It takes balls to take on Bowie. Last thing this world needs is a band of egotistical little boys pretending to be able to hold a candle to a genius. Then again, UK based band The Horrors managed to not only cover a legendary song, but modernize and personlize it. I am sincerely impressed.
nyc is one of the most music packed cities in the world, but we have never seen the price meltdown for concerts the rest of the world has
Some magazine had the top ten songs from June 1993 (don’t know why), and I recognized maybe one song. I know all of these.
Christmas albums are seasonal stopgaps, a coupla perrenials, a coupla newbies nobody will remember a year from now and maybe a top 20 album, unless you’re The Bieb.
1. Que Sera Sera – Pink Martini – This what She & Him are attempting and failing: a calliope of sound that swirls and waltzes through the Doris Day chestnut.
A good set by two of the biggest stars in the universe and I don’t think anybody went home complaining. Me? I’d have preferred to have seen a solo West but, certainly, Jay-Z hasn’t sounded so fresh since 2004.
As a jaded concert goer it takes alot to make me want to shout- but this did it and then some. Set Your Goals is one of the most underrated and fantastic bands on the circuit, a pairing with Four Year Strong is beyond fabulous.
Does Tegan really think Tyler is homophobic? Does she think he means it when he sings ‘Kill people burn shit fuck school’. Furthermore, one of Odd Future’s member is the openly gay woman Syd ‘Tha Kyd’ Bennett, they are a parody of an idea, a fantasy in 3-D,… or according to Tyler’s own statement: ‘It’s fucking art, listen to the fucking story’.
You may remember the Sound Strike organization helping undocumented Americans. Conor Oberst recorded a song for em and Zack de la Rocha played a beneffit with Conor opening to help the organization
You gave me something to love, or in other words you gave me love itself. You took something that can sometimes feel so common and dull and brought it back to life with so much beauty and verse. You gave me happiness, and you still do. Anyway, I’d just like you to have it, it’s yours, take it as yours
Well, well, well, big brother teaches little sqrt a lesson in selling the product! “Wonderwall”!! “Supersonic”!!! Noel can’t sing em great but he did write them…
A band associated with a drink, a music type associated by something to eat or drink, it’s a little game I had been thinking about, but this website gives you an actual answer.
Its always amusing to watch stars have at it. This particular case has turned in to a legal “I know you are but what am I?” situation. The best part, neither one of them has a clue
The items in the house Michael Jackson was renting when he died are up for auction including the very bed he died in. Now quite why anybody would want this horrible, ghoulish gift I can’t say but I promise you that the entire nterprise stinks of grave robbing.
Keith Richards was honored for his book “Life” and true to form made a irrreverent appearance- one of the only rockers left who can stick it to the man and not look like an idiot- or is it that we can no longer tell the difference?
Shakira rocketed on to the pop charts with her sultry moves and pop happy beat. Although, most known for her contributions to Latin music this beautiful yet very smart performer criss crosses boundries effortlesly
Noel forgot to write good songs. And there is no way round that this is 51 minutes of absolute crap lipstick on a pig, unbearable and bad rock songs.
the draggy theft flick is like “Ocean’s 11” for folks with personality flaws. A Madoff type character get naileds for a Ponzi scheme and abscons with the pensions of the employees at “The Tower” who want it back
Lonely Boy – The Black Keys – The buzz on the new BK album is loud and hard, maybe, but, though pretty good, this ain’t no “Next girl”.
Fearless Records annual “Fearless Friends Tour”, reaches out to some communities but not all. I wonder why they have such limited locations for such a noble idea. Simply calling each venue to get a food banks name or simply entrusting a ‘street teamer’ to do the work would have made this so much more grand.
Her hero, her love, is a Superman of the norm: In its inclusiveness this is a truly triumphant number: it makes us all supermen for someone.
Danzig, without a word to apologize, struggled with his voice during the set, while chewing something, and ran off stage twice during the show ‘once to attack someone’ and ‘another time to check the monitor’!
A band since 2008, founding member Dahvie Vanity has had more wing men than Rock Hudson, not sure why- but he is the only constant. The band plays upbeat party music with a sense of humour. I wouldn’t call them epic or trendsetting by any means. There have been far too many before them…
it was these little breaks that were the most surprising as they seemed to venture into something else than Metal with layered guitars and bass, making me think about some of Mogwai’s tracks,
You Me At Six, is a great band but uh oh, someone needs to put them back on track. The song begins well enough with a powerful beat and deep sound but the chorus? The chorus is the most dreadful generic rock band inspired wavelength of vomit I have heard in a great while. Its as if they just said ‘aww fuckit’ and threw it on tape.
‘Do you have any idea what some of these bands went through to make that music? The fact that there might be some money after all these years later is great’.
“it’s actually referring to something much more existential, it’s just surfing on nothing. Being lost in your head or in your imagination but you know, whenever I listen to music I always find myself off somewhere. Somewhere in space. You know, in mental space and it’s a reference to that.”
Heavy D brought reggae to hip and to its world takeover . In 1987 he released his first album with the Boyz and by 1989 had crossed right over to the rap charts with the Big Tyme album.
