US Top 10 Albums, March 17th, 2012
I found it very difficult to appreciate the dense album and it left a weak impression on me. Three Houstons, two Adeles, and two perennial hip hop albums are the story AGAIN.
I found it very difficult to appreciate the dense album and it left a weak impression on me. Three Houstons, two Adeles, and two perennial hip hop albums are the story AGAIN.
New York Dolls went looking for a kiss, and this girls, equally lousy spellers, sure found one. Absolutely classic
am a Catholic but non-practicing. I found the lashing of Jesus Christ disturbing. Again, I am a bad Catholic but I don’t see the crucifixion or torture of Jesus Christ as musical theatre. I felt the 39 lashes to a great rock hook is surreal. Not sure how I was supposed to react to it? And the finale with Christ on the glitzy cross almost brought the audience to its feet. It was a bit too surreal for me.
Those who listened to the rock music gave more to the white group, but split the rest equally among the other three – in other words they weren’t punitive against the others as were the listeners of the white power rock
Aoki is your typical DJ trying to make it big in the world of mainstream music, much like Skrillex or DeadMau5. The difference is, I hear no sort of unique style in his music; instead, I see his unique style in the video for his song.
a unique feel that really gives the band something that makes them stand out. Also, the melody is super catchy and I can imagine it being on the radio, and stuck in people’s heads.
ATL is so similar to FOB in their fanbase and demeanor. Fun, young and energetic they capture the spirit of youth so well. As a side bar, why is ATL not more popular yet?
Unfortunately, in this universe, Rihanna is just your average stupid kid, taking on Twitter and Facebook (according to some gossip sites) to attack Brown’s new girlfriend and get her wife-beater back.
Prudential? Nice comfy arena, beer and dogs, all American experience with the all English computer boys? Caribou are the opening act but you can always go there late if two computer generated drags are one too much.
Cobain was such a Melvins fan that he used to drive them around in this van to their shows, and he had even drawn this Kiss mural on the side (The Melvins were big fans).
Rockstar Energy Drinks Mayhem Festival is an event that seems tailor made for a band like Motorhead. This years line up is the best I have ever seen and an event I simply will not miss.
The icing on the cake is that lady gaga has just reached 20 million followers on Twitter. 20 million? Wow, if each one bought an album… or a ticket for that matter…
– I like the beats a lot, maybe more than ever song I’ve heard this year. But the raps, while very strange, don’t quite gel
towering, thundering “Jesus Christ Superstar”, with the recently deceased Judas in a blue tux dancing across the stage and the very nature of catharsis and all the confusions of the show resolved in the glory of sound and beauty.
Their dynamite-like short songs were fueled with an endless raw energy sent in everyone’s face like the can of corona, or whatever brand it was, that I almost received in the head mid-set, baptizing me with some beer leftover.
As Martin climbed the rafters of confetti cannons the dangerous and spontaneity of ‘performance’ came to light. They had fun, the audience had fun and they did the job.
mixing 60’s pop elements with coarse vocals, whereas the crowd was responding to their punk attitude; one thing was obvious all of them wanted to have fun in the sloppiest way.
The brothers were Disney’s go to guys in the second golden age, the 1960s. Together theyw rote the scores to Mary Poppins, the Jungle Book, Bed Knobs And Broomsticks…
Her first single since 2009 is a masterpiece. It is instanataneously the song to beat. A piano (surprise!!) based track with echoey drums and maybe a little bit overproduced. But it is a magnificently strange thing
I consider myself well versed in his life and times and to this day hold him in high regard. This is what makes things like this so painful.
What this equates to is about 10 albums of unreleased material. Interesting don’t you think? 10 albums? That’s an awful lot of material if you ask me. That’s greater than most bands careers
April is going to be amazing’ says Goldenvoice on its facebook page, sure, you will be easily be able to go to four of five Goldenvoice shows every day!
He will go on tour though- as an ‘ambassador’. What the heck?! Get into training son don’t let us down. Even just do it for a few songs, don’t sit there in a chair.. you’re making our age group look old!
Both Iron Maiden and Van Halen have covered him and, er, he introduced the world to Sammy Hagar!
