Outernational's New Feminist Anthem 'She Craves Spring'
Our consciousness-rising revolutionary rockers continue their weekly release, with this time a rather feminist song, ‘She Craves Spring’, produced by Tom Morello one more time.
Beck's SongReader At Sonos Studio: An Awesome Gift For Musicians
Is it some kind of nostalgia? Some kind of snobbism? After all, he didn’t even interpret any of them the day of the opening of the exhibit, letting other musicians taking the stage and imagining his own work
Stream The New David Bowie In Its Entirety Via iTunes
Seriously, Bowie is making his album ‘The Next Day’ available on iTunes, and I am streaming it right now! After releasing two songs through YouTube, this is another sign that the 66-year-old rock star is totally in touch with today’s reality.
Irontom At Dragonfly, Tuesday February 26th 3013
Their performance at Dragonfly was an explosive set of songs played with a stadium-rock sound, an intense energy recruiting each fiber of their body, smashing loud guitars and the theatrical-super-expressive vocals of their frontman and singer Harry Haye
Watch The 'Wild Asian Motorcycle Sex Gang' Video For Hanni El Khatib's 'Family'
Naked Asian people, foaming beers, tattooed boobs, cigarettes in the nostrils, wild sex on fast motorcycles, BBQ octopus? That was not my vision of family
Matmos At The Masonic Lodge, Monday February 25th 2013, Reviewed
Matmos is an experimental electronic duo, and they had a whole large table covered of laptops and other electronic equipment, but, just like a low-budget sci-fi movie, they also added a few tricks of their own, like blowing inside a bowl of water, or scratching a rubber balloon
Listen To A Live Recording Of A New Fucked Up Song
The band played this song, and a few other new ones, at the Great Hall in Toronto on February 8th, during one of their ‘Long Winter’ nights. The series of shows was ‘a monthly night of immersive and interactive music, installations, visual art, readings, food, and dance to help Toronto get through our long and cold winter’, and featured artists, lecturers, dancers, videographers, and other bands.
The Silver Lake Chorus Is Recording 'Heavy Star Movin' By The Flaming Lips
The Silver Lake Chorus didn’t take the easy road with this one, this song is not for your average NPR-listener/Lips-fan, as we are not in ‘Yoshimi vs the Pink Robots’ territory there. Rather the track comes from the most experimental side of the band
Goldenvoice Announces Its Fabulous Coachella-Affiliated Shows
This time of the year is coming up, the best weeks to be in Los Angeles, I am talking about the weeks around Coachella date
Not With The Band: A Pledge To Experience Music Live
The tall guy who is standing just in front of you, the drunk-beyond-any-hope-of-recovery who is kicking you in the legs for 2 hours, and this is without mentioning the sweat odor, the bad breath, the unbearable heat, the unnecessary body contact, the cold beer on your pants, the outrageous priced parking and drinks
Ted Nugent Announces His Black Power 2013 Tour
These days, Nugent probably tours the county-fair circuit attended by camouflage-attired-over-the-hill fat guys carrying guns at concerts and driving pick-up trucks with deer trophies in the trunk. His audience totally embodies the racist-redneck cliché.
Nick Cave Signing At Amoeba, Friday February 22nd 2013
I put the poster in my bag and kept the setlist on hand. ‘I think he will sign it’ told me the guy standing just before me on line. He obviously was right, and I wasn’t the only one to break the rules, a guy made him even sign his leg for a tattoo template!
Sir Sly At The Echo, Wednesday February 20th 2013
The quintet unleashed a wild and youthful energy on stage at various degrees depending on the songs, but I could tell the crowd was liking their sound very much, already familiar to their songs since it was their third week of the residency
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds At The Henry Fonda Theater, Thursday February 21st 2013
The sort of rare performance that gives you chills along the spine for close to 2 hours, makes you walk on a cloud the following day, and stays with you long after it’s over
Listen And Download 'We Own The Night', Outernational's New Song
In this song, we find this youngster speaking to a close friend and going all out, pushing for her to see the possibilities of diving into a fearless love imbued with mutual respect, equality and shared pleasure.
Frank + Derol At The Echo, Wednesday February 20th 2013
Codi is a classically trained pianist and singer who started writing songs in first grade, whereas Brandi – and yeah she is Miley’s older sister, and she kind of looks like her,… how come I had never heard of her?
Amoeba Music Could Be In Trouble Because Of Their Vinyl Vault?
‘We’ve been doing this a few years and in the course of buying stuff at our trade counter we’ve found some amazing vinyl artifacts that, [we’ve discovered] through our research, are not available digitally’.If most of the material is licensed, the problem is that Henderson has admitted that some is not.
