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’.
I don’t know if it is because things become a little slow after the NYE parties, people tend to stay home to recover from all this champagne, but it is an excellent idea. My only complain is that I have to go back to work, and a show every day is not a reasonable idea!
However her whole life and career are hypocritical, and writing about this insignificant celebrity misstep is just another occasion to point out how religious people can be beyond insincere and just plain fraudulent.
I have only made my choice based on the covers, they say don’t judge a book by its cover? I have judged albums by their covers, and I am pretty sure that the music sucks too.
The song, which does not seem to have a title, showcases Marissa Paternoster’s loud and bold howl over shredding guitars and quite a lot of distortion.
a random band that nobody has ever heard about, can compose songs which can fool at least 50% of the fans and 80%of the media, what does it mean for Radiohead?
Coldplay had accepted to play at the Volvo Ocean Race venue, and each ticket cost,…are you ready?…. £4,300 or $6,630 if you prefer!!
we were trying to get a song by Elliott Smith on the UK and US Charts, what would be your best bet? Which song could actually make it? It is a tough choice
Sammy Hagar revealed to Rolling Stone that the new album will not be as fresh as expected, but will actually contain ‘old outtakes from the old days. I mean, stuff from before I even joined the band’, and that ‘Ed and Dave didn’t actually write new songs’.
It’s mellow-haunting in a detached way, but still emotional enough, especially because of the vocals at the end which seem to repeat ‘alive’. I suppose it is a big deal for Pearl Jam’s fan
Researchers think that parrots’ dancing skills come from their talent for mimicking the sounds of their surrounding, which made them develop a very good coordination between their excellent sense of hearing and their motor functions
Coldplay’s Chris Martin said to the Daily Mirror he had to throw out an intruder who broke into his garden and was serenading passers-by with Coldplay songs.
They played their set effortlessly, very tightly with a big sound for only three people, going to a catchy-melodious sound to a sort of captivating dissonance in the same song
Going to a lot of local shows made me discover a lot of new bands this year. Here is a list of 12 of them I have discovered in 2011 and which let me a strong impression
The Flaming Lips are about to do their big New Year Eve thing with Yoko Ono Plastic Band in Oklaohoma City, so this must be a sort of preparation for the show. And if you have ever doubted that the Beatles say ‘everybody smoke pot’ in the brouhaha at the end of the song, there is no more reason to doubt:
New Year Eve in Los Angeles seems to have piled up a large amount of shows and parties everywhere in the city.
Its [Victoria’s Secret] undies that are purported to be made with “fair trade” organic cotton actually utilize some unseemly labor practices in the early stages of the supply chain
First of all, minks are rodents?? Certainly not! They belong to the same order than dogs and cats, would she wear her pet on her back? She is an idiot.
On Christmas day, nothing is happening, every news stops, there’s nothing, nada, rien!The XX released a mere demo of 2 minutes and all the blogs were after it, as if it would be the only thing they’d be able to feed on the whole day. And it was. Bands, if you want attention, release something on Christmas day, everyone will talk about you.
There were so many people sniffing and weeping in the theater that the moviemaker should be a little ashamed to have exploited loss and grief so much. It’s way too easy to make people cry at watching other people crying, I don’t think there is a dry-eye scene and Sandra Bullock is crying every time she is on the screen.
I forgot which famous person said she would prefer to remove her clothes than reveal her musical tastes, but yeah, she was right in a way, it can be pretty intimate
Cat Power’s voice is particularly moving during this long and haunting incantation, which seems to beautifully agonize for some lost love, ‘You don’t miss your water/’Till your well is gone’
Taylor Swift worked with the Civil Wars and Burnett to write and perform the song ‘Safe and Sound’ the Decemberists wrote ‘One Engine’. Other sources are saying that Arcade Fire are even doing several songsfor the soundtrack, including the theme song
Brainwash’s giant collages you will recognize about anybody: Michael Jackson, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Cassius Clay, Keith Richards, Miles Davis, Brigitte Bardot, Louis Armstrong, David Bowie, Jim Morrison, Sid Vicious, Santana, Slash, Ray Charles, James Dean, Serge Gainsbourg, Tyler the Creator, John Kennedy
Adler is even defending Tyler’s decision to jump on the sound board and obviously doing some damage, saying ‘it looked worse than it was’.
