Bourhis has not only done the illustrations but also wrote the text, and the reviews of the albums! It works like a biography with a zine look, written by a fan and a very talented guy, and should be a must-have for any Beatles fan.
‘My parents were worried, I was worried. I knew it was a problem when I liked it more than I liked doing anything else. I was like, ‘I’m fucked. I am totally fucked.’
I was seeing a few ‘straight edge’ t-shirts in the largely-male-dominated crowd, but I obviously couldn’t relate to all these people, who were watching a reunion that they weren’t even hoping for anymore;
May be, unless the tune is a mixed rip-off of other famous bands and becomes like an attempt to gain as many fans as possible, from dubstep maniacs, to U2’s bombastic enthusiasts, to Queen’s nostalgics?
If she is doing it for publicity and attention, it obviously worked, but she now has to worry about her fans, who are strongly reacting: Minaj has even received death threats on Twitter and other social networks
Curious perverse nostalgic old guys with swastika tattoos ? Vasquez describes the music as ‘really low-fi, mono’, but he recognizes that ‘Manson’s nasal, bluesy folk music-like sound won’t appeal to everyone
Despite all my efforts to try to find Paul Banks’ own musical identity, I couldn’t chase Interpol from my mind and that was his curse
Farrar was moving like a beaten down old man, he was squirming like a fish out of water, limping like a hurt man and bending over like someone with a terrible stomach ache
They made me think about the band Devotchka, and I am probably not the first one doing the comparison, minus the operatic level of the singer, and filled with more horns
The band, which reunited recently, seemed to be the not-to-be-missed-hardcore-thing, and they sure delivered with a powerful rage, rising hell in a few seconds in front of a giant American flag as the stage background.
The colorful duo from Providence was playing on Sunday afternoon at the FYF fest, and their experimental high-energy aggressive number took many people by surprise, me included. How did they maintain such an experimental crushing-skull-fucking-brain style for such long numbers
This Cat Power signing at Amoeba turned out to be an unexpected epic adventure. I first thought she was late but I don't know, as I am not sure when
Their songs were alternating between almost naked aching vocal harmonies with spiraling guitars and dance numbers, one of the songs had its Radioheadish moments, and these dreamy-melancholic vocals had something to do with Cat Power’s own delivery, however not her smoky vocal presence
There were long installments of synth and electronic beats shimmering and searching for the right groove, like crazy fireflies slowly lightening up, just before the warmth of the vocal harmonies would kick up. There were tribal exotic drums mixed with lots of windy synth
A bandana around his knee, his long hair covering his face all the time, Conor and his bandmates gave a set charged with a wild energy and many political bites. Desaparecidos could be like Bright Eyes on steroids, after all the voice is the same
Their set was a violent chaotic thing, with thunderous guitars building a heavy and aggressive sound. Baldi’s delivery was sometimes raucous, other times tired and detached, often aggressive and screamed with despair and horror, a
They knew how to keep the audience on constant alert with their muscular and destructive songs, outbursts of bipolar rage, and I thought they wouldn’t able to match the energy on the next one but they were proving me wrong each time.
As soon as they played, the energy (and the dust) went to the sky and the dense crowd started their intense crowd surfing; soon it was a human tide, boys and girls landing in the pit and getting evacuated one by one by the security in red alert
I gave up half way through their set, letting the four voluminous girls who were pushing me since the beginning, win my spot,… but it wasn’t an admittance I was way too old for concerts, just too old for fighting against imposing 20-year-old who take too much space.
Soon, the dust was high in the blue sky and the energy had reached some new heights on the positive vibe barometer. This is why I love this band, it is impossible to not feel happy when you listen to their bouncy beer-fueled songs
May be it is turning into a mini Coachella, it looks more and more like one this year, with a lot of stuff beside the four stages, like for example these girls in sexy black outfits spraying cold air on people with futuristic gun, or these giant sunglasses glowing in the dark.
That seems to me something that old dudes who are out of touch say: “Nothing new is going on these days.” It often happens with people who are from a punk rock background, where punk rock was really a very orthodox rock ‘n’ roll movement.
I am sure that if you like Taylor, her girlie manners and her obsessive self-centered talk about her ex boyfriends, you will fall in love with her red lipstick, blonde ponytail, I-am-so-serious glasses, cute pajamas, and animal house party! But this is so….. 15 -year-old? Superficial
The video, for their new song F.E.B.N. (Forward Ever, Backwards Never) off their new album ‘119’, which will be released via Odd Future Records on October 9th, is in black and white, quite stylistic and also funny.
Rihanna isn’t an artist – she has 15 writers, 15 songwriters and 15 producers all fighting for space on her albums and she’s the face of it. I have nothing against it, but I don’t want to be associated with it.’
How is this possible? Why do the large majority of music listeners have such shitty tastes? Come on, how could they listen to that Gotye’s tune for the trillionth time? I heard these Flo Rida and Train’s songs for the first time when the bands appeared on TV, and they totally suck
‘The Killers are one group I enjoy,’ he said. But wait a minute, that guy from the Killers, Brandon Flowers, is big time Mormon, right? What a nice coincidence!
