From February 7th thru April 28th, 2013. the Whitney has a show matching images of the Blues witht he sounds of the Blues and it sounds awesome and i for one absolutely plan to go at some point.
Claire’s Diary – ABC No Rio – February 23rd, 2013 – First album release party by upstart rock and rollers pn the last stop on the way to college, brought plaster down from the ceiling. That’s the way it is meant to be done.
Higgs Boson Blues – Nick Cave – If you’re gonna name your song after the “God Particle” it better a song this good. A bluesy weird trip to the bottom of the swimming pool.
m b v – My Bloody Valentine – Decades later and this is nearly exactly the album you had hooped, guitar modulations and bruised melodies aplenty.
The Costello Who is anticipation of what will be last nights benefit gig, and Steve Roth is opening but I plan to miss it (that’s he’s best song) Costello made me think of Prince (because of the Carnegie gig later this month) and that made me think of Miguel’s best song.
Jack Phillips can’t catch a break and this useless twit is doing song and dance with two guys and only one of the three have the slightest idea what they are doing? At the Oscars??? You wanna talk about the dumbing down of America? This is the stage that once had Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, now we have this joke?
If you were to pick up your guitar, write some lousy song, and then be able to change it to sheet music with your name on it, you could be the next great composer…. or at least feel like it!
OK, Baauer is much to do about nothing but in a chart without a rock song and, yes, not even any country, he is just more of the same. This chart is total hip hop production values domination on every level. Not one song here isn’t about the beat, every single one takes its orders from programmed rhythmic patterns. Amazing, really.
Where’s you Grammy bounce now, jerks? well, next week it should show, in the meantime i find it amazing that a performance on SNL bounced the Shakes back up to the top 10. To be honest I am surprised the bounce us quite that big, though it only sold 33K. Back when I was a child, that wouldn’t have cut it.
My dislike for Rick Ross means I tend to ignore his crew, but a friend of work force fed me “M.I.A.”, and she also offered up “Fred The Godson” and I am better for the experience
I know I never have a good word for Adele, but really it’s too late to stop now and the horrendous “Skyfall” is big feelings for people who have forgotten how to feel and need constant prompts to remind them how.
Recently, a friend of mine, a mathematician, and I have been interested in seeing if there is a connection between our astrological signs/horoscopes and our musical preferences
But where does that leave those of us (wrongly, perhaps) who see music as an XTreme sport with winners and losers, or, to put it another way, how do we know what people are actually spending money on?
So Jay-Z has his Chris Martin and now Justin Timberlake has his Marcus Mumford. No, really, this is all true… well, actually it is all a wild stretch to tell you truth
Right now I am prevaricating on the Desaparecidos show, songs like the one here, ten years old, don’t do it for me at all. And some of “Fake French” remains, the other seven are all New Release Wednesday, with Bowie at the top, Hank poorly recorded and Atoms For Peace on hold till tomorrow.
Fake French can take pride in the organization and also booking four diverse but excellent most Girl rock bands in a scintillating and well made three hours of great music. Enough to make you want to form a band and change the world.
I am not sure if they are doing anything, , since the songs never circle back they aren’t like jazz and since they have no melodies they aren’t like rock and since they certainly are not 12 bar anything, they aren’t blues. They are all function no form
The rest of the movie has some “boooo -gotcha” moments but it is really a miserable slog to a sucky and sad with just a tinge of hope ending and it could’ve been so much more. The entire thing has some irritants that only emerge as major problems towards the end: it is like being told you have a cough and discovering it is really lung cancer.
For sure, Claire’s Diary is the best of the lot but Atoms For Peace might well make it on to my top 10 albums of 2013. Johnny Marr won’t and I can’t even guess whether Emmylou and Rodney come up with the goods… well, I can guess. My guess is yes they do release a good album.
Claire’s Diary, Tinvulva and Kelly Montoya are because I am still buzzed on the Fake French gig and Tomas because the song I wanna hear from his set I don’t have yet. Nick Cave song is so good I forgive him most of his sins on the new album and X was covered by Tinvulva
The first two songs were last years EP so they had the audience interested from the get go, and the fourth song was “Give Him A Big Kiss” and so they kept em tight for the next fifteen minutes. To put it simpler: the set worked.
Reading the letter, it is hard to quite grasp what his problem was. I guess he just, to paraphrase Joe Steinhardt, has no appetite for life
Isn’t that Alyson Camus book signing post, the one where he signs the setlist, up today? Enough with Nick Cave already, and how about Joe Cocker for a change? In at # 7 in the UK, and about to be released tomorrow Stateside. Yeaaaaa for Joey!
Blondie cover for Comedy Relief and I guess you gotta smile at the mash up with the Undertones. It really really isn’t the worst thing I’ve ever heard though that pix with Harry topless and tats? That’s the worst thing pix I’ve ever seen
Western Mass – Claire’s Diary – Still buzzing after the concert, this is the one where drummer introduces as about the only time she ever got arrested! And then the song is a really strong payoff withhim leaving her in jail while he hightails it. Boys will be boys!! Grade: A
It was very good stuff, relentlessly powerful with “Brooklyn To Ethiopia”‘s bass and drums ridden roughshod and Tomas telling the audience to raise their arms, clap their hands, get involved. “Rise Above” is harder and faster on stage, Tomas is like Carol Kane in the Bill Murray movie “Scrooged”, he pushes us shoves us, bends and bangs us to dance for his vision of Global Soul and Global Peace.
