Not to be mistaken with the dreaded Ben Folds, Vaughn wrote Marshall Crenshaw’s masterpiece “I’m Sorry (But So Is Brenda Lee)”. He is more like a rockabilly Randy Newman with a wicked sense of humor and a taste for country, and Ramblers.
We may all disagree about many things over the years but I think we will never be able to agree on anything as much as we agree that Coldplay are passive-aggressive egocentric bedwetters, who suck live at almost inhuman proportions
I started out 100% certain I was going to hate this. Seriously even the thought of remaking this tune is horrible. The band altered the tempo and threw in some awkward pitch changes and it came out as..
Ne-Yo and Kylie have been getting props all over the press and new Dionne is always a pleasure but hot the heels of the awesome Most Of My Heroes Still Don’t Appear On No Stamp , on Election Day, Public Enemy is the team to beat. I wonder if Obama Baby is gonna make a liar outta Chuck D and get four more years. My prediction? Yes he can
Disco Boogie Song (Live) – We’ve Got A Fuzzbox And We’re Gonna Use It – If I had a band all we would do is cover this song for 20 minutes and then leave the exhilarated audience screaming their approval! With a zipped out two note synth leading the way, and Magz improvising a call to dance – Grade: A+
Clicking the boombox cassette player on the floor (weak on batteries might I add) the first song up? “Somethings Gone Wrong Again”, I freshened the red lipstick lit a cigarette and belted this out- playing the kiddie piano on my thigh.
Criss takes on his old cronies, accusing Gene of having indiscriminate taste in groupies and often reeking of body odor. Stanley’s feminine mannerisms and lifestyle choices are detailed, without getting in the legal trouble of calling him gay. Of course, Ace was a train wreck.
If you wanted to buy a Keith Morris doll, a Stone Throw poster or a Diplo t-shirt, this was the place to be on Saturday! In this day and age when music is downloaded (or stolen), streamed and does not have a physical life anymore, this was a way to restore this loss of identity, this was a way to restore a contact between the consumers and the producers
Sting, who looks more like Popeye with every passing day, is so earnest you just wanna smirk at him. Nothing kills compassion faster than self-righteousness
This mob causing stunt is in support of their new album “Music From Another Dimension” due out on Tuesday. For some reason the band has also been asked to put their hands in the cement on the sidewalk in front of the Boston landmark
‘REASON 86: Barack Obama is perhaps the greatest president of modern times at communicating directly with foreign populations. He has also changed the way the government communicates with its own citizens about the outside world.’
As he performs his new EP “What Will Be” in acoustic and hipster black and white you get a real feel for the reserved and almost sullen Beckett.
The Aimee Mann album improves with every listen and “Gamma Ray” is the best song, both Taylor and Titus are the best song of three. and the dB’s only had two killer tracks… but they did have two killer tracks.
There are only two types of people in this world, pop fans and everybody else. I am a pop fan, and as such can’t wait to see the South Korean K-Pop phenom BIGBANG at the Prudential Center on Thursday. An all boy band of bubble gum pop without the usual layer of complete weirdness, BIGBANG are the pop band as writ with bucketloads of electronics throw in for the helluva it.
As a multi-racial band our foundation is built upon both diversity and consideration for other cultures. Our intention with our new video was never to offend, hurt or trivialize Native American people, their culture or their history.
The question isn’t whether Calvin Harris can conquer the UK, obviously the great DJ can, but whether Calvin Harris can conquer the US, and I don’t know what the answer to that might be… but I fancy his chances.
Robbie Williams threatened not to tour the UK if “Candy” didn’t hit the top of the charts. So it did of course, and, having seen Robbie at Hammerstein once (actually, once at Jingle Ball as well) I am hear to tell you EVERYBODY WINS! This modified, orchestrated reggae rhythm is a pure pop stroke of immense and beautiful extremes. Cmon, Robbie. We need you Stateside.
Kilmer, who is also part of the cast, erupted on stage during the Black Lips’ already chaotic set, he was seen ‘wielding a prop chainsaw to destroy a guitar amplifier and then using a bowie knife to cut off clumps of his own hair’! You can watch him below trying to smash a guitar.
Old Shep – Elvis Presley – “When I was a boy, Old Shep was a pup…” . One of the great death songs and when Presley can’t shoot the dying doggy I bet you can’t hold back a tear. If Presley sold this song any harder, you’d believe his name was Jim! – Grade: A
fun. might be a great group or they might not but if they don’t take a break from nonstop touring they won’t be a great band for much longer. And what is it with the earplugs? Pianist Andrew Dost is also wearing em, but purple ones, so you gotta think at least one of em is a fashion plate
He passes on a couple of hits, he dolls out his instrumentals like it was gruel and we were Oliver Twist, and his re-defining artistic achievement Time And Tide came and went with minimal publicity. Robbie calls himself lucky, but he isn’t lucky enough, perhaps the self-effacing man should get somebody to awaken the graying of America’s denizen to the great musician in their midst.
If you like continuous columns of electronic sounds lasting and stretching for a long time in many directions, if you enjoy unexpected soundscapes and some indescribable musical experiences, Thavius Beck’s music is for yo
changing the way the lyrics were sung in the original and making them sound so much more interesting. Clearly Issues has shown that even the shittiest of songs can be improved.
