An exciting day! New Santigold, Marilyn, Elvis, Rufus (MY GIRL THINKS i’M GAY FOR HIM), B.o,B. , Beach Boys (and it is really good)… and the Harrison demo shows King exactly what it means to release demos.
Somethings Gotta Give – Frank Sinatra – Johnny Mercer wrote over 380 songs and had more hits than either Irving Berlin or George Gershwin. Here, Sinatra shows why. Grade: A
A quiet, but quietly delicious moment, to cool down her feverish brow: like Maureen O’Hara, Kathleen is either dashing through the hills of Ireland chased by John Wayne, or packing her bags and going home to her brother, or playing patty ingers in the holy water.
The mood of the show was totally informal and relaxed, and he was alternating between standards, instrumentals, covers of famous songs and his own compositions like ‘Ruin My Day’, ‘Same Mistakes’, ‘Knock Yourself Out’, while sipping his coca-cola in a large glass
Now Steven is pitching chicken. Yup, Burger King chicken strips has a brand new guy. You thought that the King was scary looking? Check out the commercial! I suppose the money is good and the exposure is outstanding but I’m really stunned to see such a legend selling fast food.
That musicians are now speaking out against Village Voice Media’s refusal to take down the Adult section of Backpage.com where pimps advertise the sale of girls for sex is significant
super producer Nigel Godrich was there too, and I was kind of expecting God-Thom, but no, he did not showed up; anyway, he would have probably triggered the apocalypse, seeing how many fans were there, with their complete vinyl collection under their arms.
Imagine Bryan Ferry singing lead on an early Shins track with the piano taking top honors and an arrangement that sounds busier than it is before ascending into a psychedelic jam and there you have it. The first release on Wesley Wolfe’s tiny wittly named Tangible Formats label.
The Smiths were one of those bands that we will love because they fit in their time so well. The Smiths were a great example of the turning point of new wave/emo/alt. They were a bridge of brilliance, so to speak. A band I will always love and never ever want to age
the big news is that Thom and Nigel played a few unreleased songs from Atoms For Peace, the supergroup made of themselves plus Flea from The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Joey Waronker and Mauro Refosco,… and of course we have some YouTube videos, in five parts
It would be cool if it was [released] this year. I always want to release music as soon as possible, but more and more I’m realizing it’s something you almost have no control over. We just never want to be in a position [where] when we put out something, we feel could’ve benefited from more time”
On one of those special weeks of pop in the city )(next weekend is pretty awesome as well), Scissor Sisters at Bowery Ballroom wins the place of honor. BB is T5 -where they are playing later this year, it is a small, first rate room and although it’s a Sunday night, it is also a rare oppornuity to see a built for Arenas dance band in a intimate quarters!
White will be at # 1 in the States this week as well, so good, somthing we can all agree upon: White killed it. Now, where is Ed Sheeran, has he finally slipped out of the top 10 (he is at #11!!). What else? Congrats to Rufus, now all he has to do is release “Jericho” as the first single.
youth of America’s opinion notwithstanding, Carlu Rae’s single is pretty damn catchy and deserves its success. More than I can say about Train or BoB or Gotye -though, if pop music is meant to be popular, it is hard to deny gotye’s popularity…
RHCP’s best song is also their most generic: a drug drenched Kiedis self-portrait completely overwhelmed by Fleas’ stupendous bass licks, which own it completely. The lyric owes so much to rap without actually take anything from the genre and it builds to a crushing mirror and anti-American image that at first seems like a metaphor but at second glance is a self truth. This place is their mesh of DNA. Grade: A+
And, if you need another evidence that visual art and music are totally intertwined: Cats Stevens, Joseph Arthur, John Cougar Mellencamp, David Bowie, Marilyn Manson, Paul McCartney, Kim Gordon, Ryan Adams, Joni Mitchell,… all terrific painters!
Free of charge and not having to smell anyones sweat I sat back and watch Jack White and his band of merry makers on two cameras. A cute idea to have it on ‘venue cam’ and,’garys cam’. Gary did a nice job. Who the hell is Gary?
while I absolutely agree that the likes of Britney Spears has buried the hatchet in the back of any concept of live music, it is ridiculous and in astounding bad taste to drag poor Lisa out of her grave to suing for her supper.
As for the future of DRUGS… I obviously have a few things to figure out as this was a completely unexpected turn of events. I will let you, the fans, know what the future holds for Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows soon.
I know they still have fans, but touring is one thing, and I am very skeptical about that new album. I read that their last one, ‘2300 Jackson Street’, was not very good, so what can we expect 23 years later?
was sorry to learn that effective tomorrow (Monday 4/30/2012), KISS-FM will be merging with KISS-FM to make way for ESPN-FM, thereby giving ESPN a tremendous chance of picking up Yankee games for the radio.
Jackson is infamous for his smooth sound and timeless work. The guy has been around forever but his music still has relevance- and another nothing to prove persona. I love the idea of improv for the set list.
I’m just more drawn to things that are more in that range. I love dance music, too, and I think it’s cool. But as a songwriter and producer I’m more drawn to those more live elements.’
These Machines – the Dandy Warhols – Ten albums into their career, these glam garage abattoires of sound don’t need me picking on them. So I won’t bother. This is more of the same with a coupla experimental tracks, a lot of guitar based New York 1970s updates, and, er, “16 Tons”. I’ve heard the new Brian Jonestown and it is better than that. Do with it what you will. Grade: B+
Johnny Rotten was such an overwhelming vocalist that for the seven minutes (on the extended version) as he spits and scats his way through the Stooges classic, you can’t help ignoring the rest of the band. But this belongs to Paul Cook and Glen Matlock who find and groove and ride it into the ground. Grade: A+
Linda Ramone, Tommy Ramone, the only survivor of the band, and Editor/JRA Chief of Staff John Cafiero were at Amoeba to sign ‘Commando: The Autobiography of Johnny Ramone’ last Thursday night.
