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Feb 06 Pissed Jeans At Le Poisson Rouge, Friday, February 4th, 2012, Reviewed
I like the liquidity, there is something sinuous about the band as they go about the hardcore rituals they are saddled with.Even the name Pissed Jeans suggest things about bodily fluids and discharges. They slip and slide through punk, prog, hardcore. They are lizard kings of jeans
Posted 06 February 2012 by Iman Lababedi  Add comment
Feb 06 Luther Russell at Origami Vinyl on Saturday February 4th, 2012, Reviewed
he started singing the western-ambiance-hymn-to-Jesus ‘Long Lost Friend’, and some melancholic instrumentals that sounded right away very familiar
Posted 06 February 2012 by Alyson Camus  Add comment
Feb 06 Top 10 Musical Inventions
Though we may not think about it, there are many inventions that have revolutionized not only how we hear music, but how it’s created. Here are some pretty fantastic innovations that are totally noteworthy
Posted 06 February 2012 by Mary Magpie  Add comment
Feb 06 Madonna’s Half Time Super Bowl Show Reviewed
So with the world watching, Madonna enters the field to Vogue, as though she is three types of Cleopatra’s and proceeds to, well, vogue. The sound is loud and tinny, and, never a particularly melodic song, it is all dance moves and bass bottom. Who is playing? Sounds like DJs and backing tapes to me.
Posted 06 February 2012 by Iman Lababedi  Add comment
Feb 06 “Here Come’s The Sun”, Beatle Guitar Solo Discovered
I have stated before how fantastic it can be to hear a song through different channels but what was found here is a pretty slamming guitar solo. In this video, at about 1:01 is the lightbulb moment when the solo is discovered.
Posted 06 February 2012 by Helen Bach  Add comment
Feb 06 Why Doesn’t Justin Vernon Want To Play The Grammy’s? Because He’s A Big Egoed Tool
Vernon was actually asked to perform as part of a performance with another artist, as he explained: ‘We wanted to play our music, but were told that we couldn’t play. We had to do a collaboration with someone else’.
Posted 06 February 2012 by Alyson Camus  Add comment
Feb 06 The Cult and Flo Rida, Mash Up The Super Bowl
One game two teams and everyone has something to say about it. You’re either a football fan or your a Superbowl fan, the line blurs. Its really a day for non sport fans to eat wings and scream in the living room without the commitment of actually supporting a team.
Posted 06 February 2012 by Helen Bach  Add comment
Feb 06 La Dispute on tour for “Wildlife”
When good bands tour together, it’s a sign that music isn’t complete rubbish. La Dispute, Balance and Composure, Sainthood Reps and All Get Out are all doing a tour in North America.
Posted 06 February 2012 by Mary Magpie  Add comment
Feb 06 Television Light: February 6-12
Die Antwoord is on Letterman, theyre freaky as hell and everyone spells it Die Antwood, which is amussing. But best of all? The freakin Fray- yup the white rice of rock and roll, there to sit like a lump in your brain. Mindless shotglass of bile..Id rather swallow a remote.
Posted 06 February 2012 by Helen Bach  Add comment
Feb 06 Pick Concerts Week Of February 6th, 2012
Representing the English glam hard rock which would morph Stateside into hair metal, UK band the Darkness return to Irving Plaza on Monday. Expect lots of recycled riffing and some killer melodies Foxy Shazzam opening.
Posted 06 February 2012 by Iman Lababedi  Add comment
Feb 06 UK Top Ten Albums, February 11th, 2012
The problem with Lana’s album is the great thing about Cohen’s: the production. It is so de rigeur. The beats are so received, so often heard, so similar and so kinda out of place. Whatever you wanna say about Cohen, it sounds exactly like itself
Posted 06 February 2012 by Iman Lababedi  Add comment
Feb 06 Lana Del Rey On Letterman
I Born To Die is an excellent album, I thought she was fine on SNL and though I am a touch tired of “Video Games” by now, she is first rate here, singing the aforementioned on the Letterman Show.
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Feb 06 UK Top Ten Singles, February 11th, 2012
Dance is changing over the last couple of months. If its emotional concerns are still somewhat on the lame side, the flip is a musical deepening of the sound. “We Found Love” is one, “Titanium” is another
Posted 06 February 2012 by Iman Lababedi  Add comment
Feb 06 MFT 2-6-12
Grooveallegiance -Funadelica – I am so excited to be seeing the great man on Wednesday and it gives me the perfect excuse to blast Funkadelica and Parliament for days on end. To be reasonable about it, what else could I want?
Posted 06 February 2012 by Iman Lababedi  Add comment
Feb 05 Iman and hel do SNL: Bon Iver
With his face covered by two microphones and a beard and a seven piece band, including four horns, muffling in the back ground, and between the lot of them they whispered into the night.
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Great Vampire Weekend Profile In the New Yorker

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Thursday, 31 December 2009 23:40
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There’s a real fun profile of Vampire Weekend in Cali in the current issue of the New Yorker.

