Rock NYC Live and Recorded
The set was so well paced but it was hard not to be. Regina has so many great songs but is really a schticky chick: she pulls out the Music Hall “Sailor Song” and is as willing to go deep into her Russian roots and pull out a gypsy folkie refrain as an glammy popness or a classical U Turn.
But wow they are really re-launching this CBGB thing full time! A new location, a music festival and now a movie, it is difficult not to see an exploitation of the famous name behind all this
I’m not quite sure why I am even giving this the time of day, its really just a pathetic attempt at shock cuz it isn’t shocking me. Wear an outfit of human skin then maybe I’ll turn my head- this is just sad and desperate.
The movie closes with Conors scribbled lyric and him sitting and singing it, “I can’t live here but I’ll I’ll probably die here…” he moans. It is terrific. Better than anything on the last Bright Eyes
There was obviously some part of calculation in Obama’s decision to speak in favor of gay marriage, it was a very good thing to do, but it is a little laughable when you remember the president’s less-than-pro-gay-marriage declaration when he met with pastor Rick Warren in 2008:
Should there not be some sense of musical education? Should there not be more than just a boat load of standards? Apparently not. Maybe they were available for graduation weekend so they booked them since there were slim pickin’s?
Musically, it is awesome. T-Rex, Curtis Mayfield, Barry White and of course, the one and only Alice Cooper in a cameo.
What can I say, these people live in another century, in another geological period, they keep their women under Burkas, so Gaga in full bra may come as a shock indeed. Muslim extremists have the biggest problem in the world with sexuality, as they come just behind the American Santorum-type.
Mick Jaggersits on a tiny stage with the Ghost of Rock and Roll Future, upstart hipster frauds Arcade Fire, the pathetic excuse for current Ghost of Rock and Roll Present Foo Fighters, and The Ghost of Rock and Roll Past Jeff Beck.
I swore a lot and then I cried like a baby because I’ve never seen anything like that before. It was mindblowing.”
There were warning strokes and a mish mosh of other maladies all screaming headlines of the rockers imminent death. The dude was being circled by vultures for months
who will be providing the figures and why would they open their books and, how does this effect Pandora, where the music is programed more like a radio? What;s to stop a rock band giving bucks to Pandora for additional airplay which will push them further up the charts?
Justin Vernon is a lugubrious bore but his songs can hook you if you don’t have your guard up and while his falsetto at first sounds a form of torture Obama has made illegal against Al Qaeda terrorists (or soldiers: tomatoes, tomartoes), it has grown on me after being inescapable for years
Only The Horses – Scissor Sisters – A loss leader from their upcoming album, this is a disco ballad which takes advantage of Jake’s falsetto on a song that isn’t all there. There is better on the way. – Grade: B
it’s so bombastic and theatrical it could be an Arcade Fire tune sung by Nick-Cave-meets-Ziggy-Stardust, whereas its title is so long it could compete with any Fiona Apple’s song.
Looking at his nerdy 50s look, the large sunglasses and the clean haircut, you may say, this has already been done,… by Elvis Costello years ago, you know, the Buddy Holly look! But Nick Waterhouse probably does not care, he does not care to be compared to people who died a long time ago, because he is living his dream: he said he wanted to record great records, and he just made one, his debut 'Time’s All Gone’, and the late-50s-early-60s have never been so alive.
Can you marry classical music with electronica? That's the bet George Sarah has made for quite some time. I read that since 1985, he has regularly been commissioned by film and TV companies to compose scores for them, and I am not at all surprised after listening to his set at Amoeba on Sunday afternoon. His instrumentals or pieces with vocalist, which were mixing a classic-style violin-cello string section with electronic, synth, and sometimes a guitar or a bass, are truly cinematic. Did I mention that Sarah was previously in the trip hop LA band T.H.C. and was a hard dance music producer? It totally makes sense.
The only other time I have seen,Dante Vs Zombies, frontman Dante White Aliano climbed at the top of a pole supporting the roof of the outdoor stage, and did all kinds of acrobatics at the risk to break his neck. Seriously, what antics could he come up with tonight on the small stage of Amoeba?
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