So what grabs your attention? Not much from Alas I Can not Swim, right? I mean, really, it adds up to “Ghost” and on your bike. I Speak Because I Can gets four appearances… why the short shrift on her best album?
Frankie Rose is the woman with a plan. Her plan is too join bands, wait till they become successfl, and run for her life. The Dum Dum and Vivian Girls to name two. But she can’t really run away from her own band, so after the Alyson Camus approved (I had my doubts…) first solo album
So you wanna know about Amy, right? Put it this way, even on a first listen it is no Back to Black or even Frank for that moment. Geez, the second song is an early version of “Tears Cry On Their Own”. But… it ain’t “Michael” either.
Hey There – Harry Connick Jn – A very witty song, Connick recording a “memo to self”, advising himself to forget a girl with “her nose in the air”. Then playing back the recording and berating himself for not listening to his own advise. “Is it all going in one ear and out the other?”
Some people are all about success. And some people like to bleed!’ he yelled at one point, and indeed he did get a nose bleed after one of his numerous stage dives over the excited and adoring crowd,… but what is a nose bleed for Iggy? Close to nothing, as the guy must have built up a bottomless endorphin reservoir to endure so many pain-inducing performances
Wynn’s band the Miracle 3 is a very good,psychedelic sludge jam band, and Wynn is an economical and smart live performer. The band jammed out but it was a sparse live jamming, the solos kept to a minimum as they went in search of community. of a groove. And found it just about always
Mr Roxy Music is in the ad campaign with his adorable son Tara. Leave it to some fine genetics to make a $9.99 dress shirt and $29.99 jacket look ultra chic.
So José is looking for a quiet place to compose his music? And he thinks he could disturb the neighbors? He looks like a very quiet person himself, and his music is peaceful and comforting. So, José, my place is far from being a villa, but California is general really sunny
Sundance Film Festival will premiere a rockumentary so to speak titled “Shut Up and Play The Hits’, a chronicle of the day of and day after the final MSG performance. Where did that title come from?
Liam Gallagher, who seems to never be out of words in order to insult his brother, will play at the Wiltern with his Beady Eye on Saturday, and the LA Weekly spoke with him,… but what else could be expected? Liam talked shit about Noel,… literally!
Grunge is apparently ‘back’ and homogenized and the shirt is currently sold out online. No credit or mention of Nirvana is made in the shirts description
On the soundtrack there are lots of pop songs of the period, here a Dean Martin, there a Nat King Cole. Best of all is Marilyn singing “I Found Dream” in the bath, while Colin looks on from the back dazzled. It might never have happened but I treasure the daydream of proximity to greatness.
This week though we have the bonus of ‘Mr. She’s Havin’ My Baby’, Paul Anka. This guy was the smarmiest of love song singers.
Fever pitch excitement for Ryan Adams at the great Carnegie Hall on Tuesday. A solo acoustic set to go along with his acoustic recent release. I have zero prediction here. It could be the set of a life time or it could be a somnabulistic nightmare. But I can’t wait to find out.
I Found Dream – Marilyn Monroe – Only a verse, but it offers Monroe singing Hungarian(?) folk song very, very purely. Monroe so overshadowed herself, that her ability to be anything but a movie star was invisible. A doomed woman unable to maintain the illusion.
They aren’t as horrible as most, not as great as I’m told, but they’re a rock and roll blues band and well perhaps their flannel loving fans will perk up tonights Saturday Night Live? Yeah, we doubt that as well.
Is it really a rare piece? the vinyl, which features two previously unreleased tracks ‘Empty Room’, with wife Mandy Moore on backing vocals, and ‘Nutshell’, a Alice in Chain’s cover, and we’re giving away a signed copy free
What they did to sell their souls to Justin Beiber is a whole ‘nother bag of crap. But really when all is said and done- its pretty amusing that they ended up on a Macys float.
had no intention of standing for three hours -otherwise I was open to persussion, The NO SRO meant Patti Smith (one of my finalists) was out and it also meant i was leaning hard towards Fitz And The Tantrums at the Gramercy. But they would lose.
With her cute doll-dress, black tights and blood-covered housewife apron, she seemed to make some big feminist statement, i.e. the gender bender name, and the fake blood to denounce violence against woman. But how many bands have such a strong female presence going insane onstage?
First off, he wasn’t quiet, but the weekend they flew into New York to do ‘Ed Sullivan,’ George was very sick. They were staying at the Plaza Hotel, and we got him to see the hotel doctor, Dr. Gordon. Dr. Gordon said, ‘This is a very sick kid. He’s got a 104-degree temperature and has strep throat
In May 2009, rock nyc had been up a month and I was fond of “Paparazzi”, so I tried to get a tix to see Lady Gaga at T5/ It was sold out. But then she added a late night show and a hmmmd and I haaaaad and finally decided to buy a tix
I hope the Arctic Monkeys break off and do a small solo jaunt while on this weird ride. I would love to see them live but The Black Keys I could do with out.
