Kids In The Street – The All American Rehects – Not much, but not much with a melody and a back beat. the lyrics are nowhere, but on songs like single “Beekeeper’s Daughter”, what they lose in coherence they make up for in Beatle references. Grade: B+
Nialli Horan said: “The craziest thing was supporting US boyband Big Time Rush – all the fans were wearing our T-shirts and holding One Direction banners, too.”
The Costello, though a live album, is stupendous. Everything you hoped for. I can’t find the Laura Marling but it’s out there somewhere. Norful is old fashioned Gospel in a year of new fashioned Gospel.
In a tech obsessed time, we love machines with the same fervor we live loving things. This is a sleek zooming dance machine, a pure genius of throbbing beats manufactured with a wiley synth hook going high and higher and a jolt ending. Grade: B+
Saturday Night Fever was released in late 1977 but its musical height was already passing. In 1978 Chic released “Le Freak” and gave birth to the synergy that would create New Wave. Chic set the stage for every pop star on the charts today,, Trammps are the template for House and even dubstep
Saxman Geoff Blythe (whose resume is staggering and includes working with Elvis Costello and Nick Lowe. As well as being a founding member of Dexys Midnight Runners) and his merry men of GI Blythe have recorded a new LP called “Lost In Space”. A brass fused frolic that is aggressive and melodic and incredibly unique.
It’s so raw and real, and really emphasizes the lyrics which are beautiful. “If you’re lost and alone, or you’re sinking like a stone, carry on” is a nice message that is truly accentuated further by the clean and pure, unprocessed version
The OC quartet played an in-store at Origami Vinyl on Saturday night and did totally repeat their dynamic performance, up in the store loft, which doesn’t allow any safe stage diving, but the spirit was there, as their music is definitively mosh-pit-fun-crowd-surfing material.
an elegant solution to question of money and design. It was a beautiful thing, with close circuit screens on the walls and at the edge of the stage, gorgeous light shows, and by some wizardry sleight of hand, more depth than the Black Keys got out of MSG.
The hype never went down with a series of concerts recently announced in NYC and LA, and probably already sold out. And she sure knows how to keep the buzz going on as she was recently caught up in a hotel elevator with Marilyn Manson, while going to his room
Economically, it sure is a very good thing for Indio, and it is not a surprise the mayor is all excited about the news! The festival is growing to more gigantic proportions each year, and they are expecting 90,000 people per day for six complete days this year.
I suggest you rent Rude Boy. A Clash film to die for and well worth your viewing time. The Filth and The Fury is another fun movie you could rent if you need a bit of music on the box… cuz ya ain’t getting it from the Satellites this week.
all I can do is add my voice to rock nyc’s writer Cathy Dupuis and say I’m sorry I said his trousers were too tight. Meanwhile on Tuesday, BB Kings is holding a Davy Jones memorial with former band members past and present plus special guests. I doubt we’ll get any Monkees but for $15 I’m gonna go any way.
So whas it the completeness or the hit single that brought Perry back up the charts two years later? But one way or other, it has lasted her longerthan any romance…
I love ABC and now they will be my favorite network. Why? Cuz thanks to them we don't have to watch a 53 year old sinewy Botox blob roll around
wasn’t thrilled when I first head the Chis Brown a coupla weeks back, but giving it another listen just now, this os as straighforward a dance sure short as you’re likely to hear
Am I That Lonely Tonight – Justin Townes Earle – I did by a tix to see him at Webster Hall in May. Justin’s new album is so good I’d good I’d be surprised if it doesn’t make my top top if 2012. Grade: A
‘I don’t have everybody’s blood just yet, but I collected quite a few vials of blood and it’s actually sitting in my refrigerator as we speak. I’m going to try to take that same concept and put little bits of everybody’s blood in the middle of this record.
The guitars were loud and heavy, the vocals alternated between a raucous and a more pop-rock tone, the drumming was hitting hard at each low-tuned metal riff and the four
First off, its intro from Joey Ramone was haunting. I mean literally stopped me cold in my tracks. I suppose Joey was a fan as well. Two cool guys suggesting a tune. You’d think I’d love it.
“There are many things I can do with money. I can support causes I believe in, I can go to the Doctor for a physical… I CAN LIVE the life I deserve. I am not a money head, I have never chased the almighty dollar. I hate money, but money is the final arbitrator of taste, much more than you…”
You can now review your schedule as Tijuana Panthers’ retro-surf sound, and garage punk band fronted by a fashion model Kiss Kiss Bang Bang are added to Saturday, April 14 and Saturday, April 21 lineup, and punk rock band Abe Vigoda is added on Friday, April 13 and Friday, April 20.
I don’t know about Mary Magpie, but I an entirely psyched that months and months after youtubing “Lego Parts” I will finally get to own the sucker. The long nationally tragedy will be over.
