I am always amazed at how the organizers of this event make it look so easy. Face it you’re dealing with young bands with no cash, big ego and massive confusion and you do it for a day pack it all up and hit another city in the morning, Its insanity and it is fantastic.
Curiously, this is not destined to amuse children, because of the sexual content of most of their videos and lyrics… of course little kids like that too, so does Beth Ditto mean that people who like these artists are like perverse little 5-year-olds?
Pride of place goes to Justin Townes Earle at Webster Hall on Thursday , not on the strength of the admittedly excellent show he put on at Joe’s Pub some 4 years part, or even his dad’s uproarious story about Justin as a teenager hiding a gun, but purely because Earle’s new album is the best album of the year.
Keane over Richard Hawley? You’re kidding me right? How the hell did that happen. Incidentally, they haven’t released Hawley Stateside… what’s the hold up there? The Cribs? Good for them. And Whte hanging on. Kinda heavy on rock and roll this week.
Rita Ora, signed to s.carter’s label, is gonna cross the pond and make a splash Stateside. Perhaps it will finally break Tinie while it’s at it. Tulesa I am less sure about -it is really dance gussied up as pop.
Aha, here is the pop move we were expecting from the experimental band that heralded Brooklyn as the New Renaissance city. An entirely addictive piece of weirdness with speedy vocals and cowbells and lyric that seem as precise a metaphor as bees could ever hope for – Grade: A
The second to the last episode of SNL is upon us, poor Usher is the opening act in a sense to the big giant Mick Jagger finale next week. Personally, I would take Usher over Jagger…yeah. Will Ferrell hosting is a dream come true in a nightmare of a season.
But isn’t she going to get some bad rap for doing this? Is she selling out, cashing in? However, she is not afraid of the critics as she declared to the LAWeekly: ‘Best Coast is a brand, I’m a businesswoman’.
Being a mother is nothing, being a great mother is something special. And I’ve known a few, my co-editor Helen Bach is one, my sister Nadia is another. Childhood is our age of myths and a strong, kind guide, is eseential to a happy adulthood. It is nearly impossible to be a happy adult if you were a miserable child.
Last night our writers boarded a cruise ship for the Senior Prom. Well, Layna and Henrys Senior Prom, Mary just happens to be dating a senior so what a wonderful opportunity to get all three together in their finest threads.
It is not exactly a hologram though, May described it as ‘an optical illusion of sorts’ but what’s the difference at the end? Apparently their technique will be a stunning one since he added: ’People will come out saying, ‘did we actually see Freddie?’
‘I know Zooey is going to be great – she sings and writes her own songs just like I do, and we even have the same color eyes!’
Let’s face it Conan has become second fiddle cool to Fallon. Jimmy has the comedic edge and now most definitely has the musical edge with his Late Night program. The compilation will offer up songs featuring Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, Justin Timberlake, Eddie Vedder and Dave Matthews
If the rest of the album is as good as “The Only Place”, Best Coast will be huge. I wish Tom Jones would record a straight up pop album,. And I wonder about the McCartney extended. Oooooh, Richard Hawley!
In The Belly Of The Brazen Beast – The Cribs – The UK manufacture these brother boy guitar rock bands and some are better than others. These guys sing close harmony real well, not bad lyrics and though they are a little average the songs will get their claws in if you give them a chance . – Grade: B+
Cyr -Cate Le Bon – Another Bronte wannabe with a neat trick up her sleeves: she disrupts English folk moves with abrupt outbursts of hard rock guitar. The effective is mesmirizing alerness – Grade: A-
During a press conference, he explained why he was not putting this new record out via a label, but was rather releasing it directly to the fans. Actually, Iggy appeared quite bitter when talking about labels
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There is nothing worse than Gaga’s speaking voice. That old sleepy stoner drawl that literally makes me want to smack her off a chair. Speaking from the back of the throat slowly isn’t sexy or hip its fake and stupid
If you go back to the history of the project, it becomes really weird, as Andre 3000 was said to have been enrolled mid 2011, then it was reported that Experience Hendrix had put a stop on it in July 2011, then this past week, we got the news they were about to start filming
It’s a mixed bunch, most of em are terrible. Chris Evans was pretty good in his movie, but here Captain America is an irritating square. The Hulk (Mark Rufaflo) is worse, for some reason they decide Hulk can control his anger and fight as part of a team.. . when did that happen? Hawkeye is blander than blander, the Black Widow is losing her looks and Thoor looks like a male stripper.
Oh look at me, I am so cool and edgy, I am embracing black people’s music, I am so in touch with all ethnic groups! Yeah sure, except that the song has nothing to do with being in touch. In the video, you can see him surrounded with black voters, and reaching out disadvantaged people who are probably only earning the minimum wage
Leaks are planned by the way, there isn’t some covert operation of guys in ski caps stealing mp3 files and putting them on Youtube. Nope, they’re calculated publicity stunts that you fall for every time. It makes you feel as if you’re one step ahead of ‘the man’, but you aren’t.
