If you have are an opening band with one hit you must play the one hit. If you have three hits, play all three. People don’t really know who you are, it is up to you to sell the product and hard. If the audience recognizes a song, so much the better.
Peter Yarrow at a Sunday 1pm show at the Highline Ballroom and for a great charity, the Gift Of Life Bone Marrow Association? How can you miss it?
Karen O can dress the way she wants, she will always have her own unique style,… whereas Lady Gaga’s style is all over the place, she has worn about everything that exists at the surface of the earth
In a small country, like minded citizens can come together to make a political statement on the charts like right here, where one of the most divisive figures in UK modern political history has her death celebrated by the Unions and lower middle class constituents she did so much to disenfranchise respond with a sneer and a whoop. BBC Radio won’t play it on the Top 10 Countdown.
The Paramore album is a biggie for me right now, but otherwise I would be interested to heard how O
80s craze? Martha and OMD, one oldie, one newbie, both 80s, and to my mind, OMD is better than Depeche Mode so there. Both Psy and Paramore are working there way into my top 10 tracks of 2013. As for Brad Paisley, if only the song was good maybe I could care less.
Generic as a single name can be he has been with Jive Records since 2007, since he is only 26 that’s a semi big deal. The problem is he doesn’t have the ‘it’ factor. Hes not handsome enough to be a pin up, not talented enough to forge a path and his tune “Adorn” is more annoying than entertaining.
You read the most abhorrent and choking sentences in rap songs, why was this more offensive than anything else going on in this world? How is this worst than Eminem saying in ‘As The World Turns’: ‘All I wanted to do was rape the bitch and snatch her purse..’
Not up to G-Dragon levels but G-Dragon may well be too clever for a world audience. “Gentleman” isn’t just clever enough, completely clever enough, but not so it suffers from culture shock for the masses
He doesn’t lack heart, he lacks soul. There is something facile about Wings and that’s coming from a fan at least some of the time. And a huge McCartney fan because Macca is probably the greatest melodist of the 20th century
Kid Rock, that greasy redneck is well aware that people are hurting. As much as I cannot stand his music I do really like his stance on alot of matters. Despite his repulsive exterior, he has made some rational moves, unlike most of his peers.
Half of Bieber’s followers are fake? Why doesn’t he get rid of them? May be because this would make him go from 37.3 million followers to only 17.8? What a fall indeed.
Terrific last December with the Monkees, but he was leaning hard on his Monkee hits and Michael Nesmith isn’t even leaning hard on, or at all except for “Different Drum” on his And The Hits Just Keep On Coming album on his current solo tour. But this Tuesday at Town Hall, who really cares. It is one of the great relatively unsung songwriters on our times. So go
Paramore – Paramore – The shake up did the band a world of good, gave Hayley a sense of mortality, mostly romantic mortality but still, tightened up their song craft, weeded out the lesser songs, cleared the mind, She still thinks too much with her hose and plimsoles, and at the bands worse they come across like a poor man’s No Doubt, but at their best, maybe half he tracks here, they are a full power rock pop band with an ear for a hook. ALBUM OF THE WEEK – A-
The thing about Lou Reed is that while he may well be a raging misanthrope, he can write great songs, like this one off Legendary Hearts. Meanwhile, with the exception of a smashing Paramore and Alkaline track, this is all Blues all the time, where a self-avowed non Blues fan is wowed by the late Albert King and the current Buddy Guy and BB King, magically revived Friday night.
In the end, this was about BB King and Buddy Guy and Chicago Blues, at least that’s my story!
She calls her music ‘Junkyard Country’, and yes there was a little bit of everything, sometimes openly country, sometimes more folky, or bluesy, all genres connected by the same doomed Americana mood
Thirty years deserves celebration so she is touring to do so. Cool huh? Although a mature Lauper doesn’t have the skirt swinging devil may care stage presence her voice has remained strong and accurate. She can still yelp like al boss.
On the strength of the first commercial, somebody somewhere must be awful damn pleased with themselves. It is a doozy. Spliced with Taylor writing the cheerful party song “22” in her bedroom behind the stage at a concert, at a diner drinking diet coke.
City Parks Foundation are having their annual Fundraising Gala on June 11th and the concert part of it will be produced by Michael Dorf. He will be performing his best trick, getting performers to cover material by a single artist.And this year it will be the greatest singer of the 20th century being tributed
I was walking one day, just doing my rock and roll thing making millions of bucks, you know success and everything, addicted to drugs and then the next day I had Revelation of Christ and I was like, everything changes right now!
What a lovely place for our man Jay Z to throw a par-tay! Labor Day weekend get ready to cross that bridge to check out the official end of summer. The cool thing is Jay Z used Spotify to announce the line up.
Who knows who believes what, but me? I do know that Bieber is a plank and this is being said right now for publicity purposes. The Pastor was interviewed by E! News: in the words of the poet OMG!
If the collage of footage doesn’t totally make sense at the beginning and looks random, you’ll see they have been carefully chosen to reflect the lyrics
Yes, I am officially a Hayley fan , at least till Paramore’s Hammerstein gig in May, but also, and this is a shocker, an Avril Lavigne fan, though really, why is she playing RADIOHEAD loud, cmon at least Atoms For Peace. As weeks go, this is the best in a month or so.
I’ve been working on that personalities in rock post and of course, Van The Man won the award as the meanest man in rock and roll. Fair enough is my feeling, when you can write songs like this ode to a glamor model, you can be as ornery as you like and then some.
