I would have expected more support from the LAWeekly, but Romero was insisting his story was rather about the lack of permit rather than being about being negative about the event, although he accused Chuck D at one point to be promoting his book
Z gave up the use of the word ‘bitch’ because of the new addition to his family. I don’t remember where I read this first,but it was reported everywhere, even on TV, Jay-Z would have written a poem to prove his new resolution of dropping the bad word from his lyrics.
Well,it is not true
As more people ended up in stage, petals were flying everywhere, the odor of the flowers was nicely filling the air and the public was catching up with the free spirit emanating from the music; people were jumping and bouncing as the sound was making more and more noisy swirls
On stage, there is alot going on, as one of the musician was juggling between synth, bass and trumpet, and all of them were at some point participating to the vocals. The female-male parts were delicate, abandoning the cinematic view for a little while, and approaching a hymn-like territory.
This will only be the beginning of a year-long celebration commemorating the 25th anniversary of this release, and, as we had already announced it, there will also be more goodies for die-hard fans,
I am not sure how to qualify their hiccup music, punk? Post-punk? Garage-rock? All of the above? It was more assaulting projectile music sprinkled with a few surfing riffs and tribal drumming than anything else to me.
So what can a desperate fan do? There are still scalpers, eBay, Craiglist,… There are tons of tickets for sale on Craiglist,but when I say desperate, the term is weak. Here is an ad found on craiglist:
This looks so ,… err Martha Stewart if you want my opinion, nothing outrageous at all for a guy who came on stage with a fluorescent orange piece of fur covering his head and runs half naked in the bushes last time I saw him.
Many of the other acts originally rumored to be playing (Cypress Hill, Kurupt from the Dogg Pound, Mellow Man Ace and OG Kid Frost) finally canceled, and the event was announced as ‘not a show’,… I went there, and if it was not a show I don’t know how to call it
In the 70s, punk rock exploded and wanted to get rid of class privileges by denouncing greed, preaching independence, anti-establishment philosophy, and a DIY ethic to stay away from major corporate record labels.
It is quite a departure from Sonic Youth’s distorted sound; instead,the gentle upbeat pop-rock song has a catchy melody,… but curiously, after listening to it for several times, some slight Sonic Youth’s riffs magically reappear.
From the Origami loft, Matt Perozzi on bass and Thomas Jefferson on drums were playing ina sort of violent urgency which wasn’t taking itself seriously, as the two guys were screaming like mad men some weird and repetitive vocals, furiously vociferating after some invisible enemy, while seemingly running away from it.
‘Our view, in the name of freedom of expression, is that it is shameful to adhere to Christianity or Islam’, and adding that ‘Taake has never been a political band, and we do not encourage either violence or racism.’
I can see how a Nick Cave-Wayne Coyne co-written tune could be an interesting thing to discover, but Bon Iver? He is the antithesisof the Flaming Lips!
According to the LATimes, which got it from Billboard magazine, the famous heavy metal band was supposed to be one of the headliners but had to pull out because of Tony Iommi’s lymphoma diagnosis.
numbers mean a lot for all these unknown but ultra-talented musicians I get to see all the time around LA, only the top is selling, and these developing artists are completely in existent in these statistics
The songs were catchy, several had that ascending-anthem component, instantaneously familiar and activating your musical memory,… you know that feeling, a riff comes up and you get the impression to have it stored somewhere in your brain…
It is super short and works like an awesome hammer hitting you repeatedly on the head,… it is true you don’t need to be ‘fucked up’ to experience what this guy does at a Trash Talk concert, as the bloody ambiance seems pretty realistic to me.
The movie is set in the 60s, on an island off the coast of New England, and tells the story of a young girl who falls in love and runs away with the young boy, forcing a crew of adults to hunt them down.
‘We don’t feel like the biggest, best band in the world. We just feel like the same five dorks that were touring in a van 17 years ago, that hasn’t changed.’
From Queens of The Stoneage to Fiona Apple, 2012 looks to be a great year of the comeback album, here are some personal highlights.
Star magazine was all over the story a few months ago,…. Jay-Z may have fathered a secret son with a Trinidadian model, Shenelle Scott, nine years ago.
The song, which was performed live during his last world tour, is the second single from his upcoming album ‘Old Ideas’, set to be released on January 31st on Columbia, his first studio album since 2004!
He is a billionaire, sold his clothing line for more than $200 million, hasn’t had a single which did not go platinum, has a $150 million deal with Live Nation and he and Beyonce are the top earning couple in the music industry! How much money does he want his Blue Ivy to inherit?
