A flat out masterpiece off her up coming album, stopped the show on Tuesday. Smashed, cascading piano notes beat on the hope disappointment choruses, while Regina gets her full fledged pop ballad on in the verses. This needs to break pop big time – Grade: A
The set was so well paced but it was hard not to be. Regina has so many great songs but is really a schticky chick: she pulls out the Music Hall “Sailor Song” and is as willing to go deep into her Russian roots and pull out a gypsy folkie refrain as an glammy popness or a classical U Turn.
But wow they are really re-launching this CBGB thing full time! A new location, a music festival and now a movie, it is difficult not to see an exploitation of the famous name behind all this
I’m not quite sure why I am even giving this the time of day, its really just a pathetic attempt at shock cuz it isn’t shocking me. Wear an outfit of human skin then maybe I’ll turn my head- this is just sad and desperate.
The movie closes with Conors scribbled lyric and him sitting and singing it, “I can’t live here but I’ll I’ll probably die here…” he moans. It is terrific. Better than anything on the last Bright Eyes
There was obviously some part of calculation in Obama’s decision to speak in favor of gay marriage, it was a very good thing to do, but it is a little laughable when you remember the president’s less-than-pro-gay-marriage declaration when he met with pastor Rick Warren in 2008:
Should there not be some sense of musical education? Should there not be more than just a boat load of standards? Apparently not. Maybe they were available for graduation weekend so they booked them since there were slim pickin’s?
Musically, it is awesome. T-Rex, Curtis Mayfield, Barry White and of course, the one and only Alice Cooper in a cameo.
What can I say, these people live in another century, in another geological period, they keep their women under Burkas, so Gaga in full bra may come as a shock indeed. Muslim extremists have the biggest problem in the world with sexuality, as they come just behind the American Santorum-type.
Mick Jaggersits on a tiny stage with the Ghost of Rock and Roll Future, upstart hipster frauds Arcade Fire, the pathetic excuse for current Ghost of Rock and Roll Present Foo Fighters, and The Ghost of Rock and Roll Past Jeff Beck.
I swore a lot and then I cried like a baby because I’ve never seen anything like that before. It was mindblowing.”
There were warning strokes and a mish mosh of other maladies all screaming headlines of the rockers imminent death. The dude was being circled by vultures for months
who will be providing the figures and why would they open their books and, how does this effect Pandora, where the music is programed more like a radio? What;s to stop a rock band giving bucks to Pandora for additional airplay which will push them further up the charts?
Justin Vernon is a lugubrious bore but his songs can hook you if you don’t have your guard up and while his falsetto at first sounds a form of torture Obama has made illegal against Al Qaeda terrorists (or soldiers: tomatoes, tomartoes), it has grown on me after being inescapable for years
Only The Horses – Scissor Sisters – A loss leader from their upcoming album, this is a disco ballad which takes advantage of Jake’s falsetto on a song that isn’t all there. There is better on the way. – Grade: B
it’s so bombastic and theatrical it could be an Arcade Fire tune sung by Nick-Cave-meets-Ziggy-Stardust, whereas its title is so long it could compete with any Fiona Apple’s song.
This is a minor masterpiece of mellow, far from Hollywood slumming, it is a very fine interpretation of some famous, some half forgotten , classic radio songs. If Rita chooses to do a follow up, may I suggest Bread’s “Everything I Own”?
She doesnt derserve ovaries. Perhaps the woman should put her tits back in her shirt get a lawyer and reclaim her spawn. Actually, she shouldnt. It’s actions like no action that indicate her former husband is correct.
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Tastebuds and Fellody want you to find the love of your life based on your musical taste! Yeah right, as if it was that simple! The true Lonely Hearts Club I suppose
In the current Rolling Stone, Against Me”s lead singer Tom Gabel came out as transgender (he wants to be a woman) and had this to say: “However fierce our band was in the past, imagine me, six foot two, in heels, fucking screaming in someone’s face”.
Dee Snider is a bit of a tool He looks more disturbing now than in full makeup. He is embracing his eccentricities though. First that bit on Celebrity Apprentice and
Lennon or Presley or Brown for lead vocalists?And really, are we gonna make Biggie just a member of the posse. How many guitarists are enough guitarists? Should we leave Whitney and Amy alone, is it too early to send em back on stage…
Let’s say you have a band you really believe in, what’s to stop you investing a million bucks and a team of assistants and buying up 40,000 or 100,000 units and letting the fans decide whether the band is good with all the additional publicity a hit album will get you. I don’t think it is even illegl.
Joey Ramones birthday is a huge event and tribute time and brother Mickey Leigh always serves up a good time. Say what you will about Mickey I don’t really think its exploitation its a living, yeah but I also think there is tremendous respect there. At least I would like to think so
threaten the Pesident who wasn’t way way way under the influence.
I have never seen the madman live and would love to, but the closest he is getting is the Mohegan Sun (July 5th), Northen Lights (July 11th) and Westbury Theater (August 1st). Isn’t it a little strange that Ted isn’t stopping in the media capital of the world?
