It was a quiet lo-fi, almost intimate affair, with a delicate and soft drumming, a sweet acoustic guitar, some dance-y rhythms and often three-voice-male-female harmonies. They started with a minimalist instrumentation, and then, little by little brought more people and more instruments into play.
Praise the Lord and pass the soy spread my hero Morrissey is heading to the United States this fall and is actually coming to my state. This alone is cause for amazement. Who the hell comes here?
Whitley has that old time passion for rock music, and could discuss it all day between changing his one year olds diapers!!! But how good is he? Pretty excellent if the acoustic guitar break on the overwhelmingly moving and awesome “Calling All Gods” is anything to go by. These is a soaring big time rock anthem but it isn’t a self reflected glorifying song, at 8 minutes plus it takes its time to make its point.
Beth Ditto, who embodies her lyrics of “i have faced my fears, now i can move in the right direction”. She just glows with the joy of someone who’s moving on from past turmoil and is, well, headed in a new direction.
The album is good, the song is awesome and Samantha Urbani is soooo hip (check the video below of her getting a lap dance) and cool that she is One Direction’s resident bad boy Zayn Malik. WHich makes her the envy of half the girls in the US of A.
All this talking about illegal downloading, made me read and think about it. I understand the music industry wants you to feel guilty and to persuade you it is totally stealing and that you are the worst person on earth, depraving artists for doing it.
When speaking to most ‘hard’ rock bands they will offer up props to KISS in some way or another. A great example of KISS spawn is The Black Veil Brides- there is no doubt that KISS took music to new levels but really now, when can all this end?
“Rock Of Ages” would be much worse if their hit job was on a genre of music, or simply songs, that required talent to perform. From Journey to Poison, this is really naff material. And unless you consider the light voiced Tom Cruise doing a preposterously over the top “Pour Some Sugar On Me” anything but vaguely indifferent, you won’t take umbrage at the music.
Daniel Clarkson and Jefferson Turner sadly fail to mention the band at all. And with only 70 minutes to cover 300 characters, and spend 20 minutes on a game of Quidditch, it is hard to blame the game English duo. Indeed, the only thing you can blame them for is tailoring their show to preteens and my being miles away from the target demo.
‘We have all been shattered by the loss of Scott Johnson, our friend and colleague. He was a lovely man, always positive, supportive and funny; a highly skilled and valued member of our great road crew. We will miss him very much. Our thoughts and love are with Scott’s family and all those close to him’.
I personally find her to be a walking nightmare and aside from a couple of good tunes- more flash than substance. Tony Bennett on the other hand and decades of croon behind him and pretty much owns his niche now that all the others have croaked
it is about the musicalness of words put together. Pauses, beats, repetitions, it is a rhythmic art form and because of that, because you are waiting to hear the words again, it bears repeating over and over.
Justin may be too young for this to be considered his grown-up album, more like Bieber Mach II they loved you when they were tweens can you keep them through their teens. Otherwise, the Apple is awesome.
Sorry – Friends – Best couplet in the Universe, wonder if they can pull it off live: “the situation’s not progressing and ethically it’s pretty fucked but every time i see you it’s just never enough.” Grade: A
I cannot say I was very impressed by her Pitchfork-proclaimed-best-new-music title, but there were so many fans pushing, trying to climb over the barricades, so many people backstage obstructing the view, so many police officers trying to contain the crazy fans that it was hard to tell.
Saturday night, the man is literally jumping for joy as the sold out room filled with teen to 20 something girls sang to, sure “We Are Young” but also EVERYTHING ELSE. EVERY WORD. RELENTLESSLY! Overnight sensation at 30 years old, Nate has spent the year watching fun. sell out room after room and, probably, wondering how the hell the dance rock band’s ode to failure, Some Night, became a feel good ode.
Since I’m officially on holiday for summer, that means a lot of road tripping about and parties to attend. Here are the top ten songs for any fun event this summer:
At first I wasn’t so sure that I could appreciate Johns new chill, but I do. At times he sounds a bit like John Mellencamp and Willie Nelson fell in to the Kitchen Aid and someone’s hit blend. Everything I’d hate right there in front of me.
This feels like the first day of summer, a crystal clear evening with just a trace of cool in the air and one of our great indie rockers Kurt Vile and his band the Violators kicking the lo-fi claim to the floor as the sun begins to set on an hour long set at Summerstage.
Yeah bad pun perhaps but WHOA what the hell is Rotten doing?!
Apparently Paul gave um meat while fishing, with the revelation that a fish’s life is “as important to him as mine is to me.” Now, Sir Paul says, “I would never go back. I enjoy being vegetarian, It’s a thrill and I can walk past a field of animals with a clear conscience.”
Cults’ music has this sweet retro sound, building at each song a catchy power-pop borrowed from the Supremes or some other 60s Phil Spector’s band, with Madeline Follin’s powerful and childish vocals and a few dance groves underneath the apparent ballad style of the songs.
I want to see if Tyler can bring Goblin to life, I wanna see if he can pull off the serious intensity of his songs without the posse, without the teenage hi-jinx. And if he can, the sky is the limit for this giant of hip hop. Frank Ocean will just have to wait.
I was walking back and forth along the sidewalk during the first half of their performance, as the police wouldn’t let me stand still, but I managed to find a spot close to the stage later on, squeezing my way through a sea of people packed like sardines.
