As I searched out the photo for this weeks chart I was disappointed to see Gabrielle Aplin dolled up like a mini Del Rey. I suppose this little songstress who just recently burst on the scene will be allowed her own look. Shes adorable and has a heck of a set of pipes.
Ollie Murs is hanging tight to that top spot and Andre Rieu is holding up the rear. Inbetween we have the same old stuff and plenty of it. I do love that Neil Diamond is hanging out here and looky there’s Rod Stewart as well. The potential end of the world has no place here- the UK
88 – Digsy – A study in being 17 years old and looking back on a hip hop world you were never a part of. This is first rate piece of teen-hop with a dream of a future, or a past not unlike the Reverand’s himself – Grade: A
McCartney is a legend. Hes a well oiled well maintained classic car that still blows away the whippersnappers. The problem here is he is squished on to Saturday Night Lives stage of horror. Yet, like a Christmas miracle puts forth a beautiful rendition of one of his new songs.
Now what does bluesy means? The Black Keys are bluesy, the Stones are bluesy, Eric Clapton is bluesy, but this tune sounds nothing like that, no, this one is more film-noir with an intriguing atmosphere, more Tom Waits’ kind-of-blues.
What the world needs now is a playlist with happy reindeer, candy and diamonds. Oh and of course a little bit of fun. Heres what’s worth listening too when you need a energy boost.
If child actors often become well-trained little circus dogs, it’s not the case with this little guy, he is a total natural and does his dance moves effortlessly without overdoing it a second. Hey, he even made up himself the ‘Benny Goodman’ dance on set!
El Scaro told the UK tab the Daily Mail ” “We didn’t get paid for the Olympics – we funded it ourselves, costumes and everything. It just goes to show how much we do get on and do like each other.” It also shows just how bonkers they are.
That being said, Who the hell did the picking and choosing this year? I won’t list the entire list but just a few categories to help you utter “WTF?” repeatedly as you read.
Meet the Outernational of Indie rock, Desaparecidos. You might remember them from Alyson Camus’ rave over the summer, they are Conor’s agit prop, Mexican based post-hardcore hard rocking troop, around for 2001.
Rita Ora is everything Nicki Minaj wishes she was as a pop sar (thoug obviously not as a rap star) and in 2013, Rock-a-fella will make sure we all get the message. Plus the male Kardashian claiming Rita slept with twnety (count em) of his friends couldn’t hurt.
Jesus Piece – Game – This is Game’s second killer album in a row and with the entire rap world here to join him, there was every chance his born again move was gonna be a major disaster. But goddamit if it doesn’t pay off on song after song, from game changer title track (in which he name checks Coltrane for obvious reasons) to “Celebration” with its advise we’ve heard before (“get high”), this seems to find Jesus in its sinfulness – Grade: A
All I’ve Got To Do – The Beatles – Easily the most mature song on their second albu. Lennon, of cause, who speeds yp at the break as if, as Tim Reilly once noted, as though the entire claim of love and responsibility is real. Which it might not be with a vocal so fragle it seems bound to crack – Grade: A+
Imagine that you could record one more record with Johnny’s later period weathered vocals with Rick Rubin, taking a break from imagining what chicken fried steak tastes like, twiddling the knobs. Here are the tunes that Rock NYC would break out for the occasion.
Then she starts ranting about cow stomachs, wanders into emotional detours, and loses the notion of time as she usually does! She even asks her young public to turn around,… ‘This lady makes me sad’, says a little girl before seeing Chan literally having one of her infamous melt downs at the end of her almost inexistent performance.
Driver Friendly just cheapened themselves so much that there is no turning back unless someone scrubs my brain with bleach and I forget I ever heard it. The worse part is how great it could have been if it weren’t written in the back of a Prius on the way to the studio (or basement)
Underwood will be 30 years old by the time filming starts. She climbs a tree and scrapes her knee??? Underwood???? At it’s not just age, I once saw her OPEN for Keith Urban and she changed costumes six times in half an hour. She is a mega-rock star egomaniac without an ounce of innocence left in her.
The rest of the dudes just wanna chill. Maybe Tom is just an ass to tour with. I can see that in him… like seriously cork it and have a beer.
“Kill those fucking Yankees who ordered them to torture
Kill their daughters, mothers, daughters-in-law, and fathers”
Well, if you’ve stopped throwing up in your mouth, any bets to just how badly this is gonna suck? Anyone at all? Paramore are the Cranberries of power pop, they aren’t bad human beings, they are just bad songwriters.
I am so confused, he now declared he wasn’t questioning her authenticity but he nevertheless used the term ‘artifice’? Because everyone knows that Jack White never used anything close to ‘an image’ to promote his music! And there is always a deep meaning behind each one of his eccentric costumes, we know that.
Expect a 2013 solo tour from one Jimmy Page, a guitarist. Due to Robert Plant’s intransigence, the opportunity for Led Zeppelin to reform came and went with just a lousy live album and video to show for the efforts.
Keys To The City – Spider Bags – Not only does it include the line of the year, “I’ve Been cheating on my girlfriend with my ex-wife”, it is also a true loser anthem to never leaving, not running. Incidentally, as Dan mentioned me, not at all what happened to him.
In short he wants to put the human touch back in the computer as he thinks ‘music services rely too much on computerized recommendations and there aren’t enough human beings advising users what music to buy’… What music to buy? If people are streaming they aren’t necessarily buying.
