It wasn’t particularly good music, but it was particularly good entertainment. Much better than Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” tour and the little girls squealed but in some ways more maturely then they did during her dreadful set at Jingle Ball last year
‘Raw Meat’ is one of these poppy-sunny-surfy-catchy songs that fill their album, and Director Phil Pinto chose to turn down the brightness of the tune with a black and white movie, and the guys behaving more or less like some reincarnation of the Beastie Boys singing a Ramones-inspired tune.
St Holdings is a record distributor and 234 of their labels have pulled off Spotifty. The numbers are staggering but before I give them to you, a couple of caveats.
The 22nd annual KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas, the two-day event organized by the Los Angeles radio station, has announced its lineup.
Holiday specials were once Bing Crosby or Bob Hope. Variety shows with little skits and funny lines. Now aparenty its an obnoxious little dude screaming fuck you, a weight watchers spokesperson, a deflowered teen dream and who the hell is Victoria Justice?
Bruce Springsteen spending less than $5,000 on tax for his 200 acres of farmland. A piece of property a quarter the size of Central park and he pays $5K in taxes? I don’t care what his pathetic excuse is, this is outrageous
I wonder how many actors they will need to play Jackson, may be Bob-Dylan-I’m-not-There style? If you look at a picture when Jackson was young, and one when he was over 40, it was certainly not the same person and if the same actor is playing him all along, he will need a lot of CGI work.
Laura Kennedy died earlier this week after a 20 year battle with Hepitatus C. An important figure in the No New York scene and a reportedly very nice person, this was sad news.
You can basically auction off dryer lint from a Beatles dry cleaner and fund your childrens University education. Anything Beatles will fetch a pretty penny as die hard fans attempt to grab hold of the greatest rock band of all time.
I learned about it on Twitter as people were all excited about it, and the exclusive show was in Santa Monica, in a mysterious location, with a red curtain? Never been there… but it may have been KCRW headquarters.
Stalkers are the creepiest of all mankind. What could be more disturbing than knowing someone is watching you? Shania Twains stalker is out of prison I would think she’s terrified- and I hope she has ample security.
A sixty one year old man who discreetly left his mark on the new wave movement. Inspiring many and creating timeless songs that to this day get my foot tapping (that is if Im not belting out the lyrics)
Rihanna’s masterpiece is still up there, DJ Skeez Skeez opened his set at Katy Perry’s concert with it proving, a) Katy ain’t worried on the competition and b) the song is huge.
That’s a strange list, 2011 is so different to 2010. It feels like disco pop is waning and instead every momentary flavor hits the charts and disappears.
My Love Is Your Love – Whitney Houston – I ‘ve seen Whitney precisely once and she kinda sucked, but I have a friend who saw her at Radio City in her prime and she never stops rubbing my nose in it. This is the birth of hip hop production values in r&b -without this, no Beyonce
I never ever said Damian Abraham wasn’t a great frontman. Quite the opposite, he is so good he is irreplaceable. And if this performance of David Comes Alive is to be his last, he delivered and then some.
There was most of the time an educative-nursery-rhyme undertone in their quirky songs, and yeah they have played this role with albums like ‘Here comes the ABCs’ (they played ‘Alphabet of Nations’ at Amoeba) or ‘Here comes Science’, the dream album for science teachers.
The original “Worker Bee” had gotten redundant and slowly fell off my playlist in the past few months. However, this acoustic version has reminded me of the pure and excessive talent the band has
In the 16th century weight was a symbol of the aristocracy -poor people couldn’t afford to be fat. But over the following four hundred years it became inverted.
The Belgian-Australian multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter, whose real name is Wouter De Backer, has already released three studio albums independently, has won an ARIA Award and received a nomination for an MTV EMA for Best Asia and Pacific Act.
The instruments don’t offer much at all. They sound like they put truly no effort into writing an at least somewhat original or interesting song. They’ve been done before a thousand times, even by The Maine themselves. There isn’t a good second of musicianship.
Jackie Leven was the leader of the much loved New wave band Doll By Doll, who, along with the Only Ones,, heralded the end of punk
Yanni is a self taught greek New Age pianist. He makes the ladies swoon and has a really interesting ‘stache. According to wikipedia the correct pronunciation of his name is /ˈjɑːni/ yah-nee, this alone makes this post worth it.
The StudyVox Foundation also seeks to raise awareness among young people of activities in the charitable sector and to help young people connect with these activities. StudyVox Limited is dedicated to providing funding to The StudyVox Foundation as well as seeking third party funding.
