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
Power Trip”, an undoubted hit with Miguel, a guy I’ve underestimated, killing it on the chorus with a one liner that rules the world: ” Constant drinking and love songs”.
The band looked so serious, hardly cracking a smile during the whole time, concentrated on their upbeat fast-tempo songs, which made people dance in the store rows
This is amazing and cool and who the hell would have ever thought this would happen. Iman hob knobbing with Debbie Harry last month and she never even told him. That sassy dame. Starting in New Hampshire it looks like a great opportunity for me to get to Hampton Beach
Donwood may think that the world is doomed according, but he still hasn’t lost any hope to change it!
Doncker is the best played, West sounds best, Modern Hut the most consistent and Marling peaks the highest
I’m not the type to wonder what Joe would have done, it doesn’t matter. We lost Joe and the world is a much dimmer place. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is the lamest institution of all and holds no prestige in my eyes
It is amazing how little material there actually is. A handful of alnbums, some extended and that’s it really.
Like all those damn Cash Money kids, they be hating on nyc
Summer songs? First Blurred next Lucky all summer long, that’s my bet. Also, one other will be coming up soon, the Miley Cyrus, it will be the third and all summer long they will be at the top. Everything else is gonna be biting at their ankles!
I think I wear off albums way too fast. Sometimes they don’t last a week before I’ve completely moved on
I am going to see McLaughlin for the first time tomorrow. I own a 5 CD Davis set circa 1970, John played only one night but boy my boy, it stands so far out
They exploded in all directions, never stayed still but rather randomly moved against each other, like a pack of boiling molecules
Beckett’s allusion ties in with the whimsical feel of this song and really puts the icing on the cake
There was a musical memorial for Stanley on June 2nd and my friend Richard Davis was among those who paid his respects in a room full of movers and shakers
Sunday afternoon I am gonna see Femi Kuti and when is that over I am gonna dash down to Arlene’s Grocery (just off Ludlow Street) -one of the best rooms in the city by the way, and catch Marla’s 815pm show
Raise your hand if you think this is the most fucked up statement from a someone who shouldn’t be allowed to speak. Really Gene put a leash on your dog…err, cat.
I asked Bill Holdship, who wrote the liner notes to the extended Replacements reissues at the bands request, and Rob O’Connor, the Yahoo Music columnist and maybe the best rock critic around, to tell me what their favorite songs were.
She is like a female Hall and Oates with a dollop of Billy Joel circa An Innocent Man. At least that’s the best I can do with “Waiting For me” -a plainly awesome soul song
It is not that that Trent Reznor is old fashioned, it is rather that his innovations have been so built into EDM and hip hop DNA that he sounds old fashioned
Scott Disick’s Dream Comes True in the promo that I originally wrote for Kanye’s new record but not a lot was used: http://www.kanyewest.com
Yes folks, Tuesdays releases boiled down to a handful of songs… especially MIA!!!
Everyone hates him, he talks shit about everything, does not fear repercussion, creates music for himself until its time to ‘pay the rent’ then they pop out a hit. Interesting huh? All the haters are really just scared. He’s saying shit you don’t want to hear,
I was a senior in high school in 1983, busy with SAT tests and college applications and impending adulthood, so it was a good time to be reminded that girls just wanted to have fun
They were quite loud and a positive force was literally emanating from each musical fiber of their high-energy songs
Many places I have lived are not exactly live music meccas (ladies and gentlemen, I give you MANHATTAN, KANSAS) and I’d rather not skip meals to attend arena shows
I can’t get enough of the harmonies. When the instruments hit that discordant tone and it mixes with the perfect blend of voices, it’s chilling. The original version doesn’t quite have this same quality.
“We’re just highlighting facts about things that are happening, and things that affect us”
She despises him for not taking any action regarding some of his fans, making allusion to the whole ‘Cut For Bieber’ trend that occured on Twitter at the beginning of this year
Character, stamina, humor, plot, believablity, everything is thrown away for the sole purpose of another action sequence
Yes, that’s what a great live performance can do for you. Performing three Frank Sinatra covers, Legend changed me from a decades long hater to an intense admirer and if Love In The Future, his first album in five years, is halfway decent (and that is no promise mind) consider me so there when he plays in town. Otherwise, count me in on Beady Eye, Mavis Staple, maybe Wale, definitely Hawthorn Heights, definitely India Arie. But Smith Wesson, I prefer em when they were getting thrown out of Broolyn nightclubs for underage drinking.
End of the weekend music and after watching Viva Las Vegas it’s been all Kweezy all the time. Three days of listening to the album and it becomes clear that the first four songs reach a heigh of consistent industrial strength power that the rest of the album doesn’t quite pay off, and then it ends with a reminded that he can turn on the hit making whenever he feels like it. “Can’t Tell Me Nothing” -he killed it at Gov’s Ball.
After his songs there is always his family and watching his 22 year old daughter watching her father as they joined together for a handful of songs, was revealing enough for any set
