Coachella, Cruise-Coachella, and now Colbchella? No it’s a sort of joke of course. Stephen Colbert announced during his Tuesday edition of the Colbert Report that he will organize a super concert aboard the Intrepide Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York City on August 10.
How did Ellie get back on the charts? I never much liked “Lights” but even if I did I’d be over it by now. Quick caveat: she was pretty good opening for Katy Perry last year.
Now is the summer of our disconnect, with every major player holding out for the Autumn before unleashing their latest album. Particularly No Doubt’s return! Till then, these look like also rans, with Zac at # 1 and a measly 48,000 units sold.
. Laura – Bats For Lashes – In the girls at the piano sonic reduced mood music scene, here comes Bats For Lashes bringing up the rear with yet another song that probably owes more to Kate Bush than it should. It is still pretty good and the sleeve of the upcoming album is hysterical – Grade: B
‘This record is about being confused, having lust, greed, and searching for…something’… and their music was effectively searching for a right balance between distinct rock rhythms and the haze of the background.
Between Black Jesus, modern dance interpretation, East African soul music, and one of the most devastating denunciations of power and religion, a performance of “The Power Of Trilogy” wowed Summerstage, Tuesday evening.
Then there would be a problem with the dressing room and witnessing The Cult charge the fans $200 per head for a Meet & Greet.
Lastly, all their songs suck! They clearly have no integrity (they refer to their hometown as L.A.)…
The eight-piece band is obviously not afraid of the grandiose and soaring choruses, with three keyboards, guitars, trumpet, violin and a large rhythm section, their songs coming from albums inspired by the four seasons, can be some big tempestuous numbers
Imagine you are a twenty something woman getting drunk at a bar when this tall swarthy Italian with gold chains and hair chest tries to pick you up. the intensity of his approach, mixed with your buzzedness and horniness and you can’t resist it, the next thing you know you’re in the back of his Benz with your panties round your ankles.
14. Dirty Projectors at MHOW, July 9th, 2012 – A revelatory concert introducing a great album.
The rapper, known as “Mr. Worldwide,” told the audience he would put Kodiak into a future song. ‘Kodiak aint talkin back?” “kodiak women got big ol booties?’, wonder what he will say.
40,000 people will revel in two days’ worth of iconic 80s music performed by a staggering line-up
Lydon has remained an icon of pop culture and actively keeps his name in the press. From writing books to selling butter he simply wont burn out or fade away.
Train Station – The Moms – The spirit of rock and roll lives on and if you read their tour diary you will know exactly what I mean: between the days without showers and the nights without gigs, they released a killer EP. This is the best song.
‘They made us the offer we couldn’t refuse ‘ for all the right reasons. It is a win-win for all of us, but mostly for Frank Zappa. Long may his baton wave. We are so ready to go.’
They all agreed to play for free but had to be paid the symbolic sum of £1($1.57) for contract reason. And McCartney doesn’t seem to regret anything since he declared: ‘It was terrific, great, really cool. It was a trip and very exciting. It was a great opening ceremony.’
rock isn’t dead because that isn’t what rock is: rock is the spirit of youth personified and renewing itself endlessly, in perpetuity, through sound.
Yaselame Lalo – Mahmoud Ahmed -here’s an oversimplification South African music is folky, West African soulful and East African Mahmoud being a master of, and who brought Summerstage to its knees in awe Tuesday night, is soulful. This is off Live In Paris, and worth it just to hear him go “brrrrr-eh”. Grade: B+
The major change for Cheap Trick during the past few years has been the replacement of Bun E. Carlos with Daxx Nielsen (one of Rick’s sons) on the drums. While Daxx does not match Bun E.’s resounding authority, the replacement has resulted in longer/more varied set lists.
She apologized for the lateness, she was nervous she said, and starting from this, she hardly stopped during her set, just a few times to sip her tea or water, leaving the 3-4,000 people who had packed the place in complete awe
Both songs are simple and elegant melodic games, snapshot story songs, slice of life: “You Are Your Moms” has a tugging nostalgia, denied in the next song, “Kicks”. In the former Conor is watching a friend grow up, and on the latter a friend go down. Stuck in in a void, “Kicks” is simply a beautiful downer with a way out pointed to in “You Are Your Moms”.
My school friends loved “Rock This Town”, the albums opening track. I thought it sucked. I loved the bass in it though, that’s about it. I was actually just happy those broads appreciated something worth hearing considering in their cars
The Essential Songs of 1969 closes the decade out on a high note. Creedence Clearwater Revival released three albums that year, tossing out superb singles like alt-country candy. Led Zeppelin were establishing a new brand of heavy metal while the Stooges were embracing the aesthetic that would evolve into punk rock in the 1970s
This past week she performed with No Doubt for Good Morning America. Throngs of fans camped out in wait for the 7am program to fire up. Perhaps it was the early hour or just age (Gwen is 42) that caused it but the singer kept forgetting the lyrics to some of No Doubts big hits- so she asked for help.
Nicki Minaj is currently touring the States before doing a few more dates in Europe in August, and the LA Times is pointing out that this could have been the ‘girl power moment of the year’, but she refused! Was she in her right mind?
