“She is a terrific dancer – without the explicit moves best left for the privacy of her bedroom. Jay Z is a very shrewd businessman, but I wonder: Does it occur to him that he is arguably crossing the line from husband to pimp by exploiting his wife as a sex object”
Hot 97 Presents: The Tip-Off starring Puff Daddy & Snoop Dogg on February 12 th. 2015. A Thursday, which isn’t a Friday but isn’t a Sunday either. And the chance to see two legends, one of whom stands as the inventor of modern hip hop and the other one of the great voices of rap.
Excuse the second hand psychology, but the lesson here is yes what gets women off is billionaire male models telling them what to do and not love’s first kiss. Oh, also boring music.
Tay nearing the 4 million mark and with “Style” making its way up the singles chart, I bet she adds another 2 million to it AND THAT IS LOCAL. The only new sign of life is Rae Sremmurd, who are kinda fun in their only little way. What else? Next week should see the end of the 1989 at the top after nine weeks -I think Mark or Meghan will unseat her. Stay tuned…
Sure, I went with Billboard’s great picture but I think I wanna take five minutes to praise my God liike genius in claiming “Thinking Out Loud” was the one when I noticed it during a first listen of X. Yes, folks I am the King Of The Pop Universe. and Ed Sheeran owes me (and Taylor) big time.
Peg – Donny Osmond – Completely credible cover with a stellar set of session men (especially whoever is playing lead guitar) behind him and Donny’s soulful take on the Steely Dan classic; Donny is having a whale of a time – A-
I tried to get him to play on the last album but it never happened. So when I put this track together and knew he would be perfect for it I called him and asked if I could send him the rough mix. He said: ‘No, I don’t want to hear it. I’m just going to react to it on the day.’
Rappers are still going strong even those I haven’t heard anything from for a long time, like Diddy ($60 million and $1.90 per second)! Beside this you have Calvin Harris ($66 million and $2.09 per second), Jay Z ($60 million and $1.90 per second), and Drake ($33 million and $1.05 per second)
Never before have they got a song on record as great as the eight minute guitar rock tour de force “Honey Trap”. Not just a standout on the EP, the guitar solo is just… it is amazing, it is pure melody taking over your brain while the band harmonize in the back of the track like a wall of sign.
Never before have they got a song on record as great as the eight minute guitar rock tour de force “Honey Trap”. Not just a standout on the EP, the guitar solo is just… it is amazing, it is pure melody taking over your brain while the band harmonize in the back of the track like a wall of sign.
If rock and roll had another name blah blah bloody blah blah, either you are losing your mind over this or you don’t know enough about rock and roll. No way, man, this is heaven. Wanna know what to buy me? Buy me this and then leave me alone for a mo
Hot 97 Presents: The Tip-Off starring Puff Daddy & Snoop Dogg on February 12 th. 2015. A Thursday, which isn’t a Friday but isn’t a Sunday either. And the chance to see two legends, one of whom stands as the inventor of modern hip hop and the other one of the great voices of rap.
The rock critic establishment of the US (and abroad bu this is NOT a UK list, believe me) have the same consensus as the individual website, lockstep into the ether, bereft of much more than the hive mentality, or do I mean intelligence?
Excuse the second hand psychology, but the lesson here is yes what gets women off is billionaire male models telling them what to do and not love’s first kiss. Oh, also boring music.
