Ty is all over the damn place, you can’t throw a brick without hitting one of the bands he plays for, everyone from Fuzz to Perverts and many times, if you can concentrate hard enough on him, he is pretty damn good but far too often he is as slippery as his songs
In the midst of a disappointing movie, he consistently made me smile. The face of his generation? Although a child of privilege, Ezra is a super everyman. His next movie is Madame Bovary so it might have to wait a year.
Strait is great despite being ornery cuss, he has that rare ability to be always always very good and when you are very good that often it is a form of greatness
So who gets 2 Million streams? I just took a look and Macklemore and Lewis did 3.7M streams of “Can’t Hold Us”, so that makes about $160,000 in revenue of which the band get MAYBE 25%.
Virgin Records is where it all started for Virgin and 40 years later it’s great to see we are still being innovative. This exciting series of events is the perfect way to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Virgin Records and the artists, from Mike Oldfield to Emeli Sandé, who continue to disrupt the status quo
“Really ?? Over two hours late and not so much as an apology, the concessions closed before the act even came on ! How is this tolerated ? People spend a lot of money to see an act and have to work the next day, it is the acts responsibility to be on time.”
We hoped and prayed it would be on whole other levels of gratuitous self-indulgence and divaish slo-mo diselegance and while it has its moments, all in all I am a little disappointed
The Stone Roses are a legendary Madchester dance band, the sound of ecstasy with a rock and roll back beat and the 1990s game changer who, in the UK, pulled the country out of the 1970s more thoroughly than grunge ever did. Liam is a nob.
Sure, Carly Rae Jepsen had the novelty single of 2012 with “Call Me Maybe” but the album The Kiss, was a not all that: a very ordinary modern pop move
But does that mean it will reach 2 Billion views, or even his previous 1.5 Billion. It looks like it but even if it doesn’t. one thing is sure, Psy is at least a two hit wonder.
15 years is a long time to go without his most successful incarnation hitting the stage and so I bet I am not the only person thrilled to hear Buster is back in tux and slicked back hair sipping on Old Fashions and singing songs from the 1940s and/or Latin American swing
These three kids seem to be living as bizarre a half world existence as imaginable. It is like an extended Land of OZ with wicked and good aunts, dead parents, mysterious family connections and lots and lots and lots of money
From movies to commercials, hip hop samples to cover songs, wedding singers to Karoake bars, Marvin and Motown is part of our lives.
The EP is a humdinger and the band is making their stage debut at Brooklyn’s Cameo in May. Among the people who are not confirmed to be making an appearance is one Sean Connery, who hs been sharing his 80th birthday with Jones and might well show up if Jones is there.
What Bieber has done, is take Frank from the history books, from the Sainthood and martrydom, and reimagined her as a Bieber fan. That’s what should be done, that’s how you keep memories alive.
I was walking one day, just doing my rock and roll thing making millions of bucks, you know success and everything, addicted to drugs and then the next day I had Revelation of Christ and I was like, everything changes right now!
You can give up and give in to this $14M (hardly a fortune, right) remake, which sticks two guys and three girls in a cottage and won’t let em leave till the skies quite literally rain blood.
I forgive him his Romney endorsement even though I haven’t forgiven Springsteen his Obama endorsement. This is capitalism with a conscious, capital that appreciates that you can price yourself out of the business with $150 tickets for mid-level seating.
The first half of the movie is draggy because Steve can’t play the role. Jim would’ve have been a sly seducer, a magician of hearts and egos, he would have made enervation fun to watch. Steve makes enervating enervating
There is a danger and a stupidity to what the press is doing to Justin Bieber. He doesn’t have to be a nice guy, he doesn’t have to be humble, if the worst you’ve got is Justin smoking a joint, go away and leave him alone. Go pick on someone your own size.
This is a form of infinite regression and an aphorism, people lose their faculties as they decay and degrade on the way to death. We are all the same. We are all turning and turning and getting worse and getting worse
This is all such high energy stuff you wanna stick a valium in her orange juice or change her voice and her guitar from 78 rpms to 33 rpms. The woman picks a guitar so fast it is all single notes clicking like ice in a glass
Gaham could be the living embodiment of a A Just Say No ad. He is to heroine what the fat old bag in the “Smoking Is Glamorous” is to tobacco. He should have a sign around his head reading “just because you shoot up smack does not mean you’re Miles Davis.”
I saw Mayer play with Hova a coupla years ago and he was the best thing about the gig and Weez… he has gotta come up with the goods. But I am not a big fan of either performer. Dunno why. Weezy is too weird and mayer is too sleazy and both are absolutely terrible when it comes to ballads.
“I Be On” is weird BEYond belief and I wonder how or even if it will fill up the gaps on her next open. “Bow Down” is awesome and it is as simple as that. This time they trick out her voice like a chipmunk before Beyonce takes on the haters everywhere
the news that Broadway is planning a Carole King musical makes you think the following: 1. The score? Not a problem,. we’ve got it covered, could easily give “Jersey Boys” and that “Motown” one a run for their money. 2. The Book? Not so fast…
Winner – Billie Joe Armstrong – After derailing his career with a killer alcohol addiction and interrupting a tour to support three (count em) albums last year, Billie Joe and Green Day are back with a a great live show and a new temperate viewpoint. Tough to admit you have a problem and tougher still to fix it, his Rolling Stone interview was on this side of harrowing and the news he is sober is a good one for fans like me!
