Barlow’s lawyers stoutly deny any wrong doing and claim he pays a fortune in taxes and who is to say otherwise. that isn’t the point. the point iis, surely just the look of impropriety might suggest a holding off till the case developes?
Ruin – Cat Power – The concept of being ruined has never been sexier and set to better purpose than on this incredible new rocker with a blues edge by yet eccentric white woman – Grade: A
From flaming out to sneering in to perfecting her craft, Apple has grown and grown and is now not just a great recording artist but a great live performer as well. Grade: A
Lazzara has such immense talent and I love his voice. Recorded, it’s smooth and intense and engaging. Live, it’s rough and passionate and perfect. The guitars are simple, but that’s why this stripped down, acoustic version is so great.
vinyl is restrained to a very specific audience. Vinyl may not be completely dead but it still survives thanks to a sort of retro-hipster-indie public. A movement cultivating an image, a culture and the nostalgia of this culture, but for how long?
A nice thought at a weird time. Will this start the ‘is Elvis ill’ rumor mill? Nah, its just a Costello quirky tour he seems to always have some sort of angle. The quote “may contain any song I’ve written’ couldn’t be more vague. Doesn’t any concert have the same idea?
The sum was shining though clouds dotted the sky, transportation was easy, with two stages you could see every single set, the VIP is worth every penny and with a little planning you can get front side for every set, the bands were uniformly great, and though I blew off Modest Mouse and Beck, put it down to age not venue.
‘There was a cut-off date. The timing couldn’t have been more distracting, to say the least. It was down to the wire and [I was] really suffering, in the end. You have a huge responsibility with the things you’re trying to create to do your best. […The break-up] wasn’t really out of leftfield, but it kinda was.
Glamour Kills a huge participant in Warped has just put up its free download Warped sampler and it contains some perfect bands. Set Your Goals is an amazing group, Polar Bear Club, same Fireworks, killah…
the only buttons Deadmau5 seems to be pushing a lot are the ones slamming other people (he has some beef with Madonna too), but as I said, it is funny. DJs, who could be called disk jockey if CDs still existed, have this superstar status for reasons that escape me, and that’s why I can’t get enough of his rants about the likes of Guetta and Skrillex.
The song is done so well with such a gentle sense of humour that you cant help but fall for it. I know Carlie Rae Jepson tune is literally EVERYWHERE but what a wonderful surprise to find it done like this
As the formats have caused both contractions (ITunes is perfect for single song purchases) and expansions (Streaming is great for huge amounts of music listened to cheaply), it hasn’t really beaten the 40 minute album.
Maxwell’s press release was calming enough but hemorrhaging doesn’t just read ominous (that double “r” is a devil) but Adele cancelled a tour at the height of her career last year and John Mayer is still out of action.
Bieber compared himself to the Beatles during the, frankly, just a PR handjob, special. It is worth mentioning that the Beatles first appearance on Ed Sullivan reached 67M people, Bieber reached 3M. This isn’t to hate on Bieber, the hysteria he provokes is very real indeed
The biggies here are r. Kelly, who owes us a goodie, and Devil Wears Prada who are always good for a ethically cleansing party! Flaming Lips release too much material, enough already. How can we miss you if you don’t go away. As for Maroon 5, the reviews are horrendous which is business as usual for the band.
Why Do I Love You – Franz Alber and Barbara Cook – From one of fave musicals, a tale of love and loss and show biz (and miscegenation) on the Mississippi, and here the dream of true love as operetta Americana Grade: A
Singing her own songs, a few Rilo Kiley’s and Jenny and Johnny’s in a clear youthful voice, she doesn’t seem to age at all, still showing her adolescent silhouette in a cheerleader-style matching red top and skirt. At the age of 36!
the set was a steady and consistent. It was, indeed, a little strange. The theory is the that most sets build momentum but the truth is they don’t: they sink in the middle and regain buoyancy towards the end. But Yellow Ostrich got better as they went on
In July 2008. Jeff Ivester took his press pass and put it to great use with these startingly close, in action, pictures of former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr
Tucker should still be on fire and that’s about as close to the flame as you can get so to call her Thursday, September 27th gig at Mercury Lounge is essentially to state the obvious. I’d camp outside stubhub for this one if I had to.
What saddens me is that they’re still using shock and bad shock at that, for attention. They cannot break the business with their talent (Dahvie seriously, lose Jay-y clean your face and find a band- you are the talent.
Is she completely insane, again what is she afraid of? That some crazy fan sells her DNA to some mad lab for a complete DNA profiling? That someone pick up one of her hair to make a clone? Madonna, I have news, science is not there yet! There is no way I can find a justification to such behavior
this Irving Plaza gig on September 14th (a friday) is a must see though JAMC will probably give My Bloody Valentine a run for their money when it comes to making your ears bleed. The Reid Brothers reid are the last band standing from all those early 1980s trangsressive Scottish bands and the best of them? I wouldn’t argue but I might also hold out for Fire Engine
‘Within a week it was out in the shops, It was in Virgin, it was in HMV, it was in Tesco, it was all over the place. I was watching EastEnders with my mum and I saw one of the billboards by the Tube station and it had my face on there.’
Give the man credit where due, he is an excellent songwriter and his half hour set with his backing band Buzzard Boy was filled with catchy well paid, well sung and, damn it, well executed songs. It takes him around three songs but by the third Sean has found a groove and in a band that moves on its spaces, nothing is much more important
A very expensive ticket bought on presale begs an answer to the musical question: the Jacksons without Michael, who cares? I DO!!! Taking a look at the setlist and salivate, and at the home of Soul, the Apollo? They should be bringing their A game. Though a Thurrsday so that sucks, but otherwise, we are gonna “Blame It On The Boogie” all night!!!
