The EP is described as ‘an unholy trinity of three turkey-free new tracks for the festive season’, and the three songs successively as a ‘Motown-tinged’ in which ‘Gruff is re-imagining the ‘Winterval’ through the semi-melted eyes of a nuclear holocaust survivor’,
The hip-hop music video is a four-minute long advertisement for the cult, said to be intended for internal church use. It sounds like your regular, basic, generic synth-rap song, with bad breakdancing and is thought to be the title track of ‘Dauntless, Defiant and Resolute’ by artist Chill E.B.
Unlike most of you fools I show my appreciation to those who deserve it on a daily basis. I have good manners and always take time to thank people.
All I Want – Joni Mitchell – What better way to celebrate Thanksgiving then with a Canadian national treasure. A love stoy about a thwarted desire cradled in a melody awash with hope.
His solo show featured an eclectic range of music from an unplugged two man acoustic performance at the beginning to his full band and the accompanying Dessoff Choir during the second half of the show
It is an intimate show for Morrissey, and a very unique occasion to see him, but it was quite a long process for the fans as they had to return to the box office to pick up their tickets the day of the show, Wednesday November 23rd
People on Burning Man forums are angry and comments like ‘STUPIDEST IDEA EVER!!!!’ or ‘Fuck everything about this’, or ‘Lottery sucks big time!’ have been posted as they worried they will not be able to get a ticket. And does this solve the scalper problem?
the final, last, absolutely, definably, great moment. From country to hard rock,, from reggae riddims to punkish outrage (at themselves) and kicked off with the last time the Stones would find themselves in touch with the zeigeist
The beat is fun, the electronic twitter has a fabulous retro sound and best of all? A completely distinct tambourine. There is NOTHING more fun than a tambourine, and there it is in full glory.
Al Jardine had some interesting things to say about the Beach Boy’s Brian Wilson during the aborted “Smile” sessions; among them, Phil Spector was planning to murder him… hmm, maybe that wasn’t drug induced paranoia
arrested on April 19 when ‘FBI agents stormed Rivas’ home, discovering photographs of a 4-year-old girl naked and “restrained in handcuffs and other bondage type devices’.
“Fifty Words For Snow” a cute Eskimo themed ditty if youre so inclined to abstract. Head over to NPR, those highbrows are toasting it with Perrier and wearing sweatervests about it. Me? A bit to ethereal a little too ‘hipper than you’
Both albums are strictly autobiographical snapshots. Pusha T wishes he was back selling keys, Drake breaks up with a pre-hip hop stardom girl, because she can’t deal with all the gossip. “You believed in everything but me” he laments.
Often when you here of a bio-pic you, rightly, get worried, but this time, about Joe Strummer’s disappearance in 1982, sounbds filled with possibilities
“I’m very excited to say that this summer I recorded a new record with Mike Elizondo in L.A. It’s been finished for a little while,but I had no idea when it would be out in the world until now”
what’s the bet SNL haven’t got the slightest idea how to deal with her on December 10th? It’s not that they are bad with women, it is that they are bad with everything.
Runaway – Silverstein – No they don’t speed or punk Kanye West’s masterpiece. They re-arrange it for guitar and change it from a rap song to a pop song of the first order.
With their ‘Invernal’ album art for background, a sort of phantasmagoric landscape made of menacing gothic tree-dragons that could have come up directly from a scene from the Lord of the Rings, the vocals were savagely screamed above a wall of noise of distortion.
The Austin-based quartet had indeed a bottomless collection of sharp strident guitar riffs, playing these furious and destructive songs, which were going from hard rock to metal and vice-versa,… and I was thinking about some other element at times, with a brighter side just to compensate the doom side of metal.
M&S are the epitome of pure calm and beautiful folk music. To hear a band with zero talent cover them puts me in an absolutely horrific mood. I can say that my day’s pretty much ruined now. What is wrong with the world? I just don’t even understand.
A fantasy where her songwriting abilities are under appreciated because her fans are teenage girls. This is complete nonsense. Swift is considered, and rightly, one of the greatest songwriters of her generation. IT’S HER SINGING THAT WAS GETTING DISMISSED
With Keith Richards claiming that he has hopes for a Rolling Stones tour in 2012 to mark their 50th anniversary (although Jagger seemed to rule out the idea), Radiohead having already announced dates for their upcoming tour, and Paul Simon planning a Graceland anniversary tour, 2012 will certainly be the year of all the heavy-weights!
The teaser video contains a Breakfast Club reference, so it has to be good. Whenever a band likes good movies, it just makes them even cooler. It leaves me wondering what the actual video will be about.
With the birth of Google Music, Itunes has yet another competitor and this time a big one. Trust me, if Google thought subscription based rentals were the future, they would have gotten into that as well.
I am sure I am not alone in falling in love with Zooey Deschanel around the middle of her “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” duet with Wil Farrel. And I am not certain if I am alone in getting completely sick of her around Vol II, her dire She & Him sophomore effort.
