This is about the songs on the soundtrack. I guess a generation lost in space could do worse than trance rock, prog rock, twee melodies that hold from time to time and a whole lotta shoegazing
After promising to never go to another festival in my life, not even Governor’s Ball on Randall’s Island while you are at least not stuck for the night in a sleeping bag, I bought a three day VIP pass for the June 7th to 9th long weekend.
Yellow Raincoat – Justin Bieber – Yeah kid, growing up is tough, you’re right. And I am glad you feel like writing an earnest acoustic blues song. I just wish it was a lot better than this one, I mean really? Does bieber think apeing Ben Harper any good at all? – Grade: C
Obviously, these guys’ first priority is to have fun with their rock-extravanganza, going all over the classic rock experience …I don’t even know exactly if they have songs of their own (I guess they do), but they totally made anything they played their own stuff.
The Draconian excess isn’t that at all, it’s just dayglo sticks. Essentially, Donner places the generation gap as just business as usual for Jamie. The revolution was in fashion and style but the essential Englishness didn’t change.
Does anyone remember Joyce suing the band in the 90’s for more share of profit after break up? I have a funny feeling he may be one of the reasons a reunion would never happen. Ya sue someone and ask for a reunion- dude be real.
You might very well disagree and if you do you might want to go give some money to Bjork on Kickstarter To help her fund her music educational app for Android. I would tell you more but I am getting pretty confused myself. On a purely subjective level I’d give to Kickstarter if it would finance another album as great as Post.
Black Flag are cited as heroes for countless acts these days and I have the distinct pleasure of having seen them numerous times in the 80s.But I’m not so sure that bad boy persona can carry at their age. Henry Rollins got it right. Stayed in the biz, kept his attitude and is actually putting it to some good.
The death of free will, certainly announced by all the neurobiologists I have heard of, should be all over the place, should be shaking things up everywhere, and made a splash in our conception of reality. Instead it is ignored and we continue to live in our delusion we are in control of our destiny.
Alvarez Kings, Chiodos, Young London, We Came As Romans, Reel Big Fish, and Beebs And Her Money Makers. Personally I can’t wait to see the show Reel Big Fish will put on, and my excitement at seeing Beebs and Her Money Makers is as boundless as the sea.
Beyonce’s refusal to make a statement seems like either fear or indifference. She should have said: “Because of the cold weather I used taped vocals. This is standard practice but now I wish it had been made clear.” She’s even acting like she was caught cheating on her SATs
Actually, the new Kristofferson album was released last week. I didn’t have the slightest idea because in this high speed wired up world there is no way to know anything at all. I knew the new Adam Ant was being released last week but with zero advertising it got completely lost in the shuffle. Otherwise, 2013 seems to be taking its time, doesn’t it?
Robocop – Kanye West – Perhaps West is at his very best when he is at his most sensitive. That would be the case here where the strings herald the end of the track and West just a mess as he pretends to believe the girl who is leaving him his making a joke – Grade: A
‘I liked the idea of a self-contained, endless pursuit of perfection. But I have a problem with perfection. I don’t think perfection is very artful. But there’s something I liked about the image of a skater going in this endless twisted circle that doesn’t have any real endpoint
Snatching their name from Wendy O’ Williams and the Plasmatics famous tune, these two girls have been opening up for Marilyn Manson on his latest tour. A soft gig for these LA strip girls
For a run of ten years through the heart of his youth from the ages of 15 to 25 (1995 – 2005), the kid was the poet laurate of indie and held in awe by just about everybody including me… and then…
Hilly Eye won’t get the props they deserve in the mainstream but over here on the edges Reason To Live is a big album, as is Modern Hut’s eagerly awaited Generic Treasure. No release date on the latter but, man, oh man, wait till you hear it. Kingsbury Manx is dropping March 5th and another goodie.
the fast rolling drumming of the start and the constant spinning Moog synth contrast so much with Bill Taylor’s youthful and clear vocals, that the song brings some cinematic visions of some cruel steamroller monster running after someone keeping his calm till the end
In 2013, albums sales are not like singles sales, singles take weeks simmering on the charts and when they finally hit they stay a long while but albums shoot up the UK charts and then disappear. So this entire list is a weird one, most of it is from 2012 as we enter February nothing seems to have done well.
