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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’.
Now I am certainly no fan of these bands, but apparently, it was a real surprise beside the already established fact that Scott Weiland has really been fired from the band. Guitarist Dean DeLeo had this to say: ‘Chester has a one-of-a-kind voice that we’ve admired for a long time. We know Linkin Park will always be his priority, but we thought it would be cool to try something together.
Check it out there is NOTHING on Thursday. After all of my years of doing this its the first time there were no musical guests listed for a day. That is actually a blessing this week considering that Bret Michaels is everywhere
I panned the Lovato album but I’ll giver her the benefit of the doubt on the single, which is power pop dance style. But the surprise is Chris Malenchak’s superb lover’s rock meets dance and whoever wrote that bass line that opens the song should be signed.
20 year old Gabrielle Alpin is a talented enough singer songwriter and she is cuter than Bobby Gillipsie hence the picture but while yet to be release Stateside, an early stream off Youtube suggest the Primal Scream album is an epic rocker in a league with XTRMNTR.
This is a good list, it opens with the Killers best song and continues with Paramore’s best song then two great songs off the excellent new George Strait album, along with a terrific remix by Guetta and four songs, all good stuff though not all released, by four bands I want to play the rock nyc presents gigs.
Kanye West is a perfect irreverent ending to SNL’s season. When he isn’t busy being an outspoken knob or an egotistical maniac with his mug projected on buildings, he’s an artist who actually has the right to be arrogant. Such amazing words flow seamlessly from his inflated ego and big mouth.
Extended acoustic sets typically have a noticeable deficit in the oomph department and this night was not the exception
“Over And Over” off the EP sounds like a 1960s Cilla Black cover, without Cilla Black or the back up band and stripped of everything till it’s just a voice and a guitar lick. If that sounds like your thing you are really in for a treat.
New York (or New Jersey should I say?) has intellectual punk Titus Andronicus making all these references to Albert Camus and Shakespeare. Los Angeles has riotous punk FIDLAR making references to coke, weed, skates and cheap beers… Both bands are young and bring tons of punk energy to their shows but don’t seem to come from the same place… existentialism versus teenage boredom,
You can count on Kayne West to stick to humbleness and lo-fi self-presentation,… nah the rapper who has recently introduced himself as ‘God’, has just decided to project a video of his face singing his new single on 66 different buildings around the globe.
The Killers have released a new video for their song ‘Here With Me’ off their 2012 album ‘Battle Born’, and I suppose that the most interesting part of it is that the clip was directed by Tim Burton and stars Winona Ryder. Oohhh it’s so Edward Scissorhands I guess!
As far as 'live' music videos go- this is a lame ass video. Very little crowd interaction bad lighting jerky camera and virtually no change in perspective. That being said its the only bad thing about Craig Mabbits new 'side' project Dead Rabbits. The Escape The Fate frontman (who took over for the rogue Ronnie Radke when he went to the clink) proves his chops in this latest tune "Edge of Reality".
You know what the famous comedian W.C. Fields said about never working with children or animals. Nevertheless, the Los Angeles Indie Band Saint Motel took the risk to perform with Miles Andrew Brown aka Baby Boogaloo, an extremely cute 7-year-old dancer, and they even made him the star of the video for their song ‘Benny Goodman’!
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