From dollerosa on Flickr: Rory Gallagher meeting with Bono and The Edge (early 80s photographer unknown.) It's suggested in the comments on that Flickr photo that this was from 1982 at Punchestown where both U2 and Rory played the festival that summer. I'm not sure I've ever seen that photo before. Unless it's in one of the U2 books and I just have blanked it out? Also: On Flickr - From January 19, 2010 : Rencontre de Christine LAGARDE et Bono Président de [...]
Carl Newman talks to Paste about the forthcoming New Pornographers album. In another song, the band tried to combine Black Sabbath's "War Pigs" with ABBA's "Waterloo" and Siouxsie and the Banshees' "Christine." If that sounds confusing, you're not the only one having trouble envisioning the new album's sound. "[Fellow songwriter] Dan Bejar wrote me something where he said he thought [Together] sounded like [2000's] Mass Romantic crossed with Challengers , and I'm like, I guess that might be true as well." Newman says before pausing. "Although, any combination [...]
Variety reports that the stage musical adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis's novel American Psycho is taking shape. Carl Newman talks to Paste about the forthcoming New Pornographers album. In another song, the band tried to combine Black Sabbath's "War Pigs" with ABBA's "Waterloo" and Siouxsie and the Banshees' "Christine." If that sounds confusing, you're not the only one having trouble envisioning the new album's sound. "[Fellow songwriter] Dan Bejar wrote me something where he [...]
This Saturday will mark the first semifinal of 2010's Melodifestival, so, as usual, I'm doing my Sunday-in-advance rundown of the artists and what we know about the songs (which isn't nearly as much as we'll know when rehearsals start or when song clips go up). Six of the eight artists are new to the contest and, while the proportion of new songwriters isn't as high, there are still quite a few debutantes in that regard as well. We do have three new-to-Melodifestivalen hosts, too: Måns Zelmerlöw, Christine Meltzer, and Dolph Lundgren. (To be honest, there's [...]
As if this song isn't amazing enough, Fleetwood Mac had to go ahead and put themselves in a situation that we just assumed they were experiencing on a day-to-day basis: excavating ruined instruments and painting Magritte replicas that come to life in a desert mirage. Alto temptress Christine McVie is prominently featured as the "woman looking through a telescope and sometimes through a mirror" and Stevie is just lounging off in the distance, probably pissed because Christine is getting all the attention for once. And to hammer in all of those allusions, this is from the album Mirage [...]
Photography by Christine Day Lorico Man, did you hear about that iPad thing? What a hot mess. No multitasking? No flash? No USB? Etc, etc, etc? Ugh. All that hoopla for a big ass iTouch. Though, I found it very amusing that iTampon was trending higher than iPad or Apple Tablet or Steve Jobs yesterday. lol...
Photography by Christine Day Lorico Man, did you hear about that iPad thing? What a hot mess. No multitasking? No flash? No USB? Etc, etc, etc? Ugh. All that hoopla for a big ass iTouch. Though, I found it very amusing that iTampon was trending higher than iPad or Apple Tablet or Steve Jobs yesterday. lol. Movin' on... I'll tell you, I hope you like our new home because I'm quickly learning to love it! Yeah, wordpress is a strange beast [...]
[via - WSJ ] "After nearly a year of review, the Justice Department on Monday set the conditions under which it will permit concert promoter Live Nation Inc. to merge with ticket-selling and artist-management powerhouse Ticketmaster Entertainment Inc., in a deal that could reshape the music industry. As laid out in a briefing in Washington, the conditions appeared relatively straightforward and shouldn't pose major obstacles, thereby clearing the way for the creation of single entity that will be able to manage artists, book them in venues which it owns and sell tickets to their concerts. It will [...]
Christine Kane: Mary Catherine's Ash Wednesday Journal Entry [ purchase ] Mary Catherine's Ash Wednesday Journal Entry is a live bonus track from Christine's Right Outta Nowhere CD - her introduction speaks of how the song was channeled through a 14-year-old Catholic girl... and when there is silence from Christine and then laughter from the audience, what's happening is that Christine has begun to mess up her hair to mimic a rumpled adolescent 'do, as well as take on the face [...]
MUSIC NEWS - Best known as SNL's "The Beehive Queen", the flashy, gritty long-time featured vocalist with the Saturday Night Live Band, Christing Ohlman has wrapped up her first new album in nearly five years. The April 6 release, The Deep End will be out via the Music Group through Select-O-Hits and includes a stellar support team. Having earned herself the respect of many fellow artists over the years, Ohlman has been able to assemble an amazing group of them to pitch in on the new album, including - Marshall Crenshaw, Dion DiMucci and Ian Hunter [...]
Gordon Smart is in no doubt what the most important showbiz story is this morning : Christine Bleakley makes rude jibe to Jedward No! Surely not! Whoever thought we might have to respect Christine Bleakley? Apparently, though, this is no snickering matter. Gordon is cross: [B]ehind the pretty face there is a far less attractive side to the TV star. It's true. If you ripped her face off, there'd be a less-attractive mixture of muscles and blood and... oh, you were being metaphorical. Christine delivered a horribly [...]