A whole lot of flip floppin and only 2 new additions to this weeks chart. I find Ed Sheeran annoying,the Bee Gee’s resurrection a bore and well who the heck is allowing Coldplay to even be near a top 10 for this long?
Stooshe? Thats a pretty funky little number that wont make it for a hill of beans in the US. To Euro, not apple pie enough
. The Golden Age – Beck – Depression as movement to inertia, this masterpiece of loneliness and ennui doesn’t circle back on itself, it closes the curtain and lies on its back, staring at the sun draining the color out of everything – Grade: A+
Laura’s singing was vigorous and her organ pounding just enough to make sure you were absolutely certain she could play it well if never enough to distract from her role as front woman. The rest of the band were fine but background.
From what I can gather they were local heroes with a huge teen girl following around NYC in the 70s. Not quite the Trouser Press gang but more like neighborhood heroes. They had brains enough not to get too sucked up in things, cuz wait til you hear what’s up with them now.
This irritating radio-bound tune is nothing short of a disaster that feels temporary and sickening. It’s held together by tape; it’s for teenyboppers and teenagers with no sense of self to say “THIS IS MY FAVOURITE SONG!”
Ice-T has a weird life journey, from gangster rap to reality TV show character with his wife in ‘Ice Loves Coco’, to now documentary maker.
The set goes back as far as 2007 and stops off at all points, with the second song a terrific, much livelier and deadlier “Songs For Your Girlfriend” and has a late set deep track “By Tundra” and in between hits the hits and hits the misses and the band cream the lot. I mean, the lot. With Gareth, a stockier Gareth with a beer belly, ascending each and every song.
I don’t know how this happened but that was the risk of the game, after being such a commodity for commercials and ads of any nature, may be corporations thought they could freely use any Black Keys song, because at the end who would be able to see the difference?
Wow, July 3rd is officially the quietest day of the year with nothing much at all released!. Otherwise, actually the next three weeks look a little sucky. I guess the Joe Jackson, Dirty Projector, JJAMZ and Marina might be worth a listen… but, I’m not PROMISING
We’ve hated Billy Corgan for so long and for so hard, it is almost a knee jerk reaction. The truth of the moment is that the man who called himself one of the greatest musicians ever, misjudges his gifts and it leads him to completely lack quality control. Still, this is a good Smashing Pumpkin album. all sonic textured guitars and Billy’s dispensable whine. If you were a fanatic and have been disappointed in the past, this will bring you round. if not, it lacks the one great song it needs to take it over the top – Grade: B
Where Have You Been (Calvin Harris Extended remix) – Rihanna – Calvin Harris returns to the scene of the crime. Same artist, same album song not as food but not bad. The remix is like something holding it from one end, somebody from the other and streeeetching – Grade: B+
Bieber is about the teen gals not about the dancefloor and he can’t mature if he can’t provide more songs like “Die In Your Arms” -he needs the money shot whether he is 18 or 28. And he doesn’t have it nearly often enough here.
Freezepop has continued their tradition of creating bland synth pop music but on their new EP, Doppelganger,they show that, once remixed by other artists, their songs can be more than mediocre. It kinda makes me feel bad for Freezepop but hey they’ve somehow become pretty popular with their electro fuzz when it isn’t remixed.
Many bands have tried to imitate this Laurel Canyon folk-Americana sound, but the Beachwood Sparks are the original ones, and the album promises to recapture this breezy, floating-above-your-head soundscape, animated by dreamy melodies for cool summer nights.
The story of this legendary album will come to life in documentary film form on July 26. With the obligatory ‘never before seen footage’ that includes the collapse of Keith Moon (is that a bit tacky or what?) and live concert coverage.
he world beating mongrel considers his former band, the Nitecaps, soul done through his own rock perspective so don’t expect his deep soul band covers outfit revival but more like the Nitcaps soul em and roll em. For sure, Jahn is a knock out frontman and a great guy who will be happy to say a howdy after the show.
In ‘The Rocker’, Rainn Wilson plays Fish, a drummer who got kicked off Vesuvius, a glam heavy metal band of the 80s, and then got stuck for 20 years with a boring office job. Since, he has become a living dead, but when his nephew forms a band and needs a drummer, he gets the job
You’ll even be able to check out a “never-before-seen exhibit of life-size images of Elvis’ stage-wear, which will be on display in the lobby of each venue of the tour.” Help me out here- what is a life size image of stage wear?! Photographs??
Who the heck uses postage stamps anymore? I do! I do for thank you cards and other things that require a personal touch.
The song is more poppy than usual, but the rhythm is very dynamic and the buried vocals talk about getting drunk and even worst, just perfectly trashy and decadent enough for FIDLAR, and oh yes, they have sampled this Partnership for a Drug Free America commercial featuring Henry Rollins
I could make the case that if it wasn’t for this song, the last played at a Bowery Ballroom set in February 2009, I would not have started rock nyc, “you don’t have to worry about us, we can look after ourselves…” a girls note to god , is Gareth’s mash note to the 21st Century – Grade: A+
Written in the key of E flat with a throbbing R&B inspired bass line, it was the perfect backdrop for Hollis’s soaring vocals and the springboard that launched the band to popularity.
The tune has a really fun, funky beat. It’s quite intriguing because it mixes in totally unique sounds and riffs and combines them with a few simplistic elements, making it holistically one of a kind and outstanding.
