Hear Ye: what rock nyc is listening to 6-28-13
am especially excited to hear a song by Bruno Mars, who I am going to see tomorrow, that I have actually enjoyed!
am especially excited to hear a song by Bruno Mars, who I am going to see tomorrow, that I have actually enjoyed!
Steve Crawford has compiled every major song from the 1970s on one gigantic list! Now tell him to cut short his vacations and get to work on the 1980s
“I’m wondering if Big Star fans don’t just love everything, including the artsy quirky Third album”
Man, was she bold and acting like a wild animal released from its cage, screaming and spitting in your face during the whole set!
Riot Fest tweeted, “Homophobia and discrimination is not punk rock.” You got that right. For years, a massive amount of musicians have supported equality, and that has continued to create an impact in those who are the future.
Of f the 13 songs on the album, 2 are mantras, 2 are songs directed at specific women and a whopping 9 are of a political persuasion
More human than we’d like. See rock and rollers live forever right? A perpetual Peter Pan of sex and drugs and pyrotechnics, at least that’s what supposed to be.
David Lynch may never make another movie again, he is just too busy making music
Yes, folks, as predicted last week: here comes Miley. I couldn’t be happier, she deserves success even if it is with a Rihanna cast off of a song, at least she cast off Hannah and did what she wanted
Why be Jesus if you don’t wanna walk on water. And while I am a huge supporter of the album, it wouldn’t kill Kweezy to salt the mine with a coupla hits, would it?
Climax Blues Band are covered by Jahn Xavier on Soundcloud, but you should take the original out for a spin. Crawford missed this one on his 1970s ultimate playlist.
As Liam Gallagher declared about Kanye West very recently when this one bumped his head on a street sign when trying to avoid paparazzi: ‘He’s a fucking idiot. You’ll never see Jesus banging his head’
One thing is certain the jokes about her failed love life will live on forever and luckily provide her with tons of material as she goes from guy to guy and broken heart to broken heart. This running gag was picked up by teen clothier Abercrombie and Fitch.
Get over the MMMBop.. Open your ears and listen! I promise you will be a fan as well
Dawkins’ talk turns EDM, repeating stuff like ‘Memes spread through human culture, genes spread through the gene pool’ with electronic dance beats
A store that once catered to the hard rocking punk, goth or freak is now selling Bieber and Swift and to walk in there is a joke.
A way to see them both has to be found. There is need to see and hear everything. Do you feel it? It overwhelms me and wears me out
All of which makes Yes, You sound like a downer and it isn’t. Too honest to be optimistic, it gets its optimism from the music
Then I thought I might write about the first time I’d become aware of him. 1982, Elvis Costello covered “Two steps from The Blues” on the Imperial Bedroom tour (I think, something around that time) and blew me away and so i started listening to him
The Eagles, like Paul McCartney, are a little more circumspect, with the opportunity to put up the lot as a sort of living archive, they pass on The Long Road Out Of Eden
I am as shocked as you are but it looks like Attila have released the best album of the week, they have definitelygot the single of the week, a hardcore bowels of hell screamer. Indeed, this week looks like a substantial improvement over last week, song for song, if not album for album.
On Saturday night, I was plunged into Los Angeles underground punk history at the Blue Star
At first, I couldn’t get through it at all, and then forced myself to view the whole thing, praying it was a joke of some sort. The countless product placements, ridiculous scenarios- it makes no sense at all.
When Marla got her grip on a song, “Lioness” and “Things That Scare Me” bared at her magnificence with the taunt body and mane of hair, the glint in her eye, and the provocative closeness, she electrified.
Beethoven was one of the first composers to work with a metronome, he became a sort of enthusiastic of the invention and went back to all the symphonies he had already composed (8 out of 9) to mark for posterity the tempos to which they should be played
Femi is neither a great politician nor a great songwriter but he is a great band leader and he is a great son.