Dwight Arrington Myers better known as Heavy D, was a Jamaican-born American actor, rapper, record producer, singer and former leader of Heavy D & the Boyz. His sudden death last week stunned the music community and to date there is no defined cause.
Democratic Presidential candidate, Governor Mike Morris is in a race for delegates and his idealistic press secretary, is about to get a lesson in politics,
“Amy Winehouse was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that…. Amy Winehouse was as dead as a doornail.”
Anyway, like Eminem, Mac has hit the charts at # 1, unlike Eminem is has sold a hardly earth shatterring 144,000 units. Still I was assuming it would be put out to pasture and I stand corrected.
No Spare Parts – The Rolling Stones – I can see why this didn’t make it on to Some Girls, they only wanted one country song and “Faraway Eyes” was better. Why it didn’t make it onto Emotional Rescus is another question entirely.
The Webster Hall gig was the last word on The Monitor and while none of the other times they’ve played locally since have been anything less than great, we’ve been waiting for new material. And we got it.
The internet makes everyone a critic, a dj, or a novelist. Baysides Anthony Raneri and Nick Ghanbarian take to the internet radio waves for a weekly program of words songs and thoughts.
Even if it’s just another version of one that already existed, the way that it was altered makes it revamped and cooler and more fun that ever. It really seems like nearly every corner of the music world has incorporated dubstep into something
‘You weren’t fucking married to him, I was. You didn’t get kicked out of a band by him, like Dave, he did. Go see the fucking Foo Fighters and do that shit.’
Aretha at the same venue in September 2009 and have every intention of going again; that concert, with the spirit of Curtis Mayfield so close by, has reached mythic stature
Helen Bach is a pacifist who loaths all forms of jingoism with a passion similar to her love of all animals and refusal to eat them: she has “vegan” tattoed on her wrist
The band of four, Julia Kugel (guitar/vocals), Stephanie Luke (drums/vocals), Candice Jones (keyboard/vocals), and Meredith Franco (bass/vocals) came across as nearly leaderless
Joan Jett is a woman who has done it all and landed on her feet. An icon a hero a force to be reckoned with. A woman in rock who never compromised, never sold out and kept her head up high. So what the hell is she doing on stage with these goons?
The T-shirt drama is never ending. Occupy All Streets has gone from a profit machine, to a scandal to back to square one. The shirt isn’t even interesting, hype for hypes sake
I’ve read the rave reviews of this endlessly tedious telling of J. Edgar Hoover, the head of the FBI who spent a career battling commies, ignoring the mafia, and spying on everyone… should have been a fun movie
Gibson said that Madonna “should be bitter, because I did it on purpose, and you can quote me. I did it on purpose because for all those kids who believe that you can’t, I wanted to let them feel that you can. And that’s what I represent, that’s what Gaga represents.”
New Kids on the Block ruled the 1980s and early 1990s and sold 80 million records worldwide. They won two American Music Awards in 1990 for Favorite Pop/Rock Band, Duo, or Group and Favorite Pop/Rock Album and they have since aged.
This seems awful weird but it might be a fun night out you know. Tomorrow at the cutting Room. And Syd Straw is playing. I dunno but I’ve heard of Biba so here is the info…
Price Tag – Jessie J – I am soooo bumming over the great Jessie J injuring her foot and getting replaced by Ellie Goulding. Ellie Goulding? Say it ain’t so, Katy.
Far be it for rock nyc to toot its own horn but since nobody else comes within a million miles aknowledging us, why not, right? We wrote about Lana del Rey, Rolling Stones “Hot Heartbreaker”, months ago.
it captures so well the melody and adds something else at the same time, a certain mellowness, laziness, like a long summer afternoon under the sun. They have totally reworked the song into a long electronica-synth jam with infectious dance beats and dreamy, almost sedated, vocals.
William Beckett made the girls swoon with his previous band The Academy Is…, as he ventures off solo he offers up a new song. Sounding more mature and strangely vulnerable I believe he will recapture his old fans and maybe score a few new ones.
typical creepy ambiance, slowly developing with layers and layers of throbbing synth sounds, Robert ‘3D’ Del Naja ‘s half-hushed, half-paranoiac vocals,
I ran into Patrick Stickles at Le Poisson Rouge where he told me we can expect the new Titus Andronicus Autumn 2012 and I can hardly wait…
one moment who is getting rushed to hospital,, next he is giving Veganism a bad name, then he is suing NME for libel. It gets hard to remember why we give a damn. Here’s ten reasons
Jim Morrison finds his inner Lizard King. and if you dont look its sorta ooky at times. To impersonate The Doors is no new event but for a comedian to do it so well with such a ridiculous song and make it worth hearing? Thats a pro
