So many indie bands sound alike, but Infantree was showing a real uniqueness which was certainly borrowing from the 70s and way beyond, ‘Fibber’ had a little bit of this Jefferson-Airplane-Grateful-Dead-CSN-hippie generation smoking through the cracks of the song
With the announcement of this memorial, a few questions came to my mind…. Who will be there? Will the Westboro Baptist Church dare venture in Hollywoodland? And should I go?
A public memorial for Jeff Hanneman, Slayer’s guitarist, has been planned at the Hollywood Palladium next week, and it’s totally free, but based on the usual first-come first-serve mayhem. I expect chaos and thousands of metal fans trashing the place.
Still, it was pretty daring to juxtapose their own songs with these beloved youth rebellious anthems,… it’s like asking for a comparison! And I am saying this because, after this experience, Torches’ music did not entirely sound different from Arcade Fire’
Now look at it this way, I am not against him to look better, his mouth looks kind of scary and I have always wondered how he could even eat with these crooked fangs. But the scariest thing may be that he wants to start a Hollywood career.
Let’s see, with ‘I Appear Missing’, we have already heard four songs off ‘…Like Clockwork’ which has only 10 tracks. Even though they are growing a bit on me, I didn’t totally like these songs at the first listening,… if they are the best ones on the album, I am not sure it will raise to its expectations.
I am gonna be super busy for two days once again! On Monday morning, there even was a rumor about Beck joining the fest? It was just a rumor, but who knows…. As a surprise guest during Devandra Banhart or the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ set may be?
You got the idea, music stars received huge deals for certain products but I bet they don’t even consume them. However, there is much worst, some of these products are actually bad, bad at so many levels that they should be ashamed to be greased by such trash! But this has never stopped them a bit.
There is also an astonishing long list of short movies and TV series that have used one of his songs, and there are actually a lot of them I have never seen! But among the TV series, I have just noticed two of them concerning crime investigations
Despite the fact that Burdon just celebrated his 72 birthday this past Saturday, his voice sound youthful, while Lewis’ emotional vocals nicely complement it, with a touch a sexy-scary ambiance in the background.
We queued up for a good half hour and give our tickets at the door. It seemed pretty normal. So, we’re pulled aside to get searched and the security guy asks if I know the lead singer and could I name their two albums and some songs.
I have just listened to the song posted below, ‘Homely Girl’, and it’s your typical Weezer song in Japanese, with a catchy power pop chorus and probably very forgettable lyrics — I mean they have a line in English! I have obviously no expertise to know if their Japanese is good or not.
The usual suspects, Taylor Swift, Rihanna, Adele, Skrillex, Lady Gaga, Beyone, Jay-Z, Justin Timberlake,… and also Helen’s darling, Morrissey, whom, I must say, is leaving the most people undecided: 52% of people are ‘not sure’ of their opinion about Morrissey whereas 17% are favorable and 31% are unfavorable!
I kinda like it, it’s cool. So he’s saying I’m like herpes? I should say something to him. What was his name? Billie Joe Armstrong from Green Day, he’s saying I’m like herpes, it keeps coming back. I think it’s really cool and I appreciate that. Thank you.
“I was young, fancy free, and Tibetan Buddhism appealed to me at that time. I thought, ‘There’s salvation.’ It didn’t really work. Then I went through Nietzsche, Satanism, Christianity…pottery, and ended up singing. It’s been a long road.” Too bad the pottery didn’t work
Matt Gangi and Eric Chramosta were building layers and layers of vocal samplings, loops and distortion with their electronic machinery, without forgetting the melodies and the untouched human voice
Lead singer of Christian metal band arrested for attempting to hire some one to kill his estrange wife
He had obviously listened to the classics, ‘I Know Why’ had a sort of 80s Elton John meets Phil Collins vibe going on, ‘The Victim’ was a total let’s-be-serious-with-our-dance-floor-number with a Prince falsetto and a real nice dance-y groove
Looking like a cross between a biblical prophet and Star Wars’ Obi-Wan Kenobi stuck in an underground brothel, Bowie sings in the middle of an odd crowd made of self-flagellating monks coming straight from the DaVinci code
They continued to build the same darkness and paint the same foreign and mysterious soundscape
The song, precisely called ‘I appear missing’, has the QOTSA’s dark and grandiose sound, going crescendo with huge guitars, thundering drumming (Dave Grohl?), and Josh Homme’s romantic croon
I am always struggling about this idea, and my left and right hemispheres are always competing with each other – although this simplistic vision as known as, ‘right brain versus left brain’, is now perceived as a myth by neurobiologists
It is their biggest tour for six years, Los Angeles was the opening night, Mick Taylor and guests were even scheduled to perform, however hundreds of seats were still available the day of the show, and the NY daily news reports that StubHub had more than 500 tickets available 24 hours before the show
With her acoustic guitar, she plays a mean rock’ n’ roll or soft and sad devastating ballads, but her real instrument is her voice, deep and elastic, it seems she can go low and high with the same confidence
He is clearly gay! And he is an important part of the hip hop community, so isn’t it about time that gay rappers come out? This week NBA center Jason Collins was the first male US athlete to come out as gay, shouldn’t rappers do the same
The music was quite stripped down to let her voice shine and be the definite star, a voice she was in total control of, as she was effortlessly pushing the high notes with a rare elasticity, a total vocal agility, while making expressive faces, moving her hands in the air or clenching fists
This is such a horrible death, I mean do not google pictures of it unless you have a very strong stomach: imagine the flesh-eating bacteria slowly destroying your muscles, fat, skin and deep tissues and the only way to save your life is to remove the diseased tissues
You could hardly call this blues, if it wasn’t for Nathaneal “Lefty” Maynard’s slide guitar, most of the time it was messy, it meandered in dissonance and distortion, it stretched into passionate jams and it wandered in many directions
Sultry and sexy voice, crooning over a film noir atmosphere, only habited by twanging guitars and discreet percussion
‘Pura Vida’, Spanish for pure life, will resonate the important themes dear to Eugene Hütz and his troupe, with an opening song ‘We Rise Again’ whose chorus claims ‘Borders are scars on face of the planet’!
