So there is a quick glimpse of what the tweens of today are listening to. My bet is Lindsay is the more typical of the two. Thanks and a milling kisses to my Great Niece and Great Nephew for a sneak peak into what America’s yoouth are doing with their new found musical toys!!!
Music? There is only incidental music, but Snow White is played by Phil Collins daughter who looks nothing like him. My bet is she looks like her Mom and my other bet is her Mom was a model.
How many ways do you use “Lambourghini” in a rhyme? Raitt, Ward, Mayer and Florence Unplugged. The Raitt is self-released, the Counting Crows ain’t going nowhere.
1. It’s A Thin Line Between Love And Hate – The Pretenders – Chrissie Hynde’s greatest vocal achievement here, a near perfect rock and roll adaption of an r&b classic all ends up in body talk and hospital beds, and Chrissie digs down as deep as she can get. Grade: A
Just from her New York Yankees gig, Madonna “sold” 80,000 copies. And since the difference between Ritchie and Madonna was 150,000, there is zero doubt she would have entered the charts at # 2.
The excitement is building as Warped veterans and newcomers gear up for what may be the biggest tour yet. I am captivated that so many bands are returning, to see Four Year Strong and Mayday Parade is almost tradition. Taking Back Sunday is going to be facing a new sort of crowd.
So for people who cannot afford the pricey festival, or just don’t want to suffer too much in the Indio valley, there is… Brokechella 2012, at Six01 Studios in the Los Angeles warehouse district, on April 21, during the second Coachella weekend!
documenting the band’s farewell concert, Oscilloscope Laboratories states the film shows fans “an intimate portrait of James Murphy as he navigates both the personal and professional ramifications of his meteoric decision” to call it quits.
With its pulsating guitars, layered vocal harmonies, and an ethereal beginning, the upbeat and dynamic song transpires the sap going up in roots and branches at each of its energetic outbursts of bright guitars and soaring chorus. It is a sort of inspiring and vibrant ode to life, it’s rich and dense, elaborate and catchy, and it captures your attention till the end
Since chart tampering is ridiculously easy, perhaps Billboard needs to update the rules. For instance, disallow bundling unless there is an option to buy or not the new album with the ticket to a show. Also, perhaps sales needs to be moved from units sold to dollars generated.
I believe in ethical treatment of animals AND rappers. I believe PETA has better and more effective ways of encouraging a more compassionate world than throwing back juvenile insults
Oh my! Actually, Nicki looks a little bit like an Easter egg, she wears both its pastel colors, tender pink, light blue, chick yellow, grassy green, and its rounded form, as she exposes every part of her curvy body.
As for Aerosmith… I walked out of MSG after three songs a coupla decades ago, but I’ve mellowed in my old age so who knows, right? Of all the bands I truly despise, I truly despise them least
I am now on a quest. A quest to NOT have to se Cee-Lo Green on a show (aside from his own of course) for a week. This guy is really pushing me over the edge. Just seeing his mug sets my mood to bad.
I once wrote a short story about going on a date with God (it’s a long… er, short story), and we went to see Pulp on the date. If all you know of Pulp is “Common People”, get thee to Radio City on Tuesday (which still has tix available) or Wednesday (sold out) and see God.
Once you get past Jessie, Adele, Guetta and Sheeran, this is kinda interesting. Nicki at # 1, Madonna slipping right down and away, Bruce already out ot of the top ten, Moshii Monsters are the best kids band ever and Lostprohets are awful
Carly’s hit just caught my ear (and I wish she would give it back)… it answers the musical question, “If you have a good hook, how often should you repeat it?” The answer is: over and over and over…
Johnny 99 – Bruce Springsteen – In which Bruce begins his evolution from new Jersey upstart to American Citizen as he adapts a thick Arkansas hillbilly accent to a tale of poverty and injustice and, Friday night at MSG, retooled it as a death rattle hootenanny for the sets best moment. Grade: A+
Here we are though, watching these guys who’s fans are up past curfew to catch a couple tunes and scream. What I wonder is can the over 16 crowd relate? Can we get older fans to appreciate the bubblegum boys? Is there any talent or even showmanship for these British-Irish blokes?
It is a little bit like when I discovered that James Mercer of the Shins had bought this old house in Portland, without being aware of the fact it had belong to Elliott! What are the odds that two songwriters I really like have lived in the same house? This case is pure serendipity, but it’s different for Gotye since I don’t particularly like him
The Academy Is… is now The Academy Was. It was inevitable this band would fail based on timing alone. These kids came out of the whole MTVu scene and were run over by the likes of Fall Out Boy (who!?) and the lot.
The catchy tune starts with a few guitar-drum electric shocks (may be to animate the mechanical wooden doll-like woman laying on the table) and some oh-oh-oh-nos before exploding into a higher lever of power-pop chorus, that will certainly stick in your memory cells for some time.
The band sounds good, looks OK but are inert and boring. There is not even a light show and what lights there are are dim. In other words, they suffer from Indieitis.
This ‘fan’ letter was posted by Sonic Youth on Thursday on their Facebook page…. And got 2,000 replies! I am tempted to see it two different ways: 13 or not, the person who wrote this letter, has some guts to attack rock gods like Sonic Youth, a respected and adored band, which changed the rules of alternative-post-punk-experimental music! Yeah, you could think this is a clever kid, who dares to go contra-culture and express himself.