Damn! Some people were really into it, wearing gospel robes and jumping till they were entering in an exhilarating trance
Standing alone in front of his synth and a few knob-turningboxes, he was performing at the Satellite on Sunday night, slowly opening a hypnotic and listener-challenging loopy soundscape, rarely stopping between his songs
It is quite close to The Shins’ typical sound, although the music seems to be escaping the chiming signature sound of their first album, while being bolder and a touch more upbeat than usual
Everyone agrees that the line-up is strong this year,although the Black Keys look like a weak choice for some? Well, they just were on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine so,… but Saturday looks attractive (at least for me), and no it’s not because David Guetta is playing!
This was happening in the Bootleg gallery, not on the stage where the concerts are usually occurring, and every one attending seemed to be a friend of someone performing; it was not only very intimate, but a little like an amicable reunion on a Saturday night, even with a giant screen projecting movies.
Scientists who study this creativity, are particularly interestedby jazz musicians, the John Coltrane and Keith Jarrett of the world, who are able to totally improvise in the moment. How do they do that?
Beside the fact that the video is ridiculous and only exists to remind us that the song has really nothing to say, the falsetto gushy chorus wants to hook the listener up like a sticky donut he or she absolutely wants to resist to.
A month before, he started a Facebook group, proposing the crazy and bold idea to beat the Xfactor winner with a song having the complete opposite vibe, and he was helped onTwitter by a comedian, Peter Searfinowicz, who had more than 268,000 followers.
You can be the opener! Not too shabby. All you have to do is go to this page, log in your ReverbNation account (or create one) and submit an‘accurate representation of you and your music’.
I saw them this summer, when they opened for this historic Black Flag reunion and their hardcore sound hit me in the face like a brutal beast killing everything on its
Rock& roll is the music I feel the most passionately about, and I don’t like to see it fucking ruined and spoon-fed down our throats in this watered-down,post-grunge crap, horrendous shit. When people start lumping us into that kind of shit, it’s like, ‘Fuck you,’ honestly.’
Apparently the sound system, lighting and bar have being dismantled, with a ‘Closed for inventory’ sign hanging onthe door, and staff members or promoters were not even warned about it.
Michael Jackson’s three children,Prince, Paris and Blanket will put their father’s shoes and gloves on and will make footprint and handprint in the concrete in front of Hollywood Grauman’s Chinese Theater. Can we do that?
I don’t know who got the idea to contrast such disastrous images with this calm and soothing ballad but it sure makes perfect sense,…isn’t 2012 supposed to be the year of the apocalypse anyway?
People spend time making fake posters once again. Well, they can keep dreaming their ideal lineup, we will know for sure soon anyway.
It is a cinematic tale juxtaposing violence coming from human then nature itself, with a horrific development and an escape after the apocalypse. Or may be the whole thing was just a dream?
First of all, before getting to Swift, do we really need another version of Les Miserables?! How many times can you reinvent Victor Hugo’s classic, with music or no music? The famous novel has already been adapted, I kid you not, 52 times since 1907
‘Speaking of which, did you know that while I was fighting for my life in Austria there were a bunch of those lovely American ‘Christian’ …’‘organisations, who call themselves “Christians for a Moral America”, who were actually taking the time to pray for me to die
‘For a long time, men and women have demonstrated their optimism, dreaming of a new Senegal. They have in various ways called for my candidacy in the February Presidential race. I listened. I heard.’
I also totally get what he says when he compares running with addiction, and this quest to catch that first high,… just like drug users, we are all addicts, us runners.
Jack White will welcome the American Pickers’ crew in his Nashville-based Third Man Records store on January 9th, since, apparently, the ex-White Stripes man collects weird stuff too.
Cee Lo Green tweeted this after being aware of the angry reactions:
‘Yo I meant no disrespect by changing the lyric guys! I wast rying to say a world were u could believe what u wanted that’s all’
is a real endorsement from the man himself, how many times does this happen? How many times does the singer choose the person who is gonna play him or her? I know it was the case for Johnny Cash who had totally approved Joaquin Phoenix playing him, but it must be rare
Each time, DJs provide the musical background for the night, you can even take a tour of the museum with some prestigious scientist, there are food, drinks, and the whole place is transformed into a nightclub.
And if people were already all-smile and drunk, the rest of the night was a real treat as they covered some great classics and also a few cheesy numbers, but everything was an absolute funfest.
If scientists are still investigating whether music really impairs studying, a recent study showed that ‘participants [who had to memorize things in order] performed worst while listening to music, regardless of whether they liked that music’ and ‘did the best in the quiet and while listening to a tape repeating three’.
