YACHT hits you hard with their fifth album, Shangri-La , a frantic, compelling concept album. Jona Bechtolt and Claire L. Evans tell the tale of a dysfunctional work at the edge of Zion in transformation hyper-sophisticated disco utopia. An Elysium complete with insight about cosmic transmission, the vitality and true love in all of us – reminiscent of template influences from the Talking Heads and their label bosses, once LCD Soundsystem. The sonic rousing result is a fitting naively enthusiastic furor of neon splashed synths, rubber-like bass and poppy vocals. Shangri-La conjures up images of similar themes [...]
Gardens & Villa's self-titled debut is a coco vibing brew that we really want to drink.
Beyonce's recent fusion of classic American music with rhythms and guitar styles from Africa inspired us to create a brief selection of similar songs, from both sides of the pond. Of course, most music in either hemisphere consists, in at least a distant sense, of a blend of these two origins, but here it's particularly noticeable: "Taj Mahal" - Jorge Ben "End Of Time" - Beyonce "Zombie" - Fela Kuti "Domingo No Parque" - Gilberto Gil "Mr. Jones" - Talking Heads "Heartbeat" - Nneka [...]
Photo by G. David Byrne I don't know what the chances are that I could run into former Talking Heads lead singer David Byrne on the streets of New York with a bicycle (looking fantastic, by the way) and then get an email from Exit Art several hours later with information on how to win a bicycle stylized by David Byrne! Whoa! As I mentioned above, you can win a bike stylized by David Byrne in a raffle from Exit Art. You can [...]
Red Hot Cover Songs The Best Covers Going... Bishop Allen - Psycho Killer (live) photo by Sebastian Mlynarski I kept the chatter on the track after the song ends, A reminder [...]
This ain't no party! This ain't no disco! This ain't no fooling around... On second thought, yeah, it's all of those and then some.
The book i read - Talking Heads I have already posted this song before and, not realising it, was just about to write everything i said back then verbatim today. It was only a few months ago too. So now i have nothing to say. I have developed this annoying habit of playing terribly the intro to this song every time i pick up a guitar recently. There's something.
Common Prayer 's Jason Sebastian Russo was on the cover of The Deli's issue #2 (back in 2005) as the front man of Hopewell . This parallel project, which debuted in 2010 with the album "There Is a Mountain" offers a rootsier sound, filled with banjos, fiddles and mandolins, that hasn't much in common with Hopewell's psych rock. Russo has been tucked away recording the next album with a gamut of worthy collaborators, and to whet our appetites for what's to come, the band has decided to release a new single on the new O+ Festival [...]
Byrne's latest DVD, which was filmed during his supporting tour for Everything That Happens Will Happen Today, is amazing.
Stop Making Sense (1984) is a concert movie featuring Talking Heads live on stage. Directed by Jonathan Demme, it was shot over the course of three nights at Hollywood's Pantages Theater in December 1983, as the group was touring to promote their new album Speaking in Tongues. The movie is notable for being the first made entirely using digital audio techniques. The band raised the budget of $1.2 million themselves. The title comes from the lyrics of the song "Girlfriend is Better": "As we get older and stop making sense...". The film has been hailed by Leonard Maltin as "one [...]
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The LA Department of Water / Power came out and said it : 'We got a shit load of snow this past winter, right?!' 'There's more than enough water for everyone this year , right?! ' 'So why not take the extra melt, which could refresh the Owen's Valley drastically low water table (see lake bed below [lake levels usually indicate a water table level, unless you're dammed.]), and bring it down to LA where it can be tossed on our impermeable surfaces to run into our artifical [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News Kate Mercer, AP It was surprising enough that Paul Simon would play a show at New York's Webster Hall, a venue with a capacity less than 1,500. What was more of a shock to the audience was when David Byrne came out for a second encore to perform a Talking Heads classic and duet with Simon on 'You Can Call Me Al.' [...]
Se sabe que David Byrne , en sentido estricto, fue uno de los responsables de darle un giro particular a lo que implica realizar una película en torno a una presentación en vivo de alguna banda. No sólo por relacionarse con Jonathan Demme y llevar adelante esa suerte de antológica película que ha sido y será recordada como una de las mejores muestras de lo que el cine y la música pueden hacer juntos - y que no termine necesariamente en un soporífero musical hollywoodense -: "Stop Making Sense" (1984) es una prueba viviente de [...]
Click image to download full album Sounds like: Talking Heads, The Police, LCD Soundsystem, Jhameel "Miracle Fortress - Tracers" What's so good? In a post-LCD Soundsystem world, Miracle Fortress rolls out song after song of tight production, probing a cache of sentiments reminiscent of Mr. James Murphy. Miracle Fortress is Montreal-based Graham Van Pelt's solo project, and Was I the Wave? is the [...]
You don't have to be a Hawk or a Dove to appreciate the sacrifice of those who have gone before. I'm looking forward to a documentary debuting on The History Channel tonight on The Battle of Gettysburg. I've seen documentaries that glossed over the Battle of Gettysburg, but I think we're getting a deeper dive tonight. It'll take my mine off the gastly cancellation of Chicago Code by Fox. They can keep all kinds of crappy entertainment going year after year (I'm talking to you Amazing Race) and yet Chicago Code gets the shortest of leashes. I still love you [...]
Facts all come with points of view, like the fact that Talking Heads' 1980 Afro-funk opus is the 35th Greatest Album of All Time. Counterbalance gives Remain in Light a listen-don't you miss it. (Some of you people just about missed it.) Klinger: All right, Mendelsohn, as we look at this list, a distinct pattern is beginning to emerge: It's pretty clear that, while London put on a strong showing, New York City was clearly the critical epicenter for popular music in the late 1970s. From Bruce Springsteen to the Ramones (coming soon!), this area was a [...]
Since that whole Rapture dealio surprisingly fizzled, I can't help but think that the real losers were the non-pants wearing inhibitants of this planet. Imagine how elated the animal kingdom would have been had several hundred million humans simply vanished. I picture camels, cockatoos, coyotes - all creatures great and small - breaking into song and dance like cartoon characters at the idea of fewer of us humans mucking up the scene. Word would obviously be spread by the whales as they are able to communicate to all of the world's oceans [...]
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