It intriguingly starts on the quiet side with a few gentle guitar chords, but the just-over-one-minute-teeth-grinding tune soon takes off with a more angry tone as soon as Circle Jerks/Black Flag singer Keith Morris launches his usual tantrum over furious guitars
Khatib’s 50s-inspired furious bluesy style injected by a punk energy has often been compared to that of the Black Keys, so yeah, I suppose it was something to expect!
was wondering till the end if they were a real thing, some electronica version of Mali band Tinariwen, but when the lights went on at the end of the show, I could tell they were just regular white guys,… from Seattle it turned out.
The beautiful text seems to be coming straight from the heart, and it really deserves to be reposted; needless to say, the guy is still excited about it 12 years later
Anyway it was a stupid question, asking an electronic music festival crowd if they have been taking ecstasy is like asking Rastafarians if they have been smoking Marijuana
The four of them played a few of their poppy songs, which were diverse but shared these boy-girl harmonies with nervously excited beats and a punkish background, while switching instruments several times during the show, navigating between keyboard, guitar, bass and drums
a loud song with a big sound and bright vocals, that does not exactly remind me anything they have done before; but since everyone is saying the band is not repeating itself, it makes sense
don’t know where this Elliott Smith’s picture was taken but I know it is French photographer Renaud Monfourny’s work, and there are a few other ones in color, taken on these same stairs.
Lyrics apart, the music of ‘Port of Morrow’ sounds extremely familiar, it is as fresh and charming as The Shins’ music has always been, there is brilliance, guitars layered with keyboards, wordless harmonies, inventive jumpy noises, earworms and big choruses, yes all this, with a twist.
‘I will come to St. Petersburg to speak up for the gay community, to support the gay community and to give strength and inspiration to anyone who is or feels oppressed.’
For them, some sort of music is always on, on their computers, phones or… from a noise in the street, they will listen to anything as long as it has some sort of rhythm,… and they want to listen to it all the time. Music is like oxygen around them, it is vital and part of their surrounding, but it is also regarded as some background element,
‘the film will include exclusive archival photographs, concert footage and interviews with dozens of bands, artists, label owners, zine publishers and others who helped mold and nurture DC’s underground community during this inspired decade of music.’
The song is an exhilarating, super-upbeat, 80s-influenced tune off their debut self-titled album, and knowing how energetic and especially funny they are on stage, they could not have found a more comical way to express their sibling attachment.
Stereogum has one minute preview of ‘Horn Of Plenty’, the orchestral track composed by Win and Régine, which is supposed to be the ‘national anthem of the fascist Capitol’, as Win explained.
‘Slowly to the Shadows’ is precisely a little on the creepy-spooky side, slowly expanding its dark sound for 4 minutes and half with Carpenter’s baritone vocals backed up by J. Explosive’s sexy drumbeats.
I guess there certainly is a fascination about such a beauty and the beast coupling, but I still wonder how does Manson do it? He actually looks uglier when he doesn’t wear heavy make-up
So nobody wants to distribute his documentary? What a surprise! But it is in fact strange he cannot find anyone interested by an Elliott Smith project, he was definitively not a huge star, but he has a strong cult following
It should be simply amazing, a fusion between the cold from Sweden and the heat from the Sahara-Malian desert, although José González’s family is actually from Argentina and his music has always cultivated a unique hybrid form of hypnotic krautrock and Afrobeat
It is as predictable as I thought it was, and it is very sad in a way. It shows she was not clean as her supposed friends had pretended she was. She was still using
And I think about the whole, with the racism, when people love when British people sound like American black people.’
Nobody should be fooled by her apparent folk-indie-gentle-guitars sound, as her songs were fierce and tempestuous live, Sharon seemingly engaged in a battle against herself
the slow tune could easily be qualified of ‘country’, but Beck’s vocals are definitively too familiar to be missed, although there is something about his voice that sounds a little different, is it the ageing?
they have been inspired to learn more and care more by listening to our music. I think, therefore, that the Reason Rally — like Bad Religion — can be very inspirational.’
I mean he has played the weirdest and the most eccentric characters, and he is quite acquainted with the music scene, so it should not come as a surprise that he wants to team up with… Marilyn Manson?
I saw Ceremony a few weeks ago, they were a real fury on stage, and when I re-imagine the energy of this song played live, I would have never come up with this sort of story for it
We’re sick and tired of girls getting up there with dancers and karaoke tapes in back of them. No fake bullshit. Leave that to the Rihanna, Smhianna and anyone who ends their name with an ‘A’.’
