Magnet The online version of "the bi-monthly, internationally distributed, glossy music magazine that gives well-deserved attention to musicians largely ignored by mainstream publications."
Metacritic Lots and lots of critics praise and bitch about music (and movies, DVDs, games, books and TV).
Paste "The premier magazine for people who still enjoy discovering new music, prize substance and songcraft over fads and manufactured attitude, and appreciate quality music in whatever genre it might inhabit."
Like some upper-level graduate course, this show came with some prerequisites: You needed to know the music of Leonard Cohen, and the more intimately the better. You also needed to appreciate his singing voice, which, these days, comes from somewhere between Barry Whites' and a lighter shade of Darth Vader's.
Here's a new one. Echo & the Bunnymen canceled their eight-show U.S. tour (all East Coast except for Chicago) because they couldn't get out from underneath the IRS requirement that promoters withhold a chunk of their income in lieu of taxes. (The band's album "The Fountain" comes out tomorrow.) Read on, from the band's PR peeps:
The mellow music of Barclay Martin never sounded so righteous.
Martin, the music director and featured musician for the forthcoming documentary "Zamboanga: Poverty, War, Music," led a large cast in a powerfully poignant benefit concert Sunday afternoon at Yardley Hall.
According to a post at Entertainment Weekly, he has pulled out of Aerosmith's South American tour and is exploring solo projects. In related news: Steven Tyler turns 62 in March.
LAWRENCE -- Watching Art Brut perform live is no average experience —it’s more like a rock n’ roll testimonial. Saturday night, about 175 showed up at the Bottleneck and watched and heard Eddie Argos lead the congregation joyfully in shout-along choruses and celebrate eternal adolescence.
If ever a popular song cried out for orchestral treatment, it's Simon & Garfunkel's "The Boxer." The complex arrangement of the magnificent 1969 hit implicitly suggests a connection to the classical repertoire.
The revue that brought rappers Snoop Dogg, Method Man and Redman to the Voodoo Lounge on Friday was called the “Wonderland High School Tour.” The promoters should have inserted the word “reunion.”
Listening to songs without understanding their lyrics is like eating in the dark. If you can't see your food, you focus more on other traits, like its aromas and textures. When you can't focus on a song's lyrics, you pay deeper attention to its other qualities, like the discreet lines in vocal harmonies or the interplay between soloists and the rhythm section or the band's lavish wardrobe.
There have been rumors flying around today about the status of the Beaumont Club and whether it is still open. Here's what people involved with the club are saying:
It's still open; it's undergoing some management restructuring; it is also scaling back some things to accommodate "the current economic climate." That would include the status of the Side Car, the small bar next to the Beaumont, which will not be open on nights there are no shows. That move reportedly prompted some staff layoffs. No one would say definitively whether the Side Car was closed for good.
Go see the Pedaljets. They're good for your health.
If you’re tired of hearing and reading about the reform of health care and health insurance and want to hear and see people doing something about it, this weekend’s second annual Apocalypse Meow is for you. The event is a benefit/fundraiser sponsored by the Midwest Music Foundation for its Musicians Health Care Fund.
Paramore didn't allow our photog into the Uptown (i-Phones with high-res cameras and videos were just fine, though). So here's a video of "Brick by Boring Brick" from "MTV Unplugged." Pardon the advert.
Novelty can take you to high places in pop culture but it won't keep you there. At some point you'll need talent and substance to sustain you.
She has been a professional musician since she was 14 – a span of nearly 50 years. Linda Ronstadt is best known for the music she made in the 1970s and into the 1980s, but she has amassed a catalog of music that far exceeds her most successful span in 1974-80, when she released six albums, four of which were No. 1 or No. 2 on the Billboard chart.
He will be at the Sprint Center on March 22, a Monday. His opening act: Michael Franti and Spearhead. Mayer's album "Battle Studies" comes out Nov. 17.
The show is March 15. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Nov. 16, a Monday. Actually, they go on sale at 10 a.m. Thursday, as long as you're willing to buy a digital copy of the band's new album, "The Circle." That'll cost you an extra $10.84. Here's the official word:
I realize this will probably jinx the whole thing and he'll cancel/postpone because it's apparently contagious, but here it is anyway. Plan accordingly. He goes on at 8 p.m. Intermission from 9:05 to 9:25 p.m. Second set from 9:25 to 11:20 p.m. He's at the Midland, 1228 Main, on Monday night.
Paper Route is opening for Paramore at the Uptown Theater on Wednesday. You can get a close-up look and listen at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Standard Style Boutique on the Country Club Plaza when Paper Route plays an acoustic in-store set. Sign up here.
According to this piece in the Los Angeles Times (below), he and the owner of the Wynn Resort in Las Vegas are playing hardball with the brokers and scalpers and they aren't liking it. Hate to admit it, but the NATB has a point. How/why should Garth control what people do with their tickets? How can Garth dictate what happens to something that someone else owns?
Vanilla, its proponents often insist, is the most popular flavor of ice cream. It may not be exciting, but it's reliably satisfying. Rob Thomas, one of the world's foremost practitioners of pop music, operates under the same principle.
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