Its pretty absurd how not only addictive these games are but how they are simply part of mainstream life. Name one boy you know between the ages of 11 and 23 who isn’t glued to a screen at least once a week wearing that ridiculous headset and I’ll give you ten bucks.
I begin dreading Monday around 11pm on Saturday nights. I don’t think I ever see the weekend on the horizon without a sense of existential dream. Of course, not having work the next day, is much much worse. Weekends mean nothing without a break from work. Monday is the death day, we dread it but without it the weekend has no meaning
I had a busy day at work, streamed the new Iggy Pop album on NPR but have no hard and fast feel for it right now, caught Maceo Parker at the Blue Note with Tomas Doncker, and felt lousy all day long
I dismissed Tom Jone’s Leonard Cohen cover earlier this week, but it caught up with me, his deep bass vocal is sturdier and more aggressive than Cohen’s stately bemusement. A like like “I was born with the gift of a golden voice” sounds like self-deprecation when Cohen sings it (in concert, it receives a roar of approval but also a few chuckles), when Tom Jones sings it it is all swagger. And the poetry of “the rich find their channels in the bedrooms of the poor” becomes political when the son of a Welsh coal miner sings it.
“It started with the celebration of the 40th anniversary but it has moved into the larger community, something broader has evolved.” An answer to what is hip hop.
While the Johnson Reader currently hasn’t sold as many copies as the Holy Bible, you, dedicated fan of the Rock NYC website, have the power to change this unfortunate course of history and commerce.
When it was time for em to get on stage, the Suicidal Tendencies backdrop was raised, the drum kit was ready, and the crowd was chanting “S-T, S-T” with some sillier members of the crowd adding “D” for a joke. Everyone knew this was the last band of the whole thing, the final hoorah, the big one everyone’d been waiting for
There is also an almost religious dimension to this music, Wayne Coyne has occasionally said he doesn’t believe there is an afterlife, but the album sounds like a religious ode celebrating nothingness
I mean, love it or hate it, you’ve got your David Guettas with massive hits or, like, Calvin Harris – all that kind of shit, which is the Marks & Spencer of this.
This is a tricky endeavor .CBGBs is sacred in many peoples eyes. It has been watered down to a trendy t-shirt but for those of us who lined up on that filthy pavement or sat against that wall every Sunday its nearly holy ground.
As might be expected, a handful of classics(the “1+1” followed by “Irreplaceable” is money in the bank) and a whole lotta strutting. It starts off a little slow (she might wanna rejigger before she hits the US)
This has been Pink’s year, slowly the album has built and topped by the stuperdous live production Pink has done what she has needed to do, as taught by Katy Perry two years ago, to mine her album for all its worth. I love the Psy song, love it.
Congratulations to Fall Out Boy who deserve a hit with one of the best albums of the year under their belt, I wonder who Kid Cudi’s demo is? Male college kids is my bet, they started with him four years ago and haven’t left. White? Oh yes.
80% of this is new releases, some, who needs a live ELO?, are completely useless but fun, some, like Tom Jones cover, are less useless but not right at all, and some, Reese and Mike are just bizarre.
I find the roughest shows at this venue and I started off pretty damn concerned Id break a nail or something. Yes there was blood and no it wasnt mine and yes when there was an unfortunate event security was there to HELP.
What the point is on this one is this band was able to take a indifferent listener (myself) and actually change me to an Anthrax fan. Not easy to do when I can be so cynical but I admire their diligence and the consistency. there was none of the proverbial ‘dick wagging’ you so often see in hard rock.
The merriment was cut short when disgruntled opening act “Puddles Pity Party” jumped on the stage to punch EELS leader Mark Oliver Everett aka E in the face and take his guitar from him
”According to people I’ve spoken to, there’s another album in the pipeline. There was, like, 29 songs or something ‘I don’t know what’s next for Bowie.”
The record was held by “Thrift Shop” in the US and Bastilles “Pompeii” in the UK which you gotta think, right? As Obelix might put it, “These English are crazy.”
A new track called ‘Animal X’, an outtake off ‘Push the Sky Away’ – a sort of follow up, mirror song, sister track to ‘Water’s Edge – has surfaced.
Sure, Carly Rae Jepsen had the novelty single of 2012 with “Call Me Maybe” but the album The Kiss, was a not all that: a very ordinary modern pop move
But does that mean it will reach 2 Billion views, or even his previous 1.5 Billion. It looks like it but even if it doesn’t. one thing is sure, Psy is at least a two hit wonder.
Richie Havens – Forever immortalized at Woodstock for his “Motherless Child/Freedom” medley, the hippie folk singer gave a hard strummed acoustic guitar and a soulful vocal to bags full of 1960s classic covers. He was 72 years old when he died.
#9 and #10 is the beginning of a songlist I am thinking of, either a song for every day or 10 songs for each day, #1 and # 2 are some religion for you agnostics out there. Black Sabbath have the brains of a peanut and Shea had the voice of a god.
Now it has sporting arenas belting out the ‘bah bah bahhhh’, from New York to LA as a sign of solidarity. Its a great song- its a pathetic unity tune but hey, we have handled this entire event pathetically.
‘We had one that was silent – that was a control house – and we had one that was played classical music, we had one that was played Cliff Richard and we had one that was played Black Sabbath.’
As I write this review, an additional adjective comes to mind: infectious. When first listening to this song, I did not at all like it or Grimes’ style. However, after hearing it 4 or 5 times more, I was hooked and am now listening to this song almost every day.
