Turn That Down!: A Hysterical History of Rock, Roll, Pop, Soul, Punk, Funk, Rap, Grunge, Motown, Metal, Disco, Techno & Other Forms of Musical Aggression Over the Ages
kalani0ksv7 | 17 hours ago
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) –Almost 15 years ago, former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl quietly circulated among his friends copies of a demo tape on which he did all the singing and played all the instruments. He considered the project "a goof," and he dubbed it "Foo Fighters" because he wanted people to think it was a real band, "like the Ramones or the Pixies," he recalled
DCist (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Every so often a songwriter emerges who captures something about the city he calls home. Elliot Smith was as Portland as fixies and strollers. There is something free and unmistakably flyover about Omaha, Nebraska's Conor Oberst. Kurt Vile -- who finished a tour to support his latest record (and first release on Matador Records), Childish Prodigy , at the Black Cat on Thursday -- is making his claim...
A Pint of Unionist Lite (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
Another weekend musical treat from the far end of the spectrum to last week's trip to Scarborough Fayre. Today's tune, "Youth against Fascism (It's the song I hate)" by Sonic Youth doesn't actually deliver what the title appears to be offering. Instead it's a clever dig at those who don't bother moving outside the cliched to express their fashionable and often manufactured outrage and anger...
The Apathist (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago
Lots as I'm making up for lost time. Message To Bears - Autumn (Electronic/Minimal/Repetitive to the point of banal but so good to work to...) The Gentlemen Losers - Ballad of Sparrow Young (Quiet Western Twanging - at around 1m34s, I want to live in Texas and serve peach pie to cowboys in a diner) Phantogram - Mouthful of Diamonds (Words, drone, drums, guitars. Music) American Ananlog Set - Choir...
Joystiq (Free subscription) | yesterday
Each week Mark Methenitis contributes Law of the Game on Joystiq ("LGJ"), a column on legal issues as they relate to video games : CJ Sorg Well, after the incident with Courtney Love and Kurt , it looks like the whole issue of famous musicians in games is back in the press with No Doubt suing Activision over Band Hero . A one time event is an anomaly, but twice in just a few months suggests...
Stix Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
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Ear Candy with Travis Hay (Free subscription) | yesterday
Between Pearl Jam releasing a new album and Alice In Chains doing the same with a new singer, it seems like grunge nostalgia is in full force in 2009. And while those two bands are still going strong nearly two decades after Singles and fashionable flannel, they will always be living in the shadow of the "N-word" as Riz Rollins once called the mighty band from Aberdeen. That's part of what...
Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
After 17 years of waiting, Nirvana’s incredible headlining concert at the 1992 Reading Festival was finally (officially) released on CD/DVD as Live at Reading this week. As Rolling Stone previously reported, Kurt Cobain and Co. also played Reading in 1991, performing on the bottom third of the bill on the fest’s first day. A year [...]
DIVA INCARNATE (Free subscription) | yesterday
119. Wishing I Was There - Natalie Imbruglia (UK #19, Aus #24, Ger #68) With this her 3rd of 4 top 20s from the same album, she wishes it were 1998 again. 120. I Can't Help Myself – Lucid (UK #7) 121. No Tendo Dinero - Lose Umbrellos (UK #33, US #42, Ita #4) 123. You're Still The One - Shania Twain (UK #10, US #2, Aus #1) I don't think we quite knew what Shania had up her sleave when this was...
Dead Flowers: Anglophiles Anonymous (Free subscription) | yesterday
Forgive me Blogger, for I have sinned. I know I've dismissed, unfairly at times, a lot of music in the past few months--I can't help it, it's in my nature. I also know that I've failed to write about the small amount of music I actually have liked--surely no way for a hobbyist critic with delusions of grandeur to act. So here, without further ado, are some reviews... Mew--No More Stories... Mew have...
Digital Spy (Free subscription) | yesterday
Nirvana's early drummer Chad Channing reveals why he was originally forced from the band.
Punknews.org (Free subscription) | yesterday
Pearl Jam wrapped up a four-night, sold out run at Philadelphia's Wachovia Spectrum by dressing up in Devo 's famed jumpsuits and "energy dome" hats and launching into the band's hit "Whip It" Halloween night.
The Daily Swarm - Headlines (Free subscription) | yesterday
The AV Club : Jim O’Rourke is a storied musician and producer who has cut something of a Zelig-like figure in indie music in the 1990s and 2000s. He came up with the prescient avant-folk group Gastr Del Sol, made numerous records full of drones and noise, and played crucial roles in such big bands as Wilco (he helped conceive Yankee Hotel Foxtrot) and Sonic Youth (he was temporarily a fifth...
Spinner.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , New Music , Exclusive Last month, Rufus Wainwright , who recently released the CD/DVD 'Live in Milwaukee,' took part in Gavin Friday 's 50th birthday celebration at Carnegie Hall. It was quite the extravagant affair and Wainwright found himself on stage at times with Scarlett Johansson (with whom he dueted), Courtney Love , U2 and more. Wainwright confesses...
Hctor.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
In the span of two months, Activision has ticked off Courtney Love and No Doubt by letting unlockable avatars sing songs from other genres.
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kalani0ksv7 | 17 hours ago
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) –Almost 15 years ago, former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl quietly circulated among his friends copies of a demo tape on which he did all the singing and played all the instruments. He considered the project "a goof," and he dubbed it "Foo Fighters" because he wanted people to think it was a real band, "like the Ramones or the Pixies," he recalled at a taping of VH1's "Storytellers"...
kalyanim | 11/05/2009
In September, Nirvana fans were shocked to learn that the Kurt Cobain avatar in Guitar Hero 5 could be used to sing any other song on the game’s track list
angelal345h | 11/04/2009
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) –Almost 15 years ago, former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl quietly circulated among his friends copies of a demo tape on which he did all the singing and played all the instruments. He considered the project "a goof," and he dubbed it "Foo Fighters" because he wanted people to think it was a real band, "like the Ramones or the Pixies," he recalled at a taping of VH1's "Storytellers"...
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