It is three years since we Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed, and two less than great and an iffy live show later, I am ready to use those fingers for crossing and catch the formerly(?), currently(?) great Welsh rock band one more time, at Le Poisson Rouge on Friday. Then rushing further down town to see the Mynabirds late show at Mercury Lounge
Scottish singer Amy MacDonald has a lovely litt to her voice which would singlehandedly make her more interesting than 90% of the people you listen to, but she can also write a song, and that always helps.
The Cheryl in question is Cheryl Cole and the dance track is as ordinary as her name. However, I do think more people should go by one name, starting with Carly Rae Jepsen. If I have to type it one more time…
Samantha Urbani is a star in waiting and this song is tremendous, all clickety clackety beats and a morally ambiguous come on so sexy it is just about impossible to resist. This is a real big song for me right this second – Grade: A
The musicianship -which was kinda hidden, under the surface, comes right to the front in 2012 They were Brit Invasion inverters, they are now elder statesman masters of pop pomp.
‘Work is cancelled!’ as he said with a big smile at the beginning of the show, looking at the crowd filling the club. Indeed, it’s hard to stay up till 12:30 am during a weekday, but who cares about work sometimes!
I was so caught up in paying attention to all the details, and I realized that the song/lyrics and video totally don’t match. The song itself is so dynamic, and the video seems to be incredibly one dimensional in comparison.
am not a country girl- I freakin hate nature, but for some reason this same visual conjures up every late June. As a kid there were trips to the beach or the country but this image seems more like Kansas or something- no clue
Metallica has now decided to get involved and they have recorded a public service video to try to help catch the guy who did it. Metallica cares and it doesn’t seem to be about publicity, as Morgan’s mother said that the band has been supportive from the outset
The mental institution them with the hypnotic sound was just intensified by Colin Mouldings adorable mouth. Seriously get a load of it. I’m surprised he wasn’t a pin up and where the hell is he now anyway? He’s the British David Cassidy.
Kreyshawn’s Canadian buddy is coming off a very popular album, Visions, and an instantaneous sell out of Mercury Lounge to be followed by an instantaneous sell out of the AMEX presale of her October 26th, 2012 gig at Bowery Ballroom.
144 tracks of live acoustic Ryan spread across 15 vinyl discs…with a download card featuring all 144 tracks PLUS an additional 74 digital-only bonus tracks (yup, that’s a total of 218 tracks) all in a heavyweight cloth box
I was gonna write about disliking bands because you don’t like their names the other day. I’ve never listened to this Swedish folkie because his name pissed me off, but this acoustic song with a strong nasal voice on top is filled with good songs. “1904” is my jam of the moment and if it lacks shading and drags half way through the answer is simply. Don’t listen to it in one sitting – Grade: B+
Sorry – Friends – New Brooklyn band alert but don’t fall asleep, really. This is a great, punchy pop song with an addictive tambourine shaking hook, and a sly sexy come on: “Why don’t you come on over to our house, now” – Grade: B+
Well, I don’t think this is going Top 40 anytime soon. I don’t think one non vegan will drop the burger upon hearing it but it is a nice vegan club tune. Meaning its nice to have a ditty about your lifestyle,
On their new album, the dB’s move away from their original edgy power pop sound and move alternately into smooth grooves and sounds from the Summer of Love
Green Day has been trying hard to sell a punk rock image despite of having repeatedly selling out,… these guys even performed with U2 on Monday Night Football in 2006 and appeared with Lindsay Lohan on Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards the same year!
We rock critics, bad ass bloggers, whatever the fuck we are, are part of a dying breed. You can’t make money making fun of pompous ass rock stars and you sure can’t make friends being on the side of the angels
Quite honestly, this is Big Sean’s song. Although Wiz Khalifa’s verse was better than Chris Brown’s, Big Sean’s rapping was the best I’ve heard in a long time.
The band sent me a stream of their first EP, The Killing Spree, and it won’t play but I am assuming it kills because, honestly, McGrath’s is one of those guys you just gotta wonder why more folks aren’t loving his sardonic, heartful songs.
Nothing so clean about suing Sony Pictures Entertainment for back royalties on merchandise- and can you imagine how much that would net? Cassidy is heading in for 10 million stating he was shorted decades ago
For a $10. ticket you buy a chance to sit in a recliner on the stage during a Pearl Jam concert as well as get to attend a pre-show meet & greet with Senator Tester and members of the band, as well as have dinner with the senator and Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament
he balcony was quite high, but it didn’t stop the Gaslight Anthem’s singer to go up there and fall flat on the crowd who received him quite well. Everybody seemed super happy and he went on stage as if he hadn’t done anything out of the ordinary.
Ugly bovver boy rockers put on lipstick and heels and make the oddest looking drags in existence while nailing down glam rock classics like this one – Grade: A
Tuesday night was not a good night to drive eastbound in LA, there was a traffic jam on Sunset boulevard, and it took me way too much time to go to Origami Vinyl! It is on the Dodger Stadium route and there probably was some baseball event, but this did not prevent the store to fill up for Superchunk’s Mac McCaughan’s set.
the joy of the song disappears into an ambient fog where Mary seems to be viewing the kids from a distance, Winters Of Discontent seem to be twisting the mood, it is a like a sulky teen brat moping in his bedroom (they should cover the Beach Boys”In My Room”). It is a perfectly self-obsessed.
