Junior Brown plays guitar like a man that can orchestrate tornadoes. Stooped over his double electric and steel guitar, Brown played solos that sounded like Don Rich (of the Buckaroos) performing at the speed of light
Children of The Night, DJ Taco, Trash Talk and Mellowhype: West Coasts best brings it all night lone
Up in the Origami loft, Jesse Woods played a few of his peaceful tuneful songs showing all these influences and beyond, as I could hear a little bit of the Everly Brothers on ‘Ugly Dress’, just before the interesting chorus repeating ‘I’ll be waiting in northern California for you’. All I can say is that I didn’t see any of the tough side of the football player
It’s for the cash and I say get it while the gettting is good. What Im most interested in here is Spurlock doing a 3D. Seems so mainstream and ‘film maker-esque’ from a guy who digs up the disgusting.
He is a smart fellow but at the heart of the matter he realizes a secret: he got very very lucky but he doesn’t want to say so. So we get boiler plate stuff, sometimes from the actual time, about the mythic qualities of the Stones and Jagger in particular.
I got this off brooklynvegan who got it off Buzzfeed & Laughing Squid, who got it from the 2002, Kurt Cobain “Journals”. Boatloads of hardcore, punk and elder statesmen hard rock. Including the # 1 album. Plus some softer stuff like Toung Marble Giants which suggests where Kurt learnt his quiet.
‘I watched a concert of One Direction on the TV the other night, you know just to check [it] out, it reminded me very much of our early concerts, when we were pushed around among the audience and we would kind of float.”
Startling? Not particularly. Now Dylan’s singing on his current tour? That is startling, the title track off his new album? That’s startling? But this is just yucky. Not really art as we know and love it, more like a Photoshop extravanganza for a world at war. Or something like that.
This video occured during a taping of the show when the cast and crew performed a “Flash Mob” “Call Me Maybe” to the surprise of audience and director. As Sheldon puts it: Bazinga
I don’t get the Bruno Mars song at all, I thought it was like Usher after he gave up trying to be the next Michael Jackson. Wait a second, McFly broke up last decade, what are they doing back together? No wait, let me guess…
No shockers here, or maybe there is. The Grrreatest hits got in the charts? So did Strauss? And why is Lana and E back in there. And who is Aldie Boe??? No, wait, let me guess. But One Direction isn’t a shocker.
Burning Airlines Give You So Much More – Brian Eno – One of his greatest achievements, this strange tale about a girl who leaves him for China tracks a triumphant synth motif that is choice Oriental and yet nothing like it.Grade: A+
The set was heavy on their latest effort, the politically charged ‘Generals’, whose title song is a bluesy call for revolt with lyrics like ‘I need a political job/In a blue collar town/So I can pay my rent/When the music is on/I get my best blood drawn/But I haven’t made a dollar yet’
Even a hardcore Conor Oberst fan such as yours truly found the L.A. setlist from the solo show Alyson covered earlier this year a little obscure, fan unfriendly if you will, and this despite the show ending with the great “June On The West Coast”. Much much better is this setlist from his October 3rd gig in Pomona, Ca
This girl seems to embody racy classic Hollywood, as she just played Elizabeth Taylor and is staring in this upcoming sexual noir thriller, ‘The Canyons’, written by Bret Easton Ellis…
Sitek is a talented fellow, for his sins he produced the Scarlett Johansen album and Foals album, but both of them are kinda mood albums, and while TVOTR can rock, they can’t rock the same way young Liam can. They aren’t roar of rock and roll Limey style guys
On the day before Thanksgiving, our Mary Magpie will be joining me for a Conor Oberst solo acoustic concert at Carnegie Hall. Expect screaming, shouting, tears, stomping and yells of “Conor, let’s marry! ” And that’s just from me, I don’t know what Mary will be doing…
Two fun bands rule the new releases, Dos isn’t as good as Uno but it isn’t bad and madness 2012 are not Madness 1986, but they aren’t bad either. The G-Dragon song might end up in my top ten 2012.
Joplin, Mo,bad boy Chris Drew is a Conor badboy showing his range if not his tats, on this mess of an album. It has been three years since “Trouble” and while he has worked hard the drug haze that settles over the band leads to albums like this; where ths songs are heartfelt alt pop songs where he does his best to subvert his talents as they are. Acoustic, whiney, draggy and its hearfelk nature isn’t helping him – Grade: C
The Money Will Roll Right In – Fang – Nirvana killed this years ago but I always thought it was a Mudhoney track. Apparently, it is a Fang song and they ignore the melody in a sea of feedback – Grade: B+
There were clashing guitars dueling with each other, some solo turning into fast or soothing tumults, songs fast recovering from dark synth, other flirting between rock numbers and angst-y ballads
Along with Bryan Adams,Geezer Butler, k.d. Lang, Alanis Morrisette,The Church, and Silverstein, Ozzy Osborne, Jon Robb, Thom Yorke, Michael Franti, Garth Brooks,Chrissie Hynde, Anthony Keidis, Grace Slick, and Prince I offer you a cruelty free thanksgiving holiday
At their heart Madness are as much a Brit comic combo as the Goons, they are personalities playing at being pop stars and so good that they are also pop stars playing at being a knees up mother brown comedy team
I was given the dreaded 1960s overview assignment. This is particularly difficult on me for two reasons. One, I was toasted out of my skull on bad acid for the entire decade and, two, I was only four years old when 1970 rolled around.
