Fucked Up On "No Reservation"
Fucked up performed their own rendition of ‘Jingle Bells’,… well, it was the Holiday special! It was short, but still, kind of cool to see them going mainstream like this.
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The Black Keys' "El Camino" Reviewed
El Camino’ will probably be on everybody’s 2011 best album list, but by trying so much in only 11 songs, Dan Auerbach and Pat Carney may have lost part of their identity
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Titus Andronicus Covering Coldplay Is Cool For Cats
It is a crazy one, Stickles is a funny guy, let’s just say that he takes some liberty with the lyrics, and he exaggerates the yeeaaahhhs so much, I thought I was hearing some cats in heat
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A Reasonable Proposal for U2's Money
With his $736 million U2 could almost finance one year of research on HIV vaccine, not negligible, or at least, they could rectify that drop in the funding these recent years.
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Heartless at Vacation Vinyl, Friday, December 9th, 2011:
Heartless’ frontman was walking in a more destructive way, like a force of nature in pain determined to destroy and crash the universe. They were hardly stopping between the songs
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the Tetrafol Is A New Instrument Invented By Fol Chen
The Tetrafol is a hand-held tangible electronic sound toy. Circuits enclosed by a wooden tetrahedron detect orientation and motion-gestures to modify the playback
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Full of Hell at Vacation Vinyl, Friday, December 9th, 2011 Reviewed
I am pretty sure any Justin Bieber’s fan would have been terrified to death and would have crawled under the next vinyl bins at Full of Hell’s first riff,… I think you get what I mean.
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Caveman at the Echo, Thursday, December 8th, 2011, Reviewed
Listening to them on record actually gives a tamed perception of their music played live, the dreamy psych landscape is there, but live, they certainly played their gentle, soft pop at a higher level of reverb and distortion, with a lesser or greater extend, depending on the songs.
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Races at the Echo, Thursday, December 8th, 2011 Reviewed
With their long introductions, their slowly installing psych pop and especially their soaring vocal harmonies, Races is a band I have seen two times with the same in-awe-state-of mind when they play
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Bon Iver And The Grammys
I kinda felt like going up there and being like: ‘Everyone should go home, this is ridiculous. You should not be doing this. We should not be gathering in a big room and looking at each other and pretending that this is important’
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Ryan Adams' Intimate Performance in LA filmed for KCRW
The intimate solo performance of Ryan Adams recorded at Apogee Berkeley Street Studios in front of a live audience is now available on KCRW’s webpage, and you can watch Ryan perform acoustically songs from his new album ‘Ashes & Fire’, alone with his guitar and harmonica.
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Rolling Stones Best Albums Of 2011: Something For Everyone
complete mixed bag, trying to please everybody, with more ultra-popular music to indulge the crowds (Lady Gaga, Foo Fighters, Beyoncé), plenty of indie music to avoid alienating hipsters (the Decemberists, Wild Flag, Fleet Foxes, TV On The Radio, Feist, Bon Iver), some rap to look good and coo
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Drummer Ali Koehler Kicked Out Of Best Coast (apparently)
Best Coast drummer Ali Koehler is not part of the band anymore. Sure, it happens all the time, people leave a band and join another one
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Girls at the Music Box, Tuesday, December 6th, 2011
The stage looked like an altar of flowers, as bunches of fresh lilies, tulips and other flowers were attached around each mic, on the keyboard table and around the mini-stage where singers Makeda Francisco, Skyler Lucas and Tracy Nelson were standing. You even could smell their odor during the show
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Helen Money At Vacation Vinyl, Monday, December 5th, 2011, Reviewed
Alison Chesley’s pedigree is truly impressive: she has a master’s degree in Cello performance from Northwestern University, released two albums (one was produced by Bob Mould) as the rock acoustic duo Verbow, has opened for numerous acts such as Frank Black, Bob Mould, Counting Crows, Live, Morrissey, Liz Phair and Brad
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Red Hot Chili Peppers: Emotional Boys Nominated To Rock N Roll Hall of Fame
‘It’s always been easy for me to pooh-pooh these awards — the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame too. But I inducted Metallica a couple of years ago, and it was really a beautiful thing to see as all these people were being inducted”
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SXSF 2012
I have only seen 12 bands among the following list which seems to contain a million names: Cloud Nothings, He’s My Brother She’s My Sister, Letting Up Despite Great Faults, Chelsea Wolfe, Allah-Las, Bleached, Built to Spill, Delta Spirit, Thee Oh Sees, PAPA, Screaming Females, and The War On Drugs,… for the rest I have no clue, except for four or five exceptions.
