Flickr (Rarities) of the Day III
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Mystery Jets - You Can’t Fool Me Dennis (Justice Remix): Download
Tags: Bruce Springsteen, Data, Flickr of the Day, Hot Chip, Justice, Ladytron, Mystery Jets, Rarities, Snoop dogg, The NationalNew Music - Migrate & Bye Bye
Here are new HQ clips of “Migrate” and “Bye Bye” from Mariah Carey’s upcoming album, E=MC². They both sound AMAZING! I cannot wait for the full Migrate to leak, same with Bye Bye, which is the 2nd single off of the album. Bye Bye is an emotional song for the people who lost somebody. Both these clips are around 3 minutes long.
New Music - We Break The Dawn
Former member of Destiny’s Child, Michelle Williams, is back with a new single, titled “We Break The Dawn” from her 3rd solo album, “Unexpected” due to release ion August 2008. I like the beat of this track, even though I have a feeling that it will be a flop.
So, you haven’t seen ‘No Country for Old Men’?
So, you haven’t seen No Country for Old Men? What’s your excuse? The Coen bros. have given us movies like The Big Lebowski, Fargo, Barton Fink and O Brother, Where Art Thou?, so what’s not to like about these guys?
Also, there’s bad-ass extraordinaire Javier Bardem, a Spaniard who I have seen in many movies, but that started getting attention with the Oscar-nominated drama The Sea Inside, about the true stroy of a quadraplegic dude in Spain seeking to kill himself with dignity.
The movie has Josh Brolin (whom we might remember as the asshole doctor in Robert Rodriguez’s Planet Terror) and Tommy Lee Jones in an excellent performance as the personification of jadedness.
And, OK, let me get to the point. The movie is intense. It has headshots and neckshots and throatshots , a mexican dude bouncing on walls because of a gunshot, big guns, lots of bullets, a car exploding and a whole lot of blood spilling, bursting, spraying and flowing here there and everywhere.
But everything ends up being oh so poetic in the end. So you can watch this movie and still say that “it is a gripping, epic film about the end of the age of heroes in a dying America. You might say is the true film about the end of the Old West, even if it’s not located in the west”.
And you can say that you’re deep and profound and finally, who knows, bang that smart, sexy girl with the glasses who goes to poetry jams and eats tofu and talks about Kurosawa all day.
Review by Carlos Mal Pacheco
Tags: Box Office Gold, Coen brothers, Hollywood, Movie Review, Movies, Oscar, reviewCoachella? All Points West? Pfft! Screw That!
JP’s Blog has a great and informative post of all the hot action going down in the UK Festival scene. A nice change. I was getting tired of reading about All Points West or SXSW…
Zoo Thousand And Eight Festival:
First there is the Zoo Thousand And Eight Festival which has The Cribs, British Sea Power, The Young Knives and The Rascals playing. Others playing at the festival include Lethal Bizzle, MSTRKRFT, Hadouken!, Friendly Fires, Does It Offend You Yeah? and The Rumble Strips. It will take place between July 4-6 at the Port Lympne Wild Animal Park in the Kent countryside. For the rest of the line-up go here.
The Great Escape Festival:
There is also the Great Escape Festival which will take place in Brighton, England May 15-17. It will have over 25 venues with hundreds of bands. Some acts confirmed include: Hold Steady, Vampire Weekend, Black Lips, No Age, Okkervil River, Iron & Wine, Black Mountain, Sunset Rubdown, Yeasayer, the Twilight Sad, Bon Iver, Times New Viking, Fujiya & Miyagi, Crystal Castles, Saul Williams, the Futureheads, and more. For the rest of this line-up you can go here.
Underage Festival:
For some of you that are underaged there is the Underage Festival in which you need to be 14-19 years old to be able to purchase tickets. It will take place in London’s Victoria Park on August 8. Band playing at the festival include: Foals, Gallows and The Horrors, The Teenagers, Bombay Bicycle Club, Ipso Facto and more. To see the rest of the acts annouced so far go here.