I can only imagine the chaos over there, with all the fans probably defending him. It was even reported that officers used bean-bag guns on the crowd, and helicopters arrived on the scene to contain the riot. And I know how fast the LAPD can go overboard.
she is a sweetheart, reading a blog listing her most-loved ten things, there were, among other things, cats , Iggy Pop, Nick Cave and chocolate. I think we could get along pretty great
Their guitars were like thunder, the vocals had swagger and belligerence in their delivery, and their songs were often venturing into a gloomy and a sort of cold psychedelia with some My-Bloody-Valentine-meets-The-Cure-meets-Joy-Division-meets-the-Cramps (and probably many others) accents at various times of their set.
Todos Somos Ilegales: We Are All Illegals’ may be talking about another kind of war, the one going on at the border, but the feisty energy carried with a gentle but determined fist in the air is there from start to finish, along with an invigorating and genuine vehemence, and a part reserved to satirical humor.
a sort of Ramoney fun-fast punk song, with mummy Adrienne Armstrong on vocals, daddy Billy Joe on bass and the two kids on drums and guitar. It’s simple, sure enjoyable, but bubbly and girlie like the color they chose for their CD
It is sure very very different from the original, and you will be surprised by the stripped down rendition of the exuberant bombastic Beyonce song! As he said there are elements ‘useless to even attempt replicating’,
“You were hearing a lot of live, modular synthesizers creating a kind of icy or pulsing bed with something that feels very non-electronic, an organic and imperfect instrument played imperfectly, sitting on top of that?”
music-art-activist collective FMLY is organizing a big fest to celebrate the end of the year with the best new and upcoming LA bands. There are so many bands in the lineup
an abstract experience going on the trippy psychedelic side, with a few close-ups of human and canine lips and wet tongues that can make you borderline uncomfortable
Beethoven listeners are almost off the chart, way above anyone else, but it was the only classical example taken into consideration
‘It’s not clear where the movement name originated. It would be nice to think it came from the Velvet Underground, but there’s no proof of that.’
It was probably a nice surprise for the large crowd, which, supposedly was not expecting it. But it was way too short for most of them, and after the set, many began to chant and even boo to get more of it.
power ballads were big in the 80s, the late 70s-early 80s were the most creative, people had simpler tastes before the 90s (or were dumber), and we are all gonna be deaf soon.
their abrasive and aggressive electronic sound feels nevertheless a little bit poppier than ever with the reverb in Alexis Krauss’ sweet voice doubled with some cheer-leading backup vocals
Drummer Lars Ulrich was hoping for a photo op with Lou Reed and,…teen idol Justin Bieber, but Bieber got stuck at Disneyland after his car broke down and the photo was never done. But Ulrich couldn’t hide his disappointment:
I saw him at the Central Library of Los Angeles and I had been fascinated since. He was a rock star of the debate and public forum, he had an undeniable charisma, and simply could not be defeated.
There are many artists who are actually looking for the familiar, because it is safe, universal and timeless, I mean by this, classic art. There are some who use the real thing, some who recreate or transform it,
The songs, from their ‘Megalithic Symphony’ album and their previous ‘Back from Earth’ EP, are dynamic synthpop-rock, with aggressive vocals and a delivery going from the Beastie Boys style to some sort of arena hard rock grandiloquence.
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‘With the help of your camera, you will influence the pacing of the video with your movements. There are no specific moves, just dance with your hands. The camera will detect the movement you are making. The crazier you get, the faster the video will go.”
Until the concert ends at 11 pm, ‘vibrations were recorded as a semi continuous harmonic signal with a peak osculation of 3Hz, ie the ground was shaking 3 times per second in a nice rhythmic motion’
the loud ferocious sound, full of J Mascis’ multiple pedal effects, Lou Barlow’ bass and Emmett Murphy’s drums attacks; it was a dissonant beast, building distortion over distortion, liberating itself into a weird psychedelia.
I still don’t get why Deadmau5, James Murphy, Proxy and Eye are having this dance party while NIN Trent Reznor has composed the score of the movie, can someone explain?
rock nyc exclusive: A fast, fun, hot and fuming ride from start to end, with lots of naked skin, lots of ‘ooooohs’ screamed at the top of their lungs and guitar riffs, while the bad boys are lying in bed with girls in black lingerie or powdered wigs.
As usual James Mercer was the only songwriter, and handles the lead vocals as the majority of instrumentation… at this point the Shins is a one-man band!
