Sure, I loved the Outkasts, they were awesome the one time I saw em live. But Big Boi has been a little too far out there for me as a solo act so far. Still, I broke my heart I didn’t hear about Saturday’s afternoon gig till it was too late. Bruno Mars? I have gone one for one on songs off the new album, but it is a biggie nevertheless.
Ghost – Cat Cosmai – Blue eyed soul by a big voiced woman doing it old style. The song is killer though the back up singers come on a little Supremes though they could have been brought down a little mix. The bridge is a glorious construction, expanding the verse and leading her on. The voice? The voice is special – Grade: A-
We all passionately sang, closing our eyes and yelling the words back at him. I think we all walked away with the final line of the tune ringing over and over in our heads: “I have no faith but it’s all I want to be loved and believe in my soul, in my soul.”
He dropped this news when asked about working with Velvet Revolver again: Scott Weiland has been fired from Stone Temple Pilots. He didn’t elaborate much on it, the interviewer was quite surprised by the comme
In honor of Hanukkah, rock nyc is honored to rape and pillage Billboard to bring you their exclusive countdown of Jewish pop stars… no don’t thank us, part of your all service rock nyc: People ask uswhy we keep on posting when nobody likes us… we do it for you!”
I just wonder how much such a thing could be sold! According to NME, it came with a reserve price of $525,000 last time it was on sale! Right now, the price is only available upon request on Moments in Time, a website which offers rare manuscripts, letters and autographs and other historical memorabilia.
I feel the end of the world is upon us. This is the second week where I cant complain about the boob tubes offerings! Hold on to your headphones kids.. is that ELVIS COSTELLO?? Yup, hes got that old hag wife of his (I’m kidding shes lovely I hate her) but Costello on TV! HURRAY!
And when I heard that, due to U.N. pressure, Stevie Wonder pulled out of a benefit for “Friends Of The Israel Defense Forces”, and who has played Israel often, I was frankly amazed.
Olly Murs did himself nothing but favors at Jingle Ball with a lively, pleasant, dance oriented two song set. In the UK this is his second week at the top of the charts! PS, the Robbie Williams album was released Stateside and it is instantaneously one of the best of the year.
he Monkees, the Stones, and the Who all played excellent sets in the past week or so, and made a mockery of claims that 70 years old was too old to rock. What is with this new ageism? What’s the kick against growing old and still doing what you’ve always done? I mean if you can still do it. do it till you die. Dave Brubeck just died and played right through his 80s, what’s the problem. Here’s to growing old and rocking to the grave.
The UK is another country, they do things differently. For instant, this weeks # 1 is a cover of an old Frankie Goes To Hollywood song, the sort of bathetic overblown ballad I bet Celine Dion is eyeballing as I write) most right thinking people (and dogs with acute hearing) hide under tables to get away from) but stick it on a sickly sweet advert selling you crap for the holidays (John Lewis Department stores) and whomp there it is.
Border Crossing – Trail And Ways – Berkeley grads sound like Ennio Morricone as played by a run of the mill indie band only even better than that sounds like. Dig the whistle!! – Grade: B+
Setting themselves up for a World Tour to help celebrate their 50th Anniversary, the extremely expensive ($150 for a nosebleed but I had to cough up $350) nostalgia show from the greatest rock and roll band ever, past their prime. So how much you enjoyed it depends on how much you still get off on the Stones darkly through the past energetically songs. Me? I don’t get off on it the way I used to
Conor is the poster child for bad childhoods and bleak outlooks to a generation that is unable to do their own laundry. At age 32 his genius is more rooted in his ability to grab this demographic and hold them captive.
Tonight Jamie Fox hosts Saturday Night Live with Ne-Yo as his musical wing man. I prefer that Fox perform but hey that’s just me. Remember him on the show In Living Color?! That was a great show and before he was Ray Charles and shit.
I couldn’t tell what I thought for the first few songs, but all I knew was that he had a beautiful singing voice. It was so pure and so strong and clean, and that is what the icing on the cake was.