Field Day 2008
In it’s second year Field Day 2008 will take place on Saturday 9 August 2008 in Victoria Park Hackney London E9. It’s line up faetures: Of Montreal, Foals, Lightspeed Champion, Mystery Jets, Simian Mobile Disco and other. Other confirmed acts can be seen here.
Vampire Weekend - Ladies of Cambridge: Download | Link 2 | Link 3
of Montreal - Jimmy (M.I.A. cover): Download | Link 2 | Link 3
Tags: Black Mountain, Bon Iver, Crystal Castles, Entertainment, Foals, Of Montreal, Teenagers, Vampire Weekend, Yeasayer GIVEAWAY: Crystal Castles Tix 4/11
Crystal Castles. April 11th. @ the Detroit Bar.
Address: 843 W. 19th St. Costa Mesa, CA. Google Maps.
I have two spots. Email me with the two names of the people who will be going. Will let the winner know by 04/09
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Uffie - Make it Hott (vs Crystal Castles: DOWNLOAD
Tags: Crystal Castles, Entertainment, Giveaway, UffieFall Out Boy ft John Mayer - Beat It
This little gem made its way into thousands of Myspace profiles a couple days ago. This is probably the first single off of Fall Out Boy’s first ever live album titled ****, take that †!
Anyway, the Pete Wentz says any four letter word should make due. So Pretty Much Amazing officially names this album… wait for it… Shit! Yay. Oh, and the cover is pretty brilliant too. Patrick Stump sure can holler. I am actually enjoying this a lot, blows all of Infinity on High out of the fucking water.
Fall Out Boy ft. John Mayer - Beat It ( MJ cover): Download | Link 2 | Link 3
I’m not sure where John Mayer comes in though?
Tags: Entertainment, Fall Out Boy, John MayerThe Hush Sound- Album Review
Unlike Panic at the Disco, their counterparts on the Fueled By Ramen label, The Hush Sound has not undergone a massive musical shift. With their third albm, Goodbye Blues, the Chicago-based band has kept much of the same sound- a rockin’ piano, infectious hooks, and the one-two punch of vocalists Greta Salpeter and Bob Morris.
However, the piano-rock, power-pop band HAS changed things up just a bit. Salpeter’s voice is more bluesy and powerful than on their past albums, Like Vines and So Sudden. In addition, Salpeter has taken the helm of the band, with lead vocals on 9 of Goodbye Blues’ 13 tracks. In the past, her songs were shared more equally with Morris. This time around, it’s her album.
Salpeter taking the lead is not a bad thing. Although Morris’ songs on The Hush Sound’s previous efforts were catchier, the most head-bopping, foot-stomping songs on Goodbye Blues come from Greta. The album’s lead single, “Honey,” is a rollicking jam with Salpeter busting out her bigger, darker voice.
Still, Greta’s best tracks come when Morris joins in, providing the best musical moments on all three of their albums. This happens notably on Blues’ three highlights: “The Boys Are Too Refined,” “Medicine Man,” and “Love You Much Better.” In all three, Morris chimes in with his trademark “woah-s” and “ba-da-da-da-s.”
“The Boys Are Too Refined” is dark and peppy, and the best example of The Hush Sound’s newer, bluesy style, with Salpeter belting over her pounding piano, “And if the timing is right, to sneak off into the night, I’ll let myself be taken just for the thrill.”
“Medicine Man” is an extremely well crafted song, going from a boom-clap beginning to strings, then to Morris’ low chants.
“Love You Much Better” is a retro track, and one that shows off the other new direction The Hush Sound has gone with their music: old school. Salpeter and Morris have admitted that the sound of Goodbye Blues is influenced by early American cabaret music, and this song is a clear example. An upbeat piano melody along with a stomping drum beat builds up to the two vocalists la-la-la-ing together in a part you can’t help but bop your head to.
Not all of The Hush Sound’s tunes are happy, however. The powerful ballad “Hurricane” also brings out the best in Salpeter’s more controlled voice, as she shows it off with power and a beautiful falsetto. Her poignant lyrics anchor the song throughout. “You’re the finest thing I’ve ever done, the hurricane I’ll never outrun, I could wait around for the dust to still, but I don’t believe that it ever will.”