The Data Lounge aka the daily fix of gay gossip, news and pointless bitchery made a thread of brushese with greatness aka meet a famous musician, the good, the bad and the buggered
‘some grow, some struggle’,… ‘and they are no longer able to create that vision when there is too much exposure’,… ‘Don’t strangle artists, so they can continue to create!’… It had to be about Amy Whinehouse, right?
He used to be in the band Alexisonfire- who I’d heard of multiple times and passed by on one or two Warped Tour stages. It was always a matter of laziness when it came to becoming a fan of Green. I would hear little clips here and there, even a few full-length tunes. It’s not that I didn’t like it- I most certainly did- but it was never the right time, I guess.
It is a little too early to go to town on “The Talkhouse” too nastily, but I better hurry up because you can bet a paywall is in the works. The websiteit just stinks of obsequious star fucking, it is too “Artists May Log In Here”
So its time for a new show! This one called ‘Busted”, wait the premise of this one is so lame I cant imagine more than 4 episodes. Similar to the MTv Hit ‘Punked’ the show will make practical jokes a nightly past time.
Muse are an old fashioned band with all the trappings, Matt can sing falsetto, he can get way way up there, and so, of course, Led Zep come into play. And their lyrics are like an XBox 360 come to life: resistance is futile but we will fight them in the trenches.
You can give up and give in to this $14M (hardly a fortune, right) remake, which sticks two guys and three girls in a cottage and won’t let em leave till the skies quite literally rain blood.
There’re no metaphors there, it’s all raw and bleeding all over the lines, with some mystery left in the last lines ‘Everything we now know, with a smile on our face/I, I can never forget’. It’s so personal and intimate you may feel uncomfortable.
No longer lead guitarist on the Bon Jovi tour, rumors surround his leaving. 1. Bon booted Richie because he was always drunk. 2. Richie quit over money. 3. Richie quit though no one knows why. Me? I think Sambora woke up with a odawful hangover and couldn’t do it and couldn’t think up an excuse. Stories of Jon’s wife wanting an alcohol free environment while Sambora was drinking and bimboing heavily sounds kinda true but enough to fire him? I don’t see how? And rumors of CEO Jon Bon Jovi cheaping Sambora (Van Halen share their bucks just about as much as Bruce does with the E Street Band) sounds self-defeating.
50% of this is new, and the real keeper is the great new song by Avril. The other half? Pissed Jeans headliner at the Bowery Ballroom is tonight. The National, Paramore and Yeah x 3 are all prime oldies.
Three songs is not a lot, I was just getting in the mood when they were already thanking people and saying goodbye! Nevertheless the duo’s performance was a sight to watch, with Leah’s sultry voice and stunning physique being the center of attraction, undulating over the jazzy arrangements
His father had a cabin in Medford, where Vernon found refuge. It was there in that cabin he pondered “Bon Iver” and what that really meant, but not without some inspiration.
Musicians think and talk about music all day, so they have lots of practice discussing it. They hear lots of new stuff and find out about it before most people. They certainly know how the sausage is made. And guess what: a lot of them can write really well.
It’s been nearly fifteen years since Brad broke through, eight years since “The World” and the man needs a rest. Enough of these too clever by half albums
It’s true that, despite receiving the endorsement of Rohan Marley, Bob Marley’s son, despite promising he will soon record a reggae album and give back to Jamaica, Snoop Lion looks only like a cartoon character to me.
So now I am going to see both bands, and what this proves is a variant on Herman Edward’s, former NY Jets coach, “You play the game to see who wins”. You play the album to hear what’s good.
I didn’t much like her myself, but I, unlike Morrissey, am not a socialist. I believe in some form of middle ground between rampant monopolies and goverment run business. Thatcher brought the UK back from the brink but she destroyed millions of lives while doing it.
I promised you, I swore on a stack of Bibles, that the Macklemore and Lewis were one hit wonders. Yet here is their second hit, which is why I edit a music website instead of running a major record labell. Otherwise, except for Drake this is very draggy stuff.
Forget everything else and shout out Tyler! Nearly 100K units moved, double the amount of the (admittedly superior) Goblin. Thebreakdown here is interesting, two country albums, one rap, two rock and the rest modern pop. Is rap not having a good year?
The James Blake album is pretty damn good and here are two songs that prove it, Jadakiss? Where the hell has he been? ANd no it isn’t the 2Pac classic though I wish it was. As for Kurt Vile? That song is TEN MINUTES LONG!!!
This is the best release of their entire career; the passion and lyrics, the musicianship and talent. Every detail is fascinating and you can feel the energy- it’s like you can tell that the band had a damn good time making the album. That’s been lacking and now that Fall Out Boy is back, they’re better than they were in the first place.
On Monday night when Stevie and Lindsay shared the stage while Fleetwood and especially Mac kept them steady, it seemed like a type of symbiosis. Everybody was better and especially Stevie managed an artistic habitation I have never seen the pair share before unless you go back to the early early pre-Mac 70s.
Literally nothing goes untouched when it comes to this guy. Which is why he is nearly the patron Saint of rocknyc. There is no one with harsher, bolder and stronger quotes than Morrissey
Over a syrupy country ballad, Paisley crooned for over five minutes, explaining how difficult it is to be a white man in the South who is wearing the confederate flag on his chest