This made Ted Leo tweet the following: ‘THIN LIZZY WALK ON MUSIC FOR PAUL RYAN???!??!!?111!? I will find the music coordinator and ruin him or her. #HowDareYou’, yes indeed, why are republicans so obsessed by using music they shouldn’t do?
Blaming the act of some deranged individual on music! They based this hasty conclusion on the content of the guy’s (Bobby Gladden) Facebook page, but we have read this so many times before! Are we back to Marilyn Manson responsible for the shooting in Columbine? This is what the rock star said in the Michael Moore documentary about the event:
His new single, appropriately named ‘Reach for the Stars’ – actually I take this back because the red planet is not a star! – premiered on Mars last Wednesday at 1 pm PT in the afternoon, and that’s a good thing nobody was there to hear it it!
Badu had recorded the song for the Lips’ latest release, but it doesn’t stop the band to re-record and re-film a video of the song, with totally naked Amanda Palmer in the tub and on vocals.
With the FYF fest just announcing its set times for the two-day music celebration this weekend, I was thinking that Los Angeles (and its region, Orange County included) has a hella number of music festivals, this is quite incredible. Mammoth-size festivals or neighborhood-size street fairs, from April to October, festivals abound around me. I have tried to make a list of them:
The music was extremely layered and filled with exotic rhythms and dance beats, at times borderline disco – one of their songs almost reminded me something borrowed from a Blondie track – with a few sprinkles of different things, dreamy and moody vocals, glittering synth, and lots of beats.
They probably plan their shows as an aerobic session, watching the six of them who couldn’t stay a second at the same place. It was particular true for frontman Sam Martin (or may be there is no real frontman in this band), who was the most agitated one, jumping around like a jack-in-the-box.
The authors examined over 1,000 Top 40 recordings from five decades, and found different things such as an increase of female artists and songs longer in duration, but also a progressive increase of songs have using minor chords (associated with sad feeling) and slower tempos.
That’s totally disgusting to spend that amount of money for a pee stain, but if they predict such a sum I guess they know what they are talking about, the pants will sell and the pee stain will be framed and hung on some maniac’s living room wall.
Every Manhattan Murder Mystery show I have attended has been some epic episode of chaos, with poignant melodies buried in loudness. The songs are brutal and surge at you while grasping you by the guts, the music is loud and fuzzy, the lyrics shouted with rage and anguish, and soon everyone is intensely into it
The all-girl feminist punk band is now more backed up by the Western world than any Russian dissident has ever had, Madonna has talked about them, Bjork is selling Pussy Riot t-shirts on her own website,… and I wanted to buy one for Iman.
Fool’s Gold is much more than a Graceland cover band even though the comparison with the likes of Vampire Weekend will undoubtedly cross your mind. It was different, it was Vampire Weekend without the hipster factor and fashionable filter
‘A tragic tale of the foolish things a man might find himself doing for a woman, and the consequences that foolishness may bring upon him and those around him. It’s a tale as old as time — one which has and will be repeated endlessly. We tried to be as true as possible to George Ranger Johnson’s book.’
I have always loved this song but honestly you can think for hours and conclude whatever you want to about the lyrics; but soon, with their subtle drug metaphors and their apparent nihilistic meaning, you will get stuck with some idea of doomed freedom and delusional liberty.
Of course this new generation is going to pick Muse over the Clash, because they have never seen the Clash,.. or Pink Floyd, or Jimi Hendrix, or Led Zeppelin or even Nirvana and Queen!…. And what does exciting mean anyway? If we are talking about what bands can bring around their music, then the Flaming Lips should certainly win and they are not even in the list.
There was no doubt that tunes like ‘Pearls and Swine’ or ‘I’m Gonna Lay Down in Front of My Lord’ from their previous and self-title release, were totally at home at the Grand Ole Echo, with their beautiful country arrangements and gospelish ambiances.
Sometimes a tattoo can says a lot, and as I noticed a big ‘Thin Lizzy’ one at the top of the bassist/singer’s right shoulder, I thought that was probably not a coincidence. Their looking-towards-the-70s hard rock was sure showing its clear influences
I was overwhelmed just looking at the schedule!! 21 locations throughout Echo park, with up to ten bands per location, and a total of more than 110 bands playing the same afternoon/evening! What am I supposed to do? Cover five of them? But which ones?
I have a hard time taking the Del Rey princess seriously, she is just too much in the news for stuff unrelated to music. When she is not modeling for fashion brand H&M, she is launching a new Jaguar car
That’s sure a lot of stuff, but it got even better for the US release since the EP will be expanded with six more songs and issued as a standard 12-inch LP.
Ariel Pink actually tries (and succeeds) to get every single girl he meets after being dumped by the first one! It may be the dirty look under the pink bangs, but I am not sure what they all could find in him
‘He tries to get into a talent show that Bart is playing piano in and they won’t admit him, Draw your own conclusions.’ That’s funny and I hope the teen star gets what he deserves
Who is responsible of this? I am sorry but when you have such a beautiful little gem you don’t use it in an ad joking about a romance between a pair of breasts on legs and some head of hair on legs!
