News arrived Thursday that a German company is planning a biopic based on the time Iggy Pop and David Bowie (and one assumes Brian Eno!) spent living and recording in West Berlin in the mid-70s, which brought the world such masterpieces as Low and Lust For Life. Two albums which seem to exist in opposite universes from each other and ourselves
Jim James has had one of the above for the past through years, good for moving a couple 100K of albums (half of that for the solo stuff) but no way to run a recording career.
Wide Lovely Eyes – Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds – We’ve been waiting for Push The Sky Away for year and upon year and to be honest, gaving streamed it maybe twice, I would dub it midseason Cave. Not bad, sure, but a little dowdy maybe. Except for this full bloodied piano ballad which is so beautiful it kinda stops your breathe. Prettiest song I’ve heard since Regina’s “How” – Grade: A
Go here right this second and get a ticket to Atoms For Peace 11pm show March 14th, 2013. They went on sale at 1030am so HURRY!
Yesterday, on BBC radio, the song “Retrograde” debuted. And it’s fantastic. It’s rich with the thick, subtly shifting chords that Blake is known for, but it’s easier to listen to than anything he’s done before. It’s not dumbed down, it’s just honest-to-goodness pop. Dark, complex pop
Marr has spent an awful lot of time being a bridesmaid. Shame on him. He should have fronted up a solo group long ago. But we’re going to let that slide now because he has finally gone and done it.
Ah but there is transcendence at the end, there is a luminescent light at the end of this dark alley, and you have no idea how far a nipple in your mouth can bring you
Gloria’s life includes a bus crash and infertility and a truck load of ‘oh I’m a Latin woman in ‘the biz’ type crap- oh and her husband is in on it too. There should be a Broadway board of directors who just rubber stamp “GTFO” on ideas like this.
And this was enough to start the rumor that RATM may have something coming up, a tour? An album? So far, nothing of this sort is scheduled
Make It With You – Bread – David Gates could sure write a terrific melody and this mainstream beauty of wimp rock stands as a seduction so sweet, he means both make it thru life and make out, it remains a memory of a kindre gentler world – Grade: A+
Mastercard only and the presalecode is Masterbey
I saw GNR around 8 years ago at Hammerstein Ballroom and take it from me pop pickers, Axl is the real deal. Plus, I might well be in the minority here but I thought Chinese Democracy was a great, great album.
The singing is tedious and professional and so is the orchestra, this is a passionless drag and though both my niece (who is 40 years old) and my Great Niece (who is 10 years old) liked it, I bet they can’t name one song.
All this overflow of super-positive emotions, all these uplifting oo-ooos, all these power choruses on ecstasy, all this jumping around could have either turned me nauseous or totally happy,…
Why should the age people died be so interesting… Presley was 42. Now I don’t know how old you are but 42 years old is at least an interesting age to die..
The chances of you getting tickets by clicking on the Live Nation site on Friday at 10am are pretty slim- sorry kids it will sell out and it will happen fast and well aren’t you supposed to be in school?
I am sure that whether you listen to classical music or not, you’ve heard a lot of his compositions in much the same way that whether you have read Shakespeare or not you know a lot of his plays. And so, like me, have a certain fascination with this harbinger of so much to do with being famous even without mentioning his music.
Not only his new take on the song will be done ‘by putting together a collection of sounds from unexpected places’, but we will ‘hear layer upon layer of unique sounds coming together from different musicians’.
Plus the musicians will be performing on a specially constructed circular stage, encircling
Who? In this whip fast world we easily forget things that happen just months ago. Of course, you and all those t-shirt wearing celebs have forgotten about Lamb of God
It was a busy Tuesday morning by anybody’s standards. 16 new releases, all some degree of major, all important for your music fan to have an idea about. And if he it wasn’t for Spotify, very very expensive.
I like the two newbies, #9 and #10 a whole lot, and congrats to Calvin for breaking US without Rihanna! Also, my niece mentioned that she never liked Justin till “Beauty And A Beat” so I guess it did its job and broke him out of teen idol category.
The top four are all newbies, well, Charlie Wilson is from last year. I can’t say I am a fan of the top two, but # 3 is a very very good one. Tegan And Sara? I am as shocked as you are….
She just kinda seems dead inside, like there’s nothing behind her eyes.” He added, “Like there’s nothing in her boobs anymore!”
Toast To Love – Avant – 90s soul man hasn’t lost a beat on his newest album, all old time r&b potboilers. The voice is the usual though he seldom goes up too high, and the production is new school but the song itself evoke the 1980s and the 1990s – Grade: B+
Teenagers are to rock and roll. what the story of Jesus is to the Gospels, everything else is to rock and roll what Parables are to the Gospel. They illuminate but they aren’t the point.
Though highly reminiscent of their old stuff (very circa ‘Infinity On High’), but also a bit more punchy and it absorbed Patrick’s Stump solo style. It’s a new and improved Fall Out Boy that I absolutely fell in love with.
Lindsey thought she was going to die but she never walked with the devil? May be she means she never took heroin or whatever drug she is referencing to by ‘dancing with the devil’, but what’s a difference if she was abusing her prescription, was close to die and had to go to rehab?
tall lanky gent with movie star looks you would expect to be arrogant, his stage persona one of childlike playfulness and happy banter but face to face in a closed club he was more timid, more reserved more nervous in demeanor. It was this revelation that made Beckett a more interesting character.