Yesterday we told you what shows would be available at 2013, today we are gonna tell you what you have to check out! So check en out, folks. Top pick in my book? Femi Kunti. There is more than this worth catching, but not a bad start!
15 years is a long time to go without his most successful incarnation hitting the stage and so I bet I am not the only person thrilled to hear Buster is back in tux and slicked back hair sipping on Old Fashions and singing songs from the 1940s and/or Latin American swing
Ther are lots of bills to pay. Legal defense domestically is astronomical, international representation is outrageous. So its time to put up your devil horns and support the band if only to show them that rockers stand together and to toss them some coin.
Some of you may have bought the Record Store Day limited edition of MGMT’s new cassingle ‘Alien Days’ – err, people buy cassingles? – but if you didn’t, you can always stream the song below.
Did I miss the meeting where we all decided Tom Jones wasn”t a first rate entertainer but a second rate artist? Anyway, in a three way tie for first between Phoenix, Buble and Fantasia, I am going with Fantasia because “Lose To Win” is the best of the three introductory singles. Also, I have a soft spot for Fantasia.
Scott Severin’s last album, which I am just getting into, is an old fashioned sprawl of thought on form, but “The Edge Is Gone” is a straight forward piano rollicking rocker. Plastic Visions are scuzzrockers from Nashville, all fuzzed out indieness. And #3 – #5 are a direct reflection of new releases today. At the time I didn’t much care for The Rainbow Concert, today it sounds better than Blind Faith.
I will have more to say about the line up tomorrow. Obviously the prediction last week of a great deal of Hip Hop wasn’t inaccurate. However the Hip Hop musical of “King Kong” brought to you by the guy behind “Speak No More” looks very good, and the This Is Hip Hop Series should be awesome
Her Dresden Doll tales of revenge and power, sex and taunt were brilliant and aside from her ode to her bush her new stuff has been very good. She is every college kid with a trust fund and shes not a kid and she doesn’t have a trust. She’s a facade, she’s a mess, she is Boston.
While for the audience and maybe even the band, this might be an exercise in nostalgia, there is no working pop band who wouldn’t be better for a viewing of such precise and beautiful musicianship
Lucinda explained she wanted to bring all her support to record stores, especially because she used to work at some of them, like Rockaway records which still exists on Glendale boulevard. She was talking slowly, and announced right away that the store would be playing her handpicked playlist.
Mary was a fan of the “Sk8er Boi” girl from back in 2002 which would have made Mary… FIVE YEARS OLD. There is a sense of betrayal in Mary’s reading here, and disdain.Best line “She’s older than Adele… which is ridiculous”.
They aren’t from the Bronx at all, but from Los Angeles, and all their albums are self-titled The Bronx or El Bronx, depending on the alter-ego, and they announced the tone with a giant Gorilla and ‘The beat that kills’ in the background.
The show is called “In This Generation: My Life with The Monkees And Beyond “ and is a multimedia extravaganza of film, pictures, stories, music and songs. a
The Buble album is released Stateside tomorrow but for now at least “It’s A Beautiful Day” is an excellent self-penned AOR pop song. Figure anything “B” or better is alright in my books, which means only two albums aren’t alright with me.
Will I Am is releasing his new album, a modern DJ EDM sounds plus guest star except he sings as well, and this is a real good one. Biever sounds brilliant, wonderful vocal. “Gentleman” is working its way into the national conscious but the bet is it will be no “Gangham Style”.
I have been reading Pete Townsend’s “Who I Am” and he writes about backing Clapton at the Rainbow Concert and just being on that zone during “Layla” -cut here from its original ten minutes. As for #10, that’s from the 2009 gig and it was wonderful and this is Blind Faith redux. Between the two is some 30 years and Clapton lost nothing in the interim.
I could not get a ticket for Bad Religion’s intimate show at the Echo so I got one for their sold out gig at the Palladium on Thursday, different setting but probably same rowdy ambiance of non-stop crowd surfing, ferocious moshing and instantly fists-in-the-air-sing-alongs
The set didn’t work, the band wasn’t what I wanted to hear, and Krall, the coal miners daughter indeed from the rural small towns of British Columbia, is all blonde and rock star, but I will forgive a lot from a musician who tells me she enjoyed playing with me and sends me home with a lullaby
Back when I was literally ushered out of shops for my appearance alone, now I most likely cant afford the designer take on what I made with thrift shop mens shirts and a sharpie.
9-11’s greatest success was NOT killing 2000 people in the World Trade Center, it was the incredible inconvenience of fool security at airports throwing away people’s toothpaste.
Fall Out Boy is playing Bostons House of Blues on May 25th. This ‘will call’ only show sold out in seconds and scalpers didn’t have a chance. Show ID or get the hell out of here. A nice idea for the FOB boys a logistical nightmare for others. They will also be playing the Tsongas Center in Lowell on September 6th. Your basic stadium show, they have chosen this larger venue as their fundraiser.
Jay-Z, Beyoncé, Justin Timberlake, Frank Ocean and Miguel are among these 100 most influential people in the world! Jay-Z received the accolade from New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg who wrote that the rapper has ‘proved that the American dream is alive and well’
The funkiest sax player of all time, living legend James Brown foil and self made icon of all things that move, the great Maceo Parker, will be be playing a week long residency at the Blue Note. I will be there to get down and get funk on Tuesday. I haven’t seen him on stage in years, since a great set at AVery Fisher Hall in the 1990s, and if that is anything to go by, this will be one long skronk!