Jamie Lidell – Jamie Lidell – English DJ’s sophomore effort at blue eyed soul is an electronic wonder of heartfelt r&b and beautifully crafted music. While it goes a little off the deep end before the end of the album, the first half is first rate and the first three songs are funky and fun. ALBUM OF THE WEEK – Grade: A-
Sure, I saw the eleven minute youtube clip of Steve Angello button pushing his set. Really? Pre-recording pre-recorded music? Lucky Swedish House Mafia are this good, the standard bearer EDM supergroup, and lucky this is their last tour, which reaches MSG on Friday and was so good last time, it will definitely be worth a fond adieu.
Catcall – Tinvulva – Sarah Soller-Mihlek, singing lead on this vicious assault on sexual harassment on the streets of New York, a subject a good friend of mine often complains about though I don’t take nearly seriously enough. Sarah represents for so many women: “I am not your sugar baby” she howls in indignation though the guitar makes it much much angrier – Grade: A-
Not being able to play has been one of the most difficult things I’ve ever had to deal with,” she says. “It’s so, so hard to step back from it all, and it was especially difficult to give in to the pain. I felt like a failure. Every night I’d go to sleep and just hope that the next morning I’d wake up pain-free
Winner – Belle And Sebastian – The only time I saw em live was at the tiny Supper Club and it felt like there was more people on stage then there wasin the audience. They don’t tour nearly as often as a band that informs every melody shoegaze has ever thought up, should. So the news that they are back on tour (Playing Celebrate Brooklyn at Prospect Park) is tidings of great joy. Yo La Tengo are opening.
It took years but I finally got over my Rick Ross problems, his inspired yse to “pussy” did it. The Nick Cave is great but wearing off a little. And I am still holding off on writing about the Modern Hut debut album but with increasing impatience. Right this second “History” is my favorite song of 2013.
Eamond Andrews – Soft Machine – With the death earlier this week of the other Machiner, Kevin Ayers, I’ve been thinking about writing something on the band. I tend to focus on Robert Wyatt. This is an eery 12 minute march into sound modulation and noise tinkering – Grade: B+
This isn’t really a question of taste, I would give it two to two and a half stars I think, it certainly isn’t as good as Dig Lazarus Dig. And I don’t think Matos is just bad, they way I did Aquilante, but I think he knows what he knows and he isn’t so good at everything else.
So what does he sound like in 2013? Out of tune folk music, to be a little brutal about it! But maybe I am wrong. Maybe I’m not listening hard enough. Let’s wait till April, 26th and Webster Hall -with Peter Buck opening!, and decide then!!
. Flashbacks, Memories And Dreams – The Virgins – To note that these nyc Strokes meets Stones with a disco beat haven’t made the follow up to “Rich Girl” of your dreams goes without saying. But it might also be worth noting that they have managed a superior slice of dance rock with a killer bass lick. Unfortunately, it took five years so who knows where the audience is? – Grade: B+
the early songs have such universal appeal and such simplicity that they are like Charlie Chaplin’s silent movies: everybody understood and adored them
In 2011, Sennett, Rilo Kiley’s guitarist, told Spinner, “I just felt like there was a lot of deception, disloyalty, greed and things I don’t really want to submit myself to.”
Bauuer? That’s solely because Billboard have started adding youtube views to their collating of the most popular songs in the country. After hearing the song it is obviously not the song. The song is ordinary electronic dance, but weirdly enough, people all over the country have started making :30 second video clips to it, where folks in masks started dancing wildly once the beats and joined by the music.
What do Josh, Andrea and the hits comp have in common? They weren’t affected by the Grammy’s, everybody else got a great big bounce and bump upwards. I don’t know if this reflects the power of the Grammy or the weakness of the charts.
Box Chevy – Rick Ross – I gotta hand it Ross, he finds so many creative ways to say nothing of the slightest importance and for the most part I remain cold as ice but this songs chorus hit my pleasure point: the new Lexus comment did it – Grade: B+
The trick is, usually a band lets the drums keep the band together but with a bassist as good as Flea on board the percussion is free to do other weird things and here the band takes full advantage of the situation
In April 2009, I started 2009 rock nyc and by March 2010 I had lost track of what concerts I was going to, so I started keeping a calender of concerts and I am now going to share it with you!
My dad had died the night before. That night, around 3 in the morning, I was listening to Tapestry by Carole King and ever since that this important in its own right album meant more to me than it ever might have.
Nobody knows if McCready’s life would have turned around if she had lived but we do know for sure, it wouldn’t if she didn’t. So called animals in the jungle take care of their children, what is left if we won’t simply exist another coupla decades for them. Life is fast and then it’s gone.
I did like it. It is a collection of late 1950s rock and roll covers, and it is quite good, I am really looking forward to seeing it live, but it is a little bland. A solid but unexceptional effort with some real highlights, “Money Honey” for one. Aaron namechecks the original not Presley in his commentary.
Domo23 – Tyler The Creator – AT 21, Tyler’s latest release puts his earlier work in perspective: they were straight autobiography and so is it. The reason it isn’t as interesting as “Bastard” is because rich rappers nailing European models isn’t as interesting as teenage kids dealing with life with no father – Grade: B
As politically hardcore as Outernational, but with age and compassion and understanding as well as anger lining it, this unbelievable album mixes the old with the new, the east with the west and soul and funk… I don’t think I can overstate the case
What if it is as great as, let’s not go crazy here, Heroes? How about a “Somebody Up There Likes Me” or a “Boys Keep Swinging” or, nah it will never happen but, “Modern Love”?
If this is the state of New York rock in 2013, it is pretty weak gruel. Really? DIIV? I mean, honestly, that’s what you wanna tell me. Sky? She looks like a poster child for methadone clinics. Still, who am I to argue with Hardeep Phull, right? I don’t disagree with Phul the way I did with Aquilante, and I disagree in different ways, but still, his tastes and I don’t coincide very often. PS: I hadn’t heard Angel Haze but I will now.
