, Rockaway, Mono Records, Franky’s, Jacknife, Permanent Records,… I am surrounded by shops selling vinyl, and I am just talking about the closest ones! How did this happen?
How To Make A Good Use Of Your $6,000 Mick Jagger Hair
Or, and this is the crazy proposition suggested about everywhere, it could be used for cloning
Starbucks' Pick Of The Week: 'Open' By Rhye
If you regularly go to Starbucks, you have probably noticed these ‘pick of the week’ cards that allow you to download a free song on iTunes with a redeem code. .. now read on!
Get Bored With Justin Timberlake's Latest Video For 'Tunnel Vision'
I am just surprised it’s still on Youtube since the video features a series of naked women dancing and caressing themselves
Last American Buffalo At The Satellite, Monday July 1st 2013
Five on stage, forming a barrage of guitars and bass, these guys seemed to live the dream with their bluesy rock’ n’ roll,
We Just Got Lucky, Daft Punk Got Their Own Action Figures
the figures, which feature the duo’s latest attire from RAM, were crafted with meticulous attention to detail — [the] helmet area employs a shiny metallic finish and clear parts for enhanced realism
A Little More About These No Name #1 Tribute Shows
[Ashley Welch and musician David Garza have organized benefit shows at the Doug Fir Lounge in Portland, Ore. (Aug. 4), Largo in Los Angeles (Aug. 6), Scottish Rite Theater in Austin (Aug. 9) and Bowery Ballroom in New York (Aug. 10).
Stream Beck's New Song "I Won't Be Long'
He seems to continue his Beck-electronica tendency but ’I Won’t Be Long’ doesn’t sound anything like his curiously elaborated ‘Befriended’.
Eminem Reveals He Almost Died From Drug Addiction In Documentary, 'How To Make Money Selling Drugs'
‘I don’t know at what point exactly it started to be a problem. I just remember liking it more and more’,