By all recipe I should hate this crap. Hand clapping? Girl group back up vocals? yuck. Keyboard tripping solo’s? Jesus in any other forum I would be screaming for mercy. Instead I am screaming for more.
The story line is cliche, a girl falling in love with a boy and trying to get him to notice her. However, the ending was a twist when the boy she was trying to pick up was gay the whole time
Last year’s album was pretty good and their first two albums were both excellent. Plus Ian sounds like Jim Morrisson and is an opinionated guy and lead guitarist and songwriter Will Sergeant os a pretty damn good painter of the pix I’ve been scoping on line are anything to go by.
Among the I-wouldn’t-mind-for-an-encore-bands, the buoyant, fresh from their Coachella performance, Grouplove which are headlining the fest, the girl-group 60s-inspired duo Cults, the pop-operatic Shadow Shadow Shades, the cinematic eclectic pop Milo Greene. But, and not least, there is also the pop electronic Canadian chanteuse Grimes.
Charles is 88 years old and had cancelled a gig in Quebec on April 14th… I feared the worse. But then came the statement that started this post: “None of the clauses were respected, and there is no reason for us to take the stage with him owing us so much money already,” he said.
Yousef has captivated millions with his Cat Stevens work and has carried it gracefully throuhg name change and personal changes. His voice remains true and there are many performances recorded to prove this. I had no idea he was working on a show, but it seems a wonderful thing
Mike D has put together the work of artists he likes and, since it is an art museum after all, I couldn’t really make sense of his description of the show before visiting it: ‘a grown-up theme park, a Six-Flags for adults’.
Grading my post? This one is pretty lousy, I couldn’t get a handle on The Men song, and it ruined the entire tone for everything that followed. . I try for at least one original thought per review, and here I haven’t managed one all combined… no wait, # 8 is pretty clever… I was gonna give myself a D+ but I am upgrading it to C-
Perhaps I could stomach these terrible, terrible, ridiculously over-rated albums, if these pinnacles of pop perfection weren’t so chuffed. What the hell are they chuffed about? Are they deaf? Can’t they read the sales figures.
The more I read about them, the more I realize they are stunt specialists. They have claimed to have released music by putting USB sticks in apples and selling them in Brixton market, to have been caught robbing raccoons from taxidermists and to have joined the Nation of Islam?
They dressed up in ladylike gloves, pastel vintage dresses and flower crowns to mark the occasion on Tuesday. Taylor wore a cream 50s-style slip dress complete with gloves and pearl earrings.
For a love song, it sure isn’t mushy or cliche. I especially love the way he sings the line “I’d listen to a piercing squeal on a loop to make this real with you”; you can hear the intensity in his voice. He’s an incredible guitarist, which I find that I overlook because I typically fall in love with his vocals
The video done in soft light with symbolic flash is peppered with photographs and home movies of Furstenfelds daughter, Blue. A beautiful little girl with a wonderful father. A campaign pioneer for fathers rights after his marriage ended less than amicably. The video suits the song very well.
They said to have worked on Hollywood film scores, which works perfectly to their cinematic compositions filled with sonic swirls, techno beats,… yeah I totally could see epic pursuits and weird apocalyptic fantasies going with that stuff, but this is what bothers me, if it is potential movie background, is it enough?
Betting on rock and roll death is a suckers game, for one thing ask not for whom the bell tolls, etc. etc, and for another, life is way too random and for a third… well, for a third I would’ve bet that Robin Gibb was gone before Levon Helm.
The Nightwatchman is Morello’s alter-ego and an outlet or his political views, and the documentary has apparently followed Morello to 41 countries during his World Wide Rebel Songs tour.
Sure, the masses will gossip about the actions of the great and nobody is claiming that there is any reason why Bono shouldn’t be gay if he wants to. I mean, he has a dick, he is a dick so why not suck a dick. right?
“The Horse attack the song with zero reverance, as the sloppy guitars wail and Young yelps, ‘I comef rom Alabama with a b-a-n-j-o on my knee!” Together they make ‘Oh Susanna” feel as turbulent as ‘Hey Hey My My (Into The Black)'”
I can understand why people hate Maroon 5 and No Lip Levine, but the band is terrific live and they can really write a pop song. “Payphone” is gonna remain on the charts for the rest of the year.
Is there any reason why the first quarter of 2012 has been bereft of country after last years banner year? None that I can think of. And this is about as lousy a chart as I’ve seen all year. The blind leading the deaf leading the mediocre.
Anything with a self-referential “poor boy” in its title is half way there, evem if the rest of the name is crap, and any song with a calliope backing track to open can’t be all bad. This piece of torn from the pages of his diary, jinhle is the best on the album because it is the least assuming while nailing a bracing sneer – Grade: A
This was basically the tone of the night, three down-to earth guys, not taking themselves seriously, having fun despite, as I discovered later, the gravity of the lyrics of their songs.
think fights are not only pointless, but extremely immature. Fights during a hockey or rugby game? Sure whatever you’re playing a sport that is rough by nature. Drunken bar fights? Understandable since both parties have presumably had their judgment removed by the effective application of alcohol. But school fights and ghetto street brawls are, in general, stupid.
Interestingly enough, back when Wentz was in Fall Out Boy, he did the entire tour in a cast and was still as energetic and active as ever. As soon as he injures his ankle, shows are cancelled for The Black Cards.
