I was thinking of a few of my NYC pals Kevin & Cindy, who spearhead an '80s cover band called The Fades that played a gig at LES' Fontanas on Thursday. It got me to remembering mainstream 80s music, much of which I have not listened to in a while (exception Billy Idol - never out of style on my record player). In the mid 80s, I was mostly listening to American indie/alt/college rock (REM, dBs, ...
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A swagger around the rockblog-o-sphere brings us...- Glorious Noise opines that Jack White is the new Rick Rubin- And then there were Two - Ringo Starr has Paul McCartney guest on a few tracks for his upcoming LP (via Rock and Roll Daily)- MySpace gets Imeem for a steal, writes TechCrunch- I saw Tobin Sprout in his incarnation as EyesinWeasel back in October 2000- Bob Dylan has put out a polka ...
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Punk-garage rockers The Willowz are rockin' - great Jack White-like vocals, rockin' guitars, atmosphere and more. The band had their CD release party for "Everyone" in NYC last night, and they head out on a short December tour. The band's label DimMak has their single 'Repetition' on its landing page. There's also good stuff at the band's blog."The Willowz new album "Everyone" is out today! We ...
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Dig the raw rockin' sounds of NYC's The Octagon, whose latest EP "Arm Brain Heart and Liver" (released in September on SeriousBusiness) just kicks ass for five straight songs - "You Can Make It On Your Own!" The band wrote on its MySpace blog page: "The title track is my own, featuring my singing and erstwhile classical guitar playing; Zack wrote the others. "...Wizard" features the robust 5AM ...
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It's Tuesday, sportsracers, and Waved Rumor brings you non-Kiss-related items for your Tuesday nerve central pleasure. - Rock & Roll Daily reports: Oasis the band is really done, says Liam (again). But Liam is recording with the old Oasis bandmates for a new project and says he'll play live in early 2010. No sign of Noel Gallagher. Yet.- Colorless is the new Green. (via Alltop)- Mick Jones and ...
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Sometime around late September/early October, with news of a new KISS album and 35-yr anniversary tour in the wind, I finally got around to reading the official KISS biography called "Kiss: Behind the Mask", an excellent look at the early days and success years for KISS. Sure, the thing was published in 2003, so it took only six years for me to catch up. Not unusual. I was a big KISS fan way ba...
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"To mark the just-published 20th-anniversary edition of his book 'Liptick Traces' the book, Columbia University in partnership with the ARChive of Contemporary Music presents Greil Marcus in a one-man performance of Lipstick Traces. The event will take place on Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 6:00 p.m. at Altschul Auditorium, 417 International Affairs Building, 420 West 118th Street and is free ...
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Iggy Says (while doing the metal rock sign with his fingers):Q: "And with the Stoogs, you're always celebrating, yes?"A: "Yessss...This is James Williamson, who did the Raw Power, uh, all the real hard, uh, the stuff all the hard boys like..." HA! Iggy and the Stooges: interview Planeta Terra 2009 Video by Straight James Williamson - MySpace VideoCheck out all the videos from the Brazilian ret...
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I'm hopeful that the new film Pirate Radio is cool. The film is based on the renegade broadcasters of the 1960s in the offshore international waters outside British broadcasting jurisdiction, and it features British invasion rock music and big stars. Though I'm a little worried that the director is the guy behind "Love Actually", "Notting Hill" and "Four Weddings and a Funeral", all fairly like...
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Over-the-top observations from an over-the-hill rocker:- Weezer's new CD 'Raditude' is getting so-so reviews from many leading music critics (check MetaCritic). Most can't seem to deal with Cuomo's jokey, tossed-off pop lyrics. I kinda like it. He's a smart guy. He knows what he's doing. Listen to 'Put Me Back Together' (sweet!) and 'I'm Your Daddy' over at Mochi Beats. On December 1st, Weezer ...
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NME is hosting the new Flaming Lips video for 'Watching the Planets'. (I tried to embed and was disallowed). It's crazy wild and better suited for home viewing. The vid's full of naked grown people who come out of a womb of sorts and well, they hoist and pull singer Wayne Coyne out of his bubble, and...well you'll have to watch it for yourself. No spoilers here. Buy the new Flaming Lips release...
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Couple of cool live shows in Phoenix tonight:Two Brooklyn, NY bands - Bishop Allen and Darwin Deez - are touring together and show up tonight at Modified Arts. Local electronica outfit Futurekind kicks things off. Love the clean clear pop of Bishop Allen's "The Ancient Commonsense of Things - hear it at their MySpace page. And Darwin's Deez's 'Constellation' is groovy as a childhood lullaby for...
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Thanks to a big Green Sustainability conference in Phoenix this weekend, we get free bands at Stinkweeds as part of this coming weekend's street festival Phoenix Green Streets! Yay!You might ask - huh? A Green conference and free bands? How does that come about? Well, it's likely that it's all because of the rising civic leadership work of Phoenix music honcho Kimber Lanning. Through her hard b...
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"....fearless sincerity, devotion to craft, agnosticism about digital technology (which is to say, they use it but don’t fetishize it), profound musical curiosity, ingenuity at using the human voice as an instrument, and an uncanny ability to reproduce their complex material in live performance (in no small part because this is where the money is).These also happen to be the qualities that defin
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From The Ramones' It's Alive DVD, here are the two parts that make up the band's June 10, 1977 show at CBGB, two weeks before its third LP 'Rocket to Russia' was released to the world.Part 1Part 2You want much more Ramones? Find it at RamoniacCretin's Youtube page. Stunning.
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This trio of gals - Natalie, Naomi and Lauren - aka Agent Ribbons calls their band "the lost band of the great depression" and that's no joke. The girls kick off a serious month-long tour next week in order to bring some equity to their struggle to stay financially afloat and get their songs heard. (The band comes to Phoenix's Modified Arts in early December)From their Myspace blog page, Agent ...
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No lie - I like Live at Daryl's House - How can you not? It's got it all - wine-drinking musicians hanging out a gorgeous country farmhouse, playing music with other R&B/soul/pop lovers, and its all captured on web video? What's not to like? (Note to self - start up a garage rock-punk show just like it when you buy your own country farmhouse, like Little Steven's Underground Garage, but cooler!...
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Caught a fast, fun set by Teenage Bottlerocket last night at Chasers' in Scottsdale. Pics below. The band played great - tight, tuneful, fun. I sang along to "In the Basement" - great tune that. Like The Ramones, the band goes slam bang right into the next song, without stopping a beat. We were all pogoing at one point. Stayed a bit for The Lawrence Arms, but left a few songs in. I was too piss...
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See that poster at left? Well, it still holds good for Thursday night rock frolic with Teenage Bottlerocket and Lawrence Arms in greater PHX/Scottsdale. Except the show won't be at The Sets, cause The Sets closed down a few months ago when I first promoed this show. Wikipedia says: "In June 2009 The Lawrence Arms recorded a new studio EP. Titled Buttsweat and Tears, it will be released on Octo...
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See that poster at left? Well, it still holds good for Thursday night rock frolic with Teenage Bottlerocket and Lawrence Arms in greater PHX/Scottsdale. Except the show won't be at The Sets, cause The Sets closed down a few months ago when I first promoed this show. Anyway, I love Teenage Bottlerocket and plan to be rockin' this show at Chasers in Scottsdale. Rock. Look how the band rocked a t...
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