Like trying to make a gourmet PB&J Arcade Fire has taken one of the simplest songs (yet one of the greatest) and added grandeur to it. With Win Butler and Régine Chassagne on vocals and the remaining 30 some odd members of Arcade Fire providing the arrangement without overdoing it and killing the integrity of [...]
Are The Billboard Charts Accurate?
Currently the Billboard Top 200 shows Hannah Montana Soundtrack, Day 26, Rascal Flatts and the Twilight Soundtrack rounding out the top four albums for this week. But how much can we really trust this ranking. The Billboard Hot 100 started on August 4, 1958 with Ricky Nelson’s song “Poor Little Fool” being the first to [...]
SNL – Phoenix/YYY’s
SNL has had two great musical guests on over the past two weeks, that’s rare for them. Phoenix played on the 4th and Yeah Yeah Yeah’s played last Saturday. Both bands had potential to deliver a great show and both had reasons that they needed to. Phoenix is still trying to get more recognition with [...]
Great bloggers are great music bloggers
Exhibit B: when Ta-Nehisi Coates (yes, I typed it straight through without checking) refers to Yeah Yeah Yeahs as “White Music For Black People.” Money quote: My opinions are shaped by basically missing any music created by white people during the mid to late 80s. Kids like me would have been dismissed as “acting white” [...]
Yeah Yeah Yeah’s It’s Blitz Review
Due to leaks and other problems the YYY’s were forced to digitally release It’s Blitz! a month earlier then originally planned. If you still like to have something physically in your hands then you’ll need to wait until March 31st, but even that is still two weeks earlier then the original release date. I actually [...]
Divablogging, Vol. 1, No. 1, first in a series?
Which recording artist has the finest web log? Piece of cake: that’s Amanda Palmer, of the Dresden Dolls. It’s funny, passionate, neurotic, gossipy, breathless, profane, long-winded, and in the end, touching. For a sample, try this recent entry: i had a poster of brian setzer above my bed that i ritualistically HAD to KISS before [...]
Yeah Yeah Yeah’s Score “Zero”
The Yeah Yeah Yeah’s have spent the last 6 years pushing the envelope of simplicity and doing it quite successfully I might add. But, with the release of their first single from the April 14th release, It’s Blitz!, things have gotten too simple. “Zero” starts out with a distorted, reverberating guitar that holds potential for [...]
