A young and cute girl with a pink dress came on stage to sing Iggy Pop’s part during ‘Nothing But Time’, and despite the fact that Chan didn’t introduce her, there is a rumor it was her ex-boyfriend’s daughter, Lucia Ribisi, and looking at the hug they gave to each other at the end of the song, I would say that the rumor is true.
We used to have a word for folks like Rollins when I was a tot: secular humanists. in talking about two strangers who both lost a brother in Iraq, he just about brought me to tears. I like Rollins a whole lot, and if he ever stuck his hand out and said :Hi” to me, I’d be proud to shake it.
At one point there is a horse running through a desert and then it’s rearing back on its hind legs, then it’s laying on the ground, then it finds it’s horse soul mate I guess and they run off into the sun set
Starting rather lazily and erupting into a straight up rock tune. A fist pumping sing along is accompanied here by sausage eating, girl on girl flashes and some really beautiful drag queens.
Christopher Owens at Le Poisson Rouge, Wednesday night. Alyson Camus, eat your heart out! Alyson is a Girls fanatic, though I am pretty sure even she would consider leader Christopher Owens decision to break up the band is a little bit stupid. How do you break up a one man band?
she has no problem with releasing a four-minute video clip of herself turning in slow-motion in the smoke, giving the sultry sight,… but despite all her efforts, she is looking as sexy as a somnambulistic zombie.
Sure, Chuck D got it wrong and the US reelected Obama, but otherwise Most Of My Heroes Still Don’t Appear On No Stamps is write on. I wil write up my best albums by musicians over 50 in 2012 one of these days, till then here is a list rock’s backpages suggested I crib from to make my choice and it should come as no shocker to anybody who reads rock nyc that Public Enemy will be number one in that chart.
History Mob Music And Function – E-40 and Too Short – The Versed called these West Coasts journeymen “upbeat but laid back” and that explains the dynamic pretty damn well. Too $horts been a semi-underground rapper since 1988, E-40 since the 1990s, including years on Lil Jon’s Atlanta label . Together they are prolific, the tracks are really interesting, and they rap together very well. Stuff like “One Foot” is funny and pretty well done. But lyrically, neither of these guys have much to say – Grade: B-
Stupid Liar – BIGBANG – Their best if not their biggest song, is a plain out love pop song gussied up with a rap and internal movements and conflicting voices, one of who howls, and always returning to an undeniable hook, “I’m so stupid liar liar liar”. A highlight on Thursday night sounds pretty good days later – Grade: B+
BIGBAND never bored, but they never enchanted either. They were a generic genre that never jumped to a place where what it means to be Korean informed what it means to be in a boy band. They were not overawed by playing for an American audience. But they lacked heart.
Alex Edkins, Hayden Menzies and Chris Slorach were only three on stage but they built a brutally furious sound, as if they were an army, they were a force playing at unison with heavy bass and super loud drumming, building a tremendous sonic furnace
What happened to just duking it out in the parking lot? Now we all have to go spastic on Facebook with our tales of whoa. This gets better though.
I don’t hear any cowboys bitching about how they’re portrayed and they look a whole lot worse than the Native Americans do. Yeah, I said Native American so as not to offend
According to Future of Music co-authors David Kusek and Gerd Leonhard, who I guess know this kinda stuff, here are the top ten truths of the music biz. After running a blog for nearly four years, all I have to add isI am fucking exhuasted… However, here is the top ten and here is my opinion of them
You got me doing something. I though I never would do. Give me one more – one more shot.’ The Stones currently have their ‘one more shot’, no doubt about it, and it could well be their last shot.
To add insult to injury, Robbie quotes his own record label, who have made a fortune off the man, complaining to Robbie that he might want to try something a little more suited to his age… Robbie didn’t appreciate the suggestion and they were, of course, supremely wrong
After his disastrous cheerleading for John Kerry, Springsteen has called it twice in a row. Both for Barack Obama, and this time round bruce is so deep in bed with the President it is embarrassing. Words fail to express how much credibility Bruce has lost this century.
The folks from MellowHype and the folks from Trash Talk are throwing a party at one of the best clubs in the city, Gramercy Theater on Saturday night and it should be a hugely enjoyable show. Trash Talk will be loud and rigous, Mellow Hype the child of Kid Cudi we can find on the new album and a wonderful time will be had by all
Got Me Good – Ciara – this is a busy little track from the former Rihanna wanna be who found herself washed up after a disastrous opening slot for Jay-Z. This has beats to spear but the vocal is another nondescript effort – Grade: B
Waterlogged LPs and sleeves are being carefully dried and repackaged but there is so very much to be done
it was in 1975 that Mr. Springsteen ran onto the cover of both Time and Newsweek. He faded into obscurity the following year and is believed to be manning a hot dog stand in Atlantic City at this time. Patti Smith reaped critical hosannas with her unhinged, beatnik, word slinging persona and an English blues band named Fleetwood Mac morphed into a pop sensation
‘We tried to play good tonight since the president was here today. Don’t believe the media. I think it’s going to be a landslide.’
One of the three new ones is great, the other two aren’t bad, and one of the demos is good, one isn’t much, and the acoustic version is excellent. I hope she plays it like that live. Quite why she chose to roll out the demos of the first songs on the album, you’ll have to ask her.
f you are in the UK right this minute, this is what you do, you check out this nostalgia line up, a who’s who of 70s pop charts. The best? Hot Chocolate. Given another shot at the big time, Errol Brown and go, who were to soul what Thin Lizzy were to metal, would make it all the way to the States and not be stuck on “You Sexy Thing”. I have never seen em live, but I would sure love to.
