A protest album in an age where the news is 24/7 and anybody who doesn’t get the message isn’t paying attention is, perhaps by definition, an effort in futility. And though lead singer Laura Berhenn has a terrific voice and can more than carry a song, first she has to write a song worth carrying. And after “Generals” and “Radiator Sister”. Plus her politics are puerile and I don’t like her haircut – Grade: C
No Hope’ is the first song from their upcoming and second album ‘The Vaccines Come of Age’ set to be released on September 3. According to NME, the album will sound ‘more intimate and close than the first record’, and was produced by Ethan Johns who also worked with Kings Of Leon… ouch! not our friends here!
The last time I saw the dB’s was over 30 years ago and I was not all that thrilled by the experience. But so what? With a new album to push, the reunited best band that never broke big boys have nothing to prove except that they feel good, Friday night at Le Poisson Rouge
So this is what former Boy Band superstar Gary Barlow got for a tremendous Royal Performance: 1) An Order of The British Empire (same one the Beatles got and Lennon returned) and 2) The number one album (and single) in the country. Those English are crazy…
Another heat seeking hit by the pop music machine. Ever since “Right Round”Flo Rida has been on a tear right up every chart in the world. This is his second smash and it isn’t even tied to anything. Sure I liked the Jepsen song as much as Prince Bieber, doesn’t mean I wanna hear it all summer.
I guess if you were a girl of a certain disposition you might find this enticing but I;m not and all I am wondering is why the hell Morrissey sang this with the Stone Roses in Barcelona. i think I blame Dave Matthews. I think it was he who initiated the entire guitar god as pussy willow. And no, the Rolling Stone interview didn’t help. Grade: C
“Who’s taking you home tonight?” sings Laura Jane Grace during the very first song of Against Me’s opening slot at T5 Friday night, “True Trans Soul Rebel” she replies on a sparkling new rocker that does the difficult. displaces concepts of dysfunction with axioms on lead singer sexiness
It is hilarious watching clips of Lamb Chop rearranged, slowed down, or sped up to have the puppet’s mouth move along to the words of the song and seeing Lamb Chop dancing around as both a puppet and a full body costume suit.
From hip-hop to house and all the way to dubstep Skrillex seems to quietly, probably the wrong word for the job, work his way into most sets. Whether your favorite DJ is steady like Deadmau5 or as mind melting as Excision, you probably have the stylings of Skrillex somewhere on your Ipod.
‘He was a huge part of our history which sometimes gets forgotten… mostly his legacy would be his songwriting abilities that he brought to Fleetwood Mac, which will survive all of us… If you look into our musical history, you’ll see a huge period that was completely ensconced in Bob’s work’
The duck lips pursed (don’t ya just want to kiss him daddy) and enough fuzzy lighting to kill the pain of his aged self cannot masquerade the horrible tune he has decided to use for a come back. I have a theory that if you use the word “rock” in a song, you’re trying to hard
“Forever” was that idiotic viral video of the dancing down the aisle wedding crap that had all the world going ‘awwww’ and me gagging at the hokeyness of it. C’mon people…quit being trash.
Kimberley Griggs is suing MJ’s estate for $1 billion, no less – but I guess she can, now that he is selling albums as if we were back in the good old ‘Thriller’ times. Kimberley is claiming she had an intimate relationship with Jackson in 1979 and so has inspired albums like ‘Thriller’, ‘Bad’ and ‘Dangerous’!
After Tupac showed up as a “hologram’ every corpse with a corporation is getting propped up for one last hurrah. Can ya blame them? Its tough to come up with new ideas from an expired product. So lets make digi-king and send him on the road!
How music works? What a vast and ambitious subject! and the duo Byrne-Butler will talk about the book ‘in the context of their own personal and professional experiences as musicians and music lovers’.
Give That Bass Player Some, Part One – James Brown – In 1979, Brown was zig zagging between hard business as usual funk and synth based disco funk and here the real thing won, though the chick backup singers may have been a balm to the age – Grade: B+
I ran into a super pumped fan screaming “I just wanna FUCK this SOUND!” Yes! Now I’m thinking shit is about to get dirty on the dance floor. It goes without question that Mimosa takes the cake on having the sexiest set at Wakarusa
I have to commend him for being able to deliver such a great performance while still doing more exercise on stage than I do in a month. Though unable to flail about the stage like Nate, the two guitarists on stage had just as much energy
In October 2006, Amato had an accident, he hit his head in a swimming pool and got a serious head injury that made him lose 35% of his hearing and part of his memory. But he suddenly discovered he could play piano beautifully and inexplicably
The former Tom Gabel announced a cover song. “Not a surprise because I am a transvestite”, she isn’t, she’s transgendered but whatever, “And because I fucking love the Replacements” she said. “But here is the surprise, Joan Jett is gonna sing it with me”. The audience seemed a little stunned for a moment before cheering wildly.
How long til this gets banned with that gun bong? This is basically a warped Napoleon Dynamite with foreign words- I love it. Its a mess and her voice is so annoying that I cant help but embrace it
Here in the States, we consider it a mix of smart and silly, we can afford not to care after handing King George his hat back in the day. Will Elizabeth Rex ever retire? Morrissey is considering it yeah, but Lizzy? I sincerely doubt we will ever see her leaving any way except thru Westminster Abby.
If it is true – and Buzzbands.la, which is always in the known for these kinds of things, still put a question mark at the end of the title – it’s gonna be big and in the tradition of the previous years, which have seen the likes of Ozzy Osbourne, Mötley Crüe, The Smashing Pumpkins, Slash, Public Enemy,…etc
Bob Dylan’s mom died in 2000, and Dylan, who seldom responds so clearly to a loss, wrote “set my dial on the radio, wish my mother was still alive” in 2001 on “Lonesome Boy Blues”.
