I was trying my bag on to the car and I had a bunch of other things too and I dropped my phone, which I’ve dropped around 100 times and he hasn’t broken, and it landed on its back and it broke the screen. $700 later and I am listening to 1989 non stop, I’m sure I’ll get round to downloading the rest of my music, till then: the best 5 songs on the new Taylor Swift album:
Why haven’t I heard of Kevin Morby before? He has a strong voice and some outstanding songs, some are as breezy as a Dylan-esqe dream.
Now don’t get me wrong there are nostalgia tours, and I have even found myself busting out ‘From Under The Cork Tree’ now and then but I cant exactly imaging camping out to see them any longer. Their five minutes are up but with families and bills to pay its time to make more music launch tours and get cracking.
Of course, this is the biggest concert of the season, maybe the second biggest Jingle Ball ever. 2012 clips it because Taylor Swift and One Direction clip Taylor Swift and 5 Seconds Of Summer even if Tay is a bigger star than ever right now. Even so, Meghan Trainor, Calvin Harris, Iggy Azalea… geez a who’s who for pop 2014 that’s for sure. This Friday AT MSG, it is Jingle Ball time.
Well after a whole lot of back and forth with financiers and hot shots it was determined that this film would never be made- well it was but the harsh reality is this beauty is getting the ‘straight to DVD’ status. Sorta sad isn’t it.
I like Royce but anticipating? I am sick of Ghostface and never liked Angels & Airiwaves. So it is between the Smashing Pumpkins and J. Cole. The songs off the SP album already released are uniformly excellent but J. Cole was so great on stage this year, I’m going with him.
can we pause a moment to say if Idina Menzel doesn’t shut the hell up soon we’re all going to go insane? After wailing through Wicked we now get to hear her squelching us to ‘Let it Go”..girl, you gots to go
Will I support Warped? Hell yes I will. They need a mom on board but now when I attend it’s with the jaded eye of a skeptic, what will they do next to sour my romanticized version of the event? I can’t even imagine but I have faith in Kevin Lyman and his band of masterminds to not make this Disneyworld
She was hoping to make a film that revealed a deeper understanding of Kurt than had been depicted in the media. While several parties control rights to Kurt’s music, Courtney and her daughter, are the sole rights holders to Kurt’s belongings, which are used quite readily throughout the film
To say that she was ahead of her time doesn’t begin to cover it. She was working out in a gym full of guys at a time when such a thought was anathema to women. She was a strict vegetarian and animal rights activist before it was fashionable.
We here at rocknyc have never had a problem discussing this topic. Fact is our society frowns upon it and hide as you like it happening all the time and in your town. Rock and Rollers just happen to have an entourage that can protect them from being ‘exposed
Apple is being sued for allegedly removing from iPods, songs that were purchased on rival companies’ download services! You mean like Amazon?? I still have all my Amazon downloads so I am not sure I understand why it happened to some people but this is what they claim…
Pussy Riot were the punk rock agitators of the gangster era Russia Putin reign, and got jailed for their efforts and then got out of jail, quit on music but got involved in the serious world of information decimation which is where they are right now.
Save The Last Dance For Me – Leonard Cohen – You have to hear this, the picture late night song sung in a rasp and a wince and a warning, the Drifters had the teenage angst, but Cohen gets there slowly – A
With a full band behind him, Cat commanded the stage with an off handed self-confidence which had the audience jumping up and down like izitsos and a seriously great set list, the show highlighted everything we loved and a couple of things we don’t love about him
Spot sounded like the funniest guy you have ever met, he had a super expressive face, with a bon vibrant look and high-pitched voice, spending almost 20 minutes talking with each person who was on line. rising his arms in the air at each story told, examining carefully each Black Flag memorabilia put in front of him
‘It didn’t affect me as much right after as it did about four or five years later,’ she said. ‘It hit me so hard. I was so traumatized by it that I was like, ‘Just keep going,’ because I just had to get out of there.’
“I have people who come in and say, ‘Hey, I hear you used to be a singer. I’m still a singer. But the priority is somewhere else for now. I’m working my ass off, and I’m exhausted. But I’m happy. I’m really happy. I was emotionally exhausted for years. This is different, and good.”
