I forgive him his Romney endorsement even though I haven’t forgiven Springsteen his Obama endorsement. This is capitalism with a conscious, capital that appreciates that you can price yourself out of the business with $150 tickets for mid-level seating.
“PLEASE DO NOT WATCH THE SHOW THROUGH A SCREEN ON YOUR SMART DEVICE/CAMERA. PUT THAT SHIT AWAY as a courtesy to the person behind you and to Nick, Karen and Brian. MUCH LOVE AND MANY THANKS! YEAH YEAH YEAHS.’
I believe we will get the best Sinead imaginable if what she is doing is presenting her favorite spirituals. Among the names the Lincoln Center have mentioned as influences are Sam Cooke and the Soul Stirrers, Sister Rosetta Tharpe and the Staple Sisters
If you are destroying a native American burial to build a hotel, you can bet the ghosts are gonna be mad. And if you are making a movie about familial genocide over and over again, and you find many references about mass genocide, the chances are excellent Kubrick meant to put it there.
His brand new Duet album finds you with the Anka not of the early 1960s but the mid 1970s when he had convinced himself that he was a modern pop phenom and releasing overorchestrated slop for the people and not Bobby Soxer pop ballads for Sinatra’s audiences children.
50% of this is a nod to Monday nights terrific Fleetwood Mac concert and just how great the missed Christine McVie, the English Beat wrote the very best Thatcher protest song, one of Sinead’s best off her last album, Orange Huice great Buddy Holly soundalike and a great early Pissed Jeans track.
She looked great though and really exemplified what a punk rock girl should look like and how to behave, When I state ‘how to behave’ you have to remember that the punk scene was very much male dominated . You were either a slut or a butch
Must enjoy “Law and Order”, cute Jewish ladies, and petting dogs while eating chicken wings. Good sense of humor critical, doesn’t mind his lady touring a lot, must live in New York, no drug addicts, creeps, stalkers, slackers, or vegans. Age, race, and religion: not a factor
This loser-celebration culture is all over the music, and it’s a long tradition from Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen,… Why can’t society learn from this? ‘You will always be a loser and that’s okay’ shouts Titus Andronicus, and I applaud it.
Up for potential repeal is an odd tax in Washington State. The Dance Tax imposes a tax on taverns and clubs that include cover charges and offer guests “an opportunity to dance.” It also states that tax must be collected by businesses that charge admission and play music. Considering all the fee’s imposed on tickets of any sort this is no big surprise
If Mamet meant to make the story of Baden becoming reasonably doubtful her client shot Lana, why say it is fictional? What parts are fictional? I mean, if you are casting doubt on the guilty verdict, how can you cast doubt on your casting of doubt?
I knew he wanted to come into the office to get a shot of Demerol, which he loved because he said it made him sleep better. He usually spoke like that after he had pain-killing jabs. These kinds of conversations had been happening for months.
Sometimes I’ve imagined little trilogies of songs in my head, seeing how a song on the first, second and third albums all form some kind of Vague narrative. But we don’t write rock operas – yet
the member of the Mickey Mouse Club most likely to get a boy through puberty went on to sing more than Disney tunes as she because a babe in bikini and followed it with a successful career in music covering the American songbook and movies. In 1995, Annette announced she suffered from multiple sclerosis and earlier this week she died from it at the age of 70.
Not a bad week at all, the keeper is James Blake but Volbeat are a great band and I got Olly Murs last year in the UK and it is a cracked. Brad Paisley can be iffy tbut he second single off the album killed already and I wonder if Dawes are gonna get sophomore jinxed.
With Paul Williams at Cafe Carlyle later this month, the Bowie and Carpenters are in heavy rotation, and as for the Kermit cover: this is a song tough to screw up though River and Hayley try their very best.
It’s definitely a new sound, and has a more well-rounded feel than “Phoenix” and “Light Em Up”. I take back what I said about “Phoenix”- because this will be THE song of summer 2013. It has a hint of pop pizazz but is most certainly “indie” enough for the other fans. It just makes you feel happy, which is really nice
‘I don’t have a problem with gay people. I got some gay homies. Yeah, for real. People who were gay used to get beat up. It was cool to beat up on gay people back then. But in the 90s and 2000s, gay is a way of life. Just regular people with jobs. Now they are accepted, not classified. They just went through the same things we went through as black.’
