More Band Salaries: Butthole Surfers? $24K… Belle Brigade? $500
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.
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A Look Inside Madonna's Stalkers Storage Locker
I would have been really anxious with this guy on the loose and his closet full of knives! Remember, John Lennon was killed by a stalker, John Hinckley shot president Ronald Reagan to impress Jodie Foster he was obsessing about, Michael Jackson had numerous stalkers who sent him hundreds of letters threatening to commit mass murders at his concerts
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Dave Mustaine's Remarks About African American Women Go Too Far
Why journalists aren’t confronting Mustaine with all this? Why do they let him think he can say anything he wants without even being challenged? And why do they ask him his opinion about things like these? Please, stick to the music!
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the Shins' video for 'Simple song' (that you can download for free)
‘I didn’t choose any of you because, as you know, each of you hates my gut!’ says Mercer in his post-mortem videotaped message.
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Decoded, the Roxy, Tuesday, February 21st, 2012, reviewed
This is a special show’ said Derek Jordan on Tuesday night at the Roxy, ‘Because it is our first show…” The first time rock nyc has covered a first show since Holy Ghost!
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The New Video of Odd Future for 'Rella'
It may actually be too odd to really offend anyone, but this is some dark, funny twisted fantasy… Watch at your own risk, if you can pass the view at 0:12:
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No Camera, No Photo Policy At Concerts
Adams is not allowing any pictures on this tour, not even for professional journalists, and his PR is actually encouraging reviewers to bring along a sketch artist! What? Like in a courtroom? Sorry but I was too far to have produced any good sketch of him, and that would have distracted me
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Ides Of Gemini at Vacation Vinyl on Monday February 20th, 2012
There was still a lot of mystery in their music quite difficult to describe, like a tangent and inexorable fear, not totally exposed but present nevertheless, moving like a martyr (hey, they have a song called Martyrium of the Hippolyt!) going to the scaffold with determination and pride.
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Milo Greene, the Satellite, Monday February 20th, 2012, Reviewed
With layered voices and sweet harmonies, their breezy and folkish tunes were actually more poppy than country or folk despite the use of a banjo and a tambourine on some songs
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LA Zine Fest on Sunday February 19th at the Last Bookstore: Henry Rollins Interviewed V. Vale Amd We Review Them
fight back against the mainstream of subversion, be always skeptical, catch your own self and have the integrity to stand up for it! But above everything, stay curious and angry people!
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Chris Brown And Rihanna's Police Report
Brown resumed punching Robyn F. and she interlocked her fingers behind her head and brought her elbows forward to protect her face. She then bent over at the waist, placing her elbows and face near her lap in [an] attempt to protect her face and head from the barrage of punches being levied upon her by Brown.
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Depeche Mode Working On New Album
‘Working on the VCMG record, obviously I didn’t look at a guitar for that whole period because it just wasn’t right – so the moment I started getting back to writing songs for the band then I’m picking up the guitar, I’m going on the piano, working on chords, just working completely differently.’
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Ryan Adams at the Disney concert Hall on Saturday, February 18th, 2012
Amazingly, all the songs were perfectly and delicately performed by someone who was managing to be very focused during the execution but loose and easy going in between.
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Not With The Band: Artists And Insecurities
All their anxieties and self-doubt are in front of their eyes or ears, all the time, on screen, on TV, on vinyl, on tape, on canvas. In short, artists are more aware of their insecure angle than the average person, and they have to deal with it.
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Black Sabbath canceling some dates and playing 15 as ‘Ozzy & Friends’
Only one date is maintained in England, but the prince of darkness will never let his fans down, and 15 dates of the tour will be assured by ‘Ozzy & Friends’, which will feature special guests like Slash, Zakk Wylde and Geezer Butler
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Bobby Brown Storms Out Of Whitney's funeral
I am at Whitney’s funeral. I spoke with Bobby Brown trying to calm him down and not distract from the services. Today is about Whitney!’
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Alyson Camus Spends More Time At Whitney Houston's Funeral Than She Ever Did Listening To The Music
I wonder, is it still private at this point? Why is the family pretending they want a private ceremony when this is mediatized to this extreme? And how much did CNN pay to be authorized to do this?