I cant help but wonder if he will outdo that statue, Morrissey’s giant hair in bronze? Also, why the heck get buried in LA you’re just gonna float out to sea eventually anyway.
When you get those awful sing-alongs, and a band’s ego kicks in when the crowd sing their words back. It’s as if they’re standing on stage thinking ‘this is what we’re worth’ and really the audience would sing ‘We’ll Meet Again’ if it was playing.
Marvin Gaye will be forever remembered as one of R&B’s greatest voices. He died tragically at age 44 when his dad took him out with a gun. A sad end to the man who was called the Prince of Soul and The Prince of Motown.
‘Even though it’s a huge opportunity to play in the O2 with a major hip hop star and a substantial fee was offered, we are completely against Chris Brown’s assault on Rihanna. It goes against everything we are about as a band”
From Gainsbourg To Lulu – Lulu Gainsbourg – So many guest stars, I’m expecting Serge’s on to change his name to Lil Wayne any second now, and the 26 year old looks a though he’s 47. The stench of stale Gauloise is all over the album, but it is really quite good. Especially on the songs where he is channelling his Papa, who, indcidentally, wrote all the songs to start with – Grade: B
1. Africa – The Meters – Thinner and funkier on record, louder and more anthemic in person, either way it sounds like a funk band bringing it home – Grade: A-
We have friends and family members that have died, had damage to their houses or lost power as a result of the storm. Needless to say, we have been severely effected
In a very satisfying synchronization, Anthony sings Anthony, Billy’s punk move by a punk band and two Queens boys salute each other through the decades. Grade: A
I want to repeat some of the lyrics of the song, ‘I’m not excited but should I be?’, I mean the song is really bouncy and dynamic, and I had it in repeat in my head after listening to it only twice, demonstrating how catchy the music is, but I was expecting a little more for some reason
As we continue our Soul Train line dance through the 1970s, we’ll note that 1974 was the first year that music was produced as much for the dance floor as it was the transistor radio
I recently came in direct contact with a tune I’ve been humming to myself for a long time, and only now do I know the title and band. It’s “Ho Hey” by The Lumineers. Insanely simple, yet it packs a punch.
Cheap Beer’ is like a rush of adrenaline you get out of your chest in two minutes, while running for your life… With its reminiscence of The Cramps’ guitars and an infectious-stormy rhythm, the song is a multi-facet of influences, both pop-tune and wild-thrilling punk ride
Wild bitch nature, maybe. If you were in the Northeast and got smacked in the face by Hurricane Sandy, you were taught a quick lesson in just how puny we all our against the forces of nature. With a week of warning, we played defense all the way and all we could really do is run and hide till the little sucker blew over
He just reminds me of somebody who’s trying to sell me a Mercedes Benz,’ declared Cube to Rolling Stone, talking about Romney. ‘He’ll tell me that it looks good on me and this is my color and I can afford it and everything, just to get the sale. It’s astonishing that people are buying into that at the rate they are.’
Detectives have reportedly visited a restaurant in Los Angeles where they interviewed several members of staff, including the manager.
Sous Les Soleil Exactement – Lulu Gainsbourg and Shane Macgowan – You think you’ve lived a long life, done a lotta things, some good, some less so, but you’ve seen it in full. But you ain’t lived till you’ve heard the Pogues leader slurring in French – Grade: B+
The revellers were boogieing hard all night long and the instrumentals never wandered from that syncopated rhythm at the heart of funk, invented by the likes of the Meters and alive and sizzling in the capable hands of the Metermen
It’s not even that just the lyrics are poetic- the way that the instruments blend and mesh is poetry. The emotional depth is genius and shows that the band has grown exponentially
Siblings in a band? Yup, that’s what this indie pop band has Audrey and Cameron Scott along with Miguel Morales create a trio of unique sounds with an interesting angst.
This sort of musical project is one the likes of which I haven’t ever seen and it’s unique sound makes The Cinema all the more impressive to me. Thus, I shall eagerly await news from The Cinema
It seems that not long ago it was summer, and now we are approaching the end of the year! It’s crazy to think we are already thinking about 2013
I know about the success of this Twilight series, but I have never seen any of the movies, and it’s certainly not this new Green Day’s sentimental ballad that is gonna give me any desire to go see it!
As though there wasn’t an idea, a sound, an explosion they wouldn’t through at you in their attempt to seduce and beat you into submission. Songs come in acts, birds tweets, tracks flit and start, in waves of power that wash over you like the oceanic metaphors floating across the sea of sound
Charles Manson endorses Obama? Martin Sheen for Mitt? See what I’m getting at? You want people with reputations of stability to be your cheerleaders- not those less than sane.
The King of late 1970s AOR and blue eyed soul was nearly the exact opposite of the punk I was so crazy about when he first hit it big. More fool me: imagine Bread covering Hall And Oates and you get a feel for the superb AOR, a creamy easy listening swirl of sound, Dupree was responsible for.
There will be only 150 of these sold so you can forget ever owning one. The 50th anniversary celebration is in full elitist swing with this one
‘I think a lot of kids are more sexualized now than they were now than they were years ago and I’m not sure it’s a coincidence. Like fucking Katy Perry spraying people with her fucking dick, her fucking cum gun coming on fucking children
