“Lego Land” isn’t even available in the States yet. What’s that about? What are they waiting for? How big is Sheeran gonna be in the States once they do? Well, our young Magpie rates him second only to Conor.
Sure, I noticed 80% of the chart is English. How could I miss it? But my concentration is on Ed Sheeran because a day before his US debut, his album is at NUMBER ONE ON THE CHARTS. And still not released Stateside.
Well they gave us Rihanna, why shouldn’t Barbados give us Amanda Reifer, lead singer of Cover Drive? They are nothing special, true. But they are glamorous, sexy, on a major label and with the # 1 song in the UK expect the US to tumble next
Here is where the song is very different from Dylan’s original: by the end of the original, there is no doubt that Dylan is the man, in Krall’s version, there is no doubt that she isn’t the hooker but a third party and the gender switches at the end confuse the story. It is a beautiful take so why Krall won’t get her hands dirty, I have no idea.
the synth takes over. This mix is why they aren’t really 80s retro, they are more a mix of glam and modern indie, and the singer sounds like David Bowe one minute, David Johanssen the next.
Yes, Ringo is back. And no, I haven’t enjoyed any of his recorded work since the album “You’re Sixteen” was on but it is still Ringo so
The prolific English master Of Grime has one big problem: he lacks quality control. So despites being an eccellent rapper and a great rhymer, the songs here are all over the place. I count 3 great songs out of 22, and a lot of good ones. And quite a few terroble ones. Grade: B
As nasty a piece of misogyny as rock and roll ever manages, as he warns his woman to stop that “Yakkety yak” because he’s “holding a baseball bat” before he hits the road with Tonto. Makes you wonder exactly why he is in such a hurry to leave.
by the end you gotta think the band had nothing left to add to the proceedings. I dunno if Cloud Nothings will break pop but they sure will be big on the college circuit, where they love their angst with a lot of loud guitar and drums.
Spotify have announced that 20% of all free subscribers have become paid subscribers and Facebook have been responsible for 7 million new paid subscribers.
Mary J. Blige twittered her disapproval at being snubbed by the Oscars for her “The Living Proof” song off “The Help” soundtrack. Well, the song sucks, one of her long jorneys into womanhood things, but it is a million times better than these two.
Photovoltaic – Jump Into The Gospel – This is about as glam rock as indie pop is gonna get, the lead singer prints his presence on it, and it is subtler than it first sounds, the keyboards emerging as a major player.
A tribute album for 50 years of Bob Dylan and 50 years of Amnesty International -the organization that fights for human rights throughout, is 76 songs,four CD worth of Dylan covers. And to put it bluntly, I am a little disappointed
On a Saturday, February 4th. Now? Wait, there’s more. $5 in advance, if you buy it on line it comes to $7.50. There’s more. Doors at 5p, first act 530p. And at one of my fave clubs in the city, Le Poisson Rouge.
It is almost like I’m pretending I know stuff I don’t. When all information is at your fingertips, every opinion you offer is corrupted by limitless amounts of other people’s ideas. It goes beyond borrowing, or being influenced, or even counter-uninfluenced, by other writers opinions, or even just an accumulation of information. It taints everything.
U2 have had their fans vote on the tracks they want on a Live double album from last (two) years neverending 360 degrees.I
“Fire” is, debatably, Adele’s worst song to date: her typical mean spirited nonsense as she goes out of her way to make herself the woman most likely to be a billiuonaire and still not get a date. How can anybody write about love with so little affection: for Adele love is a synonyme for spite.
Women love Adele, it is, more or less, a sexually segegated success. Because I can’t see many men liking too much of this. It is a brutal, whining, disturbed aching, needy, piece of crap. PS, her first album, 19, is in at #15.
The pain here is so indelibly linked to Tammy’s tone that the words don’t REALLY matter, it would be clear the pain of a lost love is irreperable. I wouldn’t mind plunking Adele in front of this song, just to remind her love is not the same as complaining.
The great English singer Petula Clark has other ideas. Straight in from recording a new album with Charles Aznavour and looking diminutive but regal in a long black dress, the years flew away from her as Petula kept a sold out Feinstein’s. the first night of a two week stint, enthralled.
The closer we are to people the easier it is to hurt them and we must be very careful to treat them with kindness… or lose them. But there in lies another problem, if love isn’t sturdy how can it survive? So the thing that is bringing us the most pleasure is built upon fault line
From drugs and miscegenation to Presidential politics and celebrity power, James seemed to always find herself getting screwed: she is, despite the huge respect she is held in, a tragic figure
I don’t think Bruce thinks he is a hypocrite, he is one but he is too stupid to know it. He actually believes this nonsense has meaning, while it actually has no meaning, no position, no point of view, no villain.
I will be buying a tix for Kathleen Edwards at Webster Hall on April 28th. Tix go on sale Friday at noon. Incidentally, Florence + The Machine goes on sale on Friday at 9am… a busy day. Again. Pulp goes on sale the same day!
The marketing arm of the label gave money to the marketing arm of the ITunes and Spotify. And that is fine to me… or at least it would be, if the distributors were upfront about it.
