In short he wants to put the human touch back in the computer as he thinks ‘music services rely too much on computerized recommendations and there aren’t enough human beings advising users what music to buy’… What music to buy? If people are streaming they aren’t necessarily buying.
The multi-millionaire diva is the last person on earth that requires a patron and another $50 million! She just did a massive world tour, has an upcoming album and self-directed documentary on HBO, and will sing at the Superbowl half-time show
for me the queen has always been a ridiculous antique vase, whom English people are foolishly attached to for some obscure reasons, but I had always regarded the royals as inoffensive. Morrissey describes them as a regime no different from the current dictatorships in the Middle East and Syria
Homer is falling hard for these hipsters, running after coolness as if it was the new donut – actually, they are selling donuts, because these pastries are back being cool – and the whole episode is a study of hipsters’ life and their new parenting method,
‘Scientology’s being toasted by a midget with a blowtorch / Pretender to the throne he’s just a big-ass pain in the zorch / The Wizard of Oz / Cowering behind his curtain / His lies have no end, Of that you can be certain / Dave and his BFF little Tom / These half two men / Think they’re really the bomb / But I couldn’t take their shit no more / So I said ‘Fuck you’ and walked out the door’.
I had downloaded this song a few days ago and hadn’t had the chance to listen to it yet, but I am glad I finally did! It is a cover
And that’s very intriguing, as in high-profile investigations, autopsy results are usually withheld while the case is under investigation, and so the police, in the hope to re-launch the case with this document, has done an unusual move since Wallace’s case has remained unsolved.
‘It was truly an honor to direct the new NILE video; a band with so many diehard fans and such a strong impact in the metal scene. The video concept, as a matter of fact, was inspired by the culture and the ritual habits of the Ancient Nubia, a region along the Nile River, which is located in northern Sudan and Southern Egypt. The research and design elements of the video led to a really interesting combination of the Ancient Egyptian myths, through the prism of the Nubian African Voodoo Burial rituals. Two worlds set so close yet so far from each other.’
He dropped this news when asked about working with Velvet Revolver again: Scott Weiland has been fired from Stone Temple Pilots. He didn’t elaborate much on it, the interviewer was quite surprised by the comme
I just wonder how much such a thing could be sold! According to NME, it came with a reserve price of $525,000 last time it was on sale! Right now, the price is only available upon request on Moments in Time, a website which offers rare manuscripts, letters and autographs and other historical memorabilia.
It shows them rehearsing in a church, the perfect place to fit the acoustic of a choral group. This is a vibrant and happy band, and although we don’t get to hear much of the song, the full and warm vocal harmonies, just tickled by these Glockenspiel-sounding bells, give an idea of what we can expect.
“The mission was to make the kind of Rock ‘n’ Roll record I would want to listen to myself, which sounds simple but is, in fact, incredibly difficult.’…’I felt challenged and inspired by the idea of making a modern psychedelic folk-rock album, a Tom Rothrock production like XO, but then the Velvet Underground and the Stones kept entering in.”
So what is ex-Soul Coughing’s Mike Doughty supposed to do? Selling personalized versions of unreleased songs,… for $35,335.53. According to the AV Club, Doughty has fixed himself the price to record ‘Dogs/Demons’, a never-played-live song, with some personalized message!
This is the last installment of the Valtari Mystery Film Experiment, in which the band commissioned artists to make short films out of their songs, and director Floria Sigismondi didn’t spare any drama for this one.
It’s that simple, if Amanda Palmer could finance her album, videos and tour with Kickstarter, why not applying the same idea for a music critic site? Music writers David Greenwald and Daniel Siegal, who worked for Billboard, GQ, the LA Weekly, Rolling Stone’s website and the LA Times, want to create a new site for in-depth music reporting and criticism, totally financed by the money they will raise with their Kickstarter campaign.
