There is an undeniable similarity indeed, that crescendo with the piano, but her voice is auto-tuned-commercial-style, and for me, her song sounds so much like a bad remix ready for dance clubs, that it is difficult to hear the Arcade Fire song. But the most surprising in this story is that Goodrem had never heard of Arcade Fire… wow, Australia is really the last frontier.
is not unlike the pretty girl who keeps saying shes ugly to get the compliment bus heading her way, or is it? Stump seems the most un-ego driven artist in pop. He doesn’t hug a genre and he didn’t bow to Pete Wentz (then again where is he these days??)
So I went in search of Cate on stage, only to discover I missed her at Mercury Lounge in February and more fool me. Proof again that in the 21st century, you can’t keep your ear close enough to the grounnd.
”I was probably 12. He was super cool. You’re 12 years old and he’s the world’s most famous overgrown kid, who’s running around your friend’s apartment with you. It was pretty wild.”
Animals are kept in deplorable conditions and subjected to barbaric tests to make sure that shade of lipstick will do you no harm. The problem is the tests have been done thousands of times before. The results are the same, yet we continue to torture in the name of beauty.
A little on the skimpy side but the keeper is Joey Ramone and the the extended Ram, one of McCartney’s best solo efforts with an astounding 23 songs, are keepers. Is Lupe throwing down tasters for a new album? Yeah, it’s been two years.
I’m Still The Same Person – Sister Crayon – How were they last night? I dunno yet, but if this is anything to go by they were a haunted buncha kids with a good chick singer, sound effects and keyboards aplenty in this Sacramento indie band – Grade: B+
His set at Best Buy on Saturday night was the man we have seen for over 35 years; playing his solo material, more,than that, his 21st Century solo material, looking back atsome mid-90s solo career highs and throwing in an occasional Jam song for taste.
Opening up with a Damien Rice tune, playing a few unreleased songs, and even an acoustic rendition of “Seed”, it was certainly eclectic. The live version of “Girl You Should Have Been A Drummer” was so great and his energy was untoppable.
I may not be a big fan of the new LP but I am still a very big fan of Garbage and want them to continue to perform and record. There really arent band out there that offer the same intelligent lyrics delivered with a disturbing edgy quality. I say we hold on to these guys as long as we can.
They are like waking dreams of life on what might well be the best coast. It beats down on you what might be the endless summer, heat of the day till the night when the beach is closed and aging and longing and time in the only place moves slowly longingly away.
So Beach House said no to the agency, which hired a band (named Sniffy Dog, according to the AV Club) specialized in making sound-alike songs for ads…. Is that even allowed? Why powerful corporations always get away with murder like this?
even if you have already seen all the funniest moments in his ode to totalitarian”The Dictator”, there are enough good yucks along the way to make it a pleasant killing of an hour and a bit. But if the coming attractions made you think you were in for something as great as “Borat” or “Bruno”, that ain’t gonna happen.
we got an offer to HEADLINE in NYC at irving plaza july 14th. we are excited to get to play an EXTENDED set. seriously, thank you all so much.
Of course, it would not matter that much if her age was not so much part of her dramatic story, lying about her age was a way to make her life even more compelling, although 16 is still such a young age to get married!
the fans started writing in and demanding it, how much they would love it to happen. There will be a section in the middle of the set where, of course, I will talk about him and have a couple of special songs and certainly a special moment.”
Now that the question is no longer when they graduate fom Rockwood to Mercury Lounge (Satuday at 7p), it is what will Darlingside, a mersmerizing mix of indie rock and strings, do now they’ve got there. Their 2010 EP is addictive and the new songs show no rust so I expect it will be excellent. Secret Ingrediient: the lead vocalist could lead Average White Band
Tulisa is yet another X Factored in star and Saturdays the sort of band that hasn’t cracked the States since Spice Girls and the top three songs should remain there through August.
I missed rock nyc’s Henry Sims turn as the “Cabaret” MC in the musical last week because a) I wasn’t invited and b) It was in Connecticut; so I have to make do with Cummings star making turn from the 1990s, where his preposperous ode to a chimpanzee takes a terrifying twist on the very last line, spat out with venom – Grade: A
That’s Mick Jagger at like 100 years old sounding freaking amazing and if he choses a group of people to back him up then he knows what the hell he’s doing more than I ever will.
Watching it is a little unpleasant. He is like the Billy Ray Cyrus of folk.It is a punishing self regard. Compare it to the last time I saw Kate McGarrigle on stage with Martha Wainwright, there the familial regard was so sweet. Their love shone off the stage. Friday night it seemed stunted as LW3 and his crack band, performed a very good set and yet a very sad set
In the US they were a one hit wonder in overalls and fiddle. In Europe they had marginal success but the band fractured leaving only Rowland and his followers- the talent of the band took off for other ventures, and it showed.
Yuck! I would rather change my flight than share some oxygen with that dumbass. Then he continued with formulas like ‘she was one of us’, ‘she was a committed Christian’, ‘She was a right-winger’, and ‘She came to hate the smut on the radio. She was not a fan of rap music at all.’
