‘Diane Young’ is a mixed and intriguing bag with the familiar buoyancy of the band, going bipolar with light electronic doo-woopy parts, punchy drums and wild surfing guitar slides. It is a lot of fun but it almost sounds like a too quick ride
Our teacher played the class the tune “Dust Bowl Dance” by Mumford and Sons; she said to use that for inspiration and try to find songs that had some relevance. I banded together with my best friend and fellow music lover, Tristan, and we created the best playlist that teacher will ever see.
The unanswered question is does streaming hurt the bottom line and I can’t see it does. I am not, but many people I speak to stream and buy if they like the music. And even if it does hurt the industry, content “wants to be free” and you will have a hard time getting a model that isn’t free.
“I Be On” is weird BEYond belief and I wonder how or even if it will fill up the gaps on her next open. “Bow Down” is awesome and it is as simple as that. This time they trick out her voice like a chipmunk before Beyonce takes on the haters everywhere
This is the second of our ongoing column about deaths in the music business. It is a depressing business but like just about everything I do, I’m just keeping track and paying my respects.
Yet again Fall Out Boy think they signify more than they ever actually do. As a band, Fall Out Boy’s problem was a failure to connect song to content with the strength they seemed impelled to do so.
Morrissey has canceled so many shows on this latest tour from ulcers to sick moms to pneumonia I am glad I was able to see him at all. I have been listening to him non stop since that first October show and I have not gotten sick of one tune yet. I believe that on average I am hearing ‘Shoplifters” at least three times a day
According to people who were at the show, she performed her first set without saying anything, but definitively had an agenda during her second set: She wanted to clearly deliver her message… and there is no way she will get another gig in San Francisco any time soon
the news that Broadway is planning a Carole King musical makes you think the following: 1. The score? Not a problem,. we’ve got it covered, could easily give “Jersey Boys” and that “Motown” one a run for their money. 2. The Book? Not so fast…
# 1 to # 3 are all new releases, none off Spotify, The problem with Will I Am isn’t that he is good or bad but that he sounds old and this sound needs to be brand spanking new to signify.. The Timberlake song stands head and shoulders above the rest of the album, and I actually prefereed “Step” to the excellent rockabilly VW “Diane Young”. Which suggests the new album will be a goodie.
Far below the surface of mainstream music, blues records were being made by Blind Willie McTell, Big Bill Broonzy, and a few others with scary adjectives in their names. The charts were more diverse than one might suspect – African- American performers Louis Armstrong, the Mills Brothers, and Cab Calloway were scoring hits
L.A. in the 1960s gets the reputation for producing less substantive music than the San Francisco scene, but nobody in the blessed-out SF scene ever said anything as radical as Zappa’s plaint, “I’m not black, but there’s a whole lotsa time I wish I could say I wasn’t white.”
They did an acoustic version of “My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark” and it’s a thousand times better than the original. The studio version is too over-edited and kind of obnoxious; I mean I still like it, but this is far superior.
The great thing about this consistently entertaining album is how it is forward and backward looking at the same time. The song are first and foremost modern pop but they are also long soundscapes, they are ambitious but only within the confines of their chilling esthetics
Katherine Jackson and the King of pop’s three children, Prince, Paris and Blanket are suing AEG Live for $40 billion to make up for his lost future earnings after the series of concerts he’d scheduled were cancelled because he died! AEG was in charge of MJ’s ‘This Is It’ tour, but had also hired Dr Conrad Murray
Boone at age 78 is getting a bit feisty and dare I say delusional in his latest rant. Boon went on Fox Business News with Neil Cavuto. Boone brought a copy of Rules For Radicals
They haze little crossover appeal, while absolutely having the essence of the genre down to an art form their g men rhymin’ and rhythm the real deal but it is narrower in scope, he doesn’t break white. Certainly, Pusha “never could take the intimicacy” T seems to not quite know how to deal with his skills while Fab is happy with his
I don’t take my own music when I run a marathon, it’s simply too long, and it wears off my battery too fast. And I want to hear the entertainment, all along, especially the Randy Newman’s anthem ‘I Love LA’ at the start line, this is a tradition, and I suppose they could eventually replace it with a song with run in the title?