. If you have never seen Fitz And The Tantrums live, don’t let their recorded work fool you, this is a raucuous r&b daance band who can blow any stage apart.
woman because of the manipulated nature of her sex, can battle through the hypocrisy of big rock and roll and remain both true and bigger than life. At least on her sophomore album, certainly one of the best albums of the year, Ceremonials,Welch manages to
Tim Jonze subsequently contacted Merck Mercuriadis in a rage, explaining that the NME editorial staff had taken his finished piece from him and had re-written it.
Ours frontman Jimmy Gnecco is one name in the mix, Slipknots Corey Taylor, Myles Kennedy, Royston Langdon and Donovan Leitch (the son, the son!) are among the names being mentioned though none of them hit me as a a great fit.
if all you are doing is struggling, if you are somewhere between food stamps and day laborer, you need to get your money where you can.
To put it another way, US Punk is one thing despite the attempts of Jello Biafra and others because there was no class warfare… and maybe the attitude has changed
Ben Worcester and Tyler Bancroft’s gentle guitar duels, accompanied by Jaycelyn Brown’s keyboard and Nathan Shaw and Spencer Schoening’s rhythm section were building the music, but it was the long-sustained five-part harmonies, completed by powerful chants that was characterizing the most their sonic landscapes
from Fitty to the Beatles to Altered Images to Ryan Adams to Bright Eyes, they all seem a little needy. Fitty is a snotty put down, the Beatles an extended dirty joke, Conor a manic breakdown
Yeah, I was expecting to see John Belushi jump from behind the curtain of the Amoeba stage at any moment during the performance of the Bo-Keys. The Memphis band was actually very crowded on the small stage, they were eight and later joined by a vocalist, with a full and terrific horn section kicking several times during each song.
His girlfriend lives with death threats, his cars are attacked by fan, he can’t walk down the street, he can’t hang out with his friends, he can’t hang without bodyguards.the world hasn’t seen anything like this since Beatlemania
If there was ever any doubt, it is now over, the White Castle chomping, pot smoking, trouble finding comedy duo Harol and Kumar now join the pantheon of greats in this mix of Cheech and Chong and Crosby and Hope plus every story of Christmas redemption you’ve ever seen.
Fearless Records now infamous “Punk Goes…” series is generally a great compilation of up and coming bands covering todays pop hits. Consider it something like Kids Bop with a beard. What worries us this time is the initial leak by the band Woe is Me. Katy Perry is a fun perfomer to cover but the band does absolutely nothing with it- other than make it worse.
Now nothing more than a low rung Indie band far below caliber of those in the genre that followed behind them. I wouldn’t go so far as to call them grandfathers of the scene, but they had their short lived space and basically ruined it for themselves. Its hard to be a down to Earth Indie band when your front man is an egocentrical..egocentric. Yeah that bad.
“You are proving that you have little concern for the lives and welfare of LGBT people, that you are willing to endanger their lives, and seek to encourage stigmatisation against them. I find this disappointing in an organisation that could do so much to enhance the self-esteem of youth, reduce stigma, and discourage violence.”
All Time Low is a band that will not stop moving. Touring and recording like a boss and showing no signs of slowing down. In a genre full of 1 record artists who tour endlessly, how refreshing it is that ATL actually hit the studio. Of course, more touring will follow but if there is one thing you can be certain of their material never gets stale.
Pop star and former sk8rgrrrl, Avril Lavigne faced a jeering crowd of 5 ninjas outside the Roosevelt Hotel in trendy LA armed only with Bruce Jenners kid Brody. Needles to say the results werent pretty and both Lavigne and Jenner had much to ‘tweet’ about. The amusing part is how interestingly opposite their reactions were.. ‘Charges!Chargers’ is more note worthy than ‘winning’
My Own Prison and Human Clay are very special albums for us and I look forward to performing them for our fans,” singer Scott Stapp said. “The songs bring back a lot of great memories for me and I hope for them too.” Creed is back with ‘Arms Wide Open’ and a shot in the dark attempt to rally back 15 years of former glory.
I have seen Morrisey on stage many times, always good, sometimes great and back in the States for the first time in the year but you and I won’t be seeing him. He won’t venture near the East Coast.
the Mac Miller is proof that the world has yet to find a replacement for Slim Shady, but it is also proof “Donald Trump” wasn’t beginner’s luck
an earlier, more innocent age, pitching woo from “What happened to that funny face” to “now you’re grown up the future is sown up”
The Mint is a 1937 Los Angeles landmark that has hosted such legends as Stevie Wonder, Willie Dixon, Natalie Cole, Ray Charles and more recent stars as Wallflowers and Ben Harper. Still keeping its finger on the pulse of up and coming artists nearly seventy five years later.
Coldplay isn’t the worst band on earth (close, but not the WORST) but they are more irritating than U2. Bono is a self-proclaimed ego centric with a messiah complex, Coldplay are the St. Paul of rock: they keep on getting blinded on the road to Damascus and seeing the light. yes, they have learnt humility while they tell the millions why they should follow them
