Category: Pop (Page 147 of 216)

Road Warriors 38

November 2, 2007 /

Road Warriors 38

Matt Nathanson, who was just nominated for four Boston Music Awards including Indie Album of the Year, will be performing on Jimmy Kimmel Live this Monday, November 5.

Singer/songwriter Alicia Keys is releasing her new album, As I Am, on November 13, and has just announced some tour dates in the UK beginning February 25 in Glasgow.

Indie rock band Tokyo Police Club has been added to the lineup for the mtvU Woodie Awards, honoring the music voted best by the college market. The Toronto based band joins the likes of The Academy Is… and Spank Rock performing at the Awards show November 8 at the Roseland Ballroom on November 8. Speaking of the Woodie Awards, Amy Winehouse was also scheduled to perform but will not due to visa issues preventing her from traveling to the States. This comes two months after Winehouse had to cancel her VMA performance due to health issues.

OTEP just released their new album, The Ascension, on Koch Records, and is currently touring the US in support of it. The “emotional powerhouse” fronted by singer Otep Shamaya is going to be at the following venues in the coming weeks:

11/02 – Grand Rapids, MI – Orbit Room
11/03 – Minneapolis, MN – First Ave
11/04 – Chicago, IL – House of Blues
11/06 – Sauget, IL – Pop’s
11/07 – Kansas City, MO – Uptown Theatre
11/09 – Denver, CO – Fillmore
11/10 – El Paso, TX – Cohen Coliseum (KLAQ show)
11/11 – Phoenix, AZ – Marquee Theatre
11/13 – Santa Ana, CA Galaxy
11/14 – Los Angeles, CA – Key Club
11/16 – Ventura, CA – Ventura Theatre
11/17 – Las Vegas, NV – House of Blues
11/23 – Oklahoma City, OK – Diamond Ballroom
11/27 – Memphis, TN – New Daisy Theater
11/28 – Atlanta, GA – Roxy Theater
11/30 – Ft Myers, FL – City of Palms Park (Radio show)
12/02 – Orlando, FL – Hard Rock
12/04 – Norfolk, VA – NorVa
12/05 – Baltimore, MD – Ram’s Head
12/07 – Worcester, MA – The Palladium

Alternative, Concerts, Pop, Rock

Ruby Tuesday: Les Rythmes Digitales, “Soft Machine”

October 30, 2007 /

Oh, that silly Stuart Price. Not content to see the French get all of the headlines and hit singles during that big wave in the late ‘90s (Daft Punk, Air, Dmitri from Paris), the Reading, England native christens himself Jacques Lu Cont and records a French house music-style album under the name Les Rythmes Digitales. It would be years before anyone was wise to his ruse, even though he left a pretty big clue at the very beginning: one of the collaborators on LRD’s only album, 1999’s Darkdancer, was…Nik Kershaw. Yes, that Nik Kershaw.

Our Ruby Tuesday selection, “Soft Machine,” was not released as a single, a decision that baffles us to this day. Perhaps its mid-90s BPM (that’s beats per minute, by the by) was considered too slow for a club scene that was all about speed – go back and listen to the remixes for Madonna’s “Music,” where the warp-drive beat track renders the song unrecognizable – but damn, check out that drum track. Stop, start, thump, backwards snare, fat-ass keyboard squawk. It’s like Sly Fox’s “Let’s Go All the Way” on steroids. Take that however you like.

Les Rythmes Digitales – Soft Machine.mp3

Electronica, External Music, Pop, Ruby Tuesday, Songs

Road Warriors 37

October 26, 2007 /

Dave Matthews Band fans are still in full force, especially among college age kids. But recently the US Army beat out more than 100 colleges to win the World’s Largest Pep Rally contest, bringing DMB in for a pair of shows for the Army cadets next month.

The second annual Rock To Roll charity event spearheaded by SideOneDummy Records is set for December 11 at the Avalon Theatre in Hollywood. Headlining the event will be Flogging Molly and Bouncing Souls. Rock To Roll benefits Wheels For Humanity, which provides increased self-sufficiency and mobility to people with disabilities throughout the world.

After a four-year hiatus, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones are back with their Hometown Throwdown again, which will be held in Boston at The Middle East from December 26 to December 30 (five shows). Unannounced special guests will also be on hand, and the band has said that you never know who is going to show up.

San Diego band My American Heart spent this past summer on the Vans Warped Tour and hit the road again last night for its Pure Volume/Rise From The Ashes club tour in support of their latest album, Hiding Inside The Horrible Weather. Here are the confirmed Continue reading »

Alternative, Concerts, Pop, Rock

Ruby Tuesday: Sugarbomb, “After All”

October 23, 2007 /

Talk about star-crossed bands. Ft. Worth quintet Sugarbomb freaking rocked, dude. They could sing, they could play, and most importantly, they could write. The only thing they couldn’t do, it appears, was win the love of their label, RCA. After receiving instructions from the label to dumb their music down, Sugarbomb singer and main songwriter Les Farrington gave them “Hello,” a Vertical Horizon-ish slice of generic pop/rock. “You want dumb? Here you go!” Les said.

The label loved it. Uh oh.

The song was a minor hit, popping up on a couple soundtracks, but it was not at all indicative of how talented Sugarbomb really were. Worse, the song gave RCA an idea of how to sell the band, but it would mean turning Sugarbomb into something they were most decidedly not: a generic pop band. Soon after the album was released, RCA dropped the band (the album came out two weeks after 9/11, so RCA was cleaning house). Infighting soon followed, and a few months later, Sugarbomb were finished. Tragic.

Submitted for your approval is “After All,” the final track on the band’s fabulous album Bully (you can find it for a couple bucks on Half.com) and as grand a tribute to Queen as you’re likely to find outside of “Knights of Cydonia.” The last I heard, Sugarbomb singer Les Farrington was playing at piano bars. Why he doesn’t have a MySpace page, I’ll never understand.

Sugarbomb – After All.mp3

Alternative, External Music, Pop, Rock, Ruby Tuesday, Songs

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