Here is the final installment of our unscientific, should-not-be-used-for-news-an d-reporting-purposes survey results. As you probably know by now, the following answers were culled from a variety of people in the arts, music and entertainments communities. The last question we asked them was: How do you think we'll listen to music ten years from now? Our respondents' answers ranged from silly to philosophical to downright Sci-Fi! We hope you enjoy reading them. And thanks so much to everyone who took the time to participate. Douglas Wolk, writer: [...]
Here is the final installment of our unscientific, should-not-be-used-for-news-an d-reporting-purposes survey results. As you probably know by now, the following answers were culled from a variety of people in the arts, music and entertainments communities. The last question we asked them was: How do you think we'll listen to music ten years from now? Our respondents' answers ranged from silly to philosophical to downright Sci-Fi! We hope you enjoy reading them. And thanks so much to everyone who took the time to participate. Douglas Wolk, writer: [...]
Colin James is one of my all time favorite musicians and if you've been around my site for any length of time, you know I have mentioned him here and there. We go and see him every time he is in town and this tour is no exception. We just scored tickets for his second sold out show here in Victoria for February and I can't wait. He is supporting the release of his latest album which I'm going to cover in a future post. Colin James is an artist that Canadians know all about. [...]
Guess this is the sort of stuff you will find under the tree this Christmas - if you have been bad. I'd rather have a gift card, you know? Anyway - here are some new efforts from Big Superstars who are still trying to get your hard-earned money this holiday season, although you need it way more than they do. Norah Jones has sold a zillion albums but she has really put out only four, and The Fall is certainly her liveliest album to date. She's kinda wanting to [...]
io9 writes, "Tired of the Hoth System and crappy family vacations to Tatooine? Go big, go extreme, go Dagobah — or go home. This travel ad is the funniest Star Wars fan-vid we've seen in ages."
So I'm trying something different right now. I'm going to link to 10 blogposts that I think are particularly good. I'm going to ask you, my readers, to thumb-up or digg or whatever both this post and some of the ones I linked to, if you like them. Then, I'm going to ask the owners of those blogs that I link to to make their own posts, linking to me and to some posts that they like . Then ask their readers/bloggers to do the same. None of those bloggers know I [...]
Three big league names join in on one funky club/dub tune. Lately anything with the name " Rusko " in it gets a golden star form me. Another brilliant tune from Dubsteps' new poster boy. Kid Sister ft. Estelle- Step (prod. by Rusko) (128) Download audio file (Step-prod.-by-Rusko.mp3) [...]
I had no idea that musicians still made mall appearances. I guess they still do! What I do know is that 15-year-old Justin Bieber is a huge pop super star, so his appearance at a Long Island mall tomorrow is a pretty big deal. Bieber will at the Justice Store at the Roosevelt Field Mall (located at 630 Old Country Road, Garden City, NY 11530) signing copies of his new CD, My World , from 4PM to 6PM, which is perfect timing for the students getting out of school at three...
Wu-Tang Clan, the geniuses of Hiphop have been dubstep'd! And best of all is that Belgians own Addicted Kru Sound made one of the remixes! Un-fucking-believable! We've got the whole cd for you Dubsteplovers out there! Wu-Tang Clan Meets The Indie Culture Vol.2 (Enter The Dubstep) Tracklist: Deep Space (Jay Da Flex & Yoof Remix) New Year Banga (Rogue Star Remix) Street Corners (Scuba Scythe Remix) [...]
Mario - D.N.A. (J Records) Mario's last album Go! from a couple years back was a really good record, but it didn't really spin off any big singles like his first two albums, so I was wondering where his career was headed and whether Baltimore still had a R&B star really representing in the mainstream. As I mentioned in a Splice Today piece I wrote recently about musicians in reality shows, I thought dude going on "Dancing With The Stars" was maybe signaling the end of [...]
Are they twee? Precious? Cute? Yes. Talented as well? Definitely yes. Star & Micey's self titled debut album is chok full of: - Touching, funny, touchy-feely lyrics. On "Salvation Army Clothes," a jilted lover says, "You're a fool for letting all the good people go/Like Salvation Army clothes." - Great guitar work. See the break on "Salvation Army clothes." - Neat guest stars like Luther "The Black Crowes" Dickinson; Jody "Big Star" Stephens; and Rick "Lucero" Steff. - Terrific vocals, with range and emotion. You can practically hear the tears on "So [...]
