fter Pink Floyd’s ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’, the Oklahoma band has decided to rerecord King Crimson’s ‘In the Court of the Crimson King’… yeah nothing scares them, you would have thought the Pink Floyd’s album was already untouchable, but now they undertake another risky task
Last year Duncan released an 80s covers album and this year there was a remix album, both of which were pretty good. Sorta taking out the synth and adding acoustic guitars and then this year throwing a drum machine back i
Frost is part of this lessening of hostility and getting a Beatle to speak to the network is some coup. Unless nobody knows about it, of course.
How has Bruce affected your life, your plans, your world? If he has in any way other than giving you a bit of entertainment, well…
“Well, it’s a very expensive show to put on, just four shows – because normally you do a hundred shows and you’d have the same expenses.”
The Hives are the opening act. And the Hives are an excellent fun type rock band live on stage… just real straight forward but huge amounts of fun and a pretty good fit for Pink’s smartass modern pop group.
Madonna’s fans are for the most part not 20 somethings, they are 30, 40, and 50 somethings. Pity the poor sucker with a General Admission ticket who got to MSG at 7pm on Monday evening, it would be five hours before she saw her Madge
Fuck Time – Green day – Rock band mistakes desire for deliverance but goes nowhere with the concept, a pit because it’s a smart concept. Plus Billie Joe doesn’t say “fuck” very well at all. Let’s hope # 2 improves on this, though if memory serves the first song off # 1 was a dog as well – Grade: B-
Posters of Rihanna’s battered face are appearing throughout Stockholm to ‘promote’ Chris Brown’s November 19th concert in the city. Yes, the same pictures of the pop princess’ bruised face that you have seen before, and it does not look very good for Brown
G-Dragon is a widely eccentric man, who looks like a tween in a gay bar looking for some rough stuff. He dresses flamboyantly has an eccentric persona that makes mincemeat of my earlier claim of regimental. But is he fun? On “Crayon” he is
Their first new material in 14 years, and the first track “Tommy” will be up on the bands website in just a few weeks. Chris says: “It’s taken a long time to get ourselves back to the writing table, …”
Who leaked these stories? Who leaked the pix of Taylor Swift Swift reading to Ethel Kennedy? Anyone? Yep, after three years at the very top of the food chain, Swift has turned her life, her deepest feelings, hell, her virginity into a press release.
Embry may be making music very distant from the exuberance of his last band, but in this electronica era his music sounds humble and genuine, with no superfluous arrangements, just as cozy as a warm wood cabin during a cold fall evening
The myth of Bruce was bigger than party politics. The son of a blue collar worker who took his Daddy issues and placed it on the biggest stage of all, who spoke not just for him and his people but for all of us, everyone born to, as Chuck D recently put it, run till its dark
“Lights” hit the US Charts and Ellie was dating, ta dag Skrillex of all people. Then came a sold out gig at T6 last July and finally an excellent single, “Anything Can Help” which didn’t break here and an album, Halycon
I passed on the Paul McCartney featuring “Concert For Heroes” celebrating and raising money for victims of 9-11 in 10-01 at MSG. Why? I could have afforded it if I had to, so why pass? Because I don’t like benefit concerts, I don’t like having a civics lesson added to my lunch pail.
Marr didn’t run home to make jam after The Smiths. On the contrary he has spent decades collaborating with a an array of bands, including Talking Heads, Pet Shop Boys, The The, Electronic and others
Listening to her today there is an overwhelming fragility about her. She is like China porcelain, so close to the breaking point and I believe that in the end that is what we see in her of ourselves. We may think we’re tough and important but we are very very fragile things, ephemeral, and soon gone. Judy reflects and surpasses our limited mortality.
Harry also said he was thrilled to hear of 1D’s new album getting a “C+” from rock nyc. “Look, Lababedi is a right bastard and so jealous it’s revolting. Him giving 1D a C+ is like a normal human being giving it an A.”
So on a very very busy week (Neil Young will be the Tuesday, Justin Bieber the Wednesday) I had to fit one more show in before they carry me home in a bodybag.
The Boxer – Mumford And Sons – Not a bad version, the back up harmonies are an original idea and the banjo break very pretty but still, fundamentally redundant – Grade: B
All My Friends Are Enemies: The Early Rarities, it’ll be out on January 22nd. “This release is over ten years in the making and something I’ve been dying to share with kids,” Bemis says.
Neil has gotten the boys together for two head scratching releases this year (perhaps Cortez told Neil to race the Mayan calendar) and there is one undeniable conclusion – the man needs an editor.
If you have ever seen the Monty Python film "The Meaning of Life", you should be familiar with the "Galaxy Song". The fantastic Eric Idle gives you a nice science
If you look at the current pop princesses, Rihanna, Taylor Swift, Adele, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Shakira, Beyonce and current pop heartthrobs, Justin Bieber, Bruno Mars, Chris Brown, the One Direction kids… how many really deserve the title of artists? Probably none.
So I hit the play button all ready to hate these guys and really use this as a sounding board for just bitching in general. Then something awkward happened, once the song opened up I couldn’t help but be completely engaged
if you didn’t catch Van Halen on tour this year, you might question why they are so high on my list. Same goes for Paul Weller and Ian Hunter. As for the Beach Boys, Madonna and Bruce Springsteen, if you did catch them live you may understand one reason they aren’t here. The Dylan was 60% great, but “Duquesne Whistle” does not a great album make… Lambchop is that old!!
