Dan “Soupy” Campbell walked by me and at that moment, I fangirled. I lost my cool. I was not a journalist at a show, I was a hardcore fan stoked to see my idols grace a stage.
Ezra being Jewish is as important to “Cousins” as Paul Simon’s Jewishness matters to “Run That Body Down” but it is so central to Modern Vampires it is reverse Antisemitism to ignore it. Certainly, the Jew as blood sucker is a huge “Elders Of Zion” slur and comes back here in almost a gay/faggot trope.
So many indie bands sound alike, but Infantree was showing a real uniqueness which was certainly borrowing from the 70s and way beyond, ‘Fibber’ had a little bit of this Jefferson-Airplane-Grateful-Dead-CSN-hippie generation smoking through the cracks of the song
That being said when you have a borough full of artists and young thought you get a fabulous atmosphere filled with the spirit of adventure and the thought provoking magic that only art can provide.
Ryan overstates the case for Vampire Weekend, and he conflates Ezra’s existential crises into a serious philosophy. But fear of dying is nothing of the sort
Four hours of pornography in soft and hardcore versions is what I’ve heard. There are lines, right? Well, apparently not and even if there is, Gainsbourg, her mother and her father’s child, appears to have done a pretty good job of crossing them
With the announcement of this memorial, a few questions came to my mind…. Who will be there? Will the Westboro Baptist Church dare venture in Hollywoodland? And should I go?
A public memorial for Jeff Hanneman, Slayer’s guitarist, has been planned at the Hollywood Palladium next week, and it’s totally free, but based on the usual first-come first-serve mayhem. I expect chaos and thousands of metal fans trashing the place.
When you think of classic rock bands in 2013 you are discussing Nickelback on one hand or Tom Petty on the other but Superchunk and Spider Bag are classic in a different way: they are like that rush of late 1970s early 1980s punk morphing into new wave rock bands.
I’ll give it two out of three. “Rose Tattoo” has a great vocal performance by young Bruce and the second verse is a real keeper. The song is not a classic but this version has all the passion it needs to make it real.
“Take off your shoes, put down your hair, turn on the music and we’ll get somewhere…” now those are words to live by, aren’t they? Presley advises us to dance dance dance meanwhile, in anticipation of the eagerly awaited DFA 12th Anniversary next Saturday, check out Holy Ghost 8 minutes of pure disco rhythms . A huge follow up to their album.
Early on I knew we were in trouble when a stand out from Memphis, Willy Deville’s excellent “Mixed Up Shook Up Girl” stalled on him. The band are being held back, everything felt it was being held back, and the lovely calypso bottom failed to hold
Still, it was pretty daring to juxtapose their own songs with these beloved youth rebellious anthems,… it’s like asking for a comparison! And I am saying this because, after this experience, Torches’ music did not entirely sound different from Arcade Fire’
With all technicalities, there is not an ounce of effort. They did literally nothing to make the song original or different, and so it was boring. Then, the guy has an equally boring voice- there’s no flair, no way I could tell the difference between him and anyone else in that “genre”.
I quite like it in someways, except when it infects albums that might be worth a longer look, but for the most part this high speed clip and dip works real well.
Do you think we will have to endure Zooey at 40 doe eyed and well.. quirky. See there is no other descriptive for her shes a one trick pony. This She and Him thing periodically produces something memorable but for the most part its a rather blase white noise best suited to background music at some Starbucks or organic farmers market.
Now look at it this way, I am not against him to look better, his mouth looks kind of scary and I have always wondered how he could even eat with these crooked fangs. But the scariest thing may be that he wants to start a Hollywood career.
Congratulations to two of my fave albums of the last week, Lady Antebellum’s Golden is pretty darn chilling and Rod SStewart has his highest chart placement of original material since -ta dah- BLONdES HAVE MORE FUN!!! And Time is a much better album than the 1979 doggo el doggo.
Selena’s most generic song is also her most popular, it is a well oiled dance machine frothingaway with no readon and no purpose except this very moment of cheer pleasure. It should be huge for her!
Sarah has a beautiful voice, always had, she has zero taste in material though and that hasn’t changed, meanwhite Hayley is this year’s model and Demi is better than you thought she would be. We’re hoping to get Tomas for the next rock nyc live show.
I performed my civic duty today and voted for the Summerstage App. Not only does it save the city and by the city I mean YOU money, it also connects the city with the most skilled of our entrepreneurs and gives a lucky person the opportunity to have their app used by many people
After 8 years of silence, the world sees a 10 second SNL commercial with two familiar helmets and three words, Random Access Memories. At Coachella, those 10 seconds morph into a minute and a half, featuring a smirking, outrageously funky Nile Rodgers (of Chic fame, the mastermind behind some of the greatest riffs of the last few decades), and a Marvin Gaye channeling Pharrell Williams
Let’s see, with ‘I Appear Missing’, we have already heard four songs off ‘…Like Clockwork’ which has only 10 tracks. Even though they are growing a bit on me, I didn’t totally like these songs at the first listening,… if they are the best ones on the album, I am not sure it will raise to its expectations.
God was guilty of nothing, God was innocent because he didn’t know what it was to be human. This lead directly to God becoming part human and Jesus. The God of the New Testament was Guilty of knowledge. The moment he became human God became guilty of the sin of knowledge. He knew how we felt.