Someone seems to be getting a little too big for their britches - er, or lack thereof. Playgirls latest "It" boy, Levi Johnston , reportedly tried to act more like an A-Class movie star than a media-whore-turned-nudie-model Tuesday at JFK airport. He refused to stand in line with the 'regular folks' that included " Seinfeld's " sidekick, Jason Alexander . He threw a fit until he was let on V.I.P style. A spy on his American Airlines flight told Page Six: "After he made [...]
Minneapolis lo-fi art rockers Halloween,Alaska has enter the remix game with a new 6 track EP, Occasion: Remixes ,among them Minneapolis' on fire electro duo Lookbook , No Bird Sing , Tarlton feat. Mike Lewis and The Alpha Centauri. Occasion: Remixes will be sold at the upcoming two-nite stand with Haley Bonar at the Cedar Cultural Center and available online after that. Halloween,Alaska w/Haley Bonar Haley Bonar w/Halloween,Alaska Nov. 27 & 28 Cedar Cultural Center Haley Bonar - "Big Star" -mp3
Big Star Brooklyn Masonic Temple Wednesday, November 18 This show seems half-assed in a way that everyone is frankly really pleased with, most of all Alex Chilton, of course, a blithely nonchala... Continue reading "Live: Big Star At Brooklyn Masonic Temple" >
I first saw Haley Bonar opening for Andrew Bird at the High Noon Saloon in 2006 . I was hooked and have since lost count of how many times I've played her fabulous album, Lure the Fox . Since then, Madison has been fortunate to have Haley return on many occasions, most recently behind her equally great album, Big Star . Haley Bonar returns to the High Noon Saloon for a $10 show on Friday, November 20th . [...]
How Big Star let me down. Look, here's my number one pet peeve in the restaurant business: you do not close your kitchen early. Ever. I've worked in the service industry. I managed a restaurant that was one off the few late night eating destinations in Chicago at the time. Yes, on a slow night the kitchen would start closing up and cleaning everything early, but if we closed at 2 a.m., and someone walked in at 1:59 [...]
It's going to be my album of the year, at least based on its placing in my top 5 of all albums released this decade, but I still didn't know for certain every lyric to every song on the album, which was mildly annoying. Sunset Rubdown hadn't included a lyric sheet with the album's release and although I'd waded through the threads on the Wolf Parade forums and on songmeanings.net at various times this year, there were enough discrepancies to throw me off on more than one lyric in more than one [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News Alex Chilton is the grandpappy of power-pop, but Wednesday night at NYC's Brooklyn Masonic Temple, where he and his band Big Star played their first New York show in more than a decade, the singer and guitarist burned brightest on a pair of low-watt slow songs. The first, 'The Ballad of El Goodo,' came midway through the quartet's 20-song set. "There ain't no one gonna turn me 'round," Chilton sang, his voice calm and reassuring, like that of an old friend. [...]
There's nothing quite like a good, old fashioned zombie apocalypse to force a disparate band of strangers to work together for their common survival. Building upon that foundation, Left 4 Dead 2 emerges as a bigger, more diverse and comprehensive package than the original. Left 4 Dead 2 follows the bloody struggle of four random strangers as they fend off an undead horde and a few new super-zombies. Over the course of five campaigns, a new cast of survivors treks from Savannah, Georgia, all the way to New Orleans, Louisiana. Armed with new melee weapons and a bigger [...]
Terrorizing the streets with their subsonic, teeth shattering music, I introduce to you a new team (for lack of a better word), The Get Hype Collective . Who?What? is this you may ask... well, these bass goons are a collaboration of live acts, djs, designers, bloggers and promoters, driven by the art of big room beats (from electro to dubstep and everything in between). This all star lineup consists of: Jeuce , Toast , Yoghurt Warrior (aka dJ Sharkbait), Pond Life , and Dave Verne [...]
Vampire Weekend - Cousins
WKND PLYLST!! This has nothing to do with NEW MOON!
Bobby B's Top 50 Albums Of The Decade (#25-21)
HOT CHIP TAKE another crack at IT and I’m IN
