“Thank god she had saddle shoes on that day because it added that “magic moment” feeling you get in the studio sometimes.”… I could have done without the “magic moment” stuff but there you go.
These guys seemed to have some quality times together indeed, but we can now be sure that the Scissor Sister’s guy is a guest on the new QOTSA album, along with Dave Grohl, Trent Reznor and Nick Oliveri, and who else? Announcing
Now the weasel has the audacity to back out of his promise. He told UK tab the Daily Star: ”I’m fortunate to do what I do and no way do I want to stop. This three-year break idea only came about because I said at a gig in Australia that we might not be back there for three years.”
Popular Song – Mika – Another first rate piece of pop confection by the English (via Lebanon) pop star. Intensely catchy sweet bop one IPOD commercial away from world domination – Grade: A-
We will be cold, tired and miserable and with only days and days of darkness and dreariness to look forward to. Hell, even the Superbowl will be a month away. So it is a perfect time for the good people at City Parks Foundation to get us thinking of the summer.
In 1989, Courtney Love was heavily involved with drugs and alcohol, and she stated in divorce records that their marriage was a joke. Joke or not, Courtney Love got pregnant and refused to stop taking drugs nevertheless, and ended up to have an abortion, which is pretty horrible already.
In this one episode Nugent shot an orynx…which is extinct. This is a good example of how idiotic Discovery was for not fact checking and how much of a tool Nugent is for doing it in the first place.
Teenage girls across America dumped their boyfriends for the honor of singing “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” and feeling solidarity with Taylor Swift. Justin Bieber returned with less hysteria but still hitting the charts. Let’s hear it for the girls, as Adele and Rihanna and Kelly Clarkson had #1 singles.
I have never heard a bad song by Hitchcock and on the contrary have hummed along for some time now. Robin has never really left the scene but hey now, new material makes me very happy.
West was important rock and roll, a sound that made sense in 2012 and broke through the morass of nostalgia and into the 21st century with an inspired take on his career. All bass and rapping, without an ounce of respect for the hallowed halls or the needs of the performers around him, or an audience of millions upon millions
The show takes folks with some talent, and then processes them and spits em out the other end so they resemble everybody who has come before them. This is not necessarily a bad thing: let we forget, somebody somewhere manufactures Aston Martins. But it is only alright if you don’t pretend you are listening to something you aren’t
Yeah, I will give em Jack White, though it isn’t my best album of the year, that would be Spider bags, but Frank Ocean. Have you ever been at a dinner and somebody makes a joke and everybody is laughing their heads off and you try to laugh along but you just don’t get it? That’s how I feel about Frank Ocean.
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band – Not the worst tour of his career, that would be the rising, but the second worstr tour of the year. Too long, too bloated, just a mess. Plus, if you are gonna play 210 minute gigs, start them at 8pm, for God’s sake
The Gypsy Rover – The Irish Rovers – A variation on “Gypsy Davies”, an early 1800s Irish folk song, it tells the mythic story of a fine Irish Lady who left behind her family and heritage to follow a Gypsy. This version is all Irish lilt and a strong if soft male brogue, when I was a child (this is the first song I remember ever hearing), I had a prettier version with a woman singer – Grade: B+
An “X”-Mas gift from us to you. Alyson Camus took many pictures and shot five videos and didnt stop until the Scroogey Security staff pulled the plug on her. What she caught in a shutter is amazing…enjoy!
The rush of dance and r&b is constant. It is energetic, sophisticated, and falls out of time. …the Line crosses and recrosses the 21st Century while never losing its footing, it is r&b as it should be. An impressive and lovely, exciting and smart end to the year
What the heck with this latest buzz that Ian Watkins got busted for some heavy duty sex crimes. The front man is seems to have got himself in a heap of trouble. I am a firm believer in ‘innocent til proven’
One of the coolest things it showed was how the shows got bigger and bigger. I loved the whole “They’re not fighting, they’re dancing!” scene. It was a revolution; it hadn’t been seen before and the Clash brought it to the table.
The democrats wanted everybody to own their own home whether they could afford it or not, the republicans wanted an even freer free market place and between the two they killed the real estate market and caused the collapse of the banks through fake mortgages and loans. And none of it has anything to do with Bruce Springsteen, who is a billionaire and should take his fucking money and eat it.
“Lori Maddox was part of the wild Hollywood teenage groupie scene in the early 1970s. She reportedly lost her virginity at age 13 to David Bowie and Angie Bowie. One of her best friends was Sable Starr, who was the unofficial queen of the scene at the time.”
we try to be prudent and we built a permanent shed with a diesel-operated generator. We have a nice place to put food and water, blankets and survival stuff, if we had to have it. We just think that we should be prepared.
Is 50 too old to rock? Apparently not as these popular albums from 2012 prove unequivocally… but who else voted for Public Enemy?
If The-Dream wasn’t such a late arrival, the album might well have been in my top ten of 2012. As it is, the modern day Here My Dear is a wrecker of an album, a lyrical malfeasance on top of soulful dirges.
White Christmas – Michael Buble And Bing Crosby – This isn’t a particularly bad version, it culls a take off a Crosby Christmas special and through the magic of technology adds Buble, who is quickly becoming the American standards singer of choice. But all this forcing dead pop stars out of their graves and making them duet with people without their permission turns my stomach. It is grave robbing – Grade: F
With a bedrock of faith in a life everlasting the tragedy, without narrowing fits into a larger picture, but no larger than this: First Grade Teacher Victoria Soto, 27 years old, died when she threw herself in the path of the gunmans bullets to protect her children. Certainly, in this world there is nothing more important than Ms. Soto’s sacrifice
Surviving so long and becoming a classic in the punk rock history isn’t easy, but the show proved that their mixture of rock, country, rockabilly, wrapped by an intense delivery and a punk attitude is just this,… a series of classic punk anthems written by the founders of LA-all-things-punk
Considering these songs were recorded along the same time as “Waiting For Sirens Call”, I’m not overly optimistic. They say you cant go home again-but you can drive by.
