Opening Act: Gramps Morgan (Morgan family elder aka Morgan Heritage)Gramps Morgan opened the show with his romantic & soulful crooning. He serenaded all the ladies in the room while holding hands with a few gals in the front row (starting with me! ~swoon~). A few songs into his set and everyone was smiling, holding loved ones closer, swaying to the reggae music and all around feeling I-RIE. A...
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Since the most durable by-products sent into the world by Casablanca Records are the marketing of KISS, the inescapability of 'Y.M.C.A.' at public events where alcohol is served, and 12" disco singles that turn up in every flea market in the universe, you don't crack open 'And Party Every Day: The Inside Story of Casablanca Records' expecting the kind of behind-the-scenes tales of creative alch...
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A long-awaited survey of the life and times of a cultural icon.Given Joan Baez’s centrality to American cultural and political life over the past five decades, the greatest surprise about this documentary is that it wasn’t made much sooner. While Bob Dylan’s career has been the subject of a multitude of docs and bios, essays and retrospectives, Baez’s work -- both as artist and activist --
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From the opening strains of "Synthetic Apparition", the synths sing in harmony and pulse in heartbeat time. They cast an aural depiction of a wasteland awash in reverberation and ready to be catalysed by ... something.First attempt is made by projecting the "Cathode Ray" over the landscape. Sounding as if Iggy and the Stooges were trapped in the phantom zone, the repetitive chant begins...catho...
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I have a love/hate relationship with Janet Jackson. While I've nursed a huge crush on her since she was Penny on "Good Times", and I famously shouted down a relative who insisted Pebbles was hotter than Janet back in the Eighties, she's not really been on my radar lately. First there was the whole Super Bowl fiasco, which I thought was tasteless. Then there was the way she refused to talk about...
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Release Date: November 9, 20091. The Invitation2. Then Days Went By3. Death To My Enemies4. So Disrespectful5. Psycho6. Hold Me Down7. Crime Wave8. Stretch9. Strong Enough10. Get It Hot11. Gangsta’s Delight12. I Got Swag13. Baby By Me (feat. Ne-Yo)14. Do You Think About Me15. Ok, You’re Right16. Could’ve Been You (feat. R. Kelly)17. Flight 187 (Bonus Track)18. Baby By Me (Bonus Track)19. Man
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Top of the morning to ya, Mog Mates!In this week's Home Taping my loved ones tear each other apart for your amusement.In the vid below Jill and her 15 year-old daughter Clara go head to head in a very lively discussion about Paramore's latest album, Brand New Eyes.At several points it got so "lively" I had to break out the Mosquito(TM) teen repellent. It plays old people's music like Radiohead ...
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My WorldSometime around 1999 I was living in New Haven, Connecticut and working at Cutler's Music, a local record store that had been around since the 50's. I met a cat there who was working at the raw funk label Desco, commuting to New York everyday to do publicity for them or some such thing. He augmented his income by selling funk y 45's on ebay and was generally,the most gentlemanly of fu...
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There's good noise, and there's bad noise... Dan Offen discussed which of these categories The Moi Non Plus falls into.
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One might think that the worst outcome for an artist like 50 Cent would be to alienate enough people to render himself completely alone in the music industry. It is easy to view the career arc of Curtis Jackson in a Shakespearean context. The man known as 50 Cent ascended to a level of hip-hop stardom in the first half of this decade that no more than a handful of others either before or since ...
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Lil Wayne feat Birdman - No Ceilings - Not a huge fan of Weezy, but he’s got a decent track here. 7/10Click below to listen (not the original video)
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Much hyped and much revered by respected acts such as Elbow and the legend that is Tom Waits, Jesca Hoop has returned to our Music Boxes with new album Hunting My Dress. Two questions beckon Was it worth the wait? and Is the hype justified? I have to answer both those questions with a big fat resounding YES!!!!! This girl has delivered big time with her own unique fusion of Experimental Rock, P...
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One of my favorite live shows EVER is Ghostland Observatory. Their techno beat isn't my usual dig, but one glance at their performance at Lollapalooza 2007, and I was hooked. I've had the pleasure of seeing them several times since and introduced them to many of my friends. Recently, on my...er...29th birthday, Ghostland came to me. How often can you go see one of your top music loves on yo...
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An all-American anti-hero romp through Tom Waits to Bob Dylan to Smashing Pumpkins to Brendan Benson to Cold War Kids. Catriona Boyle reviews.
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I must hang my head in shame a little when I admit that I have just begun to listen to Florence + the Machine's Lungs. The buzz has been plentiful for the group's debut album, buzz which has already included a 2009 Mercury Prize nomination.Young frontwoman Florence Welch has a formidable presence. She has the elegant musicality of Kate Bush, the hep-cool of Karen O, and the sensuality of
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When you take three of the biggest names in rock history and put them in a studio together, they're pretty much destined to make good music so to say that expectations were high for the Them Crooked Vultures' début is probably 2009's biggest understatement.
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Today Wale's Attention Deficit has been officially released and I will be reviewing it track-by-track. I review my albums by giving a rating of each track out of 5. I have also posted links for ya'll to go out and buy it.ENJOY!Track 1-Triumph(3.5/5)Tr
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As I said, Matthew Lindley & Troubadour Deluxe were the openers. If it falls on the opening act to truly warm up a crowd, in a bar, on a Friday night, ML&TD did the trick just fine. Not too flashy, just a five-piece with a few pretty harmonies, glib songwriting and a lead guitarist (Dean Kattari) that deftly noodled through each song like it was the first one he ever learned. Lindley’s songs.
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The Smoking Section and Trackstar The DJ give us a 12 round fight between Royce Da 5'9" and Lil Wayne. Who do you think won?Download Link: Lil Wayne Vs. Royce Da 5'9" - Best Rapper Alive?
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I don't listen to much rock n roll these days (still love the classics, just not much of an indie rock fan) with one exception: Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Karen, Nick and Brian bring so much energy and enthusiasm to each and every show no matter how long they've been on tour, no matter how sick they may be that day, no matter what else is going on in the world, they deliver 110% every time. Combined wi...
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OneRepublic - Waking Up - Interscope Records Let’s get this out of the way right from the start – sophomore slump? OneRepublic? Uh, no. It doesn’t take but a few minutes of their latest, Waking Up, to show these guys have gotten better and are far from done. It’s a hell of a lot more engrossing of a record, taking a page from recent work of Eye Alaska more than anything these guys have don
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Another expanded edition of Brother Ray’s 1960 album of themed travel songs. Like most journeys, highs and lows abound.In an age where musicians labor for weeks over a single phrase -- eventually a tiny part of a multi-track recording -- it's astounding to consider that the original 12 tracks on this album were recorded in two long sessions over two days. And when the artist in question has to .
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