The song’s successive accelerations and decelerations bring you on a bumpy and chaotic road.
Alex Edkins on guitar and main vocals, Hayden Menzies on drums and Chris Slorach on bass came on stage and right away played ‘Dirty Shirt’, and their huge sound, eardrum-bleeding-skull-crashing-tinnitus-giving sound, never left the room during their entire set
The almost all-girl band (there was actually one guy for three girls) was playing a fast and stormy music, with guitar and bass in constant assaults, speedy drumming, and aggression all over the place
Daniel Johnston is back with a project called ‘Space Ducks – an Infinite Comic Book of Musical Greatness’, consisting of an album, a comic book and an iOS app
Once again, Vampire Weekend debuted two new songs on Sunday night at New York City’s Roseland Ballroom, and they were recorded since the show was live streamed online and directed by Steve Buscemi.
Surfing the net in search of something to write about, I read this on Twitter, coming from the Los Angeles punk band FIDLAR:
‘But, this is going to be more difficult than ever, since we not only have to support ourselves on these tours, but we have four beautiful new mouths to feed, safely transport, and care for. This means we no longer have the luxury of being able to suck it up, hop in a 15-passenger van and have a care-free, fun time with you all on the road.
The music was going in many directions too, with layered hazy synths and keyboards, some stamping dance beats, a funky bass, an exotic vibe coming from some guitar solos, and Halliday’s soaring voice, the ensemble producing some infectious and catchy songs like ‘The Game is Changing us’ or ‘Lonesome Body’.
Honestly, these HOTT MT kids were plain weird, trying to be too weird or having a genuine taste for weirdness?
Am I too old to be first row at a Wavves’ gig? Probably, but I just wanted to take a few pictures, however they turned out all fuzzy and blurry with all that pushing-jumping-bouncing-surfing energy emerging from the crowd.
Think about it, you’ll be the only one of your friends to see the Rolling Stones in such a small venue and when they ask you how you pulled it off, you can show them my bloody, decaying wrist.
Did I mention the small club was totally packed? The trio kept it simple and basic, with just guitars and drums (but also a large collection of pedals) they produced a thunderously loud sound that made the crowd react at the first song
I persuaded Bowie, somehow, to give me a sort of a work flow diagram for The Next Day, because I wanted to think about it in light of what he was thinking about it, I wanted to understand the lexicon of The Next Day, and so I simply asked if he would provide this list of words about his album
‘We are honored to have been a part of its remarkable story. While a change like this is difficult, we look forward to putting together a series of great shows that will celebrate everything about this marvelous building’
The Brooklyn band is going to perform the same song ‘Sorrow’ off their album ‘High Violet’, for 6 straight hours at MOMA’s PS1 on May 5th.
There is also an almost religious dimension to this music, Wayne Coyne has occasionally said he doesn’t believe there is an afterlife, but the album sounds like a religious ode celebrating nothingness
I mean, love it or hate it, you’ve got your David Guettas with massive hits or, like, Calvin Harris – all that kind of shit, which is the Marks & Spencer of this.
The merriment was cut short when disgruntled opening act “Puddles Pity Party” jumped on the stage to punch EELS leader Mark Oliver Everett aka E in the face and take his guitar from him
A new track called ‘Animal X’, an outtake off ‘Push the Sky Away’ – a sort of follow up, mirror song, sister track to ‘Water’s Edge – has surfaced.
‘We had one that was silent – that was a control house – and we had one that was played classical music, we had one that was played Cliff Richard and we had one that was played Black Sabbath.’
Some of you may have bought the Record Store Day limited edition of MGMT’s new cassingle ‘Alien Days’ – err, people buy cassingles? – but if you didn’t, you can always stream the song below.
