“Don’t sell your soul for the beans of this world,” the last Dancehall master standing advises on “One Life”. He shoulda told that to his contemporary Buju but maybe he did as this is Sizzla’s 70th (as in SEVENTY) album. More of the same, smooth calypso like reggae rhythms and throaty vocals while the Bobo Shanti subscribers preaches. Amazingly enough, this is near perfect reggae – ALBUM OF THE WEEK – A-
Begun and ended with songs from the Alkaline Trio, the Lawrence Arms tracks is completely new to me but added to “Crawl” Friday night, it rocked my world. Aaron and Jack both have concerts next week. And in between the deep album cuts which are a gift for writing a weekly album review column.
This guy is pure perv but someone blended in to that ‘gushy stuff’ is a comedy that I cannot resist. On this rainy night I headed to Springfield MA to see Mr. Worldwide. Springfield is infamous for its Latin community and bad ass gangs.
he dark and tiny nightclub – I have been inside several times and it’s quite small, especially the toilets! – was originally opened by Johnny Depp, and has been the place to be on a Saturday night since the 90s, the place where some celebrities like Mick Jagger, Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Billy Idol, or Iggy Pop would occasionally make a surprise apparition late at night
There is nothing wrong with mankind’s ADHD when it comes to injustice. We’re just trying to pay our bills and not kill our bosses to really spend too much time worrying about rebellious entertainers and their antics. I mean c’mon this week we had terror slashings and tornadoes, some freak Russian broad falls of the radar pretty quick.
She is an English actress and model named Elarica Gallacher and she is still gorgeous and she is playing Marvin Gayes wife (second wife is my bet, she sure ain’t Berry Gordy’s sister) in the Marvin Gaye movie waiting in the wings.
Vampire Weekend actually have three songs that could appear on this list at any given time, “Unbelievers” is the third. As for The National, I only got it Thursday morning so it is bubbling somewhere in the back of my pleasure zone but hasn’t worked its way all the way there. Holy Ghost! tonight as part of the all night DFA Records celebrations by the by.
While casually charming us to death here at rock nyc central, the MTV reality star proceeded to advise she had signed for another season of “Ridiculousness” and would be spending the summer on the Lil Wayne tour. All of which is well and good but to go home schooled at fifteen and manage to network yourself into a career by nineteen. And be lovely and not and all a diva. A winner in my book.
What I get from this short one-minute-and-half tease, is a feeling of togetherness expressed by all these people, who are all united under the same unconditional love for the boss. Think what you want about Springsteen, but there’s obviously something special about him to command such a huge crowd.
Lana Mir World Dommination Tour
Here we go again, through the past darkly with a look back at four years of Mays and starting with one of the loveliest singers rock nyc ever ever covered. This is another case where I could’ve sworn she would’ve broken through but it is such a crap shoot. She had the songs, the looks, the smarts but four years later…
Here we go again, through the past darkly with a look back at four years of Mays and starting with one of the loveliest singers rock nyc ever ever covered
I am seriously looking forward to seeing Neville live. I think I’ve seen him before doing a couple of songs with Linda Ronstadt but otherwise this is the first time ever and I really love his voice. But this is really all about Petty and the return of the rock and roll star knocking the Beacon on its collective keister.
Petty isn’t married to the obscurities all new songs concept though it helps him bring a freshness to the hits. The first two songs of the night haven’t changed all tour and the last song has remained constant
The hard thing to keep in sight is that she is a self-made woman. In press releases and MTV shows, there are two realities sort of colliding but speaking to her, she’s just a kid who has worked very very hard to put herself in a position to succeed
Despite all this darkness and bleakness, the trio was very jovial, Elena Tonra was giggling all the time, and she thanked many times the crowd for ‘being so nice’. They have just released their first LP ‘If You Leave’, were signing copies after the show, and all these people in line had certainly perceived the emotional and painful beauty of Daughter’s songs
How exactly does he intend on making singers more genuine? What the hell is he on about? So basically this is Diddy TV where he and his friends can self pleasure and we can watch. Simple as that. I have a funny feeling theres gonna be a lot of infomercials
I am not a huge National fan, if I were I would have bought it on Tuesday when it was released, the same way I did with Vampire Weekend. Tuesday is new music day and there is so much on Spotify I won’t usually buy much off Itunes
So what do you think, is it inventive and classy or pretentious and self-centered? People are saying it has to be a girl because of the girlie nature of the invite, but who knows with these two?
