She & Him at Sasquatch 2010 Photo : Shawn Anderson ( more ) May 27 Les Racquet Buy Tickets Amex presale begins: Wed, 05/08/13 12:00 PM Mercury Lounge New York, NY [...]
Scottish indie rockers Frightened Rabbit turn Cheap Trick's "Surrender" into very Scottish indie rock sort of tune.
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Exclusive , The Hit List Getty The documentary " Searching For Sugar Man " received the Oscar for Best Documentary in February. It's about a singer named Rodriguez who was virtually unknown in his home country of the U.S., but was incredibly popular in South Africa and it's only now thanks to the movie's success that North Americans are doubling back and figuring [...]
During a pivotal scene in American Psycho, Christian Bale's character manically waxed poetic about the music of Huey Lewis & The News , declaring "Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost." It was that album that propelled the Bay Area-based band into stardom, spawning four Top 10 singles - [...]
The Internet is a strange, strange place. As we noted yesterday, Gerard Way penned an epic letter about My Chemical Romance's breakup, but in certain corners of the web, fans are flat-out refusing to believe it, and expressing their disappointment in the most quintessentially MCR way — by penning fanfiction wherein the band continues to exist forever! The world of MCR fanfic is a strange, hilarious place, but it's by no means home to the weirdest fanfic you'll find out there. And so, to celebrate the, um, devotion of a certain breed of music fans, here's a selection [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Exclusive Rick Diamond, WireImage "Ladies and gentleman, it's going to be a long fucking night," suggested Dave Grohl at the onset of his marathon Sound City Players SXSW set. "Buckle up." The Foo Fighters frontman was not effin' kidding. Three-and-one-half hours later, Grohl and a host of famous friends finished their apparently last-ever Sound City Players performance (which [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News Mike Lawrie, Getty Images "It's going to be a long fucking night," Dave Grohl said one song into his marathon Sound City concert at New York's Hammerstein Ballroom. Over the course of a few hours, he and his Foo Fighters bandmates performed alongside a stacked bill of rock 'n' roll luminaries, all of whom recorded at the late Sound City studios in Los Angeles [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News Mike Lawrie, Getty Images "It's going to be a long fucking night," Dave Grohl said one song into his marathon Sound City concert at New York's Hammerstein Ballroom. Over the course of a few hours, he and his Foo Fighters bandmates performed alongside a stacked bill of rock 'n' roll luminaries, all of whom recorded at the late Sound City studios in Los Angeles [...]
Wasn't Rocklahoma a hair metal festival at one point? I guess the times change. Today, the promoters of the Memorial Day Oklahoma hoedown announced the lineup for the 2013 iteration of the festival and there are a lot of modern bands on there like The Sword, All That Remains, Alice In Chains, Asking Alexandria, Bullet ... The post GUNS N ROSES, ALICE IN CHAINS, KORN To Headline Rocklahoma 2013 appeared first on Metal Injection .
This week's post is a special one. Big Star is a band I have been listening to and thinking about for a while now, and both of these albums go hand in hand, so you all are getting two vinyls today! #1 Record and Radio City are the first two releases by the band, and these days they are often sold in a package. They are fantastic as far as classic rock albums go. Big Star was gaining popularity while other bands like Cheap Trick were being soaked in the limelight. Ironically [...]
Corey Mitchell takes a look at the directorial debut of Dave Grohl.
In a city where movies premiere every night and streets flood with stars, there was only one place to be Thursday evening in Hollywood: The Palladium. Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl not only premiered his much-hyped Sound City documentary , but also strung together the studio's regulars for a rock 'n' roll history lesson on stage shortly after. “Ladies and Gentlemen, we’re gonna be here for awhile,” Grohl shouted during an early intermission. Many diehard fanatics up front spit back, "We have been here awhile," alluding to the fact [...]
Queen's "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" New Wave had fully infiltrated the top of the singles charts by the time 1979 had rolled around. Here are the Top 10 Rock Hits of 1979, guaranteed to inspire the return of skinny ties. 10. Fleetwood Mac - "Tusk" Actually one of the few songs to make the Top 10 that wasn't from the world of New Wave. Though people dancing around with tubas is a touch punky, don't you think? http://youtu.be/cma0uziW8DE [...]
Free Energy ’s agenda is simple: to make some unabashedly catchy rock, and have a whale of a time doing it. Stuck on Nothing , their debut LP, was a great manifesto of everything the band stood for – dueling guitar solos, stamp-clap rhythms and teenage anthems of music, love, and revolution. With glossy production from James Murphy ( DFA Records , LCD Soundsystem ), the album burst with nods towards the classic rock canon – Free , Bad Company [...]
Growing up in a basketball mad state should have made my friends and I rabid about the NBA franchise a mere two hours north of us. We weren't. No one was. Yes, it was a basketball mad state, but that fervor was stoked by the high school teams dotting the hinterlands and the in-state college programs, several of which were national powers. Our NBA team during those childhood years was mediocre at best and abysmal at worst. And boring. Yet we were NBA fans and fans [...]
MS contributor Corey Mitchell previews all things metal (and music) at this coming week's Sundance Film Festival in Park City, UT.
Today's SOTD is "I Want You For Christmas" by Cheap Trick . This jam is basically a remake of their hit "I Want You To Want Me", but it's a fun new holiday song on the "A Very Special Christmas 25th Anniversary" album. This album also features holiday songs by Vince Gill, Amy Grant, The Band Perry, Rascal Flatts, Christina Aguilera, Dave Matthews, and more. You can purchase this compilation on iTunes or Amazon . The post Song of the Day: "I Want You For Christmas" by Cheap Trick appeared [...]
On Tuesday night at Madison Square Garden, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry rose from a stage elevator and slid right into “Mama Kin”, their first hard rock bitch-slap to fat cat record executives in New York City. “It ain’t easy livin’ like a gypsy,” Tyler sang, a lyric he penned as a struggling musician during the last U.S. financial crisis. Things aren’t any easier for artists today. Aerosmith re-avowed themselves to their blooze roots, delivering a set heavy on their earlier hits, like the funk gem “Last Child” and forgoing most of the [...]
The latest offering from the ex-frontman of Soul Coughing is a smattering of cover tunes - but there's a method to Mike Doughty's mixtape madness.
You know those moments when your day just feels off, where things are dragging by, and then a song comes on and for three-and-a-half glorious minutes things feel right and set your day off, be it ever so slightly, on a better path than it was before?....I'm in the midst of working 135hrs over two [...]
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