Meanwhile, Earl Sweatshirt has the second best hip hop album of the year after Kanye West. Or at least it feels that way from this far away and especially after Freddie Gibbs disappointing effort earlier this year.
Yeah, it is weird, but I kinda like “Sway”. The rest of the album is nothing much but Blue October got that one right for a change. In the meantime, let’s get ready for the VMAs
What’s behind every illusion? Well, simply put, behind every illusion is an illusionist. An illusionist attempting to create something that will enable you, as an audience, to suspend your disbelief and accept the reality they’ve created
We notice at rock nyc just how rude and ignorant rock fans can be while hidden under the anonymity of the web. It is often quite ridiculous and it cuts across all ages and band favs. Whether EDM or hard rock, you nail em and they will come for you and then some.
They think that pointing out that wanting to be a woman might include looking like one is transphobic. They might have said, as Stephanie mentioned, that some women are in transition, so it is a very very touchy subject.
If they cover old folk songs well then so what and if they are writing new songs in the style of old songs, what are the chane of them being any good?
Meanwhile, this reflects, the following shows over the next week or so: the Cult, Amy Grant, Perez Hiltons Pre-VMAs, the VMAs, Ty Segal and the Zoo!!
I wonder if Sheeran has the audience to fill 20,000 seats. Now, since he has joined The Voice as a mentor on Christina Aguilara’s team that might soon change, certainly it can’t hurt his public image, but can it help enough.
I Will Always Love You – Whitney Houston – 1992 – Today it is her signature tune and at the time nobody believed for a moment that Dolly Parton sang it. Still, listening to it, you can hear echoes of everyone since, every Beyonce and Kelly, echoing through her vocal – A+
That Luke album is such a dog and while K. Michelle isn’t a dog, it isn’t that much either. Between the two they are as boring a lead of the charts as we’ve seen all year.
I predicted “Roar” and “Applause” in the top two positions and “Blurred Lines” rule over and done and guess what? There is Mr. “In The” Thicke Of it.
Meanwhile, “Spoonful” was a highlight of Monday’s Summerstage and “Candida” was the Tony Orlando track that was “Tie A Yellow Ribbon”.
The staging is minimal in the extreme and compared with, say, “Power Of Trinity” there isn’t much dancing. But “Diablo Love” is powerful stuff and overwhelms and negates its shortcomings. with song and story.
I love the folkie stuff, it kinda reminds me of Good As I Been To You and World Gone Wrong -two great albums of folk covers which lead him right out of the wilderness and over to Time out Of Mind in the early 1990s
Westwood was so cutting edge, such a symbol of so many things with her d&b fashions, her consumer nightmare dayglo, “one day you’re gonna wake up and see what side of the bed you got out of” change the world, reflect the world, anarchist, up against the walk situationalism
The drums, more than the different languages or instrumentation. or voices, places you somewhere else than what used to. It is subtle but shifting, it shifts your ears from where you are used to having it.
I wonder why Mayer wrote this stuff, or Superchunk? Do Superchunk think, hey, we do it because this is what we do? Somebody somewhere will… well, what will they do?
It would be unimaginable to imagine the unbelievable: in a world of constant surveillance, Gaga is surveyed constantly. Everyone is a potential threat. She is right: some people won’t be happy till their identification is complete.
Mickey Dolenz sang the hell of it. Not just the coda (where you can hear Jones singing back up) but the build up has a deep and sexy undertow just below: it is a passionate vulnerability and it made the Monkees stars – A+
This is one of ours, Queens guitarist who graduated from Soft White Underbelly to Blue Oyster Cult, dating Patti Smith somewhere along the way before scoring big time metal hit “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper”, dead at 67 years old from lung disease. Bummer.
Earl Sweatshirt is the keeper, I was streaming it over the weekend and it is excellent, there is a reason Tyler was so psyched to get him back in the Odd Future fold
2 – # 5 all reflect recent deaths which is always depressing enough but the weekend has meant a constant diet of Lil Mo and Afro Jersey to me and that is where my ears lie.