“Rhino will release a Joni Mitchell box set on 29 October 2012. The Studio Albums 1968-1979 gathers together Joni’s ten albums from that period, including all the classics such as 1971′s Blue and the acclaimed The Hissing Of Summer Lawns from 1975”
KoL have spent their time plotting (I guess!) and right now they are in the studio working on album # 6, their first since 2010 and already have some concert dates set for the UK in the summer of 2013, can the US be far behind???
In 1957 Rolf wrote “Tie Me Kangaroo Down”, the story of a dying man in the Australian outback, telling his friends how to take care of the animals he leaves behind. The rhymes are really clever and for a depressing concept, the rhymes come at you with a smile that lessons the bite. In 1963 he covered “Stairway To Heaven” and it became a hit in the UK!
Tame Impala may be insisting too much on their psychedelic tendency by producing such a mind control designed clip, with bright colors and movements of heads inside heads coming straight from an acid dream, but it is nevertheless fascinating and hypnotic.
ZZ has been doing this awhile, her dad is a blues guitarist, and she takes the packed out nightclub completely in stride, chatting carelessly, pushing her album Till The Casket Drops and pushing her voice only when it makes sense. The songs are bruised break up songs, all written for the same guy and all played with an intense smartness back by a very good band.
The first single “I Will Wait” of the current smash hit album Babel, was inauthentic in a good way, it was pop-folk but pop-folk that sounded like an English equivalent of Paul Simon. The cover of “The Boxer” cemented to the concept. And Marcus Mumford’s barely concealed contempt for bedwetters Coldplay was a Bruce Springsteen hugging Chris Christi moment between us.
The story is the Brian Eno ambient album, I have heard it and repays close attention with nothing much but as background music it is a lovely thing. The new One Direction will be very very big. And that is a true prediction! Soundgarden might be good, or it might be old, and just what the world needed, another Stones Greatest hits.
Kiss Me Honey – Shirley Bassey – Ah yes, the early 1960s, before Shirley Bassey was a Dame, and before she was the voice to beat all Bond voices, here she took an earlier generations Rami Yacoub, Michael Julien, too the top of the UK charts. Bassey doesn’t belt it, she is all clear eyed seduction – Grade: A
Anyway, a sell out goes with the territory, and while I am pretty sure I’m gonna keep with Govt Mule, I might try and get a tix and see what happens… to put it another way, I won’t go to a ticketbroker.
Five an stage, their sonic wall was dense and sidereal with dreamy or echoing pop vocals, but as I thought that there was this idea of space and ‘being out there’ in all this, I looked at their set list and saw that the first song was conveniently titled ‘Space Rock it’.
The album is filled with potential hits and minimal filler, all electro pop, ballads and tween bopping faux-rock. But 1D is not the star of the album, Rami Yacoub is. He produces half of the album and is now officially the name to drop.
Justin Beiber? Hold up. How did it go from The Clash to Beib in 15 years? Cash. They needed money and the you give the people what they want. Oh you can still go in and buy a $50. pair of zebra Tripps but you can also get a Taylor Swift t-shir
Watching the terrifyingly morbid coming attractions for “Iron Man 3”, I couldn’t help but wonder, when did action movies stop being fun? There are more thrills in the Switzerland scenes with Blofeld in “Majesty” then in “Quantum Of Solace” and the latest Bond movie “Skyfall” combined.
Amy Klein of Hilly Eye has been a fave of mine since her Titus Andronicus days and this, Amy andthe other half of Hilly Eye, Catherine Tung’s first album, is very very exciting stuff. For one thing, it is on our favorite record label, Don Giovanni, and for another, last year’s EP was one of our faves of 2011
And to finish with that, there will be listening parties all over the country, the same evening,… All right, I understand that these are remastered albums but people will really meet to listen to … the Beatles?
In the spirit of PETA2 Kizz and Cazz bring a fun and positive spin to the teenaged set. Informing them while entertaining them.
Rockers, Ron Wood, go on stage and between the music and the audiences reaction, are transmitted on to another level, away from the lives of quiet desperation that inflicts most people. The problem, once he gets off the stage, he is Ron Wood again
That nano second could well have ruined intimate relations for me for the rest of my life. I was never really a fan but for some reason just seeing him on AHS has ruined any chance of me ever taking him seriously,
The last two here aren’t released yet and the first, well it is its first first time on an album, and the rest suggests it as a quiet week for good new releases.
Oh, now I get it. 18 Months is a warehouse for a lot of the stuff Harris has been putting out with other people. Not bad,… I guess. Matt Cardle is another X Factor guy and Emeli is this years Adele but not in the States.
I have only one question here folks, why is “Candy” not released in the States yet? What the hell is Robbie waiting for. Wait, another question, why didn’t he hang loose and try and release it fin time to be their 2012 Christmas single?
Boom Boom – John Lee Hooker – How big is the song? That riff has fueled so many songs, if all the people who used it paid Hooker he would have been buried in a gold casket on a gold mountain.- Grade: A+
Iman has run off to see this tart live numerous times and has enjoyed it. I would rather stick forks in my gums than endure any more than is absolutely necessary for the life of this column