I think it hasn’t mattered less since the birth of jazz in the 1910s. The roaring ‘20s through the 1950s jazz was integrally the sound of the States and the sound of America, eaten up by rock and roll in the late 50s and rolled over by MTV.
What a meeting of generations, what an imagine for us all. It makes you hope there is a life after death just Winston O’Boogie can listen in!
It should have been cut by around half an hour but it doesn’t really flag much and in the scenes with the kid Downey does the difficult, he maintains his credibility in what could have been awfully treacly bit of business.
First off, Meat is a pretty cool guy. A neighbor here in Connecticut who coaches softball and may even mow his own lawn. He was on Celebrity Apprentice where he showed his insane side, which made me like him a bit
Yeah, new songs hit the rock nyc charts! Pusha T and #Beautiful are now on spotify, the Doors rarities is a blast especially this rollicking take. But the day belongs to Nas who provides a Reggae enthused r&b single where he ain’t there.
I was in the middle of the crowd, surrounded by mostly teenage boys talking about how stoned they were and how stoked they were and how awesome their band was and how drunk they got last weekend. Losers, but meh. I was just excited. I knew that that night was going to be groundbreaking, life-changing. I felt it in my bones.
Had the sound been better, I would have liked them even more, but for certain, Pissed Jeans were a great way to begin the night.
Of course, anyone that listens to Det var så länge se’n is eternally altered. What does one do with all of that Scandinavian street cred?
You got the idea, music stars received huge deals for certain products but I bet they don’t even consume them. However, there is much worst, some of these products are actually bad, bad at so many levels that they should be ashamed to be greased by such trash! But this has never stopped them a bit.
It might not be illegal, or even immoral but taking the etymology of a song off a press release and not stating it… It is certainly pathetic. Oh and Pitchfork hire Vampire Weekend to play at their Festivals and then assign their Senior Editor to review them. You can’t trust these guys. I bet they cheated on their SATS.
There is also an astonishing long list of short movies and TV series that have used one of his songs, and there are actually a lot of them I have never seen! But among the TV series, I have just noticed two of them concerning crime investigations
David Saltzman was recently on 60 Minutes discussing his ‘Robin Hood Project’, a philanthropic organization that does pretty much what you think it would. The organization holds non profit charities accountable and funds them up the wazoo for their efforts. Cool guy, great story but beneath the regular fodder was a nifty music bit
After swearing I was gonna pass on the Tom Petty Beacon Theater residency and even writing an entire post about how I would not be shelling out a fortune to a bandit with a website for brokered tickets in a post here, I changed my mind and went the bucks
It is obvious, of course, particularly since I shouted out Vampire Weekend by mistake last week: George Strait is the man to beat. Last time round he was writing with his son and there was more original material than usual with a mighty fine album. Let’s hope this one is as good. Otherwise a new Eve (!) , Demi Lovato. the Fall and a quarter of Abba.
The Pistol Annies song sounds like just straight up Loretta Lynn style slapdown , but the break gooes all wonky. Everything off the upcoming Doncker is really awesome. And both Del Lords and Deerhunter are the best on their respective albums.
This badass Britney Spears-loving frontwoman was so kind and softspoken that I walked away eager to see her transform into the singer of Five Knives I’ve seen in the videos, all hardcore and powerful. To be honest, it’s a total inspiration
Sins appeared as the MC in a production of “Cabaret” last year but the only thing left from that spooked performance is the self-confident delivery and the smarts to actually sing some of the music, really letting us hear what he is talking about.
Despite the fact that Burdon just celebrated his 72 birthday this past Saturday, his voice sound youthful, while Lewis’ emotional vocals nicely complement it, with a touch a sexy-scary ambiance in the background.
Listening to the mix today, it sounds like in-jokes and variants in the same place and and… “what I was seeing wasn’t what was happening at all but for awhile our paths did seem to climb.”
Everything else i stuff and nonsense, even the story of leaving his Grandpa in poverty begs the question, why is his Grandfather not calling out Bieber’s parents because you know damn well both of them are cashing in.
So what was to be a reasonable crowd at a pretty funky venue will be a mega crap fest that will prove impossible to see the stage and more kids dropping like flys from dehydration than I care to imagine. That’s greed
Alison Moyet, the 1980s pop singer from Yaz, is the template from which Adele is drawn, and not Amy Winehouse, is a jazzier and more 1950s influenced singer. That’s one reason Amy was such a good match with Tony Bennett and Adele certainly wouldn’t be. The new Moyet album is tough meat, indeed.
We queued up for a good half hour and give our tickets at the door. It seemed pretty normal. So, we’re pulled aside to get searched and the security guy asks if I know the lead singer and could I name their two albums and some songs.
Oh my, the attack of the EDM pop song, what Black Eyed Peas have created takes over the UK singles with 80% of this chart DJs fronted by pop singers. Van Buuren, Harris and Guetta have owned the UK charts for two years now
more like “A prophet is not without honor, but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house.” You can’t believe your buddy can be so good. This is Doncker’s greatest vocal performance, a harsh whisper of roaring sexuality and aggression. He will be performing it at Summer Stages “Diablo Love”.
a rockabilly dynamic “Diane Young” with his best Elvis Presley impression. Ezra, sporting a limp coif and a hot hip and taking the song from loud down to a whisper again
we remembered “Moulin Rouge”, we saw the coming attractions and we thought Baz Luhrmann’s “The Great Gatsby” was gonna be this big gauzy hyper-musical version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s roaring Twenties novel. In 3D no less. Well, we were had
