Bien, sabemos que muchos de ustedes dirán ¿que hace una recomendación del disco de Lady Gaga en Cuchara Sónica ?, tengo una razón, la chica esta haciendo cosas bastante interesantes dentro de pop , pese a quien le pese. Si bien muchas de las veces, no voy muy de acuerdo con toda la parafernalia que existe alrededor de Lady Gaga , debo admitir que la música que hace es asunto aparte, se le agradece que no venga haciendo la mierda de pop como todas las demás, lease Britney Spears [...]
Looks like somebody changed her mind really quick… must've been the weather, winter is not a good time to be going up north. It seems Carrie Underwood took the time to subtly rephrase the idea of her moving to Canada with her boyfriend, Mike Fisher. Here's what Carrie Underwood said: "Call me old fashion, but the next guy I move in with will be my hubby. Who ever that is. I'm not saying it's going to be him." That must've broken Mike Fisher's poor little heart… and it probably even hurt more than the teeth incidents he might have lived [...]
Don't forget to rate the album at the end of the post. Welcome back to Blinded By The Hype, the PMA feature in which we revisit albums once the hype has died down. In today's world, music is released at a machine gun pace. It's a what-have-you-done-for-me-late ly type scene, and "lately" usually means this week. Rarely do we stop to smell the roses. Even good albums get overlooked as time passes. And we almost never – aside from year end lists – take a look backward. Hindsight is 20-20, and we'd like to apply that retrovision [...]
I was working steadily on Saturday night, and unsure whether I should even leave the house for some fun, but about 11:30pm I decided it was time for a break. I was at Rancho Relaxo by midnight, in time to catch the final two bands on the bill that night: Ottawa's the Love Machine and Amos the Transparent , also from the nation's capital. The Love Machine played a full, happy set of exuberant, catchy songs. Mostly new ones, they said. I was impressed, and the crowd certainly was, [...]
Hey there metal f*ckers! Another blog for another month, and yet I find myself writing it with a similar hangover. October was a somewhat quiet month for Atlanta shows, but there was really just one that I was worried about: the almighty Metallica. If you don't know, I am a HUGE Metallica fan. I don't care what they do wrong, they are still my idols, and I love them. They came early in October with the opening acts you may have heard of, Lamb Of God and Gojira . The concert [...]
Plastic Little "More Tongue Less Teeth (U-Tern Remix)"
'Tis the season of giving, and today I have another charity project that could use your support. In previous weeks I've written about the Playing For Change project and Funk Aid for Africa . Today I want to share news about a benefit album that just came out today titled Indie Rocks! A Benefit Album For Malaria No More . It's been put together by RED Distribution , and its aim is to raise money for the organization Malaria No More [...]
I came within inches of putting a track by the New Zealand band Signer on a Friday Finds a few months back and then decided it was too sleepy or something. That was stupid of me. Their newish (Sept) record, Next We Bring You The Fire out on Carpark may drift in and out of electronic psychedelia, woozy somnolence brought on by exaggerated LFOs, walls of lydian tuned aggregates, and a voice nearly as slim as a sine wave, but the details of its makings are fully aware and its construction, though not always [...]
Track-by-Track: Lady Gaga - The Fame Monster Coming off of such a massive debut success, Lady Gaga had a lot to prove with her second album. Luckily, she's more than up to the task, eclipsing her debut in every way possible. The Fame Monster is her official arrival, a declaration that she's in this for the long run. 1. Bad Romance - Her best single to date, and surely one of the defining singles of her career, this takes everything that was wonderful about her older songs and [...]
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 [...]
Think of us as providers of a weekly public service announcement. Whatever we can do to help you steer clear of unnecessary items and edge you closer to the greener grass of the path less traveled, well, that's what we're here for. So this week, we'll wheedle, entice, cajole, whatever's necessary in order to make you put down that Katy Perry Unplugged album and the umpteenth in-concert job by some Beatle guy, and seek out some dubby electro-drone damage, a little screwy jazz mind-bending, an old-school stomp-rock raveup, and to make it all go down easy, a surefire, [...]
