We have here an assembly of musical guests on some talk shows. None are good, none are profound and they’re all basically there to promote themselves though you cant flip on your radio without hearing them anyway. In the present ‘social media’ is a hell of allot more efficient then television
I have serious doubts about the setlist, Madonna is in her 50s, and I myself would appreciate a retrospective of her sparkling career when she takes the field at Yankee Stadium on Thursday. What I am gonna get is the newbie plus. Will it be enough? Worth finding out.
I bet Ora breaks big Stateside, Jigga will know what to do with the woman. Elbow are about as compleat contradistinction withRita, though not the surprise arrival Of Monsters And Men, and hey, give Alanis credit where due.
X Factor’s follow up to “Cannonball” is an overproduced blues burner with a highly highly annopying beat. Taylor is still hanging in there, but for how much longer? Maybe the video will get it a push back up to the top. Rita Ora is gonna crossover big time Stateside.
Nas Is Like – Nas – His undeniable classic of a song, beat everything leading towards and away because Nas suffers from anhedonia and everything he does denies its own job. Except this, which is tremendous fun – Grade: A
An atrocious, poorly managed disaster where two and a half hours were wasted and all three major acts were squeezed into the last half hour, and Mr. Vegas, was relegated to less than ten minutes.
Even their rather poor acting in this silly video is more endearing than annoying. They’re not exactly glam rock but they’re beautiful and carry themselves well. They’re not straddling a mic stand, they’re doing their job and looking fabulous at the same time- sorta like me.
That seems to me something that old dudes who are out of touch say: “Nothing new is going on these days.” It often happens with people who are from a punk rock background, where punk rock was really a very orthodox rock ‘n’ roll movement.
I am sure that if you like Taylor, her girlie manners and her obsessive self-centered talk about her ex boyfriends, you will fall in love with her red lipstick, blonde ponytail, I-am-so-serious glasses, cute pajamas, and animal house party! But this is so….. 15 -year-old? Superficial
Murphy has called Britain a land of moaners and has made no secret about the fact that he feels they chronically complain. He said: “I remember DJing once and this kid came up to me and said, ‘This set is so s**t’, to try to show me how cool he was.
The video, for their new song F.E.B.N. (Forward Ever, Backwards Never) off their new album ‘119’, which will be released via Odd Future Records on October 9th, is in black and white, quite stylistic and also funny.
The new Dylan is awesome and will end up in my top 20 2012 almost for sure, Mr. Vegas channels the late lamented Gregory Isaacs, it is hard to imagine a sweet sounding man. Spider Bags (still the album of the year), is on its way off the chart and Taylor will probably hang another week.
Havoc And Bright Lights – Alanis Morissette – Not quite as bad as the name implies, but pretty terrible. The first two songs are mediocre Alanis, but after that it is a dreary mess, proving how band love and marriage can be for your artistic juices. This slow, draggy, album is in serious need of an editor and while it is not always her worse, it is her worse often enough. Ten years after Under Rug Swept, this is what is left Grade C-
A Little Love (That’s All I Want From You) – Mr. Vegas – Off his absolutely terrific Sweet Jamaica album, this song didn’t come within a million miles of making an appearance at da Reggae,. More the pity, because this absolutely lovely melody would have saved the night. Who needs Mr. Energy when you have Mr. Melody? – Grade: A
I’m all for that hey I’m Robert Smith no wait I’m Siouxie teased hair Goth thing. It reminds me of my youth, I sported that look in 1983, good to see ya back. The poorly acted head nods as dialogue were rather laughable. Ok, I take it back, it was hilariously campy
Over a quarter of jazz and blues listeners have been in accidents due to being “really into the music; getting swept up”. On the opposite end of the spectrum, those who put on Chopin or Bach or other classical virtuosos, are the least likely to have an issue.
That deafening, clunking sound is the other shoe dropping in the world of streaming. According to New York Post, Pandora is trying to lower the Artist Royalty percentage. The Artists are kicking back,. And they are both right.
Rihanna isn’t an artist – she has 15 writers, 15 songwriters and 15 producers all fighting for space on her albums and she’s the face of it. I have nothing against it, but I don’t want to be associated with it.’
How is this possible? Why do the large majority of music listeners have such shitty tastes? Come on, how could they listen to that Gotye’s tune for the trillionth time? I heard these Flo Rida and Train’s songs for the first time when the bands appeared on TV, and they totally suck
“He makes pop music, remixes other artists, co-runs London clubnights Another Night and Comfortable Shoes, and has a huge love of music, largely from 1988-1996.”
Hard Rock in partnership with Bonham’s auction house are throwing this shindig and I find it pretty darn cool. History for a price is a hot topic. Why not fund your retirement with Elvis’ scarf?
‘The Killers are one group I enjoy,’ he said. But wait a minute, that guy from the Killers, Brandon Flowers, is big time Mormon, right? What a nice coincidence!
I don’t understand how this is not merely accepted but in a sense applauded. Dirty Projectors “Hi Custodian” short is co-produced by Pitchfork and will be streamed on Pitchforks website. Talk about improper.
A Little Love (That’s All I Want From You) – Mr. Vegas – Sweet Jamaica, is the name of this Lover’s Rock artist, and these rhythms swing so sweet and mellow it is hard to deny him. I wouldn’t why mainstream USA don’t cover him. Grade: B+
This made Ted Leo tweet the following: ‘THIN LIZZY WALK ON MUSIC FOR PAUL RYAN???!??!!?111!? I will find the music coordinator and ruin him or her. #HowDareYou’, yes indeed, why are republicans so obsessed by using music they shouldn’t do?