For up-and-coming Hip-Hop artist J. Smith , gigs in his local suburb of Palo Hill, IL were hard to come by, and clubs in downtown Chicago were weary of booking an unfamiliar name. So Smith did what any new artist who's looking for attention would do: He recorded his first live performance and captured how it all came together in a five-part Youtube documentary titled DEMO . DEMO was transformed into a documentary by lead director/co-producer and local [...]
Cheryl Wheeler: Howl at the Moon [ purchase ] David Stocker: Penny the Moondog [ purchase ] Cheryl Wheeler is one of those artists who can have you laughing uproariously or crying inconsolably - this song , inspired by/written for James, her new-at-the-time border collie, has the latter effect on me... David Stocker was one of the finalists in our South Florida Folk Festival songwriting competition in 1998 [...]
Friday The High Noon is hosting a night of techno and house as Dustin Zahn spins starting at 10 p.m. The Majestic will bring the funk with DJs Vinnie Toma and Chuck Money also at 10 p.m. Stuff kicks off at The Frequency starting at 6 p.m. with the Freqy Hour featuring Ari Herstand . At 9:59 p.m. precisely Sexy Ester and the Pretty Mama Sisters will take the stage joined by Mike Droho . If you are looking for [...]
On February 9, The Sheldon will be hosting a benefit for "Doctors Without Borders." $15 tickets go on sale tomorrow morning at 10 a.m. Along with soprano Christine Brewer and pianist Peter Henders... Continue reading "Update! Local Haiti Benefit Shows Set for Atomic Cowboy, The Sheldon" >
Christine Kane: Four Legs Good. Two Legs Bad. [ purchase ] I love this catchy, country-ish, cautionary tale about the importance of animals in our lives - literary bonus points awarded for Christine's nod to Animal Farm in her song title... :-)
It will be tough for any death metal tour to top this one: Nile/Immolation/Krisiun/Dreami ng Dead/Abigail Williams. (The tour starts tomorrow; see dates here and ticket info here .) Abigail Williams aren't death metal, nor particularly good...but it happens. As for the other bands — unholy moly! This tour has three of the genre's titans, all of whom are at the top of their game. Nile are supporting the fantastic Those Whom the Gods Detest (review here ). Immolation have Majesty [...]
Welcome to my weekly roundup of inexpensive indie(ish) musical happenings in downtown Toronto, all for $10 or less. If I'm missing something you think I should list, or you have any comments, let me know. I star (*) shows that most interest me. Like this list? Join my Facebook group or subscribe to this blog. Subscribe to my podcast (or download the episodes) here , or through iTunes . The latest ones are here . Make sure to [...]
Wednesday, January 13, 2010 Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven at World Cafe Live, Philly The Hesh Inc, Joe Wymer & The Itty Bitty Band and Bobby Strange at The Saint Thursday, January 14, 2010 Hot Rats (feat Gaz Coombes & Danny Goffey from Supergrass) at Bowery Ballroom Michael Shelley at Lakeside Lounge Brad Mehldau at Highline Ballroom Julian Casablancas (of [...]
Benoît Poelvoorde est un "client" régulier de l'émission ciné de France Inter On Aura Tout Vu. En décembre, il a accordé un entretien à Christine Delmas. A noter que Benoît Delépine intervient également au cours de l'émission pour parler de Mammuth, le quatrième film du duo échappé [...]
Odd Blood esce a tre anni di distanza da All Hour Cymbals, il debutto di Yeasayer di cui avevamo parlato anche qui su Indie-eye. Secretly Canadian ha già reso [...]More about Yeasayer
I drove up to Bing last night blasting Hot Chip’s new one, and boy did it sound great! One of my favorite offerings from the album is [...]More about Hot Chip
NFL Championship WEEKEND! I don’t have a horse in this race, but going to New Orleans a couple of months ago has kind [...]More about Massive Attack
This review was originally posted by guest contributor Peter Lanceley on his own blog, This Music Wins , which you can visit to [...]More about Vampire Weekend
Phoenix, who delivered one of the best albums of 2009 once once with “Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix“, recently played an acoustic set for the German magazine [...]More about Phoenix
As we previously shared, we are looking forward to a new Beach House album, Jan 26th, Australia Day. From the sound of what we have heard this will [...]More about Beach House
NOTE: I didn’t include singles for 2010 albums like “Cousins” and “Norway” because in my mind they are 2010 songs. So that’s why they are not [...]More about St. Vincent
Spoon: Transference Austin-based Spoon has made a career of being critical darlings while seeming too cool to be mainstream. With high profile placement of [...]More about Spoon
Get a Drink Have a Good Time Now. Welcome to Paradise. Download Friday Mixtape 053 as one track (MP3 149MB 320kbps) [...]More about Kid Cudi
Even though they’re not officially in this week’s mix, I highly recommend you go download those two tracks from Death On Two Wheels (previous post), and just DIY add [...]More about Gorillaz
TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB | UNDERCOVER MARTYN
The Strange Boys - Be Brave
Phonat - "Love Hits The Fan" music video
Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields - Official Trailer
Die Antwoord - Enter The Ninja (Official)
This Week's Other Releases
Essential Mix - Riva Starr (Feb)
Cover That Don't Suck
Reuse Recycle Remix - February 8