Morris’ tracks are more limited musically. He takes the lead on “As You Cry,” “Not Your Concern,” and “Hospital Bed Crawl.” All three of these songs are very catchy and fun, and they flow along nicely within the album. Still, they feel slightly repetitive, and none stand out the way some of his older tunes have (see “Crawling Towards The Sun,” “Sweet Tangerine,” and “We Intertwined”). A major problem is that two out of Morris’ three (the odd song out being “Hospital Bed Crawl”) are fronted by his guitar and not by Salpeter’s piano. This, along with his voice sounding rougher than normal, leads to more of a rock feel to his songs, instead of the piano-power-pop the band usually aims for. Even with these problems intact, Morris has a lovable voice and his songs are still very good. But his best moments on Goodbye Blues come when he’s singing in the background.
Another standout track on Blues is “Break The Sky,” the airy and happy album closer with a “haven’t I heard this before?” chorus.
The album’s other two “normal” songs are “That’s Okay” and “Molasses.” Both songs are fine but forgettable. “That’s Okay” is a peppy ballad that doesn’t match the emotion of “Hurricane,” while “Molasses” is a simple song that seems to be missing something.
Goodbye Blues is rounded out by it’s opening “Intro” and it’s interlude “Six.” The intro is strange, operatic, and a bit creepy as Salpeter sings muffled behind a piano. The sound is raw, and it does not give listeners a good impression of what’s to come, but the intro does sound very original, and interesting. “Six” is strange as well, working as a 2 minute “interlude” in the middle of the cd. It has been accurately described as poppy elevator music, with a simple piano and drum beat driving it along. Like all of the other songs within the album, it flows along well.
In terms of lyrics, The Hush Sound tends to be very abstract and simple. But hey, so does Vampire Weekend! Still, there are some very good lyrical moments with clever metaphors and rhymes. On “As You Cry,” Morris sings, “As you cry, I wanna lie, say I love you so, darling even though, I don’t. There’s no easy way, to ease the pain.” Although clever lyrics like these are scattered throughout, the majority of the album contains simple songs about love and loss without deep lyrical meaning.
Overall, The Hush Sound has created another catchy, upbeat piano-pop album that is hard to say no to. Although some songs don’t necessarily stand out on their own, the album as a whole experience is fun and quick, maybe 2 tracks too long at 40 minutes and 13 songs. Recommended.
Listen to “Honey” and “Medicine Man” on their MYSPACE!
Tags: Album Review, fueled by ramen, the hush soundPhantom Planet Goes Epic
Entertainment Weekly has the first listen of Phantom Planet’s new single, “Raise the Dead.” The poppy Southern California band, most well-known for their O.C. theme song, “California,” has clearly shifted styles with this great, epic rock anthem that has Arcade Fire written all over it. Their album, also titled “Raise the Dead,” hits stores on April 18th. Listen to the new song here, and share your thoughts on it below!
Also check out Phantom Planet’s MySpace for tour dates and another awesome new song, “Do The Panic.”
Tags: EntertainmentPop Rags: What You Missed Over The Weekend
March 31st, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Britney Spears, Katie Holmes, Lindsay Lohan, Madonna, Miley Cyrus, Pop Rags, Tom Cruise, Zac Efron
Did Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie get married or not? Star claims they did, but People says they didn’t. WHO TO BELIEVE?
Madonna wants to remake Casablanca in Iraq - let’s hope she doesn’t get shot. Daily Mail
Unless you’ve got $30,000,000, don’t expect Madonna to sing “Like A Virgin” anytime soon. Anything Hollywood
This stranger ain’t Zac Efron - it was just some mysterious guy getting stalked TMZ
Katie Holmes to use broadway in her escape from Tom Cruise ASL
Britney Spears is obsessed with losing weight, that’s hard to believe. Splash
Lindsay Lohan is back to blonde INF
To the online stalkers and pedophiles: Miley Cyrus is not looking for a boyfriend online. ICYDK