Fantasia and Melvins are on the second songs off their later albums, Paramore is on the third, Fleetwood Mac on the second off their otherwise disappointing EP, Johnny Marr a surprise return following the live show and as for The Passenger… who?
If Passenger are this year’s Gotye (and I certainly hope so) than without a reasonable doubt,at least it doesn’t sound like Sting. electronic twins Disclosure put the great Eliza Doolittle to pretty good use one way or the other on a boring song. Otherwise, electronic pop songs rule of 2013 continues
I’ve only given Passenger a perfunctory listen, so it might be better, it might be worse, Blue -a typical European Boy band, is nothing much and Bo Brice is very good. Passenger -I wonder… let’s wait and see.
I hate time because time means Conor Oberst doesn’t have the wild innocence of his youth, as he does on “Train Under Water” where you can see the innocence comes unstuck like a young Van Morrison singing “And if I don’t call that just means I’d rather not”. Both of these guys are confused by how cruelty and honesty interlock
We’re finally in the home stretch. Seriously, we did pretty good this year covering Saturday Night Lives musical nonsense. Not much to pant over. Only a few horrible acts and well, I suppose when all is said and done no damage was made.
It was like there was a hole in the center. It was like the apostles without Jesus. As my nephew Damon Morton noted, “Johnny Marr is great at being Johnny Marr, less so at being Morrissey”.
The 2013 edition of Parliament Funkadelic doesn’t have the elaborate stage production of the Mothership era, but is still a glorious celebration of excess.
The music was quite stripped down to let her voice shine and be the definite star, a voice she was in total control of, as she was effortlessly pushing the high notes with a rare elasticity, a total vocal agility, while making expressive faces, moving her hands in the air or clenching fists
Television needs to offer up a segment for the underdog. We want to see people that are unfamiliar so we can say we knew them before they made it big. Think of the dollars saved, think of the goodwill careers made! Instead we get the same old people in a different order on a different couch. Oh well, I can dream
This is such a horrible death, I mean do not google pictures of it unless you have a very strong stomach: imagine the flesh-eating bacteria slowly destroying your muscles, fat, skin and deep tissues and the only way to save your life is to remove the diseased tissues
To quote the Joker, wait till they get a load of me. With guest stars a plenty on hand mostly for vocal purposes (Howdy Jello Biafra!) long term sludge rockers cover their fave tracks but only fly when they leave their natural breeding ground for Queen, Roxy Music, and one of the great covers of the year, a damaged and deformed but still the same sensed version of the already pretty out there Bowie masterwork “Station To Station ” – ALBUM OF THE WEEK – A-
James Blake will probably be brooding behind a bank of synths for 90 minutes on Thursday BUT his songs are so remarkable who cares? It is the price of doing business with the young electronic whiz kid you’ll have to suck it up to hear his excellent sophomore effort Retrograde on stage. Plus it is T5 so you weren’t going to see much any way. Request “A Case Of You” quietly.
The Melvins are my big rock band right this minute, I really enjoy their new covers album and I love their haircuts which always helps. Down the middle of the list are three of the biggest dogs of the year, you should listen to em just so as you know I am not aimlessly dssing here. The Vince Gill song is a masterpiece that passed me right by and more’s the shame. As for the last three, two are 2013 faves and the last one was a highly of Marrs gig at MHOW.
Remember, Rourke really was a major factor in arranging these Smith songs and to see the two friends together again was a thrill and musically delirious moment.
if they’re not interested in looking at a stage or more likely cant see anyway due to crappy venue set up, tall people and over crowded general admission, shut the hell up and let them do what they want
You could hardly call this blues, if it wasn’t for Nathaneal “Lefty” Maynard’s slide guitar, most of the time it was messy, it meandered in dissonance and distortion, it stretched into passionate jams and it wandered in many directions
Bookmarc is Marc Jacobs foray into style and book selling on Bleeker Street and the day that the “Punk: Chaos To Couture” exhibition opens at the Met. So the connection is self-evident
I can’t get enough of this band. The chorus totally hits home and makes this their Warped Tour anthem; every band who plays Warped has the one new song that people know and scream along to, even if just walking by, and this is it
Sounding as fresh as ever and full of life’s experiences, “Elvis Club” is an instant pleaser
Too much of it is like a background sound in search of a screen and that is with all due respect to williams work. But the truth is even for star wars it isal the equivalent of underlining a sentence for emphasize
wned and operated by Rockafella Records (or did I misread that somewhere?) and playing at the surging Barclay Center where everybody who is anybody comes to perform, starting with Barbra Streisand. Sure, the Bulls are decimated by DLs at the moment and I couldn’t be happier! The Nets have been fun to watch all year and while I am a Knicks guy (through gritted teeth till they dump Dolan), I am awed by the Nets having forced a Game Seven at the Barclay Center tonight. LET’S GO NETS.
Sultry and sexy voice, crooning over a film noir atmosphere, only habited by twanging guitars and discreet percussion
Lead guitarist and a founding member of thrash rock innovators Slayer, died of liver failure at the age of 49. The 1980s progenitors of all things thrash came up thru the ranks of metal to join Metallica as a pinnacle of cool heaviness.