“But the title is obviously a nod and a wink and a lift to it. And I always loved that part, when they would say, “Clear eyes, full heart, can’t lose.” I thought that was really poetic, you know, for a high school football team. So I was just playing around with that
The 2012 inductees into the Grammy Hall of Fame are here, and to be honest, it is a little difficult to argue with them though quite why Cole Porter’s “Anything Goes” is only showing up now I don’t know
Though based upon the votes of record buyers, it seems to be a referendum on youth. Honestly, Speak Now was the best country album. Best pop album, OK I can see that. But country???
I Want To Be Loved By You – Sinead O’Connor – A straight up homage to the Marilyn Monroe version and what makes it somewhat bewildering is it is so out of the Sinead character at the time. It is similar to Andy Kaufman’s Elvis Presley imitation. Having said that, I believe I am alone in loving the album it arrived on.
The performance is sexy, charming, self-effacing, hugely fun, fleet of foot, beautifully maintained, with a full orchestra and six back up dancers/singers for the guys in the audience. Jackman’s rapport is easy and genuine and his singing fine and robust. This is a star making a star turn.
A guy in his late 50s next to me was yelling the same song title, ‘Big Bikes‘, every five minutes, quite unsuccessfully as they never played it, and overall the very male crowd was clearly there to see Kyuss Lives!, wearing their best Thin Lizzy t-shirts, denim jackets…
At rock nyc we are fans of the Los Angeles cinematic-explosive band Saint Motel, as we have written about them numerous times. And A/J Jackson was nice enough to send us their new song!
“He became my friend. He became my brother, and I’m not talking about friend-brother like we cavalierly use the word, I’m talking about a real friend, a real brother,”
Nevertheless, two weekends in a row, Brandon Ferguson of the OC Weekly and I tried to enter the house where Elliott Smith died, but we were unfortunately not successful. The bungalow is a unit, part of a four-unit complex, located up in the hills of Echo Park, with a really nice view of downtown Los Angeles
Edward is marrying Bella, Jacob is pissed, Edward and Bella have unprotected sex (meaning before he changes her into a vampire) and Bella gets pregnant… an impossibility and the half human half vampire fetus is killing Bella from the inside out… lucky fetus
pure pop for now people, one piece of glossy product after another: from electro pop to dubstep, a smash hit, a couple of maybes, a Jay-Z rap, and a very good acoustic number. It adds up to a field of top pop producers coming together to release a Christmas gift of an album
What the heck is a “Very GaGa Thanksgiving”!? Otherwise yet another rerun festival. It amazes me how many times late night TV serves us leftovers- maybe we should all stay drunk or asleep?
Just what the world needs, economic disaster, Twilight part 3, Occupy city parks, pervert coaches, child abductions, horrible weather patterns, inflation, disease, war, famine and worse of all…….Van Halen is back
source told Limey tabliod the Sun “They’re going to talk about potentially writing and performing the song for next year’s new Bond film. Nothing is signed or official, it’s just being discussed at the moment.”
Fozzie now performs with a Reno casino house band called the Moopets, Miss Piggy is a plus-size fashion editor at Vogue Paris, Animal is in a Santa Barbara clinic for anger management, and Gonzo is a high-powered plumbing magnate….
So I am back on Tuesday (she is also performing Monday) for the Speak Now MSG stop. What do I expect? More of the same. Why am I going? Because it’s Taylor Swift.
Any Old Iron – Peter Sellers – The best of Goons? Hard to say when the competion is Spike Milligan and Harry Secombe. The most famous? Absolutely. Here Sellers is playing low class/upper class to very amusing effect on a Brit Dance Hall perenial.
Florence is far more normal, far less edgy and much more talented. Although I am not a fan of this group I can see why people love her. She is powerful and she is interesting
I saw “Porgy And bess” at the City Opera few years and thought it was one of the greatest musical experiences of my life. I knew so much of it (so do you, “Summertime, and the living is easy” -that’s here…
Could the fight between Wagner and Walken had been a fight between Wagner and Wood or even the three of them?
Autopsy reports showed facial abrasions and bruises along arms of Natalie Wood, who once declared ‘her greatest fear was of dark seawater’.
Julien’s Auctions have put up Michael Jackson’s belongs from the last place he lived in, a house he rented in Los Angeles as he rehearsed for what would’ve been his come back concerts in London.
I don’t know what he is talking about, does he mean that if iPods and laptops were round, the music industry will not have its current problems? I see, he is the kind of guy who has all figured it out, and it is very simple: squares and circles!
There is nothing worse than a preachy preachy entertainer. Some are notorious for it (anyone remember Richard Gere and his Tibet obsession?) and there is the delivery of your message
The Weekly is also reminding us that ticket prices ranged from $15 to $100 (VIP tickets) and with an average attendance of 100,000, the amount of money the fair has to refund could reach a million dollars
Every disco in every town had a stash of their stuff. Bonnie ventured out solo in 1977 and did quite well scoring numerous hits before fading out. Now this.
