The Neighbourhood (yes with a u) had these hook-the-crowd melodies infused with indie pop and R&B, a little dreamy, a little nostalgic and well served by the soulful voice of their frontman Jesse James Rutherford, whose body seemed to be covered by tattoos.
We will always be divided around stories like these ones. Most fans find a way to totally separate the artist from the music, other ones have some difficulties, but if you are not a fan in the first place, it becomes almost impossible to accept such a behavior from an artist
three voices doing harmonies over harmonies, Este on bass, Danielle on guitar and Alana on guitar and synth played a strong set of their original compositions inspired from 90s R&B, 80s funky synth music and classic rock and folk.
All right, we got it, we have heard about Wavves-Best-Coast’s culture of the endless summer, as this song doesn’t seem to end… but I was expecting much more from the King of the Beach! With this overplayed loop all over it, the song may have some surf-fuzzy and of course summery thing going on, but it mostly sounds like one unique and distorted sample of an obscure 60s hit
Flea released the following statement:
‘Hi people who like The Red Hot Chili Peppers! I love you a lot! Mucho! Just wanted to give you a heads up about this little record ’Helen Burns’ I am putting out on the Silverlake Conservatory website,”
Billboard magazine is reporting that Beck will be contributing three new songs, ‘Cities’, ‘Touch the People’, and ‘Spiral Staircase’ to the video game ‘Sound Shapes’. The game will be out on August 7 on the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita
By watching these two videos of the songs ‘New Noise’ and ‘The Shape of Punk To Come’, you can tell they brought lots of rage and high energy quite unusual on late night TV
Any other big revelations? He doesn’t like cheese fondue, since people who eat it are ‘old and from Paris’,.. well, fuck you Bieber, you don’t know what you are missing. He prefers kiss-ass-Leno to Letterman, just like old people by the way, and I suppose he will also vote for Mitt Romney
A clean-shaved Matisyahu appeared on stage around 11 pm, young and smiling a lot, a glass of champagne in one hand, the mic in the other one. The numerous young women who had packed the small club all around the stage, couldn’t contain their excitation
Sweatshirt waltzed on nonchalantly during ‘Super Rich Kids’, tossed off his intricate, percussive rhyme involving entitled bluebloods stiffing friends by ‘purchasing crappy grams with half the hand of cash you handed’
We are far from being done with Odd Future! All the smart young guys I know are big fans, and they are going to be super happy to learn the rebellious Wolf Gang will release not one, not even two, but four new albums and will embark upon a tour this fall.
The song is first hiccupping Billie Joe Armstrong’s vocals, being propulsive before going all Green Day on the soaring chorus, and all poppy-arm-in-the-air-anthemic in the final… quite a predictable and stereotyped thing
they seem to present quite a few advantages: No curfew, no long drive through the hot desert, no camping, and close encounters with the stars, as a matter of fact, a wine tasting with James Murphy is part of the schedule.
shouting ‘I Saw Her Standing There’, then ‘Twist and Shout’, and wanted to go on, the power went out in the middle of the song, forcing the two rock legends to leave the stage. What were the organizers thinking? Such a duo doesn’t happen every night, is England communist Russia, or what?
What was also remarkable was the instantaneous catchiness of some songs as they triggered a warm response from the Saint Motel public. There were a few spine-tickling soaring choruses, a few stormy and passionate moments, some almost-a-capella harmonies, and even a few foot-tapping songs
it’s kind of dreamy-pop, Beach House style minus the synth wrapped around, much more solitary, and probably made especially for people who are into this kind of emo stuff… I mean I just got the impression she was about to give up the ghost at any moment, but it is just me apparently.
‘The most important thing to Amy was the music and I’m sure a lot of people would like to hear her sing again. It depends on what Amy’s fans want as a way to keep her memory alive. If it’s a book, an album or a hologram, then so be it.’
The show was effectively a real success, as the quartet brought the energy to the high-ceiling chandeliers of the El Rey a few times during their set, and the crowd provided a feedback matching the effervescence on stage…. Did I see a few crowd surfers? Yes!
When you are alone, music is all what matters, music takes all the place in your brain, music is the main character of the night, it fills the whole room and you don’t have to worry about anything else
Sure new albums are always more expensive, around $10 for digital download, and $13-18 for physical sales…May be new CDs are too expensive after all? But how could artists hope to survive in these difficult times?
On Friday night, the San Francisco quartet Sonny and the Sunsets was playing at the Echo, and, right away, I definitively liked Sonny’s funny and unassuming talk, relax attitude, constant smiling face and ‘Madness takes its toll’ t-shirt.
The movie is a 3D computer-animated comedy directed by Rich Moore (The Simpsons, Futurama) and will feature the voices of John C. Reilly, Jane Lynch and Sarah Silverman. It is scheduled for a November release and tells the story of Ralph, a video game baddie who wants to be a good guy
People sure need to have more and more imagination to come up with such creative lawsuits, but too bad for her no lawyer is involved in the story, since no lawyer seems to be that crazy. This is the exact lawsuit description about the heart-gondola phenomenon:
The song is very catchy and sounds like a simple foot-tapping-enthusiastic-hand-clapping tune played with fast upbeat guitar, vocal harmonies and a cool synth solo at the end that reminds their previous work, although it is not as Africanized than what they have previously done.
