I love Thelonious Monk. I could explain away all day the reasons why, but the music says it all. Here he is busting out “Lulu’s Back in Town” in a long two-parter. Amazing stuff.
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If you say that right, it totally flows with the verses to “Chop Suey,” I swear.
Serj Tankian has a new solo album, Elect the Dead, coming out next week. Up to this point, Serj’s label, Warner Bros., was apprarently terrified of anyone hearing the album. We know this because the copy of the album that they sent us last month didn’t have his name on it. I understand fear of piracy, but this move caused the CD to collect dust in a bin on our publicist’s desk for weeks, since no one knew what it really was. Which is worse: some people hearing it early, or no one being aware of its existence? The answer is always, always the latter.
Either way, it appears that they have overcome their fear of people listening before they can buy, because the entire album is now available on The Leak. Enjoy.
There were few straight men that pimped Rufus Wainwright quite like I once did. From the second I heard “April Fools,” the stunning first single from his Jon Brion-produced debut album, I was hooked. Yes, the voice is an acquired taste, but DAMN, man, listen to that climbing hook in the verse!
And while I quite liked Want One, his 2003 meditation on drugs, desperation, 9/11 and family, I have been non-plussed by everything he’s done since then. I haven’t hated any of it, mind you, or even disliked it: I just found it, well, deathly serious. Even the concert I saw him give in the summer of 2004, an acoustic tour with Ben Folds, was a drag. We left before he was finished. I never do that. Well, almost never.
It is with that thought that I’ve decided to go back and pay tribute to one of the songs that made me like him so much in the first place. “Shadows,” a song from his 2001 album Poses that was produced by onetime Propellerhead Alex Gifford, is unlike anything else in Wainwright’s catalog. Where Wainwright is normally about what will work on the theater stage, this song is all about the groove, and Gifford, as any owner of the sole Propellerheads album Decksanddrumsandrockandroll can attest, knows a thing or two about grooves. This isn’t even a fast groove; it’s just a supa smoove white boy groove.
Please, Rufus, I’m begging you: take off the lederhosen, put the opera records away, and make another pop album. If you could make a song like this once, you could easily do it twice, especially since you’ve had six years to do so.
MtvU, MTV’s college network, has given students an up close look at artists such as Beck, Death Cab for Cutie, Gym Class Heroes, TV on the Radio, Saul Williams and more. Now, on the upcoming mtvU Woodie Awards, performers include Amy Winehouse, The Academy Is…and Spank Rock. The event takes place on November 8 at the Roseland Ballroom in New York City, and premiers simultaneously on mtvU and mtvU.com on November 15.
Country mega star Carrie Underwood is set to release her new album, Carnival Ride, on October 23 and will perform on Good Morning America that day. Her previous album, Some Hearts, is the number one selling country album this year so far as well.
With Sting developing a throat infection, probably from yelling at his band mates, The Police were forced to cancel two shows last week in Belgium and Germany. After resuming tomorrow in Dusseldorf, the band will hit the UK and then head to Latin America, Japan, Australia and New Zealand.
Blondie singer Deborah Harry will be touring in support of her new album, Necessary Evil, beginning November 8 in New York City. Here are the confirmed Continue reading »
Universal are big stinky monkeys for disabling the embed on this one, so I’ll just have to link to it like a sucker.
Fewer artists have been kicked around like Kenna has. It’s taken him seven years to release two albums. His first album, New Sacred Cow, hopped labels three times before it was finally released, and once it hit the public…that label completely buried it. Bastards. (That would be Sony, if you were curious) This is made all the more astounding when you take into consideration that Kenna went to high school with the freaking Neptunes, who produced both of his albums. How can you not sell that? Don’t know, but Sony found a way.
Now free from Sony and starting a new life on Interscope, Kenna’s new single doesn’t have a video as memorable as “Freetime,” but at this point, I’m just happy that he’s making music at all.
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