The 1970s had given the music world all female bands Fanny and The Runaways, but the Go-Gos were the first female band writing and performing their own music to top the Billboard album chart.
It shows them rehearsing in a church, the perfect place to fit the acoustic of a choral group. This is a vibrant and happy band, and although we don’t get to hear much of the song, the full and warm vocal harmonies, just tickled by these Glockenspiel-sounding bells, give an idea of what we can expect.
“The mission was to make the kind of Rock ‘n’ Roll record I would want to listen to myself, which sounds simple but is, in fact, incredibly difficult.’…’I felt challenged and inspired by the idea of making a modern psychedelic folk-rock album, a Tom Rothrock production like XO, but then the Velvet Underground and the Stones kept entering in.”
o.n.i.f.c – Wiz Khalifa – Who says marijuana doesn’t effect your brain. On the Weeknd featured track “Remember You” the beats are so bubdued its like they are covered in linoleum, and the sound has the hazy lazy weed-y drag that appears to be taking trip hop and dubbing it downwards. It doesn’t suck quite, it just bores. Like this rest of this album – Grade: C
Last year Fitz And The Tantrums, the great neo-soul and r&b,band brought in the New Year at Gramercy Theater, this december this will be opening for Jason Mraz at MSG this Monday. So go erly and leave only. You won’t regret it.. And when they ask you to get down, then mean get dooooown.
Kiss You – One Direction – This is the pop flame off the newbie, a r completely hot drum pattern and ear candy chorus (and ear candy verse) with the boys comfortably in their midrange except here and when Harry is in the mood, he goes up an octave at the end of a verse – Grade: A
More like a High School cafeteria than the Billboard 200 comes alive, Taylor is dating Harry and Justin has broken up with Taylor’s best friend forever, meanwhile Ed, the perennial guy no one sleeps with is scurrying between TS and 1D mutterring “Don’t call me Ginger”. Is this any way to run the US Top 10? I mean, honestly.
His music has crossed cultures and even generations–the Beatles have sold more than 2,303,500,000 record albums, and in June of 2012 they hit number one on iTunes. They are as big now as they ever were and they’re half dead
The Wheel brought their Christmas show to Fort Worth, with Benson noting, “Ever since Perry Como left us, there’s been a void and we are here to fill it.” The band has been Benson’s lifelong passion
The r&b band are used to Arenas, they have opened for the likes of Queen’s Brian May and Bon Jovi, a concept manager Doc McGhee (who was involved with Bon Jovi along with an impressive list of other bands) invented to get maximum exposure along with the Los Angeles four piece maximum r&B.
Warped Roadies is a new show on Fuse showing a backstage and gritty look into the inner workings of this fabulous event. This ‘behind the scene’ look is going to fuel a zillion kids who will now want to be roadies
So what is ex-Soul Coughing’s Mike Doughty supposed to do? Selling personalized versions of unreleased songs,… for $35,335.53. According to the AV Club, Doughty has fixed himself the price to record ‘Dogs/Demons’, a never-played-live song, with some personalized message!
I mean there is Rhianna and Mariah and they’re all well and good but when you get some ‘alt’ bands in on the mix it sounds so much more refreshed and energized. Considering these kids are young enough to still believe in flying reindeer, there’s no doubt that the amplified enthusiasm is sincere.
This is the last installment of the Valtari Mystery Film Experiment, in which the band commissioned artists to make short films out of their songs, and director Floria Sigismondi didn’t spare any drama for this one.
The 3D “Life Of Pi” is a stunningly beautiful movie about a young Indian boys search for God. After leaving his native India for Canada on a steamer, the ship is sunk in a storm and Pi’s entire family drowns . Only Pi and the tiger survive.
Presented by the highly respected Robin Hood Foundation and produced by Harvey weinstein, this isn’t like the disastous Haiti benefits, this should get where it is going…
I thought both Ree Ree and Mars were gonna dog with these songs so what do I Know. I alsi thought the Lumineers weren’t gonna do squat with this catchy rock song. And finally, I thought the name of the Ne-Yo song was so irritaing people would ignore it en masese.
