Tickets go on sale September 21st, 2012 and Rihanna will be going forth May 4th, 2013 when she makes her only area performance. Only? Surely not… I would bet that she adds a couple of dates to that stand. May 4th will be a Saturday
Now their legions of fanatics can scream out the lyrics with this ‘punk’ band. Before I list the dates though, lets get one thing straight. Green Day are not punk. They never were and they never will be.
Maybe it is like a Mom who lets go of her sons and in a shopping mall, turns round and he is gone never to be seen again. The mother is left to relive the moment only this time she doesn’t let go of his hand.
But how a guy, who has probably always bought everything cash, would know? This declaration demonstrates how disconnected from reality a billionaire can be …. And you don’t know what the fight is about? These people aren’t having a picnic in the park, this was really offensive, in a Marie-Antoinette kind of way
Chinese Rock – Sid Vicious – A bad, bad joke that was in the process of killing the tragi-comic figure, the personification of white trash in eather coat and hypodermic needles, stuck between Malcolm trying to remake him in the image of James Dean and Nancy Spungen trying to resurrect his career at Max’s with panties in hand. It all ended up in the Chelsea Hotel, and this song is the soundtrack. Ps: it is a terrible version… but a great song. – Grade: D+
Mould simply shows how the old school punk rock house was built, raining sheets of sonic guitar blasts that rip potholes into the linings of your brainpan and then searing spackle into the remaining crevices.
Freedom and Lady Liberty run throughout the eleven songs, despite all the troubles in her personal life, this is a triumphant rebirth, which, far from focusing on her own depression, opens up to the whole world with a rare generosity.
Perhaps, finally we will have a computer generated voice of a generation who will outlive everyone forever… and we will go from “Oh well whatever nevermind” to “whatever”.
There are far too many voices these days, too many genre’s to much media too much everything for there to be a singular source for anything. There are groups for everyone and all of those groups together are a collective ‘choir of a generation’
T-shirts are part of fashion unfortunately, and I have seen too many Joy Division Ramones or Black Flag t-shirts lately to be convinced all these people were real fans of these bands.
After being a Dresden Doll fan for so long it was tough to jump ship and actually turn from love to hate. Yes, hate. She annoyed the hell out of me. So much so that I didn’t even want to see her on her tour or participate in her asinine kick starter bullshit.
Hastled by security, hustled by overpriced clip joints, back of the crowd, end of the rope, abused and disabused. $500 for a weekend of humiliation? Only if Mistress Ellen lets me to lick her boots…
He’s so charismatic and talented that I can’t get enough of his performing. He is an incredible musician and gets so enveloped in what he’s doing and it’s admirable. I can honestly say that he has one of the best and most distinctive voices I’ve ever heard
I don’t know why people are always hoping for reunions, reunions are often disappointing anyway, many things belong to the past and can’t be relived, we have to accept this. People get old, the music get old too
“Sometimes I would miss breakfast and when you’re on food stamps and lunch tickets, missing breakfast is not good for a kid. There’s a family of influences that dictate behavior. In the ghetto, there’s a liquor store, a cheque-cashing place and a motel. What that tells you psychologically is, get a cheque, cash it. Take a couple of steps. Buy some liquor and get drunk”
“There is some talk that we may end up doing another film, but again, that would be based on whether there’s another strong enough idea.”
He’s not been very nice. To boil it down to its basic elements, if someone’s horrible a lot of the time, you’re not sad when they’re gone, you’re glad.
So I guess tonight is Amanda’s official release party. Color me impressed. But the headline is Bobby of course, and DMX and th e Avett Brothers. This is a veritable who’s who of 2012. I am hoping for big thngs off xx and ZZ, though what I’ve heard of both makes me think I’m not getting em.
The President Is Out To Get Her – The Groucho Marxists – New Brunswick inner circle band re-release their Manifesto! for a post-Obama world and it sounds muscular harder hitting and ready for a sequel – Grade: B+
It might sell in the States with some money behind it, but probably not. In person, Iain (though I wish he’d change the spelling of his name) and James are funny, forthright, and pleasant company who answered every question till the lights were turned out on us.
With this new found skill I realized something. Jay Z sucks. He sounds like an old man, to polished and ever slang sounds strained.
But that doesn’t matter the way it might be if Taylor was singing about breaking up with Stephen or something. She is a big enough star in 2012 where her touch alone makes the loss, so private and so, yes, easy to empathize with, because also easy to ignore, something we can all share in.
The terrible and untimely death of their bassist Paul Gray is out of the headlines, It ends up just another rock and roll overdose like the hundreds before him and the millions to follow.
Bourhis has not only done the illustrations but also wrote the text, and the reviews of the albums! It works like a biography with a zine look, written by a fan and a very talented guy, and should be a must-have for any Beatles fan.
