the big news is that Thom and Nigel played a few unreleased songs from Atoms For Peace, the supergroup made of themselves plus Flea from The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Joey Waronker and Mauro Refosco,… and of course we have some YouTube videos, in five parts
And, if you need another evidence that visual art and music are totally intertwined: Cats Stevens, Joseph Arthur, John Cougar Mellencamp, David Bowie, Marilyn Manson, Paul McCartney, Kim Gordon, Ryan Adams, Joni Mitchell,… all terrific painters!
I know they still have fans, but touring is one thing, and I am very skeptical about that new album. I read that their last one, ‘2300 Jackson Street’, was not very good, so what can we expect 23 years later?
I’m just more drawn to things that are more in that range. I love dance music, too, and I think it’s cool. But as a songwriter and producer I’m more drawn to those more live elements.’
Linda Ramone, Tommy Ramone, the only survivor of the band, and Editor/JRA Chief of Staff John Cafiero were at Amoeba to sign ‘Commando: The Autobiography of Johnny Ramone’ last Thursday night.
Among the I-wouldn’t-mind-for-an-encore-bands, the buoyant, fresh from their Coachella performance, Grouplove which are headlining the fest, the girl-group 60s-inspired duo Cults, the pop-operatic Shadow Shadow Shades, the cinematic eclectic pop Milo Greene. But, and not least, there is also the pop electronic Canadian chanteuse Grimes.
Mike D has put together the work of artists he likes and, since it is an art museum after all, I couldn’t really make sense of his description of the show before visiting it: ‘a grown-up theme park, a Six-Flags for adults’.
The more I read about them, the more I realize they are stunt specialists. They have claimed to have released music by putting USB sticks in apples and selling them in Brixton market, to have been caught robbing raccoons from taxidermists and to have joined the Nation of Islam?
They said to have worked on Hollywood film scores, which works perfectly to their cinematic compositions filled with sonic swirls, techno beats,… yeah I totally could see epic pursuits and weird apocalyptic fantasies going with that stuff, but this is what bothers me, if it is potential movie background, is it enough?
The Nightwatchman is Morello’s alter-ego and an outlet or his political views, and the documentary has apparently followed Morello to 41 countries during his World Wide Rebel Songs tour.
This was basically the tone of the night, three down-to earth guys, not taking themselves seriously, having fun despite, as I discovered later, the gravity of the lyrics of their songs.
LP, real name Laura Pergolizzi, a young and petite woman dressed up like a guy with a head full of brown locks, took the stage with her four musicians, and wow, as soon as she opened her mouth, people were on the floor, as her voice was really powerful, operatic and effortless
Some websites are suggesting White may appear in the movie, but Bruckheimer is just excited by the idea as he told Variety:
‘Jack’s an amazing songwriter with a unique style. We’re thrilled to hear his fresh take on the William Tell Overture.’
It is her first new song in seven years, and her voice, over a delicate orchestration, is as powerful and angry as ever, exploding a few times during the song.
As we are looking at old clips of the life of some star who hasn’t existed (yet), a made-up nostalgia for a dream rather than anything else, the question of authenticity arises, as it is usually the case for Lana Del Rey.
Among the 10 tracks, many songs will be famous French standards, like Joe Dassin’s ‘Si tu n’existais pas’, Serge Gainsbourg’s ‘La Javanaise’, Edith Piaf’s ‘La Vie En Rose’, Georges Brassens’ ‘Les Passantes’, and Henri Salvador’s ‘Syracuse’, but he has also chosen to cover Harry Nilsson’s ‘Everybody’s Talkin’, Yoko Ono’s ‘I’m Going Away Smiling’, Cole Porter’s ‘What Is This Thing Called Love?’, The Beatles’ ‘Michelle’, and Frank Sinatra’s ‘Only The Lonely’.
Even famous and renowned musicians have called music bad and good, Duke Ellington said that ‘There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind’, and Louis Armstrong said about the same thing:
And he was not making allusion to the fact the rapper appeared as a hologram two weekends in a row in Coachella, no, he was reanimating the persistent urban legend, suggesting that the real Tupac may be still alive:
‘Maybe the question is… Pac’s not really dead… Pac’s somewhere else.’
As soon as he saw her, Magnum rushed over to her and asked ‘Are you okay?’ then he ‘walked over to make sure she was okay’ when she was carried from the stage, and ‘he waited until the girl was on her feet and offered words of well wishes’.
I don’t Want You to Die’ is a sad and overly sentimental song which simply starts with a melancholic piano and Wayne Coyne‘s strange falsetto singing… the first lines of Lennon’s ‘Imagine’!!
In association with the David Lynch Foundation, Amoeba had organized a party at Space 15 Twenty for the release of ‘Music That Changes The World’, a box set available on this special day and featuring 34 exclusive tracks by renowned artists.
According to Pitchfork which got it from Dragcity, on Saturday April 21, record stores were selling Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy condoms!
there is no real frontwoman as Carrie shared the stage with Mary Timony, battling her legs apart with roaring guitars, affronting her, in the middle of the stage several times during the show, in front of Janet Weiss’ tireless and powerful drumming
When they appeared on stage, bathed in a warm gold light, sisters Klara and Johanna Söderberg on guitar and keyboard, seemed to come from another time with their long auburn hair, sparkling gypsy-folk dresses and cowboy boots
Wasn’t Taylor Swift supposed to have a role in Les Miserables? She doesn’t have a real acting experience, as she just played a very short role in some stupid comedy called ‘Valentine’s day’…
‘Hopefully, different artists are able to bring out their favorite artists. Hopefully, we can see Jimi Hendrix and Marvin Gaye. Let’s see what happens.’
