The album is a complete disaster except for Whitney Houston’s “His Eye On The Sparrow” . Sure, she didn’t have the voice she once had, she was 47 years old for fucks sake. But really, on an album with Jordin Sparks and some Nigerian actress, there is no competition to mention.
Amen – Meek Mill – Featuring Drake, he is really quite lively here, but, note the caveat emptor: Maybach Music. This is kinda funny, sexy braggard, and the sample is excellent (a little piano motif). SO while minor, minor is an improvement with this posse – Grade: B
I usually sing from my heart, totally immersed in my world, and I think that’s why I am able to touch the audience differently
Why is nobody dancing? BECAUSE IT ISN’T DANCE MUSIC. M83 are selling themselves the wrong way, they don’t have a handle on how to really get the job done: they are revving up their engines, but they don’t play that sort of music
And her last record was to me very disappointing. She’s an amazing artist, and she deserves to be always looking ahead, like she did with her first album.
Believe or not, Phillip is the least boring person on this list. Idol winner has a terrific first single, and I am just wondering why it took so long to hit the charts. I am now offficially sick of most of this top ten and just hope and pray I never hear it again
I just don’t buy into Ross, his skills as a rhymer are overrated and while his flow is worldclass, I can’t believe he would use the best bass in the business to such little effect. Bieber still going up the charts? Apparently, he has managed to grow up.
1. The “A” Team – Birdy – 15 year old wunderkind, sings the hell out of the Ed Sheeran sure feels like a standard in waiting… except, it is about a homeless hooker. This is better than the time she saved Bon Iver – Grade A
In 1973, Marvin was a well paid Movie Score pro in Hollywood, when he kicked it in the head to return to Broadway and write the music for, ta dah, “A Chorus Line”. FOR ONE HUNDRED BUCKS A WEEK!!!
Because I don’t care if he is a horrible little half wit, I care that Blunderbuss is a really good album. And I wanna see him do it live.
Missing Barbra when you can manage it is like missing Ella or Aretha or Billie or Peggy (Lee) when you can manage it. It is silly. You shouldn’t do it. And so I won’t…
My problem with all this is pretty simple, Madonna might be having a mid-life crises, and the new album might have tanked, but ticket sales are excellent and the new album is alright to my mind.
We got carted off in a paddywagon and im still in lock up while Bowie made bail and is probably tweeting his story as we speak.
Reach Up (Papas Got A Brand New Pigbag) – Paul Oakenfold – One of the original DJ superstar, you get the feeling he never pushed a button and sat around for 8 minutes at a Festival. The relationship to either Brown or Pigbag is a little obscure, the drums ain’t Grade: B+
“I would not work with those guys again if my life depended on it. I can’t be responsible for their attitudes and the way they treat people.”
So as far as I’m concerned, Stefani has a whole lotta ‘splainin’ to do on album # 3, “Artpop”. And she can start with the crappy album name.
The recently released EP Winner, offers up a study in perfection with the Bee Gees cover, “I Started A Joke”. Neil always sounds as though he is a part the start crying, and Chris is always like his kid brother, tugging at his sleeve.
Where is the space between thought and action? But Page should be different: put it this way, Wade hates all ethnic minorities so HIS ACTION IS TO TRANSMOGRIFY THE HATRED INTO MUSIC. That should end the circle.
When I started writing about music, I was heavy into punk. But one day I received an Ashford And Simpson album meant for another writer via the Village Voice. I called up Christgau and he recommended I listen to it, “You might learn something”. I did and I did.
I’ve seen quite a bit of dance music since then but I still love the guy. He is playing the Electric Zoo Fest at Randalls over the Labor Day weekend and in October will be pushing his third album with a full band and a new album.
For all its not inconsiderable powers, “Brigadoon” doesn’t rest in the Premier Division of Great American Musicals. For one thing, the story, about a village in Ireland that appears once every hundred years, doesn’t bear thinking about. And for another Lerner-Lowe were nearly but not quite there. “My Fair Lady” was eight years away! For a third, the movie was not that great. Still, this song is an undeniable classic – Grade: A+
The site is essentially the most fun reference book you’ve ever seen. And it is indeed used as such. Not just Barney’s alma mata Oxford University, but US infirmary of the standards like Harvard and NYU also subscribe.
It is about all the folks who will die in the same place they ere born in. It is about meaningless lives whittled away doing, drugs, smoking blunts, drinking too much, marrying and divorcing and spinning through your life with nothing to add to the conversation. It is a celebration of, unlike Bruce, not being born to run, but being born to chase your own tale thru your own life.
Now I know and you know, what this really means. Doors at 8pm. Show at midnight. Well, suck it up cupcake because this is the great German DJ with a coupla bass players in pocket
Let me help folks, show up at 2p and head straight for the stands and you will be fine. Show at 4p and you might never make it in
Without a doubt, this is the worst important album of the year. It is a disgrace. Jordin stinks. OK, maybe she doesn’t stink stink but she is really what she is: an American Idol contestant. Ejogo stinks.