According to Adams, ‘Shining Thorough the Dark’ was ‘the first track I wrote after my retirement’, and was written ‘post-meltdown, while laying in bed with the flu’.
it was really a secret show as nobody knew they were invited to attend an Arcade Fire concert when entering the Breakglass studio. The band started the show in disguise, wearing Pussy-Riot-style masks and apparently people weren’t recognizing the true identity of ‘les Identiks’
‘HBO has a history of pushing every boundary with class and authenticity. Some of my favorite shows are on HBO, so I am excited that my film will be part of its bold programming. This film was so personal to me, it had to have the right home.
He was talking about his family, his beautiful son, his age, his drug-free body and the importance of being open-minded, he even said ‘Don’t just listen to hardcore, I listened to about everything, from Coldplay, to Rihanna, Madonna’, oh really? But at the same time, we had to stay close to our roots?
Rihanna wants to forgive him, not because it looks like the commonly regarded right thing to do but because it is the new commodity for her. She goes back to where she was, being half of the most successful couple of the moment.
If some hardcore bands deploy tons of physical energy to wake up the crowd, Bad Brains certainly don’t, their serenity and tranquil strength on stage heavily contrasted with their loud and furious music and the mayhem they had triggered in the crowd
According to a few posts on Facebook and Twitter, they played new songs, ‘which were generally described as fun, dance-y and groovy’, but so far no photo and no recording have surfaced as a strict no-phone-no-camera policy was reinforced at the entrance. Hey, according to someone ‘there was even a guy who had his phone thrown on the wall for trying to take a picture!!!’
Metallica’s Lars Ulrich said in a statement: ‘It’s always been about control for us as a band. Forming Blackened Recordings is the ultimate in independence, giving us 100% control and putting us in the driver’s seat of our own creative destiny.’
It’s a bombastic and aggressive charge on your eardrums with an infectious rhythm and some visceral tunneling screaming, that certainly reminds the best of Nirvana, empowered by a paranoiac high G-force and some astringent guitar-drums combination
Musicians, if you want to stand out and invite an original guest on stage, please pick somebody else than Johnny Depp! Gee Whiz, if I had just counted the number of times I have read ‘joined on stage by Johnny Depp!….
The fashion line is actually ‘based on a book of hand-drawn illustrations that Yoko Ono presented to John Lennon on the occasion of their wedding’,… So because she drew a bunch of doodles of nipples, buts, and crotches in the 70s, she think she can come up with a clothing line?
The talented woman posted an update on the Screaming Females Blogspot this week, and rather than writing a blurb, she used a comic strip to explain what she went through during this past month: a muscular chronic pain in her arms, chest and neck that wasn’t going away,
The auto-tuned Maroon 5’s song is greatly forgettable as everything they do and the Carly Rae Jepsen’s tube of the year is as annoying as the number of times she repeats ‘call me may be’… and so we are left with number 8, M83’s ‘Midnight City’, which may be the most interesting one on the list by far
Miles ‘Baby Boogaloo’ Brown’s little Jackson 5 look and old school break dancing was irresistible and he is once again the center of attraction in this new video, desperately trying to get the attention of adults by his acrobatic dancing and later by getting his own backup dancers.
We used to open for Michelle Branch, and I remember we opened for her at the Roxy and they didn’t even give us a dressing room. I hate the Roxy. I’ll never play there again!
The gospel-choir choral from Texas has released a Holiday album ‘Holidaydream: Sounds of the Holidays Volume One’, back in October, and just posted this charming animated video for a totally updated version of ‘Let it Snow’. If it wasn’t for the lyrics ‘let it snow’ I wouldn’t have figured out it was that winterland song
Of course you have to hurry up as the pre-sale starts this Friday, November 30th at 10:00am PST here. The ticket prices range between $38.50 to $58.50 plus fee, and the password is BENEFIT.
Move over Gwen, this teen girl was a ball of fire! She was a lioness shaking her long mane and roaring in the mic over the band’s energetic electro-pop songs, she was jumping, shaking her body as if she had been possessed by the ghost of rock’ n’ roll, dancing, bouncing and doing even more dangerous acrobatics from one corner of the stage to the other.
Aren’t we really tired of this biopics about drugged out musicians? Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles, Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash, yes I know this new one logically will not have a happy ending, but this is always the same damn old story.
