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
At 70 minutes it was very short and my sense is that if you went to all three nights it would add up to one a unfied vision but one set is not quite enough to get any real feel for what is going on musically
How about we just end it here. Its not Bow Wow Wow at all its Leigh Gorman and the ‘hope to make a buck off the 80s’” band. Yuck
These days Eugene Hütz finds inspiration in Latin America, Africa, Arabic and Eastern Europe hip hop (especially the Chilean one, who would have thought?), since he thinks ‘American hip hop is in deep trouble’
I kinda took Screaming Females for granted because they were always around and so missed my last couple of chances to catch em but I won’t miss them this time. Plus, I can say goodbye to Maxwells at the same time. Visit the sick bed and miss the funeral
at least it sees a political component to hedonia; that a call to party is a call to freedom and a call to sex, or even, in the video, at least some form of friendship and tenderness, is its own reason for being
The advocacy group Parkinson’s UK declared that the rapper showed ‘an inexcusable level of stupidity’ in the song ‘On Sight’ where he compared a woman’s trembling to the neurological disease.
As Helen Bach reported yesterday, the far sighted folks at Warped extended their father’s day promotion to include a free ticket to any parent who is bringing a kid to a Warped Tour.
Yes, it is all about Kanye West. Of course it is. But really, now the thrill of the new has passed a little, it is yet another album that cuts through the middle. 5 great tracks, 5 less great tracks. Still, people claiming J. Cole is competition are just fooling themselves.
Former Musician editor Vic Garbarini name checked Heart Like A Wheel the album as a masterpiece and the song itself, a McGarrigle sisters masterpiece, is tough to screw up and even so Ronstadt made it her own. If you don’t know the album, it is as good as Vic claims it is and survives as a pinnacle of So Cal country
There is something tough minded about the B-52’s; it’s, in some ways, what I imagine Talking Heads being like today if Byrne hadn’t left with his bat and ball. There is no twinkling, no playing off the past: it is by the numbers but the numbers add up.
For the duration of the 2013 run each paid child will allow for 1 free parent ticket. Mom and Dad, youre out of excuses! This has to be one of THE KINDEST and true rock and roll moves from a mega tour-ever
I bet Helen, Mary and all the vegans of the planet are gonna raise a Morrissey led army to shut it down from YouTube! It’s so offensive
We know how brutal a fest can be. Iman braved rain, mud and cold. Alyson starves and trains in her marathon gear. Me? I die of late July heat every year more sun burnt and dehydrated than the last.
Super Photographer to the rock stars has crafted himself a second career as a teller of stories
As food, water, supplies and patience dwindles, the six friends battle the Anti-Christ and each other while trying to get saved from eternal damnation.
the album was released in 1977 by the way. Just mentioning in passing…Me? I’m using the Greatest Hits night as an excuse to listen to A Deade Of over and over
, I was immediately struck by the Queens of the Stone Age’s creepy heavy vibe I got from it, it definitively sounds quite a bit like the Mojave-desert band’s last effort
really it is like “The Code Of The Wooster” –a morality tale about never letting a friend down and then it becomes a different kind of morality tale
