Alyson Camus

Monday night, she gave a long political speech during her MDNA show in Washington DC, talking about Abraham Lincoln to Martin Luther King to Obama, browsing history as if she was a real scholar. At this point, you may wonder whether Madonna, with her Evian bottle in one hand and the black-panthers-look of her toy boys behind her, has become the strongest civil rights advocate in the country.

Kneeling on stage, Amanda was holding her banjo player by the waist during most of ‘Polly’, giving the best banjo blowjob people had ever seen. The Radiohead cover was cleaner and quieter, and at this point I was wondering whether they would play some of their own songs.

I can’t say much about the band, I have never seen them live and have never been interested enough to listen to a whole album. I just know he made an album in a cabin in the woods, probably because he likes that Northern Exposure TV show so much, and because it looked so cool at the time,… and so indie, although I am sure you can buy Bon Iver albums at Walmart.

It is certainly impossible to predict the future, but among the hot artists of the moment, will we see any of them – from Rihanna, to Pitbull, Train, Flo Rida, Nicki Minaj – on a high school kid’s t-shirt 30-40 years from now, the same way we see the Beatles, The Stones, Pink Floyd and Jimi Hendrix? Personally, I don’t thinks so, but what do I know? My point is that nobody knows.

According to some websites, she must have gained about 30 pounds, which is not negligible for her short size, 5′ 1″, but she is still doing exactly what she was doing before the transformation, walking around in bra and underwear, not afraid to show off her extra pounds, all packed into her tight and revealing stage outfits

I agree that it was not cool to cut Green Day’s performance to accommodate Sir Usher and princess Rihanna, he has reasons to be pissed off, but this come across as trying a little too hard to be badass and, you know… punk…. But on the other hand, would real punk bands play that family radio festival, this ClearChannel top 40 line-up?

I don’t really understand, why would people buy a track they can listen to for free whenever they want? If it is true, there is no logic, could it be because people who pay for Spotify are music lovers, still nostalgic about owning it? Spotify has only been there for a year, and it may change soon with the future generations, who will not even know what it is to own music.

Nestled between Echo Park and Los Feliz, the trendy community boasts some of the nation’s most lauded food trucks and farmers markets, a multicultural blend of residents with eclectic professions, and a booming arts scene.

Ok I got it, the power couple has just raised a lot of money for your campaign ($4 million), so you have to kiss their ass a little bit, and in the case of Beyoncé, it is not too hard to do, as everyone, Obama included, has the hots for her! But just tell me why Beyoncé is a role model?

There is a medical marijuana dispensary at the corner of my street, and there are basically hundreds of them in Los Angeles. But Texas has still these obsessive outdated laws about weed? It is obviously just a way for the state to make easy money.

She has been the center of blog conversations since the add posted on her website to hire musicians to play with her each night of her tour, and to offer them just hugs and beers in return.

Among the other bands I have seen, The Fresh & Onlys and White Fence, whose frontman Tim Presley’s style has been compared to Syd Barett’s. Basically, all of them seem to have this psychedelic thing going on, so it should be fun. Oh but wait,… vinyl only? I don’t do vinyl! But there’s nothing to worry about, the tracks will also be released digitally on various websites between October 15-29.

‘Warning, Do not buy this album, this man beats women’ sticker was applied on John Lennon’s CDs, and a photo of the ‘crime’ was posted on Twitter by the account @abusesticksout, indicating that the picture had been taken at a Fopp store in Manchester. Even if the store employees were able to find out and remove the sticker fast, it was already too late, the picture was out there on the internet

The video for ‘Labrador’ replicates quite loyally the one made for ‘Voices Carry’, Aimee Mann’s 1985 hit when she was with the band ‘Til Tuesday. You can judge by yourself as you can compare both videos below! It’s true that you don’t see videos like these anymore, with a story playing like a mini Lifetime movie

The song is a kind of blues, inspired by Hurricane Irene, which was forecast to destroy New York, but never really got here. In the days coming up to it, we were practicing and writing in our basement and had to get everything up off the ground so if the storm hit, we wouldn’t get flooded and lose all of our gear and what not.

seeing how many people (of all age, I insist) were already on line at 5 pm for a 9 pm show, and were pushing a little bit later to be front row, when I saw him at the Fonda theater in Los Angeles a year ago, I can tell you that the old guy still got it, and that Graceland is without any doubt, a legendary album

With a punk-rocker look and a new haircut, she and a guy fight against zombies with a futuristic gun under a scorching hot sun,… there are also magic crystals, a dog (the same one that was at Amoeba!) and other people in Native American outfits involved, but I don’t know exactly what’s going on

Actually, English people are really the worst thieves in the story, when we compare both populations – 62 million for the UK, 311 million for the US! They are a fifth of us, and have downloaded almost half of what we have!