I’ve heard only one song off the new Billy Bragg and it is OK, not great, but I’ll take it. Love the title of the new Marnie Stern, worth getting just for that, and as for the Black Crowes? If they had kept their sense of proportion they could have been the Allman Brother’s for a different generation, much the way Phish are for the Dead. Instead? Here, take a live hits and scram.
# 6 through # 10 are reflections of the Dr. John gig last Saturday, # 1 and # 5 are because I got a tix to the BB King gig late April, and #2 and # 4 are part of the joys of editing Jon Pennington’s excellent Most Influential Posts Of The 1960s… if you aren’t reading it you should be.
The styles mesh more in your head than in your ears but there was a feeling of a tribute to the city which oozes music through the sidewalks second only to New York City. A lot of love and a lot of respect on stage between the two premiere New Orleans pianists. Such a southern night tripper, it was.
Who would have thought that rock’n’roll life style was totally compatible with long distance running? I actually think there is nothing more punk rock than running a marathon! And I am such in good company when I know that Joe Strummer ran three
But fear not for Dana Martin is a diligent homicidal maniac who recently sent notes to networks stating, “I arranged for another hit man. This new hit man will place an explosive device…
According to Barry Fantoni, who knew both the Kinks and the Beatles, the Beatles listened to see my friends and said, “You know this guitar thing that sounds like a sitar. We must get one of those.” The song just barely dented the Top Ten in the UK, but lacking the power chord riffage that made the Kinks popular in the US, the single flopped in America.
At shows I see all kinds of people, Mohawks, shaved heads, long beards,… it had never bothered me, do they really think that a bunch of Nazis would suddenly invade the place and start some beating? The Skinhead community is very diverse and divided, a lot of them are against racial prejudice
What the heck!? This is a weird week with virtually no good news on the musical front. There is Garbage, there is Kesha and there is Macklemore and Ray Lewis…
Winner – Billie Joe Armstrong – After derailing his career with a killer alcohol addiction and interrupting a tour to support three (count em) albums last year, Billie Joe and Green Day are back with a a great live show and a new temperate viewpoint. Tough to admit you have a problem and tougher still to fix it, his Rolling Stone interview was on this side of harrowing and the news he is sober is a good one for fans like me!
Bowie is on its way to being the best selling album of the year so far and Bon Jovi’s dire new album is in at # 2. Incidentally, why was Jon on Katie Couric discussing his daughters OD? To sell the new album, of course. Repulsive.
The pussycat gal is bland but poppy. Actually this entire top 10 is bland and poppy and it is still better than the US. The truth is, the single is a somewhat useless piece of product in 2013. Nobody knows what to do with it and the concept of a great single outside the realm of an album, which should be huge and was about to break huge before streaming happened, is disappearing.
40% of this is because of the Dr. John gig Saturday night. 10% of this is because I got a tix to see Sylvain Sylvain ar City Winery. 1% is the strangest Presley impressionist around. And the rest just general weirdness.
John Cale, met Lewis Allan Reed at that Pickwick party for the first time. Cale and Reed would go on to form the Velvet Underground, but the other musician was Tony Conrad, an accomplished experimental filmmaker and composer in his own right. Cale and Conrad then recruited a drummer, Walter de Maria, who is now better known as a sculptor associated with the minimalist and environmental art movements.
Mick Jones in that idiotic jumpsuit, Paul…being Paul and no Topper.. instead a Terry Chimes/Tory Grimes fill in of a fella…and Joe. Joe in freshly shaved Mohawk looking so fresh faced that its hard to think such power could come from mug
You get the picture, you can read all of them, but it is very redundant, with a lot of ‘gyrating hips’, vagina’, ‘porn’ and various sex references. So decades after Elvis, people are still shocked by dance movements involving hips?
The Marling song is on a whole other planet. one of the biggest songs of the year. Bilal is shockingly great, a real surprise for me since I hated him at the Prince Tribute last week. Sweatshirt? I hope Tyler is this good next week. And Palma Violets live up to their best Brit rock band crown.