Sponsored by KROQ, the 2-day festival will feature Delta Spirit, Anuhea, Jimmy Eat World, Rebelution, Beats Antique, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Jane’s Addiction and Erykah Badu’s new Twitter target, The Flaming Lips!
This is one of a handful of times where Costello the song composer trumps Costello the songwriter. This is one of those rare songs where everything is perfect: the mood of distressed guilt, help together by the girl back up singers like a Greek chorus, and a metaphor playing on the origins of the city name. And finally the horns, adding to its anxious beauty. Grade: A+
Armed with an equally babetastic and studly crew of RYTOR, Dreadlock McKleary, hoopin Hono and Tink, we began our Thursday with some funky bluegrass on the main stage with ALO and Railroad Earth, with some added energy from the our glowing ball of fire in the sky
Scissor Sisters have incorporated diverse and innovative styles in their music, but tend to sway towards pop rock, glam rock, nu-disco, and electroclash.
If you haven’t experienced the wit and passion of Ray Wylie Hubbard, this is a fine starting point. As Texas songwriters go, he’ll never have the gravitas of Willie Nelson, but in 2012, he’s more inspired than Joe Ely and less trigger happy than Billy Joe Shaver.
Iggy is a genius, Ginger Baker is legend and together they take a kid tune and make it an oom pa pa slow decent into auditory hell. But why? This crap is coming off of a new album in as tribute to The Black Keys titled “Black on Blues”. Why the fuck do The Black Keys deserve a tribute album
Well then raise your hands if if you have even heard of the band Animals of Leaders- ok those five people can go sit down now. This band has yet to truly ‘make it’ but they are very good (not great) and what is better to do when you’re not so fabulous and you need some press? Get busted
You see this guy right here with the green laser? Don’t fuck with everybody’s show. This is not a fucking game. You’re going to get fucked up and kicked out, I don’t want that shit. So chill the fuck out.’
The video link that was erroneously posted on Pitchfork by the Flaming Lips of the Music Video “The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face”, which features Erykah Badu, is unedited and unapproved.. Sorry!! We, the Flaming Lips, accept full responsibility for prematurely having Pitchfork post it.
If ‘Hey Jude” could take a sad song and make it better then there is proof that Alex DeLeon can take a bad song and make it worse. I blame the webcam. Everyone shoving their mugs up in the circle and hitting record pretending they sound good
Despite a vague resemblance, more due to the hairdo than anything else, I really wonder what made them choose this guy, he is not an actor but a drummer! And it’s kind of ridiculous because it looks like they are trying to match current Pop’s straight blond hair, but when he was Hawkins’ age, he didn’t really look like this!
There are a heap of Okies out there in ‘Merca so I say gas up the Ford, take the shotguns off the gun rack hire Aunt Weezie to watch the kids and take your old lady out for a good time of “Sugar Mountain”,
Sharpe is better than he looks, Regina gave away the album with tickets, so figure they are a dead heat. Not bad at all, his debut album didn’t even chart. Also? if you sold 22,000 units last week you had a top ten album….
Of all the pop charts in all the world, this pop chart is the poppiest. It is the mainstreaming of pop , dance, boy bands, and multitracking ad infinitum. And at its best, Flo Rida, Rihanna, Minaj’s song, it’s fine with me.
This is 1931 and Bing Crosby is definitely not the singer he would become, it almost sounds like he’s using a bellhorn and, the gilted lover story, is glazed over, only Bing’s pleasure in the puns remains. And the song isn’t much either. The big band behind himis just a coupla strings, and it doesn’t swing. But there is a glimmer here of what is yet to come – Grade: B+
In 1982 he started up The Smiths, in 1988 he opted out for solo and it appears 2014 will be his retirement. He simply acknowledges he is too old for rock and roll. Why on Earth have others not accepted this fact?
GG Allin? Buried with his song ‘When I Die’ (they don’t say under what form, a recording? A K-7? A vinyl?) and a bottle of Jim Beam…Really, not even $500,000 worth of heroin?
By the end of the set, the overwhelming smash down finale “Sun” , with a mix of dance and chants, they’ve sold me enough to wanna see them with the damn lights on.
So how does the big week of music measure up, you ask? Between the Beach Boys and Eric Benet and all points inbetween, it is a huge time for new album releases, but will anything last till this weekend?
Perhaps if he had not opted to hit the tons that pop balloons with their frequency we would be ok but the shrill “taaake mee hoo o ome yeaha yeaha’ made me want to not only kill myself but everything around me
Of course, the songs are off her upcoming album, ‘The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than The Driver Of The Screw, And Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do’ out June 19 on Epic.
The band performed “Our House” and “It Must Be Love” and were outstanding. The old man warble in the vocals was endearing- freakin love these guys and I demand that they tour right now.
Marky said, “Yo Chris, wha’diya gonna do now?” ” GOD PROTECTS DRUNKARDS AND FOOLS!”, I declared. “I’ll start my OWN band, and I’ll call it Stumblebunny!” I marched down to Max’s Kansas City and told them I have a new band and I want a date to play
the extreme right leader is not happy about it and is considering suing Madonna if she uses the same video in France when she performs on July 14 in Paris and on August 21 in Nice. Le Pen, declared: It’s understandable when ageing singers who need publicity go to such extremes. Her songs don’t work any more’.
remember seeing Neil Young in 1991 at the same venue, circa the first Iraq war, with a yellow ribbon around a tree mid-stage. A stupendous performance and if Neil is hard that good, it should be worthwhile.
My rule of thumb is never pick on people smaller than you are and NEVER write to please any one at all, and NEVER EVER EVER get too friendly with your subject matter.