Bruce Springsteen and Prince ruled both the pop charts, while The Replacements released the best album of their messy career. Los Lobos proved that they really weren’t just another band from East L.A. and Leonard Cohen quietly released a song that would later become recognized as a classic.
I have to say it, a 31-year gap is a little creepy, she will still be a hottie when Ronnie is a spoon-fed wheelchair-bound senile old man, but they seem happy right now, so why raining on their wedding parade? Plus all rock stars do that.
BMJ Open, concludes that pop-rock stars who had a trouble childhood, are more susceptible to die from drug-related problems or other risk-taking-heath-damaging behaviors, and that extreme wealth provide greater opportunities to engage in such behaviors.
I would say this is a good time to go out and hit your local clubs but that may be tough since Christmas is sitting on a Tuesday this week- the scene is dead, buried in gift wrap and tinsel.
Terius Nash: 1977 – The-Dream -On the heels of his work on Unapologetic and essentially producing Beyonce’s latest, the bitter taste off his first solo album is officially over. Released as a free download, this is a surprisingly brilliant album of Here My Dear break up songs as heartbreak, detailing his divorce – Grade: A
wrote about the reasons behind the Justice Collective charity single a couple of weeks ago, but again: in 2009 a human crush occurred at a football match in Sheffield’s Hillsborough Stadium killing 96 people. This year, the Courts finally allowed the remains to sue the Police for the accident. UK stars came together to record the top single to help pay for the survivors and inheritors expenses. The track is a dreadful version of an asinine Hollies song but a good cause.
I was just in the UK and you couldn’t throw a brick without hitting a commercial for Neil Diamond’s greatest hits on TV. The result? Check out the magnificently useless # 5. Meanwhile, I must admit Emili Sande is beginning to grow on me. Precisely what happens when an album goes exothermic.
Rolex – The -Dream, Cassie – With the advent of new r&b I have been wondering if maybe I don’t like it any more. But The-Dream is one soul singer who constantly knocks me out. This isn’t a great song, lyrics are a little obvious, the synth in the background is a touch light, and Casha Monet, his new find, seems like Ree Ree redux… still it catches your ear with ease and holds it – Grade: A-
Perhaps this is because the chorus is similar to the first song I heard by the band, “Helena”, in that it makes you want to stand up, throw your hands up, and shout the lyrics til you’re hoarse
I have never been more disgusted with an audience in my life. I wish we hadn’t played. We, lamb of god, asked for sixty seconds of silence during our 1st set break to honor the dead children & teachers in CT.
Paul Simon attended teacher Victoria Soto’s funeral on Wednesday and, without any introduction, picked up his acoustic guitar to sing ‘The Sound of Silence’ midway through the ceremony held at the Lordship Community Church in Stratford.
Cha Cha knee – caused by repeated and abrupt twists and turns and basically just ‘going for it’, Hip Hop hip – a recent phenomenon experienced by aging street dancers, Jive spine – usually suffered when ‘Dad dancing’ – men trying to lift their dance partners off the ground, Rumba Lumbar – localised pain in the lower back caused by jerky pelvic rotations
It always saddens me just a bit to see those so young with such turmoil. At their age the world is on a string, whatever has transpired in their lives to cause them to lose this fact is a robbery of innocence too painful to endure. We forget how young these guys are.
“He revealed that he had recently spoken to the band on the phone and that they had spoken of finishing recording the album in Paris.No official release date has been announced but Rolling Stone speculates it may be titled TPC, after new artwork was posted on the band’s website.”
am not the enemy of jam I used to be but I am not a huge fan either So having admitted my folly, let me note that whether you love or hate jam, Disco Biscuits have a tremendous sense of BPMS and among the many things they might be, are a great live band I HEAR(from Woody Fuller!) so I am very psyched for this one at ny fave vebue in the city Best Buy, as part of a residency but I am going on Thursday
The shaking suicide, worthless end of the world as we know it shake it baby rolling on the floor and groaning DTs? Well mix em up and you have the mindset of a rock star and stir in even more loneliness for the pop star, and there you have it in a nutshell
Losing My Religion – REM – This is where it all came together and blew me up big, folk rock with a chip on its shoulder and moodwise an ancestor of new r&b. As for Stipe’s lyric? It rings with desire and disllussion – Grade: A+
I’ve written it here before anyone who ever heard him say ‘knowwhatImean?’ as one word…it clings to your heart as one of the most adorable sounds in the world.
He used the whole crowd-surface as Jesus-Christ-turned-evil walking on water,… you would think this would finally collapse, but no, each time Spielman was back on stage faster than the light, swimming his way back through a sea of hands, legs and other body parts
Nelson has a powerful voice, figuratively and literally. He can sound both world weary and triumphant and the record rocks harder than typical long haired guy with bare feet publicity photo shots might lead you to believe (including some nice lead guitar and B-3 organ spots). Nelson has the goods. Hopefully his music will find the audience it deserves.
The Wanted are iffy singers, they aren’t that nice because they talk about other people and the things they say are horrible, but all I know is I will never be playing with lightning!
Jack White was supposed to score the Disney movie, ‘The Lone Ranger’, but news broke that the musician was way to busy to spend any time with Johnny Depp and his new Navajo’s roots,… too bad, Depp could have helped at the guitar, he does this a lot as everyone knows.
