I wonder if Lily Allen could write a song as good as “3 AM” anymore? My feeling is it is gonna be a great great album. Even so, there is a lot of competition here: Peyroux, Hitchcock, a Son Volts from the vaults, TMBG. It might a really good week.
Country Tuesday, right? I’ve been listening to Nesmith quite a bit, in excited anticipation of the Town Hall solo gig this April, Gram I’ve been listening to as a reminded as to what good ol’ boys should sound like and Iris as a reminder that there is a way to write about God without being a moron.
The hits hit good, “Big Green Tractor” is masterful and “Dirt Road Anthem” a major singalong, than he does the impossible and doesn’t embarrasses himself dueting with a video taped Kelly Clarkson on “Won’t You Say”.. He saves “Night Train” and “1994” from the latest album. And is a capable and smart band leader.
The whole thing was very, very ambient, quite cinematic, if your brain was willing to provide the images, and at times contemplative. It wasn’t that nothing was happening, their soundscapes were abruptly and constantly changing like a moody-stormy weather, but you had to do some efforts if you wanted to follow them
During foie gras production, huge amounts of grain are pumped into the stomachs of geese through metal pipes, which are rammed down their throats several times a day. Their distended livers ‘ which can swell to up to 10 times their normal size
Street artist Shepard Fairey was on my street this week, doing one of his signature murals in front of a hardware/art store. I stumbled on him and his team in action and was quite impressed by their efficiency – they were done in just two days! – and by the awesome result!
Teenage zombie falls in love! Twilight goes flesheating with a wink at the public. We would know it’s based on a book any way because of a relentlessly tedious and unfunny voiceover by Hoult, who mostly grunts in zombie state.
According to Gigwise these are the ten grumpiest men in rock and roll UK division (mostly, though I doubt you can perform one of these types of lists without including Lou Reed) and what do they all have in common? More money than brains? A disproportionate sense of self worth? All of the above????
Maybe this isn’t a MISERABLE top ten, but really. Emili is still at # 1, Buggs (who was pretty bland on stage) is still at # 10 and Ben Howard and Ben Howard are inbetween and holding the Fort.
“Mirrors” is 8 minutes long and it is pretty good but nothing great. It ain’t that easy, Justin. Like Dylan said once, you can come back but you can’t come back all the way
How can you take these country boys seriously if you were raised on Gram Parsons? They aren’t serious guys, they just aren’t. The Bob Dylan song is one of his best of all time (though don’t bother with the Sheryl crow cover) and if you don’t believe me about the Mavs listen to Steve Crawford: “The new Mavericks album. Believe the hype. It is superb”.
cuz if the boy be grabbin’ his junk n all Imma be like yo wut up doe. So we shall see. I’m on the fence. Don’t fake your accent don’t fake your ‘hoodrat’ or seriously, there is nothing worse than a wigger, dig?
The trio is comprised of three outstanding musicians – violinist Elana James, guitarist Whit Smith, and stand-up bassist Jake Erwin. Performing jazz and pop standards and Western swing classics, the virtuosos rotate playing rhythms/melody and taking solos. They know when to be unobtrusive and when to take the spotlight. They simmer and burn with equal aplomb.
I stayed around three hours and left in full rave. This will be Swedish House Mafia’s last tour, mostly because there is no good reason for the three superstars to split the bread three ways. Still, it was a great show. It renews your faith in a USA who still come to rave and love.
The last thing this world needs is a rock God behaving like a human. We need more psycho Rick James stuff. But Prince lived through some normalcy and meh… But this… this is Prince. There is nothing ‘average’ about him.
‘That’s the zero zone’….’For numbers crunchers like us, that’s the erogenous zone. It’s fair to say I’m sexually aroused by the collating of data.’
Our consciousness-rising revolutionary rockers continue their weekly release, with this time a rather feminist song, ‘She Craves Spring’, produced by Tom Morello one more time.
In Time – The Mavericks – This is the Cuban American Raul Malo’s return to his country music roots and inventing a new type of Americana where Spanish and Hawaiian music melds effortlessly into twang in song after song. Swing or salsa, mariachi or country blues it all adds together for this more than welcome reunited band. ALBUM OF THE WEEK – Grade: A
It is March Madness at the Beacon and after screwing it up the last coupla years I got a tix on the Amex presle and nabbed the Friday 8th gig. if it is half as good as when I saw em in 2010 a splendid time will be had by all as we boogie long into the night.
Of all the people I should see but keep on not seeing and haven’t see, Dizzee is up there with the Streets. In the meantime, Armand killed the track at MSG Friday. Both country songs are excellent, AFP is a very very good track, and Polyenso are absolutely one to watch.
The chorus is what really hit me: “And at once I knew, I was not magnificent. Strayed above the highway aisle (jagged vacance, thick with ice), I could see for miles.” This line here is one of the best the man’s ever written.
Is it some kind of nostalgia? Some kind of snobbism? After all, he didn’t even interpret any of them the day of the opening of the exhibit, letting other musicians taking the stage and imagining his own work
You start with two sure shots off Get Happy!! and you then delve into This Year’s Model and My Aim Is True, with a couple of Armed Forces hits, a Punch The Clock and a cover from the headliner’s catalog. Trust me, that is the recipe for a brilliant set.
None of the above issues are, of course, as important as Jimmy Kimmel himself, who has finally revealed his show to have an overwhelming loss of meaning. Tune in and relive the intellectual fog of the 1950s.
