‘You know, I think about ten and a half years ago, my wife Janna and I went to Mercy hospital in Janesville where I was born for our seven-week ultrasound for our first born child. And we saw that heartbeat. Our little baby was in the shape of a bean, and to this day we have nicknamed our first born, Liza, ‘Bean’.’
Directed by Whitey Mcconnaughy, ‘Lethal Justice’ can be watched like a lost street-action-horror western of the 70s (check out Black’s sky blue suit coming straight from a Starsky and Hutch episode) and starring, beside Mr. Tenacious D
Numbers – MellowHype – I thought their name was ironic, but on their second record MellowHype live up to its name. All very Wiz Khalifa but without the pop sensibility. The best tracks owe debts to Odd Future team mates Frank Ocean and Earl Sweatshirt, in other places it is too down beat and dreary. And while I love the horn on “Brain”, and quite like the rap, exceptions don’t make rules – Grade: B-
You Don’t Know How It Feels – Tom Petty – Maybe a decade past his prime, Petty was still hovering between Southern boogie and Florida’s Springsteen. Pr, if you prefer, the Wallflowers. And here, he gets it all in a rock star confidential that spells out the quandary he faces: “you don’t know how it feels to be me”. Or is that “I’m too alone to be proud”? – Grade: A
When compared to her 2000 retirement concert at MSG (something else she has in common with Jay-Z) , it lacks the unerring sense of song to moment,. 2000 was easier because it was a career retrospective (no guests, no opening act) so the form was built in and all she had to do was follow all those great songs
If Elliott committed suicide and Jennifer Chiba is innocent, she should be allowed to have a life free of suspicions. If I were at her place, exculpating myself would be the only goal in my life, I would have been talking to the police nights and days, taking all the polygraph tests that exist until they recognize my innocence and close the case
this world he creates, he’s playing the song with himself- pretty interesting. I love the shots, and White is really lookin’ spiffy. The entire feel of the scene that’s set is frankly a bit creepy- it’s like an alternate universe Jack created where he has the opportunity to make “I’m better than you” faces at himself
When last I saw the band they were playing Los Angeles in its entirety and it was a brilliant thing. I actually got to speak to my idol Exene Cervanka and found her to be just as hot a ticket as she was ‘back in the day’ the girl is an inspiration.
YouTube declared they pay the labels and the song writers a percentage of the revenue generated by their videos, and take 45% of ad revenue, ….but 45% of what? That’s a mystery…
The show was originally a fundraiser to help renovate the childhood home of the singer, which is now owned by Arkansas State University who wanted it opened to the public. Extra funding is to go to scholarships in Cash’s name
Winner – PETA – Whether you supported or didn’t support, Morrissey’s showing of the PETA’s horrifying “Meet Your Meat” film, played while he and his band played “Meat IS Murder” is irrelevant, if you saw it you could’t escape the images and sounds searing through you brains at the same time. A terrible brutal beauty of blood and murder that continues the moral debate of mankind. Do we eat animals?
Suzanne Real is a real jump forward for the Staten Island native and the Stones new releases is really really that good and for that we congratuale them! But Ellie is the exception not the rule on her new album.
The song is pure rock’ n’ roll, definitely old school Stones, with Mick Jagger’s muddy and dragging howl and roaring badass guitars and the whole thing is just asking to be blasted through your soundsystem.
Halycon – Ellie Goulding – If this is a surefire pop move, why doesn’t it feel like one. Rather, it feels like an advance and a beaut but also like an exception as the rest of the album doesn’t match it – Grade: B+
42% went to American express (you know all these pre-sales), 21% to Bieber Fan club, 20% to the venue or the artist, 10% to VIP, and so only 7% to the general public
Music can be written down and performed by anyone with the skill of instrument but to replicate vocals is virtually impossible- you nearly will sound like a cover band, unless of course you’re that guy who took over Stephen Perrys gig in Journey, that guy totally sounds the same.
Don’t be alarmed if you start to hear more of Balance & Composure in daily conversation, now that they’re on tour with Circa Survive, Touché Amore and O’Brother, you’re bound to be hearing more from them. B&C made a decent splash with the release of their latest EP and album, Separation and their sound only continues to improve and impress with every release
Morrissey was great while his set wasn’t great. Morrissey got to that place where his art was transmigrated into pure feelings even on a song not amongst his best.
As much as I am not a fan, I still found quotes from band mate Mike Dirnt to be rather sweet. Of course, his paycheck is on hold until Billie stands up but still its not often we hear or see a true bromance with any sort of sincerity
The band is awesome, they sound just like… well, just like the Stones, Charlie watts, man. He is one in a quatrillion billion
A Memorial Exhibition, which will run from October 26th through November 17th, will feature 19 canvases, five paintings on wood and one mixed-media work on card stock, and some of the works are in fact collaborations between Dee Dee and artist-musician Paul Kostabi and his widow, Barbara Zampini.
The band is touring in support of their LP ‘Strangeland’ which was released in May. Theyre all over the place too from Lebanon to Switzerland to… Maine. Go figure.