The R&B groove of the song is totally cool, although very retro-familiar! Many people have noticed some similarity with ‘Take Me With U’… Hella yes! these synths sound totally sampled from his own hit song, and, if you are a Prince’s fan, I guess it is not gonna be the only Prince’s song that you will hear in the track.

he is like a hurting wild animal nobody can control,… until he meets the Master, Lancaster Dodd, played by charismatic and debonnaire Philip Seymour Hoffman, the cult leader, who introduces himself with the humble and Hubbard-esque declaration ‘I am a writer, a doctor, a nuclear physicist, a theoretical philosopher, but above all I am a man, a hopelessly inquisitive man, just like you.’

Have you noticed that these goose bumps appear when the music is moving, melancholic, nostalgic, it is not really happening when you listen to happy music, which still trigger an emotion, a happy one. Goose bumps mostly occur when we have sad emotions, however, some people may prove this wrong

The totally indecipherable and buried-in-noise vocals were adding to the ambient nightmare, as the blasting sound was reaching saturation. On the subject of imagination, anything could have gone through my head while listening to the eviscerating metal-noise, like for example imaginary screaming damned voices falling into the entrails of hell!

Believe it or not, she had already released a trailer for the add a month earlier, because she is Gaga, the queen of the fake build-up, the diva of the big suspense that bursts like a bubble full of stinking air

I like the way he makes the distinction between emotion and feeling, because this is exactly the same distinction used by neurobiologists: an emotion is an experience of the moment, an immediate reaction to what you are listening to, whereas a feeling is the memory of this moment left in your brain and that you are dying to re-experience…

After the mid 90s, the tone of the Bond movies changed: Before they had all the standards, the Gladys Knight, Tom Jones and Shirley Bassey of the music business, then it was all about a younger crowd, with Sheryl Crow, Garbage, Chris Cornell and even Jack White and Alicia Keys

I also wonder whether it is the beginning of a new trend, are these activists going to glue stickers on Ike Turner, Bobby Brown, Yanni, and Axl Rose’s albums? And this is just to name a few wife/girlfriend beaters… And what about all albums produced by girlfriend-killer Phil Spector?

Anyway, with $600 million, Bono could really put an end to AIDS, if he invested in research and not in Facebook, right? But is this really big money? I would say it becomes all relative when compared to Walmart heiress, Ann Walton Kroenke’s $3.9 billion

‘I’m working within my art form. It’s that simple. I work within the rules and limitations of it. There are authoritarian figures that can explain that kind of art form better to you than I can. It’s called songwriting. It has to do with melody and rhythm, and then after that, anything goes. You make everything yours. We all do it.’

Jay-Z’s club is supposed to be a hot thing, combining the ‘lavish warmth of a New York City penthouse with the vivacity and glamour of courtside seats at a championship game’… it has also a super large VIP space, with large-screen HD TVs, custom pool table, and sport memorabilia, called, what else? the Jay-Z Lounge

The band is dressed in furry and feathery animal costumes – a recurrent theme these days – and some red-wigged-bulgy-eyed iguana also made an apparition,… such a strange visual, it almost has the same vibe than movies showing people lost in a forest cabin and watching old K7 of paranormal phenomenon

But how a guy, who has probably always bought everything cash, would know? This declaration demonstrates how disconnected from reality a billionaire can be …. And you don’t know what the fight is about? These people aren’t having a picnic in the park, this was really offensive, in a Marie-Antoinette kind of way

Freedom and Lady Liberty run throughout the eleven songs, despite all the troubles in her personal life, this is a triumphant rebirth, which, far from focusing on her own depression, opens up to the whole world with a rare generosity.

T-shirts are part of fashion unfortunately, and I have seen too many Joy Division Ramones or Black Flag t-shirts lately to be convinced all these people were real fans of these bands.