By editorial staff member Lizzie Widdecombe.

A lotta good stuff here. The meeting with Blink 182′s Tom Delonge is priceless and the Sheriff asking them if they’ve accepted Jesus is worth the read alone.

They are only offering an abstract on line (and the double issue is a mindboggling $5.99 – I am happy I subscribe) but here it is anyway. They’ll prolly post the whole thing in a week or two. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/01/04/100104fa_fact_widdicombe

 

Gaze Into The Future… It is 2010…

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Thursday, 31 December 2009 23:03
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What does the future bring? Nobody knows, nobody knows but me….


Arcade Fire – The newbie is Pitchfork’s # 1 album of the year, the Stones # 9 album, Spins #5 album. Doesn’t actually sell any copies.

The Cribs – Will change their name to Cribplay and still not crack the  States.

Bob Dylan – Takes the day off touring. Spends it dressed as Santa Claus scaring his Grandkids in the middle of March.

Kanye West – Holds a press conference, apologizes, requests privacy as he works through his problems. Nobody knows what he has done but it must be bad.

Kid Cudi - Opens fire on his audience at a club in Delaware. Holds a press conference, apologizes,  requests  privacy as he works through his problems.

Helen Bach -  Surprises everybody by marrying Mick Jones . Discovers to her dismay, it’s the Foreigner Mick Jones and not the Clash one. Divorces him and marries Paul Simonon instead.

Iman Lababedi – gives up day job to sequence drum machines.

Justin Furstenfeld – Cancels all Blue October activity, severely distressed over Helen Bach’s marriage. He holds a press conference, apologizes, requests privacy as he works through his problems.

Lady Gaga - Stops the big stage production. Goes on stage with a band, sings her songs. “Musicians should try this,” she says. Then she holds a press conference, apologies and asks for privacy as she works through her problems
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Love Via Dance Machine – Tour all year, hit puberty at a Vans Warp festival in August.

Mary Magpie – Switches to guitar, forms a band, bans Rock NYC from her concerts.

Mike Nessing – Finds the band of his dreams, a Zappa cover band, all of whom have beards and all of who have died in a car crash.

Phish – Have a bad trip. Hold a press conference. Apologize. request privacy as they work through their problems.

R. Kelly – Arrested for not having sex. Holds a press conference. Apologizes. “I have a problem,” Kelly admits. “Sometimes I can go hours without feeling horny.” His wife requests ”Privacy while we deal with this personal tragedy and so I can finish my homework”.

Robin Thicke – Admits he is really Will Downings with a bad headache.

Shinobi Ninja – Move to Cali, open a club, rule the State and secede from the Union.

Solange Knowles – Forms a band with Tune-Yard. Will only play the Bell House and songs can’t be downloaded out of the Brooklynn area.

The Strokes – Not seen all year. Believed to be hold up in U2′s studio in Belfast.

Taylor Swift – Interrupted while giving her acceptance speech for best supporting actress by George Jones who says “Imma let you finish, but George Strait deserves this:.

U2 – Admit that everybody who wants to see U2 have seen U2 and curtail their five year tour. Bono speaks at the United Nations. Apologizes. requests privacy as he works through his problems.

Vampire Weekend -Move to LA, , join  the young Republicans, run for Governor of California on an our parents will make up the deficit with their own money.

 

Nearly Missed This One…

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Thursday, 31 December 2009 22:15
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Off Phrazes For The Young, hidden behind a terribly dreary bass synth intto, lies Casablancas proto-country drinking song of your dreams, “Ludlow St.”.

The song soon segues into a synchopated waltz but a tweak of the arrangement and it’s true nature becomes clears: Dan McGee would love it.  George Jones could sing  it. And we could all get fucked up to it “Everything seems to go wrong when I start drinking,  everything seemed to go my way last night,” Casablancas swings in the best opening couplet since “Waking Up Drunk”.

Soon the problem (hereafter referred to as Nicki) becomes clear: “While I surrendered my ego you fed yours, all my fantasies died when you said yours, I have dangled my pride to forget yours, will my mind be at ease when I get yours? ”

All well and good plus it’s Julian’s most New York song on the album, Ludlow Street is on the Lower East Side and though it’s not Bleeker (and, isn’t it a little late to worry about gentrification), it’s as good a place to get toasted as anywhere.

Real good song.