The Neutral Milk Hotel cat came out of retirment this year and has played a handful of gigs about town -incuding Occupy Wall Street, But even if he played everyday, two nights, a Friday, Saturday no less, is a big big deal in indie land
really do care and in keeping with my concern for your happiness, here is the setlist for Adele’s gig at the Greek last August
1. Swim Good – Frank Ocean – No “She” but no “No Church In The Wild” either; the song is light but deep, airy but it holds on.
there is nobody uncovering so many layers of subconscious malaise and resonates the way the Sex Pistols (a true descendent) resonates: it is proforma psychological and philosophical unity coinciding perfectly with their fans
A chanteuse with a light voice and a saucy underneath, the sexy starlite never comes across even close to matronly though she must be in her 60s. D’accord?
i’d rather be dead in a ditch than ever see them live again, they sure do treat their fans well and they are the standard bearers for brand loyalty.
The singer, who has incorporated drinking on stage in her tour, has also stopped consuming alcohol, the source told media takeout. The lack of alcohol has been fuel for claims of the singer’s pregnancy.
nyc is one of the most music packed cities in the world, but we have never seen the price meltdown for concerts the rest of the world has
Some magazine had the top ten songs from June 1993 (don’t know why), and I recognized maybe one song. I know all of these.
Christmas albums are seasonal stopgaps, a coupla perrenials, a coupla newbies nobody will remember a year from now and maybe a top 20 album, unless you’re The Bieb.
1. Que Sera Sera – Pink Martini – This what She & Him are attempting and failing: a calliope of sound that swirls and waltzes through the Doris Day chestnut.
A good set by two of the biggest stars in the universe and I don’t think anybody went home complaining. Me? I’d have preferred to have seen a solo West but, certainly, Jay-Z hasn’t sounded so fresh since 2004.
You may remember the Sound Strike organization helping undocumented Americans. Conor Oberst recorded a song for em and Zack de la Rocha played a beneffit with Conor opening to help the organization
Well, well, well, big brother teaches little sqrt a lesson in selling the product! “Wonderwall”!! “Supersonic”!!! Noel can’t sing em great but he did write them…
The items in the house Michael Jackson was renting when he died are up for auction including the very bed he died in. Now quite why anybody would want this horrible, ghoulish gift I can’t say but I promise you that the entire nterprise stinks of grave robbing.
Noel forgot to write good songs. And there is no way round that this is 51 minutes of absolute crap lipstick on a pig, unbearable and bad rock songs.
the draggy theft flick is like “Ocean’s 11” for folks with personality flaws. A Madoff type character get naileds for a Ponzi scheme and abscons with the pensions of the employees at “The Tower” who want it back
Lonely Boy – The Black Keys – The buzz on the new BK album is loud and hard, maybe, but, though pretty good, this ain’t no “Next girl”.
Her hero, her love, is a Superman of the norm: In its inclusiveness this is a truly triumphant number: it makes us all supermen for someone.
it was these little breaks that were the most surprising as they seemed to venture into something else than Metal with layered guitars and bass, making me think about some of Mogwai’s tracks,
Heavy D brought reggae to hip and to its world takeover . In 1987 he released his first album with the Boyz and by 1989 had crossed right over to the rap charts with the Big Tyme album.
. If you have never seen Fitz And The Tantrums live, don’t let their recorded work fool you, this is a raucuous r&b daance band who can blow any stage apart.
woman because of the manipulated nature of her sex, can battle through the hypocrisy of big rock and roll and remain both true and bigger than life. At least on her sophomore album, certainly one of the best albums of the year, Ceremonials,Welch manages to
Tim Jonze subsequently contacted Merck Mercuriadis in a rage, explaining that the NME editorial staff had taken his finished piece from him and had re-written it.
Ours frontman Jimmy Gnecco is one name in the mix, Slipknots Corey Taylor, Myles Kennedy, Royston Langdon and Donovan Leitch (the son, the son!) are among the names being mentioned though none of them hit me as a a great fit.
if all you are doing is struggling, if you are somewhere between food stamps and day laborer, you need to get your money where you can.