Resolution J4637 is a great name for a tune but an even better tribute to a man who’s dynamic presence changed the climate of music in his time. Yauch was paid fitting tribute by the Senate of New York
Bono, with all that superfluous money, it is now time to put an end on AIDS once for all, it’s time to put your Christian rock into practice, you have the power! Now you are like Jesus with a lot of money, I mean you already had a lot of money, but now it looks like a divine benediction, a sign of god
In her debut album, MIA protegee Rte Rte makes exactly one mistep, and it stars Ethel Merman. Otherwise, this is as bright and shiny a rhythmic artifact as the album cover, with MIA on 3 tracks, Robyn on one, and Akon on a song of the year. This is how modern pop is done. Grade: A-
Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole – Martha Wainwright – So, without further ado, Martha takes her place besides her parents and big brother as major as major can be with this folkie slash and burn condemnation of her famous Daddy – Grade: A+
Everyone in the Wainwright family became fair game for Loudon’s often acerbic music. Martha received a parental divorce notification in “Your Mother and I” and a birthday song for “Five Years Old.” His breast feeding son was the subject of “Rufus Is a Tit Man.”
I was real disappointed and it has me thinking whether I overestimated the album. Justin has perfected the art of fake intimacy, maybe he wants to try the real thing and see how far that gets him.
In anticipation of this full-length album, they are giving away their newest song ‘1997’ for a limited time, and you should definitively take advantage of this opportunity as the explosive epic track is as catchy as many of their previous and other energetic songs
Now I already knew Sins to be a wonderful intelligent guy with a hipster flair and a way with words but what I found most startling tonight was the watching what a brilliant actor he is. In his first production he not only stole the show he stole the hearts and minds of every audience member.
The vibe it gives off is so chill and makes me really happy- I was in an instant good mood once I heard it. It’s one of the best feelings, and I always got it when listening to TAI…, so it’s so nice to see that Beckett can still carry that out and bring me back those feelings.
Beth Ditto at one point, but may be you can’t blame them as the band didn’t seem to be really into it, Beth butchered a little bit the lyrics at one point and their arrangement was a little sloppy, but I would say in a good way! At least, they were not trying to take the easy road
The bounty was offered by some rich Persian-Gulf guy, who conveniently wants to stay anonymous, and who is using a fatwa recently put by Ayatollah Lotfollah Safi-Golpayegani on anyone’s head insulting Imam Naghi.
saw them last October opening for Screaming females and was suitably awed, and might go back in for another dip. Among other reasons, the Don Giovanni crew should be there and I am eagerly awaiting the debut Modern Hut album! I need inside dope!!!
Joey Ramone was many things to many people and most I have encountered found him not to be the most friendly guy, thus adding to his rock and roll swagger. I thought he was a great guy but my eyes were clouded with idol worship.
This is what we’ve what we’ve been waiting forsince 2005? This crap? It is like being mugged by a wet noodle of sound, from the woman who perfected the nursery rhyme singsong with “Extraordinary machine”, a twee singalong until she goes all husky on us – Grade: B
Summerstage has always been a blast but if it feels like a bigger, wider blast in the past decade, part of the thanks must go to Artistic Director Erika Elliott. rock nyc had the pleasure of speaking with Ms. Elliott and followed up with written questions. The interview will be posted soon but we thought we’d give you a brief introduction to the gifted woman.
these two went on and on about how good their music is and how they are going to save rock’ n’ roll,… as we say the shortest jokes are the best ones, but when this drags for a whole interview, is it still a joke?
This isn’t a happy, upbeat,dance hall type song and I’m glad that instead of trying to change the song into something it’s not, fun and Hayley Williams stripped it down to each core element that makes this song a fantastic one.
The songs on this LP were recorded from 1966 to 1969, so basically during my life span of birth to three. Yet as a young Hel I can vividly remember hearing ‘Cheer Up Sleepy Jean” through the wall as my sister and her friends squealed.
The future will tell if the street fair will definitively replace another defunct one, the Sunset Junction Fair, without its disastrous financial mistakes, but with a bigger lineup, some higher prices – benefiting the Los Angeles Arts and Athletics Alliance – this year’s festival promises to be a good one.
What crap. Slash is silly. Thank God for the hat or we would think he was Howard Stern but at least Stern embraces his age, Slash thinks hes 20. What he has done here is assembled a band with an Axl impersonator and made a song that will impress about 20 people and horrify their kids
Anyway, it’s R. Kelly, what else could we expect from a guy who was used to treat underage women by peeing on them? He comes and sings a sloppy karaoke number of a few seconds and calls it a performance
‘To everyone who”s given me the opportunity to work with them, from Marc Anthony, Enrique Iglesias, Jennifer Lopez, Usher and Chris Brown. I look at it as a platform to get to each other’s fans and give them different worlds,’ he told Extra.
Directed by Jose Vega, who also works with Muse And Music, the visuals are an animated wonder and I plan to write it when I can figure out how. As for Veronica, the one song I’ve heard is terrrific: sort of old school Brit rock with heavy keyboards. If you like their FB page you will see what I mean.
Their website www.sigur-ros.co.uk will have a special platform that will broadcast the album at 7pm in your timezone, as well as the album airing on certain radio stations and in record stores, making for 24 hours of Valtari. Ohh hurray for Australia you’re first.
don’t know Only Sons material particular well and though I did know “It’s A Boy” a dystopia about the pre-ordained manufacturing of a child’s life, and iit didn’t connect here. Jack’s voie is a little on the light side and taking up about a third of the stage, nothing he did could really connect with us.
of all the best seller charts in all the world, this best seller chart is the poppiest. This top 10’s idea of rock is Train, of hip hop is Flo Rida. And every single song is as catchy as catchy will ever get!
After White, Tank is the album to get The man looks like a Tank and has a pretty way with an r&b ballad and though he is buried alive in the usual production goop, the man has real talent.
