There were a few photographs hanging around the stage, waiting between the sets, and I was among them, checking my phone, when I saw a hand in front of me and a voice saying ‘Hello I’m Harper’, I was so surprised I must have said something quite stupid like ‘I know’!
Does he suddenly feel too old? Sick? Probably not. The website just says ‘This show has been cancelled due to unavoidable complications’ and this is quite mysterious to me. If he was sick, they wouldn’t say this! May be he didn’t take the expression ‘Oldchella’ too well
The basic idea was that the band was built around camaraderie and friendship, for me at least. At some point the band felt like, as stupid as it sounds, “a band of brothers.” It felt like more than a band. So, when it became a band, it became less interesting
‘It felt like trying on new clothes when we first listened to it – it took a while to get comfortable with it, but now I like it a lot’ says José González’s to describe the song, and I feel quite the same way after my third listening. But don’t get fooled by the lightness of the melody
Stage presence is not always about how energetically the person moves on stage, in any case, it should be spontaneous, unpredictable, personal, mysterious and why not, weird, bizarre, disturbing. That’s why I would never consider these rehearsed-to-death stereotyped choreographies as good indicators of stage presence
We were DJing in one room and they were DJing in another room and they were just playing the worst music ever, and everyone was in our room just jamming out… And they had this totally dead room where they were just playing electronic music and kept giving us the stink-eye
On Friday night, Chris Owens had settled down for this 60s-inspired pretty and delicate music, embellished with ethereal flute, Toots-Thielemans-style harmonica and vibrant sax, and he didn’t even hesitate to cover big classics from Cat Stevens, Simon and Garfunkel, Donovan and Bob Dylan, going with the period.
the album features about a million of collaborations from Elton John to Dave Grohl, Jake Shears, Trent Reznor, Mark Langegan,…so needless to say there is a lot of expectation for this ‘Like Clockwork’, their first album since 2007 ‘Era Vulgaris’. And you know what? Their fans are so eager for more
Connecticut school officials have banned a famous shirt showing an image largely promoted by the band, the famous cat head with hollow eyes and an upside down cross on the forehead. According to NBC, they declared that this cat ‘stands for something vile’,…
The song certainly has Sigur Rós’ habitual gravitas expanding a dark soundscape, even ferocious this time, with Jónsi’s impressive voice going full falsetto. It is a very powerful and poignant track, with a wide-screen cinematic dimension unleashing an Icelandic mythology that explodes on the tiny set of the show,… wait until you witness this monster live!
This is certainly not the first time Yoko Ono is using Lennon’s corpse, in 2009, a Lennon exhibit was also featuring a small canvas bag from New York’s St Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital Center containing the clothes he was wearing when he was shot. The problem is, will it help her cause? I
He actually already announced his plan to retire 2 years ago, when he is 55, even saying ‘I am slightly shocked to have gone as far as I have, this is my 30th year, and I’ve aged a lot recently, which is bit distressing for me, as it must be for everyone. The body changes shape and there’s nothing you can do about it.’
I thought Spotify wasn’t making money, so will this new service be more lucrative? Will it kill Spotify in the US? Most teenagers go to YouTube, and there’s no doubt in my mind they will pick it over the Swedish company if they have the choice
The show, and the rant, was spontaneous. As for those applauding my so-called stance that “God Hates Faggots,” I say they should be met with mercy, not hate. And I hope that what remains of my audience will meet that intolerance with understanding
They have always acted as if the kids were biologically his, which is highly improbable – any person, who has eyes, will tell you so – and of course they don’t want the naïve fans to discover the truth… And I have met tons of these fans ready to argue to death rather than admitting the obvious
If you remember, the band had requested fans to participate into the making of the video, asking them to upload band footage, personal Rilo Kiley video clip, and there is no doubt some of them were incorporated into the final result.
‘Diane Young’ is a mixed and intriguing bag with the familiar buoyancy of the band, going bipolar with light electronic doo-woopy parts, punchy drums and wild surfing guitar slides. It is a lot of fun but it almost sounds like a too quick ride
According to people who were at the show, she performed her first set without saying anything, but definitively had an agenda during her second set: She wanted to clearly deliver her message… and there is no way she will get another gig in San Francisco any time soon
Katherine Jackson and the King of pop’s three children, Prince, Paris and Blanket are suing AEG Live for $40 billion to make up for his lost future earnings after the series of concerts he’d scheduled were cancelled because he died! AEG was in charge of MJ’s ‘This Is It’ tour, but had also hired Dr Conrad Murray
I don’t take my own music when I run a marathon, it’s simply too long, and it wears off my battery too fast. And I want to hear the entertainment, all along, especially the Randy Newman’s anthem ‘I Love LA’ at the start line, this is a tradition, and I suppose they could eventually replace it with a song with run in the title?
Who would have thought that rock’n’roll life style was totally compatible with long distance running? I actually think there is nothing more punk rock than running a marathon! And I am such in good company when I know that Joe Strummer ran three
At shows I see all kinds of people, Mohawks, shaved heads, long beards,… it had never bothered me, do they really think that a bunch of Nazis would suddenly invade the place and start some beating? The Skinhead community is very diverse and divided, a lot of them are against racial prejudice
You get the picture, you can read all of them, but it is very redundant, with a lot of ‘gyrating hips’, vagina’, ‘porn’ and various sex references. So decades after Elvis, people are still shocked by dance movements involving hips?