What I find almost as annoying is the ego required to release a self documentary when you as a band have been around for a shorter span of time than my Doc Martins. Lets face it this is a brilliant way of cashing in on a career that has the shelf life of Wonder Bread.
Less a one hit and more a one world wonder, this is an excellently sculpted piece of reggae from the strange Israeli guy who is only still beloved by those who follow him. Or those who should – Grade: B+
When Ryan Adams played there, the .org all but crashed. I hopped in the subway at 1115am and managed to nab a ticket from the box office. Carnegie’s website just isn’t large enough to handle the occasional big bam boom.
‘a sonically-tuned venue with custom-built seven-degree canted gallery walls, strategically placed pyramidal sound-dispersing foam tiles, and a purposefully built listening room – all designed to build the best place to listen to music’
I’ve seen FYS live before, and I love their energy. The tune is very catchy, but is most certainly in need of a synth, which they dropped a while back. It has a good beat and is totally classic, nostalgic Four Year Strong with a bit of something extra.
Emily is Lennon to Charlottes McCartney (and Ann’s Harrison) Charlotte wrote “Jane Eyre” -only in a world with Emily as her sister would she be the second sister.
I know that we should always separate the art from the artist, but I often have a hard time to do so, especially when there are a lot of passionate ideas about politics, ethics or science involved. It has always been hard for me.
This sister venue to the infamous Greek Theater was none to please with the less fortunates drooling on their concrete. They run a respectable establishment, why Pitbull is playing there in August. How awful to have these louse filthing up the facade each evening
still go to clubs all the time, from Bowery Electric and Bowery Poetry -doors down from the old CBGB’s across Houston, to Pianos, Arlene’s Grocery, Mercury Lounge, to Bowery Ballroom all the way to Santos Playhouse, and none of these rooms, though they all have their good sides, has the mingling of event destination and familiarity
Micky takes his legacy more seriously than Davy held his. He has a better memory for his days in the Monkees. He embraces what he accomplished without the clowing Davy brought to it. At the reunion concert, the Monkees didn’t need Micky’s hard sell I Am legend. Solo, it might be very much a lesson in popular music.
What could possibly be the reason for all the rehearsing? One thought is that since singer Mick Jagger is scheduled to appear as both host and musical guest on the season finale of Saturday Night Live on May 19, the Stones might join him on stage for the performance
The song is a slow ballad giving a large part to Alex Ebert’s high-pitched voice and not too much emphasis on the music just played by flutes, quiet guitars and gentle drumming. It’s nothing like the happy carnival of feet-stomping-hand-clapping and drenched-in-the-60s-70s catchy hooks
Alpha Walker and Tamera Diaz did. What idiots, the pair demanded $5 million from Wonder and threatened to go to the media with a tale of incest. They later lowered the sum to $10,000 and were arrested by undercover police posing as representatives of the musician
With all that, why didn’t Lionsgate send it straight to video nstead of publicly humiliate the singer? What did they think would happen? NOBODY even heard of the movie at all?
This is a pretty impressive list, Best Coast, Lambert and Beach House are must gets. Plus, Conor includes that movie he did a coupla years ago for that charity and it is real good.
How is this for a claim to fame? I started listening to the Russian giant at the recommendation of Glenn Tilbrook, as Glenn attempted to explain that instant access and easy melody were not the be all and end all of music. The piano here is all cascading notes, like a man tumbling down flight after flight of stairs. It is unnerving – Grade: A
Weird to see them on a HUGE stage when just a few years ago they were on the stage at Joe’s Pub! They were a lot of fun but it felt very staged. That they moved from place to place on cue.
a great chorus expects a great verse and when each verse comes up; each verse leaves me feeling bored and confused about what Amy is even talking about. In “Hello” and “I Told You So” especially, Karmin’s rapping and almost-singing sounds very Nicki Minaj-esque and it’s really disappointing.
It kind of makes me feel like a little kid again. It reminds me of skipping down the sidewalk and not having any cares. The beat is super fun; every aspect of it appeals to me- even her voice. The guy’s vocals balance it out, not making it too feminine, but it still feels light and airy.
‘It was amazing just to put the record out like that. But then it didn’t feel like it really existed… But that was the consequence of what we chose to do. You can either get upset about it, or say, well, that’s not good enough.’
nyc scribe Cathy Dupuis is in Manchester, England, for her great-nieces baptism, when party animal Grandma Patricia Caudwell roped her to Liverpool for a magical mystery tour of Beatle spots in Liverpool. We stole the pix!
The tune is being used in the new film Dark Shadows, starring Johnny Depp. So basically this is a film taken from a fabulous original with a soundtrack of copies of fabulous originals which means, ain’t nothin new here.
I know that someone’s story is not someone else’s story, but this is too bizarre, the stormy relationship, the couple’s fight the day of the accident, the stabbing with the kitchen knife, the girlfriend calling 911, helping her boyfriend, then telling to the cops he had stabbed himself,… this is too eerie
To be honest there is nothing new about it. It is as if there were lost demo’s or something, it is that true to early Everclear. I suppose the die hard fans (are there any?) will love this. If you are stuck in the last decade, well hot diggity for you, you’ve got a new tune to love
