Polly – Amanda Palmer And The Grand Theft Orchestra – Initially recorded for Spin’s tribute album, this is an alarming a version of Cobain’s masterpiece of the sustained sinister and horrorshow banality of evil in all its shapes. Forced violence is right in Palmer’s tree and she murmurs and articulates: “she caught me off my guide…?”, “the will of instinct…”. Grade: A
Sitting on a chair most of the time, hiding behind his long hair, alone or helped by a few musicians on guitar or piano for a few songs, and Jenny Lewis and the Watsons Twins making some too-short apparitions for back-up vocals, the show was well balanced and flawlessly orchestrated
The below video is a good indication of how they have aged. Gracefully. Debbie Harry is still gorgeous and fun and the band well they pretty much look the same. Time has been fine to the band despite the adversity and health scares they have had along the way
Rihanna essentially sings in this low moaning voice for the entirety of the track and it left me pondering the definition of “singer”.
That guy’s main problem is that he doesn’t realize that he is Justin Bieber. He should take some of the green in his wallet, buy himself a green smoothie and relax. What kind of band name is Green Day anyway? Is that in reference to all the chord progressions they continually recycle?
Wow, her album failed that bad? But is she still a scientologist over there? From the king’s daughter, to the king of pop’s wife, to the queen of fish-and-chips,… why not if it rocks her boat, but I wonder how long it will last!
This isn’t a matter of the goody goody imaged pop star playing a hardcore folk hippy it more has to do with how the hell did Taylor Swift become an actress? Models turn actress, musicians turn actress, actress turned..musician and so it goes
Lupe Fiasco – Food & Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album, Pt. 1 – Hardcore agitpropping by the last revolutionary rapper without an initial in his name, works the mainstream of the rap landscape to make a point. After LASER, this was here to break mainstream big time and maintain its authority by a man who called the President (yes, THIS ONE) a terrorist. It has its moments, the singles we already know are pretty good, and “How Dare You” is a potential smash. But the album is too bland and obvious, and while Lupe can ure rhyme, his voice will never have authority. Grade: B
Ain’t No Half Stepping – Big Daddy Kane – This stuff, late 1980s, sounds dated in a good way, in the sorta way that had Barclay Center singing the hook back to the big time Brooklyn man boss. Spin it now and you wonder about the sample, but not for long – Grade: A
Simply said fans are outside the stage door now waiting for Jacks exit. Hipster riot indeed. The details will flow soon, and rocknyc was on the scene and can honestly state that the show was seamless and perfection. Either this abrupt ending was planned or Jack just cut the encore.
The FILM I saw of Jay-Z performing “99 Problems” with Pearl jam was better than anything I heard last night. Despite a mid-section blast from “”99 Problems” to “Big Pimpin'” the set was too deep, too fanboy oriented. I enjoyed it, when I am not hatin’ on Hova, I am his fanboy. But he never got up to speed.
As I leave Mercury Lounge, Corin Tucker is back behind the table hawking her tee-shirts. How many stars of Corin’s stature, and my admiration for her body of work (not to mention haircut) is just about boundless, would be doing that? Ha, que pasa? Everything is good.
Arkansas. A place where people spontaneously yell “Woo Pig Sooie!” for no particular reason. The state that gave us Wal-Mart and Tyson’s Chicken and Dillard’s Department Stores and Mary Steenburgen and Billy Bob Thornton… and some notable musicians
Tom Morello, Rise Against singer Tim McIlrath and System of a Down singer Serj Tankian have released a song anthem to help the 99%movement, since he declared to Rolling Stone that he thought it was missing a true rock anthem: ‘It’s our gift to the movement’
This just in I don’t care who you’re voting for, that it’s your kids first day at daycare (BTW don’t have kids if you’re going to throw them in daycare anyway) and I certainly don’t want to see your pig roast or Aunt Gert. I do want to hear new music
Do not go to strip clubs’, ‘Do not look at lust filled magazines’… but the most troubling of these tweets was ‘I’m practicing abstinence women = confusion I don’t need right now’… 50 Cent is confused about his sexuality so he wants everybody to stop masturbating? Insane!
‘The huge decline we have experienced in young double-bass musicians in recent times has come as a real surprise, and raises concern over the assembly, quality and continuation of youth and adult orchestras in future, if this trend is not reversed
How about make a decent cost on the concert ticket and let people actually come see you? Nah, lets sell them a $20. DVD so they can sit in their double wides and become double wide.
The Green Day album? Except for the first single, just about perfect and I could have chosen any of the first five tracks. Otherwise, people have been claiming I love everything (me???), well, not quite. I hate the new Killers, except for this song…
Atomic – Blondie – The Ice Queen of pop brings all the white cool heat to desire and explodes it with one word. Meanwhile, the “is a group” portion take their cues from Moroder and between the lot reinvent dance for the 1980s – Grade: A-
The music captured that ‘Americana’ feeling without overdoing it, the high-pitched vocals were harmonizing with each other at each song and they had catchy-enough choruses to make people tap their feet and sing-along.
The odd couple at the center, artist errant Byrne, and Polyphonic art rock Annie Clark (who goes by the name of St. Vincent, though not when David is announcing her), would seem to share only a certain obtuseness.
Stereotypical coming of age hate my parents, worlds better off without me, wooo I’m a star recipe. Some rather great lines (and even more awesome title) in the single “Two Fingers”.
The song is about as country as Taylor is gonna get, it is country without the twang, though it doesn’t sound like her, it is an ancestor of Patsy Cline. A modern countrypolitan (I bet Taylor wishes Owen Bradley was still around)
I was wearing a Bad Brains t-shirt when I was visiting a rock’ n’ roll photo exhibit during the summer, and one of the security guards couldn’t help it, he looked at me and told me with an enthusiasm which was fun to see, ‘The best band I ever seen live! Did you see them?’ Yes, I saw them, and it was as if a hurricane had taken over Sunset boulevard!