The first half of the movie is draggy because Steve can’t play the role. Jim would’ve have been a sly seducer, a magician of hearts and egos, he would have made enervation fun to watch. Steve makes enervating enervating
At 72 years old, he has a song on new Daft Punk album as well as a documentary, “Paul Williams Still Alive” which I just downloaded off ITunes for $5.99. The tix to Cafe Carlyle cost $65. He will be there April 23rd to May 4th and if you are serious about pop music you really have no choice so make sure you go.
I remember seeing Aaron Embry at a 2002 Elliott Smith gig at the Echo, he played a few songs with him, but he even toured with him and recorded the song ‘Pretty (Ugly Before)’. Later in his career, he performed with Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, but he played and recorded with many artists, like Daniel Lanois, Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris. Last year, he released his own work a solo album entitled ‘Tiny Prayers’
Bring Me The Horizon’s newbie is so good, light years ahead of Imagine Dragons, a band whose success I find mind bending and strange. Wolf, an album that is growing off me, made into the top 10 so that’s good news.
Duke Dumont is a damn good producer and this is quite a dance mover. I see Buble made it on the charts, I was surprised it had no action in the US. The Nelly is pretty hot in here and otherwise bring on the usual suspects.
Three of these songs are Phil Spector productions, all three are among the greatest music ever made. Should genius let him get away with murder?? Three of these songs are part of the Leonard Cohen effect, “Democracy” is one of the great political songs of our time.
Not every day you get to see a Zen Buddhist Monk enthrall a sold our Radio City Music Hall. Not every singer songwriter’s grandfather was the founding president of the Canadian Jewish Congress. And not every poet can write a lyric like “from the wars against disorder, from the sirens night and day, from the fires of the homeless, and the ashes of decay, democracy is coming to the USA”
A quick change of events as Iman will not join me for this pillow talk report. He is off at Radio City Music Hall, watching the legendary Leonard Cohen. So in his place I have snagged Mary Magpie to assist me. She is a fan- I am not.
Riffs appears to be where it’s at, at least at this stage, for Deaf FM. The hard dark riffs of “Hate Me”, according to the band, is more their style than the gorgeous progressions of the acoustic set I am also including here. My bet is that there is a place where the two will meet up
One of the fun things about rock ‘n’ roll has always been the dark alley element of shock and weirdness, which Henderson has in spades. He’s a junk shop/thrift store treasure.
the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ four-minute clip for their new song ‘Sacrilege’ is one of these mini-movies which almost distract us from the song itself. I guess bands are sometimes so focused at making the perfect video with a captivating story, that the song takes the second plan,… but isn’t the purpose of a video to promote the song and not vice-versa?
The surprise of the week is Alkaline, I was so impressed I stubhubbed a tix to their best Buy gig next month, the two here are the best on a real good album. The Chris Brown sticks out as another real good post-MJ dance track. nd the Virgins track? It happens sometimes that I get an album completely wrong and I feel as though I seriously underestimated the new Virgins.
The horn-driven tune sounds like a classic big band rock anthem, a little bit like the soundtrack of a big budget epic movie before the real action starts. It’s not bad, but not the greatest thing ever, and it certainly does not feel druggy to me.
This is a sure fire way to torture yourself and your child. I know we all miss the Stripes and well Jack is fine on his own but put him on a tin keyboard and the songs just lose their swagger. They become obnoxious and sad. Its grating enough to slow down bad ass rocking tunes but plink them and someone needs a whoopin’.
After 17 years pounding out Goth punk anthem, Alkaline Trio have finally released the album of their career. Power punk swirls of smart lyrics, catchy hooks, clever melodies. Who are they? Green Day? “I Wanna Be Your Warhol” (“hanging on your wall-alll”) is a song of the year and so is “I Lied To The FBI” and if they can’t maintain this level of smarts, they don’t miss by much. ALL OF THE WEEK – A-
For a good cause, Clapton’s rehab center, I am going to the Friday of this two day blues guitar extravaganza. Here is a list of everybody performing:Albert Lee, Allman Brothers Band, Andy airweather Low, BB King, Blake Mills, Booker T, Buddy Guy, Gary Clark Jr, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Vaughan, John Mayer, Robbie Robertson, Robert Cray, Robert Randolph, Sonny Landreth, Taj Mahal, Vince Gill and more
Yesterday was Leonard Cohen, tomorrow Fleetwood Mac, and tonight the rejiggered post-rehab Green day and, and I’d forgotten this entirely, Best Coast opening. I wish the new Laura Marling would drop already PS FM are NOT playing #10, one of their best ever.
