laughing in front of a funny video, drinking a glass of alcohol (yes!), or doing any other relaxing activity have demonstrated the important benefit to ‘not paying attention’, and not being focused in the creativity process
there are the usual suspects, Bono, The Edge, Chris Martin, Eddie Veder, and Sting who jumped on the project as predicted. However, I am intrigued by Beck’s ‘Corrina,
Dressed in black of course, and almost constantly hiding behind her long dark hair, it was difficult to see any of her facial expressions, whereas her vocals were blurry and haunting,
I realized that, like their atmospheric sound, the band is a patchwork of other bands as it is often the case: Kate Hall is an ex-member of Mika Miko, Stephanie Chan played in both Austin bands Finally Punk and The Carrots, guitarist Mark Greshowak
Kyuss has such a great history that it would be a total error. I like that nobody saw Kyuss, and that it was largely misunderstood. That sounds like a legend forming to me. I’m too proud of it to rub my dick on it.’
People were simply nuts, all possessed by the rawness of the sound, and Farrar was anxiously walking on stage like an enraged drunken guy, yelling and venting his furious vocals sometimes barely audible
It takes some guts, and he certainly had some with his epileptic-mental-ward acrobatic moves. ‘Thank you for choking me’ he said after one of his numerous interactions with the crowd
It is funny how blogs and magazines have posted quite old pictures of her, probably because that’s all they had. I stumbled on this curious and recent interview, and she looks so luminous and fragile
‘I’m only human and I am full of mistakes’ is ironically the first line of the song that invites us to follow the sad fate of one of these crash test dummies they use in car commercials.
But if I were Britney, I would ask for more, Cowell seems to really want her for the show, and he is the Donald Trump of the singing competition, all swagger and all money, …
OFF!, the punk super group with members of Black Flag, Redd Kross, Hot Snakes and Burning Brides, has just finished recording their new album which should be released on
‘We’ve got a Man who Understands that God Gave the Bill of Rights’, and ‘Yes, I Believe… Rick Santorum is our Man!’
The video, directed by Sam Zimman, is as fluid as the song, an ecstasy-like, hypnotic journey driving through kaleidoscopic cities and landscapes just before sunset, superposed with Sharon’s barely visible face.
Beach House will supposedly release their new album ‘Bloom’ on May 15th, but the band’s label, Sub Pop, hasn’t confirmed the details yet.
Those who listened to the rock music gave more to the white group, but split the rest equally among the other three – in other words they weren’t punitive against the others as were the listeners of the white power rock
Unfortunately, in this universe, Rihanna is just your average stupid kid, taking on Twitter and Facebook (according to some gossip sites) to attack Brown’s new girlfriend and get her wife-beater back.
Cobain was such a Melvins fan that he used to drive them around in this van to their shows, and he had even drawn this Kiss mural on the side (The Melvins were big fans).
Their dynamite-like short songs were fueled with an endless raw energy sent in everyone’s face like the can of corona, or whatever brand it was, that I almost received in the head mid-set, baptizing me with some beer leftover.
mixing 60’s pop elements with coarse vocals, whereas the crowd was responding to their punk attitude; one thing was obvious all of them wanted to have fun in the sloppiest way.
April is going to be amazing’ says Goldenvoice on its facebook page, sure, you will be easily be able to go to four of five Goldenvoice shows every day!
It was an earthshaking hardcore sound, which resonated like a loud and painful agony, a violent number which took the longest time to start up, slowly building up in a sludge-doom instrumentation
It seems like a never-ending quest, finding someone’s personality through some tastes or preferences, and the eternal question of which one came first, the musical taste or the personality? Which one did influence the other?
Among the 58 and plus tracks, there will be an exclusive alternate version with vocals of Deerhunter’s Grayscale, debuts or exclusives from Throwing Muses, The Night Marchers, Zoë Keating, Hurry Up, Hungry Ghost, Brute Heart, rarities and live tracks
Creatures, that’s their name! And with a furious sound carried by the long raucous howls of the singer spitting out some undecipherable lyrics, the five of them were looking like a bestial herd
How can you call it quits when Bowie is a big fan of your band? But seriously, I don’t think Bowie’s fandom was a motivation, and the band still has to release a statement why they decided to reform now.