I am not impressed by her defense, and this sudden belief in his innocence is plain weird, everything I have read about Spector led me to think he was a crazy gun nuts with a history of violence against women and people in general.
So Bowie is going on tour? That was predictable since he has this new album ‘The Next Day’, but I am not talking about our Iman of course, but about Iman, Bowie’s wife! She (accidently?) told Grazia magazine:
He writes like a pissed off little girl who got grounded for bad behavior, you can almost see his little fists punching the air, just when he wanted to fight this paparazzi last week. His arguments are totally weak and nonsense
an exclusive look behind the scene was posted on YouTube, showing hairy producer Rick Rubin (who looks like a bit of a guru according to Ozzy) discussing the album and banging his head… lying on a bed?
all she does is dissing her exes in her stupid videos and shallow songs! With her Disney princess look and her bubble gum universe, she is becoming a monster
The worst seems to be about Wallace himself, who will appear in spirit to offer his guidance to his kids and the musical guests! Wallace’s children will voice their characters and the show will feature original songs from guest stars, and will even re-imagine Wallace’s own songs.
Of course, she has to keep up with her life style, even as a cripple, but this thing is beyond ridiculous. She can’t fill the Staples center anymore, so she is trying another desperate move to bring attention and revive her vanishing career.
This loud, hard-charging bluesy jam jumps at your throat and eardrums from start to finish, blasting your mind open, as if it wanted to convince everyone that rock’ n’ roll is very well alive. ELLE had the exclusivity of the song, and drummer Leah Shapiro explained how the song came up
The music has the usual fuzzy Wavves guitars and plenty of that Nathan Williams’ I-am-bored-with-life voice that can be really wearisome after a while. Despite a few louder episodes, the tune doesn’t venture very far from its start
It is very hard to write about the music you like the most, or to express what you feel about your favorite musician. We asked a few fans to write about what Elliott Smith mean to them and here are the results, combined with a few others found on the internet.
we have always seen teenagers in tears, screaming and tearing their hair apart, Elvis, the Beatles and the Stones certainly triggered this kind of reactions, but this meanness, this plain awful behavior seem to be new. And it’s not that people are getting worst, I just blame the social media!
Witnesses claim Ms Banks stopped mid-set to confront the Stone Roses, when the fight occurred.
It is alleged lead vocalist of the Stone Roses, 50 year old Ian Brown, was restrained by security after coming within two feet of Ms. Banks.
The video, for ‘Max Can’t Surf’, is a trip, ‘the Zuk Trip’ on some hi-tech skateboards, surfing the ecstasy pill all over the world and beyond as if they were reacting Back-to-the-Future on acid.
Steven Drozd said he wished the album wasn’t connected to the Super Bowl – their song ‘Sun Blows Up Today’ was used for a commercial which aired during the game – because the record doesn’t sound like this song at all:
Depending on your level of tolerance for fascinating things that don’t necessarily make sense, you will find this video fantastic or weirdly lame.
This is quite bizarre, and if you had previously listened to the song, you had probably noticed the Asian inspiration at the beginning, but nobody was expected this whole Chinese-Korean soap opera
The atmosphere of the video couldn’t be more bizarre, as it seemed to have been filmed at night in the coldest place on Earth, may be Alaska where the band is originally from?
He talked about his profound admiration for acoustic music, Bob Dylan (especially before he went electric), the ‘god lyricist’, Lou Reed, and the beat poets, specifying that poetry wasn’t fiction, but more like a painting of reality.
A Swedish company named Pause, which ordinarily just sells stereo equipment, has come up with a new product, that each of us can’t wait to experiment: a designed coffin that will play music for you during eternity.
Harper Simon seems to be the opposite of someone running after limelight or fame, at 40, he is taking his time, writing the music he wants, playing it with the musicians he admires, and I am not sure it is as easy as everyone thinks when you are son of music royalty.
‘For a female to write about her feelings, and then be portrayed as some clingy, insane, desperate girlfriend in need of making you marry her and have kids with her, I think that’s taking something that potentially should be celebrated’
The two little demons were actually very good, showing a real confidence and a true stage presence, talking to the crowd – especially the tiny charismatic Marlhy, who was almost invisible behind her big drum set – as if they had done it for years and years.
I am not sure it is real news, as these two seem to always be touring together! I know that, I read their mutual interactions on Twitter! Ted Leo and
we got to listen to Deer Tick’s ‘Divine Providence’, The Wedding Present’s first song of their first record ‘George Best’ (I had no idea of who they were), Gary Numan’s M. E., Rhett Miller’s duo with Rosanne Cash, ‘As Close As I Came To Being Right’ from his last effort ‘The Dreamer’, and X’s ‘The Hungry Wolf’, from ‘Under the Big Black Sun’
The artist should be permitted anonymity, unaware of the presumed demand of the marketplace. They’ll make contact on a much more meaningful level
The whole thing was very, very ambient, quite cinematic, if your brain was willing to provide the images, and at times contemplative. It wasn’t that nothing was happening, their soundscapes were abruptly and constantly changing like a moody-stormy weather, but you had to do some efforts if you wanted to follow them
Street artist Shepard Fairey was on my street this week, doing one of his signature murals in front of a hardware/art store. I stumbled on him and his team in action and was quite impressed by their efficiency – they were done in just two days! – and by the awesome result!