It is well known that he has severe hearing damage and is diligent in protecting what is left but really was storming off the only option? You would think levels would be set prior to the performance?
The story follows a womanizer and heartless man who is trying to reach the heart of a woman with Green Day records, but since he has no heart – and when it is a Green Day video, you have to literally visualize it: there is a giant hole in his cavity chest! – the seductive game doesn’t work out very well.
Why is Stephen Stills still livving paycheck to paycheck? How much is a gram of coke nowadays?
You would think after all this time- it’s all been seen and heard before. Seeing such legend on the enormous screen of your local Cineplex will be a pretty cool thing.
While Nietsche is the man for college kids, Nietsche wasn’t as clearly a youthful signifier, Nietsche substituted gods for god, Camus restructured the world so we weren’t the center of even are own world. Presley made it fun.
The album breaks down into three parts, rockers, blues rockers, ballads. The rockers aren’t great but they aren’t bad, and the ballads are just plain brutal. Steve Tyler has always sucked at ballads but we are saps for guys with long wigs too much feeling so he can’t help but roll em out. On Dimension it truly sinks the damn thing..
No movement on this chart, everything is exactly where it was but you are there. And it is not a terrible chart but fun. Are getting to be less and less fun and Taylor actually said, and I quote, love is not the most important thing in the world!
Another 2.5M and 21 will be toppled by a 22 year old! Meanwhile, I haven’t hear the Meek Mill (it’s not on Spotify) though my nephew Jeff swears by it. As for Rod? The album is a train wreck but hey, it outsold Neil Young so you gotta think there are some people out there who like their aged raspy not fuzzy
Toot N Toot N Toot – Curtis Mayfield – if ever a man’s career felt like one long highlight this is that man. But even so, those early 80s disco funk albums were phenoms. The reason people can’t write dance like this any more is because people can’t arrange songs like this any more. Because they aren’t using full orchestras live in a studio – Grade: A
Let’s stop a moment and acknowledge this as a very sad tragedy. Lucker at age 28 had a wife and small child and well unexpected death is always most difficult to handle
Starting with lots of heavy bombastic drumming, an interesting fuzzy bass line, and spoken lyrics coming from Mr. E’s signature voice talking about peach blossom, tiger lily and marigold, the tune suddenly and briefly breaks down into a melancholic melody.
Half an hour of awesomeness, especially the beginning where Denzel is nailing a girl young enough to be his daughter all night before lines of coke and Joe Cocker’s”Feeling Alright” gets him to the airport on time
I see nothing offensive about a woman who appears to have been assaulted under the ‘Welcome’ sign of Vegas on the contrary I find it quite appropriate.
Lyric Culture a the ‘music inspired lifestyle brand’ is launching a new Jimi Hendrix men’s collection at Bloomindales nationwide.
Grace’s music is a tangled interlocking of roots and rebellion under a gauzy tinsel town rapping. It is truly rebellious, because it subverts from the inside out and converts from the outside in. She is a singular person, spreading the wings of fashion into the winds of style
She is telling us, he doesn’t need to apologize to get in my pant again, and it’s not your business,… this is what I get from all this. And it’s not my imagination because the two have been seeing each other, and are probably dating again since the release of these two songs, ‘Birthday Cake’ and ‘Turn Up the Music’ earlier this year.
“Mystery Train”, a sort of decline and fall of the American Empire as seen through the eyes of strangers and refracted thru a rock and roll spectrum, is a fun ride and a smart movie.
With only a picture of a mixing table posted on Twitter and Facebook, Queens of the Stone Age announced that Dave Grohl is playing drums on their next album! … And fans couldn’t contain their enthusiasm, as in just a few hours, hundred and hundred of comments were posted.
I suppose his boyhood days were hell. Most likely called ‘Bert’ by his mates the Humperdinck was impossible to escape from. Thank the Lord he got famous or how wouldl he have survived?
So now it can be told: Yoko Ono was a nuiance to McCartney, but Allen Klein was a danger and Allen Klein was why they couldn’t continue
In the end, what BV did over the week was cement its place as the center of the alt world. It became not just the only place to be for listings but the only place to be to take the pulse of how the music world was handling the Hurricane
“Paradise Garage” was the great gay disco hangout that heralded House in all its beauty and my bet is this started a tribute even though the video is aggressively heterosexual. It used to play before the movie at the Waverly on 8th street every saturday and became part of the scene.
Luv XXX – Aerosmith – I hear the rest of the album sucks and that might well be but this opening salvo is a crunchy little rocker that shakes the cobwebs off and from its “Hello, hello, hello…” first lines wonks its way thru in powerful fashion. Really, not terrible – Grade: B
So let’s look at 2016: Christie better get to Weight Watchers fast if he wants it all and Cuomo better take that smug smile off his face. Plus, if Christie wins? All Springsteen all the time.
Tearing up countless times, the coming-of-age story is timeless and no matter what your age, it’s heatbreaking and relatable.
With a presence both electrifying and casual, the lanky, scruffy, good looking Texan Gary Clark Jr. , managed the stage with the cool you imagine a Hendrix had near the start of his career
