Blacc had so much charm and charisma, it was difficult to not like him, he was communicating constantly with his audience, was constantly moving with the same grace and ease, and was taking the pause, arms spread apart, athletic body slightly bent.
They seemed to mix the bright and the dark in the middle of the day at the Silverlake Jubilee, and since these two opposites don’t usually seem to go together, it was a little weird and interesting at the same time.
Their songs were nevertheless going from a straightforward foot-tapping pop-folk evoking bands of the past, whereas others had a more modern feeling, a little too complex to be qualified of ‘commercial’, but still exuberant and catchy.
Their delicate indie pop was alternating between repetitive and monotonous swirling synths, borderline experimental at time, waken up by electric guitars, but overall their music was the type difficult-to-catch-at-the-first-listening. They played songs form their latest release, and said they would play a song from ‘their old record that bombed’,… was that ‘Cocoon of Love’?
The band was impressive despite the young age of its members, it was good vibes all over the place, with a light touch of surf guitar on certain songs, a constant dynamism over their light upbeat pop, and sometimes a little more darkness hardly perceptible behind all this poppiness.
Their joyous energy was an important part of their performance, and their rowdy-moody pop-rock music was exploding all over the place on the sunset stage of the Jubilee at the end of this beautiful sunny afternoon.
Most of their slick songs had hypnotic repetitive loops with a light touch of Dick-Dale-ish surf riffs, and were installing a druggy-psychedelic ambiance,…. But over everything, all this had a catchiness you couldn’t miss
Their songs have this curious and surprising construction, as they are animated by sudden catchy outbursts separated by quiet moments isolating Sean Solomon’s youthful and whining vocals. With them, the violin became the most punk instrument
If there was a lot of shoegazing in this dreamy indie pop experience, there was also a lot of foot-tapping, and that would seem totally contradictory at first view but somehow they managed to do it with grace. The build-up in the music, filled with nervous beats
The five guys threw about everything in their electronica-techno-rock-en-Espanol, and this is without talking about their exhilarating presence on stage, full of sexy dance moves,… well they have to live up to their moniker! Yeah, these Mexican guys are not really into traditional mariachi, fuck no!
Their music was a classic example of melodic-heavy-guitar-foot-tapping pop-rock songs, modeled after the masters, as I could hear influences from the Foo Fighters to Weezer. If the music was upbeat, it was also built around a few classic-rock solo guitars, and big sing-along hooks
So far they have given away 40,000 bands at their shows, but most of their money go into this shit??? Is he serious? How is that possible? How much a lighting wristband could cost??? Martin’s statement has to be greatly exaggerated, they have to make millions of dollars during this tour, could the wristbands cost that much?
Beck’s styles are as diverse as Baskin-Robbins’ flavors and nevertheless all of them are totally his, you cannot miss a Beck song when you hear one, they all have his kid-in-a-candy-store’s magic touch, who can effortless sample, rearrange, and fool around with sounds
Simon admits he was ‘absolutely unprepared’ for what was about to follow, first his journey to South Africa under the terrible Apartheid regime, with struggles and shooting in the streets, secondly, the criticisms after the release of ‘Graceland’ and the protests during the world tour.
Beck recorded them last year at Jack White’s studio in Nashville while he was there to record his forthcoming album says Rolling Stone,… so there is an upcoming album, and already recorded? And he didn’t play any of it at the El Rey on Tuesday? Beck will always be a mystery to me.
It is Kayne West’s directorial debut, and it reflects what he stands for: the grandiose, the over-the-top and the ridiculous (I am especially saying this because of Kim Kardashian, who seems to be obsessively decorating his left side these days).
The album will be out on May 29, but it is not the first time that Scissor Sisters have shown their great sense of humor as a certain Dave Grohl pretended to sue the band for $75 million in 2010
At 41, he is not the young adventurous musician coming up with all this weird palette of incredible original sounds, but he still can play them very well, doing in succession ‘Where It’s At’ and ‘Hotwax’.
you don’t have to look very hard to download any album for free, it is just a reality of the internet. And what about Spotify which basically robs the artists, paying them ridiculous amounts for letting people stream albums?
the LA Times is pointing out that Lisa Marie sold much of her stake (85%) in Elvis Presley Enterprises in 2005 to the company CKX, so the decision would not be entirely hers. But what would stop a company to make more money off Presley’s corpse?
the same confidence in the vocals and some classic catchy melodies, but still, the new songs sounded a little different with more exotic twists than ever. It is a little difficult to talk about songs you have only heard once live, but there definitively were some Samba-like bouncing rhythms mixed with vocal harmonies
Their style was nervous and badass anxious from start to finish, beaten by restless beats produced by their two drummers Jamie Levinson and Matthew Clark, decorated by the elaborated, textured reverb-soaked guitars of Alex Even and Gregory Roberts and haunted by Patterson’s voice
Paul Simon said that he will never record with Art Garfunkel again, and that a reunion between the two is very unlikely, a ‘moot point’ as he put it. No, it has nothing to do with the two being in bad terms again, it is just that Garfunkel has the same trouble with his vocal chords
Looking tiny in her skinny jeans and men vest, picking up her small ukulele on some songs, or just holding the mic and letting her power-house pipes being center stage. In this beer-party filled by more than a few drunk people, she was impossible to miss, all eyes were turned toward the stage,
Their bold attitude, shared-time on vocals, and catchy rocking tunes got the attention of the crowd right away. Wearing Metallica t-shirts, long floating hairs, ripped jeans shorts, and a long black dress for one of them, they were quite active and definitively knew how to occupy the stage, more pleasantly aggressive than trying to look cute, with explosive detours during their songs.