As Torrance Shipman once said in the 2000 classic, Bring It On , "Missy's the poo...so take a big whiff." While that quote doesn't really apply here (aside from suggesting that Gaga is indeed 'the poo'), the point is this: As the driving force behind the writing and recording process of her music, the creative director of her album artwork, music videos, tour visuals, merchandising and just about every other minute facet of her career, Lady Gaga is a very new kind of pop star; one that sings live, writes and records, dances, styles photoshoots, [...]
How can I justify myself giving a "review" on B.B. King . I can't, so here are the thoughts that rushed into my head during this incredible show. I'll be brief.
Firstly, B.B. King is 84. Unfortunately, he won't be playing forever. If you have not seen him and his band play, or are not planning to at some point, you have lost out.
On to the show. The first thing that came to mind when the band was setting up the stage was that these fine gentlemen control the stage [...]
By SR and DL Followed By Static / Little Teeth (Hot Box Pizza located at 214 E Hickory in Denton): Pretty sure this is the same Little Teeth I saw play in an Austin backyard last year, and their challenging music, specifically the vocals, should make for a pretty interesting time at this pizza place this evening. Show is free and starts at 7 PM. (DL) Blues Control / Silver Shampoo / Darktown Strutters / Fungi Girls / Wild In The [...]
The 5th annual Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival has come and gone. There is something about entering a dark theatre with a bucket of beer in your hand that tells you that you are in the right place for the evening. The thing I love about the sketch festival is its accessibility to the audience and the fans who turn out. When you pay your ticket and wait for the show to start, you are surrounded by performers, their parents and other fans of comedy. Everybody around you is on the same [...]
MON: Followed By Static/Little Teeth (Hot Box Pizza) MON: Blues Control/Silver Shampoo/Darktown Strutters/Fungi Girls/DJ Wild In The Streets (Mable Peabody's) TUE: Imogen Heap/Tim Exile/Back Ted-N-Ted (Granada Theater) TUE: Daughters Of The Sun/The River Mouth/Lazy Native (J&J's Pizza) WED: Vexed UK/Dear Human/Lars Larsen/Blixaboy/Electrodad (Rubber Gloves) WED: Mattthew Gray Delves Into The Humanity Pools/DJ Teamwork (The Cavern) WED: Guy Clark/Elizabeth Cook (Granada) WED: Jookabox/Fizzy Dino Pop/Monastery (Hailey's) THU: Mountain Goats/Final Fantasy/Larkin Grimm (Granada) THU: [...]
Having made such an almighty pig's ear of last week's listings, I find myself wondering if the gigmosphere really is as thin as it looks this week, or whether I've just managed to make another spectacular arse of spotting the good 'uns again. There's something a little different happening, actually, because Joey Comeau and the Loose Teeth Press are going to be at the Bowery as part of their reading tour tonight, which sounds rather interesting. Also, the Charity Baw at the Roxy on Saturday looks like a bit of a spectacular, [...]
Raw, unadulterated rock and roll from rock A-listers Dave Grohl, Josh Homme , and Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones. The fruition of a long anticipated gathering between Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters and Nirvana), Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age) and John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin) is a fun, dirty little album. It's a unique brand of lo-fi, whiskey bar, teeth-kicking rock and roll. Big, mangy and wild-eyed, it's full of boogie and heat. Them Crooked Vultures find stomping energy in a big, old-fashioned bluesy groove. For months now, the rumors of jam sessions...
Eternal question: how to leave the rock, how to rock the rock? We no want to go away, we a want to stay. Love home, rep home. But yard hard. No soul want a be forever down, stepped upon. We assert ourselves against authority. We our own authority. But everyday downpressor on our back in everyway. What we gon do? The upward struggle of our living down-under make our music come strong, got to be tuff enuff to stand forward in the shit-storm. Take a little woman like this here hummingbird Cherine who sing eagle strong. [...]
Oh my God. I had an absurdly good meal at 8 Oz. Burger Bar this evening. I'll post the pictures and describe the tastes later, I'm still full and haven't found quite the right words to describe it yet. Then I came home and found out one of the restaurant's co-owners was recently arrested on charges that he may have intentionally caused a woman to have a miscarriage by "placing an unspecified powder in the pregnant woman's vaginal area." So he killed a fetus. If you told me right now that the hamburger I ate tonight was actually a fetus, [...]
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