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
The offer you now their free Winter Sampler filled with alt bands the teens will love. Bands such as Never Shout Never and Chelsea Grin offer two completely different genre’s but, like PETA it serves diversity so its perfectly suited.
I had never heard of Lady Gaga before, until her song “Poker Face”, and then she became a big star wearing meat dresses! I guess she is not a vegetarian!
Since that whole move to France thing he’s been odder than usual and the nonstop Disney Pirate films- well hell, it was just a matter of time that he would take this addiction and pair it up with music.
Yeah, Wrecking Ball album of the year? That’s the ticket. Will the last rock critic to leave Rolling Stone please turn off the light. Oh, and Frank Ocean at # 2-was a no brainer. really, I mean really. We may not be able to agree upon anything but we can agre that a young, gay, black r&b guy that nobody except me had heard of two years ago is now the most highly over-rated musician on the planet.
Some sources are claiming that Hodgy Beats pushed Ragasi back to the crowd, and the guy became a ping pong ball between the band and the crowd. According to several websites, Ragasi got some severe injuries
nce a good boy of pop, his album is a drag, his live show monstrous, his love life a joke (OK, Selena isn’t but the rest of it…) and to end the year he got blown off stage by Taylor Swift at Jingle Ball.
Biggie was a chronic chronic abuser,he free styled in a studio stoned, recorded it and worked from there . How did he have no marijuana in his system? How did he go and party on the West Coast and not have one single drink?
Gospel – Robbie Williams – Big time pop songs and about reuniting with the love of your life years after she dismissed you, indeed never had you, or an extended metaphor about artists and audience and either way, a kiss off that sounds like a history lesson – Grade: A
For me, these movies are the cinematic version the old Classics Illustrated comic books. Before I eventually read the Dickens text of “A Tale of Two Cities” in high school, I’d already read the comic book. Ditto “Rip Van Winkle and the Headless Horseman” and a bunch of others.
This is this time of the year when we have to decide about the best songs, albums, concerts and make our 2012 best-of list. I haven’t been to as many concerts as the previous years, blame it on my ever-more-demanding job and a bad schedule that forced me to wake up at dawn, but I saw some good ones nevertheless
Recently the guitarist has been blazing a trail as a solo artist. With his backing unit the Brickyard Band, Scott has released three critically acclaimed solo albums and established a distinct sound that’s a smooth combination of rock, soul and blues.
Gangnam style is a song that most people love and dance to. My favourite part is when he says “ohhhhh sexy lady”, it is the only English in this song, and the only thing people can understand
The trailer just shows the band and their grandiose, one by one, arrival on stage, then Wayne Coyne crawling on the crowd in his famous giant bubble, and affronting another bubble filled with a naked woman,… the usual for the Flaming Lips.
This whole ‘play an album’ concept is one of the most lazy ass things I have ever heard. The trend is mounting too. Rather than throw down a nice hodge podge for your work just put the bitch on auto piliot and sail through.
The gold press of 1963’s “Please Please Me” was estimated at about 18,000 euro but it missed its mark and was pulled from auction at 12,000 (appx $18,000). The records owner Chris Collins calls the disc a ‘burden’ that has been in his sock drawer.
As a special favor to out faithful reader (you know who you are, don’t be coy), here is the top five Pazz And Jop albums for 2012. No, don’t thank me: 1- Frank Ocean, 2 – Bob dylan, 3 – Lemarr Kendrick, 4 – Leonard Cohen, 5 – Fiona Apple -No, dont thank me
Here’s a question: “You Make Loving Fun” or “Second Hand News”. Not that easy, right? Peersonally, I’d go with the former. And I would take either over just about anything Nicks has ever done except MAYBE “Landslide”. Cerainly I don’t go to FM psyched to see Stevie.
Eternal Father, Strong To Save – Choir Of St. Mary’s Episcopal Church – Having spent years at English Boarding Schools when just a wee tot, English Hymns play like nostalgia trigger for me. Something compounded by being in the UK right this minute (but not as I write). I always thought it was me who could only ever remember “For those in peril on the sea”, but listening to it here, that’s still all I can remember becausethe words are muffled – Grade: A
With his smart mixture of loud, fast, garage-punk-rock and some surf-y-psychedelic detours à la The Oh Sees, they brought the energy to the roof as soon as they started their set, and damn, they were good! It sounded a little retro and totally fresh at the same time, never nostalgic
I will take James Brown on The One and no melody or I will take Smokey Robinson and melody to die for, but I don’t get either with Frank Ocean (or the Weeknd or Miguel…). Instead I get an excellent falsetto and a good vocal range and an atmospheric mood music so constantly downcast it is like pall upon the songs
Honestly, I found the video much more interesting than Brandon Flowers’ boring croon and even the song itself. The last seconds are especially inventive! Is it what we call ‘to be consumed with love for someone’?
Swift is dating Harry Styles from One Direction, WHO I ABSOLUTELY HATE, Harry flew on Taylor’s private jet to London, and the boys were not invited and everyone’s worried in case she splits up the band.
It is rare and wonderful when a singer has proper clean vocals in a hardcore band. Often the pitch is just too high bordering on the same tone you get when you kick a guy in the nads. Not the case with Mabbit who actually has a beautiful singing voice
From the 50s to the 90s he drove a power funk rhythm right through Jim Crow to Black Power and out the end and released some of the greatest dance music of all time. “Please Please Please”, “Sex Machine”, “Cold Sweat”, he ran roughshod over some of the greatest musicians of all time, and planted himself at the center of American pop to this day. Hip Hop owes Brown everything.
Art is fake. Rock is fake, the truest artist in the world is outrageously unreal, has nothing whatsoever to do with their own life. Life is too messy, too lonely, too inevitable: if you stare right into life it is so black you would suffer from nyctolopea, you would go blind.
Far be it from me to dis god on the 35th year anniversary of Slowhand. But I will. I know Slowhand. I have listened to Slowhand and Slowhand, my friend is NO 461 Ocean Blvd.
Are We All We Are – Pink – It sounds like she’s saying olly olly oxen free and I guess that kids game is at the heart of the way Pink deals with love and life. There is something insolent and aggressive but fun loving and bouncy – Grade: A
Wearing rudely tight purple spandex pants, a ripped Sex Pistols t-shirt, and sporting a ‘70s style Afro, he made repeated lascivious comments to the ticket buying females and shouted about “THE REVOLUTION” between songs, except when he was spewing obscenities
‘Yeah, it’s legal in the United States. It’s part of our Constitution. You know, the right to bear arms is because that’s the last form of defense against tyranny. Not to hunt. It’s to protect yourself from the police…if somebody wants to kill people well you know they don’t need a gun to do it…United States is based on guns.’
Anyone who knows depression and the aftermath of such knows that any ounce of assistance means hope. To be acknowledged that you’re ‘not alone’ can often mean the difference of not giving up.
Since Annie had a ginger afro, we had to get Molly a wig, and any time she walked on stage we all started laughing, but if we wanted to be professionals we had to keep it in.
that freak Cee Lo. For the love of Jesus can someone just shut that guy up? That’s what I want for Christmas, one damn week without that hobbit on my screen
The best music at inducing sleep is not, as you probably expected Coldplay (though they are at # 5) but the Mancunian Trio Marconi Union who were attempting to do precisely that.
At the end, Macca and the rest of the band seemed to be at the top of the world, making the big finale on the stage of the Madison Square Garden in front of thousand of people, watched by millions,… meanwhile Courtney Love was either high or out of her meds, trying to start an argument with her computer
