My Twitter feed is just a long list of RIP Whitney, an outpouring of loving condolences, but who honestly was still thinking about her these days? And suddenly she is the greatest singer of all times,… Tony Bennett, you already said this when Amy Winehouse died!
His voice is absolutely beautiful; he’s undoubtedly one of my top three favourite vocalists simply because his voice is so unique and beautiful. The tune is simple and catchy and lovable on the EP, but hearing him perform it makes it my new addiction.
But if you’re a big fan and want to go, tickets go on sale next Saturday, February 18th, at 11 am, and should be priced between $37 and $55 plus fees, according to Downtown Lobby.
It is also true of music and the bands that make the music. By definition, pop music is disposable and despite our every attempt, it remains as disposable as ever. Most pop musicians are mediocore, average, and doomed to be as forgotten as I am.
I think the reason they divide Bruno and Weezy in this video is cuz Mars is scared to death. What a lovely ‘red’ video this is. Lil Wayne starting with the man in the mirror and offering up props to MJ,
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‘MDNA’, Madonna’s 12th album, will be only be out on March 26th, but is already number one in the pre-order charts on iTunes in 50 countries across the world. How is this possible? People were that impressed by this ‘Give me All Your Luvin’’ totally mediocre song?
You would think that there would be a network dedicated to providing fantastic visual music to the masses. You know.. maybe a network that had music 24 hours a day 7 days a week and offered up new things for us to learn and appreciate
A friend of mine claimed she wasn’t gonna pay $100 to hear Aretha Franklin wander off the stage for an hour and sing for half an hour. Me? I would. And i have. But last time I saw her, our greatest living singer (give or take a George Jones) played 90 minutes straight and was magnificent
I have a new theory about why acts like McCartney are charting again. In the 1990s his fanbase were younger and more willing to experiment with other music and leave the McCartney’s alone. Now, they just want the same old same old. And God knows, this album is the same old same old
Wow, that’s a blah chart isn’t it. Lead by the terminaly blah (I know, I heard the album) Gotye. But hey, wait, Adele is missing!!!
An African singer who took the UK, followed it with the US and died in an air raid in 1941 at the age of 43. This dates from 1932 and with a minute i and a minute in, all instrumental, was written to be danced to.
I knew from the moment I saw Heidemanns fake persona this band…wait…is it a band? NO its a keyboard and a croaker. This is pathetic and horrific and just a perfect move for SNL- which is also horrific and pathetic.
You put on mask that make it hard to breath if you wear glasses and you wander through darkly lit mazes and pop in and out of rooms and spaces where you run into extremely fit looking athletic actors not wearing masks who, with minimal speech but lotsa balletic movements rush about from foom to room, often disappearing entirely (a bitch if you are trying to catch up with them.
Sure, I have already seen most of these bands, but this is why I know it is a fantastic line-up, with OFF! and its old-school-Black-Flag-revival hardcore sound, Wavves and its distorted-surfing-messy-weedy melodies, Ty Segall and its sunny-garage-punkish-reverbing rock
I have listened to this album without thought so many times that I realize now I never actively listened. Have you heard “The Leader” lately? Holy hell stop reading and go get it right this minute. If the beat don’t grab you the story will.
‘If you listen to the radio today, many of these brand new, so-called heavy metal music bands like Black Sabbath, Venom, The WASP and Iron Maiden use satanic imagery to corrupt the minds of young people’.
The lead singer is a skinny bloke with a naff ‘tache and a naffer attiutude who seems ready to derail at any moment. Spitting out spiteful lyrics while the band sound like a deranged Disturbed, and their anger isn’t just for we commoners who deem to listen up, but, “all corporate leeches”
Listen to this! Madonna is offended by a middle finger? It looks like she is rather pissed off because the attention was shifted from herself to M.I.A.,and so things didn’t turn exactly as she had planned.
I have to say that there is nothing spectacular about this. Its a twangy background sound with a cute little chorus. A forgettable song with forgettable lyrics.
The classic early silent movie is given a new soundtrack by the French techno duo Air. Meant to be pplayed simulatenously with a viewing of movie, in context it must be a thing of intence beauty,. Spacey, weighless, It builds efforlessly to the 18 second “Homme Lune” (Moon Man). Without the movie it is like reading Flaubert’s “Madame Bovery” with 10th Grade French. You get the gist but get lost in the nuance. Grade: B
The wittiest named band of all time takes a shot at the Scottish National anthem, which sounds pretty good with bagpipes on the second time round, but the song istself is like a dirge set to a see-saw, with the words changing emphasize every go round. No wonder the English beat em in 1755.
Our condolences to her friends and family. Whitney Houston was the voice of the 80’s and will be greatly missed.