A brutal and mad scene acted by psychiatric ward escapees or just kids who wanted to have fun? There was a boy who was wearing a hamburger hat and a few others dressed in full banana suits
‘I want to set the right example and, at the same time, live my life….I feel like pop stars can’t be rock stars anymore because they have to be role models, and it takes the fun out of it for us, because we just want to have fun with art.’
I went to a show at this new DIY, or rather Do It Together place in downtown LA, called LA Fort. I had never heard of it, but it’s brand new, located in the Arts District/industrial section of Los Angeles, inside a warehouse which has been transformed into a music venue, where I saw five bands for five bucks play in front of a young crowd on Friday night
The van actually looked totally awesome, the design was a little damaged, so it must have been painted a while ago, but it hadn’t lost any of its powerful message
Space will start and stop playing the song, left arrow will decrement the current play velocity by one, right arrow will increment the current play velocity by one, down arrow will set the current play velocity to zero (giving a good scratch-record effect), control will freeze on the current beat, and shift will bounce between the current beat and all the similar sounding beats (the branching points).
I didn’t say I didn’t enjoy Half Moon Run’s set at First Unitarian Church on Wednesday night, where they were opening for Patrick Watson. On the contrary, they were quite interesting to listen to – and to look at by the way,… some good looking young Canadians! However, it was a little distracting and I had a hard time to concentrate on their own music as I was constantly drawing parallels. These obsessive, hypnotic and ethereal guitar melodies, these soaring harmonies or moaning plaintive voice, their sound sounded right away extremely familiar, although I had never heard of them before.
The music was ethereal, a little mysterious and Patrick Watson, who sang most of the time with a very high falsetto, was an interesting boyish character, producing very varied and surprising soundscapes, part spiritual, part indie folk, while giggling or goofing around between the songs
“I think Ian was hoping to encourage Elliott to make a simpler, more stripped down, organic (Ian’s words, not mine) record than Figure 8, which was his previous recording. Figure 8 (which I love) had a very far-reaching, ornate, psychedelic presentation.”
Faber Social in association with Heavenly Music Services and Rough Trade East are proud to bring you the UK premiere album playback of selected titles from Song Reader. Ed Harcourt will lead a specially put together band of musicians, including Liverpool’s Stealing Sheep, Steve Mason (of The Beta Band), Liela Moss (of Duke Spirit) Megan Washington, ex-Libertine Carl Barat and special guests to be confirmed for an evening of music, dj-ing and conversation dedicated to this unique project.’
First Courtney Love declared there was a musical in the making, then it was denied and Frances Bean Cobain had a good laugh about it. Now there is a (confirmed) rumor about a documentary and Brett Morgen, director of the new Rolling Stones documentary, ‘Crossfire Hurricane’, is involved.
During their opulent set at Amoeba, there was passion, there were vocal harmonies eager to get lost in large open spaces of layered folk guitars, there were intense rhythms and guitar solos producing from time to time these pulsating and vibrant African tones
So I am staying home, and I am listening to her snore and wheeze, and reveling in the swampiest, most awful breath that ever emanated from an angel.
Should I continue? They also did a map with the most popular acts based on the number of fans and other data, and boom! Los Angeles crushes New York once again with 3,547.9 against 1,967.6 for NYC in music popularity index (in millions)
Filmed in the hot Californian desert, the mini-movie is a blurry-busy fast-moving experience, hitting the road as fast as the chords on the electric guitar, letting us watch a confused and angry preacher in a cemetery, while Miles Solay’s voice is assaulting the delusion of the American dream with the help of some aggressive trumpet.
There was a study published about a year ago that found out that strong right-handedness was associated with decreased liking of less popular musical genres such as bluegrass or reggae, and increased preference for more popular genres (indexed by recording industry sales figures).
The song has been submitted for an Academy Award in the best original song category, and everyone is suggesting she may win the Oscar as it is her first original composition for a movie; she recorded ‘Across the Universe’ for ‘Pleasantville’ and her song ‘Paper Bag’ was used for another Apatow production ‘Bridesmaids’
