I know I never have a good word for Adele, but really it’s too late to stop now and the horrendous “Skyfall” is big feelings for people who have forgotten how to feel and need constant prompts to remind them how.
But this song is so ridiculous that I cant help but love it. Which is the magic of Pitbull. I find him so hilarious that I adore him. I don’t even know what hes talking about half the time.
The Silver Lake Chorus didn’t take the easy road with this one, this song is not for your average NPR-listener/Lips-fan, as we are not in ‘Yoshimi vs the Pink Robots’ territory there. Rather the track comes from the most experimental side of the band
Directed by Floria Sigismodi (who also directed the Runaways) it builds very very nicely from an early denouncement of Brad Pitt to a scary “The stars are never sleeping, the dead ones and the living…”
Recently, a friend of mine, a mathematician, and I have been interested in seeing if there is a connection between our astrological signs/horoscopes and our musical preferences
“One of the cool things about coming back was that we decided everyone has to be in on every idea, or else it’s out. We did ten songs [for the album], maybe there will be eleven songs on there,”
But where does that leave those of us (wrongly, perhaps) who see music as an XTreme sport with winners and losers, or, to put it another way, how do we know what people are actually spending money on?
This time of the year is coming up, the best weeks to be in Los Angeles, I am talking about the weeks around Coachella date
So Jay-Z has his Chris Martin and now Justin Timberlake has his Marcus Mumford. No, really, this is all true… well, actually it is all a wild stretch to tell you truth
Right now I am prevaricating on the Desaparecidos show, songs like the one here, ten years old, don’t do it for me at all. And some of “Fake French” remains, the other seven are all New Release Wednesday, with Bowie at the top, Hank poorly recorded and Atoms For Peace on hold till tomorrow.
Fake French can take pride in the organization and also booking four diverse but excellent most Girl rock bands in a scintillating and well made three hours of great music. Enough to make you want to form a band and change the world.
An app called ‘Bands In Town” is stunning. Set your location and BOOM every show in your area right at your finger tips. Links to maps and ticket sites and it even pulls from your iTunes library to chart their tour activity. A music lovers dream right?
The tall guy who is standing just in front of you, the drunk-beyond-any-hope-of-recovery who is kicking you in the legs for 2 hours, and this is without mentioning the sweat odor, the bad breath, the unbearable heat, the unnecessary body contact, the cold beer on your pants, the outrageous priced parking and drinks
Cub Koda and company are best known for their pro lung cancer anthem “Smokin’ in the Boys Room” which made it to #3 in 1973 and was covered by Motley Crue in 1985, becoming that band’s first Top 40 hit.
This cruise though, its pretty interesting. I really admire the cost. Starting at just $599. its not a massive rip off as some others are and the Florida to Bahamas itinerary is solid.
I am not sure if they are doing anything, , since the songs never circle back they aren’t like jazz and since they have no melodies they aren’t like rock and since they certainly are not 12 bar anything, they aren’t blues. They are all function no form
These days, Nugent probably tours the county-fair circuit attended by camouflage-attired-over-the-hill fat guys carrying guns at concerts and driving pick-up trucks with deer trophies in the trunk. His audience totally embodies the racist-redneck cliché.
The rest of the movie has some “boooo -gotcha” moments but it is really a miserable slog to a sucky and sad with just a tinge of hope ending and it could’ve been so much more. The entire thing has some irritants that only emerge as major problems towards the end: it is like being told you have a cough and discovering it is really lung cancer.
For sure, Claire’s Diary is the best of the lot but Atoms For Peace might well make it on to my top 10 albums of 2013. Johnny Marr won’t and I can’t even guess whether Emmylou and Rodney come up with the goods… well, I can guess. My guess is yes they do release a good album.
Claire’s Diary, Tinvulva and Kelly Montoya are because I am still buzzed on the Fake French gig and Tomas because the song I wanna hear from his set I don’t have yet. Nick Cave song is so good I forgive him most of his sins on the new album and X was covered by Tinvulva
The first two songs were last years EP so they had the audience interested from the get go, and the fourth song was “Give Him A Big Kiss” and so they kept em tight for the next fifteen minutes. To put it simpler: the set worked.
I put the poster in my bag and kept the setlist on hand. ‘I think he will sign it’ told me the guy standing just before me on line. He obviously was right, and I wasn’t the only one to break the rules, a guy made him even sign his leg for a tattoo template!
The mixture of sounds and the composition makes you barely notice the way it changes to the next track until you realise it’s actually much darker. It feels angry. Though both of the songs have no vocals, you can absolutely tell the emotion. “…
“They have never achieved competence – they are actively untalented.”
The quintet unleashed a wild and youthful energy on stage at various degrees depending on the songs, but I could tell the crowd was liking their sound very much, already familiar to their songs since it was their third week of the residency
Reading the letter, it is hard to quite grasp what his problem was. I guess he just, to paraphrase Joe Steinhardt, has no appetite for life
I suppose after weeks of yuck we deserved it but this really is note worthy. Considering there isn’t much new material wise the guests chosen are pretty dang fabulous.
Isn’t that Alyson Camus book signing post, the one where he signs the setlist, up today? Enough with Nick Cave already, and how about Joe Cocker for a change? In at # 7 in the UK, and about to be released tomorrow Stateside. Yeaaaaa for Joey!
