the new Bruno Mars is a deeply disappointing piece of pop product, by the numbers r&b that Mars outgrew around the time he was pleading guilty to cocaine. I can’t believe it is a pop charts move, he has already proven he can handle the charts fine… then what? A lack of imagination? No, folks, he ain’t the new MJ
The Stone Sour album is really great, I prefer it to Slipknot. Taylor deserves where she is and I figure there are 5 more winners here. The Lady Antebellum Christmas album is the pits, and Brandy? Really the worse.
Luv Letter – Tina Marie – I am sure I wasn’t the only one very upset over the death of the great “Coffee, Tea Or Me” gal, but this, the full version of her great last song is a reminded of how just much we’ve lost. Better than anything Brandy released this year… by far – Grade; A
How sorry or even concerned can you feel about Stickles hubris distaste for the rock and roll lifestyle? It’s like that Nick Taylor memoir, you want all this and you want us to feel sorry for you? It makes empathy hard and harder
It kind of almost sounds like an Ed Sheeran song- the reason? It is an Ed Sheeran song. Both he and 1D put together this masterpiece.
Drunk sound guy pulled a knife on me in Kansas when I commented on the awful job he was doing. Oh and last night, our bass player woke up from a drunken nightmare and threw his iPhone out the window while we were on the highway outside of New Orleans
‘I MAY HAVE TO CANCEL MY EUROPEAN TOUR DUE TO BANKRUPTCY & MY HEALTH STRUGGLE WITH ANGIOEDEMA. I HAVE NOT THROWN IN ANY TOWEL, I AM TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT BEST I CAN DO. HEART BROKEN’
The LA Times is reporting that 465,000 copies were sold on iTunes, which has the exclusive on the digital download for the album, and 396,000 copies of an exclusive 22-track deluxe edition (three bonus songs and three remixes) were sold at Target. However, the album was never sold for less than $9.99 at any retailer
Twisted Sister, Dee Snider and their legal council suck. The band hasn’t done jack for years and now are using it as an opportunity to exploit small business? Cupcakes? C’mon it in no way indicates endorsement in my eyes
With a long tour looming you can absolutely see why Armstrong would want to straight, but six months? According to adict-help.com, the average stay in an alcohol rehab center is 30 days. Who needs 180 days? What is going on here?
Bon Jovi to play the Etihad Stadium in June next year – with tickets priced from £12.50. The New Jersey legends will be at Manchester City’s home ground on Saturday, June 8, 2013 as part of their Because We Can – The Tou
Both Iman and I were able to catch Morrissey on this tour and were both very pleased with the performance. It was my first time seeing the legend and I am so grateful to have had the opportunity.
Killer Mike At CMJ Showcase, rapped for half an hour on one of the best vibed and most communal hip hop shows I have ever seen on October 18th, there was nothing I didn’t love about this set except, wait, he didn’t perform “RAP Music” and it was over way too soon.
Comment: The two heavy hitters of the year came up with the goods so good for them, and good live shows made me reconsider both albums and songs in October.
the rap song starts like an usual muddy bluesy thing with Southern voices and then there is White’s voice, angry, rapping as if he was mad as hell (but he is always mad anyway) over scary noises appropriate for a Halloween night.
8. Red – Taylor Swift – Perhaps I over rate, but anyway, I rate it highly. The best songs are the best of the year and the worst aren’t the worst. Isn’t that enough?
Guap – Big Sean – The best thing about GOOD Music, and one pretty good album under his belt, Big Sean has a lot of good will accrued, some of which he loses on this ode to money. This is plenty generic with a catchy chorus and a very good beat from Key Wane. Wane comes out looking like a star – Grade: B
I’ve been in quite a nostalgic mood, music-wise, so I decided to give a listen to the original Lion King soundtrack. It is the greatest opening scene to any of the films Disney’s ever done.
in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy the Northeast surely cant be begging for Twizzlers. Kids get jipped anyway since parents are so paranoid that their neighbors are going to toss Anthrax in the Pixi Stix- idiots
I have seldom heard such a well formatted album: it is all of a piece and it moves with a resolve to its, not denouement but it moves to an opening, a begriming. It begins as a tragedy but becomes a comedy of life
Jagger has signed a pact with the devil, it’s understood, and this thin athletic silhouette of his is certainly a proof that sex, drugs and rock’ n’ roll is the true fountain of youth. But he just can’t believe it himself, as he said during the show, just after the third song: “You’d think some of us would be sitting by now but we’re not !”
‘I’m glad the reviewer was able to identify the last song as ‘Blowin’ in the Wind.’ I had no idea. I thought it was a new song that I had never heard before.’
Get your head out of the marijuana patch and into the bottomless pit of Jack Daniels and find yourself in an airconditioned motel room, your body a shaking wrecked as you tilt the medicine deep inside and sleep thru days after days and you will playing frisbie with “One Of These Nights” and turning to the Raymond Chandler of rock
I’d be much more interested in what Aimee Mann, stranded on the East Coast, makes of it all. She probably feels justified in that overwhelming sense of impending disaster she sings about so well. “One thing leads to another and none of it’s good” she recently sang
The zombie apocalypse is at hand as Bret Michaels has sustained yet another life affirming medical scare. I am not sure if this guy is just completely insane, or a pathological liar
It’s always a little threatening to take on material I consider perfect as is. The only rule being, don’t fuck it up’. And they didn’t fuck it up at all.