‘There’s a need for a place where fans can go to interact with their favorite entertainers, listen to music, watch videos, share and discover cool stuff and just connect. MySpace has the potential to be that place.’
I have to repeat it: he had a normal dose of prescribed meds the day he died, hadn’t drunk any alcohol nor taken any street drugs,… no cold turkey, no overdose and all other stories you may have read or heard are lies.
First of all why should I forgive Chris Brown? I wasn’t the one whom he assaulted, he didn’t do anything to me (or to Cheryl Cole), I have nothing to forgive him, if there is some forgiveness to occur, it’s between him and Rihanna. But then, abusers, especially physical abusers, are a special species, there are actions which are truly unforgivable.
There is an undeniable similarity indeed, that crescendo with the piano, but her voice is auto-tuned-commercial-style, and for me, her song sounds so much like a bad remix ready for dance clubs, that it is difficult to hear the Arcade Fire song. But the most surprising in this story is that Goodrem had never heard of Arcade Fire… wow, Australia is really the last frontier.
Goldenvoice and the city of Irvine have signed a contract that would allow the promoter to stage a multi-day music festival at the Orange County Great Park next year. At the center of Orange county, Irvine is at a convenient 40-mile-distance from downtown LA and they say that the festival could draw more than 150,000 people
So Beach House said no to the agency, which hired a band (named Sniffy Dog, according to the AV Club) specialized in making sound-alike songs for ads…. Is that even allowed? Why powerful corporations always get away with murder like this?
Of course, it would not matter that much if her age was not so much part of her dramatic story, lying about her age was a way to make her life even more compelling, although 16 is still such a young age to get married!
If you needed a correspondence with both arts, you have it! ‘My Own Worst Enemy’, the title of the exhibit, a collection of many different mediums with abstract paintings, screen prints and collages, had attracted a large crowd in the small gallery on Friday night.
Yuck! I would rather change my flight than share some oxygen with that dumbass. Then he continued with formulas like ‘she was one of us’, ‘she was a committed Christian’, ‘She was a right-winger’, and ‘She came to hate the smut on the radio. She was not a fan of rap music at all.’
Bono, with all that superfluous money, it is now time to put an end on AIDS once for all, it’s time to put your Christian rock into practice, you have the power! Now you are like Jesus with a lot of money, I mean you already had a lot of money, but now it looks like a divine benediction, a sign of god
In anticipation of this full-length album, they are giving away their newest song ‘1997’ for a limited time, and you should definitively take advantage of this opportunity as the explosive epic track is as catchy as many of their previous and other energetic songs
Beth Ditto at one point, but may be you can’t blame them as the band didn’t seem to be really into it, Beth butchered a little bit the lyrics at one point and their arrangement was a little sloppy, but I would say in a good way! At least, they were not trying to take the easy road
The bounty was offered by some rich Persian-Gulf guy, who conveniently wants to stay anonymous, and who is using a fatwa recently put by Ayatollah Lotfollah Safi-Golpayegani on anyone’s head insulting Imam Naghi.
these two went on and on about how good their music is and how they are going to save rock’ n’ roll,… as we say the shortest jokes are the best ones, but when this drags for a whole interview, is it still a joke?
The future will tell if the street fair will definitively replace another defunct one, the Sunset Junction Fair, without its disastrous financial mistakes, but with a bigger lineup, some higher prices – benefiting the Los Angeles Arts and Athletics Alliance – this year’s festival promises to be a good one.
Anyway, it’s R. Kelly, what else could we expect from a guy who was used to treat underage women by peeing on them? He comes and sings a sloppy karaoke number of a few seconds and calls it a performance
But wow they are really re-launching this CBGB thing full time! A new location, a music festival and now a movie, it is difficult not to see an exploitation of the famous name behind all this
There was obviously some part of calculation in Obama’s decision to speak in favor of gay marriage, it was a very good thing to do, but it is a little laughable when you remember the president’s less-than-pro-gay-marriage declaration when he met with pastor Rick Warren in 2008:
What can I say, these people live in another century, in another geological period, they keep their women under Burkas, so Gaga in full bra may come as a shock indeed. Muslim extremists have the biggest problem in the world with sexuality, as they come just behind the American Santorum-type.
it’s so bombastic and theatrical it could be an Arcade Fire tune sung by Nick-Cave-meets-Ziggy-Stardust, whereas its title is so long it could compete with any Fiona Apple’s song.
Tastebuds and Fellody want you to find the love of your life based on your musical taste! Yeah right, as if it was that simple! The true Lonely Hearts Club I suppose
I was already complaining about some concert tickets I bought recently, as I had to decide right now if I would be available mid August… I don’t know what I will be doing in August! I hate this, I love the immediacy, I love deciding at the last minute what I am gonna do
‘a sonically-tuned venue with custom-built seven-degree canted gallery walls, strategically placed pyramidal sound-dispersing foam tiles, and a purposefully built listening room – all designed to build the best place to listen to music’
I know that we should always separate the art from the artist, but I often have a hard time to do so, especially when there are a lot of passionate ideas about politics, ethics or science involved. It has always been hard for me.
The song is a slow ballad giving a large part to Alex Ebert’s high-pitched voice and not too much emphasis on the music just played by flutes, quiet guitars and gentle drumming. It’s nothing like the happy carnival of feet-stomping-hand-clapping and drenched-in-the-60s-70s catchy hooks
