Rock NYC Live and Recorded
The music was flooding the space and the monster sound was the kind of thing my iPhone couldn’t handle – I tried to film a little bit when the guard wasn’t watching but it sounds like crap. It was big and grandiose, dramatic and powerful, with songs that had the effect of a roller coaster fast ride according to the happy ‘yaahooooos’ the guys around me were making
Like the entire evening, it was all a case of he who lives by the pop rocker that pops will die by the pop rocker that flops. Come back the Vandals all is forgiven.
rst, let me rave a bit about their young lead guitarist, the enigmatically named Sadler Vaden. Whether the song required soulful blues, piercing slide guitar, tidal wave metal riffs and solos, or simple punk rock chords, Vaden hit every mark perfectly. Expert timing, wonderful tone. He knows when to lay back and when to take the reins
I don’t care about the helmets, it’s just a gimmick, but they make 80s disco music that I have heard a million times before. Nevertheless, according to NME, they ‘are on course for the fastest selling album of 2013 with Random Acess memories’
Musicians who want to make a difference in a community that is not their own and selflessly give is a wonderful thing, regardless of whether or not you assume they’re doing it for the press. What Blink 182 has done was recognise that they could make a serious difference, which this auction will do.
The good news is that Alice’s greatest hits filled setlist could’ve come at just about any post- Welcome To My Nightmare period, the bad news is so could the special effects and the good news is that the cheesiness of Cooper’s special effects are part of the charm
Today Avril spends more time planning weddings and hanging off arms than any musical rabble rousing. Shes done, but her days were great so lets not discount that. Shes on the chat circuit now and this is where it becomes a bore. When you’re that young and already doing interviews about your ‘glory days’ its sorta sad.
I know Jack Phillips pretty well and so have been privy to the arrangements leading up to his performance Tuesday night at Don’t Tell Mamas, and it has been exhaustive. But this is a major concert and Phillips will have a band accompany his performance of songs off Cafe Nights In New York as well as songs from the American Standards songbook. Let’s hope he decides to give us “I Remember You And Paris.
“Don’t sell your soul for the beans of this world,” the last Dancehall master standing advises on “One Life”. He shoulda told that to his contemporary Buju but maybe he did as this is Sizzla’s 70th (as in SEVENTY) album. More of the same, smooth calypso like reggae rhythms and throaty vocals while the Bobo Shanti subscribers preaches. Amazingly enough, this is near perfect reggae – ALBUM OF THE WEEK – A-
Begun and ended with songs from the Alkaline Trio, the Lawrence Arms tracks is completely new to me but added to “Crawl” Friday night, it rocked my world. Aaron and Jack both have concerts next week. And in between the deep album cuts which are a gift for writing a weekly album review column.
This guy is pure perv but someone blended in to that ‘gushy stuff’ is a comedy that I cannot resist. On this rainy night I headed to Springfield MA to see Mr. Worldwide. Springfield is infamous for its Latin community and bad ass gangs.
he dark and tiny nightclub – I have been inside several times and it’s quite small, especially the toilets! – was originally opened by Johnny Depp, and has been the place to be on a Saturday night since the 90s, the place where some celebrities like Mick Jagger, Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Billy Idol, or Iggy Pop would occasionally make a surprise apparition late at night
There is nothing wrong with mankind’s ADHD when it comes to injustice. We’re just trying to pay our bills and not kill our bosses to really spend too much time worrying about rebellious entertainers and their antics. I mean c’mon this week we had terror slashings and tornadoes, some freak Russian broad falls of the radar pretty quick.
She is an English actress and model named Elarica Gallacher and she is still gorgeous and she is playing Marvin Gayes wife (second wife is my bet, she sure ain’t Berry Gordy’s sister) in the Marvin Gaye movie waiting in the wings.
Vampire Weekend actually have three songs that could appear on this list at any given time, “Unbelievers” is the third. As for The National, I only got it Thursday morning so it is bubbling somewhere in the back of my pleasure zone but hasn’t worked its way all the way there. Holy Ghost! tonight as part of the all night DFA Records celebrations by the by.
Lana Mir World Dommination Tour
Here we go again, through the past darkly with a look back at four years of Mays and starting with one of the loveliest singers rock nyc ever ever covered. This is another case where I could’ve sworn she would’ve broken through but it is such a crap shoot. She had the songs, the looks, the smarts but four years later…
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Screw Spotify
This morning I weakened and bough a copy of The National’s Trouble Will Find Me off ITunes.
I am not a huge National fan, if I were I would have bought it on Tuesday when it was released, the same way I did with Vampire Weekend. Tuesday is new music day and there is so much on Spotify I won’t usually buy much off Itunes. If Spotify don’t have the new T.I. I’ll pass for now.
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stop and smell the music
Catchy title dont ya think? There is currently a movement to scent DVD’s. Yup, movies scented like popcorn or pizza and if you’re not a streamer you’ll be graced with scent warmed on the ink of the disc.
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