A bit late don’t you think A woman who had such amazing pop appeal hasn’t done much since she hunkered down with walking bacteria John Mayer. New album? New Tour? Nah, just new pictures and old tunes and the same boobs and doe eyes as calling card. C’mon sister fire up some music.
I am not impressed by her defense, and this sudden belief in his innocence is plain weird, everything I have read about Spector led me to think he was a crazy gun nuts with a history of violence against women and people in general.
This is a 7pm show at Sidewalk Cafe (Avenue A) so my plan is to rush their Friday night, catch the great rocka nd roll voice Eric Contractor perform, I haven’t seen him in years, than rush over to MSG for Pink. I recommend you do the same thing but if you can only do one, this man has the voice of a young Orbison and looks like a young Clark Kent. Do your very best to represent for the big guy.
So Matlock played (even wrote) during the Sex Pistols greatest year and a half and Sylvain was an original Doll. At twenty bucks for the best seats, fifteen bucks for the cheap ones, no joke: go see em.
A Love Surreal – Bilal – This is neo-soul? The D’Angelo of post-soul 21st century soul music throws down his furst album in 9 years and it lives up to it Coltrane nod in its title -or almost. There are moments of free floating beauty, “Slipping Away” amd moments of Princely funk “The Flow”/ and jazz with the masterly pianist Robert Glasper on “Butterfly”. There isn’t a mistake in the lost ALBUM OF THE WEEK – A
“They’re soppin’ ‘n’ boppin’ ‘n’ moppin’ with Little Melvin and the Invaders” -that’s Bruce. “I have cursed, bled and sworn, jumped bail and landed up in jail. Life has often tried to stretch me but the rope always was slack.,” that’s Shane. And the moral of this story is lyric matters
18 songs. 13 off Red. One cover. That leaves 2 off Fearless and 2 off Speak Now. Set length is average for Swift, 18 songs this year, 17 on the Speak Now tour, 16 songs in 2009 so yeah, that’s as expected.
Part 3 of Jon Pennington’s ongoing analysis of the most influential 45s of the 1960s finds him smack dab in the middle of the British Invasion, with West Coast boy bands stealing equal parts Spectors Wall of Sound and Berry’s rock and roll in attempt to steal some of their thunder
So Bowie is going on tour? That was predictable since he has this new album ‘The Next Day’, but I am not talking about our Iman of course, but about Iman, Bowie’s wife! She (accidently?) told Grazia magazine:
He writes like a pissed off little girl who got grounded for bad behavior, you can almost see his little fists punching the air, just when he wanted to fight this paparazzi last week. His arguments are totally weak and nonsense
Lets zip to Perth Australia where Axl whips the wireless microphone into the crowd knocking out a guys teeth. Nice one! One Darren Wright took it in the chops and now, it’s time for the law teams to get their groove on.
Asked who she would like to play her husband, Linda Ramone added: “Of course everybody would want Johnny Depp to play him, because he’s cool and looks good
Even saying that I have a favorite song from Eyes Wide feels inaccurate considering the whole EP is really fantastic and doesn’t deserve to have favorites chosen from it. While I barely know anything about Boy, I still really love the music they left us with.
The Murphs kicked this hard at T5 and on reading up on the band I saw where they covered the Springsteen song on stage with the Boss a coupla years ago. I blew off Atoms for Peace (1am for a DJ set? I think I’ll pass) but I made up with Dr. John and Allen Toussaint at Town Hall tonight. Savages at Bowery Ballroom on Monday. The Who? I’ve reached Lifehouse in the Townshend memoir.
We don’t need another hip hop star gone and Weezy obviously needs help, either to fix the seizures or get off the codeine or both. This is a risky bloody business and the end results should be self-evident.
they were simply brilliant Wednesday night. A 90 minute plus extravaganza of Celtic vibes with two lead singers, all the muscle in the world and, after 17 years, complete control of their environment: they sing about drinking, Boston, revolution, Ireland, drinking and sports in Boston and drinking and girls and being irish and drinking
