The Tricky and Stelling are real keepers, best songs on their respective albums but also better in a bigger pop moment. The Superchunk demo is one of the great songs of their career. They should try an acoustic album soon. As for Gary, Tomas Doncker thinks he is overrated but Tomas hasn’t seen him live.
Last time I saw them they were a trio, but this time there were five musicians behind José Gonzalez, who was finger picking his guitar, standing in the middle of the stage. Around him, Tobias Winkerton on moog synth, Elias Araya on drums, as well as three other persons on tropical percussion, more synth and bass,
Personally I was a fan of Regatta de Blanc, the rest was too popular to me. But I am stunned that so many years have past since ‘Don’t Stand So Close To Me’.
It comes with the fan who goes to concerts a lot job description, get an AMEX Card. Look at it this way, 5% of the possible audience may have Amex cards getting a crack at 35% of the tickets.
According to Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department spokesman Steve Whithmore, Johnson wanted to confront Bieber about his reckless driving, as he got scared for his 3-year-old daughter, who was outside playing in the driveway, when Bieber was speeding
Laura Marling – Roulette – May 28th, 2013 – Laura didn’t bring along a guitar technician, “I don’t mind,” she explained as she tuned two guitars in six keys, “but I didn’t pay for a ticket”.
When I was An Eagle – Laura Marla – Jungian archetypes meet boy-gods and all are punished to a melody you can sing in the shower
The trend of rockers on a ship is not going away. From Kid Rock to KISS there is a slice of ocean for every fan and well, fans will pay for the opportunity to hear a concert on a boat
Finger Back – Vampire Weekend – My favorite song off the current album is also the most VW off the new album and the bit in UWS fallafel shop with a poster of jerusalem is worthy of Paul Simon.
After last years first rate exercise in modern Cabaret sounds Cafe Nights In New York, Phillips got to work on a blues record which should be out later this year and also formed a band to perform his exquisite standards and the great American songbook at Don’t Tell Mama’s last Tuesday.
I was just working on my best of 2013 through the end of May, which explains the top six . I am so ambivalent over Vampire Weekend that it might take the live concert for me to reach a final conclusion. Perhaps the proof of how important the live show is it changed the Paramore album from good to great.
‘I put an ad on Craigslist that said, ‘Band in the style of Hole looking for bassist in the style of Melissa Auf der Maur
Spotify radio is a pain in the ass and the repetition is absurd. So when it comes to mindless music, Pandora got me 40 free hours a month. I can’t see paying for two services, I’m just not that into it.
“Georgy Girl”, “The Carnival Is Over”, ” There will Never Be Another You”, show me another band with this sort of pedigree, indeed, show me another folk band so effortless great in distilling pop to folk and vice versa and i will show you Peter, Paul And Mary
Aww, Mick you know I dig ya but this whole box set deal screams your name. Turning rebellion in to money 2013. $290.00 for this package of fun.
they have moved away from this light melody-driven sound. Their last album, ‘The Terror’, is nothing like ‘Your Face Can tell The Future’ which is featured on ‘True Blood: Music From The HBO Original Series Volume 4’ just released on May 28th via ATO Records
Amy Grant, who is performing at Irving Plaza August 23rd, and whose new album How Mercy Looks From Here is somewhat on the unspeakable side. And David Crowder, who isn’t playing locally but whose The Essential Collection lives up to its name.
“There’s a huge market for any enterprising men out there. Especially of 40 and over. This fucking country is an embarrassment when it comes to catering for the desires of ladies who don’t want to be girlfriends or wives”
So why go and see him at Music Hall Of Williamsburg, Tuesday, October 29th. Because he is like Bowie with all ambivalence and subtext removed: al that’s left is a profound alienation.
Unlike Adele, where familiarity bred contempt, the album grew on me and as UK records sold like honey and UK RECORDS dropped like flies, I went from really not getting the appeal of the lovely voiced but essentially boring Hallmark card to a grudging admiration.
#1 and # 2 are where Moroder sampled himself on the new Daft Punk track, QOTSA is a dumb joke, but funny, and the new single is pretty food. The Dream has been better, but he has also been worse. And Tricky? That’s a Patti Smith cover!
It has shed its Englishness for a Western world music universal. The songs are not simple but they are played simply and the overall effect is of a returning over and over like waves on the shore that crest and subside.
Wills incorporated blues, country, big band, tin pan alley, and folk music into his unique brand of exhilarating Western swing.
I couldn’t be more wrong, this uniformity, this total lack of individuality and originality is so depressing that I am about to lose any little faith in humanity I still had!
Wrote a Song For Everyone is like one of those tribute albums that are never ever as good as they would look to be, even when McCartney is covering Buddy Holly they suck, and even when Fogerty is covering Fogerty this is a terrible money grubbing little exercise
Flaming Lips had asked their fans to create the craziest-weirdest t-shirt ever to celebrate their last album ‘The Terror’, quite appropriately entitled considering what these people from Oklahoma have just endured. With the help of Threadless – the website selling the t-shirts – they now have announced that $10 for every t-shirt sold will go to the American Red Cross to benefit the Oklahoma tornado victims.