Sexism isn’t dead, men beat and kill wives and daughters and mothers, girlfriends. We kill each other as well, of course, but there is a terrible bullying brutality in our actions towards women. And Odd Future can get away with art for arts sake rapping, even if it’s stupid, but not this. This sucks and I am thoroughly ashamed of them.
For the opening scenes with the camera going along the Thames they wanted only the guitar refrain from ‘God Save The Queen’. We said, ‘FUCK. Off.’ You hear the words or it doesn’t happen.
For those of you unfamiliar with the band I strongly suggest the introduction via the ‘Rake Song’. By far one of the best told musical stories. Melloy’s voice is outstanding and the overall mood sent over with such clarity that it will remain one of my all time favorite song.
Things have been worse ever since then I have no clue, zero, why the greatest hip hop star in the world wants to be a celebrity. The entire Kim Kardashian stuff is ridiculous, what does Kanye needs this for?
Apparently Marissa is quite the fan and really can you blame her? These Don Giovanni Records darlings have really made some impressive strides recently and are getting the notice they so deserve.
The new season premiers on BBC America, tomorrow and every Saturday at 9pm and I swear I would cancel all my Saturday concerts for the season if it wasn’t for Video On Demand! With just about zero production values, Dr. Who is a world jumping, time traveling dream of a TV show.
Blaming the act of some deranged individual on music! They based this hasty conclusion on the content of the guy’s (Bobby Gladden) Facebook page, but we have read this so many times before! Are we back to Marilyn Manson responsible for the shooting in Columbine? This is what the rock star said in the Michael Moore documentary about the event:
His new single, appropriately named ‘Reach for the Stars’ – actually I take this back because the red planet is not a star! – premiered on Mars last Wednesday at 1 pm PT in the afternoon, and that’s a good thing nobody was there to hear it it!
This shirt is 35 years old. I have a few questions about it. Where has it been? Was it in the basement at Rogers house in his summer clothes box or was it housed under glass in a psycho fans home or was it just in the bottom of his tour trunk
The Madonna set sounds pretty by the numbers and godforbid she throws in “Lucky Star” or “Material Girl”, right? Instead it is a steady diet of ecstacy and agony with way too much preaching and nowhere near enough popitutde.
Listen to the Owl City once and you love it, twice and it is oddly irritating, five times and you are ready to shoot yourself. Oh well, at least we know Carly is at worst a two hit wonder
If Trey had to get a number one, this is the album to get it with and three of the top four albums are heavy hip hop affiliates. Tenth Avenue Noth is CCM (Christian rock band) and not the worst one, though still unpleasant.
Kiss On My List – Hall And Oates – Back in the day I trashed Private Eyes in the Village Voice. What was I thinking of? This is as great as blue eyed soul ever gets and gave the boys a whole new world. And I know for sure Daryl was checking out Prince around this time because I saw him at the 1999 gig – Grade: A
Of course, Barclay’s are not trying to actually make any money on the deal, all they want to do, and exactly what they have done through this, is to give MSG a serious warning: they are here to stay. And that is precisely what this will do. For the Stones, it is a good pay check for a dress rehearsal.
Badu had recorded the song for the Lips’ latest release, but it doesn’t stop the band to re-record and re-film a video of the song, with totally naked Amanda Palmer in the tub and on vocals.
I need variety and I don’t want some hack kids ‘’playlist’ or some ‘mood enhanced’ song scroll. I want to turn the thing on and I want a genre non stop til I tell it otherwise. I need radio.
With the FYF fest just announcing its set times for the two-day music celebration this weekend, I was thinking that Los Angeles (and its region, Orange County included) has a hella number of music festivals, this is quite incredible. Mammoth-size festivals or neighborhood-size street fairs, from April to October, festivals abound around me. I have tried to make a list of them:
I wouldn’t put too much faith in that occurring. Where’s the tour? Where’s the videos? Where are the guest spots? So far all we have gotten is gossip and a coffee table book.
The world just dies on us, it disappears and there is nothing that can bring it back. I remember when the Ramones played the Village a coupla days a week for years on end, and that ended. And now the Colony, a New York institution for decade after decade is going as well. Oh well, I am sure we will get a wonderful Chase Bank vestibule in its place.
Bob Dylan claimed that he original planned to make Tempest an album more religious, but found the single theme concept album too constricting. But the ghost of the idea lies in “Duquesne Whistle”, another traveling song with a twist
. Long time readers may remember I was infamously expelled from the Boy Scouts for taking the train when I shouldda been hiking. Something of an overreaction if you ask me. Still, the pain lingers and my ideaof hell is being at the back of a crowd of 100,000 people seeing “Daughter”.
The music was extremely layered and filled with exotic rhythms and dance beats, at times borderline disco – one of their songs almost reminded me something borrowed from a Blondie track – with a few sprinkles of different things, dreamy and moody vocals, glittering synth, and lots of beats.
I’ve thought of catching Das Racist a couple of times but the timing wasn’t right and when I heard they were playing Irving Plaza on September 29th, the timing wasn’t right either. I am seeing Corin Tucker at Mercury Lounge that night. But, catch this, Corin is a 730p early showm and with two opening acts, Das Racist will probably hit the stage at tenish..
‘Swaggy’, thats the word of the day! The episode titled ‘The Fabulous Faker Boy’ has Beiber as a contestant in a talent show- and not making the cut. A bit of pop star self depreciation. I gotta say though, Beiber has lost his standing joke status
”Looking back on it, I know exactly what was going on. When I look back on that whole combination of people, I can only imagine how freaky it was”