The Titus Andronicus LLC Mixtape Vol 1, is posted on their tumblr and available for free download! But since it is big file, with 23 songs and a few surprises such as covers (Weezer?!)
Arcade fire was not there to encourage aspiring musicians as Springsteen did, they were rather addressing the current socio-economic situation in Haiti and the efforts of their non profit organization, Partners In Health.
Be aware that these tickets are gonna fly as soon as they are on sale! The rest of her dates are European ones, so the diva will totally ignore you, middle America, sorry!
‘That’s just my way of saying hi to someone. What was on the tape? Just a bunch of crazy shit I’ve been listening to: a bunch of Lil B, some Burzum. I haven’t heard back from him about it yet.’
I never take any music with me when I run marathons, it is simply too long and I want to avoid another friction around the ears, but I have enough music memorized to entertain myself… I was playing in my head the songs I have played on my iPod lately, from the Bad Brains, to Ceremony, Fucked up, Iggy and the Stooges.
The new tune is called ‘Looking for a Sign’ and of course it is not the first time Beck has contributed to a soundtrack, from HBO series ‘True Blood’ to ‘Scott Pilgrim Vs the World’, there is a long list.
Let’s just say their cover has nothing to do with William Shatner’s take on it, it is faster and more riotous than the original of course!
Elliott’s afterlife has never been so uneasy. How many articles do I read which are mentioning his death? A lot! I should say all the articles about Elliott Smith mention his death.The authors talk about ‘murder or suicide’ in the best-case scenario….
‘Twitter creates a bond and loyalty with her fans who otherwise may be tempted to download her music illegally. Of course, it doesn’t hurt that tweets from @ladygaga automatically appear on her Facebook page, which has over 49 million likes’.
It starts like a mellow ballad with acoustic guitar, drenched in background vocal harmonies behind Alex Ebert’s soothing voice, before the folk tune wakes up after a build-up, agitates itself like a dance invitation
‘Flavor Flav House of Flavor’, which will serve,… fried chicken, Southern soul food, and a speciality, red velvet waffles. According to the first review, the food is good, the price is decent…
Predictable and boring, this sounds like a perfect description of Lady Gaga’s music for me. But what does it say about all these gay men who ‘are falling so hard for it’? Any generation had its gay icon I suppose
‘Why has it taken me this long to make it to South By Southwest?’ He asked at the beginning of his show,… err may be because you have been kind of invisible for the longest time?
According to the people who were tweeting, it was impressive, especially because of the massive finale, the Woody Guthrie cover ‘This is Your Land’ which included the participation of Arcade Fire, Tom Morello, Low Anthem, Eric Burdon, Joe Ely…
There is no reason to condemn their relationship on this basis, … except that it may not be a very good idea to get engaged so young, just a few weeks after the loss of a parent.
Why everyone is expecting the same unnatural perfection you can hear on the record? Shaky is okay in my world, she is really real, and don’t say this if you don’t want to see her disappear for another 7 years.
The Beastie Boys kid is said to be coordinating artists, musicians, coffee bars ad restaurants, and he is encouraging to see the MOCA event as a ‘place for confluence’ since the Geffen will stay open till 10pm four days a week
Poetic? Sure it is the Flaming Lips! And be prepare for a lot of ‘fireworks’ as La Jolla has announced that the show will feature ‘multimedia stage effects’…. No surprise there, knowing what the Lips can do with just balloons and confetti.
Seeing them live is a celebration of life, which can turn a little too mushy at times (yeah this is a love feast!), but it sure will make you happy if you still can feel your feet after all that jumping and bouncing.
Can you tell me why Del Rey is sold everywhere as indie? She appears as a revamped, I-play-the-small-places singer (she had gigs at Amoeba and the Troubadour here!) while she is on the big Interscope label
“Form the ladder to my heaven.” Storytelling was a lifeline for Twain, and in Kilmer’s Citizen Twain, this lifeline continues into and after Twain’s death
Bethany Consentino’s bright vocals with lots of stretched syllables and repetitive lyrics,… how many times does she say ‘you don’t know why I cry’ anyway?
I’m a hotspot, I’m running a hotspot, at the end, does it matter for this homeless guy as along as he can make money? I am aware it is a temporary help, but it is better that nothing.
The music is your expected club music, with lots of dance-floor-disco rhythms, some cheerleader-lines in the mix and techno-beats turning madly hypnotic, while you are watching disturbing and bloody night club scenes