Leaving aside the obvious comment: how could Jonah NOT find a quote from Dylan to suit his purposes, rock nyc has just discovered a new way to get interviews with people we can’t get interviews with: we WILL MAKE THEM UP
Biopic is a dumb new term for biography movie. Biohazzard is more like it in this case. Michales has no loss for self esteem thats for sure. He has been noted that his battle with diabetes alone makes him MVP at life itself.
The rest of the album are plastic souvenirs from the show of the show. The world went to the Olympic Games and all I got was this lousy soundtrack and none of it is off the McCartney set.
I worry about rockers stooping to these shows. Steve Tyler first now this? I want to see Bruce Springsteen, no wait I WANT BOB SEGER to judge one of these shows so I can die of laughter. There is nothing cool about TV talent shows
The annual irrelevance known as the VMA’s will take place and any chance of it having in the slightly the relevance it did 20 years ago will be deader than Michael Jackson.
‘When I was 11, I saw Kurt Cobain singing ‘Heart-Shaped Box’ on MTV and it really stopped me dead in my tracks. I thought he was the most beautiful person I had ever seen. Even at a young age, I really related to his sadness.’
Keys To The City – Spider Bags – At first it sounds like the garage band of your dreams but once you’ve listened to it a couple of times, you will realize it is the punk rock band of your dreams. An amphetamine rush of power chords and infidlity – Grade: A+
The saxophones almost dominated the music at times, marking the tempo, constantly adding punch with their squawks in series, responding to Nick’s guitar and his light dose of garage rock and touch of surfing, whereas the rest was all voices and rhythms with bongos and tambourines, light drumming and bass. In these times of electronic and ultra-layered music
There is no doubt about the music here, it took a little while to sink in but it is masterful, powerful and beautiful music which should gain added resonance (But not power: it already has that) through transmogrification
The program called “Dark Prophet” is scheduled for premier this fall. Seems a custom fit role for Rollins as a big know it all, so this could work. He has a great number of die hard fans too, so hes one up on the competition.
At the end, whatever the image, it is music that matters the most for me. I just saw Fiona Apple and there wasn’t any artifice around her, she doesn’t need any, she is the anti Lady-Gaga-Lana-Del-Rey-crowd, and I guess that there wasn’t one person among the 4000 people around me, who was missing the balloons.
I have a friend on Facebook who has 500 different version of Cheap Trick’s Live At Budokan, which kinda puts this in perspective. Dziga Vertov noted that the first version of TYM was so poorly mastered , you could return the album for a new version. Now they’d just call it remastered and sell it to you again.
Music isn’t about the art anymore. It’s no longer about what you feel, and what you hear. It’s all about what you see and if it’s catchy. No one wants to take the time to listen to older bands because they’re “irrelevant” or they all “sound the same” when in reality, every Bieber tune is exactly the same.
The result is Life In The Middle -a flawed masterpiece. The album is wounded and missing parts, but it has a deep musical balance and a mystical quality. It is the definition of a cult album. Grade: B+
The US may well be heading for a great depression, may never be the force it was, it might be too much of a job to police the world and who wants it anywhere? Unless the US brings back slave labor they can never compete with Russian and Chinese industry. But in the world of music, North America OWNS IT/
Well its back to man on man fun. Stabbings. Swedish House Mafia announce their calling it quits and already on this farewell tour there have been to shankings, WTF? The Cro Mag reunion had an actual former band member wielding sharp steel. Who the hell goes to shows with knives and what the hell fat ass security guard with a ‘staff’ T-shirt isn’t watching the door
New York Post had an article on Sunday detailing what was really happening behind the scenes and I am gonna dumb it down. But first let me really dumb it down: Randy tried to wrestle control of the kids away from his mother, Tito’s son TJ got it, and Janet should’ve stayed clear and didn’t.
Ohhh I’m intrigued.I would be shocked if his next release was as good and Blunder, there are some levels that cant be maintained and Jack White is a bit odd for consistency. He is scattered with multiple projects and well, lets face it- it was a case of great timing.
Pussy Riot performed in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior of the Russian Orthodox Church in Moscow, and the song, which contained the lyrics ‘chase Putin out’. didn’t please the authorities. As a result several members of the band were arrested and accused of ‘hooliganism’, and they are now recognized as political prisoners
Rick Ross has a great voice, and he is a great rapper, but having said that the man has no soul: in the center there is a black hole where the soul should fit. I might get the Neil Diamond.
Take Me To Manhattan – Jack Phillips – The lead off song from one of his two new albums, finds the great piano man, with a new great American songbook on his hand. The instrumental break is an old fashioned wonder and the ode to our Isle of joy a worthy addition to the pantheon of nyc songs – Grade: A
Jazz was 18, Lola 16 when he died and they were both devastated. It took Jazz years for the loss to sink in, and she reacted with panic attacks, Lola went into an immediate depression. “But you get over it…”
At first, it may appear totally politically incorrect – however a native American mascot performing a war dance at each home run was not what I would call glorifying – but the flower-punk band actually were on a mission to save the fallen Indian
The only redemption in this tune is some great bass sound. The vocals are boring karaoke and who the hell chose this to be performed anyway? I used to love the Monkeys so I’m not happy when I have to say they blow. Now they’re Blow Monkeys…
If the British can begin the Opening Ceremony with a song about the rebirth of an Israeli city, why the Olympic Committee can’t honor the fallen Israeli athletes is a political mystery and mind field. It is repulsive.