Will they be able to top their previous success? It is obvious there is a lot of pressure on Arcade Fire right now, and a lot of expectation for this new album.
I said it is bullshit, is it the first time such a thing happens? Actually, no it isn’t. According to the Huffington Post Target is carrying Jay-Z and Kayne West’s ‘Watch The Throne’, which has also debuted on iTunes before being released for physical sales, so it was exactly the same situation
I know they got a lot of comparisons with Fleet Foxes, and I can see why, but for me, they are working in a parallel universe, a more fierce, wild and dynamic universe, and actually richer and more fascinating
This is how it goes, Tina was a folk singer living in Greenwich Village in the 60s, she befriended Dylan and eventually got impregnated by him in 1963. She also was poor and a drug addict and so gave up her son for adoption
The band, which was formed in 1967, has been on hiatus since 2009, and the Los Angeles Times also remarks that the news came as a surprise since Mick Fleetwood said last April, in an interview with Playboy magazine, that the thing was unlikely:
Not only their sound was bigger than the room, but Hayes was all arms-in-the-air, mimicking the music with all kinds of dramatic and over-the-top gestures, while singing along their strong rocking numbers with a powerful voice ranging from a melodramatic tone to operatic howls
They are from Venice, California, and images of the famous beach were accompanying their performance on a screen, however I had more southern-rock than beach-surf-rock visions when listening to them. From Venice, they probably had that sort of free spirit and laid back attitude
Now you can make what you want with that scenario, the little boy could be a young Mercer finding fun and beauty everywhere he goes, incarnating childhood innocence as he goes through what is described as ‘an apocalyptic suburbia’
It was a good choice for a band which was opening for Blind Pilot, and the young crowd reacted with enthusiasm to their upbeat and catchy rhythms, even clapping along a few times,… what is the deal with all that clapping anyway?
‘This record is about a lot of things, but some of it is about coming home after being away and facing the realities of one’s life, and life in general. Things you may have run away from, and things you are ready to embrace. Reconnecting and growing up.’
Their full-length ‘Voyeur’ is out since July 10th and this playful achievement can be streamed in its entirety on soundcloud! Having streamed it once, I can say that the eleven songs are as diverse as they are typical Saint Motel, all of them showcasing their undeniable upbeat and inventive style,
There was something very natural and calming about their performance, with the gentle guitar strumming, the contained and sparse drumming. However, the music could engage the audience in a lot of clapping as their sound was growing louder and more upbeat on some songs
Amanda Palmer and The Grand Theft Orchestra have just released a new video for the song ‘Want it Back’, and I must admit I would probably not have watched it if it hadn’t been advertised as ‘uncensored’. Yeah, Amanda likes to be naked, she celebrated the success of her Kickstarter campaign by parading in a car park in Brooklyn
Bloomberg speculates that iTunes will ‘more closely integrate its iCloud file-storage service with iTunes’ in order for users to have easier access to their music and videos, and will have new features for sharing music.
In penile, postpubescent rock, the generation is five years; it’s not 25 years. It would have been worse if I was still knocking out stuff that sounded like my first record but not as good
So why is 50 Cents still in the closet? Or, as a matter of fact, why is there is no major rapper out? Serious studies have shown that around 10% of the population is gay, although numbers vary a lot. But let’s also say that art and music attract even more gay people than other professions, it is just a fact.
The only artists in the lineup I am really familiar with is the excellent Echo Park quintet NO, but this will be more bands to discover,… also I have heard good things about Superhumanoids
a ranked equestrian and on the reserve list to compete for the US Summer Olympic, and at the top of this, is a Duke University student preparing a major in psychology. And as you can see, the boss’ daughter is also very cute
think about it, does it make sense to write a suicide note addressed to a person who is just there, behind the bathroom door? Is there even another case when someone committed suicide in the presence of another person and nevertheless wrote a suicide note? So weird.
Best Coast’s cover is strong and confident but she sings the song like a happy tune, and I am not sure how Fleetwood Mac fans are gonna take the way she upbeats her ‘Rhiaaaaaannon’ chorus. I had never heard the song that Lykki Li chose to cover but she seems to really have made the song hers
You can now listen to ‘Let’s Boot and Rally’ via KCRW, and it’s actually a quite catchy tune, with a sort of Buzzcocks meets the Cramps meets the B-52’s feeling, and Iggy Pop’s creepy voice over some 76’s inspired beats
hahaha yeah, ive know for a while, he told me a long time ago. it was just funny cause i was getting bashed as a homophobe or whatever and i kept saying dude how am i one? i have gay friends like what the fuck leave me alone
This guy is worst than a beaten woman who goes back to his aggressor, he is actually encouraging his daughter to do so. Brown was recently caught in a fight with Drake in a bar and several people were harmed, so we are not talking about someone who has matured a lot.
“Flanagan was acting weird right before the incident… ‘I talked to him outside minutes before it happened and I knew something was going to go down. He was like a fucking lunatic outside… Next thing I know he’s in the VIP area stabbing people!'”
‘Moonrise Kingdom’ is certainly another exclusive adventure inside Anderson’s colorful and fantasy universe, populated by his famously eccentric characters and especially two children Sam and Suzy, two ‘troubled’ children, who fall in love with each other
I cannot go to a concert without seeing someone wearing the iconic black and white ‘Unknown Pleasures’ t-shirt, and it gets to the point that people should realize it is not hip anymore
