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.
Madonna travels with a 200 person entourage that includes a dry cleaner. A dry cleaner. Either she is a slob or she has a strange laundry fetish or most likely shes snorting the cleaning chemicals.
Did I say quiet? Man, I could have heard a fly moving a single wing, and when some security guard’s walkie-talkie made a sound in the middle of a song, it was received by one hundred shhhhhuts from the audience.
The message is … we pay for a Big Mac, maybe give me some good beef in there. It’s really a political statement we’re making.”
As long as she has the club kids and her ‘monster’ minions I suppose she has a career. She was wise to market herself to the esteem deprived misfits, once they find a hero they don’t let go-
neither Brown nor Drake was present when the police arrived on the site, but the rumor is saying that the fight was about Brown’s ex girlfriend Rihanna, who has recently been dating Drake.
“Well you know what, I always get to this point and go ‘well nothing’s going to top that’, and then something else comes along. But I’ve gotta say, it’s going to take something very special to top that one.”
Marilyn Manson will headline the Sunset Strip Music Festival, on Saturday August 18, with punk rockers Bad Religion, and The Offspring. So far, the acts have only been announced for the last day of the festival, and they will also include Steve Aoki, Far-East Movement, Black Label Society, De La Soul, Dead Sara and the Mowgli’s
The advise is pretty timeless, especially the part about shaving your legs. French girls will never have nice thing till they learn to shave all parts of themselves with hair, ame with hipie chicks.
Things are really different than they were 25 years ago, and that’s what makes Born This Way so relevant for me…We’re socially in a different place and it’s OK, we don’t have to all slice and hate each other anymore.”
This cover is so horrible that at first I thought it was a joke. When you do your own shoutbacks a song sounds cheap. “its a cruel (its a cruel!)”, for $5.00 you could get some dude off the street to do that for you instead
I can live with Carly rae for the song of the summer, better than Gotye. It is a cheerful ditty and very easy to sing, with a simple enough lyrical kiil, “Don’t maybe call me, definitely call me” is what she is really saying.
You know all those weeks on the charts? Adele still hasn’t gone Diamond. So what does that mean when the most popular album in years and years can’t move 10M units? It means album sales are dead.
Swedish House Mafia come across all old school dance syle with a soaring synth that is like a tidal wave foaming up and spashing down. But the song is a little weak kneed and the mainman a bit disinvested – Grade: B+
After driving from Virginia through Tennessee…crossing the Mississippi over into Arkansas…then stand-still traffic for a solid 3 hours somewhere outside of Little Rock…turned into an outrageous traffic jam party complete with Tweed rolling and bubble blowing…finally we rolled into Waka somewhere around 1 am.
The song itself seems a bit repetitive – almost like it’s the same chorus repeated over and over again – yet if you listen to both the lyrics and the intricate layering of each instrumental sound, it all starts to make sense musically