As a non follower its hard for me to imagine the excitement to be felt by so many at the announcement of the new film “Springsteen and I’, just looking at this clip does nothing for me at all- II suppose its similar to the kids who lined up for a Justin Bieber film- but just much older and less cute
Go to heaven and have a hit song apparently. “Clouds” is a pretty good song, enough promise to assume that he would’ve gone on to bigger things. At fourteen he got diagnosed with cancer and 10 major surgeries and 20 rounds chemo later he was told he had a year to live. Zach died this month of cancer at the age of 18. There must be an easier way to get a a hit single
This is about as thrilling an album chart as you are going to get. 5 of the top 6 are new and 9 of the top 10 is first rate. Indeed if you get rid of 30 Seconds To Mars I could’ve written this up myself. Special shout out to the National who I am going to see next week , for providing us with a very good album that maintained its doom and gloom while widing their sound.
A real mish mash but two surprises, Tiesto’s best track in a long while is EDM one oh one witht hat steamrolled bet pattern all over it as written a hundredtimes but stillf resh and Buju Banton who ws still in prison the last I looked so either this was recorded behind bars or it is an outtakeand either it is a very good song, dancehall one oh one true, but there is no escaping the voice.
The real deal if you like an aggressive sound built in distortion, velocity, noisy guitars and screamed vocals, the kind of sound that installs terror, chaos and destruction in your mind, with the kind of nihilistic lyrics that would scare the Jesus out of any good Christian,
Watching Richardson’s Bowles, it had the ring of truth and observation. A realness but realness we don’t want to really know. I prefer Minelli’s star turn but who wouldn’t want to see that? But Richardson was true. It was acting at the highest level
In this world, it is very hard to make money when you are this far off the grid and on just first listens and a viewing of the track list? This is off the charts weird.
“Because we’re all so very 21st century, you’re probably listening to me on some sort of portable stereo. Maybe you’re sitting on the back of the bus, or it’s running up your sleeve and you’re across from your boss, or you’re sitting in your bedroom on your own with the lights down low.”
The crowd chanting ‘Kanye’ or ‘Yeezus’ didn’t change anything. So what went on exactly? Did the police order to shut down the projections because they were too controversial for Texas? Was Kayne West’s video a threat? Were they expecting a riot?
His self love is contagious, this is how he pays the bills. Iggy and The Stooges are back in a second revival and they’re old and tired and cliche’ and what bothers me most is he now is quite arrogant about the one thing that got him fame to begin with, Punk Rock.
2010 had two of them: Titus Andronicus’ The Monitor and Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. 2011 just the Tyler The Creator debut album, Goblin. 2012 had none. And now it seems like there could be three “A+” albums in 2013.
It’s less scary to me than if he wanted to be a dentist in that I couldn’t help with what he’d chosen
“Some girls at college had started making nasty comments, but it escalated really quickly. The girl came up behind me and dragged me off my chair by my pony tail, then started kicking me in the face.”
You can see my quandary, right? Two unmissable concerts on the same night. I am writing this the day before and posting it the day after, but I am going to call Roulette and hope Laura goes on 9pm or later and see as much of Jack as I can possibly manage. Laura’s new album (released yesterday, so this is the release party) will probably be the best of the year. But Phillips was in the top ten from last year. Every song on this list will blow you away, but “Goodbye To England” is among my favorite songs of all time.
So no more fireworks in the butt from Hank, but Sylvester was completely at ease in the middle of this mix of homosexual aesthetics, sex and anal references, and overall falsely macho attitude, that was making some guys in the crowd super excited. The band’s music has been described as a mix of hard rock, punk hardcore, and glam rock
Gone is the hungover amnesia framing device of the first two movies, this time the Wolf Gang , Brad Cooper, Ed Helms and the one who always goes kidnapped are on the way to rehab after Alan (Zach) goes off his meds and the one who always gets kidnapped gets kidnapped
you know that 46% of Americans still believe that God created humans in their present form during the last 10,000 years, even when they are presented 2 million-year-old hominid fossils? I know it too well as, when I teach evolution, I come to the sad realization that many people are still creationists and aren’t open to scientific ideas.
This is manufactured good times but then so is a skateboard, more than any other band around 1D do what they are meant to do: they are a product manufactured by Simon Cowell but with a certain amount of self-confidence and inherent charm.
Jon Bon J, did a very public scolding of Justin Bieber. First off, his fans are young, these are school nights- just because he dropped out doesn’t mean they all have
Marshall Lyte was the bass player in Bill Haley And the Comets and played on “Rock Around The Clock” till he left to found The Jodimars with drummer DICk Richards and saxophone player Joey Ambrose. In 1986, Lyte rejoined the Comets and played with them till he retired 2011. So we had our first big rock and roll band playing for us till two years ago. Last year the Comets were inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. He died of lung cancer at the age of 79.
this is the man who has not only been in jail, but has also been arrested for domestic violence. I wouldn’t be surprised if he did kick out his band and take all the money. He’s a talentless loser. Also, this woman has been called his wife, girlfriend and fiance, there is no reality in Radke world.
ike 1D they come across as fun guys, not too heavy, and ready for the girls of the worlds acclaim. Unlike 1D they write their own material. PS: Luke Hemmings is 16 years old.
No doubt, Laura Marling is the one to beat and I wouldn’t be the slightest surprised to discover it is the best album of 2013 after hearing just two songs. But it looks like a modern classic of a week: Polyphonic Spree, Tricky, the Stranglers,. Plus: the Rolling Stone “5 Star” new Fogerty. New? Re-recordings of the classics with stars, sorta B+ listers, like Bob Seger and Foo Fighters. I agree, RS are probably wrong but David Fricke wrote it so who knows.
:The long weekend is over but the songs remain the same! Three by Yacht! Plus new shoutouts: “Burn the motherfucker down”, “who needs breaks when it’s all downhill from here?” “graveling, gravelly groans”. A pretty good weekend music wise!