Try as we may we can’t stop Scarlett from doing what she should be doing, acting in movies which feature her in skin tight superhero costumes and dating ridiculously handsome men just to rub our nose in the we take these truths to be self-evident impossibility of even an averagely gorgeous guy will never get within a million miles of her.
Ludlow Street – Julian Casablancas wrote a song about it and why not? It is the Red Light District of rock and roll, a Street so cool there must be 30 bands a night you can check out while you go on the pub crawl rock and roll of a life time.
The highest bidder on my #twittermillion pade will get a pig named after them and bacon from it when it’s killed. or the choice to save the pig’s life,” she tweeted
What makes People, Hell And Angels so remarkable is that arrives so late. No, it doesn’t feel finished but then neither does Lennon’s Milk and Honey and that was his very first solo release. It feels like a trip not taken
This is just showing off, an abundance of riches and a must see of course. 4am??? That is one late long show… I will wait around for the rapture but that’s all I’m promising…
I don’t much care for Sunday gigs either, but make an exception in this case -especially if you are still in college because Polyenso is a band that can last you a long time. The more you listen, the more things get your attention: ideas seem to float in and stay on beds of guitar.
According to Gigwise these are the ten grumpiest men in rock and roll UK division (mostly, though I doubt you can perform one of these types of lists without including Lou Reed) and what do they all have in common? More money than brains? A disproportionate sense of self worth? All of the above????
Directed by Floria Sigismodi (who also directed the Runaways) it builds very very nicely from an early denouncement of Brad Pitt to a scary “The stars are never sleeping, the dead ones and the living…”
Rap is rap and hip hop is hop, and they are both the children of James Brown, but soul, the songs of Motown, the brace of great singles that rushed the the 1960s and 1970s, that was not from James Brown
I’ve heard huge arguments about who is better Morrissey or Marr but this ends the argument completely. Marr is no Morrissey and this albums flies when Marr plays, the way the new Wayne Shorter works when he plays, but otherwise it crashes and burns. A major major crash and burn disast
Sure, he charges fans $2,000 for a folding chair and the opportunity to shake hands with a roadie BUT he goes on stage at a reasonable time, doesn’t overdo the new album,
You can send it to the Zooey lookalike of your dreams with a note, maybe a heart being burnt to a cinder in a car wreck and not a word, not glance. You can walk by them in the school gym and smile to yourself safe in the knowledge that nothing is revealed…
It is rare I see a tour where every band on the bill makes me nauseous, this is a vision of end of times, it is the music the devil will be playing when he comes back as fire.
WHAT WILL COSTELLO SING???? He wouldn’t go there, would he? I can’t believe he would do it but man will that make for an interesing side plot pn what feels like too much funk and not enough pop type of evening.
They have a captive audience and the Clubs and Arenas can ply them with overpriced alcohol and tee-shirts. Everybody knows Pianos, Arlene Grocery, all those clubs, make their money at the bar and not from the door. The longer you are there, the more they make.
Why am I being conned into doing business with Jann Wenner? Why should I have to cancell anyuthing? This is horrible and disrespectful to LiveNation’s clients, doesn’t the company make enough money without hoodwinking customers iinto subscribing to a magazine they have expressed ZERO interest in?
News arrived Thursday that a German company is planning a biopic based on the time Iggy Pop and David Bowie (and one assumes Brian Eno!) spent living and recording in West Berlin in the mid-70s, which brought the world such masterpieces as Low and Lust For Life. Two albums which seem to exist in opposite universes from each other and ourselves
I saw GNR around 8 years ago at Hammerstein Ballroom and take it from me pop pickers, Axl is the real deal. Plus, I might well be in the minority here but I thought Chinese Democracy was a great, great album.
I am sure that whether you listen to classical music or not, you’ve heard a lot of his compositions in much the same way that whether you have read Shakespeare or not you know a lot of his plays. And so, like me, have a certain fascination with this harbinger of so much to do with being famous even without mentioning his music.
The Killers are playing a Saturday night gig, may 18th, at Barclay center and I am gonna check it out. I don’t expect much but I expect something and the Killers are a band I feel as though I misunderstand on record.I think they have a secret and I will only be able to unlock it on stage
Perhaps when they get on stage in a mid( 500) summer nights dream they can transport us to a world where love does work out and happiness and even “sentimental hearts might find some peace somewhere.
I think I missed the entire Killers infatuation. At the time, I thought “Mr. Brightside” was cute enough; a sorta novelty song for losers. But I didn’t much attention to the rest of the album. So imagine my surprise upon discovering they were a Mormon U2
they would be a bigger add to the Gov’s Ball than they would to Coachella and would be icing on the cake. It might be the Stone Roses, and I would be fine with either band. I would really love to see the Stone Roses , who I’ve never seen live.
