1983 - 2011 Filed under: Beats , Brit Brit Brit Tagged: 27 Club , amy winehouse , amywinehouse , away , awaya , Back to Black , child , childhood , dead , death , janis joplin , Jim Morrison , kurt cobain , london , new , passed , picture
For the superstitious, "133 is considered the unluckiest number. But if you're an adored and acclaimed musician, that number is 27. There's already a morbid moniker for the group of talented but troubled performers who expired long before their prime — "The 27 Club." And now, tragically, the club has its newest member . Already eerily populated by such legendary artists as Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain, and Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones, an untimely death at 27 seems reserved for only the most unique, gifted, and tormented of stars — and the esteemed [...]
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Tweet Perhaps, I should say "introducing Juliet Simms", since Automatic Loveletter is her brainchild. While Simms is only 22 years old, she's definitely got some pipes on her. Her voice is quite distinctive and has that raspy sound, reminiscent of Janis Joplin. Simms belts her heart out alongside a great band, made up of Tommy Simms, Clint Fowler, and Ryan Metcalf. In "Heart Song" the song is classic rock and roll, with 1980s influences - think Pat Benatar with a little more sass. Automatic Loveletter has [...]
Photo by G. Top: A photo of Nikka Costa that I took. Bottom: Janis Joplin's "I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama" album cover A few years ago, I was in Los Angeles seeing one of my favorite performers, the one and only Nikka Costa. Her music, if you don't know it, it soulful and funky. I've often tried to describe her sound to people as what you'd get if James Brown and Janis Joplin had a musical baby! If you've not heard Nikka's music, [...]
Filed under: News , R.I.P. Amazon Jerry Ragovoy, a producer and songwriter whose compositions were famously covered by Janis Joplin and the Rolling Stones , died on July 13 following complications of a stroke, the New York Times reports. He was 80. Among his many hits, some of Ragovoy's most memorable were 'Piece of My Heart' and 'Time Is on My Side,' which were covered by Joplin and the Stones, [...]
First of all, Happy Birthday Dad! I'm so stoked that one of these landed on your birthday! You have been instrumental in my musical growth over the years! Not to mention my growth as a man and a human being. So, today's round goes to the first track on the Joplin In Concert album. It was an album I bought after hearing about how amazing she was and this track absolutely hooked me in to loving her and her amazing voice! It was recorded on March 2, 1968 when she was with Big [...]
"You know, if you only have one child, you can't be a great mother." That's a completely unfounded, asshole-revealing statement, but no more so than the insulting term one-hit wonder. It's one thing to evaluate a song's quality based on itself but quite another to deride someone for the amount of times they got it "right". The labeling confers a comfortability with ignoring and unjustly demeaning the accomplishment. You'll often read or hear the phrase "vanished into obscurity after one hit" or "was never able to repeat their earlier success" referring to an artist or band. Seriously, how many people [...]
Just this week, Ja Rule turned himself in to start a 2 -year jail sentence connected with a 2007 crime, which has gotten us thinking. Maybe it's just us, but musicians seem to land themselves in a little bit more trouble than people of other professions. Maybe it's because they're living the high life, thinking they can get away with it all, or maybe they're just negatively influenced by their surroundings, but we think it probably has something to do with the same personality trait that makes them want to be performers in the first place. Just a [...]
Here at Flavorwire, we're seriously going to kill someone if we hear "in this economy" used much more as a catch-all excuse for just about everything. Still, there's no doubt that we do live in straitened economic times, and with the NME 's Listomania blog recently posting a bunch of songs about money, we got to thinking about songs about a much more familiar experience these days – not actually having any money. There have been some great songs written about being dead broke over the years, and we've pulled together ten of our favorites after [...]
A talk with a world class Hungarian classical guitarist who has been performing at prestigious venues in European countries and America in recent years.
Clássico de Janis Joplin é regravado por Estelle, David Banner e Daley Com “Oh Lord, won’t you buy me…” Janis Joplin fez história. Inspirada neste grande clássico de 1971, a BLAG Magazine convocou o produtor e rapper David Banner , Estelle e o cantor britânico Daley , para [...]
Punk-blues-rock duo The Kills have released their fourth album, Blood Pressures , to the usual subdued fanfare reserved for amazing, middle aged rockers who have gracefully wafted through the indie scene without making fools of themselves. The two appeared on Conan, stomping and grinding away in their usual lo-fi, steely, whiskey-tinged glory. Equal parts Janis Joplin, Robert Smith and Joe Strummer, fussy dietary predilections are the last thing one would suspect The Kills to have. Singer Alison Mosshart and guitarist Jamie Hince are both vegans, a dietary choice that bleeds into their aesthetics [...]
One of the queens of the American blues returns with a new album.
Filed under: R.I.P. , The Hit List Between 1969 and 1971, the world lost Janis Joplin , Brian Jones , Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix . All four rockers died at the age of 27, [...]
After listening to Psycho’s female blowtorch, Penny Torture, and Ava Inferi’s haunting distaff elemental, Carmen Susana Simões, I realized it’s time we just chill and admit that women are all-around better at this metal-singing thing. Is this mad exaggeration? It feels like that when I’m away from an MPEG player, but then I listen to those [...]
On September 24, 1969, thirteen months after the riots that shocked America, the trial of the so-called "Chicago Eight" began in the oak-panelled, twenty-third-floor courtroom of Judge Julius Hoffman. The 300 members of the panel of potential jurors were overwhelmingly white, middle-class and middle-aged. They reminded author and trial observer J. Anthony Lukas of "the Rolling Meadows Bowling League lost on their way to the lanes." Defense attorneys William Kunstler and Leonard Weinglass submitted to Judge Hoffman a list of fifty-four proposed questions for potential jurors. They believed that the questions might aid them in their [...]
It was completely refreshing to hear the music of néGar (born Negar Mokhtassi), whose debut EP, néGar , is a truly remarkable release from what is sure to be only the first of many for this talented songwriter. Read more
Filed under: The Hit List Sure, most recording artists will tell you they create for the love of music, and a few would even admit that the megabucks and groupie action are also nice. Still, even the [...]
Welcome to Wild Weekend #44, the all-women edition. Why, I dunno. Just is. Just enjoy. On this week´s menu: soul, lofi, more soul, country, folk, and flamenco. Have a wild one. First we´ll visit The Scene Of The Crime , soul veteran Bettye LaVette´s red hot ´07 collaboration with the Drive-By Truckers. Exhibit A: the Lavette/Patterson Hood composition Before The Money Came , a fingerlickin´ good autobiographical barroom stomper. "I was singing R&B back in ’62, before you were born and your mama too..." And to ring in [...]
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