Well, Billy Ray, your little girl has joined the dark side! Otherwise why would she tweet it to her 5 million followers? I just hope she got the whole quote right
Arcade Fire’s song ‘Abraham’s Daughter’ for the T Bone Burnett-produced soundtrack of the movie ‘Hunger Games’, which will be out on March 20th
the tune is a rather uplifting one, quite complex to describe, with lots of guitars, a dense pop-rock melody and Mercer’s high vocals. It is far less bombastic than ‘Simple Song’
The Sunset Junction Fair may never resuscitate but the 2012 Silver Lake Jubilee line-up is there, with a plethora of indie bands, and more to come in the following weeks.
As always with Saint Motel, it is a fun ride, and if the kind-of retro sound doesn’t totally explode into an insane and wild party that they always put on during their live shows, the song continues to show their inventiveness
It is like metaphors, when there are too obvious, they don’t really work. Because when the meaning is that plain, all you can do is admire the craftsmanship.
Refused called it quits, they declared that they would never reunite, but everyone knows how it works, never say never! In January, the members of the band released a statement to explain their change of mind
A dark tale about one man’s journey to experience life more deeply. In a subtly surreal version of modern day Los Angeles, our hero and his girlfriend casually seek out technological assistance
‘complete confidence in the results of our extensive research as well as the accounts of those who were in the studio with Michael that the vocals on the new album are his own.’
Yes, an innocent minuscule tweet in the huge Twitter world, which could actually mean a lot since Meldal-Johnsen has been Beck’s bassist for quite some time, since 1997 to be exact!
‘Even if you’re playing someone in the 1700s in France, you might listen to hip-hop, if it’s an energy thing for the character. Or you can listen to what the character actually listened to. I use music like crazy. It’s like sticking a needle in your arm, like taking a drug because it’s so immediate,’
‘It’s a horrible situation for everybody, they tried to save Whitney, and it didn’t work. Now with Bobbi Kristina, they fear the same thing is happening again and they won’t be able to stop it either. Bobbi Kristina is all Ms. Cissy has left of Whitney
Nomenclature is really important when you write about music,if you are clever enough you can even come up with new ones, but there are already so many of them….the Guardian had the list of all the different origins:
The UK indie band did an in-store at Amoeba on Sunday night in front of a quite large crowd, playing 10 songs mostly off their self-titled album,… the Academy Awards are highly overrated anyway.
So Nosaj is simply Jason? This is funny but it removes part of the mystery,…well almost, the music is still really crazy mysterious for me. Nosaj Thing was doing his thing
Vivica Fox, Megan Good, Jordin Sparks and Dreamgirl Jennifer Hudson are also considered for the role, and since Hudson already sang a Houston’s song at the Grammys, she may have the lead.
Their fast and abrasive garage-rock with a lot of reverb in the shouted vocals sounded nostalgic with some 60s surfing guitar lines.
Shallowness, and sentimentalism should be avoided in art,… ‘Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail’ said Jean Cocteau, and Adele’s songs are exactly that, sentimental blackmail.
The 60s will never die, I am sure of this since I cannot write about an indie band without mentioning this omnipresent decade
As this pool becomes more and more crowded, it is more and more difficult to differentiate them, but the Fresh & Onlys could lean more toward the folk side of this category, something obvious if you listen to them on record, but something far less obvious if you see them live:
The experience taught him many things; first he discovered how playing music can be ecstatic. If listening to music can enhance your mood or be comforting (he called the iPod a self-medication for our generation), playing live is a totally different experience, a higher level of wonderfulness and a total thrill.
Their music actually sounded quite simple to figure out on stage with all this funny business going on, but their garage-rock with shouted vocals is more difficult to describe on paper, as it was multi-influenced, often producing buoyant melodies with distorted riffs or even surfing guitars
Between his kind-of-strange and agitated songs, Kasher was drinking tea and talking to the audience, doing an improvised Q&A in the middle of the set, talking about preferring not wearing pants, embarking on some funny rants about very old times and a great movie with pant-less characters,
If their music has been sometimes qualified of shoegazing, they were nevertheless showing a lot of dynamism on stage, constantly moving toward and against each others, almost reenacting a drunken dream going slowly.
honestly, a lot of ‘small’ local bands (Lady Danville, Shadow Shadow Shade, The Belle Brigade, The Fling, Vanaprasta and others) are too good to be only paid 500 bucks.