I am actually happy to hear The Long Lost alone, I’d rather not think about Story at all:I enjoy the integrity of giving the audience no easy answer, not even a difficult one, just leaving them riddling on the deep, troubling, beautiful flawed album
It looks pretty and wealthy enough, and I wouldn’t mind Liam’s apartment if I could get my hands on it but the movie stretches credibility so well passed the breaking point that it becomes hard to ignore even in a “B” movie
Of course, the song is complete nonsense, the white keys on your piano are natutal and the black keys are flat and no folks, they are far from being in “perfect harmony”. Nobody does sincerity worse than McCartney; does he think we’re all morons? Why didn’t Stevie Just Say No??- F
This was the week of the single and while I applaud “Applause” and deplore “Roar” and having nothing against the new TVOTR and Regina Spektor either one way or the other, still as week goes the week completely and totally was overshadowed by the pop single
I can’t take much of White Lies, they sound like the National without the baritone and without the melodies; a sort of bland melancholia
So I guess at least in the UK the world is all Gaga all the time, “Applause” hit # 5 two days its release!!! The Ellie song at number one is also surprisingly good
I Could Get Used To This – Li’l Mo And The Monicats – This country classic is an original.? No way. Well, I’ve just spent half an hour looking for the original and can’t find one. This band burns with talent – A
A hook that seems to have done a run off an Everly Brothers oldie rings its way through “Baby, I’m An Anarchist”. Laura stands away from the mic and not for the first time Saturday night we join her in song
it is never a problem to hear these songs again, but if I am stuck making it my ALBUM OF THE WEEK -especially when the choice of songs make no sense to me having not read the book (it’s all 60s, lotsa ‘don’t hate the longhairs’) it seems like the mid-60s – B+
Amy Grant is the best selling Christian performer of all time, she is an AOR performer with a whole lotta heart, who went mainstream and then doubled back. With a fair to middling album to push, which includes a duet with her husband Vince Gill, Amy plays Irving Plaza on Friday.
Say What You Mean – Allison Weiss – Title track off her new album, catchy as hell dumping song, the verse is especially snazzy and the guitar break a pleasure – A
Iman Lababedi seems to give plenty of Applause to the new Lady Gaga single, after she failed to plug the leaks.
She got together with Bonnie McKee, her collobarator on “Teenage Dream”, “TGIF”, “California Gurls” and came up with a rewrite Sara Breille’s “Brace”
After six years Linda Thompson is back with an eagerly anticipated first song since 2007. But will she tore?
The Regina song is the main theme of a television show I haven’t seen yet and have no plans to see (on Netflix no less)
They love Katy’s awful “Roar” and think Stefani is OK but not as good as it could be. Well, I’ve listened to both plenty by now and I have no doubt that “Roar” is a major bummer
Who Knows Where The Time Goes – Sandy Denny – This is a very precise and beautiful solo take on the song given a more vigorous workout by Fairport Convention. Given added by poignancy by her early death, it both sees time as immoveable and watches as it disappears – A+
The set is like when you go for a walk to the post office with your girlfriend on a sweet Spring day and you meander aimlessly along, talking, laughing, feeling close and then, though you hadn’t really been concentrating, you find yourself at your destination
How did Titus Andronicus go from just about my favorite band in the world to not just about my favorite band in the world? How is it possible?
It doesn’t make him a better person or a better musician. But if you wanna compete in something, making the most wishes ever come true is a pretty cool way to go about it.
73. Sugar Sugar – The Archies – Ultimate product and ultimate pre-packaged pop group in a cartoon format. Still a great song – A
Mercy – TV On The Radio – There was a time two years ago when TVOTR felt awful finished to me, their Radio City Music Hall gig was a disaster. But this rocking thunder trap mover gives a person faith – A-
As Tomas clearly states: “all money from sales of this album go to the Studio Samuels Organization”
Stockings and heels I am not expecting but if her current pix are anything to go by, that would be entirely her prerogative.
The Friday October 30th general Admission ticket prices have been crucified from a buck 65 to sixty six bucks. That’s a saving of 40% on the nose.
Gaze at “Blurred Lines” at # 1 for one last time, because like the turning of the seasons, its time is passing and Katy Perry and Lady Gaga is gunning for it
Sure, The Civil Wars is a good album. But is 116,000 units sold gonna make anybodies career hum? Plus after that is a compilation of single hits and than nothing much at all.
Why is the world of S&M and organized religion so similar? It’s all grovelling, flagellation, self loathing and worship – D