the Bingo Players dance track has been around for a coupla years now and Far East Movement, a terrible band, add a whole new dimension with lyrics. Otherwise, here is a question: where is Bowie and Justin… here’s a half answer: Justin is at #11,
Bat – The Joy Formidable – Welsh rock band start off smooth but bash out insanely by the end on this Yeah Yeah Yeahs soundalike without the blues affectations in a rave up about the creative process. “I had a reason but the reason went away” is an all purpurpose catechism – Grade: A
Poor guy is stuck on Saturday Night Live, sorta like visiting an aging Aunt that used to be something ‘back in the day’, I wont even waste my time complaining about how much this show sucks but at least this week we get a decent musical act. Unlike that crap hipster shit they’ve been sticking us with.
If I was a fan I would have been very impressed with this fine set, culling songs off their adored self-named debut and last years Coexist with precision, passion, intelligence and intensity. But they’re a drag. They need the “Y” chromosome in there somewhere. They are like the Kills with their balls chopped off.
The problem with this is I ended up with an ass kicking case of the flu, but there was no way I would let the opportunity to review a Manson show pass so I rallied up my crew and sent them out to cover it for me. I can tell by this excellent video that I didn’t miss much.
Pissed Jeans have been at it since 2004 and so they have what time gives you: assurance and tightness. And they have something else, a follow up to the awesome King Of Jeans, Honey, coming up and a gig at the 550 SRO Bowery Ballroom on April 13th, 2013.
‘Lucky Lighter’, a very catching-poppy tune, has the outfit of a punk anthem with bright melodic guitar riffs and the necessary soaring chorus ready to be sing-along to at their next show. The song has actually this slight Green Day-ish overtone
I am blowing off the Vaccines to see blues singer Trixie Whitley at Le Poisson Rouge on Thursday. I caught Trixie at Rockwood last June and was suitably awed and await her first album Fourth Corner out on Tuesday. LPR is down to SRO tix and I still recommend you go and see this extremely ta;lented, ready to break 25 year old.
Here is young Sheeran on his big chance to hug Katy Perry: ” a lot on stage and did a show in Canada. I played the set. Stormed it, sweated a lot, got off stage and bumped into Katy Perry. I was like, ‘All right Katy Perry, how are you?'”She said, ‘I came to your show and I love your album. I was gonna give you a hug but, eeurgh!’ and went. That was my chance ruined because I sweated so much.” Ed is moving in more and more rarified air since we saw him a year ago at Mercury Lounge but while everybody around him are crazed ehomaniacs, always the bridesmaid Ed remains his sweet old self.
Beta Love – Ra Ra Riot – A girl I knew was very friendly wih Ra Ra Riot and though we are not friends any more, she fed me a steady enough diet of the indie plus strings quintet that I feel a lot of affection for them. But not enough enough for me to recommend this electronic mish mosh about living forever and becoming machines or something – Grade: C-
One Way Trigger – The Strokes – New wavey pop stroke with a jittery epileptic rhythm , a cool little synth and Julian going for the high note and not just at the end of the line but right through the verse – Grade: B+
Sincerely, I am not a fan of her style of music, a mix of 90s R&B, 80s soul, light disco, turning into mellow ballads à la Sade with some occasional sampling, but I must admit Jessie had quite a warm and unassuming personality, smiling and waving at people
Written about her Daddy and about moving away from her home, Laura is remembering being a seven year old girl walking with her father in the English countryside, Many years later her terminally ill parent asked Laura to take her back to the hill before he died so he could see one final time how beautiful the world is.
The “Approaching Normal” tour had a fit and energized Justin hip thrusting in his live show while the girls swooned. His “Every Man In America” Tour had a bloated scuffing scruffy Justin that had the women screaming I love you”. Crazy huh? You either want to save the guy or fuck him
It is in the nature of life that an eye for an eye is an infinite progression. The only way to stop it is thru forgiveness and to hear of it being conducted by one people to another is very moving, very important. If anger is like drinking poison and expecting it to kill the other person, forgiveness is like feeding your enemy and finding yourself fully nourished.