“Diablo Love” gave Doncker the impetus for his Howlin’ Wolf covers album and stood up as a brilliant conceptualization for the Devil at the crossroads so much the heart of the blues. But for Christmas Preisser is tackling God from the other side:
rock nyc’s resident B-52’s fanatic Michael Malone must be salivating as he reads this the great Queen Of The Beehive Kate Pierson is releasing a solo album. One of the most distinctive personalities in rock and roll, if Kate didn’t exist John Winters would have had to invent her
Ask yourself, what would you think of this kitchen sink dance track if it wasn’t Gwen? It is a mediocre dance track with a fun hook for sure, but it ain’t no hollaback girl, the “hey get off my cloud” is a nice line in patter but like many an aging zeitgeist bearer before, she seems a step behind- B
I regret missing the Getotbeds last week, their current album Poor People Are Revolting is as clever as its title. Otherwise in a quiet week, Simple Minds still bring it, the Cat Stevens was an outlier on the blues album, the new Ezra is a doozy, and the new Mary J is like finding a Sam Smith song from his new album you didn’t know existed.
Always – Willie Nelson And Sister Bobbi – Always a pleasant song no doubt, but can he take it any slower. Look, I get it Willie is an old pothead with a sweet melodious voice and he can make music via alchemy but he can’t make invigorating music by alchemy and this is really faded love – B
There are hundreds of cases similar to this one, leading to convictions, proving that the legal system doesn’t get rap at all, that it doesn’t consider ‘rap as form of artistic expression’, ignoring the fact that rappers use stage names or frequent ‘metaphor and hyperbole’, never being able to separate the art from its author’s own life
This is a great come back as the fury contained in this second song, ‘Surface Envy’, truly demonstrates it. The descending crescendo of the guitar starting the song with the pounding drums combined with Tucker’s famous yell are a total thrill, it’s an empowering full-force ride that culminates into some serious damage
McLagan played keys on Every Picture Tells A Story and Never A Dull Moment (OMG: that’s him on “Los Paraguayos”), and has played with everybody from Taj Mahal to Bob Dylan -Townshend, the Stones, Chuck Berry… the list is huge and you can check it out yourself on ianmclagan.con
At the time, punk felt like the most incredible thing that had ever ever happened, it took the world, it took the entire rock world of the UK, cpsized it, and the US followed even though neither the Sex Pistols nor punk rock had the blindest chance of maintaining it.
From “Bindfolded” to “Spirited Away” this is a consistently focussed collection of songs which will give Simple Minds more than a hanger to place their hits onand when they hit it right, on the title track for instance, they are indeed alive and kicking.
Billboard claim their new mix and match has affected the placement of Ariana Grande in firmaments, because it was streaming that accounted for enough of her sales to push her onto the top ten: “It moved 72,000 units for the week, heavily powered not just by album sales (47,000), but also track equivalent albums (19,000) and streaming equivalent albums (6,000)”
There seems to be zero change here from before they were counting streams –this is exactly what you’d expect, and if every 10 sales equals 1500 streams it might be a long time before you do whatever the claim is. By the way, Bruno Mars? James Brown is so great even lame ass copies sound good.
The Dean And I (Live) – 10cc – If 10cc are the English Steely Dan, this is the 10cc “Reeling In The Years” –a great farewell to Manchester University. The live stuff is meaningless –it aint that alive and the original is where to get the humdrum out – B+
It is just bad news, it’s just nasty stuff, forcing people who can’t afford it to dig deeper is U2’s MO, they always do it and now they’ve done it again. Hell, even Taylor Swift gave the presale codes free to her fanbase, don’t U2 have enough money where they are forcing us to dig even deeper; U2 have only one thing to tell us: shut up and pay me. Innocence postponed.
