May be you have made sense of the whole statement, may be not,… it doesn’t matter, this is typical of them, pretending to have the beginning of the answer (to the meaning of life?) and throwing obscure statements about life, love, and death… and other omnipresent Lips’ themes.
All the drug references in the song have nothing to do with his own addiction since he was not taking any drugs at that time, many people could confirm this. But the myth will persist forever,…
for some reasons this sounds passé and uninspired. You would have told me this was an old lost song recently excavated from A-has’ Norwegian vault
The truth is that she didn’t sing at the President inauguration and after a long silence from her camp following the scandalous revelation, she obviously wanted to prove something.
Their music is a world by itself, a foreign country populated by a dark and mysterious sound built around a blend of punk, industrial sound, krautrock, surf guitars and even tribal screams. It’s quite a dense universe, exotic and expansive, with rare but powerful vocals
Then it gets worst for Brown: he and his entourage fled the scene and wasn’t there when the police arrived whereas Ocean stayed and spoke to the LAPD. As a result, the police referred to Ocean as ‘the victim’.
Someone told me she hadn’t been able to get a ticket months in advance, so these double dates were super hot tickets in town! Local Natives, I hardly know you, what exactly all these kids do know that I don’t?
First, ‘Full Of Fire’ may sound like a techno party hosted into a torture chamber, these drums are damn sinister, and I got a little scared of Karen Dreijer-Anderson’s freaky-witchy vocals ready to jump at your throat at any moment…
Abrams got a brush with fame by finishing in sixth place during the tenth season of American Idol, and by even doing a duo with Jack Black for the 2011 American Idol finale,… and this could totally explain why he was opening for Kyle Gass
Watch at your own risk, the video is all about pulsating vocals over freak-out electronics, hypnotic swirls of synth, video-game sonic chaos over some bubbly cartoonish visuals… it could be the equivalent of a journey beyond-the-speed-of-light through a black hole
Obviously, these guys’ first priority is to have fun with their rock-extravanganza, going all over the classic rock experience …I don’t even know exactly if they have songs of their own (I guess they do), but they totally made anything they played their own stuff.
The death of free will, certainly announced by all the neurobiologists I have heard of, should be all over the place, should be shaking things up everywhere, and made a splash in our conception of reality. Instead it is ignored and we continue to live in our delusion we are in control of our destiny.
‘I liked the idea of a self-contained, endless pursuit of perfection. But I have a problem with perfection. I don’t think perfection is very artful. But there’s something I liked about the image of a skater going in this endless twisted circle that doesn’t have any real endpoint
the fast rolling drumming of the start and the constant spinning Moog synth contrast so much with Bill Taylor’s youthful and clear vocals, that the song brings some cinematic visions of some cruel steamroller monster running after someone keeping his calm till the end
I blame all these false rumors about the Rolling Stones, David Bowie, The Smiths and an all-vegetarian festival, or even another reunion of Rage Against the Machine… but none of the above, sorry! Instead we will have Blur, The Stone Roses (close enough to the Stones), Sofia Coppola’s favorite Frenchies
‘Lucky Lighter’, a very catching-poppy tune, has the outfit of a punk anthem with bright melodic guitar riffs and the necessary soaring chorus ready to be sing-along to at their next show. The song has actually this slight Green Day-ish overtone
Sincerely, I am not a fan of her style of music, a mix of 90s R&B, 80s soul, light disco, turning into mellow ballads à la Sade with some occasional sampling, but I must admit Jessie had quite a warm and unassuming personality, smiling and waving at people
After ‘Unbelievers’, they already performed on late night TV, here is ‘Arms’, a gentle ballad with a lot of bouncing drumming and Ezra Koenig’ high-pitched gentle croon floating over a cute melody of glittering synth and even unexpected soaring strings towards the end.
With this revelation, I am tempted to ask, has she done this before? May be she lip-syncs during her concerts too, I am going to start a rumor! Seriously, if she can’t sing live on this special day, when she has received the highest honor of singing the national anthem for the president she has supported so much, it looks very bad.
Megaupload was shut down by the US Department of Justice a year ago, Dotcom was charged with online piracy, and arrested after a spectacular raid at his $24 million mansion in New Zealand, just like the ones you see in Hollywood movies. However, the guy didn’t give up
The documentary narrates the Russian band’s trial after having staged a ‘Punk Prayer’ against Russian president Putin in a Orthodox Cathedral in Moscow, as well as the three women’s first months of incarceration in terrible Russian camps.
Dave Grohl premiered his documentary about Van Nuys recording studio Sound City, at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, and he and 17 musician, who had all once recorded at Sound City, played a super long set… and when I say long, it was long, it lasted more than 3 hours
As usual they managed to build a hypnotic groove with an interesting melody floating just above it, mixing influences, giving us a lesser pop version of the Verves flirting with a layered kraukrock jam style
This will be The Strokes’ fifth album, and despite the fact that their 2011‘Angles’ wasn’t that great (if I remember correctly) the band is still wildly popular judging from the reaction of the fans at the news
Most people need to be told whom to admire, what to choose for breakfast and what decision to make in their daily life, it’s a sad reality but it’s true! Many people only have vague opinions but as soon as Beyonce or Lady Gaga says something they follow like a herd of sheep
It looks very cute and fuzzy, and the listing describes it as a ‘charming church which housed a small concert hall, followed by a recording studio also offering accommodation
Is there any musical genre that Ozomatli, the multi-cultural band from Los Angeles, can’t do? Is there any instrument they can’t play on stage? Those who have seen them certainly know the answers to these questions,… Ozomatli isn’t the LA ambassador for nothing!
