A new Cursive album is always a pleasure and Sleigh Bells “Comeback Kid” plus terrofoc SNL performance makes them of special interestBut do Fun have more than one song in em??? Should be an interesting week,
Oliver you may recall came to America and went to public schools trying to sere healthy meals with the lunch ladies. It didn’t go over well and I think people ended up hating him. You cant just come in to America and dis our meatloaf, ya know?
O’Connor’s canon deserves serious study, on album after album is spotted dark and lovely songs like this one. The acoustic Dublin version is the keeper though the London session is nearly its equal. Sinead takes Song Of Solomn 1: 5 and builds a romantic meditation around it -completelly timeless
Davy seemed to be a little stiff on stage when he performed some dance moves telling the audience that Axle Rose had stolen his dance moves and Justin Beiber had stolen his hair style which got a few laughs. Not so surprisingly at a spritely 66 years old.
I wonder, is it still private at this point? Why is the family pretending they want a private ceremony when this is mediatized to this extreme? And how much did CNN pay to be authorized to do this?
You have an army of handlers and you couldn’t have the courtesy to pop a pain pill and haul your ass into a wheelchair to show respect? That’s an atrocity. It is hard to look up to someone with such contradictory behavior. Or was there some deep dark secret that kept her away?
The film will be released March 1, 2012 and part of me really wants to go see it, and part of me just wants to go to Warped instead. As close as it feels, nothing touches the magic of the tour itself.
Television this week seems lighter than usual, not sure why. I also find it an odd mix. Nick Jonas on Fallon and Joe on Conan? Whats up with that? Die Antword are on to scare the crap out of yuo and Hearltess Bastards is an awesome name for a band if not an entire gang.
How great is Sinead O’Connor live? So great, I once saw Van Morrison have problems following her on Randall’s Island. She is so great, I once saw her play one homage to Jah after another at the Beacon and still kill. Sinead is at the Highline on Friday and is as close to a must see as is possible
You don’t know much of this? You aren’t missing much, from MOR dross like Rebecca to AOR blues bore Emili, run and hide because the UK has lost its cool completely.
DJ Fresh is a clever little dub stepper, I haven’t heard this song yet but if his Kruptonite is anything to go buy, he’s a pretty excellent beats guy. Otherwise, Will I Am? That song is the pits.
First of all, he would have to bury the hatchet with Radiohead to even consider a collaboration, didn’t he call them ‘an odd bunch’ who ‘have been making the same record since ‘Kid A’ in a Rolling Stone interview last summer?
The thing with Davy is he is truly a song and dance man, coming from English Dancehall (and a horse jokey!), by the age of 16 he was on Broadway singing this song and vying for a Tony. That is one reason his live shows are so bizarre, the Monkees were the anomalies.
See I love the chorus of this song but the actually verses are so squeaky its hard to tolerate. As for stage presence, well she tries. The others pretty much just bite their upper lip- which looks ridiculous but then again… I don’t think we’re supposed to like they way they look.
Rihanna was probably already feeling guilty when she did not oppose the restraining order reduction last year, something typical of battered woman, and this was a bad sign. But she should be aware that this new move will not be taken well by the audience
There isn’t a positive thing to say about it. It’s so bad its not even funny. I suggest you put down the bottle of Jack. Find some reality television show to permeate or hmmm how about actually recording some new Soundgarden instead of being an ego junkie?
But she seems really into it as she wrote with this picture ‘Life is complete…Love of my life.’ Wow, she is only 11, do her parents approve?
Yes its only February and no I don’t care I still am preoccupied with Warped Tour. As the and line up trickles in a find myself again crossing my fingers so that some of my faves hit the bill.
Yes, rock nyc readers, you owe me BIG TIME for this one. I have two presale codes for the eagerly, and I mean EAGERLY awaited Beach Boys 50th Anniversary gigs at the Beacon Theater.
To me this award means a lot because it shows that the human element of music is what’s important. Singing into a microphone and learning toplay an instrument and learning to do your craft, that’s the most important thing for people to do.
there is something so needy about Grohl. He keeps bending over backwards to prove he’s a regular guy when he isn’t. And all his albums are nothing much. Including, Wasting Light, which I am listening to now
Precursor to Destiney’s Child, not to mention TLC, this three piece covered Curtis Mayfield’s masterpiece and turned it into a three piece harmony sugar rush.A joy from a very good band.
Aretha Franklin’s brilliant performance last night at Radio City Music Hall has left the queen Of Soul too ill to perform at Whitney’s funeral, gong even as I write.
‘Whitney … Whitney … was put back onstage before she was ready to perform – by the colossal pig Clive Davis – who continued his party in the same hotel where she died and where her body still lay. Heresy.’