The result is even a pro like me has difficulty in knowing what new releases are available. Spotify are a riddle of insolence and indolence and if they aren’t damn careful, obsolescence..
This isn’t the first (nor will it be the last) time John Varvatos dips in to the jukebox for models his past posers include Paul Weller and Miles Kane, Green Day, Franz Ferdinand, Perry Farrell of Jane’s Addiction, Alice Cooper, Iggy Pop, Chris Cornell, Joe Perry of Aerosmith, Ryan Adams, and Slash
Jason’s fans will go because, well, that’s what fans do, but what about normal folks? I will go because I care about country when it is healthy and I care about country when it is ill and if this guy is a poster child for what country music means in 2013 the way Reba McIntire was for country in 1985
After ‘Unbelievers’, they already performed on late night TV, here is ‘Arms’, a gentle ballad with a lot of bouncing drumming and Ezra Koenig’ high-pitched gentle croon floating over a cute melody of glittering synth and even unexpected soaring strings towards the end.
Upholstery – Beach Bums – “Carburetors man, that’s what life is all about…” Paul williams brilliant Beach Boys parody makes fine use of his “Faust” theme while extolling the virtues of love in a car: “Upholstery, when my baby sits up close to be…” is as perfect an explanation for the meaning of life as any I’ve heard – Grade:A
With a cracker little band and two back up singers behind him, Olly sold a skin tight tee (“take it off take it off” shouted the fans, he gave em a flash) and a pork pie hat with all the faith in yourself necessary to make it in the US pop world
With this revelation, I am tempted to ask, has she done this before? May be she lip-syncs during her concerts too, I am going to start a rumor! Seriously, if she can’t sing live on this special day, when she has received the highest honor of singing the national anthem for the president she has supported so much, it looks very bad.
The latest in our ongoing, ground breaking, dirt raking and all too true series of “Are The Gay?” exposes finds us face to face with one of the wild men of rock. A man not quite willing to go up against Bambi or Thumper with a rifle and blow the animals head off
Now, I’m never ever going to say anything bad about Bowie- ever. So despite not digging the single I am damn glad it’s out and I am pumped for more Bowie music. But here is the kicker with this legend stuff, everyone’s hanging on the guys coat like a lint ball.
“The daughter of Pretenders star Chrissie Hynde takes a leaf out of her activist mum’s book by camping up a tree to halt a new road.Natalie Hynde, 29, even dug a toilet in the frozen ground at a protest in Combe Haven Valley, East Sussex.”
Megaupload was shut down by the US Department of Justice a year ago, Dotcom was charged with online piracy, and arrested after a spectacular raid at his $24 million mansion in New Zealand, just like the ones you see in Hollywood movies. However, the guy didn’t give up
He comes down and goes, ‘Oh, the fire, the fire!’ (and tries to put it out) with his hand in the cast. Then he opens the French doors and I go into the kitchen and throw water on it and it erupted…”Ozzy’s front of his hair from (his ear down is), gone! His eyebrows (are gone)…
From Cockiness to cockiness, A$AP is a talented lad, meanwhile Kidz Bop does what it always does chartwise though I found it a weaker than usual effort, Pitch Perfect and Red are both Pitch Perfect and hey, you got to hand it to young Lumineers. I bet they don’t know what’s hit em!
Perhaps I am just monitoring it more closely but I am consistently surprised at just how bands suddenly become popular M&L and The Lumineers suddenly break after years of hard work leaving us all scratching our heads. The difference is before a band would go top 20 a couple of times before hitting it big. Taylor took years till “Love Story” pushed her over the top. Now, it just happens.
(There’s) Always Something There To Remind Me – Sandie Shaw – Unlike the original, this one sounds very youthful. There isn’t the harsh of experience to Shaw’s vocal, instead it has a swinging England vibe not at edge but in distinction to Davids intense feelings. I coulda sworn Dionne did the original but she sang the demo. Sandie brings a generational schism to the 60s masterwork – Grade:A
The documentary narrates the Russian band’s trial after having staged a ‘Punk Prayer’ against Russian president Putin in a Orthodox Cathedral in Moscow, as well as the three women’s first months of incarceration in terrible Russian camps.