Welcome to Marilyns death dinner party! Yes its shoddy cliche’ but its so very Manson. We have already reviewed this wonderful song “No Reflection’ would be a great song to crack charts.
They both believe the armed militia, the thin blue line, are motivated by racism. And fear, while as class distinction and fear is a much more accurate demarcation
On album after album this year, the production values on modern Gospel albums have been at a moral quandaryt. Whether great or indifferent, they were also outrageously untradional. Here is a major exception. Smokie toggles between r&b and soft jazz, essentially landing at a soulful heat as he pulls his voice from tenor upwards. Much better live then on record, this is sung and played very well. Grade: B+
Fresh off writing how much I hate her English accent and then finding mmyself in the unlikely position of defending her on Facebook, then dismissing her new album here somewhere, this song actually is kinda fun.Grade: B+
With the house lights up, the E Street Band entered to a complete recording of Sinatra’s “New York, New York” before a blistering, very, very smart “Badlands”. The momentum took the band straight thru the lights dimming full throttle “We Take Care Of Our Own”.
As they were starting into their first loud and powerful tune, there was something that came over those in the pit, causing them to start thrashing and moving around. The energy in the room escalated and you could hear the band having their very own lyrics shouted back at them.
Simple, noisy, nasty drops are woven with intricate little rhythms and every single song has a crazy beat that you can’t help but love. Porter has only just recently come into popularity but, with the recent rise in popularity of dubstep artists like DeadMau5 and Skrillex, Porter will soon be at the top of everyone’s charts
Fans have lined up since Thursday evening in hopes of scoring a ‘stand by’ ticket to the shows. Standby since there are not tickets available. Those were distributed months ago as a first come first serve situation.
They had the most lucrative tour in the history of rock’ n’ roll, grossing more than $700 million, they should now retire! However, Bono has no desire to retire, although he has had his doubt, his doubt about the future of the band
We’d probably live on the Upper West fuckin’ Side now and have three fuckin’ kids. We might even have a divorce, like both be on our third marriage. I don’t fuckin’ know. He might be a playwright, [or have] his latest show in MoMA’
Mute the sound on this and it is every 35+ musicians ‘artsy’ video. I would say I’m disappointed in this wanna be Twilight Zone, Outer Limits 50s duck and cover influenced three minutes but its too comedic to say even that. What has happened to Garbage and who hid their cool?
what does it say about your respect for his work if you can tear up the pages and smoke everything? Anyway, the book is in fact a promotion for Snoop Dogg’s Kingsize Slim Rolling Papers created by San Francisco agency Pereira & O’Dell, and will probably be more a collector thing than anything else.
Does Taylor Momsen know Don McLean? Hard to say since she lives in such a bubble. But, she does a classic Mclean idea (can music save your moral soul?) proud on this hard rock ballad. Grade: B+
Jason took a moment and stepped into a monologue on calling a man named Jason “a mad man” and to get over himself, and only at the very end of this speech did he proclaim: “I am Jason.” They then tore into a hard thumping tune
there is no classic construction in the music, and everything looks possible,… fat swirls of sound giving birth to more grandiose electronic grooves, speedy accelerations and Doppler effects intertwined with familiar sounds of dogs barking, birds chirping or horse galloping.
It has a bad case of the shakes. It turns down the radio, turns up the window and drives from nyc to Memphis iand back n a mood of deep melancholy. Grade: A
Theraflu’ is the usual boring beat and flow dropping lots of fuck-bitch-nigger,… $2,000 pair of shoes,… and also this cheesy part:
The idea here is for gentlemen to aim their stream at specific strings, thus creating sound associated with that note. Once done and depending on the duration of the, ahem ‘performance’ the song can be downloaded and actually shared
The rocking song starts with a throbbing accordion, a lot of clapping-foot tapping, then these fierce trumpets and Miles Solay are announcing the revolt, with some mad dancing over Cumbia-inspired keys and in-your-face vocals: ‘The songs I sing, they can cast a spell/I don’t know no borders and I know them well/These rebels are microphones’
. ‘For the first two verses I’m complaining, but in the third verse, it’s tinged with envy as well,’ he says. ‘I’d like to be that age again and that silly, that excited about idiotic things. So I’m not being insensitive, just tired.’
So, Madonna steals the crown off Lionel Ritchie… just as we toldja she would back in Match. Poor, Lionel. His re-recording of his greatest hits with country stars may be a crime about nature, but it is a crime against nature that sold enough to be # , but Madonna swiped by bundling the album with concert tickets.
The return of the tweens! If you include Carly, that makes four spots. Ps: while a # 1 would’ve been nice, fun. Has a tight grip on the spots, and given the hard beats on the track, and given the competition, and given it is a single not album and therefore has legs, I believe congratulations are in order.
Three girls sing together with a high pitched siren out and the band enters like an indie punk outfit and exists like Sonic Youth. Shame this didn’t come awcross on stage. Grade: B+
It would be easy to get cynical with this outpouring of goodness spread on the audience by a band that dresses up like a gospel choir and wants to us to believe they all travel in a escaped-from-the-60s flower-power van. Haven’t we passed this since the cynical and grungy 90s?
The world today is so focused on the latest and greatest trend; this is just magnified in my generation by the changing times and the already limited attention span of the average teenager.
This band capture feelings in a net. Easily relatable and in proper form La Dispute oozes emotion in a darker sense. Dark but not depressing. The introverted art form of expressing thoughts with power and conviction and just a tiny bit of fear.
