Here is a question for you pop pickers: if “Part Of Me” was Katy’s first single, how would it be doing? Yeah, I agree. It is really lousy and it sails in on the video, the beat, the divorce, the Grammys and jer fan base
Violence – Cam’ron – Off his masterpiece D.D.E., he is a staccato death threat featuring ODB at his most threatening. The album itself is a long responde to Biggie. Grade: A-
There was a rivalry at the time that got many a fist fight started. As someone who did time in both the Boston and the New York scene I can tell you first hand that Boston had the most psychotic scene of all.
‘Slowly to the Shadows’ is precisely a little on the creepy-spooky side, slowly expanding its dark sound for 4 minutes and half with Carpenter’s baritone vocals backed up by J. Explosive’s sexy drumbeats.
So what’s up with Notorious B.I.G.? I know he’s legend, I know he died young- that’s it. Til I was introduced to the song “Juicy” a story of the rise of a boy who went from nothing to wealth.
I guess there certainly is a fascination about such a beauty and the beast coupling, but I still wonder how does Manson do it? He actually looks uglier when he doesn’t wear heavy make-up
So nobody wants to distribute his documentary? What a surprise! But it is in fact strange he cannot find anyone interested by an Elliott Smith project, he was definitively not a huge star, but he has a strong cult following
With all due respect, when you get to Patti Smith you’re about two steps away from Pete Seeger.
”We need another musical revolution, which has got to come from the roots upwards. I’m waiting for that to happen, for the younger generation to shake it up again because it fucking needs it.”
RUN DMC’s kid 17 year old Diggy is thorough on this soul hop album of intense beauty, smarts and prettiness. I am not crazy about Diggy’s voice, but the songs are all the bomb, especially “88” and “Unforgiveable Blackness” and thematic he worries about the devolution of the Black American dream. Grade: A-
Working up to my week in albums column, I tripped over two new excellent rappers. Both Digy and Baze are serious stuff. Diggy the better rapper, Baze with the better pop instincts.
Two guys and three back up musicians playing blues and rock but mainly blues, one of them moves the other one sits behind his drumkit center stage and bangs em hard. And they performed for three quarters of an hour, then the three musicians left the stage, and they played a s duo and then all five played together.
An overlong hour song set was more than a taste but even from a distance the band had an excellent dynamic, seldom jamming, always at service to the songs, and with a pretty good leader in Turner, they had problems making an impression.
It should be simply amazing, a fusion between the cold from Sweden and the heat from the Sahara-Malian desert, although José González’s family is actually from Argentina and his music has always cultivated a unique hybrid form of hypnotic krautrock and Afrobeat
It is as predictable as I thought it was, and it is very sad in a way. It shows she was not clean as her supposed friends had pretended she was. She was still using
The whole “Mr 305”, fake laugh, studly stance just kills me every time. This dude has more confidence in his machismo than Chuck Norris. Yet I love his music, because it is so cheesy.
And I think about the whole, with the racism, when people love when British people sound like American black people.’
If I remember correctly according to this album there were only five years left of Earth.. where are those fleas the size of rats and rats the size of cats anyway?
These styles included melding live-action photography with animation, 3-dimensional sequences and kaleidoscopic ‘rotoscoping’ where film is traced frame by frame into drawings. The entire process took nearly two years
Sealed With A Kiss – Brian Hyland – 50 years ago: it was all about how his voice jumped an octave between “let’s make a pledge to” and “meet in September”. Today: it’s all about the harp at the beginning. Grade: A
Nobody should be fooled by her apparent folk-indie-gentle-guitars sound, as her songs were fierce and tempestuous live, Sharon seemingly engaged in a battle against herself
I am really finding it hard to believe that actor Johnny Depp and industrial rocker Marilyn Manson will soon be collaborating on a song and yet it will definitely be happening.
the slow tune could easily be qualified of ‘country’, but Beck’s vocals are definitively too familiar to be missed, although there is something about his voice that sounds a little different, is it the ageing?
The Doors are one of the most influential bands of our lifetime. There are times when I shun them as uncool and times like right now, when I am stunned at how thrilling they can be. This video couldn’t be more perfect.
I’ve seen Kiss a coupla times and they always deliver the goods whether you want them to or not! Blood spewing, stadium flying, ear cruching gum smacking pop metal and why the hell not? Really, there is nothing wrong with giving people
May 19th would have been Joey Ramones 61st birthday. There are those of us who were (and are) in awe of what this lanky bean pole did for rock and roll. I do believe he single facedly made being ugly sexy as hell.
they have been inspired to learn more and care more by listening to our music. I think, therefore, that the Reason Rally — like Bad Religion — can be very inspirational.’
