‘As for the movie, it’s a mess. The 18,000 people who were at that tribute show for late Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun will tell you it was the best concert in rock history, but Celebration Day is not a good concert film
Yesterday, the band posted a new track called ‘AWWWKWAARRRDDD’ on their Tumblr, and, surprisingly, it’s a collaboration with British singer-songwriter Kate Nash,… or may be it should not be a surprise since Kate has previously covered their song ‘Cocaine’,… I had no idea!
The truth is what counts. Elliott, especially being a philosophy major, would tell you that is what matters, not what you or anyone else would like to believe or like not to believe, as the case may be.
Patti Smith has always been a sort of mystery to me, singing epic songs like ‘Because the Night’, and ‘People have the Power’, and writing lyrics stuffed with literary, historical and religious references, being popular and intellectual at the same time, and alternating between rock goddess and muse of the rock stars.
‘You know, I think about ten and a half years ago, my wife Janna and I went to Mercy hospital in Janesville where I was born for our seven-week ultrasound for our first born child. And we saw that heartbeat. Our little baby was in the shape of a bean, and to this day we have nicknamed our first born, Liza, ‘Bean’.’
Directed by Whitey Mcconnaughy, ‘Lethal Justice’ can be watched like a lost street-action-horror western of the 70s (check out Black’s sky blue suit coming straight from a Starsky and Hutch episode) and starring, beside Mr. Tenacious D
If Elliott committed suicide and Jennifer Chiba is innocent, she should be allowed to have a life free of suspicions. If I were at her place, exculpating myself would be the only goal in my life, I would have been talking to the police nights and days, taking all the polygraph tests that exist until they recognize my innocence and close the case
YouTube declared they pay the labels and the song writers a percentage of the revenue generated by their videos, and take 45% of ad revenue, ….but 45% of what? That’s a mystery…
The song is pure rock’ n’ roll, definitely old school Stones, with Mick Jagger’s muddy and dragging howl and roaring badass guitars and the whole thing is just asking to be blasted through your soundsystem.
42% went to American express (you know all these pre-sales), 21% to Bieber Fan club, 20% to the venue or the artist, 10% to VIP, and so only 7% to the general public
A Memorial Exhibition, which will run from October 26th through November 17th, will feature 19 canvases, five paintings on wood and one mixed-media work on card stock, and some of the works are in fact collaborations between Dee Dee and artist-musician Paul Kostabi and his widow, Barbara Zampini.
Black Jack, blue Jack, I can’t pass the fact there are two Jack White in this video, and this is twice the piss-off potential I believe!
The Wombats are young and exuberant, the Wombats are English (from Liverpool) and you can hear it at each syllable they pronounce, which was probably another element of seduction for all these girls cheering up, front row of the Red Bull stage at the Culture Collide festival last Sunday.
‘XX’ will include the original album, collectible b-sides, demo tapes recorded in 1991, whereas one of the DVDs will feature their 2010 London reunion free concert – performed as a thank-you to UK fans for making ‘Killing in the Name’ Number One single during Christmas in 2009 – as well as various music videos and the other DVD has the band’s first ever concert!
was looking forward to the production of ‘A Star Is Born’ and the opportunity to work with Clint Eastwood. For months we tried to coordinate our schedules to bring this remake to life but it was just not possible. Hopefully in the future we will get a chance to work together.
Visuals were transforming the show into a living acid trip for the crowd’s immense pleasure, and there obviously were big fans front row, who knew all the lyrics and had an absolute great time.
‘We’ve got some shows in London, I believe, and in New York, but I really can’t talk about any of that at the moment. They’ve put the gag on me on this. You can hint!’
Tom Morello has hair but hasn’t changed a bit, and who could miss James Hetfield or Steven Tyler’s giant smiles? Others have obviously undergone some metamorphosis, Alice Cooper? Is that you? And Marilyn Manson had a mull
They attacked their set with a calm fury, which, I am well aware of this, sounds like an oxymoron, but it’s the best I can do to describe their impetuousness on stage, doubled by a quietude and detachment in the vocals.
They mixed funky and bouncy rhythms with high-pitch falsetto vocals and put up a real summer party at the end of this sunny fall afternoon, making people in the crowd dance, not too hard, it was rather a gentle and languid dance, but you can’t do too much when it’s hot.
Many Fleet Foxes or Bon Iver’s fans grow a large beard and wear flannel shirts, Vampire Weekend’s fans wear Izod polos and seem to be talking about the last indie movies, and Tegan & Sara’s fans are all cute lesbians!
According to the author, the first thing Katherine Jackson did when she arrived at the house where Michael died was to call the ex-nanny Grace Rwaramba to ask her: ‘Grace, the children are crying. They are asking about you. They can’t believe that their father died. Grace, you remember Michael used to hide cash at the house? I’m here. Where can it be?’
It was not my introduction to Los Lobos, but when I bought the album, I couldn’t get enough of this atmospheric pop music tainted by Tex-Mex, Latin and jazz rhythms and habited by poetic imagery.
I don’t know much about what exactly happened – what do they play? How many songs do they play? – I just stole these pictures from the San Francisco Weekly, and I just know that the three of them had been playing the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival the same day.