This causes a great dilemma for a fan in America- if I say “Mozzzzzzz play NEW ENGLAND!”, I could be egging him on to death. If I say “STOP TOURING!” I will never see him again.
The band filmed the trip and will begin showing the movies at screenings; I went on to SSLY.com and they had zero info so I guess that’s still in the works
What if you charge the old section 200 prices for the new 200 section prices, then guess what? Then you are paying $100 for a section 400 which you used to get, just two years ago, for $40
When has Wale ever sustained it for an entire album? Then I was thinking of Smith Western, but their last one was a real disappointment. When a minor player in a major band releases a solo album, you ten to realize why they are minor players. I guess that leaves India. Arie who is untrustworthy though at her best is pretty damn good.
Otherwise, the Mahalia tribute had me looking up two favorites which are real wows as well except, maybe her recorded music didn’t match her live performances
Mahalia was inversion of Ray Charles, Charles brought Gospel to secular music, Mahalia brought secular music to Gospel. And Joshua Nelson did her proud
I am not a big believer in funding terrorism recovery. If my leg gets blown off because of government hatred then my government should pay for it. Just as if someone runs my ass over with a car- they should pay.
I moved to Westchester County in 2004 and was shocked to discover that New York City was even more of a radio wasteland. How could it be that the two greatest cities in the United States fail to have radio stations of the same caliber as say, San Francisco or Seattle.
These concerts at the pier mean summer, they are free, they are on the beach, and they always drain a large crowd consisting of elderly/regular people bringing their folding chairs and sandwiches
This week, Adult Swim’s Singles Program, a series of free download singles, has released a new METZ’s song, ‘Can’t Understand, which follows the same but very efficient recipe as before
“When I’m calling you-o-o-o-, will you answer too-o-o-o”… that’s Slim Whitman, the yodeling master deeply influenced by one Jimmy Rodgers and much bigger in the UK and the rest of Europe
Sure I like Jason DeRulo but I like him for “The It Girl” or maybe “Don’t Wanna Go Home” not for this disappointing product, just goes to show you what jerks the British are
Kodalin are the best old school rock band I’ve heard in years. They are much better than their closest competitor, the Script, and write the sort of songs U2 stopped writing in 1991. I wonder why they haven’t cracked the States.
I have been watching Helen Bach’s favorite movie “Harold And Maude” and it stands up very well, especially all the Cat Stevens Tea For The Tillerman era songs
As a band whose main strength has always been the ability to transcend their material in a live setting, performing at 80% of peak capacity is a somewhat depressing new reality
Murphy himself said it’s gonna be a ‘really great record’ and who wouldn’t believe James Murphy?
Frank Turner is a nice enough guy who sings lots of shit and milks his Britishness. The poser kids of today who refer to everything as ‘punk rock’, wow my hat is so ‘punk rock’, I’m too ‘punk rock to wash dishes..) have embraced this guy as their own personal Jesus
I have heard only a couple of tracks off it, and they weren’t mastered, but man this is gonna blow you the hell out the water
The A Monkeys have debuted a new tune called “Mad Sounds’ at their most recent shows and well, they were really good back when they were unknown. I want to preface this rant by going off topic for a second.
Love ‘agreed to step down as Acting Manager of End of Music LLC—the business entity responsible for generating cash from Cobain’s publicity rights’ after receiving a large loan from Frances’ trust fund
It is really simple: LIST NEW RELEASES BY ARTIST. Imbeciles.
Tomas Doncker claims Buddy Guy is vastly superior live than he is on record and while I might not say vastly, I tend to agree that the great blues guitarist is something unreal live and should be seen at any price. So go check Buddy out Thursday night at BB Kings.
At over an hour in length including two skits and two great songs, and filler after filler, this is not as good as J. Cole’s debut by a long shot.
his is very informed by music I am discussing on Facebook and sounds that are just on my mind for some reason. Anna and Kate? Rufus just performed a tribute for his mommy at BAM so maybe that has something to do with it as well