I have no idea why Hayes is performing his usual setlist with a clearly inferior unit. Whether it was the lack of rhythmic propulsion or inspiration, he was unusually flat vocally. The difference between a good band and a bad one was clearly on display
This is also a good deal for the city of Indio, which will get a little more per ticket, from $2.33 to $5.01 in 2014. Let’s see, there was about 80,726 people who attended the first weekend of Coachella last year, 77,661 the second weekend, whereas 55,772 attended Stagecoach; so roughly speaking, that would be about $1,000,000 in 2014
I have a very special place in my heart for FOB. They were one of the first bands I could listen to with my kid and actually like. It wasn’t Barney or Sesame St, it was legit rock with a nice hook.
Impressive line up for this years Gov Ball, the Festival you can go home and take a shower during reaches its third year and I bought a VIP though not a SUPER DUPER VIP. Of the three headliners, I’ve seen all three before and I promise you one thing, if Axl thinks I am waiting around to midnight for him to make his way on stage, he has another thnk coming.
It’s her love declaration to Manhattan, the city which makes her strong, and nothing or nobody can top this.
I saw Kris Kristofferson blow Geoge Jones off stage at Carnegie Hall in 2006 and I will stick on to that comment the caveat that Jones had ONE ARM IN A SLING. But even so, I had waited my entire life for that concert and Kris with every reason to be just a nuisance was brilliant with just a guitar.
Cher is 66 years old. There has been more gossip and scandal about this woman within her decades of fame. From being ‘kept’ by Sonny to ‘the bagel boy’ there
Last Wednesday saw the eagerly anticipated return to the stage of Fleetwood Mac, the So cal Mac, the Buckingham Nicks plus Mick plus the bluesy couple of McVies with the exception of one of the Mcvies, and, after Buckingham, the most important member of the band. Christine McVie
What do all these bands have in common: Beyonce, Rolling Stones, Depeche Mode, Fall Out Boys, Phoenix, Atoms For Peace, Jay-Z, Barbara Streisand …? They all chose Barclay over Madison Square Garden in an act of unprecedented dissing to the world’s greatest arena. Barclay Center, less than a year old, are slam dunking one show after another and I don’t see why. I am guessing the reason is money but how much more are they paying? Either way, MSG must be right on their toes now.
Rocky rocky… two Fall become somebody I was following on Spotify were listening to them, a disappointment from Jonas Brothers because, well, because I still keep hoping they morph into Hanson and instead they make dross like this faux disco track, second song off upcoming Vile a woofer, Younglood looks like he should be much worse than he is, and the rest are odds and sods new releases.
I am hard pressed to do anything but deeply admire an 8 song set where I loved everything. 8 songs and I was almost in pain I was so disappointed when it was over. I worry about over selling Modern Hut but I place Joe on a continuum of great young songwriters
“Dance dance dance” is the extollation as G-Dragon dashes through the night till the break of day and beyond: every synth and beat is high pitched, smacking twacks of sound
have been to some of the most violent shows and venues and not once have I found someone in the pit who was trying to get out that wasn’t assisted by fellow concert goers. It’s not a torture chamber and unless this cat was being a complete knob I don’t see (nor have I ever seen) a crowd turn on a fellow concert goer
I don’t always find the Funny or Die videos extremely entertaining but this one certainly is. Picture this, Huey Lewis, from Huey Lewis and the News, and Weird Al Yankovic reacting the famous scene of the book and movie, when Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) murders Paul Allen (Jared Leto) with an ax in his immaculate apartment. It’s hilarious as Huey Lewis gives the same lecture on ‘American Psycho’ than Bateman/Bale did
I don’t like Dolan but it is a pain in the ass to go to Barclay’s Center and MSG better start getting their act together or sell the damn place or, preferably, both