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Blur And Oasis: Peace In Our Time
First of all, he would have to bury the hatchet with Radiohead to even consider a collaboration, didn’t he call them ‘an odd bunch’ who ‘have been making the same record since ‘Kid A’ in a Rolling Stone interview last summer?
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Willow Smith Hanging Out With Tyler the Creator
But she seems really into it as she wrote with this picture ‘Life is complete…Love of my life.’ Wow, she is only 11, do her parents approve?
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Diamanda Galás Violently Criticized Clive Davis
‘Whitney … Whitney … was put back onstage before she was ready to perform – by the colossal pig Clive Davis – who continued his party in the same hotel where she died and where her body still lay. Heresy.’
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California Harcore Boys Ceremony's Video "World Blue" Reviewed
The video makes you feel the violent energy of a chaotic mosh pit, while reinventing all the stage diving madness, re-imagining all the rib-elbows contacts, and almost recreating the sweat all over the place.
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Joao Brasil Accuses Madonna of Plagiarism.
I still don’t understand what happened. I’m a huge fan of hers. If it’s plagiarism, then even better. She is always at the cutting edge of music, so it’s a good sign about what I do.
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Phase 2 of the Polyphonic Spree's new tour (and an email from Tim DeLaughter to convince us))
I told James Caan (Las Vegas) “Freebie and the Bean” was the first shoot’em up movie I ever saw at the theater. He said “really”?! Then walked away….
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Music Box being taken over by Goldenvoice (the Coachella promotor
Their source, who wants to stay anonymous for some reasons, has said to the Weekly that ‘Goldenvoice has signed a 12-month lease for the business, and plans to take over the venue’s liquor license’.
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Reaction From the Catholic League President Bill Donohue On Nicki Minaj
The music, if you can still call it music, was not really the matter, the matter was attention, and Nicki Minaj wanted plenty of it
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Geoff Barrow's new project. Quakers, Some Rap Album Apparently
Quarkers is in fact a very large collective which also features Portishead engineer 7-Stu-7, Australian producer Katalyst, and more than 35 artists (among them Aloe Blacc, Guilty Simpson, Dead Prez. Phat Kat, Prince Po).
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Joy Division and New Order's master tapes discovered in the basement of Jamie Oliver's new restaurant.
the whole thing was worth £ 1 million, and NME is declaring that Oliver gave everything to the treasury,….to the treasury? What are they going to do with the tapes? Shouldn’t they be turned in to Joy Division’s label? Estate? Peter Hook?
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Odd Future's Syd the Kid Defends Their Lyrics To Out Magazine
‘That’s really fucked up.’ And then you hear it so many times you just start laughing, like, ‘That is so fucked up!’ But it’s hilarious, and that’s when you start to take life a little less seriously.’
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Clarence Clemons' Tribute at the Grammys Canceled
‘Thanks so much or all your messages and tweets about the GRAMMYs. I can now reveal that I was asked to perform a Clarence Clemmons tribute and then it got dropped to accommodate the tribute to Whitney Houston.’
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Magnetic Fields: No Religion
If I had to pick a religion to subscribe to, it would be Daoism, which only requires that you agree with one statement, which is that the middle path is a good idea. I don’t subscribe to that, but it’s only one statement that I disagree with rather than thousands
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Not With The Band: Chris Brown Forgiven At The Grammys An Abomination
What a bunch of cowards! All these don’t-know-what-happened, it-is-not-my-business, don’t-want-to-judge are pathetic, again, look at Rihanna’s face after the beating, she had bruises to her face and arms and even bite marks!
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'Heaven Adores You’ Nickolas Rossi Discusses Elliott Smith
You can find the whole story if you just read a book or go on the internet. It is a very transparent story. There is no real hidden thing in the Elliott Smith’s story. It is a very short story with a very limited cast of characters
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Sharon Van Etten’s 'Tramp' Reviewed
Her voice is strong and weary at the same time and translates a rare combination of perseverance and vulnerability, making everything sound deep, making every word resonate true
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Whitney Houston Takes Over Twitter: Life Is Short, Enjoy It While You Can
My Twitter feed is just a long list of RIP Whitney, an outpouring of loving condolences, but who honestly was still thinking about her these days? And suddenly she is the greatest singer of all times,… Tony Bennett, you already said this when Amy Winehouse died!