It sounds like synth pop with stronger melodies and more smarts than you might epect, the synth soars and a piano motif plays on another track, the entire thing is so lovely and the singer Leanne Macomber is etheral in a good one. It is from the album of the week – A
Squeeze me – N.E.R.D. – A kids song, right? It is like a nursery rhyme set on the high seas and very addictive, vey roiling and rolling with a quirky feel to it but completely enjoyable as well. From “SpongeBob The Movie” – A-
Title – Meghan Trainor – People are a little indifferent to this because it is more of the same. But the same it is more of is completely unique, catchy, doo woppy witty songs of love, near love, close to love, and drummers – ALBUM OF THE WEEK – A
I was so surprised to see that 71-year-old Joni Mitchell becoming the new face for Yves Saint Laurent. The 70’s folk legend was photographed by Hedi Slimane for the designer’s ongoing music project, which has previously featured Ariel Pink, Courtney Love, Kim Gordon and Marilyn Manson
There may be worse ways to review albums than on your work PC, with the sound low, while you do other things. If you know what they are, please send me a little message because I can’t imagine what it is. So consider this the before the first review review, a true sneak peak, a listen and learn a little experience…
At “Charlie Hebdo” the brutality of extremism went up against the freedom of political satirists and extremism lost as the world as one gasped in repugnance. How rock and roll can you get.
After the murder of twelve cartoonists and members of the editorial board of the satiric French magazine “Charlie Hebdo”, the world mostly recoiled, and then Les Flics hunted the terrorists down and it ended up in a bloody shoot out leaving four hostages and two terrorists dead. The moral here is the pen is mightier than the sword unless, of course, somebody has a sword.
That’s right, the cheapest ticket is $125. What world do you pay $125 to hear this hoarse nitwit perform whenever she can be bothered. Lauryn Hill is delusional and this won’t help in the slightest. Forget it refugee…
What a mess the whole thing is, when you know that Mayweather has been in jail for beating up an ex-girlfriend and has been accused of multiple similar incidents with women! As for Bieber, he has been constantly in the news lately
Ain’t That A Kick In The Head – Dean Martin – Like the fella once said, right? Romance as a shocker and Dino manages to sound like a man on a spinning top, swinging from the rafters pop stroking home dreams tuff. The concept? Love makes him sick!- A
Her pleasure is a songwriting purism if not indeed puritanism. She loves writing melodies. “I’m melody driven, that is usually the root where most of my ideas come from. I start with piano or guitar, more guitar, I’m very limited, I’m self-taught, as an instrumentalist really, but guitar will usually suffice.
I don’t know what a happily married Jason Isbell will mean in terms of his future art, but I know I’ll be first in line to check out the results. To borrow a phrase from Van Morrison, Isbell is a working man in his prime right now. It’s nice to see one of the good guys win.
“I think I love”? Oh yes David Cassidy, after all these years I still have a little crush on you and judging from your audience last night at BB Kings, so do many others.
‘All eyes are on us, we’ve become a symbol, just like our cartoons. Humanité headlined ‘Liberty has been assassinated. A huge symbolic weight, that doesn’t exist in our cartoons and is somewhat beyond us, has been put on our shoulders. I’m one amongst many who’s finding that difficult.’
I felt delight this week to see serial killer Karla de los Angeles justifiably gored in a bullring in Mexico City against her largely defenseless opponent. Make no mistake: there is no such thing as bullfighting.
I once spent my Christmas holiday in the UK island Jersey, and it was a small hotel and for a week all the guests were best of friends but then it was over and everyone went their own way. But I ran into the couple purely by accident a couple of weeks later at home, and that’s exactly what the charts feel like in the third week of January. People you’re over.
I just gave Hozier another spin. Maybe I underestimated his voice a little, and the giggle at funerals line is a good one, but I can’t hear anything else as being much ore than Gospel tinged folkieness. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t dislike it at all but I can’t feel anything much more stronger than a lack of contempt. How did it catch on?