Circle, Square, Triangle – Test Icicles – Blood Orange’s first band were an influential indie dance band from England and from (gasp!) 2006. Seven years later half the indie bands on Earth sound exactly like this: Fire Engines meets LCD – Grade: A
Back when the Beach Boys 50h Anniversary tour was just a rumor, Brian Wilson said that now his brothers Dennis and Carl were dead, he had no interest in playing with the rest of the band. But the money was so big he’d probably have no choice. Well, here is the Brian had no choice tour.
‘I think there are different kinds of arts, art can be different things. I think people should be engaged and involved in politics, it’s a bad rap that people think politics are just elections, bourgeois policy and laws, but politics is the life of society”
I felt like I was shot all the way back to the first time I listened to TRS; their music hasn’t changed at all. This disappointed me at first because I was desperate for something new from them.
Two years have already passed since their 2010 release ‘Contra’, and we hadn’t heard much from the Vampire Weekend camp, but it seems they are ready for a come back with their first live performance in about a year at Pitchfork Music Festival
No clue what went down to require Travis to have the ’emergency’ version. Perhaps it was caused by the idiotic neck tattoos, who knows. C’mon already this guy is the king of death cheating and now I’m getting mad,
From my mid Hall seats, Blood Orange failed to do much visually, besides twiddle knobs, spank his synth and play electric guitar to his back up tapes. But his songs are so great, he still managed to impress with. completely new to me, songs off last years Coastal Grooves floored me
Its times like this when you cant help but wonder why stadiums aren’t filled at the mention of his tour. Ok, he hits some tanked notes but over all- its sung so passionately that it really doesn’t matter. The details of William Becketts break from the band for solo adventures is irrelevant at this poin
This is a new festival but these guys know their stuff: from the righteous price ($185 for a two day pass), to a DJ list that includes, Bassnectar, Skrillex, AVICII, m83. A-Trak.. a tremendous list.
Lets see Barbara is 70, looks fabulous, and has had a rather cushy life considering the majority of her fame came young. So why bother? Well a home town show is always good for a pocket full of millions but its also a great way to get your name back up the buzz list
Willis will also get a greater share of royalties than before, as he was merely getting 20% for any song with the old deal, and could now demand a one-third for ‘YMCA’ which has 3 authors
Stronger” has been hanging on for so long, it will be soon duking it out with Carrie. Of the two, Carrie is a purer strain of country pop product, Kelly kinda knows what she is and is willing to bend mostyly because she learnt her lesson a couple of years ago and released her only stiff against the advise of clive davis. Plus? they are both American Idol alumni. Kelly would’ve broken through any way.
Carrie Underwood is terrible live and her dozens of pro country songwriters all sound the same. Norah Jones is the Ambient of music. And B.o.B. won’t get a hit off his crappy pop move.
Regina in Somalia is drinking too much, thinking on some guy (?), and can’t sleep because the couple in the next room is fucking to one of her songs. I saw her perform this with just guitar at the Beacon in 2009… quite simply superb! Grade: A+
She can’t dance, she can’t even move very well, and she can only command the stage through her voice. I don’t think it was an off night but I do think she was being very careful and it inhibited her performance.
investors are going to organize the first CBGB music festival, which will take place from July 5-8 and showcase 300 indie bands at many venues in Manhattan and Brooklyn, as well as film screenings, panel discussions, workshops,… according to the Hollywood Reporter it will be modeled after SXSW.
Last year I went to see Girl in A Coma at the Studio At Webster Hall and was impressed if not overwhelmed. But Alyson Camus caught them a couple of months later and was blown away, which suggest maybe it was me or maybe it was really early on the tour
Do they always ask the permission? Do they always pay the label they sample from? And why a lawsuit now, years and years after the release of these albums?
Chris Isaak is a perfect person to celebrate the Sun Studios experience. That rockabilly look and twang is actually accurate to what made the Memphis Recording Service the landmark it is.
It sounds a little on the scary side, 15 songs over 10 tracks. Lotsa mental didggery do and guests like Iggy Pop and ?uestlove. Make you feel any better? Me neither. Incidentally, anybody who has a question mark in his name is an asshole by definition and the Roots suck
100%, yes 100 percent of the take goes directly to Strummerville charity. Strummerville is a registered charity that gives support to aspiring musicians and help to projects that help change the world through music.
Whoever agreed to this deal should be fired, and if Live Nation continue to throw money away, the next thing they’ll be signing is lawyers documents as they go Chapter 11
For the first couple minutes I thought I was going to love this song. The music really is vintage Elton John and the verse voice is fabulous its the chorus that made me cringe. Its the “yeah” that sounds far too rehearsed.
‘I’m going to have embarrassing moments’, he declared to Rolling Stone, ‘and that won’t be fun. But that’s part of what talking to you is about – is hoping people will understand, and hoping they’ll be fairly kind.’
When did the world 'biopic' come in to fashion? I swear its a new one they used to be called biographys or documentary. Biopic sounds like a lab experiment involving
The floodgates are open and if you thought we had no attention span in the 1980s, you have no idea what it can be like in the 21st century: the immediacy of sound, choice, or life, is sci-fi like. If you stop and think about it, book and record stores died on us! We don’t have the time because we don’t need to give up the time.
In New York City, 148 people die every day. It is impossible to care unless they effect you. Oh, perhaps a baby is hit by a stray bullet in the Bronx, and you feel empathy and sympathy, but really really… life is for living