OK, a review of an album that’s a blatant lie. So what? So this. Stone prints hard hitting political journalism, they interview Presidents, and they have a clearly Democratic agenda. That’s OK with me. I’m an independent myself but I got no kick. Except, if they will lie about a lousy album by Springsteen, what else are they LYING about.
At his other band, Atlas Sound, gig at the Cedar Cultural Center in Minneapolis the weird bloke claimed the death of folk and rebirth of punk
On the the hand, Pissed Jeans were much better when I caught Ceremony headlining earlier this year, on the other hand it is exceedingly difficult this loud, drums heavy slice of punk. Yeah punk, not hardcore.
I know I’ve said lots of mean things about the band, but I have never said they’re bad live. Martin is energetic and handsome, all three songs were good, especially “Viva La Vida”.
It was an earthshaking hardcore sound, which resonated like a loud and painful agony, a violent number which took the longest time to start up, slowly building up in a sludge-doom instrumentation
As the iconic in his own write photographer recently noted to rock nyc: “Mick Rock might have shot the ’70s but I had it covered after that!
Kool And The Gang might be a nostalgia band but they are a completely pro nostalgia, capable of getting the mid-40 Van Halen fans to shake their ever widening booties
It seems like a never-ending quest, finding someone’s personality through some tastes or preferences, and the eternal question of which one came first, the musical taste or the personality? Which one did influence the other?
Alot of their work is programmed so it can be easy to dismiss as pre recorded. A light show and tons of smoke machines with laser makes small clubs feel like stadium and Delonge is able to fill a stage with his presence
See this is why some guys are legend. Lowe looks great by the way, all elder gentry in the Buddy Holly specs and its nice to see Wilco and Robyn Hitchcock helping out their pal.
That’s more a pop band offering but then again BVB are cute enough to get away with that (though I wonder if damages their tough guy visions?)
James Brown was always an erratic performer by this stage of his career. He was pretty good and he was undoubtedly James Brown. And Rosemary Clooney was undoubledly Rosemary Clooney and there was a lot of her! She fell soon pretty soon after this.
A few weeks ago a statement was released to announce that DWP keyboardist James Barney was no longer in the band.
Among the 58 and plus tracks, there will be an exclusive alternate version with vocals of Deerhunter’s Grayscale, debuts or exclusives from Throwing Muses, The Night Marchers, Zoë Keating, Hurry Up, Hungry Ghost, Brute Heart, rarities and live tracks
“I called up my buddy Steve Diamond and asked him his take on the new Madonna single. “It’s pretty good, much better than the first. Good beat, works on the dancefloor, typically so so lyrics. I’ve heard some really good remixes”.
Bruce lead off with his two weakest songs, but on first listen this is his best album since at least The Rising. What does that mean? A B+ is my feeling..
If some of the old Motown hits seem tied to their era (it’s the shuffling bass), this Smokey Robinson song slips through time periods as it mixes in a jazz aesthetic with a disco (long before of course) rhythm section. Some people claim the lead singer is the best singer of all time.
I went after most of the artists that I had good relationships with, Cheap Trick are still great friends, I told the CREEM editors about The Pretenders almost a year before the first album was out. On another note, I keep taking pictures of Iggy even when interest in him wained
Creatures, that’s their name! And with a furious sound carried by the long raucous howls of the singer spitting out some undecipherable lyrics, the five of them were looking like a bestial herd
Before DNA testing could prove who the father of a child was, and before condoms and the pill could control nwanted pregnancy, men had a vested interest in controlling female sexuality.
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not. – Dr. Seuss, The Lorax
The infamous Apollo Theater in NYC will play host to scads of musical genius as it raises funds for The Blues Foundation and The Robert Johnson Foundation
How can you call it quits when Bowie is a big fan of your band? But seriously, I don’t think Bowie’s fandom was a motivation, and the band still has to release a statement why they decided to reform now.
I remember three things about first show…cindy came back and wore a silver turban. Studying fred playing the glockenspiel and getting goosebumps hearing private idaho live.”
What I find most odd this week is the combo of Madonna and Joe Perry on The Tonight Show, but on the happy side we do have The Horrors on Friday, TGIF!
Well, Billy Ray, your little girl has joined the dark side! Otherwise why would she tweet it to her 5 million followers? I just hope she got the whole quote right