M.I.A. Vs The System: The Grammys Stole My Idea!
‘My ideas came from my life. My set was based on Tamil Hindu temple. Not Bob Marley’… ‘If u wanna see the real thing or get it first, come to a M.I.A. show!’
Rilo Kiley Has A New Song,… Sort Of
‘Help us make our video! For our first single, “Let Me Back In”, we invite you to upload your favorite personal Rilo Kiley video clip, band footage, created animation, etc… whatever you have in moving pictures that you’d like to share with us’
Kelly Clarkson: Clive Davis Is Lying About Me And My Music In His Memoir
I did cry in his office once. I cried after I played him a song I had written about my life called “Because Of You.” I cried because he hated it and told me verbatim that I was a “sh*tty writer who should be grateful for the gifts that he bestows upon me.
Prince Jackson, 16, Your New Entertainment Tonight Correspondent
Prince Jackson is gonna be Entertainment Tonight special correspondent as the CBS show announced it on Monday. Oh well, we don’t know much more than that, but let’s ponder a minute
Alice Bag, Allison Wolfe and Drew Denny At LA Zine Fest, Sunday February 17th 2013
It was total girl power, and the four women started their discussion with a riotous performance, emerging from the back of the theater wearing Pussy-Riot-style masks
Prince Is Charging You To Listen To His New Songs
He probably realizes he is the only one doing this, every band in the world is posting a song or two for free download on their website, every album can be previewed on many websites before being streamed on Spotify, but you have to buy Prince’s stuff if you want to listen to it!
Not With The Band: Can We Learn To Love Music We Dislike?
We find pleasant what we are used to listen to, and unpleasant novelties we can’t comprehend at the first listening. On the other hand, musical training increases our exposure to different kinds of chords and harmonies, and so also increases our ability to identify them and enjoy them.
Country Singer Mindy McCready Kills Herself
‘I just started screaming, calling 911, I lay down next to him and just just pleaded with him not to die.’
The Physics of Mosh Pits
He wondered if the mathematical laws that apply to group behavior in flocks of birds could also describe what he was seeing, so he got the idea to use software developed for analyzing particles in a fluid to track moshers’ motions! Surprisingly, he found out that the moshers had the same statistical distribution as the speeds of atoms in a gas!
Listen To White Fence's New Psychedelic Explosion, 'Pink Gorilla'
It’s all vintage psychedelia, filled with multicolor distorted visions during an imaginary and vivid acid trip among layered guitars,… one sure thing, this fuzz-fantasy will not silence all these Syd Barett comparisons.
Outernational's New Song 'Here Is The Rose' Wants You To Strike, Rise And Dance For Women
“Right now millions of people, and millions of women in particular are speaking and acting out against their daily oppression – patriarchy, rape culture, sexual objectification and dehumanization.
Lana Del Rey's New Burning Desire For Jaguar
‘Singer songwriter, Lana Del Rey will collaborate with Jaguar on the launch of the all-new F-TYPE, a two-seater sports car that is a vivid representation of the vitality of the Jaguar brand.
Tyler The Creator Announces A New Album, 'Wolf', And Releases A New Video 'Domo 23'
‘WOLF. APRIL 2nd. ALOT OF GAY JOKES BIKE REFERENCES AND CHORDS STOLEN FROM STUFF I DONT WANT YOU TO KNOW ABOUT I YELL ALOT TOO’
Vex Ruffin At The Echoplex, Tuesday February 12th 2013
Somewhere between a raw aggressive grungy punk and some weird experimental electronic rock, often dark, bizarre and bleak, their sound was just great and surprising at each song with a minimalist ethic
Beak> At The Echoplex, Tuesday February 12th 2013
‘We have played in LA before but nobody came!’ said Barrow, looking around and seeing a full house, the crowd responded by some screams of protestation, but it was one of the few times when you could hear people, as everyone was listening very religiously
Jim James Wants 'A New Life' With A Buffalo-Headed Woman
The song just got the video treatment, with a buffalo-headed girl running through a series of doors opening on nothing but a desolated road in the desert, while some go-go dancers jump behind Jim James almost the whole time.
Weirdest Lawsuit Ever: Chubby Checker Is Suing Hewlett-Packard Over A 'Penis Measurement' App
‘The Chubby Checker’, an app designed by Hewlett-Packard subsidiary Palm, Inc.., estimates penis length using guys’ simple data such as shoe size, …
The Man Who Killed Osama Bin Laden Revealed That Metallica Asked Navy Seals To Stop Using Their Music
‘When we first started the war in Iraq, we were using Metallica music to soften people up before we interrogated them, he explained, ‘Metallica got wind of this and they said, ‘Hey, please don’t use our music because we don’t want to promote violence.’ I thought, Dude, you have an album called Kill ‘Em All.’