That fluffy headed guy from the legendary band Queen ended up being one of the coolest dudes ever. Brian May is an absurdly educated, animal and social activist who is not only articulate but forthright in his strong opinions and beliefs.
The sort of sidelong glance of a move that has kept the UMG subsidiary at the top of its game and Hot 97’s Summer Jam reeling after they lost their participation!
Ty is all over the damn place, you can’t throw a brick without hitting one of the bands he plays for, everyone from Fuzz to Perverts and many times, if you can concentrate hard enough on him, he is pretty damn good but far too often he is as slippery as his songs
If it was just Kelly I would go with Aaron if only because I already have a ticket for Aaron. But The-Dream is the closest thing we have to Babyface in 2013 and I really really want to check him out
I will have conducted my interview with Chanel West Coast by the time you read this, but as of now, I just have the videos of these two songs. She raps pretty I’ve seen a video of Chanel straight up rapping over beats and she was excellent. On the other hand, the last two tracks are songs my Mom, who died in 2010, used to sing to me . Florrie Ford is British Dancehall, I don’t know whpo the other guy is.
After 45 years, some folks from the Mabel Mercer Foundation put together a tribute concert to Mabel and Bobby at Town Hall, the same legendary location where they met in 1968 for their infamous concert. And I missed it
Can you believe it? People have barely emerged from the torpor of last month festival and hipsters still have their 2013 Coachella bands around their wrists, that we are thinking about next year! And all this without a lineup in view before almost a year!
Despite the terrible movie name, this Star Trek does no more and no less than it sets out to, keep the franchises alive while letting us giggle over the Muppet Babies
I cannot tell you what it is like to look into the eyes of a mother whose son is dead as result of attending a concert by your group, his favorite band. I cannot tell you what it is like to hold her tiny hands as she weeps for her dead boy; to hold those hands in your large hands, the same hands accused of killing her son. I cannot tell you in any words what it’s like to feel that grief for her lost only child
All you need to do is rustle up funds for charity in the most flamboyant way. Earn enough and you win big with all proceeds going to the ‘Unite The United” foundation. The Unite the United Foundation is a nonprofit organization, which was launched by Vans Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman, and donates funds directly to grassroots charities.
Remember, this is the 25-member group that regularly gives us a capella covers of famous songs, coming from all over the indie spectrum in beyond, with choral arrangements and layered vocals. They can go from Beck to Muse, from Regina Spektor to Phoenix with the same conviction and have been described as the hipster answer to Glee,
In the midst of a disappointing movie, he consistently made me smile. The face of his generation? Although a child of privilege, Ezra is a super everyman. His next movie is Madame Bovary so it might have to wait a year.
Christgau gave the Vamps an A+, so you gotta think, right? But congratulate them for me if you don’t mind. And George is in at # 2 and he deserves it. Husband and wife team for the last two and you might notice that some acts have worst grades this week than least. That’s how it goes in 2013
So 20 years after daft Punk changed the face of dance they get their first # 1? How? By goign back to 1979 and riding a Niles Rodgers lick for six minutes and more power to them. That’s how we do it and it makes as much sense to me as the sound of the click on a Moroder song
With the exception of the Mabel Mercer and Bobby Short duet which makes Paul Simon swinged not stoned in 1968, the two big surprises are the brackets, Jay-Z’s excellent rap on an average The-Dream track and the Weeknd full on soul in French Montana’s average rap track.