Yes, I know he sells butter on TV but when you get down to the heart of it he totally could be cashing in on the Pistols for more than he would make eating breakfast. He opts not too- give him some credit for that
By the end, a miracle (yes, MIRACLE) saves father and daughter from total disaster in this two hour rebuttal to “Moneyball” in much the same way “Rio Bravo” was a rebuttal to “High Noon”. But just because it doesn’t do much on the realism scale doesn’t mean it isn’t fun in its own sweet sour.
An annual tribute show, that’s cool A book about growing up Ramone..yup that’s fine.. Scraping shit off the cutting room floor for ONE MORE RECORD, is not only greed it is disrespectful
Actually, the complete title of this post is “The Old Rock Stars Don’t Die They Just Releases Lousy Albums That Get Five Stars From Syncophantic Rock Critics Test” but I didn’t have the room. It is really easy to play and fun for all the family. So let’s start…
Hellcat Records is releasing a new digital compilation, ‘Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros, The Hellcat Years’, featuring the three Mescaleros albums, plus never released live material and rare B-sides
Have you heard "Death of A Rude Boy" yet? Well, lest start by forcing you to hear that. Grown up Madness from the fun Ska boys who sing on the Queens
I really love PSY’s one time only hit single, just for the intense otherness of it all. I don’t know if K-Pop is gonna take over the world (the Prudential Center sold out before I could get my hands on a tix) but if it does, it will be its cultural strangeness. Like France’s new wave, it takes American idioms at makes it their own.
Pink’s album? If she gets lucky it might still be on the charts next summer, which makes it the only album on this chart that can make that claim. None of this stuff will be still here by the end of November. Hell, by the begining
His Lamest Flame – Mary Lou Lord – rock nyc received a very nice message from the great folkie Mary Lou Lord the other day.Hhas there ever been a worse case of not being where you need to be when you need to be? This classic jingle jangles on a terific hook, “nananananaa, his lamest flame”, Was it a hit? You gotta think so, right. – Grade: A
‘Up to Infinity’ is quite an epic. aggressive punk number with thunderous guitars and raging vocals. In fact, the song is as angry and wild that it is busy, and it almost sounds like punk hardcore at times or like a tempest over our heads ready to destroy everything; it is not surprising to read that the track was inspired by the Syrian civil war!
Neither songs are exceptions, track after track, 11 between the two, are ear candy. They should be huge in college…. maybe even bigger in High School.
The only things they know about politics have been pushed onto them by their guardians- their opinions are not their own. They’re spewing nonsense, and it’s pretty much pure humour. I hate how kids try and say that they’re going to make a difference when they can’t do jack.
“It could just mean that we heart radio and this is a combination of our love,” Nick joked. “No, but it does mean that the album is coming along and that we’re days, if not hours away from choosing a single so it’s very exciting. We’ve got a good team around us and we’re excited to get the music out there for our fans.”
if you are gonna be there I’d love to know what you thought! Their latest album is a killer, if they do half of what they can on stage Friends are gonna become a band of lovers
Religions are dogma and so they don’t really evolved, and as much as the good catholic girl inside her would like to make us believe that religious people are tolerant and are willing to accept such differences, it isn’t true.
Lady Gaga, if you are a true Catholic, you must follow the pope, if you aren’t following the pope, well, you are not Catholic, there is no other way to put it.
OK, looks pretty heavy duty to me. If you haven’t seen SN live, they will really wow you. A funk, r&b, hip hop real deal mash up and that isn’t even do them credit. Believe me, I pity any band following Shinobi on stage!
“There are songs that he’s written that will be a part of the next record. We’re all going to have to think like him, and he’ll be there. He’ll be there; there’s no way of Paul Gray not being a part of anything that we do for the rest of our career.”
There is no money, and certainly nothing vaguely amusing in the “Shitehouse” comment. It isn’t a pun, it doesn’t sound similar and it doesn’t rise above playground name calling. of a woman who died at 27 years.
Monday night, she gave a long political speech during her MDNA show in Washington DC, talking about Abraham Lincoln to Martin Luther King to Obama, browsing history as if she was a real scholar. At this point, you may wonder whether Madonna, with her Evian bottle in one hand and the black-panthers-look of her toy boys behind her, has become the strongest civil rights advocate in the country.
The Beatles! Live! Direct To Radio! WITH LOVE FROM ROCK NYC TO YOU!!!!!!!!!
The only album that has a chance of being worth the price of admission is Tracy and then again… there is a built in catch. If you aren’t being faithful to the original why bother and if you are being faithful to the original, why bother?
Well it’s nearly October so this is a pretty good example of the end results No big surprises either. We may not be able to afford gas or food but screw that I’m not missing One Direction, I can starve. Basically the economy cant be that bad if these acts are raking in the dough!
One For The Money – Royce da 5’9″, Skillz, Diamond D – Eminem made him a star and Slaughterhouse give him some serious competition, but Diamond D is less thrilling here. This is the state of the art in rap, but it lacks something and I don’t mean heart, I mean conviction – Grade: B
It sounded great, but except for the light show, it was all a little boring. Like listening to classical music, opera is fun, classical, all people do is stand around and play and essentially that’s all the Brooklyn based experimental indie rock band does.
Kneeling on stage, Amanda was holding her banjo player by the waist during most of ‘Polly’, giving the best banjo blowjob people had ever seen. The Radiohead cover was cleaner and quieter, and at this point I was wondering whether they would play some of their own songs.
