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.
Most of the time I was looking at Mangum, but when I looked around in the crowd, I was amazed. So many fans were so connected and so moved simultaneously.
In addition to being amazing performers and song writers, Trapdoor Social is heavily involved with green technology companies Farmscape and Agrisaurus, and in the development of an awareness campaign around solar and other renewable energy
The Staples Center will also donate a portion of the ticket sales to PETA. How on Earth did this guy pull this off? Considering he is now officially the king of cancelation its a wonder any of his shows don’t come with a clause, let alone be granted concessions.
This isn’t really a question of taste, I would give it two to two and a half stars I think, it certainly isn’t as good as Dig Lazarus Dig. And I don’t think Matos is just bad, they way I did Aquilante, but I think he knows what he knows and he isn’t so good at everything else.
‘My ideas came from my life. My set was based on Tamil Hindu temple. Not Bob Marley’… ‘If u wanna see the real thing or get it first, come to a M.I.A. show!’
So what does he sound like in 2013? Out of tune folk music, to be a little brutal about it! But maybe I am wrong. Maybe I’m not listening hard enough. Let’s wait till April, 26th and Webster Hall -with Peter Buck opening!, and decide then!!
‘Help us make our video! For our first single, “Let Me Back In”, we invite you to upload your favorite personal Rilo Kiley video clip, band footage, created animation, etc… whatever you have in moving pictures that you’d like to share with us’
Last year we took part in Record Store Day, it was pretty fab scoring some freshly pressed albums and some rarities as well. I’m not much of an audiophile and I was around when disc spun so its not that big of a deal ha ha but the kids- they love it.
. Flashbacks, Memories And Dreams – The Virgins – To note that these nyc Strokes meets Stones with a disco beat haven’t made the follow up to “Rich Girl” of your dreams goes without saying. But it might also be worth noting that they have managed a superior slice of dance rock with a killer bass lick. Unfortunately, it took five years so who knows where the audience is? – Grade: B+
The idea is you would get a ridiculous amount of free albums (this ad was for 9 free- but there were offers that went as high as 11) if you would promise to buy more in the future for a low low price and shipping and handling.
Grab your beer funnels and titty tassels because here comes your spring break 2013 anthem. “White Girl Wasted” is a nonstop thrill of a party song and has already been spreading like wildfire through college campuses,
I did cry in his office once. I cried after I played him a song I had written about my life called “Because Of You.” I cried because he hated it and told me verbatim that I was a “sh*tty writer who should be grateful for the gifts that he bestows upon me.
One of the main reasons I picked up the album was because of the John Lennon contribution. I mean, “Across The Universe” is such a good song. It’s just fun to listen to. Easily one of Bowie’s best collabs
the early songs have such universal appeal and such simplicity that they are like Charlie Chaplin’s silent movies: everybody understood and adored them
In 2011, Sennett, Rilo Kiley’s guitarist, told Spinner, “I just felt like there was a lot of deception, disloyalty, greed and things I don’t really want to submit myself to.”
Bauuer? That’s solely because Billboard have started adding youtube views to their collating of the most popular songs in the country. After hearing the song it is obviously not the song. The song is ordinary electronic dance, but weirdly enough, people all over the country have started making :30 second video clips to it, where folks in masks started dancing wildly once the beats and joined by the music.
What do Josh, Andrea and the hits comp have in common? They weren’t affected by the Grammy’s, everybody else got a great big bounce and bump upwards. I don’t know if this reflects the power of the Grammy or the weakness of the charts.
Prince Jackson is gonna be Entertainment Tonight special correspondent as the CBS show announced it on Monday. Oh well, we don’t know much more than that, but let’s ponder a minute
Box Chevy – Rick Ross – I gotta hand it Ross, he finds so many creative ways to say nothing of the slightest importance and for the most part I remain cold as ice but this songs chorus hit my pleasure point: the new Lexus comment did it – Grade: B+
It was total girl power, and the four women started their discussion with a riotous performance, emerging from the back of the theater wearing Pussy-Riot-style masks
I love her, I hate her and its a cycle that continues nearly constantly. Today I hate her for ruining my song! Especially the care free opening exhibit. She went all Williamsburg on it, why oh why, must the plaid run so thick?
The trick is, usually a band lets the drums keep the band together but with a bassist as good as Flea on board the percussion is free to do other weird things and here the band takes full advantage of the situation
In April 2009, I started 2009 rock nyc and by March 2010 I had lost track of what concerts I was going to, so I started keeping a calender of concerts and I am now going to share it with you!
My dad had died the night before. That night, around 3 in the morning, I was listening to Tapestry by Carole King and ever since that this important in its own right album meant more to me than it ever might have.
Taking place at the MGM Grand, not only do you get Def Leppard showing you how to play the band’s classic tracks like “Pour Some Sugar On Me” and “Rock Of Ages,” but you’ll be joined by Lita Ford of the Runaways plus many more has beens to fulfill your pathetic teenaged dream.
