Before music there was silence
The single “We R Who We R” is girls out on the town “looking sick and sexified,” clubbing, confident and yada yada yada. Stories is older than the dinosaur at the old folks’ home. And that’s almost all I need for the music review. It’s the best new song I’ve heard this week. No, really. [...]
On Tuesday, Heart plays “Barracuda,” one of their hardest-driving tunes on ABC’s “Dancing With The Stars” (which I believe is a very popular TV show). I wonder how many people will recognize the band, while viewers will recognize the song because it’s played at sporting events. Heart has never been one of my favorite bands; [...]
THE BAND Vocals Clayton Stroope Songwriter / Keyboardist Scott Jason Guitarist Drew Cribley Drummer Paul Niedermier THE SONGS Love Alone On Your Side Some Kind of Home Where We Belong While The Candle Still Burns Moonlight Cobwebs Run Motorcade (So Long, So Long) Come November Moonlight (acoustic)
Both “Puttin’ On the Ritz” and “Love Is A Battlefield” bring memories of so many different voices trying on their mantles. There are some songs such as “Careless Whisper”, “Will The Circle Be Unbroken” Pearl Jam’s “Immortality” which, for me, have the base strength to carry any style from any artist who cover them, whether [...]
Took April 13, 2010 at Grinders Coffee in the Sunnyslope area of Phoenix. So few people have heard of these groups, it’s ridiculous. Violins are involved.
You’re about to love you some snake and tiger noise! The Phoenix music scene generally stays underground. Sometimes – as a fan, anyway – it’s better that way since intimacy remains. That, and they stay hungry, bringing the raw and the edge out through voice and instruments. Again better for fans than band members but [...]
(SOUNDLUST REVIEW) — So as I was writing this review I fell asleep and dream-pictured Liz Phair, hands over bent-up knees, her face large-lipped, large-headed, floating above a small-bodied cartoon caricature, talking to people on stage with her. Not her band but fans, who’d crowded into this little anonymous, low-ceilinged place to listen to her [...]
(SOUNDLUST REVIEW) — “Hello, girls and boys. Today we’re going to make music. Happy music and sad music. Funny music and serious music. Music that has many of the feelings we have. So get your instrument and come along with me. Let’s put some of our feelings into music.” — Wake Up Call. I want [...]
DEVO, a band that quirked as much as they cranked, have been around. A long time. Lately in the news for protecting their trademark flower pot headpiece energy domes ( no, really) and lead singer Mark Mothersbaugh’s art world exploits, the band has again decided music would be the way to go to get famous. [...]