Watch Pissed Jeans' Gory-Funny Video For 'Bathroom Laughter'
The violence of the music directly matches the slaughter on screen, or rather Pissed Jeans’ pissed off sonic fury has to be responsible for all this mayhem,… this is some bloodthirsty music!
Not With The Band: The Grammys: Who Needs Them?
Honestly, how can you compare The Black Keys’ ‘Lonely Boy’, to Kelly Clarkson’s ‘Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You)’, to Fun.’s ‘We Are Young’, to Gotye’s ‘Somebody That I Used to Know’, to Frank Ocean’s ‘Thinkin Bout You’, to Taylor Swift’s ‘We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together’…. already my head is aching
Listen To Youth Lagoon's Glorious New Song Curiously Called 'Mute'
The epic track is actually complex, going from a totally triumphant jubilant opening, falling into metallic sounds glittering and fizzling all over the place, spiraling and then morphing into symphonic and keyboard weirdness.
Justin Bieber Attempts To Hijack Grammys Night And Fails
He was already the king of TV a day before when hosting SNL but he also wanted this Grammy night to be his? This sounded like a terrible desperate-for-attention moment for the Bieb which turned to be a total flop
Did Beyonce Get A New Nose For The Super Bowl?
she has always been an attractive woman and of course this participates into the making of a more Caucasian look of her. Blame it on our racist and conformist society, but it’s a sad ascertainment a mixed race woman, who has reached the alpha female status, feels the need to do that.
Listen To Fitz And The Tantrums' New Musical Direction With 'Out Of My League'
Fitz and the Tantrums are back with a new track off their upcoming record ‘More Than Just a Dream’, and honestly I didn’t expect this tamed sound from this R&B-bluesy band so wild on stage
Stream Hanni El Khatib's New Song 'Family' Produced By Dan Auerbach
The new song ‘Family’ is very much in the same vein than his previous material, it works in-the-urgency with a devilish but sweet rhythm which is revisiting some old-school rock ‘n’ roll, engaging into some serious body-shaking thanks to crashing cymbals and tearing guitar, repainting the whole thing with a rawer and bluesier color.
The Elliott Smith Wall Once Again Repainted And Tagged In Just A few Days
I remember having this weird vision of this odd Elliott statue in front of the wall,…Elliott, the last person on earth who would have wanted to have a statue erected for him…Today, I have the feeling we will never see this sculpture.
Bowie Refuses Morrissey To Use A Photograph Of The Two Of Them For The Cover Of A Single
The picture, which was taken by Linder Sterling at a private party in 1992, shows both men acting quite friendly at the time but things have really changed and, according to a Morrissey fan site, ‘Bowie has ordered EMI UK not to run the proposal artwork’,
Desaparecidos Has Recorded Two New Tracks Chanting The Occupy Movement And Anonymous
In the sense, is it too obviously political? ‘The Left is Right’… Can you be more direct than this? Desaparecidos sure doesn’t use any nuances for these new ones and I wonder whether art is really efficient when the meaning jumps at your face so vividly, when there is no mystery left… but, I know, that’s the point of Desaparecido, I should go listen to Bright Eyes for the cryptic meanings.
Lady Gaga Thinks She Is The Queen Of The Universe, Her Assistant Is Suing Her For Slavery
[O’Neil is a ] fucking hood rat who is suing me for money that she didn’t earn. She thinks she’s just, like, the queen of the universe… And, you know what, she didn’t want to be a slave to one, because in my work and what I do, I’m the queen of the universe every day.’
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds' New Video For 'Jubilee Street' Is Some Dark-Bright Tale
Ah but there is transcendence at the end, there is a luminescent light at the end of this dark alley, and you have no idea how far a nipple in your mouth can bring you
Is Rage Against The Machine Recording A New Album?
And this was enough to start the rumor that RATM may have something coming up, a tour? An album? So far, nothing of this sort is scheduled
The Mowgli's At The Satellite, Monday February 4th 2013
All this overflow of super-positive emotions, all these uplifting oo-ooos, all these power choruses on ecstasy, all this jumping around could have either turned me nauseous or totally happy,…
Beck Is Re-Imagining Bowie With 170 Musicians On February 10th
Not only his new take on the song will be done ‘by putting together a collection of sounds from unexpected places’, but we will ‘hear layer upon layer of unique sounds coming together from different musicians’.
Plus the musicians will be performing on a specially constructed circular stage, encircling