It’s as if the band hit pause until he recovered and when he did- they just hit play again. No change in sound or vibe or attitude but time- time moved on and what was once a dynamic unique sound is one of repetition and monotony.
There were no confetti or balloons, no that’s not the type of these Icelanders, but the ever-changing visuals around them were totally fitting their sprawling songs, and their unique sense of space, calm and fury
The post-industrial tune is so dry and sci-fi-out-of-this-fleshy-world music, you feel kind of relieved when you hear human vocals, but the ambiance stays so icy and bleak during about five minutes, that it was difficult for me to decide whether I could understand it
Twilight starts heavy and becomes bloated: it is PMS as a movie, constantly irritated and nibbiling at your insides. And the soundtracks are just the same
The 38 year old superstar proved that OBEs and ignorant ageism notwithstanding, Robbie is still the English superstar to beat and both single and album are at the top of the UK charts.
We Nah Tek Bad Up Raw – Elephant Man And Beenie Man – Two titans of dancehall do it clean, with no backing track, they spit it like they mean it like it is a bent out of shape rap and not a reggae rub-a-dub. The two voices rub against each other and the rhythm is in the voice inflections – Grade: A-
With his shoulder length hair and pale beauty, Owens is never a commanding figure, tall and lanky he is ethereal, like he is clinging to life by a thread and a pizza, but the craziness of the first two Girls album has changed into a studious, more careful sound. And I prefer it.
Overall it was an exciting two hours of fun and spectacle and it’s befitting that Madonna’s photo is next to Elvis “The King” Presley, for she is still the reigning queen of pop
Kid Rock will be performing his new song “Detroit Michigan”, which pays tribute to greats from the motor city. This is where it gets hilarious though.
‘What you resist persists’…Is there a metaphor somewhere? ‘I didn’t know you had it in you’,… yeah definitely, Bjork embodies the fury of mother earth or suffer from it, and it becomes so personal, ‘My Eurasian plate subsumed’, she sings before the Earth’s second orgasm, or whatever it is….
But it is a sad event to be kicked off a tour, no dames, no booze, no merch booth! Three cheers for Brit boys Asking Alexandria. No strangers to the ‘hot mess booze and drugs’ persona have scooped them up!
From a Universe of choices, the Gimbal App (or some variant –that isn’t what is happening now, it is what will happen tomorrow) will track your tastes and your lifestyles into a perfect emersion into the sounds you want to hear and don’t even know you want to hear.
The kid gets a lot of hate from the hardcore community- A LOT. So it really impresses me that he continues on nearly oblivious to the naysayers
‘she wasn’t listening to anyone. Sometimes her friends wouldn’t hear from her for weeks. We were all scared for her but didn’t know what to do’.
A politicians job is to get re-elected. That’s it. That’s all It isn’t even the weilding of power that matters any more, it is just the doing of the job and the job is to be reelected. And that’s slimey but fine even when politicians lead nations into war for the sole purpose of being reelected
No word of a US charge on the charts yet, 2013 would be my bet. But even in 2012 they’ll be a huge market for this sort of heads down no nonsense riffararama. More lues based than metal is Stateside 2012, but they are a thrill ride: you’ll like em.
An astounding proporsition: while it is true Rihanna won’t be 24 years olf forever, and while it is true that Rihanna’s haircut was terrible on SNL last week. Even so. She might well be the most beautiful woman on earth right now this minute
M5 have spent 9 weeks at the top now but what is more interesting is how M5. K. BM, NY and FR all seem to be drinking from the same well, using the same producers , the same writers. And while they don’t sound the same on all levels, the production and the drums are very similar
The Hot 100 seems mostly centered on electro pop and its variants but he album charts have no center at all. Two guys hitting 70, English folk, Christian rock, two up and coming rappers, a country fella, an R&B guy and the Queen of Pop. Wild, eh?
YOUNGBLOOD – 3OH3 – “My First Kiss” boys are back with a winner, the electropop duo are burning up fun. territory with a vengeance but they are more youthful, less serious and more fun. Catchy, and should hit – Grade: A-
It’s an excuse to write about the Great Rock and Roll band of all time. What’s not to like? Up to “Mixed Emotions. I know the lot, after that I needed to look up whwere they were from. Is it worth mentioning it gets worse as it goes on? OK, another pointless exercise..
Love Johnny, sorry Mose. I feel like I’m a double agent but honestly- this song is fantastic. The new official solo album is not out until February so this will need to hold us over until then, but I’m sure there will be more leaks and streams. Hot damn.
While citizens across our great nation were celebrating our Bicentennial, Jeffry Hyman, John Cummings, Douglas Colvin, and Thomas Erdelyi entered a recording studio in New York and created a new genre of rock ‘n’ roll that would remain viable for decades. The Ramones started the revolution.
‘More recently, digital developments have made songs even less substantial-seeming than they were when they came on vinyl or CD. Access to music has changed the perception of it. Songs have lost their cachet; they compete with so much other noise now that they can become more exaggerated in an attempt to capture attention”
“Lady Gaga and Sarah Jessica Parker have been turned into cartoons for new Disney fashion short, ‘Electric Holiday’, which will be shown in New York department store Barney’s from November 14.”
He changed U2’s Fanclub into a cash machine, making presales available to fanclub members,w hich is OK business as usual, but also making the live from their 360 degree tour available only thru the Fanclub. It is easy to do the math her