“I’m not impressed to be in that world. I’m in my own world. I think sometimes the fashion world isn’t even about clothes anymore; it’s about this “in” crowd, and I’m not into that,”
Sinead is a biggie (I’m going to see her at Highline next week), Cursive is a biggie, Magnetic Fiels, Bruce, XIu XIu, Ceu we haven’t heard from in a couple of years
‘There was an inference that I was going through a mid-life crises’ Paul says ‘Which I found really amusing: the clichéd notion of it. And that was the impetus for (the song) even though it isn’t really about that.
All of these creeps and I mean they are creeps, all right? Celebrated and its wink, wink, oh, let’s party, let’s get high. There is nobody in the media saying you know what? This could lead to death and if it doesn’t lead to death, 75 percent of all child abuse and neglect is done by substance abusers
The art, well it is generic and nothing really noteworthy. What is noteworthy is that the band sounds fantastic and Manson is a Goddess. Think of how long six years is in the scheme of things. This could very well have been a flop- music can sound so dated and cliché’.
The video makes you feel the violent energy of a chaotic mosh pit, while reinventing all the stage diving madness, re-imagining all the rib-elbows contacts, and almost recreating the sweat all over the place.
I still don’t understand what happened. I’m a huge fan of hers. If it’s plagiarism, then even better. She is always at the cutting edge of music, so it’s a good sign about what I do.
Rufus Wainwright – From his most New York City, not to mention his best, album, Rufus peers across to the other side of the country and overhwlemed with choice… decides to stay in bed. Classic.
I told James Caan (Las Vegas) “Freebie and the Bean” was the first shoot’em up movie I ever saw at the theater. He said “really”?! Then walked away….
In partnership with John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation, The California Endowment and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University to launch the foundation. This is a great thing considering how much cred can any organization have when led soley by a caricature?
Miley is gonna come back with a bang, maybe she will be a cool Kelly Clarkson who actually likes sex or a Miranda Lambert who won’t bitch us out all the time. But she will do it, she will be good. Maybe dance wasn’t quite a perfect fit, country rock would be.
Their source, who wants to stay anonymous for some reasons, has said to the Weekly that ‘Goldenvoice has signed a 12-month lease for the business, and plans to take over the venue’s liquor license’.
That’s it- it aint rocket science and is nothing more then mind numbing for those who have given up on life cuz the mortgage, the kids, the boss its all just so defeating isnt it? Cheeseburger in Paradise it is…
new releases by Van Halen, the Fall, Fucked Up and Heartless Bastards, Screaming Females, Cloud Nothings might not be enough to say 2012 is gonna be a better year than 2011 in the long run, it is definitely enough to say IT MAY WELL BE A BETTER YEAR FOR ROCK AND ROLL IN THE LONG RUN!.
‘You know, I think Santorum has some presidential qualities, and I’m hoping that if it does come down to it, we’ll see a Republican in the White House… and that it’s Rick Santorum.’
“We’ve got more meetings, everyone wants to do it. I’ve been asked to do the opening ceremony with the Stones and close the games with The Faces,’ he told British newspaper The Sun.
She wrapped up the seven minute tribute with, “Pray for her family, for her mother. She was a daughter, a wife, a Christian, a singer and a dear family friend.”
He has the most amazing voice sometime though, as he does in this song. I want to spend my days hating on Jack and a few others, but then all of a sudden in the midst of his weird behavior he sinks a tune like this which halts me in my tracks.
That Fun. song has the best verse and the worst chorus in the world. With the Superbowl behnd her, Madonna still bearly got in the top ten. And I wonder how well the album does once every one hears it.
I give up, I am growing to seriously love the Van Halen album. 19 made it into the top ten??? That Whitney is the one that had the fast side/slow side when it was released on CD and is simply the best way to listen to her right now
A weirdo blues guy releases a pretty good album and this is my pick of a letter. He sounds like a new Van Morrisson, singing between a flute -no, really, and stretching out a strong lick to the breaking point.
That’s a long time and many pounds ago. I don’t know if Manson has returned to fighting size but lets hope he has, things got a bit wide for a bit there.
The music, if you can still call it music, was not really the matter, the matter was attention, and Nicki Minaj wanted plenty of it
Yup, bringing Bolton to the blog. Anyone see him on Saturday Night Live? The guy is odd but whoa he has a huge list of accomplishments. The singer songwriter has sold 53 million records worldwide.
Quarkers is in fact a very large collective which also features Portishead engineer 7-Stu-7, Australian producer Katalyst, and more than 35 artists (among them Aloe Blacc, Guilty Simpson, Dead Prez. Phat Kat, Prince Po).
He already admitted earlier this year that he plans to take Blur on a US tour. It would certainly make sense, right? He already did the UK and Blur had one huge hit here (you can hear it at Sports Stadiums to this day: “Song 2”) and even if they didn’t were a big big cult band here