Miley is unbelievably beautiful on this song off Blood On The Tracks. She gets that it is country and not folk and she is not so young that she can’t grasp the sentiments. Miley takes it easy, undersings it a touch, and lets the melody play itself out.
Lines about “when Giants played the game” are beyond asinine. It isn’t even a pun or a metaphor, it is the equivalent of “Good evening, Cleveland”. So is the Meadowland reference. Listen to it on this live version. HE WAITS FOR THE APPLAUSE!!
They started rioting. (The promoters) locked us backstage in the green room until the cops could show up and clear it out. We couldn’t come out to see what was going on, but we heard everything. That was kind of surreal. … I think it was full-blown rioting outside
They spent last year playing festivals across the Pond and are finally reaching the States with a Coachella gig. But before that they get to nyc where they have a night booked.
Watching the Joan rRvers and Steve Tylers of the world is just sad. They look terrible. They look plastic. Tyler actually sounded great but he looked awful. Why not grow old gracefully? What would it cost him? He certainly couldn’t look any worse.
Two years after Mary Magpie reviewed every single episode of the 2010 season of American Idol, we didn’t mention its premiere in 2012. And this indifference is reflective of a society that is becoming swiftly satiated in its thirst for reality and variety show.
Check out the President nailing a couple of lines off the Reverend Al Green’s “Let’s Stay Together” and doing so with such an infectious smile. This was at a Fundraiser at the Apollo Theater last Thursday
Desolation – Lamb Of God – Harder then their last album, the fans claim. But what does that mean? The most ferocious band in the business nail it again, that’s what that means
Kevin has written that the D.R.mix casette is one of his three fave releases of all time, though there are no slouches here. From Reighnbeau’s flutterring folkie beauty to Gentle Claw’s quiet ambience, all his new releases are excellent.
I am a futurist in all things but in music more than in anything else. I am sorry I am gonna die in ten or fifty years because of all the great music I’m gonna miss by not being here.
extremely well, like a real clean and powerful E Street Band, performed. A streamlined condemnation, the back up singers sound like doo wop and Bruce… Bruce is a touch too emotional but he isn’t the worst thing I’ve ever heard.
For Spin, the worst rock mag in a world that includes Rolling Stone and Pitchfork, to give up on its duty to review music, that’s pretty damn weak.
A bat gets mixed up in a pig and a contagious virus knocks off 26 million people while Matt Damon doesn’t get it infected and spends the rest of the movie cock blocking his daughter’s boyfriend, Lawrence Fishburn tries to contain the virus and Jude Law plays one of those low life bloggers and tries to make a buck off it
The story is the return of music after a six week hiatus, this is the sound of a gun being shot off and the race begining. There are people who will already have at least one of these albums among their best of 2012. I would be surprised if Lamb Of God doesn’t survive the year
“Fuddum fuddum” -what the heck does that mean? Barclay’s mix tape as excerpted here for over four minutes is a thing of beauty and wonder. It isn’t seamless, indeed, it insists upon you noticing the seams but from an inspired use of the ittitular note on a Buzzcocks to the end it is an amazing achievement.
Really, if you are gonna irritate 700 people, do so for a reason. If I had to pay for the Village Voice, this would have been bad enough for me to dump it.
sources close to Bruce Springsteen have announced Bruce and what’s still living of the E Street Band will be playing two nights at the Izod Center and one at MSG before he takes the “Wrecking Ball” tour on the road to Rome and the rest of Europe.
Writing about the Beatles on the English comedy show TV program “The Morecambe And Wise Show”, Riley gets it so wrong, I was left wondering if Riley, an American, doesn’t really understand English culture.
Gigantour is all well and good and I might have gone for Megadeth but for MOTORHEAD…. I am so there Saturday night at the Theater of MSG. Believe it or notm, I’ve never seen em live and I CAN NOT WAIT.
I kinda forgot about the Vaccines at the end of last year and ignored em on both my album and singles best off. They should have at least made the singles for “If You Wanna”. Meanwhile, Beyonce got a baby bounce and I guess some people get Enter Shakira.
I imagine very big things for “Titanium” -a much better song than that Usher rip off Guetta was lucky he didn’t get sued with. Swedish House Mafia are back on the charts, Pixie Lott a purely English phenim and Coldplay help on earth.
This is my big, big, big song at the moment Nothing else has the happiness of this song and happiness is catchy. Incidentally, if writing about happiness is easy, why can’t Kathleen do it more often? Don’t bother, it was a rhetorical.questio
What do you expect when you go to a Broadway Musical filled to overflowing with 1980’s disco hit songs telling the story of two drag queens and a transgendered person in Australia? You expect a gay fantasia somewhere in the land where camp, cliche and homosexual equality lives? Good. Grade: B+
All three of McCartney’s leads are standouts, Starr rules the album from beginning to end, it manages to be tremendously ambitious and completely cool at the same time. 13 songs, all works of modified genius. The Beatles greatest album? Sure, why not.
“Sidecar” is an excellent song, “Empty Threat” and “Chameleon Comedian” are pretty good too. But the sound is too ambitious for the songs. Grade: B+
