Category: Pop (Page 153 of 216)

Have you seen this man…?

His name is Remy Shand, and he put out a fucking phenomenal debut album called The Way I Feel in 2002…and, then, he vanished.

I mean, vanished.

His website hasn’t been updated in about four years. The MySpace page that exists for him doesn’t include any of his music and has no information beyond what was in the original press release for The Way I Feel. According to Wikipedia, the most up-to-date news brief on his site- from October 2003! – suggested that Shand was was working on his second album, to be called Day In The Shade, but that briefing has since been removed, and, obviously, the album still remains MIA.

You’ve gotta give the guy credit: in a world like ours, it’s an impressive accomplishment to disappear so successfully. But, dammit, I want more Remy Shand music!

In the meantime, however, we can still reminisce with a few of his videos…

The Way I Feel

Take a Message

See? Don’t you want more Remy Shand music now, too…?

Road Warriors 29

Oh, the drama. Lily Allen and Amy Winehouse both burst onto the music scene back in the spring, and whether or not you like one or both of the British singer/songwriters, you have to marvel at the ease with which they cancel tour dates. Winehouse in particular, whose alcohol and drug issues are well-documented, keeps missing shows and now she is postponing her North American fall tour in order to get her health in order. Allen, meanwhile is postponing a series of upcoming US West Coast dates after authorities revoked her work visa. Um, okay.

After having to cancel some summer tour dates in the US, Morrissey will be back in the fall, including residencies in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York. The tour kicks off September 21 in Las Vegas.

Buzz band The Cold War Kids are still touring in support of their debut, Robbers & Cowards, including upcoming dates with The White Stripes. Here is the band’s current US itinerary Continue reading »

Power pop has been berry, berry good to Eric Carmen…

Yes, that’s the headline you never saw for my chat with former Raspberries frontman Eric Carmen…and for good reason, as it’s quite awful.

There was a brief period during the 1970s when the funniest rock-related one-liner involved a teenager asking, “Hey, did you hear that Paul McCartney used to be in a band before Wings?” It’s a joke that isn’t nearly as funny today, what with Wings having been relegated to little more than footnote status in McCartney’s career timeline, but if you lived and died by the FM dial during the ’70s, you can still see the humor in it. In turn, you might also have been really amused in the late ’80s, when kids were thrilling to Carmen’s “Hungry Eyes” and “Make Me Lose Control” without having any inkling that, a decade and a half earlier, he had been fronting one of the definitive power pop bands of all time.

Carmen and his fellow ‘Berries — Wally Bryson, Jim Bonfanti and Dave Smalley — were staples of the Billboard singles chart from 1972 to 1974, but creative struggles led to line-up changes and the band’s eventual dissolution. The 21st century, however, has found the guys getting back together and doing some live dates, one of which – a performance at L.A.’s House of Blues on Oct. 21, 2005 – has recently been released on Rykodisc as Live on the Sunset Strip. After a few scheduling conflicts and one missed opportunity (which was totally this writer’s fault), Bullz-Eye had a chance to speak with Carmen recently, and we quizzed him about the legacy of The Raspberries, his solo career and its notable difference to the sound he’d helped forge with the band, and how he can’t help but empathize with Kelly Clarkson these days.

Check out the interview here.

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