Tonight kicks off a nice run of holiday season benefit rock shows for good causes around town. Basically, you have no excuse for not coming out and digging some music and giving a little something back. Tonight, Friday 11/20 When You Awake & The Fold Present A Tribute To Neil Young w/Delta Spirit, Ferraby Lionheart, Jason "Dead Meadow" Simon, Leslie and the Badgers, Stevens, The Parson Red Heads, Restavrant, Chapin Sisters & more @ Bootleg Theater. Proceeds benefit [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News With smoke machines billowing, the silent film ' Un Chien Andalou ' showing on a massive video screen and ominous music playing, the four members of the Pixies -- Black Francis , Kim Deal , Joey Santiago and David Lovering -- walked onstage at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago on Thursday night, the first of their three-day stint in the city on the 'Doolittle' 20th anniversary tour. Warming up with several 'Doolittle'-era b-sides, the crowd was feeling it right [...]
When there's nothing left to burn, you have to set yourself on fire. Enjoy the music. MediaFire: The Fast Life FM - November Rain A list for listeners: show 01) Midlake - Roscoe (Beyond The Wizards Sleeve Re-Animation) 02) Arcade Fire - No Cars Go 03) Portugal.The Man - The Sun 04) Eugene Francis Jr. - Poor Me 05) Miike Snow - Song For No One 06) My First Trumpet - Autonarkose 07) The Whitest Boy Alive [...]
I've never met an album that didn't change for me somehow. Now, they can go up and down the scale in either a positive or negative direction, but there isn't one that escapes a reframing of sorts somewhere along the line. For some albums, time is the perfect vindicator. The album is revealed as a master stroke and the audiences' initial conceptions are what become tarnished. Other times, what was once golden falls into disrepair, looking like an old sack of potatoes, stripped of its luster and banished to the bin. This state of flux is part of what makes [...]
There was one thing, outside of the actual music, that my mind kept returning to during the Pixies concert on Friday night at the Paramount . I couldn't stop thinking about how each band member might view this new '20th Anniversary of Doolittle ' reunion. Are they genuinely excited about it? Or are they in it just for the money? Are they surprised by their current popularity, or did they expect it? Do they think it's silly, all this fuss over an enigmatic punk band that broke up 16 years ago? Or do they feel validated, or [...]
Plenty happened to the world in 1989 - there's your 20 years, mathematicians - from the celebratory fall of the Berlin Wall to the tragic massacre in Tiananmen Square and huge earthquake in San Francisco. With my vague recollection of the general time period as opposed to the specific events, it's always interesting to dig back and see how history remembers the details. OFFICIAL SITE [...]
Sean Paul Ryan Francis Henriques popularly known as Sean Paul , is a Jamaican reggae and a dancehall musician. A talented sportsman, Sean Paul played for the national water polo team from the age of thirteen to twenty-one. However, he gave up sports to pursue his career in music. While Dancehall music remained his first love, Sean mastered the craft of rhythm tracks too. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Sean spent his early years in Upper Saint Andrew Parish. Leaving behind a successful sports career Sean went ahead to realize his dream. He [...]
Kirk Degiorgio's name is not synonymous with minimal techno. Over the course of his 18-year career you could count on your hands the number of releases that would even qualify as club-approved tackle. Degiorgio made his name with multi-hued Detroit-inspired techno and went on to produce soulful music in a variety of genres, but rarely touched on straightforward dance floor-ready tracks. Today we see Degiorgio taking a new path that embraces this side of techno, both in terms of production and DJing. Degiorgio rebooted his Applied Rhythm Technology (ART) label this year and is focused on creating full sounding techno [...]
Zu diesem Wochenende möchte ich Euch einer der wohl schrägsten Interpreten vorstellen, die die moderne Musikwelt bislang kennenlernen durfte. Thomas Alan Waits (* 7. Dezember 1949 in Whittier, Kalifornien) ist ein US-amerikanischer Sänger, Komponist, Schauspieler und Autor. Biografie Kindheit und Jugend Nach seinem Biographen Barney Hoskyns wurde Tom Waits in der Stadt Whittier im Los Angeles County geboren, einer Stadt, die auch lange nach seiner Geburt so typisch für das Bild Amerikas der 1950er [...]
Don't even think about staying home this week brooding over the fate of health care legislation in the Senate (or whatever else is vexing you). Head out to enjoy low end debauchery courtesy of King Khan and the BBQ show or join the throngs of fans ready to welcome the incomparable Pixies. Nov 14: King Khan and the BBQ Show If you are feeling let down after the frivolity and seediness of Halloween then Saturday night's double bill featuring King Khan and the BBQ Show plus [...]