A coupla lifetimes ago I dated a girl who had just quit her job as a dom. “A wiggle and a jiggle” was her verby term (mean cheerleader a specialty, one guy wanted to dress up as a cheerleader himself and have her stick his head inn the toilet and flush it) ! The relationship lasted like three weeks but she worshipped Rob Zombie, and made me a fan, so, yup, there is that.
Go – Delilah – A soul Alanis Morrisette is the take on this UK sensation soul sensation, and on this terrifc soul song she samples Chaka Khan to great effect. It coyuld well hit the US R&B Charts… it should – Grade: A-
He plays half songs readied for the tour, and half songs on the spur of the moment based upon audience requests, but despite the depth of his catalog, he doesn’t go that deeply in. Two thirds romantic, one third political dystopian, all so melodic and gracefully written, they can feel extremely diffident to a rock fan
In theory, Marina And The Diamonds schtick, Bjork goes pop, should kill. In reality, opening at the Izod for Coldplay Friday night, all her flaws became apparent
My feeling about seeing the popular electronic French band M83 in an open air setting is one of expectation. I’ve yet to see the band live and feel it will be a straight drag seen from a million miles away (well, it is summerstage, a thousand miles away), On the other hand… Hurry Up, I’m Dreaming live on stage??? What’s not to like this Wednesday?
I haven’t heard the Conor album yet but I love both singles so… maybe it deserves its big big sales. As for Mike Oldfield: my only question is why aren’t Arctic Monkeys and Underworld not joining him?
No, not that “Heatwave” but it is pretty good any way. I like Wiley I lot, I always thought it would be Wiley and not Tinie Temper that nailed down the US first, but maybe there is something a little too English about the man.
America Is My Home Pts 1 And 2 – At the height of Black Power in the 1960s, with the States at War, Brown released this spoken word tribute: “Now dig this, you tell me if I’m wrong, America is still the best country without a doubt…” Er, not gonna make many friends with the Black Panther preaching conciliation… Grade: B+
Coldplay managed to muster some energy somewhere in the middle of a years long tour, they went through the motions with the best of them. And if you were a fan who, as Helen Bach noted, had gone to Pizza Uno for a pizza and a beer and who thought of this as big night out, perhaps you bought in.
Copper Blue – Bob Mould – It isn’t just “Hoover Damn” but a truckload of this alt fave celebrating its 20th anniversary is not as good as the hit single. It is such a weighty album it seems to sink, and when it bobbles up it doesn’t bobble up high enough. So why do we love it? The guitars – Grade: B+
A Commotion – Mastadon and Feist – Ever since Crack In The Sky, I’ve had no problems with considering Mastadon the best metal metal band this side of the Devil Wears Prada. But this is even better. A roiling guitar, sound effects mess of a song that more than lives up to its name. I’ve never liked Feist much more than this either – Grade: A
Shake My Head – Spider Bags – The best rock and roll album of the year is also the most straightforward rock and roll. Recorded in Memphis, with some great local rockers, it is as thrilling as music gets.
I going to The Town Hall on Saturday, October 27th, 2012? Because she has either been in Brooklyn or performing Christmas shows he last couple of years and I am ready for a full length Aimee Mann concert and now I’ve got it. Because I’m gonna put some hope in the bottom of the box
I am still getting a handle on the album but it may well be the best album of the year, it is almost definitely the best rock album of the year. From punk to country, drunker revved up blues jams to garage trashed ravers to. Plus a James Brown cover. And an instrumental. And is all rock and roll genius.
His Eye Is On The Sparrow – Whitney Houston – If there is nothing else in the vaults, better this Gospel vamp than the godawful Jordin Sparks duet! Her voice certainly wasn’t what it was, but it has a rasp in its undercurrent that is very powerful – Grade: B+
Mr. Woldemariam is a world class musician but equally a world class man. Through a life filled with revolution and reversals, he has maintained the highest levels of integrity
How did Ellie get back on the charts? I never much liked “Lights” but even if I did I’d be over it by now. Quick caveat: she was pretty good opening for Katy Perry last year.
Now is the summer of our disconnect, with every major player holding out for the Autumn before unleashing their latest album. Particularly No Doubt’s return! Till then, these look like also rans, with Zac at # 1 and a measly 48,000 units sold.
. Laura – Bats For Lashes – In the girls at the piano sonic reduced mood music scene, here comes Bats For Lashes bringing up the rear with yet another song that probably owes more to Kate Bush than it should. It is still pretty good and the sleeve of the upcoming album is hysterical – Grade: B
Between Black Jesus, modern dance interpretation, East African soul music, and one of the most devastating denunciations of power and religion, a performance of “The Power Of Trilogy” wowed Summerstage, Tuesday evening.
Imagine you are a twenty something woman getting drunk at a bar when this tall swarthy Italian with gold chains and hair chest tries to pick you up. the intensity of his approach, mixed with your buzzedness and horniness and you can’t resist it, the next thing you know you’re in the back of his Benz with your panties round your ankles.
14. Dirty Projectors at MHOW, July 9th, 2012 – A revelatory concert introducing a great album.
40,000 people will revel in two days’ worth of iconic 80s music performed by a staggering line-up
Train Station – The Moms – The spirit of rock and roll lives on and if you read their tour diary you will know exactly what I mean: between the days without showers and the nights without gigs, they released a killer EP. This is the best song.