The Keys album is a crime against nature, and the three Christms albums are awful, especially the two country one. And while I get that I’m the only person who likes 2012 pop, all three here (Ree Ree, Swift and 1D) are keepers
Different Sides – Leonard Cohen – No idea why, fter months of being completely indifferent to it, this song hit my musical sweet spot but I think it is the way he sings (croaks?) “frankly” on the “frankly I don’t like your tone” line and the butter gleam in Cohen’s eyes as he he tells her wants to leave the way they have sex alone – Grade: A
I saw a performance of Quadrophenia back in 1996 (three times actually) with Entwistle’s bass and I can tell you absolutely they are equals. And what they have in common is that as an opera, they are written to be played. It doesn’t matter if it isn’t the Who who plays them. Q stands alone
The first two singles off Warrior were “Die Young” and “C’mon”, released on September 25th and November 16thof 2012 respectively and, while both were big hits, they were essentially the same Ke$ha the world has always heard.
Anyone with a half way decent phone (even my crap Blackberry) and be plugged in the car for nonstop tunes. Spotify, Pandor, even Iheartradio- all are better than SiriusXM.
It’s that simple, if Amanda Palmer could finance her album, videos and tour with Kickstarter, why not applying the same idea for a music critic site? Music writers David Greenwald and Daniel Siegal, who worked for Billboard, GQ, the LA Weekly, Rolling Stone’s website and the LA Times, want to create a new site for in-depth music reporting and criticism, totally financed by the money they will raise with their Kickstarter campaign.
Uncut is to Mojo what Sounds was to NME, a sort of stroppier kid brother encrusted in the old ways. Kinda reaction to the 21st century by pretending it never happened. And this is certainly borne out by this bizarre list of weirdness.
This idiotic rant is courtesy of Esquire who really needs readers cuz they’re a glossy. White starts with Lady Gaga and fizzles his blabber to Clint Eastwood. If ever ‘shut up and play the hits’ applied, it’s with this guy.
Now that her third remixed rematched attempt to resell Pink Friday, The Reup, has gone the way with all flesh, and despite it including six new wraps, the overextended NM is looking in her rear mirror
Controversy surrounds PSY losing to BIGBANG and while anesthetically they made the right move, PSY singlehandedly put K-Pop on the map and is obviously the only recognizable figure in the entire scene unless you live in Asia.
According to Adams, ‘Shining Thorough the Dark’ was ‘the first track I wrote after my retirement’, and was written ‘post-meltdown, while laying in bed with the flu’.
My Friend – Disco Biscuits – This is a strangely creative art rocker using a bizarre spoken word samples and a buzzing beat in the background. It is like disco if she only ever heard disco on someone elses car radio s you went roaring down the highway – Grade: B+
Issues is they attempt to combine metal and hip-hop elements into their style. Although a daring move for the band, they do an okay job fusing the elements together. I use the word “okay”, because there is definitely room for improvement in this area
Classic rock was in fine form in 1980 with Pink Floyd, AC/DC, and Queen having major success on the album charts. London Calling by the Clash and Bruce Springsteen’s The River topped the critic polls. John Lennon released his first album in over five years, while punk rock/new wave energy was still spitting out fantastic songs
Vintage Trouble has enjoyed a whirlwind ride that has seen them conquering the UK and Europe with incessant touring, and landing an opening slot on The Who’s Quadrophenia tour in the U.S. Tonight, Thursday, December 6th, you can see Vintage Trouble live on late night TV, when they appear on The Late Show with David Letterman.
I have one pearl of advise for LOG singer Randy Blythe- don’t go to the Czech Republic ever again. Screw your fans have them fly over to see you, you will never be found innocent.
it was really a secret show as nobody knew they were invited to attend an Arcade Fire concert when entering the Breakglass studio. The band started the show in disguise, wearing Pussy-Riot-style masks and apparently people weren’t recognizing the true identity of ‘les Identiks’