Filmed in Rida’s home town of Miami the sites are obstructed so it basically could have filmed anywhere. The long boarding kids are fun enough and the roller blade girls all have nice boobs. Flo? He is on roller skates
The multi-millionaire diva is the last person on earth that requires a patron and another $50 million! She just did a massive world tour, has an upcoming album and self-directed documentary on HBO, and will sing at the Superbowl half-time show
I don’t drive but if you don’t drive, the Westbury takes a train and a car to get there and man is it a drag. I’ve only been twice, once to see Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis and once to see Dionne Warwick and Burt Bacharach. It was worth it at the age of 36, at the age of 56? Not so much.
This song is from their Tooth and Nail Records release of April 2012 LP ‘Secrets Don’t Make Friends’, releasing a new video of a semi ballad on an album that is nearly a year old is a very questionable career move. There is a great sing along of BFF’s in the basement at the end
I am not saying every 18 year old needs to know what J.P. Morgan is, but surely a guy with all the riches of a Bieber, and all the money, and with banking still in crises mode shouldn’t be so damn. Bieber’s idea of an education is quoting Frank Ocean songs
Pete said that the word “substitute” was a buzzword because Smokey used it in “Tracks Of My Tears” . The line is, “though she may be cute she’s just a substitute” and I love words like that. I was writing about strong words just the other day. The new Taylor Swift song has “ruthless”, and “good and right”. Very strong words.
Bruno has a hit on his hand and the album will follows but I really prefer thinking about the Lumineers and fun. who appears to have just happened out of nowhere.
Three Christmas albums, two Country albums, lots of modern pop. So a not untypical chart to end the year. But only Red will change your lfe. Here’s to a better 2013…
The Autumn Carnival (Anton Newcombe remix) – The Dandy Warhols – Remember when there was that second (or is that fifth) wve of nyc rockers spearheaded by the Strokes? nothing much came of it, it was like our version of Brit Pop. The dandy warhols were a messy pro-rock psychedelic dingum then and this, produced y Mr. Brian Jonstown and sworn enemy of all things Dandyish himself, doesn’t begin to sound good – Grade: C
People who watched it from home told me Governor Christie is really really fat people who watched it at the Arena told me Billy Joel is drunk and I can tell you that being stuck at MSG for the six hours of 12-12-12 was like being at a never ending PBS fundraiser.
for me the queen has always been a ridiculous antique vase, whom English people are foolishly attached to for some obscure reasons, but I had always regarded the royals as inoffensive. Morrissey describes them as a regime no different from the current dictatorships in the Middle East and Syria
I find this stance to be inspirational if not downright finger pointing to the lesser performers who cancel a show for a hangnail. Rock on Glen, you’re the man.
Visually appealing/interesting artists like Duran Duran and A Flock of Seagulls were crossing over from MTV to radio airplay. Synth pop was pushing guitar bands to the back of the classroom, Tommy Tutone created the best known telephone number in the history of rock ‘n’ roll, while The Clash had (merely) their most commercially successful album release.
RIP Ravi, a good life, I hope you come back as a musician again.
It cheapens the legacy, in my eyes. It really is nothing more than a money making tour scheme. I cant quite understand how legends such as May can even allow such a thing. After working so hard for so long, what’s the point?
Homer is falling hard for these hipsters, running after coolness as if it was the new donut – actually, they are selling donuts, because these pastries are back being cool – and the whole episode is a study of hipsters’ life and their new parenting method,
So to see this highly touted and not unimpressive folkie in the confines of Bowery Ballroom -you gotta think, right? Might be worth the price of admission? I think so. And it hasn’t sold out by the way. Incidentally, here in lies a question. Why didn’t he follow Ed Sheeran’s lead and do a set at Mercury Lounge, nothing gives you more heat than a first US gig you can’t get a tix to
Oh, and what is the difference between a 4 and a 4.5 and a 4.7 and a 5 rating? The answer is none, of course.It is Pitchfork being Pitchfork and may the lord have mercy on us all.
Crystalline (Omar Souleyman remix) – Bjork – I’m a simple man, you say remix, I say more bass. but it is 2012 and today things can get weird. especially when dealing with Bjork. The rest of bastards leaves me a little whatever, but this Middle eastern flavored rethinking is masterful; – Grade: A
Ely enjoys rich lyrical images, check out this opening couplet from Butch Hancock’s “Row of Dominoes” – “Carmen must have been the Devil’s daughter/At least he taught her how to wear her clothes.”
Just as Bebop and Bird came and never flew the coup, so Dave Brubeck’s take continues to wash down smoothly 50 some odd years afterward; enduring each and every everyman and woman’s jazz cocktail “happy” hour, no worse for the extended play.
With a unique voice that’s equal parts sweet and sultry, Rachel fronts a band of talented African and Caribbean musicians and fuses varying influences such as country, hip-hop, and world music into a captivating and unique pop sound.
There was the revelation that the 50’s were where I wanted to be. Before the ‘1-2-3-4’ of the scene. Before all the death, foam, blood and vomit. I wanted to live in black and white.
‘Scientology’s being toasted by a midget with a blowtorch / Pretender to the throne he’s just a big-ass pain in the zorch / The Wizard of Oz / Cowering behind his curtain / His lies have no end, Of that you can be certain / Dave and his BFF little Tom / These half two men / Think they’re really the bomb / But I couldn’t take their shit no more / So I said ‘Fuck you’ and walked out the door’.
$20 get you on both night and attention must be paid. Amazingly, the owners have gone from being teens to married men wih their label, pretty soon they will be taking their kids!
Talk about a concept whose time has come. And indeed, I don’t see why there aren’t more. ANd, actually, there is a Lady gaga oarody out there somewhere. So how about Katy Perry Hearts Rihanna?