In The Present – Live From Lyon – Yes – I used to believe that if they toned it down a notch or two and stopped acting like such pompous asses maybe I’d grow to not hate them… well, with no Rick Wakeman to sexually brutalize the keyboards they tone it down. At it is unbearable. Grade: D+
Someday (You’ll Want Me To Want You) – Patsy Cline – In the1980s I wrote a novel about an alcoholic guy, just out of the armed forces, and blocked on a bio he was writing about Patsy. Yup, that’s how great she was -she inspired novels.
From the start, Mary was a good writer, and through the years she has become my favorite rock nyc scribe. A complete professional, who, with a sense of commitment, dedication, and self-control (yes, self-control -it is difficult to maintain your cool while meeting your rock star heroes) beyond her years.
Now PiL, as well as a modified Sex Pistols have toured as of late. Actually its more like Johnny has stayed in the spot light as best as you can with no new material.
What do you do? “Make it your own’? Risky to say the least. You’ll get some tool purist saying, ‘how dare you’ or something similar.
If you want a signed copy (yes, signed!), go to the store, and give the secret password to purchase it: SATAN! There a limit of one customer, and the offer is only available with purchase of an item from the Black Metal Section
the Santa Ana winds blew up to 80-100 mph, trees fell down (one was across the street when I drove to work this morning), power went down in some parts of the city, and schools closed down for the day! Here are a few songs about the wind.
the real excitement here is For Science reforming. One of my fave bands of all time, the pop punk quarter with guitarist Joe Steinhardt writing some of the greatest songs I’ve ever heard and Joe Slovan singing them
“I want to return some of that love so I’ve decided to give my fans in Mexico a special night and perform my Femme Fatale show for free.”
Nancy Spungen is profiled with new interviews from Jah Wobble, Steve Severin, Vivien Westwood, Malcolm McClaren, Dave Vanian, Rat Scabies, Marco Pironi, Viv Albertine, and many others who actually knew Sid.’
He Called Me Baby – Patsy Cline And The Jordainaires – The surprise here is that when you think of Presley’s backing band, you think of country boys helping invent rock and roll. But what you get here is country boys helping invent countrypolitan.
Bono arrives in the Daily show with his messiah aura, but in reality, he will always make his interests come first: Stewart will certainly never ask Bono what happened to his wife’s company, Edun, the organic clothing company destined to provide jobs in Africa: when finances looked bad
Dancehall artist Vybz Kartel, born Adidja Palmer, was reported to have escaped from Horizon Adult Remand Centre in Jamaica with seven other inmates, in an elaborate break out that included smuggled guns,officers being taken hostage
Ace Frehley legendary KISS guitarist has fallen at his home (this is sorta where I would go on a Life Alert tangent) and broken his wrist.
This is 2011, if an album doesn’t kick in, there are a million more just waiting for our attention. So when neither Adam’s “Ashes And Rain” nor Marling’s “A Creature I Do Not Know” hit my mental repeat button I moved on. Till I bought tix to see them live.
The show, called ‘Heroes: The Musical’ was described as a futuristic fantasy, featuring various Bowie-esque characters like Major Tom, the starman and a ‘young dude’ called David
We decided to go big with Coldplay – really big. So we came up with the idea of celebrating New Year’s Eve with a 90-minute special.
Fitz & the Tantrums: We have to say it very loud, we talked about them first!! With their R&B-organ-Motown-revival, they are the real local success, growing big with their non-stop touring during this last year
This just in.. Jesus will not be born this year. This in protest to the horrific news that Twisted Sister is playing live in honor of the holiday. New York
More interesting is the answer to who will play Eponine. According to Page Six it’s between Taylor Swift, Lea Michele, Scarlett Johansson and Evan Rachel wood.
Being Princess of Wales is one thing, but Amy absolutely begged for the paparazzi. And even if she didn’t, running around London smashed out of your mind in your undies is gonna draw attention whoever you might be.
The romance has gone out of it”. That’s Noel Gallagher discussing what has changed in the consuming of music and it was certainly a much richer experience when you were actually searching out music.
Well now, except for Rihanna, Drake and maybe Mary J., this pretty much sucks.I gues Buble’s is about the best Seasonal albym but some of these acts are so bad… Nickelback are the second worst band on earth. the worst are at #10.
Calvin Harris is a talented fellow, I’ve just gor around to hearing his album and his 2011 “Feel So Close” and the Rijamma hit is no fluke. Believe it or not, this is a case of a sharp as fuck production improving a great song
It is not simply that this, a lost love lament written by Charlie Fink to former bandmate Laura Marling, is the best song on the album of the same not. Or even the best song Charlie has written before or since. Or better than anything Laura has ever written. Or as good as anything but the best by Ryan Adams. It is the naked emotions that flood this is song
I had quite hoped that Versa Emerge’s rendition of this classic would make a fan out of me but sadly, it failed.
The song, which was written and produced by Beck, is only sung by Charlotte and gets a little help from Ariel Pink’s Haunted graffiti Cole M.G.N. on the drum machine