Assange is facing extradition to Sweden, and, let’s face it, who wants to go to Sweden in the best of time? Still, probably more fun than hanging with Lady Gaga
Black Jack, blue Jack, I can’t pass the fact there are two Jack White in this video, and this is twice the piss-off potential I believe!
think I went easy on Adele, swept up in the moment dontchaknow. It really is a lousy song, there is, indeed, no song there. For all her efforts, Adele is not comparable to the incomparable Shirley Bassey
There are a whole bunch of rock bands who are so bad it is ridiculous. They are worse than the worse boy band who have ever existed. Three Day Grace is one of them.
I Know It’s Over – Jeff Buckley – The great vocalist died tragically young but not before recording this astounding Smiths cover, where he starts like a folk singer, mumbling in his ennui before ripping through at the end, equal part, channelling and deepening Morrissey’s original – Grade: A
The Wombats are young and exuberant, the Wombats are English (from Liverpool) and you can hear it at each syllable they pronounce, which was probably another element of seduction for all these girls cheering up, front row of the Red Bull stage at the Culture Collide festival last Sunday.
The slow death started when Aaron Gillespie left the band and since then, it’s just been a matter of time. The dynamic of the band had shifted.
The point isn’t that Mary Magpie isn’t right, and isn’t morally superior, to me, but it isn’t a fight I care about enough to battle. Eating meat is sinful but, really, what isn’t? The only question left will be answered for me tonight: is it art?
I am personally boycotting the entire affair until Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds get their just due. Don’t pull your love out on me, RRHOF.
I Knew You Were Trouble When You Walked In – Dubstep is to the blues what house is to r&b, a new building block to signify seriousness. WHich it does on this love labours lost. Probably the best rhythm section she has ever presented on a song – Grade: B+
This still in its infancy of course but fear not- it will happen. This new interest in The Go Go’s has also fired up rumors that the band is planning on writing a couple new songs
If you can’t wait, Madison Square Park (one of MSGs four homes) will have an exhibit of some of the greatest concerts on Thursday at 11am. Here is Larry Getlin of the posts list, followed by some I went to
“We ask for all stations and all people to observe this date by going silent for 20 seconds, and follow that with the airing of ‘Freebird,’ the most requested song in history,”
‘XX’ will include the original album, collectible b-sides, demo tapes recorded in 1991, whereas one of the DVDs will feature their 2010 London reunion free concert – performed as a thank-you to UK fans for making ‘Killing in the Name’ Number One single during Christmas in 2009 – as well as various music videos and the other DVD has the band’s first ever concert!
I remember reading in the Village Voice where Joe Steinhardt, driving home with them after a gig one night, said he would kill himself if they didn’t let Don Giovanni records release their stuff. Hyperbole? I think not
was looking forward to the production of ‘A Star Is Born’ and the opportunity to work with Clint Eastwood. For months we tried to coordinate our schedules to bring this remake to life but it was just not possible. Hopefully in the future we will get a chance to work together.
oining the old friends on some songs will be Barbra Streisand, Tony Bennett, Cliff Richard and Kenny G. Three ouitta four ain’t bad and also, according to MSNBC, “I Think You Might Like It,” is said to be a sequel to “You’re The One That I Want:
Double Trouble – Hogwarts Choir – This song is terrific, it is like a Magii’s hymn taking off from Macbeth’s witches into a high sung, high strung presentiment of disasters yet to come – Grade: B+
Moscow court frees 1 member of dissident punk band Pussy Riot, upholds prison sentences for other 2
Visuals were transforming the show into a living acid trip for the crowd’s immense pleasure, and there obviously were big fans front row, who knew all the lyrics and had an absolute great time.
Marla is taking herself back on the road but closer to home, for a four night tour of New England, in support of the Deluxe version of last years Speak. The album is a thing of beauty, where the structure of rock and roll and the scripture of art meet in the world.
The song “Hate Me” was on the radio a bit on a local alt station and I found the vocalists tone contagious and the angry lyrics captivating. It was the first album I had purchased in years and it jump started my musical interest again.
‘We’ve got some shows in London, I believe, and in New York, but I really can’t talk about any of that at the moment. They’ve put the gag on me on this. You can hint!’
Tom Morello has hair but hasn’t changed a bit, and who could miss James Hetfield or Steven Tyler’s giant smiles? Others have obviously undergone some metamorphosis, Alice Cooper? Is that you? And Marilyn Manson had a mull
What I love about this is not merely the use of the word mere, but how it isn’t really rock criticism as we know it. When you can review well, you don’t have to really prove it. Anyway, here you go… one of the greatest pieces of rock criticism you will ever read:
the top tix is $65!!! Great price for a band who excels at toots and whistles and have already threatened that this will be a sci-fi adventure. I have never seen em live and can’t wait to finally catch em.
The band formed in 1984 and maintained their original line up until the untimely demise of Cory Smoot on the tour bus in Canada..weird scene man. This ‘shock rock’ shtick was created by Alice Cooper than after years turned in to this idiotic redneck fun.
n 2011 I had a Presley calender and in 2012 a Marilyn Monroe calender, for 2013 I’ve been prevaricating between Jimi Hendrix and Lennon and finally went with Lennon just because the damn thing is so bright and positive and creamy looking… It’s his doodles and I really like it.