Whoopi, Rosie, Sarah and Cyndi: maybe more like I guess I will see because it is a Saturday and I wanna see Cyndi and a couple of the other names lots and lots.
have a friend who has problems eating peanut butter and jelly because he doesn’t like salt and sugar hanging out together. I feel the same way about opera singers singing pop music.. Though, of course, Sarah isn’t much of either so it should be OK.
“I actually dropped my cup on the floor. Princess Beatrice pulled me up and said, ‘You can’t be dropping stuff on my Granny’s carpet’. But fortunately I survived head intact to tell the tale.”
In a series of stills teenaged fans hold up signs of their dreams and its as cliche as teenaged has ever been. “I want to stop teen suicide”, I wish I felt comfortable in my own skin”, common pleas from the kids who are battling their own chemistry.
Disco Boogie Song (Live) – Fuzzbox – This song is so good it is sick, a perfect introduction to the great band with a fuzzy lick stolen off a surf guitar track and a call to dance and the best lyric ever written ever ever ever; “and it goes arrrh… and it goes grrrrrh…” I worship it – Grade: A+
Proving yet again the power of the penis, Mr Glitter- or as his rap sheet shows Paul Gadd, has been arrested in conjunction with the investigation into former TV host Jimmy Savile
When ITunes launch their own subscriber based music software, they will get more subscribers in an hour than Spotify have gotten so far. They will annihilate Spotify.
As a simple, gentle instrumental, it lets your mind wander. It kind of reminds me of something Conor Oberst would stick in at the end or beginning of one of his tunes.
There are pages and pages on the internet how famous bands got their names, and I am not going to go there, but usually bands have a few techniques to find a moniker
he anthemic song seems to tell his search for true identity and the delusions and frustrations coming with it, whereas the music sounds like one of these Titus Andronicus classic rock’ n’ roll epic numbers with, of course, a touch of Springsteen’s spirit.
Saturday morning cartoons could not be missed. That was it. There were no childrens networks or DVD’s’, there weren’t even VCRs yet. Thais was your dose and if you missed it- too bad.
o is the one in the shades in this pix and I am so sorry for her family and friends and for me. They just don’t get this good. And I really was right, they really ere the most fun in the world. What a crying shame that somebody who brought so much fun to the world should die so young.
Titus and Taylor represent their new albums, if K’Naan has only two good songs at least they are REAL gone, three representatives from CMJ, and Cat Power salvages what she can from Hammerstein Ballroom.
Prince Jackson actually looks very much like Corey Feldman! I know that this could be totally subjective but still! I did some research on the web, it is wildly discussed on message boards of course, even the Black Lips agree with the idea as they posted a tweet about it a few weeks ago! And the Black Lips are cool.
t is apt that Hurricane Sandy is bearing down upon us ready to wash out two, maybe three nights of concerts in nyc -apt because Wednesday is Halloween and it blows away the unlucky prome Smashing Pumpkins from the Pick of the week. for their Halloween gig on Wednesday at Barclay center. With visuals by the guy behind the Wall. And two parts. One the newbie, which isn’t bad, and the other hits which s better.
I’ve been merrily streaming the new Calvin Harris all day and I quite like it, new Neil Young seems like a winner, I loved the Lulu Gainsbourg track earlier this year and always cool to hear from Tracey Thorne.
Sherry Darling – Bruce Springsteen – With Hurricane Sandy bearing down upon us, and we stranded like John Travolta at the drive in, perhaps it’s as good a time as ever to hark the words of the Boss: “Let there be sunlight, let there be rain…” and keep on writing till the break of day – Grade: A
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of Hurricane Sandy, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, this post must show… or if you prefer, I am writing this Monday morning and don’t know whether it will be a natural disaster or a fizzle. My bet is on the former.
Why was such a fine set not a great one? Because it was a professional hit job, it was too occluded, like all charmers, and all relentlessly witty people (I know this because I am one). it is used to hide and not reveal. A fine set, good set, sparkling and wonderfully played.
I wasn’t there, but earlier this year, the police shut down two of her shows in Venice Beach, because the parties got a little out of hand, with too many underage punk kids having too much beer, and doing too much skate boarding in the middle of the street! There were some arrests made by the LAPD, and by now, FIDLAR have received their rowdy-punk-riot-trigger title.
The movie I would like to see are of the times I worked there, when the club wasn’t doing so well. It was like living in a hangover from the 1970s. There were some great musical moments, but more often than not CBGB was just a mill for low-talent acts.
his March, Taylor Swift is back on the road with three local shows at Newark, New Jersey (aka the Prudential), on March 27 & 28 & 29 in Newark, New Jersey which probably means MSG and or Barclays is still be be announced, or it means that Taylor will get to nyc on the second lap round. In 2010 she played MSG and got to Prudential the next time round, and in 2011 she slept us till the last night of the Speak Now tour.
There is thunderstorms over Europe,…There are hailstorms, and I mean major hailstorms, in the Middle East. There are storms brewing through China, through Asia, through everywhere, and there’s only one man that… The other night when President Barack Obama, God bless him, said to Mitt Romney, ‘The Cold War is over.’ I have never heard such a thing in my life…. There is one man who will stand tall in this country and fight the storm and bring the United States back to what it should be — Gov. Mitt Romney!’
The big revelation was made by Lynne Spears on Friday when she told the Los Angeles jury that Lufti had told her he had crushed up drugs in the singer’s food to help her sleep and disabled her phone lines when she was in the middle of the meltdown that made her shave her head and lose custody of her kids.
