“…will we wake in the morning and know what it was for, up in our bedrooms after the war?” Imagine walking into your room, ready to fall into bed, ready to sleep, but for some reason you decide to crawl out of your open bedroom window and escape into the city. Maybe you’ve slept all day, maybe sleep just isn’t coming, or maybe you’ve mixed up an ungodly redbull/espresso/legal white pill
nothing really new. a generalization that stretches from the first time that man took money for artistic services rendered. shipe and i were talking about the commercialization of rock music and how it's hard to take a band's revolutionary threats serious when they run out on a stage sponsored by AT&T. people dress like they're some type of counter-culture bohemians, but they're just as
And whatever town or village you enter, find out who is worthy in it and stay there until you depart. As you enter the house,greet it. And if the house is worthy, let your peace come upon it, but if it is not worthy, let your peace return to you. 14And if anyone will not receive you or listen to your words,shake off the dust from your feet when you leave that house or town. Truly, I say to you,
So. tomorrow at 6:00 p.m. Ben Kweller will be playing the Kennedy Center for free. i'm not sure if i can tell you how excited I am. this guys is incredible. and the Kennedy Center deserves major points for bringing him in. see you there. (p.s. if you're looking for an aftershow, check out andy zipf http://www.andyzipf.com/ at the galaxy hut at 9 p.m. in arlington. the guy has the
It was a Mississippi summer for Nathan Martin. Hot downtown streets, tree outlined country roads, and quiet corner cubicles conquered my days as I worked for a statewide newspaper and experienced just about every personality and disorder of the Deep South. Music plays into this autobiographical recollection in the sense that location often frames musical moods and four albums dominated the long
(this song is so powerful) John Brown went off to war to fight on a foreign shore. His mama sure was proud of him! He stood straight and tall in his uniform and all. His mama's face broke out all in a grin. "Oh son, you look so fine, I'm glad you're a son of mine, You make me proud to know you hold a gun. Do what the captain says, lots of medals you will get, And we'll put them on the wall
the hold steady is making me ache for a new album. Boys and Girls in America is already one of my top ten albums that i've heard this year. Separation Sunday isn't nearly as flashy or initially catchy. but dear teresa, when it grabs you. you've got better luck escaping superman's x-ray vision than you do the hold steady. they aren't perfect. i mean no one would tell you that. but finn
and have your life changed. one song at a time. October 20th is going to be monumental. (it's going to be beautiful with her)
(without even trying) Click and Read he understands the changing world. he's brilliant. but he just loves music.
i dare you to watch this. and then go buy nightripper. this guy is insane absolutely insane
First and most importantly. Orchestral pop divines Stars decided to make Christmas come in July yesterday announcing, On September 25th, We will release Stars' fourth studio album, In Our Bedroom After War. We love it and are excited and proud to be bringing it to the world. We enlisted Joe Chiccarelli to mix the album. He finished in early June, passing the tapes along to Emily Lazar at
Zeitgeist No matter what Kanye may have been screaming on stage about saving the earth on Saturday night, you can’t get around the fact that Live Earth was a bloated monstrosity of a benefit concert. I mean, half the performers looked absolutely bored to be there, listlessly running through their requisite three song set, while the other half’s misguided enthusiasm for climate problems could
It’s hard to describe a sound that’s not so much a sound as an experience- but when you try to find adequate adjectives to describe the Brooklyn-based rock group TV on the Radio (TVOTR), that’s exactly your task. With Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes and Return to Cookie Mountain, two albums defying musical classification have been released onto the world by TVOTR, and judging by critical
Download the original attachment The Hold Steady Nathan Martin Boys and girls in America/They have such a sad time together…. If the Supreme Court ever determines that auditory over stimulation is considered to be cruel and unusual punishment, I will probably be dragged away from school under three counts of torture. It’s tough being a member of Oak Hill 201. Jensen, Lucas and Joseph are
people often ask me why I spend so much money on concerts, why i feel the compulsive need to shell out time, money, sleep and clean smelling clothing just so that I can see a band live. after all, you could just buy the cd, you could just pop it in, listen to the music and get the same experience... right? i really can't buy into that line of reasoning, for while, there may be many bands
Maybe you read about it and were too afraid to actually get out. maybe you got there too late and didnt get tickets or maybe you had soul and no heat. regardless this is one view of the night.
there's something about a live concert experience that cannot be replicated perfectly in any other medium than its first presentation. there's nothing inspired or special about that point, but what is inspired/special are the things that you can witness in the unpackaged moments of transcendent power. whether it be bono screaming at the california crowd during sunday bloody sunday, rattle and
the various tracks leaked from the arcade fire's new album, neon bible, have been on near repeat in my room lately. i'm not going to talk about intervention right now, i'm not going to talk about black mirror, i'm not going to talk about ocean of noise, because while all those tracks have their passion, their beauty, their transcendent power- my body is a cage keeps ploughing my soul, every
if a nine year old middle finger oustretched, spittle face stained child, screaming with rage at his father, decided to make a record, this might be what it turned out like. i finally sat down and listened to the thermals last album, the body, the blood and the machine the other day, and though this album makes greendays shopping mall appropriate angst seem like a hallmark greeting card,
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