50. Wye Oak – Civilian 49. Childish Gambino – Camp 48. Bill Callahan - Apocalypse 47. Feist - Metals 46. Richard Buckner – Our Blood 45. Le Butcherettes – Sin Sin Sin 44. Gillian Welch – The Harrow and the Harvest 43. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Belong 42. Calhoun – Heavy Sugar 41. Gruff Rhys – Hotel Shampoo 40. O'Death - Outside 39. Kanye West & Jay Z – Watch the Throne 38. Iron and Wine – Kiss Each Other Clean 37. The Rosebuds – Loud Planes Fly Low 36. Hunx & His Punx – Too [...]
The Top 50 Albums of 2010 Part 2: #25-1 25. Best Coast - Crazy For You One of 2010's big breakout bands, Best Coast have already begun enduring the inevitable backlash. The timing makes sense though; winter temperatures make this music harder to appreciate. Bethany Cosentino's lovesick summer jams about beaches and weed created one of the year's enduring sounds. If you need to [...]
The Top 50 Albums of 2010 Part 1: #50-26 50. Swans - My Father Will Guide Me up a Rope to the Sky In 1998, Michael Gira released his final album with his Swans collective, aptly titled Swans Are Dead . That was that, until this past January. Out of nowhere, the band's MySpace sprung to life with a message reading, simply, "SWANS [...]
Tuesday night's Local H show carried all the hallmarks of imminent disaster. The Gramercy Theater bumped up the very much un-sold out show to accommodate a last-minute Stone Temple Pilots appearance later that evening, imposing a 9:30pm curfew on Local H. "We feel like we're opening for STP," frontman Scott Lucas remarked at the beginning of the show, "but we're not…I don't think." Then there was the tour's theme: 6 Angry Records . The premise is a clever one. At the beginning of every gig, Lucas hands an audience member a [...]
For a girl who appeared on the Cosby Show and King of Queens , Lisa Rieffel is surprising vulgar. She raised her middle fingers high above her 5'2" frame when took the Studio at Webster Hall stage Tuesday night with her band Killola. Though she lowered them to sing, for the next sixty minutes they stayed up in spirit. Live, Killola pays winking homage to the snot-nosed brats of early punk. On record the band's garage-pop tunes are carefully constructed rock and roll throwbacks, but on stage self-awareness vanishes. The [...]
David Ford walked onto the basement stage at Union Hall carrying two small briefcases. Without a word he started shaking them into an old-fashioned radio mic. Filled with god-knows-what, the briefcases clattered in a violent rhythm like workingman's maracas. As he shook, he sang. "Well I took me a deep breath and I counted to three / I am nothing at all like I wanted to be / I was born into comfort, I was raised by TV / I am nothing at all like I wanted to be." With porkpie hat and ratty [...]
In the three years since Air last touched down on U.S. soil, a lot has changed. Mario Cotillard won an Oscar for her portrayal of Édith Piaf in La Vie En Rose . Charlotte Gainsbourg (daughter of Serge) got major indie cred by releasing an album with Beck. Phoenix was interviewed by Snooki on the Grammys red carpet. When Air came on the scene ten years ago with the critical favorite Moon Sa fari , the idea of a French electro-lounge act selling [...]
It's been years since the National have qualified as a "Brooklyn band." Last summer they packed the All Points West main stage despite pouring rain and this summer promises to be even bigger, with a sold-out show at Radio City Music Hall in June and another gig a month later at Prospect Park. So when they announced two last-minute gigs at Brooklyn's tiny Bell House, demand was high. Like, sell out in under a minute high. And for good reason. Last night's tour opener promised the chance for fans to [...]
The Who have been enjoying a career resurgence in the l ast few years, with out really trying. They've been honored by Pres. Bush at the Kennedy Center and played the Super Bowl, all without putting out a new album or touring. Last night they were the inspiration for a 2.5-hour tribute concert at Carnegie Hall. Tho ugh Townshend apparently declined his invitation to appear (Roger Daltrey is off on tour with Eri c Clapton) and the Pix [...]
Tim Harrington came onstage in purple tights. He had clothespins fastened tightly to his beard like a Walmart witchdoctor and sported a tan tunic. This latter didn't last long though, as Tim prefers to put his corpulent belly front and center. Tim didn't say a word, and his band was nowhere to be seen. Instead, he silently danced around the stage for four or five minutes, leaping and twirling and stopping short and glaring at the audience. The macabre ballet soon entered the aisles, Tim waltzing up and down with entranced gazes trailing in [...]
