Rock NYC Live and Recorded
As soon as they stepped on stage, and crowd pushed forward. Luckily I was to the side and wasn’t being swallowed by all the people. There were a lot of fans in attendance; the majority of the crowd knew the words, and I was one of em
So who gets 2 Million streams? I just took a look and Macklemore and Lewis did 3.7M streams of “Can’t Hold Us”, so that makes about $160,000 in revenue of which the band get MAYBE 25%.
Curiously, we have a tendency to think that uplifting music or some other upbeat stimulus would cheer us up in this case, effectively wouldn’t you think to console a friend who is going through a bad break-up by bringing him to some cheerful event for example? But hell no, this research totally contradicts the common opinion
Apparently these guys were on a different time zone and every act was behind an hour. Sad news for labels like Fearless Records who tweet Mayday Parade (aka ‘Breadsticks’) is on at 7:15 and they come on after 8. Seriously, how amateur can you be? I have been to so many festivals and theyre precision timing.
It was fun to read, Helen writes with a great deal of energy and the article itself is very clear and extremely well constructed, flipping from one generation of women to the other from hippies to punks and finally to the child who encapsules all of it.
After a spate of deaths in March and April, the Grim Reaper has been passing on musicians for the past couple of weeks. Not that it helps Dr. Joyce Brothers any and which Helen went through cartwheels to include even scaring up an interview Dr. Brothers conducted with Kiss. But no. Taylor Meade on the other hand…
he band has effectively done a certain number of cover songs, and this is not an easy art. If everybody can learn somebody else’s song, not everyone can appropriate it, transform it without torture it, and QOSTA does exactly this: they manage to make the songs their owns by injecting in them their unique sound, while always remaining loyal to the originals.
Obviously, Daft Punk is gonna be the big seller, but Christopher Paul Stelling, the brilliant folk singing who builds his own guitars, is the one I have the highest hopes for, especially after hearing “Brick x Brick” . Elsewhere… the Nationals and Darius Rucker look like keeper to me.
Alkaline Trio are because a) I just watched “The Muppets Movie” and b) I am going to see em on Friday. Tom Petty is a highlight from an iffy setlist, the mess of “A”s #5 – # 9 are all new releases and Johnny Taylor reminds me of a disco band that used to cover it in a Beirut club called “Venus”.
I’ve always loved the Doors myself even if those in the know got muzzled by Morrisson’s over the top coyote blues poetics, Manzarek steadied the sound for a pop world. By the end, by the time of Morrison Hotel and LA Woman, the band were where they needed to be.
This is when it hit me that FOB is truly the greatest band of our generation. They have such stage presence, and I can’t say often enough how insanely phenomenal Patrick’s voice was.
A terrible singalong moment: “I have soul but I’m not a soldier”. They might as well be singing “I’m in tune but I l’m not a tuna”.
I would love to hear the True Believers play live with a proper sound system and I’d also love to see them perform a full set. After forty minutes, the Grapevine Main Street Festival organizers told the band to exit the stage. The True Believers were booted for being too loud.
I kept hearing a combination of Deborah Harry and Ronnie Spector, by virtue of the power in her voice. And that was the key – the power in her voice. It was a close-your-eyes moment as she sang
People had heard about the news and a nice crowd had gathered in front of the club where the Rolling Stones played just a few weeks ago. Err, no they didn’t cover the Stones, but they did cover The Who by the way, and I think it was ‘A Quick One While He’s Away’.
Hands, an LA indie band signed by Kill Rock Stars, put on a show with an exuberant energy at the Echoplex on Thursday night. The singer, Geoff Halliday, restlessly bouncing around and the quartet seemed to be more than happy to be there. There was a feeling of freedom and joy exulting from their electronic-pop open soundscapes and honestly with Halliday running around the stage, it looked as if they had let their wilder animal run free in all directions.
Honestly, these HOTT MT kids were plain weird, trying to be too weird or having a genuine taste for weirdness? I can’t tell but they performed at the Echoplex on Thursday night in front of a very enthusiastic crowd. Since their cross country trip (a 22-hour drive!) to stalk Wayne Coyne, give him their last record and persuade him to record a song with them, they have put their name on the Pitchfork-Spin-Rolling-Stone map, so this was obviously a bold but very good move! Coyne tweeted ‘Some weirdos showed up on my porch … They drove all the way from LA to bring me a birthday gift!!’ but far from freaking out – something inconceivable for the Flaming Lips’ frontman – he collaborated on their track ‘Never Hate Again’ and even appeared during the band’s last appearance at SXSW last March. Also, HOTT MT are featured on the leading track of The Flaming Lips' last album, 'The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends', meaning that everything seems to work their way, Lips-wise.
Am I too old to be first row at a Wavves’ gig? Probably, but I just wanted to take a few pictures, however they turned out all fuzzy and blurry with all that pushing-jumping-bouncing-surfing energy emerging from the crowd. The two nice girls chatting behind me gave me a tap in the back as if they wanted to excuse themselves to have bumped into me at the first crowd eruption. That was very nice, but you were kidding right? You knew it would be like this from start to finish right? I don’t know what happened to these girls, the whole show was so out of focus through the lens of my camera, and once I was caught in this sea of sweaty sticky stinky bodies, there was no escape, I was stuck there till the end, with that constant fight or flight response telling me there was peril all around.
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