The song? Thats a bit different. When Sean Paul is allowed a verse he does so wonderfully. Can we swap the leads here? Simple Plan are simply dull and boring, safe and bland.
‘I think there are some ages, like the one we’re living in, when the game is kind of rigged towards products that contain music – sort of like those cheap drinks you get in a bad supermarket where it says, Contains 10% juice.’
The Costello live is a biggie, I saw the concert and it was his best in years, Loudon is big, I am seeing him at the Town Hall around this time. Ceu? It’s been a couple of years and I adored her last album. Neon Trees are back! Isn’t it a little early for a new Train? Please say so…
My big song of the album is off my big album of the moment. After years of being less than thrilled by Earle, he has released an album that puts him right back at the top of his craft and a song that can move you to tears. Grade: A+
And since efficient Kathy Bates’ demonstration, we know too well what I-am-your-biggest-fan can mean: There are a lot of guns involved, a police standoff and more shootings and killings than in a Coen brothers’ movie
exhibits the best parts of The D.A.’s sound. The melody is displayed throughout the song by an interesting mix of bass, synth, and guitar with the usual backdrop of percussion. In the beginning of the song, the pop synth and indie bass mixture seems to set the tone of the song. That is, it did until a surprisingly raw vocal part hits you.
I’d heard of fun. before, but I just hadn’t taken the time to give them a listen. I was intrigued ever since I heard the single that they did with Panic! At The Disco titled “C’mon”. I decided to check out their album Some Nights.
Madonna has two later compilations, not including Bedtime Stories, and none of them come close to TIC, the 1990 death by disco steamrolling hit single album
It is bouncy and happy, with a retro, playful-meandering organ during the intro, almost too light to catch, then the tune takes off with old-school flower-power choruses and fast raging guitars culminating in a fuzzy and loud affair.
The Hotline gives free access to lawyers (First Amendment and government access specialists) in California at Bryan Cave, LLP, a major San Francisco-based law firm, ‘for questions about access to government records, to agency and local government meetings and to court documents and proceedings.’
The US is at war and “Part Of Me” is a truly lousy song and deserves all the indifference that comes it way. But as for romanticising war…
They sound as haunting and powerful as ever, I’m actually proud of this work. Take that you upstarts heres a rock band that putting your sound to shame.
Am I That Lonely Tonight? – Justin Townes Earle – Not sure about the rest of the album, but this is one of his great ones: a deep searing slice of melancholy and loss in a closed off car miles from nyc. Grade: A
The least I can say is that it’s a gruesome and bloody one! Over Marissa Paternoster’s bold and fierce howl, the two cat-lover guys of the band discover that the girl hides a gory habit, and decide to use some radical method to stop it.
Well first of all you get to throw down silly comments and reminisce about the past but you also get contacted by cool people.
The video is now taken down and isn’t anywhere to be found, however the word “faggot” was used by Barr. This raised a lot of controversy, and rightfully so.
that doesn’t explain the self-lacerating genius that was the Stone Roses. Charter members of “Madchester”, they were the missing link between booze and Molly in aural form. An old time rock and roll band with one foot in dance.
It intriguingly starts on the quiet side with a few gentle guitar chords, but the just-over-one-minute-teeth-grinding tune soon takes off with a more angry tone as soon as Circle Jerks/Black Flag singer Keith Morris launches his usual tantrum over furious guitars
Both are such angry albums, they are brittle, unbending, and self-righteous. Both snap at you all the way through. Neither are much fun for all their efforts. One whines, the other shouts, one accuses You, the other accueses “you”, neither has the lightest self awareness.
Khatib’s 50s-inspired furious bluesy style injected by a punk energy has often been compared to that of the Black Keys, so yeah, I suppose it was something to expect!
This is odd. According to the Brit press the hot boy band One Direction is under strict rule to not engage in any sexual encounters while in the US.
Back in my early teens I was the King Of Wuss when it came to music. A steady diet of Motown and soft rock. Paul Simon. Neil Diamond. Paul McCartney. How I loved them all.
The release is only about thirty minutes in length. This may be why its called Volume 1, there must be boatloads more material that they will allow out in metered doses.
Suddenly all these dance kids have a hero of their own, like the living breathing embodiment of Glee kids daydreams and really good as well: fun.!!! Story of the year so far. Gotye is too old and boring to matter much.
fun. firmly ensconced on top, Jely has been on the chart all year and is now firmly in second place. My bet is it will make its moves next week. Otherwise , just the usual suspects and Gotye who will always remember the time he ruled the world one deag mother at a time.
The Only Place – Best Coast – The lyric so simple it is addled and the melody so sweet you are humming it before you heard it. Zevon is rolling over in his grave. Grade: A-
was wondering till the end if they were a real thing, some electronica version of Mali band Tinariwen, but when the lights went on at the end of the show, I could tell they were just regular white guys,… from Seattle it turned out.