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Sleigh Bells Reigning In 2012
Wearing a military uniform, Krauss seems to announce a grand and epic battle launched by some kind of female dictator, is it the beginning of a Hollywood super production? I mean who exactly release a trailer for an upcoming album?
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Cat Power's new album, a song + video for Christmas
‘ALMOST DONE WITH ALBUM. IN 9 DAYS WILL HAVE A SONG AVAILABLEFOR HOLIDAY CHARITY DOWNLOAD W O R D ! XXXX’
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The Shins Secret Show At Largo On Monday
, the Shins did a set of 7 brand new songs at Largo! Yes, the Shins, or rather the new Shins, as apparently James Mercer is the only one left from the original line-up. It was a by-invite-only show unfortunately
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Why I Hate David Guetta
Guetta performed in front of 800 people packed in this new lobby, and transformed for the occasion into ‘the full Vegas nightclub experience – complete with LED light riggings, VIP tables with bottle service, elevated platforms with scantily-clad dancers
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Johnny Greenwood To Score New Paul Thomas Anderson Movie
Tweet from Oliver Weindling, founder of the British label Babel, saying: ‘Zed-U recorded part of soundtrack for Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead last week. Film (by Paul Thomas Anderson) to appear in 2013.’
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Ticketmaster Payback
The fees were said to be ‘deceptive because they did not clearly state that Ticketmaster was profiting from them.’ That’s why the fees will continue to be added to you bill, but Ticketmaster will clearly label them as profit now!!
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Hanson: The Bros Brew Buds "MmmmHop"
they have reached the drinking age now because they are about to launch a new brand of beer,…. And, no joke, they are going to name the drink MMMHop, obviously finding their inspiration in their hit song.
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Girl In A Coma at the Echoplex, Friday, December 2nd, 2011
Charming Nina was all wide-rolling eyes with an expressive face when she was going from one high note to another high one, with a total assurance and some badass energy. Her hair in her face, soon covered by sweat, she was in control of her voice and music
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Lee Noble at Vacation Vinyl, Saturday, December 3rd, 2011
he was very concentrated on his craft all the time, extremely occupied between his constant tape-changing, his vibrating and resonating Moog synth and his sparse guitar playing,
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The Dead Ships at the Echoplex, Friday, December 2nd, 2011 Reviewed
The formula duo – guitar and drums – has already been used a lot and reinventing it seems to be quite a task, but The Dead Ships managed to bring something original while evoking big names at the same time.
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Iggy and the Stooges at the Palladium,Thursday, December 1st, 2011 Reviewed
Some people are all about success. And some people like to bleed!’ he yelled at one point, and indeed he did get a nose bleed after one of his numerous stage dives over the excited and adoring crowd,… but what is a nose bleed for Iggy? Close to nothing, as the guy must have built up a bottomless endorphin reservoir to endure so many pain-inducing performances
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Jose Gonzalez Needs Your Villa
So José is looking for a quiet place to compose his music? And he thinks he could disturb the neighbors? He looks like a very quiet person himself, and his music is peaceful and comforting. So, José, my place is far from being a villa, but California is general really sunny
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Liam would Rather Eat Nasty Stuff Than Reform Oasis
Liam Gallagher, who seems to never be out of words in order to insult his brother, will play at the Wiltern with his Beady Eye on Saturday, and the LA Weekly spoke with him,… but what else could be expected? Liam talked shit about Noel,… literally!
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Ryan Adams Signed Single Givaway Coming Soon
Is it really a rare piece? the vinyl, which features two previously unreleased tracks ‘Empty Room’, with wife Mandy Moore on backing vocals, and ‘Nutshell’, a Alice in Chain’s cover, and we’re giving away a signed copy free
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George Harrison's Sister To Write Tell All
First off, he wasn’t quiet, but the weekend they flew into New York to do ‘Ed Sullivan,’ George was very sick. They were staying at the Plaza Hotel, and we got him to see the hotel doctor, Dr. Gordon. Dr. Gordon said, ‘This is a very sick kid. He’s got a 104-degree temperature and has strep throat
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Ryan Adam's Super Rare Seven Incher From Vacation Vinyl
If you want a signed copy (yes, signed!), go to the store, and give the secret password to purchase it: SATAN! There a limit of one customer, and the offer is only available with purchase of an item from the Black Metal Section
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Los Angeles Gone With The Wind Playlist
the Santa Ana winds blew up to 80-100 mph, trees fell down (one was across the street when I drove to work this morning), power went down in some parts of the city, and schools closed down for the day! Here are a few songs about the wind.
