The audience at Summerstage, and I myself, enjoyed the good will, the smart pace, the willful desire to give pleasure while still feeling as though we had just watched something undernourished
According to the press release, it will look more like a carnival than your traditional music festival
What would you hope for Generic Treasure?
I don’t know actually.
Sadly, the band pulled out 30 min in to its scheduled 75 min set in Germany when it appeared that Lemmy couldn’t go on
The theme music is an awesome swirl of synths and special effect; written by Ron Granier and Della Derbeyshire , Della was a famous electronic musician decades before EDM, or even Giorgio Moroder.
Is there effectively anything more boring than watching Mumford & Sons play in a video?
“Unfortunately someone decided to turn it into a whole ugly event. What a bummer.”
18 Months had garnered a record breaking nine top ten songs in the UK
We know some of this stuff, actually a lot of it, off albums like Raised On Rock and Promised Land, but to hear everything in one place?
The One That Got Away – The Civil Wars – A complete nonbeliever in the band still This lead off song is delicate and harsh at the same time – B+
“The atmosphere had moved in, and Buzz prophesied the plague with a punch.”
They are playing Best Buy on Best Buy on December 17th, a Thursday but we will have to suck it up; take the day off school, God will understand
What were they afraid of? That I was about to attack someone with my sharpie?
50 Greatest Live Acts Right Now, Rolling Stones current best of, is completely ridiculous, a snap shot of heavy touring outfits plus their perennial favorites
Apparently, it was all one takes and out as she refused to do two takes, fireworks and tantrums on the stage, you know the full Marilyn Monroe
Who would have thought that Kanye was a huge Elvis fan?
Its getting better and this years even features more music and more films depicting the coolest era of all time.
like an East Coast Blanche Dubois wandering on to the set of “Husband And Wives”.
My favorite album of the year, it is ten new, one For Science cover , every single track of “extreme loner folk a masterpiece of detail and brood”
Visions Of Paradise – Mick Jagger – The most hated album of all time? Why, oh why? This is why, a song so breathtakingly bad it ruins a pretty good Jagger vocal – C-
She is a fine looking woman, an excellent dancer, set piece after set piece scintillates and excites; Beyonce knows her genre and her position as Queen Bey
You mean the Stevie Wonder, unannounced at a free concert?
The story of not just concerts but the week, was the closing of Maxwell’s after 25 years, the last night a very moving experience
Both sides get on with your lives, check the calendar its no longer ’82.
So be ready, all your childhood heroes are either gay or drug addicts, but they have excellent taste in music!
When it comes to Klein he is all about shadows and shadings, colors played with like a painter dipping his brush
Meet bass and tenor Richard And Adam off Britain’s Got Talent, who were singing when Simon Cowell got egged back in June, you’re gonna like them but not a lot
The Fear – Pulp “This is the sound of someone losing the plot, making out that they’re OK when they’re not, you’re gonna like it but not a lot…” Jarvis Cocker’s finest moment- A+
his performance may have sounded like a psychedelic-hypnotic-mushroom-induced experience at times
Bob Dylan – Jones Beach – July 27th, 2013 – All controversy subsides when the great man takes the stage and plays songs that travel through his entire career
The excitement surrounding Alunageorge is tangible and there is nothing much more thrilling than a band on the verge of breaking the UK
Randy Travis has gone from country icon to drunken mess, to dead to BACK TO LIFE!
If all you had on Saturday evening at the Lincoln Center was a Nick Lowe solo concert under the stars, it would be enough to maybe have the top pick for the week
Since ‘Die Young Stay Pretty’ is no longer an option, I suppose we will have to just wait and see.
the wife fears for her and the children’s safety as a result of this harassment
For all of us (including me) who were bored with the man’s subpar Spanglish moves, are relieved and happy we have maybe the best salsa singer around back around
The mood is a subdued adult Latin American soulfulness to match the rugged black and white album cover, the beats are tom tom paddicakes and when he moves to salsa swing on “Volver A Comenzar”, it is a hip swirl of delight.
Where The Boys Go – The Rolling Stones – My friend, rock writer Rob O’Connor, swears by Emotional Rescue, and at least here his claim that the album belongs to the rhythm section makes sense – A-
The last people to be on the stage would be the four members of The Bongos, Glenn Mercer, Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley of Yo La Tengo, Nick Celeste, once again, and well, me. Rob Ross, ex-guitarist/singer of The Punch Line
Panic! is back, Panic! is going to change everything, and they’re not going anywhere.
“We have probably the leanest of staffs for what we do. And since 1991 we have fed over one billion people. “
I thought I had been invited to a private performance for family members
“We try to bring back the “party” to rock and roll and if you ask around, you’ll find out that we get the biggest kick out of taking it too far.”
Her triumphant return to New York, ground zero for the Southerner, had her happy to be sleeping in her own bed Wednesday night
A marriage, divorce, coupla new boyfriends including John Mayer and a big gold truck… my bet, based on nothing but the title?
. Don’t Look Down – Skylar Gray – Shockingly good album from Eminen protegee brings singer songwriter into 21st century.
Mama Said Knock You Out – Five Finger Death Punch – This is as much aggro as the world can possibly manage: it is so brittle you can’t help but worry it might snap – A
The trick with Robin Thicke is to take a look at his daddy Alan Thicke because Robin is to pop music what Alan was to sitcom acting