Best of all and not listed… Saturday Night LIve premieres on the 15th. What scares me is that I had to mute his performance on the MTV music awards- how the hell will I survive 2 songs on late night? Lord kill me now…
‘My parents were worried, I was worried. I knew it was a problem when I liked it more than I liked doing anything else. I was like, ‘I’m fucked. I am totally fucked.’
stolen from a business column in New York Post and a weekly pick of big winners and losers in the music world every week! Oh, first runner up in the loser charts? Pandora who lost 17% of their stock value.
They’re in the news now for serving up a cease and desist with Fox news. Seems since the lack of mention of God in the Democratic Agenda, gave Fox the idea to use a snip from “Losing My Religion” as the fade out tune for their Democratic Convention coverage.
Amanda Palmer -now there’s a suitable case for treatment. her voice is ugly, her boobs are fine, she is a multi-everything end of the century time woman and she just made a coupla million bucks on Kickstarter, so, look, no way do we skip her at Webster Hall on Tuesday, even if the new single sucks and Who Killed is irritating
The Vaccines is vastly better then Two Door Down Cinema Club, and Mark Knopfler has a new release? I knew he was touring with Dylan but I didn’t realize there was some new product. Though the only shock is it hit the charts.
A good friend of mine swears Ne-Yo is the natural successor to Michael Jackson and he has the voice to at least be in the in the conversation. But his material is too middlebrow. If i have to spend the winter dodging Owl City I will not be happy.
. Groundhog Dog – Corin Tucker Band – According to this terrific little rocker, Corin took a break to have kids, came back, and found us all living the same day over and over. Apparently, women are still on their back and nothing changed. Except their are more women then men in college and in the workforce. The moral: great art trumps stupid politics – Grade: A
I was seeing a few ‘straight edge’ t-shirts in the largely-male-dominated crowd, but I obviously couldn’t relate to all these people, who were watching a reunion that they weren’t even hoping for anymore;
The boys go on holiday with grand intentions and in the interim hit numerous obstacles and freaks and typical ‘coming of age’ mishaps. If you are not a fan or unfamiliar with the series, I suggest you pass on the film
May be, unless the tune is a mixed rip-off of other famous bands and becomes like an attempt to gain as many fans as possible, from dubstep maniacs, to U2’s bombastic enthusiasts, to Queen’s nostalgics?
It is also a reminder that more than anything else, Jackson 5 were a collective hive of kids riding great songs up the charts with an effortless glee. And the rest is history
If she is doing it for publicity and attention, it obviously worked, but she now has to worry about her fans, who are strongly reacting: Minaj has even received death threats on Twitter and other social networks
Veganism means, no milk, cheese, eggs, no DAIRY, no meat, no fish, no honey NO NO NO and not just ‘chicken now and then but NEVER. There is no such thing as ‘mostly vegan or ‘mostly vegetarian. You are or you’re not
Whoopie Goldberg and the Dhali Lama. May as well stop reading right there or not, Syracuse University will host a love in of sorts being billed as “a historic celebration of peace, music and common ground”
I guess the new Van Morrison is the calling card for the month. He hasn’t released new material in maybe 4 years and that is very long time for the man, Van released an album a year right through the 1990s. Otherwise, the new Amanda.. she raised @$2M for it?
Beams – Matthew Dear – It is as if the minimalist electronic whiz kid re-wrote “I Zimbra” 11 times in a row, a pretty great idea in theory. In practice, it isn’t 1979 and the sound has built in monotony problems. At its best, “Fighting Is Futile” Dear is clearly an enormously gifted songwriter making a spooky and lovely soundscape. The rest of the time, he is like his hero Eno’s ambience without the ambience or David Byrne when he had a rock esthetic without the rock esthetic. An incomplete sound – Grade: B
Manhattan – Cat Power – The two note engine that moves this terrific song ever onwards also works as a hook. Translation: a very well crafted song from a very good album – Grade: A
Curious perverse nostalgic old guys with swastika tattoos ? Vasquez describes the music as ‘really low-fi, mono’, but he recognizes that ‘Manson’s nasal, bluesy folk music-like sound won’t appeal to everyone
He was a professional lyricist and if you want to see how difficult that is, check out Costello laboring on “Toledo”. It isn’t easy and while it is an art it is equally an art and a business.
Touche Amore released a new tune called "Whale Belly". I haven't really listened to them much lately, so I was eager to hear this new release. It's a part of
Despite all my efforts to try to find Paul Banks’ own musical identity, I couldn’t chase Interpol from my mind and that was his curse
On stage, Gwen looks ridiculous. Just crazy hot with a stomach you can bounce dimes off, and the band is money: tight as hell.
hey it’s anniversary time for those crazy Irish boys and I simply cannot let the opportunity slide by un announced. C’mon now, my boy Joe Strummer was a Pogue and hell, everyone’s got a bit of Pogue in them- right?
Farrar was moving like a beaten down old man, he was squirming like a fish out of water, limping like a hurt man and bending over like someone with a terrible stomach ache
Remember she was cool when she was actually singing? That’s before her political garbage and grandstanding. Now I can hardly look at her without laughing. She is a living breathing cartoon and she’s on tour yet again.