Nobody knows if McCready’s life would have turned around if she had lived but we do know for sure, it wouldn’t if she didn’t. So called animals in the jungle take care of their children, what is left if we won’t simply exist another coupla decades for them. Life is fast and then it’s gone.
He probably realizes he is the only one doing this, every band in the world is posting a song or two for free download on their website, every album can be previewed on many websites before being streamed on Spotify, but you have to buy Prince’s stuff if you want to listen to it!
I did like it. It is a collection of late 1950s rock and roll covers, and it is quite good, I am really looking forward to seeing it live, but it is a little bland. A solid but unexceptional effort with some real highlights, “Money Honey” for one. Aaron namechecks the original not Presley in his commentary.
Domo23 – Tyler The Creator – AT 21, Tyler’s latest release puts his earlier work in perspective: they were straight autobiography and so is it. The reason it isn’t as interesting as “Bastard” is because rich rappers nailing European models isn’t as interesting as teenage kids dealing with life with no father – Grade: B
The point is always that celebrities want to use their fame to help others. Actually, their managers use their fame for positive public relations. Is there any money in this act?
As politically hardcore as Outernational, but with age and compassion and understanding as well as anger lining it, this unbelievable album mixes the old with the new, the east with the west and soul and funk… I don’t think I can overstate the case
We find pleasant what we are used to listen to, and unpleasant novelties we can’t comprehend at the first listening. On the other hand, musical training increases our exposure to different kinds of chords and harmonies, and so also increases our ability to identify them and enjoy them.
What’s happened is music fans have grown up and had kids and their kids have had kids and now well the fervor is so intense that its dangerous. Led Zeppelin could never live up to its image now
‘I just started screaming, calling 911, I lay down next to him and just just pleaded with him not to die.’
What if it is as great as, let’s not go crazy here, Heroes? How about a “Somebody Up There Likes Me” or a “Boys Keep Swinging” or, nah it will never happen but, “Modern Love”?
If this is the state of New York rock in 2013, it is pretty weak gruel. Really? DIIV? I mean, honestly, that’s what you wanna tell me. Sky? She looks like a poster child for methadone clinics. Still, who am I to argue with Hardeep Phull, right? I don’t disagree with Phul the way I did with Aquilante, and I disagree in different ways, but still, his tastes and I don’t coincide very often. PS: I hadn’t heard Angel Haze but I will now.
I’ve heard huge arguments about who is better Morrissey or Marr but this ends the argument completely. Marr is no Morrissey and this albums flies when Marr plays, the way the new Wayne Shorter works when he plays, but otherwise it crashes and burns. A major major crash and burn disast
The Major Lazer album looks like fun but who is kidding who? This is Nick Cave’s week and the Bad Seeds is one of the biggest of, at least, the season. I was listening to Dig Lazarus Dig earlier today and I simply prefer Bad Seeds to Grinderman and I’ve listened to the new one a few times and it is gonna be a biggie.
Young Adult Friction – The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – Shoegaze? I dunno, the vocals are way way up and the jingle jangle is resembles Belle And Sebastian circa “Seeing Other People”. Maybe the band didn’t want this, but that’s a shame because this was the sound they should’ve pursued – Grade: A
About a year ago, there was a column on here where a teenage girl like myself could write about anything that’s not related to music. (I believe I wrote a vegan post, and a couple others…) Regardless, I’m going to start doing that again.
Lulu started her set with “Unchain My Heart by Ray Charles, she also sang “Oh Me Oh My”, “Bell Bottom Blues”, between songs she regaled us with the stories about Atlantic Records, Aretha Franklin, and many other performers from the golden age of rock.
He wondered if the mathematical laws that apply to group behavior in flocks of birds could also describe what he was seeing, so he got the idea to use software developed for analyzing particles in a fluid to track moshers’ motions! Surprisingly, he found out that the moshers had the same statistical distribution as the speeds of atoms in a gas!
This is all lucid momentum and the band seldom slow the pace or lower the volume and by the three quarters mark they reel off “Harder To Breathe” , “Wake Up Call” and “One More Night” in succession. One from each album and genius setlist programming.
It’s all vintage psychedelia, filled with multicolor distorted visions during an imaginary and vivid acid trip among layered guitars,… one sure thing, this fuzz-fantasy will not silence all these Syd Barett comparisons.
It’s like buying a hamburger for lunch and the waiter giving you a Quiche Lorraine. The quiche might be fine, and Lulu was in great voice, but it wasn’t what you bought.
The Foals album isn’t very good… . indeed, most of this list is not very good, Mumford is OK, and I haven’t heard Biffy, but everything else is whatever.
One killer song here, the new Avicii is really hot and smart house pop (if you see what I mean) and gives Calvin Harris a run for his money. And Alpin’s singer songwriter song is pretty catchy stuff. Emili has ANOTHER hit off her album?
Sixteen – Buzzcocks – Best ending of a song ever, an on the dime conclusion as Shelley begs for silence, also holds an axiomatic concept: everything you do remains the same but is less fun as you grow older – Grade: A+