+ Julian Lynch presents a wildly eclectic mixtape for Cool Tapes, feat. none other than Indian sax god Kadri Gopalnath alongside George Clinton and Frank Sinatra. ( Space Mountain ) + The Black Dog presents a sophisticated ambient electronica set with Intrusion, Robin Rimbaud (aka Scanner), Stars of the Lid & Terry Riley. ( tracklist & download ) + Cosmopolyphonic mix by Onur Engin, who's also responsible for the Turkish Jazz Mix a few weeks ago. Cosmopolyphonic Radio Guest Mix by Onur [...]
PICK OF THE WEEK Band of Horses w/ Warpaint Club Nokia 1st Anniversary Show Mon 11/9 Info [ ENTER TO WIN ] THIS WEEK'S TICKET GIVEAWAYS Bishop Allen & Throw Me The Statue Tues 11/10 Echoplex | Info [ ENTER TO WIN ] [...]
"Doolittle" war das erste Album der Bostoner Independent-Band um Black Francis, welches ich bewusst wahr- und liebgewonnen habe. Und dies ist nun mittlerweile 20 Jahre her und anläßlich ihrer derzeitigen Tour spielt die Band unter anderem dieses Album komplett live. Und verschenken jetzt eine 4 Songs umfassende EP vom Pariser Konzert im Oktober als Download. www.pixiesmusic.com (Foto: Renaud Monfourny )
We're supposedly heading into a slower time of year for live music-- holidays, weather, and the slow new release calendar from here on out are all partially responsible. You'd never know it, though, looking at this week's calendar, featuring long established names like Mission of Burma, They Might Be Giants, Pinback, Black Heart Procession, Erin McKeown, and The Pixies (in Eugene, but not in Black Francis' garage). Heck, even B.B. King's dropping by this week. So with a group like that on the way, we're pretty happy to be able offer up tickets for grabs to a [...]
Black Francis, She Wants Revenge, Love And Rockets and popular comedians including Bob Odenkirk and Tim & Eric will be performing a benefit concert in L.A. on December 8 and 9 for Winston Bertrand, a baby born in February with lymphatic and venous malformations ... Former Test Icicles guitarist Dev Hynes will release his second [...]
I'm still deciding whether I want to spend a ridiculous amount of time "previewing" the upcoming Pixies concerts at the Paramount next week. I mean, what hasn't been said? What youtube videos haven't you already watched? What Black Francis lyrics haven't you already dissected? I'm stoked, ok? Got it? Anyway, it's all very personal and confusing-I hold this band in higher esteem than any other (!). I really could expend all sorts of energy waxing and waning flax golden tales of blistery, bizarro, Bostonian punk rock and its unprecedented impact on my musical and cultural psyche. But that [...]
I Pixies sono una delle migliori band degli anni Novanta. Anzi, mi spingo oltre, sono una delle migliori band di sempre. Hanno influenzato gran parte delle band che li hanno seguiti e la loro influenza nel mondo del rock non si è ancora del tutto esaurita. Da poco sono stati in tour in Europa, non passando purtroppo dall'Italia, portando live forse quello che a mio parere è il suo album migliore, "Doolittle" uscito nel 1989. Visto che molti fan italiani si saranno persi la possibilità di sentire per intero questo magnifico album dal vivo la band [...]
No Age singer-drummer Dean Spunt dropped plenty of F-bombs on Wednesday night at the Palladium — the most of vicious of which was directed at a faulty mic — but the first really captured the spirit of the evening. "F**king Pixies," Spunt sighed, with more than a little bit of reverence. The L.A. noise-rock duo was a nifty choice as opener for the Pixies' "Doolittle" tour — Spunt and guitarist Randy Randall have four more dates with Black Francis and crew. No Age filled the cavernous Palladium with shards of sound, coaxing as much artful [...]
Surfer Blood Is Coming To the Echo Orpheum 11/14/09: Ray Davies performs Kinks songs with the Vox Society Choir (now) 12/4/09: Todd Rundgren (now) Nokia Theatre 12/5/09: KIIS FM Show – Taylor Swift / Keri Hilson / Fabolous / Ting Tings / 3OH!3 / LMFAO (now) 12/12/09: Stevie Wonder / Jonas Brothers (Friday at 10 AM) 12/16/09: Mark & Brian Christmas Show: Heart / Foreigner (Friday at 10 AM) Fox Theater in Pomona 12/12/09: Passion Pit (on sale Saturday at 10 AM) The Glass [...]
Top Album Releases: October 2009 Nick's Top Neon Indian: Psychic Chasms Black Heart Procession: Six Califone: All My Friends Are Funeral Singers Jay-Z: The Blueprint 3 The Flaming Lips: Embryonic Monsters Of Folk: Monsters [...]
Vampire Weekend - Cousins
WKND PLYLST!! This has nothing to do with NEW MOON!
Bobby B's Top 50 Albums Of The Decade (#25-21)
new music from vampire weekend – cousins + music video