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Sid Vicious Documentary "Sid By Those Who Knew Him" Available Here
Nancy Spungen is profiled with new interviews from Jah Wobble, Steve Severin, Vivien Westwood, Malcolm McClaren, Dave Vanian, Rat Scabies, Marco Pironi, Viv Albertine, and many others who actually knew Sid.’
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Bono On The Daily Show For World AIDS Day
Bono arrives in the Daily show with his messiah aura, but in reality, he will always make his interests come first: Stewart will certainly never ask Bono what happened to his wife’s company, Edun, the organic clothing company destined to provide jobs in Africa: when finances looked bad
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David Bowie Denies Musical
The show, called ‘Heroes: The Musical’ was described as a futuristic fantasy, featuring various Bowie-esque characters like Major Tom, the starman and a ‘young dude’ called David
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New LA Artists Could Get Grammy Nomination
Fitz & the Tantrums: We have to say it very loud, we talked about them first!! With their R&B-organ-Motown-revival, they are the real local success, growing big with their non-stop touring during this last year
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Collaboration Between Beck and Charlotte Gainsbourg, Paradisco
The song, which was written and produced by Beck, is only sung by Charlotte and gets a little help from Ariel Pink’s Haunted graffiti Cole M.G.N. on the drum machine
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Guards, "I see it coming" Video Reviewed
The new Guards’ black and white video posted by yourstru.ly could just give me the excuse to talk about this band again, but it is actually so good that it
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Elvis Costello Advises Not To Buy His Latest Release
All our attempts to have this number revised have been fruitless but rather than detain you with tedious arguments about morality, panache and book-keeping – when there are really bigger fish to filet these days – we are taking the following unusual step.’
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Tennis System the Satellite Saturday, November 26th, 2011 Reviewed
their crushing-skull wall of noise filled right away the room, building, distortion over distortion, a wild monster, that was hardly letting the poppy and calm melodies escape from this thunderous madness.
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Collaboration Between Nicki Minaj MIA and Madonna
‘summond to NYC by bitchesses > MADONNA and @NICKIMINAJ > cofffffiiiiiiieeeeeeeeee it iz a good day to get me tho trustttt bitches’
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Black Face with Dukowski, Records Unknown Black Flag Songs
Dukowski has said to have been a fan of Oxbow in many interviews, while Robinson has declared to always have had the idea to sing for or with Dukowski. It is now a reality.
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United Ghosts at Satellite Saturday, November 26th, 2011 Reviewed
an excellent surprise with their combination of power-choruses filled with girl-boy vocal harmonies and layered shoegazing-atmospheric soundscapes
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Charlie Brown Thanksgiving Beats Down Gaga In Ratings
the new Picasso according to Tony Bennett, was beaten by ‘Charlie Brown Thanksgiving’, which got 5.8 million viewers against 5.4 million for Gaga according to Inside TV
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Wyclef Jean's Foundation For Haiti In Big Trouble Again
2010 tax records filled by the non-profit organization showed that only $5.1 million went to the relief efforts. But this is not the only problem…
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KiLR at the Viper Room Friday, November 25th, 2011
energy seems to be an understatement when you see them on stage, they were constantly jumping and moving despite being on the crowded small stage of the Viper Room, making an impression on the crowd with their sexy outfits (or lack of)…
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Fake Figures Viper Room, Friday, November 25 2011 Reviewed
Between his furious tirades, he was making grandiose, half-elegant half-arrogant gestures, taking the matador pose, with one of his hands on his waist as if he was ready for a Spanish dance or was proclaiming some victory over some fake enemy.
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Courtney Love offering up Nirvana Songs To X Factor
‘@SimonCowell you want some Nirvana songs? @JanetJealousy is from sametown as Kurt? I have the perfect idea for that, call me babe.’