Blondie cover for Comedy Relief and I guess you gotta smile at the mash up with the Undertones. It really really isn’t the worst thing I’ve ever heard though that pix with Harry topless and tats? That’s the worst thing pix I’ve ever seen
Western Mass – Claire’s Diary – Still buzzing after the concert, this is the one where drummer introduces as about the only time she ever got arrested! And then the song is a really strong payoff withhim leaving her in jail while he hightails it. Boys will be boys!! Grade: A
So when SNL attempt to jams garbage like The Lumineers up my butt I take it as a personal insult. Look, I know how fabulous it USED to be- don’t try to serve me this lifeless sludge now.
The sort of rare performance that gives you chills along the spine for close to 2 hours, makes you walk on a cloud the following day, and stays with you long after it’s over
We as a species were robbed of such a bright and beautiful human force of hope and goodness and creative power, I can’t help but be struck by the ultimate tragedy of a man who gave the rest of us so much.
It was very good stuff, relentlessly powerful with “Brooklyn To Ethiopia”‘s bass and drums ridden roughshod and Tomas telling the audience to raise their arms, clap their hands, get involved. “Rise Above” is harder and faster on stage, Tomas is like Carol Kane in the Bill Murray movie “Scrooged”, he pushes us shoves us, bends and bangs us to dance for his vision of Global Soul and Global Peace.
In this song, we find this youngster speaking to a close friend and going all out, pushing for her to see the possibilities of diving into a fearless love imbued with mutual respect, equality and shared pleasure.
It looks great in a very dark way. Let’s face it we would all love to turn back the clock to our glory days, we just can’t. I have decided to support Adam and his pursuit of happiness, after all he brought a heap of joy to a lot of folks- so let’s give it back to him now.
Jamie Lidell – Jamie Lidell – English DJ’s sophomore effort at blue eyed soul is an electronic wonder of heartfelt r&b and beautifully crafted music. While it goes a little off the deep end before the end of the album, the first half is first rate and the first three songs are funky and fun. ALBUM OF THE WEEK – Grade: A-
Sure, I saw the eleven minute youtube clip of Steve Angello button pushing his set. Really? Pre-recording pre-recorded music? Lucky Swedish House Mafia are this good, the standard bearer EDM supergroup, and lucky this is their last tour, which reaches MSG on Friday and was so good last time, it will definitely be worth a fond adieu.
Catcall – Tinvulva – Sarah Soller-Mihlek, singing lead on this vicious assault on sexual harassment on the streets of New York, a subject a good friend of mine often complains about though I don’t take nearly seriously enough. Sarah represents for so many women: “I am not your sugar baby” she howls in indignation though the guitar makes it much much angrier – Grade: A-
“Such a tricky question, Steve!! But truly – anyone who stays true to their own vision and doesn’t allow the music business machine to sabotage their art is my hero – or heroine!”
I’d never heard of this festival until today, when I was told that I’m going to be there the first night! After screaming a little over the fact that that meant I’d be seeing FALL OUT BOY, I decided to look up who else I’ll be seeing that day.
Codi is a classically trained pianist and singer who started writing songs in first grade, whereas Brandi – and yeah she is Miley’s older sister, and she kind of looks like her,… how come I had never heard of her?
From the album The Savage Playground, ‘California’ is a sad attempt at glam metal- I think. That’s the problem there is no genre represented here. I love the YouTube comments though, calling the guitarist fat “there is no room for fat in glam”.
‘We’ve been doing this a few years and in the course of buying stuff at our trade counter we’ve found some amazing vinyl artifacts that, [we’ve discovered] through our research, are not available digitally’.If most of the material is licensed, the problem is that Henderson has admitted that some is not.
Rap is rap and hip hop is hop, and they are both the children of James Brown, but soul, the songs of Motown, the brace of great singles that rushed the the 1960s and 1970s, that was not from James Brown
Not being able to play has been one of the most difficult things I’ve ever had to deal with,” she says. “It’s so, so hard to step back from it all, and it was especially difficult to give in to the pain. I felt like a failure. Every night I’d go to sleep and just hope that the next morning I’d wake up pain-free
Winner – Belle And Sebastian – The only time I saw em live was at the tiny Supper Club and it felt like there was more people on stage then there wasin the audience. They don’t tour nearly as often as a band that informs every melody shoegaze has ever thought up, should. So the news that they are back on tour (Playing Celebrate Brooklyn at Prospect Park) is tidings of great joy. Yo La Tengo are opening.
It took years but I finally got over my Rick Ross problems, his inspired yse to “pussy” did it. The Nick Cave is great but wearing off a little. And I am still holding off on writing about the Modern Hut debut album but with increasing impatience. Right this second “History” is my favorite song of 2013.
Eamond Andrews – Soft Machine – With the death earlier this week of the other Machiner, Kevin Ayers, I’ve been thinking about writing something on the band. I tend to focus on Robert Wyatt. This is an eery 12 minute march into sound modulation and noise tinkering – Grade: B+
By all rights the name Sister Rosetta Tharpe should have attained household status in the public’s knowledge of American music history. Her singing, guitar playing and songwriting made her the first superstar of gospel music which, as we all know, was the seed bed of rock and roll.