Snoop Dogg is a funny rapper, may be all that weed helps a little, who knows? Anyway, he posted this list describing why he is voting for Obama and not for Romney on instagram: it’s pretty hilarious, and of course totally irreverent:
The song is actually not that new, as Arcade Fire already played it during a surprise show in Haiti last year, but the video below is apparently the first recording of it. It is a very quiet and slow tune, with some angst in the vocals but the bombast and the grandiose are definitively gone,
I hadn’t heard about the Wallflowers for quite some time, and Jakob Dylan apparently manages to have a good career despite the enormous shadow watching him over his shoulders.
He played it overly dramatic, hand on heart, storming through the song,.. I bet he does this all the time. He also did ‘You have Killed Me’, in a much more muscular and roaring manner.
This is exactly what they needed, a femme-fatale sultry voice, a Paul Epworth-produced retro-piece recorded with a 77-piece orchestra at London’s Abbey Road studios, which brings about zero surprise.
‘Nirvana was playing Maxwell’s and after the show I was talking to Kurt and [Sonic Youth’s] Thurston Moore, Kurt said, ‘you should join my band.’ I think he was sick of the guy Jason [Everman] who was in the band at the time, and thought I should play guitar. I didn’t think much about it.
On stage, James Mercer was not very chatty, but he seemed relax and in charge, appearing not melancholic and passionate like a Conor Oberst, not talkative and playful like a Wayne Coyne, or certainly not pissed off like a Jack White
Babel’ was streamed 8 million times on Spotify during the first week of its release! This is astonishing and demonstrates that streaming services like Spotify do not interfere with an album sales, on the contrary it seems it would have stimulated them?
Nooooo, not Don Henley! But, Deadmau5, really? The Mickey-Mouse-big-head-glorified-button-pusher DJ? What could they be doing together? Note the Smiths t-shirt on Adams and the angry look on Joel Zimmerman, however beside this, I don’t know anything else
There is an overwhelming psychedelic feeling present from track to track, with big circular, fuzzy out or reverb guitars and synths making druggy waves, and more pedal effects and grandiose moments than you can stand
TMZ and Perez Hilton, leave the poor girl alone! She says she has already given away her computer, because she can’t stand it anymore, but before, she was able to read all the nasty things you wrote about her!
Yeah, Salaam [Remi who worked on ‘Back to Black’] worked on her last album, and they were working. We don’t even have an explanation for how it happened. It was just magic. It just happened. It was supposed to happen. She made it happen.
But I did recognize the Beastie Boys’ ‘Intergalatic’ at the end, yeah I am not to that point, and I always get that one. But I am sure it’s not what matters with Flying Lotus, the soundscape is too complex, too hard to follow to be playing this little game, and whatever samples are in the mix are totally his at the end.
‘because music is art, but Muzak is science. And when you employ the science of Muzak: in an office, workers tend to get more done, more efficiently, and feel happier.
, I am sure we will have our quota of workers, teachers, nurses, firefighters and other representatives of the working forces, as well as semi-celebrities to tell us how bad this proposition 32 is… And how bad it is exactly?
Death Grips, a rap band from Sacramento, did something quite unusual: they made their new album ‘No Love Web’ available to the public, before sharing it with their label Epic, which was supposed to release the album only in 2013. The band took on Twitter to announce it:
I am not sure about this ridiculous comparison, although I certainly heard some Radioheadish moments here and there, but Alt-J’s pretty music had running-in-cascades-of-voices harmonies, a lot of almost-a-cappella moments, and was building dreamy-sleepy landscapes.
On Saturday night, kicking off his new Believe tour, Justin Bieber showed to his Glendale, AZ fans how tough he could be. He was fighting some bad virus or some
Morrissey did Coachella solo in 2009, but the sensible guy cut his set short after smelling meaty smoke coming from a nearby barbecue. At mid set, the Meat-is-Murder-guy told the crowd, ‘I can smell burning flesh and I hope to God it’s human’.
You know, this famous intro, this guitar riff followed by this scratching noise, yes it sounds so close it can’t be a coincidence. Of course after these first seconds, the songs have nothing in common, but this was enough to irritate the punk band’s fans, and me included
What the matter with these rappers, why do they hate themselves so much? Are they going to kill each other till all of them are dead? And you know what, some witnesses are saying that the fight broke out after Ross dissed Jeezy during a performance! Oh my god, how old are they?
TufAmerica is saying that Kanye West’s labels, Roc-A-Fella and Universal, paid a license fee of $62,500 but ‘failed and refused to enter into written license agreements that accounted for their multiple other uses of [‘Hook and Sling’]’.
Sitting on a chair most of the time, hiding behind his long hair, alone or helped by a few musicians on guitar or piano for a few songs, and Jenny Lewis and the Watsons Twins making some too-short apparitions for back-up vocals, the show was well balanced and flawlessly orchestrated
That guy’s main problem is that he doesn’t realize that he is Justin Bieber. He should take some of the green in his wallet, buy himself a green smoothie and relax. What kind of band name is Green Day anyway? Is that in reference to all the chord progressions they continually recycle?
Wow, her album failed that bad? But is she still a scientologist over there? From the king’s daughter, to the king of pop’s wife, to the queen of fish-and-chips,… why not if it rocks her boat, but I wonder how long it will last!
Tom Morello, Rise Against singer Tim McIlrath and System of a Down singer Serj Tankian have released a song anthem to help the 99%movement, since he declared to Rolling Stone that he thought it was missing a true rock anthem: ‘It’s our gift to the movement’
