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.
Cliche, but necessary. Of course no one knows the words to the whole thing, ’cause it’s pretty much impossible, but the chorus is sure to induce a sing-along. Definitely the best apocalyptic song ever written
All three acts had a problem with their biggest hits, to put it bluntly we had heard them once to often. But, with Nesmith back in the fold, the Monkees were playing minor hits as wel
Last time we were stuck with Stevie Nicks opening, this time round it is Stevie Winwood, the blue eyed soul keyboardist who you may remember from Arc Of A Diver, but I know as the 17 year wunderkind from the Spencer Davis Group, not to mention the Traffic star and, last time I saw him live was with Eric Clapton as half of a Blind Faith reunion
Remember back in the day you couldn’t throw a brick without hitting Phish going “number nine number nine”? Well now Amanda and TOE are gonna be changing the year with a rendition of the entire Purple Rain album. Assuming Prince doesn’t stick a restraining order on her ass.
All I Want for Christmas Is You – Mariah carey – Sure, I prefer the kid in “Love, Actually” as well. But this version, by the co-writer no less, will do. From 1994 and maybe the most recent song to join the Christman pantheon of songs. Over sung, but it’s her call not ours – Grade: A
Any real music before punk was being ruined by record companies. Got watered down. Then the hippies started to suck- they went from weed to heroin, so they were going nowhere. Through this, new bands formed.
The film focuses on the counter-culture starting from the 80s with the rise of Reagan and Thatcher, and documents ‘a cultural shift towards fierce individualism and rampant consumerism’, in parallel with the start of a renegade movement, that Writer/director and visual artist Antonino D’Ambrosio calls ‘creative-response’.
Prince Rogers Nelson also became a pop sensation with his double album 1999 and that little ol’ band from Texas conquered the MTV generation and had their greatest success after a decade plus of recording. Ray Davies and The Kinks had the most heartwarming comeback of the year
It sure ain’t a happy tune and the matching pictures just evoke more desolation and distress! The video was entirely made by fans who shared for two weeks their instagram pictures inspired by the lyrics of the song, since the band had tweeted and instagrammed the lyrics before releasing the song,.. a totally original way to make a video.
There are no found details of what exactly caused this ruckus, but I would love to know what establishment would have glass tables and allow Manson in to begin with. High five to the person who felt compelled to whip a table at the rocker, that must have been a damn sassy altercation.
Watching a concert on TV is to watching it in person is exactly what watching porn is to having sex. Even the least intimate of venues, even Hydepark at the back of 500,000 people is more intimate than watching it on television,if, for no other reason than you are among other people.
The answer is obvious. Shorter albums. Cut out the crap if it is crap. Better quality control. Stop filling space. It is like everybody has become Prince in the 1990s, they won’t stop releasing music. And stop with the remixes. Perhaps the music biz would make more money if they changed the recording music paradigm.
Hey its Mumford and Son, theres a big surprise. Who would have ever thought that a band as folksy and plinky as they would crack the charts in such a big way? Proof that mankind is starved for something new
Wow! The charts this week are as stale as a fruitcake but then again so is popular opinion. Did you happen to catch Michael Buble when he was on Saturday Night Live doing Christmas Duets? Could well be one of the most hilarious bits of all last season. Buble is the new Harry Connick Jr- pure Christmas material, plain and simple.
State Of Grace – Taylor Swift – One of Taylor’s best songs though it took awhile to catch on, the killer pay off, “Love’s a ruthless game unless you play it good and right” has three very very strong words and Swift nails each and every one of them. And the sound is exuberant, it is darkly shaded (which is why it took awhile) but that’s because that “unless” is right on top of you – Grade: A
the Stones just had their 50-year anniversary celebration all over the east coast and haven’t played any dates on the west coast,… plus there was already a rumor they were playing Coachella last year and it didn’t happen