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Beck to Play Santa Barbara Bowl
But if you’re a big fan and want to go, tickets go on sale next Saturday, February 18th, at 11 am, and should be priced between $37 and $55 plus fees, according to Downtown Lobby.
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Madonna's album MDNA Number One ITunes Pre-Order Charts in 50 countries
‘MDNA’, Madonna’s 12th album, will be only be out on March 26th, but is already number one in the pre-order charts on iTunes in 50 countries across the world. How is this possible? People were that impressed by this ‘Give me All Your Luvin’’ totally mediocre song?
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Get OFF! At Burgerama
Sure, I have already seen most of these bands, but this is why I know it is a fantastic line-up, with OFF! and its old-school-Black-Flag-revival hardcore sound, Wavves and its distorted-surfing-messy-weedy melodies, Ty Segall and its sunny-garage-punkish-reverbing rock
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Rick Santorum Calls Heavy Metal "Satanic"
‘If you listen to the radio today, many of these brand new, so-called heavy metal music bands like Black Sabbath, Venom, The WASP and Iron Maiden use satanic imagery to corrupt the minds of young people’.
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Madonna, MIA and The Middle Finger
Listen to this! Madonna is offended by a middle finger? It looks like she is rather pissed off because the attention was shifted from herself to M.I.A.,and so things didn’t turn exactly as she had planned.
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Ben Kweller at Amoeba,Thursday, February 9th, 2012 Reviewed
I had lost his track a few years ago, but I remember really liking his song ‘The Rules’ that we were hearing quite a bit on the radio around 2004, with this line ‘I just want to belonnnnnng’ over some raw-youthful rock’ n’ roll which sounded so fresh and inspired
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Is Adele Too Fat?
‘The thing at the moment is Adele. She is a little too fat, but she has a beautiful face and a divine voice’.
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Pussy Riot, a punk Russian all-girl band performing against Putin
The Russian girls believe revolution should be done by women because, as they told the Guardian, ‘For now, they don’t beat us or jail us as much. There’s a deep tradition in Russia of gender and revolution – we’ve had amazing women revolutionaries.’
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The Beach Boys collaborating with Maroon 5 and Foster the People at the Grammy Awar
And please, I don’t want to see shirtless Adam Levine singing ‘God Only Knows What I’d Be Without You’, that would spoil the song forever.
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Paul McCartney Wont Stream
McCartney follows Coldplay, The Black Keys, Tom Waits and Adele, artists who recently removed their last albums from streaming services. Don’t worry, you can still download McCartney’s albums through iTunes or Amazon, but the free listening is over!
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The Shins new Single "September" In February
The Shins, I was saying, are offering ‘September’, the B-side to their previous single ‘Simple Song’ as a free stream on Vimeo
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Niles Rodgers To Collaborate With Daft Pink
‘Those guys are great. They’re coming to my apartment on Monday and we’re going to talk about making a new record together.’
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Lana Del Rey at Amoeba, Tuesday February 7th: We See The Phenom Live On Stage
she had a good voice, pleasantly filling the space, starting low and going high, with the fans surprisingly responding at each of her vocalization by some loud clamor. Along her set, she was balancing her head, grabbing the mic, touching her face, pushing her hair away, charming everyone with a certain man
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Madonna's Massive World Tour!
It seems that her Superbowl episode was just a warm-up of what was about to come, as she has just announced a massive-huge-mega world tour. Look at these dates!
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M.I.A. Flips The World The Bird
Pitchfork thinks she is an asshole! I will reprint their own words: ‘being an asshole is forever’. Really? America can now be upset for a middle finger? If this is all you have to do to outrage people these days, it ain’t much!
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Titus Andronicus On Bill For Metallica New Jersey Festival
Tickets are going on sale February 11th at 10am EST with a pre-sale for the Metallica’s fan club from February 8th to 10th. The two-day general admission is priced at $125, andyou can visit the website at OrionMusicAndMore.com.