The new Passion Pit album, Gossamer, has the same uplifting mood as last year's brilliant summer record by Foster The People . While the songs are often lyrically dark - one song features a man being lifted out of a bloody bathtub - they are generally uptempo and laced with swirls of strings. My favorite track so far is Love Is Greed - it boats one of [...]
This doesn't need much of set up. It's Morrissey talking in Israel about Madonna , who just played Tel Aviv. I saw Madonna in concert a few years ago in L.A. and the wasteful distribution of everything extravagant meant to distract you from the fact that she has no talent whatsoever. No one from the crowd wanted to hug her. No one in the crowd wanted to come closer to her. She's the most successful scam in the history of music and she [...]
Shirley Manson on Rihanna and the music business: To me, what’s happening with Rihanna is really disturbing. Don’t get me wrong—I love Rihanna—but what’s happening to her is what happened to Britney [Spears]. Record companies are overworking these girls, just pushing them and pushing them. It’s like taking a winning racehorse and stabbing it in the neck over and over with steroids. The companies are preying on these young girls, who are valuing themselves according to how many followers they have on Facebook. There’s press about how Rihanna’s about to collapse [...]
Showing up to an awards show in an egg carries no message other than that you are showing up to an awards show in an egg. - David Toussaint from How Do You Solve a Problem like Madonna? [...]
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Listen to Daft Punk’s “Horizon”, the Japanese bonus track for Random Access Memories
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Daft Punk – “Horizon” (Japan-Only Bonus Track)