I had lost his track a few years ago, but I remember really liking his song ‘The Rules’ that we were hearing quite a bit on the radio around 2004, with this line ‘I just want to belonnnnnng’ over some raw-youthful rock’ n’ roll which sounded so fresh and inspired
Palmer and her new accompaniment band Grand Theft Orchestra, take this classic song and showcase it in an instigram tinted video. Disturbing yet visually appealing.
If you recall a bit ago he was sketching nude Lady Gaga. I gotta say that creeped me out more than I let on. There are some visions that simply make me want to gouge my eyes out with soup ladles and this is sure one of them.
This isn’t proto Ramones, it is pro. Sure the melodies would get better, and sure Jooey would thing better, but otherwise, they didn’t change a bit for the next quarter of a century. The leather coats and jeans, the lounging, roaring, tight as fuck, loud fast lRamones are rolling through your brain cells.
The song “Marilyn Monroe” is a pathetic pop drone with weak lyrics, weak music and a weak un credited rapper with too strong a volume. Maybe shes just a great rapper and a horrible singer? That could be it.
Forgive me if I am missing something but this is the most nauseating thing I have heard since Nickelback. In a world with so much to offer the lazy Dorito eating lumps are rocking out to kareoke tv? Its repulsive.
‘The thing at the moment is Adele. She is a little too fat, but she has a beautiful face and a divine voice’.
Sarah Fridrich, leader of the duo, sings off-kilter, piano based pop, that aims, or claims to, for a populism, but finds itself in a weird world of its own
Barry has cancelled his upcoming stint at Radio City due to illness. I don’t know what’s the matter with him though he has rescheduled the dates for the end of April, early May.
Their masterpiece. Starts like the Who, then changes into a books on tape with a great backing back, before Pink Eye ramrods it and at the very end, a high pitched woman joines in. 15 minutes later you go home better for the experience.
Clinton is the master of ceremonies on seriously funked up shit. But he needs some better players behind him. Will I be back next time he is in town? Sure. But just for the funk of it.
Everything is speeding up. It’s not just our minds shrinking. We are heading towards the Eschaton and no-one really knows what’s going to happen.
The Russian girls believe revolution should be done by women because, as they told the Guardian, ‘For now, they don’t beat us or jail us as much. There’s a deep tradition in Russia of gender and revolution – we’ve had amazing women revolutionaries.’
The band was never about being cool, never about impressing the masses. I always admired them for this considering they seemed to be the rare few who weren’t singing about a bottle of Jack and getting lucky
I am pleased to inform you the tunelessness of my singing skipped two generations, as my Great-niece, 10 year old Miriam, proves with her lovely version of the very same song that I once magically missed every note with
Perhaps we are all to buried in BONE EEVAIR (Bon Iver) and the horrible Black Keys to identify worthy music. Step in with the video for “Feel To Follow” an ultra Euro weird jaunt into floating imagery that suits the tune to a T
It’s Iggy and Sid and Hell and swaggering swag and not ghetto swag. The constant drumbeat and repetitive music whipped me right back to the seedy side of town. What a retro sounding single from The Fall.
And please, I don’t want to see shirtless Adam Levine singing ‘God Only Knows What I’d Be Without You’, that would spoil the song forever.
Epic in intent, and epic in execution, the song goes through moods and sounds, vocalists and guitar parts, pianos and drums and it moves and moves and moves sometimes hash hardcore, sometimes, wall of sound prog rock, sometimes twee pop
McCartney follows Coldplay, The Black Keys, Tom Waits and Adele, artists who recently removed their last albums from streaming services. Don’t worry, you can still download McCartney’s albums through iTunes or Amazon, but the free listening is over!
Springsteen has hired two sax players, one being Clemons’ nephew Jake Clemons and the other Southside Johhny’s sax player Eddie “Kingfish” Marion. by the way, if your nickname is “Kingfish” you kinda haftta be cool.
Clarkson was crappy at Jingle Ball last December, and ever since then I’ve cooled to her. I liked, not loved, “Stronger” when it was first released. Now it sounds like another chick whining.
If Lana moved a lousy 70,000 units, what did Tim move? Or, more to the point, Cohen? The truth is, the death of the recording business has one up tick, semi-popular artists like Cohen, seem more popular than they actually are
Listening to Fred Hammond the past couple of days got me thinking about the dearth of greats soul songs. The difference between Wonder and even an 80s wonder like Babyface, or a legend like Hammond, isn’t content or sound, it is tune. The tunes aren’t strong enough.
a lesson in raw power but also a lesson in the beatific nature of hardcore: the jaggedness of English Oi mixed with the speed and textures of the initial hardcore movement
What the hell are they doing? Everyone knows (and anyone who doesn’t simply chooses to be ignorant) that McDonalds is a killing machine. Worthless ‘food’ filled with chemicals and death served up fast and friendly by workers who scratch their ass hair into the batter.
The Shins, I was saying, are offering ‘September’, the B-side to their previous single ‘Simple Song’ as a free stream on Vimeo