The top six are simply my way of saying adieu adieu, to yieU and yieu and yieu. Deanna Darbin was a particularly favorite of my gone but not forgotten papa, two of these songs have much much much to do with having seen Mr. Marr last night, and the newbie is a revelation I missed when I reviewed the album. If you haven’t read Ross’ Richard barone, do it NOW!
We were rock and roll; we had come from punk rock backgrounds, but really, there’s different ways to look at the punk rock thing. And the way I think me and Scott looked at it from where we had been was that it was the real rock and roll at that time. What was rock and roll had failed us and this was the needed thing for rock and roll.
I’m so used to writing about Festival failures that its amazing to me that I am writing about a success. Game Changers “Skate and Surf” Festival was to be held at the iPlay complex in Freehold New Jersey. Stoked! Indoor amusement park. I wont like the parking bit confused me. Y
Wait, that’s too harsh, it is still damn good but it needs a rethink.
‘Pura Vida’, Spanish for pure life, will resonate the important themes dear to Eugene Hütz and his troupe, with an opening song ‘We Rise Again’ whose chorus claims ‘Borders are scars on face of the planet’!
A fragile English Rose vision in a polo neck sweatshirt, Laura was blonde. But not California blonde. A translucent , timeless blondeness. Like she had been raised around sheep in the English countryside and was auditioning for the role of Emily Bronte’s ghost
All we need now is a Davy hologram to make it more awful. This is a great example of missed opportunity. A four man Monkees tour would have me screaming like the ‘Beatles just landed, a three man Monkee tour is a meh of an event.
The song’s successive accelerations and decelerations bring you on a bumpy and chaotic road.
No, wait a moment! An incredible simulation off the equal parts dreaded and loathed “CBGB’s: The Movie”.
Popdust (because pop stars are fun!) is just a great big fluffy pink cotton candy and it is sugary and sweet with a side of smark (smarmy and snide)
I got tix for Pet Shop Boys and Vampire Weekend, a pretty good reason to stick on tons of PSB and return to the scene of the crime with VW whose use of the f bomb was entirely inspired. The new Hanson sounds like the Jackson 5. Not as good of course, but pretty damn good any way.
Can you enjoy VGM with no interest whatsoever in gaming? Yes. In much the same way you can enjoy Ennio Morricone without watching Spaghetti Westerns.
Alex Edkins on guitar and main vocals, Hayden Menzies on drums and Chris Slorach on bass came on stage and right away played ‘Dirty Shirt’, and their huge sound, eardrum-bleeding-skull-crashing-tinnitus-giving sound, never left the room during their entire set
Text uploads and downloading apps to see The Lumineers? I think Yahoo had a good idea but made it slightly too invasive. I just want a ticket and a chair.
And for all you Thinspiration girls out there- go eat a cake and get your head on straight, this woman is not your hero shes an insult to women.
The almost all-girl band (there was actually one guy for three girls) was playing a fast and stormy music, with guitar and bass in constant assaults, speedy drumming, and aggression all over the place
“As massive rugby fans the chance to visit one of our favourite countries – play some gigs and watch the British and Irish Lions play Australia is an amazing once in a lifetime opportunity”
On stage, they are Cincedrella on A Saturday night, a rave up without the prurient kick of Scissor Sisters but with plenty of strobe lights and dancers, mirrorballs and disco balance. A fun evening.
Take a look at this list, notice anything? Three rock albums, how about that then? Indeed, this is a pretty good chart by any standard. maybe nothing jumps out and blows you away, still FOB, Phoenix, Fantasia -these are very good albums all and if nothing is gonna change your life for the better, nothing here is all that bad either.
Two from Timberlake, two from M&L, Pink on top , RiRi, Bruno and Pitbull bring the pop power and what is that? My gal Charlie XVX with Icona Pop –who will be at Gov’s Ball I think.
The two Sinatra’s are in general excitement for the 6-11 gig at Summerstag and this is Reprise Sinatra which is consistently better than you remember it being. The VGM is a new discovery and one I am finding very thrilling and original, and the Melvins album is astoudingly good fun. Finally? Don’t we dislike Streetlight Manifesto? Maybe not.
Their hits “Our House” and “Baggy Trousers” were a couple videos that were on constant repeat for the music network, when it played music. See MTV had limited videos in its infancy so you would see the same ones over and over each day (and you were happy to do so!), now of course, there are no music videos
Daniel Johnston is back with a project called ‘Space Ducks – an Infinite Comic Book of Musical Greatness’, consisting of an album, a comic book and an iOS app
Well, a conversation over Twitter with none other than Alternative Press Editor Jason Pettigrew sparked my interest. He had a grocery list poised for the big day, but since he is a die hard record collector I found that curious. What the hell you can buy records any day its not as if they self destruct. But that’s the hype
And so the longest winter continues with no end in sight. It just goes on and on and on forever and June 11th, the date where Sinatra takes the park, looms like a beacon of hope in the summer wind blowing from the cabarets of New York to the lawns of Central Park
Once again, Vampire Weekend debuted two new songs on Sunday night at New York City’s Roseland Ballroom, and they were recorded since the show was live streamed online and directed by Steve Buscemi.
I am sure that you, like me, read in wonder Rolling Stones Magazines wondrous musician (and actor) profiles, wondering precisely how the likes of Brian Hiatt manages to get Bruno Mars to open up like… er, like something that opens… a shellfish or a clam.