Live, Laura is very serious, meticulous, concentrated on her playing, emerged in her art, only cracking a smile when her guitar is out of tune, ‘I should get another guitar’,
They got their band sound from the keyboards, it is still their most distinctive element and it is the break on “Fire” that made Morrison a superstar sex symbol. Also, with those sideburns and shades, Ray was an important visual element.
Of course, some avid fan did a recording of some of the new ones and you can watch ‘Sorry’ and ‘Heaven’s Ladder’ below, filmed by someone who must have been just below Beck’s nose. ‘Sorry’ is rather upbeat with a catchy chorus ‘Used to be happy/ Used to be laughing’ and a very-Beck bridge, but nothing really memorable lyrics-wise
This of course got me thinking about pizza…..and music. Imagine if you will scented CD’s. Now granted we also don’t use CD”s anymore but with the resurgence of vinyl who knows- CD’s can make a comeback and when they do- they should be smell infused!
The Heartbreakers are such a great band that I might very well be wrong , hearing these old pros jam together could well be a revelation, it could well be a Southern Crazy Horse. Or it could be a tremendous bore.
From Johnny Taylor to Chic, all these beats are used over and over again like DNA building blocks. When you hear “Love To Love You baby”, if you can get past the wall of synths and the humming metal sensuality, you left with a bass throb and a drum pattern and it is that which is lifted and reused
Riot Fest 2013 has a lineup that is almost surreal. Brand New, Fall Out Boy……Selector? Bayside, All Time Low..Blondie? Its as if they planned the mother and child reunion right there. Three days at a fair price
Two upcoming concerts are must sees in my books. Michael Buble at the Prudential on September 28th and Tony Bennett at Radio City at Radio City on October 11th.
Strait is great despite being ornery cuss, he has that rare ability to be always always very good and when you are very good that often it is a form of greatness
Personally, I’m disappointed in the Daft Punk album. Both Casablancas and Williams have written superior songs than these, Williams obviously, but the Julian track is as good as a lesser number on his solo album. As for the Doors, still in mourning. B.o>B. is pretty good, minor stuff but it does the job And finally, who though Darius Rucker would beat out Keith Urban?
As soon as they stepped on stage, and crowd pushed forward. Luckily I was to the side and wasn’t being swallowed by all the people. There were a lot of fans in attendance; the majority of the crowd knew the words, and I was one of em
So who gets 2 Million streams? I just took a look and Macklemore and Lewis did 3.7M streams of “Can’t Hold Us”, so that makes about $160,000 in revenue of which the band get MAYBE 25%.
Curiously, we have a tendency to think that uplifting music or some other upbeat stimulus would cheer us up in this case, effectively wouldn’t you think to console a friend who is going through a bad break-up by bringing him to some cheerful event for example? But hell no, this research totally contradicts the common opinion
Apparently these guys were on a different time zone and every act was behind an hour. Sad news for labels like Fearless Records who tweet Mayday Parade (aka ‘Breadsticks’) is on at 7:15 and they come on after 8. Seriously, how amateur can you be? I have been to so many festivals and theyre precision timing.
It was fun to read, Helen writes with a great deal of energy and the article itself is very clear and extremely well constructed, flipping from one generation of women to the other from hippies to punks and finally to the child who encapsules all of it.
After a spate of deaths in March and April, the Grim Reaper has been passing on musicians for the past couple of weeks. Not that it helps Dr. Joyce Brothers any and which Helen went through cartwheels to include even scaring up an interview Dr. Brothers conducted with Kiss. But no. Taylor Meade on the other hand…
he band has effectively done a certain number of cover songs, and this is not an easy art. If everybody can learn somebody else’s song, not everyone can appropriate it, transform it without torture it, and QOSTA does exactly this: they manage to make the songs their owns by injecting in them their unique sound, while always remaining loyal to the originals.
Obviously, Daft Punk is gonna be the big seller, but Christopher Paul Stelling, the brilliant folk singing who builds his own guitars, is the one I have the highest hopes for, especially after hearing “Brick x Brick” . Elsewhere… the Nationals and Darius Rucker look like keeper to me.
