It is Kayne West’s directorial debut, and it reflects what he stands for: the grandiose, the over-the-top and the ridiculous (I am especially saying this because of Kim Kardashian, who seems to be obsessively decorating his left side these days).
The difference here is that its wonderful. Im not going to say its ‘amazing’ or ‘awesome’ but it is very pleasing to the ear and harsh contradiction to the frat boy Blink 182 alter ego. Live they are goose bump inspiring recorded they just make good sound,
Most of her songs were about love or sex and this one time she tried to venture a little deeper she basically fell off a cliff. What was she ainging about anyway?
Unknown bands taking on cover tunes and making some waves. Its a very cool idea if you do it well. Set it Off does it very well. This video actually inspired me to go hear more of their work. Had they not done this cover and not been posted up on a slow news day I may never have given them the time of day..
The album will be out on May 29, but it is not the first time that Scissor Sisters have shown their great sense of humor as a certain Dave Grohl pretended to sue the band for $75 million in 2010
The House That Heaven Built – Japandriods – Hand clapping, footstamping, yelping hook, a raw rocker vocalist and a tune worthy of Superchunk – Grade: A
At 41, he is not the young adventurous musician coming up with all this weird palette of incredible original sounds, but he still can play them very well, doing in succession ‘Where It’s At’ and ‘Hotwax’.
he starts softly making his guitar sound like a sarod slowly gliding seamlessly in to Duane Allman’s classic “Martha” and then it slips sweetly into sotto voce of his wife Susan Tedeschi
The slow thrust beat on this one was a fantastic pull up song. That is- you have your windows down and the ‘tape deck’ full blast so when you pull up to any destination you sound cool. Now its all ghetto crap, 1982 not many13 yr old girls with spiked hair and a nose ring around suburbia, let alone driving a car.
you don’t have to look very hard to download any album for free, it is just a reality of the internet. And what about Spotify which basically robs the artists, paying them ridiculous amounts for letting people stream albums?
I applaud Stern for pulling the plug- he didn’t wimp out cuz the kid was a pint sized thug. I am really tired of society using the ‘awwww’ factor. Screw that the kid should be rapping on his own stoop and not on television for all to judge.
Screeching like a banshee with her black hair flaying and three keyboards and a a sound loop around her, one guy on keyboards and guitar, another chick on keyboards, a drummer and Terra Lopez herself fiddling with nobs before moving her hands mid-air like a refuge from a Lew Grossman novel where the sun never sets though it damn well should.
the LA Times is pointing out that Lisa Marie sold much of her stake (85%) in Elvis Presley Enterprises in 2005 to the company CKX, so the decision would not be entirely hers. But what would stop a company to make more money off Presley’s corpse?
Words of affection so personal, a whispered conversation between the two: “listen to your Daddy’s song, making love is wrong…” The song is adrift in time, it is like a hug between a father and child, “We believe that we can’t be wrong” is such a proiose for a happy, endless childhood. It makes me miss something that never happened to me.
If you have not seen this band live find a date and go. This is one group of musicians whose talent just keeps going strong. We saw them last year and I was shocked at how true and powerful their energy is. C’mon aren’t they supposed to be a bunch of geezers? Far from it
What a tremendously boring chart! What a supremely tedious, treading water bunch of songs. Individually, there are some good and some bad ones, but collectively I can’t keep my eyes open
Of the Three American Idol contestants I like, I like Lambert mosts, and this terrific dance album deserves its success. Meanwhile, how is beach house beating out Best Coast???
I Want U Back – Cher Lloyd – Yup, another English chick singer, former X Factory, dance pop phenom. But Cher is really cool, she looks loke a pixie, the thumping keyboards is a first rate hook, and she has a great come one, “Remember all the things that we did first?” Grade: B+
The new songs are played straight up, with Dave’s mumbling vocals and spaced quietude , fronting a band who can’t do much but work on the songs but tell us to clap. There is a reason why Phish are such stick in the muds on stage, the music is hard to play. M&A have precisely the same problem.
the same confidence in the vocals and some classic catchy melodies, but still, the new songs sounded a little different with more exotic twists than ever. It is a little difficult to talk about songs you have only heard once live, but there definitively were some Samba-like bouncing rhythms mixed with vocal harmonies
How I love Warped and how I adore how they stay so cutting edge not only in the bands chosen but in their operating procedures. Warped Tour as a business is one of the best run operations I have encountered. They have it all figured out.
I just read a review of the band in New York Press, who compared them to a ride on Space Mountain -yep, the eleven years and counting band, lead you to those kinda comparisons. Lead by Danny Barria, who works the sound with the heel of his shoes, and sings in a manner that belies the distancing
Their style was nervous and badass anxious from start to finish, beaten by restless beats produced by their two drummers Jamie Levinson and Matthew Clark, decorated by the elaborated, textured reverb-soaked guitars of Alex Even and Gregory Roberts and haunted by Patterson’s voice
rock nyc wonders, if these tickets were being stolen and Ticketmaster were not being paid, do you think TM would be so indolent and lazy about the problem? Where os the police? Why are they not shutting down TM until they fix the software? This is theft, shouldn’t there be somebody held responsible?