From Sunday morning thru Sunday afternoon I listened to it incessantly. Wrote up a review late Sunday afternoon and it posted on rock nyc Monday Morning. And now it is Monday afternoon and the My Bloody Valentine story is just about done with. I mean it is so Satuday Night And Sunday Morning
Beyonce is becoming the Queen Bee of Bad Vibes. There is something kinda nasty about the first couple of pop, condescending, a little on the Marie Antionette side of all of this and while I will be happy to refine my thoughts if 5 is as great as 4 was.
They are recording it in a retreat outside Buffalo, NY and are listening to a lot of Aphex Twin and house records, they are not even using a real band but are recording it alone ‘cherry-picking the best parts of their free-form jams to construct tracks’.
The Killers are playing a Saturday night gig, may 18th, at Barclay center and I am gonna check it out. I don’t expect much but I expect something and the Killers are a band I feel as though I misunderstand on record.I think they have a secret and I will only be able to unlock it on stage
Perhaps when they get on stage in a mid( 500) summer nights dream they can transport us to a world where love does work out and happiness and even “sentimental hearts might find some peace somewhere.
Sneak Out The Back Door – Ron Sexsmith – No, it isn’t the extended sarcasm of “Get In Life” and there is no line as gasp worthy as the “spilt milk” reference. But it is the next best thing and with its hint of suicide, it is a stirring piece of songwriting – Grade: A
People seem to think Gary is an acquired taste and I just don’t hear it. This is a mainstream pop song that twists a little of center but it still sounds wonderful. A really wonderful love song.
Brown feels persecuted when we all know his past, and his claim he is the crucified victim in the story sounds even more ironic when Ocean plays the magnanimous part, and forgives him,… a very Christ-like gesture.
And that’s just off the top of my head and not reaching for the hall of Iman shame, Armstrongs and Presleys and Lennons! The good news hear is I just know I’ll get round to three of the names here and add My Bloody Valentine to the list! And maybe Steve Leckie will bring back Viletones!!
The tedium and the pressure of work palls after decades of it, there has to be more somewhere in 1960 and I will be Chad and my problems? Join the family canning business, no Dad, I wanna go my own way, I wanna charter planes
A few suggestions are floating around, MV could stand for Martha’s Vineyard where the album was recorded, and Spin magazine has a few super silly suggestions beside ‘Martha’s Vineyard On The Cape’, such as ‘More Viagra Over The Counter’, or ‘My Valentine Ordered Takeout Chinese’
Be real, what sort of elitist life was she leading before this? Pussy Riot staged its punk prayer protest at Moscow’s Christ the Saviour Cathedral on February 21, 2012, appealing to the Virgin Mary to ‘throw Putin out’..
This might well be Trixie’s week but Kris’ song of imminent mortality is sure giving her youthful angst a run for its money. -or maybe because I am much closer to Kris’s age than Trixie’s. Neither the Wayne nor the Kingsbury are out yet but you can stream KB here.
Wow, a new Silverstein, Sexsmith Jim James (and a goodie by the sounds of it) and Eels (which I’ve been streaming with nothing but pleasure all week). But the week belongs to Chris Stamey, Stamey’s solo stuff is consistently better than his dB’s material and his dB’s material is pretty awesome in its own rights. Word is this was influenced by his work on the Alex Chilton tribute…
she found now – My Bloody Valentine – This is the shoegaze to beat all shoegazers, a introspective self-absorbed swirl of sonic guitar wallpaper par excellence. This will launch another dozen bands trying to recreate this feeling of a space drift – Grade: A
I have seen this band live three times I believe and to see them actually return from hiatus is something I thought would never occur. The band seemed to go south the moment Pete Wentz married and became a dad.
The tune slowly builds up an atmosphere which sounds as familiar as foreign: it seems I have heard this kind of thing before, but am I really listening to an Iron and Wine’s song
A disturbed genius not a million miles away from a Brian Wilson or a Phil Spector: he derives meaning from orchestrated sound that seems to bury itself into your subconscious. And the truth is, though it took 22 years of manipulation, it sounds easy: it has the easy of someone doing something only they can.
I swore to Iman that rocknyc would never stoop so tabloid to discuss a legends urine. Never. We have class! But this is actually news worthy. Morrissey took to the keyboard to write to his fans in explanation of what exactly went down
On a night that finds Marissa Paternoster back from illness to lead Screaming Females once more again, I have to give the nod to David Bronson and the Long Lost at Fontana’s Saturday night at 10pm. My peers, who claim “today’s music don’t have the same soul, should try Bronson’s whose voyage of discovery (part two!) Story was the prog folk 70s modern rock opera to beat last year. And he doesn’t play live nearly enough. I’ve never seen him in person and I can’t resist it. An absolute must see.
I have only heard one song off Opposites and it is alright. unlike Andrea Bocelli’s dreaded opera lite. I’ve heard nothing off Jools Holland latest but I did interview back in the day when he was with Squeeze. Otherwise it is back to Rihanna for my pop kicks, I guess.
The Pitbull song is still hanging around? All a little 2012 isn’t it. I mean this entire chart feels moldy round the edges, after all this is 2013 and we expect Pitbull to act like it, ha ha ha. Zigga Zigga Zall…