It is like they are the last band in town writing new, young, classsic rock worth a damn, as though Normal Living are wrestling away from daughtry and Linkin Park and giving it to another generation.
Seriously, Bowie is making his album ‘The Next Day’ available on iTunes, and I am streaming it right now! After releasing two songs through YouTube, this is another sign that the 66-year-old rock star is totally in touch with today’s reality.
The band were tight alright but overdone, both Townsend and Daltry were tremendous for men in their late 60s, the “5:15”, without Entlewhistle’s bass but still, was pretty excellent. and while I am so sick of “Love Reign O’er Me” i can’t listen to it anymore, it is still half the Who
– She sold out her entire UK tour in under ten minutes, riots occured where there were actually physical box offixes selling tix, the V Festival she is headlining is expected to last 20 minutes… There isn’t a ticket to be had outside of ticket brokers and she sold out barclay center 4 times or if you prefer, she sold 75,000 tickets in New York like that. with the new album in the wings and the promise of lots of hits on album # 5, which includes The-Dream all over it, plus… well you know the resume by now.
The Kate Nash has been a favorite since i heard it, the Claire’s Diary will be throwing up songs for the next couple of weeks. and Polysenso are a new find but I really love em. Still, not a great week all in all. we are in Mrch now and i am waiting for something to happen.
Costello and the Who were highlights of their respective Thursday night sets, and the song between them is from the Mavericks surprisingly excellent new album -their first since reforming in 2011 and worth the wait.
Their performance at Dragonfly was an explosive set of songs played with a stadium-rock sound, an intense energy recruiting each fiber of their body, smashing loud guitars and the theatrical-super-expressive vocals of their frontman and singer Harry Haye
Why do guitarist do that dick rubbing move whre they both cuddle up really close with down turned heads like their collectively moving a moving a heavy piece of furniture or something. Its one of the dumbest things I have ever seen yet nearly every band does it
“Are you sure he doesn’t know you are filming him?” asks the C.I.A. man as Davey breaks into the old shoe shuffle and a dynamic version of Stephen Foster’s “Old Folks Home”.
I love the idea of the rock and roll camp its just the smarmy sales pitch the site offers that I find offensive. it really is a fanatics dream come true or a corporate fun time- but I question Beck and Wilson.. WHY? I’d like to think they both find it amusing more than anything else.
Naked Asian people, foaming beers, tattooed boobs, cigarettes in the nostrils, wild sex on fast motorcycles, BBQ octopus? That was not my vision of family
From February 7th thru April 28th, 2013. the Whitney has a show matching images of the Blues witht he sounds of the Blues and it sounds awesome and i for one absolutely plan to go at some point.
Claire’s Diary – ABC No Rio – February 23rd, 2013 – First album release party by upstart rock and rollers pn the last stop on the way to college, brought plaster down from the ceiling. That’s the way it is meant to be done.
Higgs Boson Blues – Nick Cave – If you’re gonna name your song after the “God Particle” it better a song this good. A bluesy weird trip to the bottom of the swimming pool.
m b v – My Bloody Valentine – Decades later and this is nearly exactly the album you had hooped, guitar modulations and bruised melodies aplenty.
The Costello Who is anticipation of what will be last nights benefit gig, and Steve Roth is opening but I plan to miss it (that’s he’s best song) Costello made me think of Prince (because of the Carnegie gig later this month) and that made me think of Miguel’s best song.
Matmos is an experimental electronic duo, and they had a whole large table covered of laptops and other electronic equipment, but, just like a low-budget sci-fi movie, they also added a few tricks of their own, like blowing inside a bowl of water, or scratching a rubber balloon
The Essential Songs of 1991 have all turned 21 now. They’ve discarded their fake IDs – some are in college, some are in the military, and there’s a trust fund baby in the crowd. They grow up so fast.
The equipment they used was crystal clear, the lighting was really nice, and artistically, every frame could stand on its own as a photograph- that’s rare, and I loved it. I watched it a couple of times out of awe, and rewound certain parts. It’s absolutely brilliant; the camera angles aid the story so well.
Jack Phillips can’t catch a break and this useless twit is doing song and dance with two guys and only one of the three have the slightest idea what they are doing? At the Oscars??? You wanna talk about the dumbing down of America? This is the stage that once had Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, now we have this joke?
There is nothing new, there is nothing cutting edge and there is nothing at all cool about it- other than the name of the artists involved. Oh, and there will be a tour as well.
The band played this song, and a few other new ones, at the Great Hall in Toronto on February 8th, during one of their ‘Long Winter’ nights. The series of shows was ‘a monthly night of immersive and interactive music, installations, visual art, readings, food, and dance to help Toronto get through our long and cold winter’, and featured artists, lecturers, dancers, videographers, and other bands.
If you were to pick up your guitar, write some lousy song, and then be able to change it to sheet music with your name on it, you could be the next great composer…. or at least feel like it!
OK, Baauer is much to do about nothing but in a chart without a rock song and, yes, not even any country, he is just more of the same. This chart is total hip hop production values domination on every level. Not one song here isn’t about the beat, every single one takes its orders from programmed rhythmic patterns. Amazing, really.
Where’s you Grammy bounce now, jerks? well, next week it should show, in the meantime i find it amazing that a performance on SNL bounced the Shakes back up to the top 10. To be honest I am surprised the bounce us quite that big, though it only sold 33K. Back when I was a child, that wouldn’t have cut it.
My dislike for Rick Ross means I tend to ignore his crew, but a friend of work force fed me “M.I.A.”, and she also offered up “Fred The Godson” and I am better for the experience