The video is hard and very comforting to watch at the same time, observing up close the friendship between Brion and Smith, their real complicity through music while joking about TV interviews… There isn’t a lot of talk, but a lot of music
The first thing I noticed with them was their restrained decibel level, I know too well how so many bands feel the necessity to play as loud as possible, as if it was a requirement to sound cool. But there wasn’t anything like this during Yo La Tengo’s set
The Atlanta guys are just coming back from the whole Middle East grand tour, stopping in the Emirates, Lebanon, Cyprus, Egypt, Iraq, Dubai, and Noisey sent a camera crew, producing this 9-minute video to document the action.
We got numerous updates about this one, it’s gonna be a collaboration album with Dave Grohl on drums and guest spots for Trent Reznor, Scissor Sisters’ Jake Shears and Nick Oliveri, but beside this, it is a plain mystery
I saw him once at Origami Vinyl, and I was so impressed by his melancholic soundscapes and maturity despite the fact he looked like a shy high school kid, … after all this is someone who declared when he was barely 22
Then, the tune blooms into a full and catchy sound with the help of pounding drums, upbeat guitars and joyous background vocals… the result is certainly one of their most thrilling and incendiary songs, and it smells like a hit song a mile around.
‘We took a more playful, LO-FI approach to songwriting. Much of the music was demoed in our little basement studio in Manhattan with drum machines, a shitty sample keyboard and tons of delay — which we called the soup.”
Buried inside the layers of reverb and psych-fuzz, the songs certainly had hooks and even 60s harmonies, Ã la Brian Jonestown Massacre (this is actually the first name I wrote when I heard the first song) or could it have been The Jesus and Mary Chain?
‘when I saw you wear a dress made out of raw meat, I was sickened. When I see you wearing fur and you use it as a fashion statement, that defenseless animals have been killed so you can get your picture in the press is abhorrent to me’
Fol Chen is a mysterious, eccentric and experimental indie band from Los Angeles, led by producers Samuel Bing and Julian Wass, and they had disappeared from my radar for a little while since their residency at the Echo two years ago.
I tried to listen to them, and it was painful. The Norah Jones’ track is a classic old-fashioned jazzy Hollywood-feel-good one, some extremely groundbreaking stuff that old white people love to death, whereas the Scarlett Johansson-sung track is one slow icy-bore
I was ready for depression and a drug-induced coma, but all this was making the songs really difficult to differentiate from each other. Then, they let a little bit of light enter their darkness, oh I am not talking about light and upbeat, but at least ‘Zombies like Lovers’ had a faster tempo
There was no whistles to announce the video, it unexpectedly appeared one morning as if it was a natural thing, and Bowie said he didn’t want to give any interviews, didn’t want to tour…
Hildegard von Bingen was a 12th century German Catholic saint, who was also a writer and composer and philosopher! I wonder how Banhart got into this mystic character, but this is what happens when you have a wild imagination
Honestly this soft empty platitude for a comeback? How are they going to energize the crowds with this? Oh I know they will probably compensate with golden high heels, cleavages the depth of a canyon and bootylicious galore but still
Who would have thought that there was so much deep philosophical reasoning behind this simple alteration of an old picture? Yeah, it’s pretty deep and I needed his input. And what about the choice of ‘Heroes’?
If ‘Ready to Go’ is all bells-chiming and dreamy vocals with some epic bombast à la Arcade Fire that may make you want to run up a mountain, ‘Silver Lining’ is an infectious sunny poppy tune that could you make kiss everybody
a sweet and beautiful melody and this flute/melodica musical interlude that seemed to be escaped from some 70s movie soundtrack… And there is a lot of this in the album, a lot of melancholia and old-fashioned use of flute and saxophone
According to the New York Times, Led Zeppelin is in negotiations for the right to stream ‘Whole Lotta Love’, ‘Stairway to Heaven’, and probably all the rest of their catalog.
It’s more pop than punk, it’s girlie pop à la Dum Dum Girls with a bright twist, and there is a certain subjacent punky savor below the sweet harmonies, I know, I have seen Bleached live twice
I don’t know why Bad Religion is doing this, as they are usually playing large venues and headlining festivals, but if you are a fan it is an unique occasion to see the iconic punk band in an intimate venue
Yorke’s lamenting falsetto, warm-going-desperate background wordless vocal chorus, the song builds a very familiar ambiance à la Radiohead, but without any crescendo or catharsis, just staying afloat with a melancholic vibe stuck between electronics and acoustic guitars… It’s not bad
They were preparing themselves to shoot a video for the pop rock band Hanson inside the club, and the tall guy were telling them to dance, even ‘get sweaty’, and then relax, but of course, he told them they could not take any pictures once inside. He added ‘I know you are excited to see them, they are going to play real music’