To put it another way, US Punk is one thing despite the attempts of Jello Biafra and others because there was no class warfare… and maybe the attitude has changed
from Fitty to the Beatles to Altered Images to Ryan Adams to Bright Eyes, they all seem a little needy. Fitty is a snotty put down, the Beatles an extended dirty joke, Conor a manic breakdown
His girlfriend lives with death threats, his cars are attacked by fan, he can’t walk down the street, he can’t hang out with his friends, he can’t hang without bodyguards.the world hasn’t seen anything like this since Beatlemania
If there was ever any doubt, it is now over, the White Castle chomping, pot smoking, trouble finding comedy duo Harol and Kumar now join the pantheon of greats in this mix of Cheech and Chong and Crosby and Hope plus every story of Christmas redemption you’ve ever seen.
“You are proving that you have little concern for the lives and welfare of LGBT people, that you are willing to endanger their lives, and seek to encourage stigmatisation against them. I find this disappointing in an organisation that could do so much to enhance the self-esteem of youth, reduce stigma, and discourage violence.”
I have seen Morrisey on stage many times, always good, sometimes great and back in the States for the first time in the year but you and I won’t be seeing him. He won’t venture near the East Coast.
the Mac Miller is proof that the world has yet to find a replacement for Slim Shady, but it is also proof “Donald Trump” wasn’t beginner’s luck
an earlier, more innocent age, pitching woo from “What happened to that funny face” to “now you’re grown up the future is sown up”
Coldplay isn’t the worst band on earth (close, but not the WORST) but they are more irritating than U2. Bono is a self-proclaimed ego centric with a messiah complex, Coldplay are the St. Paul of rock: they keep on getting blinded on the road to Damascus and seeing the light. yes, they have learnt humility while they tell the millions why they should follow them
If you’ve been holding off getting Wesley Wolfe’s mindbendingly great sophomore album Cynics Need Love Too, one of my top five albums of the year, it is now on Spotify so guess, what? Time’s up.
Albany, New York’s finest come on hard and stake their claim to a piece of the Hot 100 with an assault as willing to kiss about as often as bite
I was surprised at some of the albums missing . Jay-Z passing on Kingdom Come Reasonable Doubt and American Gangster?Yeah weird but nothing compared to Kanye West’s ridiculous decision to ignore debatably his greatest achievement 808s And Heartbreak
MSG on Tuesday? Big time. Why? Not Jay-Z, who has been getting worse ever since his retirement at the very same venue. Who hasn’t toured behind Dark Fantasy and is playing songs from his masterpiece.
now here’s a question pop pickers. It has been two years since “Hard Night Out” and still Professor Green is an unknown enity Stateside. I don’t get it myself.
Florence Welch has made an album of immense beauty and power and it makes sense the British impressed its own, though the question on my mind is what will the US make of it?
Deacon Blues – Steely Dan – These guys never got out of college and in the wake of Alabama getting beaten by LSU Saturday night in one of the best games I’ve seen in awhile, perhaps these manic depressive smartass dropouts will make em feel better.
From a George Jones cover, to an early SST era work out, to all three songs performed with Nirvana at the legendary MTV Unplugged concert, through erstwhile Grateful Dead jams, skronk, white noise, speed metal and punk.
a little worse songs, a little slower, and a little better played. Every week a new batch of songs from every genre are showcased in a forum that let you know if its worth not ony your time but worth your dime. From Megadeath to Carole King, this week is no different and no less diverse. the problem is nothing is really that grade A.
Mine To Design – Wesley Wolfe – Hold out for the coda -a beautiful instrumental breach. Topping todays My Favorite Tracks list Wesley Wolfe, of North Carolina’s Odessa records is on constant repeat.
A satire about two Mormon Missionaries in Uganda seriously failing to connect with the denizens of a village with bigger worries than Joseph Smith, pretends to be cutting edge theological satire but it isn’t really. It is really difficult to fun on Mormonism. Though, as faith’s go, not that far out.