I am not convinced. No, not unpleasant at all, but the song is a weak, lame, ethereal thing. It doesn’t hook and the lyric doesn’t help: “Love me like you do, what’re you waiting for” goes the chorus and it is even worse than you think. Pop by a confederacy of dunces – C-
When he is being insincere he remains sincere. There is a forthright emotional tug on “Doesn’t Somebody Want To Be Wanted”, even the spoken word part where he is trying to sound insincere. I really admire the way he enunciates, the way he interprets every word, how he pours himself into his song.
if it is a new career for Love, it’s definitively a modest new beginning. Never mind, the Hole frontwoman is still a diva and makes it very clear, she can relate to the story: the opera is about two Midwestern lovers, who are pulled apart by the woman’s ambition, which takes her to New York City.
telling her story as an artist, a wife, a mother and as one of the first women of rock and roll, in the 80’s and 90’s in New York. ‘Girl in a Band examines the route from girl to woman in uncharted territory, music, art career, what partnership means—and what happens when that identity dissolves
It sounds worse than it reads. It is terrifyingly terrible. Toto are stupendously overblown. If punk rock didn’t exist it would have to be invented to blow this vloated pop off the face of the earth. It makes U2 sound like the Ramones.
considering there are only five albums here, three of them, the last three, are must owns and first among equals is the eagerly awaited came changer for David Bronson. It is hard to guess in this day and age whether an album will find its target audience, but if Bronson does get his songs where they need to be, he will break into the mainstream with Questions.
The Tomas Doncker Band, purveyors of rock nyc’s Album Of The Year, with jazz wild guy Manu Koch and Filton M, perform two sets at the Iridium, Times Square citadel of cool on Wednesday. this looks like the first “wow” gig of the year and shouldn’t be missed.
Why the peanut farmer former POTUS you ask? Because he is giving Bob Dylan this year’s Musicares Award and while I had my doubt as to Jimmy as far as presidents go, I sure don’t hate him. It is hard being the president, really it is. JFK was a great President, Clinton was a great President, but Carter? Well, at least he’s a Dylan fan.
Riding With Elvis – The Plastic Pals – Despite the reference, and despite the tie in to 80IF, this isn’t rockabilly or Americana, it is classic rock with jingle jangle guitars which seem to be in the backseat for the longest time, trying to crawl over the seat, till they finally jump through at the end – B
At 65 years old and a year deep into the MSG , Guinness Book of Records heading stand and he might not be the frisky pitbull of old, when he delivers a full, taking the mic stand and singing at the tip of the stage “It’s Still Rock and Roll to Me” the man is still enthralling
I can’t force a message. That would be posing. I write what I write. Mostly as of now it’s been personal. I’m not a role model. Sure, I have a platform but I’m not interested in preaching, per say. I want to write about what’s on my mind and on my heart at the moment.
Then, followed an avalanche of tweets criticizing the video and accusing it to promote pedophilia? Because Shia is 28 and Maddie only 12? But they hardly touch each other and when they do, it is done the way dancers do it, softly, gracefully
Wherever Is Your Heart – Brandi Carlisle – Nice strummy track by an arriveste country songwriter with the gift. This is a moving track, and I guess 2015 will find a new album finally – A-
Talk To You – The Small Faces – This is Steve Marriott feeling his way to the soul singer he would be a little later, he isn’t at “Little Tin Soldier” levels but he has the chops for it, and on this piece of garage soul, he seems miles from psychedelia but not miles from the Stones circa 12 x 5, less cool and more heart.
You’d expect it to be a snapshot of current popular music, not really so involved in demo, or hipness, but an overview, with battling POV bands, something for everyone. But it isn’t. Where is pop music, country, hip hop, reggae and classic rock.
That is Crystal Torres singing back up and she sounds excellent, better still is the mid rap, lots of ratter splatter fast , “Keep it metal gear solid, lead the leaders, that’s how you file it, then clobber it / Low on energy, find peach cobbler then gobble it,” Good advice as well – A-
Hollie’s gift is her melody and her temperament, watching her is like being accosted by a sunflower, is perfect for what she does. The tunes are sweet, light, but they get you there, and songs like “Desdemona”, “99” and set opener “Ari Up”
I programmed sound frequencies a little bit differently in left and right sides so when they are heard together they produce a third frequency which can be heard just inside of our heads,’
These artists died to defend our rights to speak against anything, to be able to criticize anything, even religion. Having the right to discuss and criticize any opinions is an essential human emancipation