The band is currently trying to raise money to be able to finish recording their first full length album, and it is difficult to resist to the quirky video for their song ‘Welcome Home’ posted on their fundraising page.
These two needed Coachella to interact, but it’s difficult to know whether he was kidding or being serious! He would have to work very hard on his electro-dance-pop to give some kind of substance to a Katy Perry album, but may be she actually would use a little less auto-tune?
Ok calm down, I am already seeing you screaming at the screen of your computer, yelling bullshit,…. But it is what it is, a study based on last.fm… The problem is that I hardly use last.fm, tons of people do, but many don’t
Vocalist Franky Perez (Scars on Broadway), guitarists Dave Kushner and Dave Warren, bassist Scott Shriner (Weezer) and drummer Joey Castillo (Queens of the Stone Age), making PusherJones a good candidate for the term ‘supergroup’.
Jackson Browne, Patti Smith, Deborah Harry, Willie Nelson, Michael Moore (ha! Covering Dylan!) UNKLE, Mogwai, Ladytron, Joan Baez & Steve Earle, Ani DiFranco, Thievery Corporation, Thee Oh Sees, Tom Morello as well as many emerging artists.
This city has more tentacles than you can count, and you can never escape when you have found your little hole in Lost Angeles.
They even had a poll with ‘Would You See a Dead Artist’s Hologram Concert?’, and when I looked at it, ‘No Way. They’re Gone’ was winning so it was reassuring, but it was by such a small margin (39.1% against 35.7 % for ‘Absolutely, The Technology Is Amazing’, leaving 25.2% of undecided voting ‘Depends on the Band’) that it made me wonder.
There is a satisfying balance between the coolness of the reggae tempo, its warrior-tone vocals and the aggressiveness-to-your-ears of whatever produces this high-pitch electro-shocks screeching and jolting along the track.
Such oddity seems to come easily to Wayne Coyne, and you have to wonder what he will invent next to top his last eccentricity.
Tupac appeared as a ‘hologram’ at Coachella last Sunday during Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre’s set, and he looked better than ever, a killer-abs-gold-cross-around-the-neck-white-boxers-out-of-low-waist-jeans
Anyway, as expected, some kid found the golden ticket and put it on sale on eBay, and the highest bid for one of these things was $4,100.00 when I looked at it on Monday!
‘There was definitely a deep-pink-sunset feeling I wanted. When I was younger my dad would get tapes of temp music for film soundtracks, and I remember one was ‘Thief’ by Tangerine Dream from that Michael Mann film. It just felt so cold and lonely and beautiful at once.’
brainless people were buying a lot of hoodies to keep themselves warm,… pffff, as if the meteorology reports hadn’t warned them! And, reportedly, the hoodies prices went suddenly from $45 to $55 according to some guy on Facebook
Red Hot Chili Peppers suing Showtime Networks over the TV show called ‘Californication’, the same name used by the band for their Grammy-nominated 1999 album, is different because the RHCP made up that word, so they kind of owned it…. but even in this case, when the word is out there, and caught up by others, is it still yours?
Courtney started her usual dispirited singing that I still find horrible – but if you like this style, it is actually efficient – and she came back on stage for the second song, at the crowd overwhelming demand for an encore.
So was it a good move? Shocking enough? So déjà vu? Jim Morrison did it in the late 60s!! Still, the Black Lips managed to get some press, even on Christwire.org!
Orlando Bloom, Jordana Brewster, Julie Delpy, Zooey Deschanel, Jane Fonda, Dave Grohl and Nate Mendel of Foo Fighters, Woody Harrelson, Joan Jett, Quincy Jones, Miranda Kerr, Jason Lewis, Lykke Li, Chris Martin, Jayma Mays, Gwyneth Paltrow, Richard Perry, James Ransone, Amy Smart, Gwen Stefani and Tony Kanal of No Doubt, Kristen Stewart, Rumer Willis, Reese Witherspoon and more…
To promote their new album ‘Buh’, just released on Neurotic Yell Records, the six-piece band unleashed all their craziness in the store on Friday night, even bringing along a few die-hard fans who were soon dancing in the alleys.
Madonna’s favorite French designer, Jean Paul Gaultier, recently appointed as the creative director of the famous drink, has designed two Diet Coke bottles: one is similar to his favorite outfit, his eternal nautical sweater, the other is all sexed-up and looks like one of these lacy cone bra leotards he created for Madonna.
So what should I do? Be mean, and rejoice because the weather is actually horrible? There were strong thunderstorms on Friday afternoon, it was raining hard in Los Angeles, and I can only imagine what it has been over there, as the desert always has the most dramatic weather
I love her! First of all, she calls Courtney Love her ‘biological mother’, a way to distance herself from the monster, as if her birth had happened by accident, then she confirms her relationship with Isaiah Silva, frontman of the Rambles.
Gibson terrorizing his surrounding, constantly insulting people around him with the worst offensive vocabulary you can imagine.
People are falling all over the place, from skates and waves, people are kissing each other all over the rowdy mosh pit, and Keith Morris is screaming his lungs out as usual
This is in fact Johansson’s 2006 cover of the Gershwin’s standard, remixed by 3D and DFA’s Tim Goldsworthy, buried in electronics and distortion, as you have never heard it before.