Really, they were one of the biggest rock bands of all time, how do you ignore them. Really, this was Wenners way of saying this is my bat and my ball and if you don’t like it go fuck yourself.
A long haired dark glasses wearing smarmy pervy character on all the talk shows. The guy was on the Dinah Shore Show, Mike Douglas Show.. and even all the game shows.
In two charts, for the first time ever, 10 Irish boys like you lots and lots and lots. How does this happen? No idea, but the tween girls npw have 10 potential replacements for Bieber. Davy was irreplaceable.
was shocked to see One Direction -Simon Cowell’s suggestion that X Factor contestants make a boy band, at # 1. This is an Irish band, and I am not certain how the US heard of them at all. Then again, as the daily Telegraph noted, “clean cut, wholesome, middle class parent friendly pop: cute boys advocating puppy love. And what could be better than one cute boy, if not five?”.
So it looks like the Hunger Games Soundtrack won’t be the dog I was hoping… er, expecting! Sometimes Burnett gets it right. Remember his work with Costello in the 1990s. No gueeses on how Arctic Monkeys were last night?
Though I didn’t like them nearly as much at T5, I can see how I might have preferred them if I was a teenager myself. As an adult, between the new album and the performances, Wolf Gang are the best pack around.
I mean he has played the weirdest and the most eccentric characters, and he is quite acquainted with the music scene, so it should not come as a surprise that he wants to team up with… Marilyn Manson?
First of all, in order to be protein deficient, you have to be calorie deficient. Everything you eat has at least some protein in it. Therefore, the only way to not get enough protein is to not eat.
I saw Ceremony a few weeks ago, they were a real fury on stage, and when I re-imagine the energy of this song played live, I would have never come up with this sort of story for it
Apparently, it’s time to put the baby in a carrier and hit the stage. The thoughts are now that the mega mother will embark on tour soon. Husband Jay Z was reported to be in talks with Live Nation
A top purveyor of Chicago electric blues, he started his career in Muddy Waters band and steered through the the 1960s influencing, well, everybody. All those Brit blues guys, Clapton, Green -the lot.
We’re sick and tired of girls getting up there with dancers and karaoke tapes in back of them. No fake bullshit. Leave that to the Rihanna, Smhianna and anyone who ends their name with an ‘A’.’
Forgive me for sneering but I have no idea what there is left to be said about being a rock star. We are at the point where I myself could write it and I neither rock nor am I a star,
Weezys home is on the market for $1.7 million dollars and is listed as a ‘celebrity mansion. The house has five bedrooms, five bathrooms, two half baths and a “beautiful, spacious open floor plan.”
talk about consensus opinion, all these people knowing watcha doing before you do it. What a drag!!! And pity the poor reviewer, who, if he ever ever did have an original idea in his head has had it kicked out by every body else by the time he catches the concert, and writes: “No surprises here”.
McLean said that he is starting to think towards retirement but before going there, he has put together a new documentary, Don McLean: American Troubadour, that is airing on many PBS stations
News that this eagerly awaited album will feature folk standards leaves me with this great urge to crawl into a ball and go to sleep and the addional news that a children’s choir is included makes me wonder why they don’t cover “Career Opportunities” as well (check out the last song!! -at least I hope it’s the Sex Pistol)
4.14M English people have bought the sucker. Er? Look at it this way, there about 61M people in the UK, so that means 1 out of every 15 man woman and child own this piece of crap,
That is what a real good concert can do… take over your fave track list! Though, at least three of these songs are on my best of 2012 list and only one is by Odd Future.
I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning is the best album of all time lyrically, musically, and content-wise. It’s pure perfection that is so deep and thought-provoking and will forever strike a chord in me.
But, for the casual music lover, I can’t see Spotify taking over ffrom ITunes. And for the younger music lover, I can’t see it taking over from YouTube. It seems that when the pre-teens get into their thirties, even $10 a month for unlimited music will sound pricey.
The Titus Andronicus LLC Mixtape Vol 1, is posted on their tumblr and available for free download! But since it is big file, with 23 songs and a few surprises such as covers (Weezer?!)
What is he trying to tell us, exactly? How don’t we know it? Were we born under a rock? Have we been asleep all century???? Forget century, have we been asleep since the 1980s? Or is he just trying to make fellow fathead Dave grohl’s ridiculous analog argument look bad????