Isn’t it ridiculous? She has lived for 5 minutes and there is an exhibit about her life! On display through May 10th 2015, you will be able to see: Taylor’s early childhood reading books, never-before-seen family and childhood photos, tour costumes from the RED Tour, handwritten lyrics for the hit “22”, her 2009 GRAMMY Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance for “White Horse…
I can’t defend Greg Ginn, because by all accounts, he doesn’t seem to be a nice person, but marijuana withdrawal? It is not even proven it is addictive, and I doubt it can reach the point to make you vomit? Honestly I have also dirty dishes in my sink today,… so everything is relative
It took me nine months of writing “overrated” about Lorde before catching her at Roseland and changing my mind, it was a live show which we me round on the Drums as well. These three artists I essentially dismissed, some of them for a couple of years!, but changed my mind…
As my friend, Allmusic Assistant Editor Mark Deming put it: I think the list should be called “Several of the best albums of 2014, and a few that were made by Jann Wenner’s close friends.” Yes, exactly.
However, I love both of Lana’s albums and it should be something of real interest Love opening for her. It could be the worst thing ever seen by man, or it could be better than it has any right to be. Either way, Lana and Courtney are touring next year
Mistaken Identity – Wu Tang Clan – Pushing back and pushing drugs, 20 years later and everything is where it was, nothing has changed except easily the most interesting Wu is dead – B
Rock Or Bust – AC/DC – with Malcolm Young retired and his nephew Steve Young the replacement, you’d think, you know, maybe they’d slacken a little on the rumble tumble riffs and juggernaut rhythms. Not a chance. Nobody and no worse than anything else they’ve ever recorded, more songs about rock and roll and girls – ALBUM OF THE WEEK A-
Compiling footage from almost every stop on the Yeezus tour to make one cohesive film. Using professional and gorilla style footage. The film flows beautifully and not a single major aspect of the Yeezus tour goes unnoticed. Detail was crucial and over seven months of work went into this proje
‘I was very interested in what I could take and what I could do. I looked upon the body as a laboratory – I used to throw in this chemical and then that one to see what would happen; I was intrigued by that.’
FKA Twigs – Terminal 5 – December 8th, 2014 – A ferociously gifted yet oddly mutated soul girl raised on UK trip hop and MIA, gave a dazzling performance for the ages in support of her brilliant debut album and left us all in awe.
The 80s country superstar, had the twang and the bite and a great band most of the time to be the biggest star of the decade. Although a country fella, who crossed over into punk and new wave playing the local club scene in L.A. This track is a Lefty Frizzell cover and he plays it straight with a yodel in his voice.
Soldier’s Don’t Back Down – Idris Elba – world Music via South Africa, you expect Paul Simon to interrupt any second and claim copyright infringement, but this is the way African soul should sound. great chorus: simple but it gets you there – B+
The more I hear from these Mercury Prize winning, Scottish via Africa, stunningly rich music, this song may be their best, the happier I am I picked up a ticket to catch em at MHOW next year. A haunting, very lovely electronic based but isn’t that hook just a piano note, us one of the best sounds you’ll hear this year – A
Let’s give Bruce Springsteen this much at least: given the opportunity to release his inner Bono, to go to that place where low culture reaches high, he didn’t falter.
This is BBC’s list of bands they predict big things for in 2015, and they’ve been known to get it right.. BBC asked 140 influential music industry experts, DJs, critics, broadcasters and bloggers and, shock, only found one Stateside artist out of the 15 being touted.
How did this happen? Not that I ‘m shocked, they always give mesmerizing live performances and their music is… oh let’s just listen to Charlie himself, who declared to Rolling Stone: ‘These kids are the real deal. It’s like Led Zeppelin and the Beatles had a baby, and it was raised by wolves.’ And I can’t believe I am approving what this guy is saying!
if you visit the new Interpol website, you will see a picture of the mural that Shepard made in Brooklyn to honor the release of Interpol’s single, off their latest album ‘El Pintor’. And because this album seems to be all about anagram (El Pintor is an anagram of Interpol) the mural features ‘The Very Growing Sin’, an anagram of the single ‘Everything Is Wrong’!
Hollywood High – Mike Hudson And The Pagans – Cleveland rocks, even in LA, even 30 years after the fact, nothing is lost and nothing is left behind on this terrific punk, yeah, but just for a name because this label less hard rock.