Nothing sinks a band faster than that dreaded c-word: Comp lacency. At their sold-out show Thursday night at Brooklyn's Musi c Hall of Williamsburg -- a last-minute addition to their much bigger sold-out show tonight at Terminal 5 -- the Cold War Kids played like professionals doing a job for which the thrill is gone. I last saw the band at Bonnaroo 2007, when their debut Robbers & Cowards was just beginning to get some notice. Playing a grueling set in the midday sun , the quartet performed like [...]
Of Montreal has reached a place in their performing career where each show is just a test to top the last one. Two years ago theatrical frontman Kevin Barnes rode a horse onstage at the Roseland . More recently he dressed in a centaur outfit and smeared himself with whipped cream at Santos Party House. What could top that at last night's Highland Ballroom show, announced just a couple weeks ago? Try Susan Sarandon spanking a pig. The evening began after a highly competent pop set by OM drummer James Husband, when [...]
Dylan, Etc's Top 40 Albums of 2009 Part 2: #1-20 A Memphis punk who relieves himself onstage. A Somalian rapper who describes his country's civil war in blood-curdling detail. A mysterious group of ABBA wannabes about whom nothing is known save a few cryptic videos. All these artists produced some of this year's best albums. Yesterday we counted down #21-40 of the Top 40 Albums of 2009, but those were [...]
Dylan, Etc's Top 40 Albums of 2009 Part 1: #21-40 2009 was the year of the three S's. Side projects, solo discs, and supergroups. While big names like Green Day, U2 and Pearl Jam released new material, more than ever artists found ways to break out of the usual 9-to-5. Everyone from the Strokes to the Red Hot Chili Peppers took the year off to let members pursue solo work while indie mainstays [...]
Let's get one thing clear: despite what the Larger Than Life…In 3D filmmakers would have you believe, 3D concert films do not make it "as if you were there." Thank goodness. Anyone looking for the "as if you were there" experience might be better off watching this movie from a couple hundred feet away with strangers yelling in your ear, spilling beer down the back of your shirt and elbowing you in the eye as they crowd-surf over you. Any regular concert-goer knows that "as [...]
In the spring of 2005 Bob Dylan hired some new guys for his band. Nothing unusual there; Dylan tends to switch around his band every year or so. Except then, for the next four and a half years he didn't change a thing. Since that spring fans grew a little more tired of those same five people with each passing leg of the so-called Never-Endi ng Tour. Were these guys the second coming of The Band or something, fans might have been more forgiving, but soon this lowercase-"b" band turned every [...]
Normally the reviews on this site strive to be like a review you might read in a newspaper. Objective. Impartial. Unbiased. And, most of all, no first-person! This one's going to break the mold. By virtue of necessity, it's both a review of Friday night's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 25th Anniversary show and a review of my personal experience at said show. The reason for this break from form is that I got a fre e ticket through the marvelous 1iota.com, a site that gave [...]
Harps come up a lot when talking about rock and roll. In the mid-'60s Bob Dylan brought the harp to the masses. The harp was soon adopted from everyone from Bruce Springsteen to Stevie Wonder. Currently, younger groups like Wilco to My Morning Jacket are bringing the harp mantle to a new generation. This isn't surprising – pick a harp in the right key and there are no bum notes! If you haven't already figured it out, this is the mouth harp we're talking about, the harmonica. When writing about rock music, the [...]
Robert Frank's The Americans ushered in a new era for photography, focusing on the daily trials and triumphs of everyday people. He took 28,000 snapshots in his two-year trip across American in the mid '50s, selecting just 83 for the final book. Each shot invokes a uniquely American loneliness, whites and blacks separate in stature but equal in isolation . In the book's American introduction, Jack Kerouac wrote, "Anybody doesnt like these pitchers dont like potry, see?" Decades later, art buffs worldwide do see. [...]
The three B's of the Jersey shore: beer, b owling and Bruce Springsteen. Add in a fourth B – Brooklyn – and you've got the ingredients of Friday night's Gaslight Anthem show. The up-and-coming punk revivalists played a packed set at the Brooklyn Bowl while lager flowed, p ins tumbled, and hipsters said the hell with ironic distance, crowd surfing, fist pumping, and uninhibitedly yelling along. Oregon's Broadway Calls kicked things off with a fast-paced [...]
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