Just recently Mastodon were invited to play a tune on David Letterman’s Late Show in the usual post-show format. The experience, apparently, left Dave a bit ‘frighten,’ but I’m pretty convinced he’s now gone past it and erased the show out of his memory altogether. Can’t be hard at all, considering Mastodon’s performance was completely pale and unmemorable. All their shows seem this way lately. What’s happening to you, guys? The album itself, Crack The…
Provocative artwork? Surely not. That’s not blood on the cover of the new Manic Street Preachers album, just a boy with one side of his face more red than the other. Or to put it in more artistic terms a la frontman James Dean Bradfield, “a much more modern version of Lucian Freud-esque brushstrokes”. But either way you look at it, this work of album-cover artistry for the Journal for Plague Lovers has been banned…
Back in March, the music scene was left a bit numb when a new Jack White side-project was announced, the alt supergroup The Dead Weather – comprised of, obviously, Jack White on drums (this not so obvious), Alison Moshart of The Kills on vocals, Dean Fertita of Queens of the Stone Age on guitar and Jack Lawrence of The Raconteurs on bass guitar. Since then, though, not much has been heard from them, apart from…
Letterman was graced with a special guest last night when Animal Collective dropped by to play their smashing single “Summertime Clothes.” Quite appropriate, seeing how the most beautiful season is right around the corner. Anyway, their live performance was unexpectedly … mediocre. Avey, Panda and Geo weren’t at all in shape for some reason. They were just sitting behind their tablets, pressing a few buttons, while humming the harmonies. Then again, it’s national TV and…
Although Diry Projectors’ latest release, titled “Bitte Orca”, is scheduled for a June 9th release, it unfortunately got leaked all over the Internet sometime around late March. Bummer. I’m not gonna lie here, I download it too. I just couldn’t wait anymore, so I immediately put it on my Blackberry the minute I heard it leaked and it’s been on repeat ever since. Now, there’s no doubt in my mind when I say this is…
I saw this beautiful a cappella version sometime last year, when Bon Iver was in Paris to record for Vincent Moon’s La Blogoteque session, and remember that at the time I was completely shocked by its spontaneous beauty. The pure joy of people singing out of the random, the completely silenced crowd outside a Paris condominium or simply a happy dog, turned the song into a really special experience. For some reason or another, I…
U2’s new video for Magnificent is staged in a Moroccan square, featuring the band playing, while various scenes of the beautiful, sunny Moroccan countryside are shown. Some interesting sheet slides, too. The video was directed by Alex Courtes, who also was behind the terrible Get On Your Boots video, and was filmed in the city of Pez where also the No Line On The Horizon album was recorded.
To keep it short, folks, Vekatimes is one of those superb album that comes by every once in a while and makes our lives a bit sweeter . Definitely one of the best I’ve heard in a very, very long time. More on it in an upcoming review of Grizzly Bear’s latest release, which I hope to publish sometime next week. Until then, check out this awesome live rendition of one of Vekatimes’ many highlights,…
Ben E. King’s classic song “Stand By Me” will forever remain a classic. It’s uplifting and heart warming vibe it brings when played is incomparable, and along the years Stand By Me has seen thousands and thousands of covers, remixes and rehashes, but I don’t think one comes even closer to this collective artists rendition. Tears may fall… The song starts with a beautiful, bluesy guitar and vocal line by Roger Ridley, a well known…
Oh, boy. These new PETA awareness campaigns are getting more and more subtle these days. Wait, this is just a music vidoe. Okay! Getting past their hip name, Brooklyners Justice of The Unicorns new video for the single “The Dragon’s Claw” is both an admirable effort and a welcomed companion for this awesome soundtrack. The sinopsis sounds something like this. A wondering err… dude, in an animal suite of some sort, stumbles across an evil…
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