Outernationals bring their firebrand form of rock and roll tonight to Dominion at 428 Lafayette. They ht the stage at 10pm for the grand tour finale. “FROM TEXAS BORDER TOWNS THRU ARIZONA O’ODHAM LANDS TO SAN DIEGO, THE GULF COAST TO THE PACIFIC THEN BACK TO TEXAS TO PLAY WITH CALLE 13, THRU CHICAGO ALL THE WAY TO THE ROTTEN APPLE…’
Paul Simon said that he will never record with Art Garfunkel again, and that a reunion between the two is very unlikely, a ‘moot point’ as he put it. No, it has nothing to do with the two being in bad terms again, it is just that Garfunkel has the same trouble with his vocal chords
Super heavy kinda sucked and no tour was forthcoming, and I guess the Stones are stilling working on next years tour, but after that? This would appear to be a way forward for Mick. Who wouldn’t want to see Mick perform a night of blues classics with Beck on guitar?
There were a boatload of people sad to see Van Halen cancel the duration of their summer tour. All those tailgate plans dashed with the swoop of a pen. After coming back to some rave reviews the hype machine has shows selling out in record time. Van Halen were back and they were killing it on stage.
What I am claiming is every thing they touch they bring enormous passion to. The entire album brims with this passionate over the top zenithed out intensity and love. Maybe Eutopia take themselves too seriously, but maybe they deserve to.
George Jones a pillar of the country world has fallen ill a few times lately and it seems this time he a respiratory infection has landed him in the local hospital. He is undergoing testing and evaluation for a lingering upper respiratory infection that has been bothering Jones for nearly two months
Teenage Bass – Shit Robot – DFA’s resident real deal DJ takes, not a bass line, but a lick, and runs variations of it, in complementary keys, with drum patterns submerged and emered in different layers. For seven minutes – Grade: B+
Tristen has a certain charm but also a certain awkwardness, and after awhile she seems frustrated., with a wry revealing aside and a snide “I’m gonna ask Justin for his autograpgh. To put us in our place?
Billboard served up the glitz like your great great grandmother throwing a tea party with finger sandwiches and white gloves- fun for nostalgics sake but a horrible drag to endure. Don’t believe me? How the hell did Adele win best ‘Alternative Song’?
She was one half of the 1970s as surely as Prince was one half of the 80s and Biggie Smalls one half of the 90s. Her effect on dance through her (lack of presence) is definitive and the building blocks of Industrial, tecno and house.
When Shikari perform live though, they will leave you exhausted yet satisfied with their incredible showmanship. Energy is never lacking when the guys hit the stage its intimidating.
everything about Best Buy is excellent, from its 85 foot LCD Marquee to its state of the art everything down the basement, from its smart as hell, half GA seating and half SRO at the foot foot of the stage standing. And most of all, its many many nooks and crannies from where you can perch and see the stage fine, this is the club that sets the standards.
Yes, streaming does make you a slave to the internet but lets face it we all are anyway or you wouldn’t be sitting on your ass reading this right now. We are constantly connected wirelessly or wired and so streaming becomes a fabulous offering not unlike free samples at the grocery store.
liars lie and playas play and at least there is this: No Jay-Z for awhile and after that pathetic track for his daughter, good riddance. I commend the sin, hate the sinner but love the sin if you will! Indeed, here is a list of artists we hope will follow in his footsteps…
The play will offer audiences “a carefree story of good vibrations set in the nostalgic, happy times of the 1960s Southern California beach community,” according to Surf Productions LLC.”We want to capture the essence of what made the music great,” they said of the production.
Here is the problem, and it is not the Old School nature 1990s quotient hip hop travellers, it is the lack of a really big name. From Slick rick to Salt N Peppa, the last hit these guys had were in a previous century
‘There’s a need for a place where fans can go to interact with their favorite entertainers, listen to music, watch videos, share and discover cool stuff and just connect. MySpace has the potential to be that place.’
The episode has nothing close to the imagination LG shows every day of her life. And Simpsons has shown very, very often. With a wealth of ways to go, the Simpsons leans back on the tried and true. Again. It is time to pull the plug on the Simpsons.
A couple of years before Mick Jagger legitimized the Stones also ran on SNL, Hatfield beat him to it during a daytrotter session. Hatfield’s up and downs with touring all well documentated (by her in a memoir) but never before has “if I could stick a pen in my heart, spill it all over the stage…” seemed less histrionic: a glimpse into what it takes Juliana (and Mick) to get up and do it – Grade:A
“The diversity and strength of the music SummerStage presents is arguable as well rounded and representative of New York City (and the World) as you will find anywhere, and Im extremely proud of that.”
Starting anew, Beckett says that in a band “you’re a bit tethered to what you’ve done before.” Now that he’s solo, he’s able to “focus it all in, and hone it and follow my instincts.” He’s doing it how he wants, free from the reigns of other’s input.
I have to repeat it: he had a normal dose of prescribed meds the day he died, hadn’t drunk any alcohol nor taken any street drugs,… no cold turkey, no overdose and all other stories you may have read or heard are lies.
I got there later than I wanted to but I got there in time to catch some great band with a great crowd on a perfect late spring day. WCCC has been around as the hard rock station of Hartford CT for longer than I have but still remain current and keep rock alive in this lame city.
The song itself is your typical “we broke up and I miss her” song. It kind of has the overall message of people change and I guess we changed because you dumped me but I wish we could go back to the way things were.
First of all why should I forgive Chris Brown? I wasn’t the one whom he assaulted, he didn’t do anything to me (or to Cheryl Cole), I have nothing to forgive him, if there is some forgiveness to occur, it’s between him and Rihanna. But then, abusers, especially physical abusers, are a special species, there are actions which are truly unforgivable.
I caught Sinead and Van Halen earlier this year. The VH reunion beat out the Beach Boys gigwise, so if you have tix and now aren’t going… well, it sucks to be you!
