“Hallelujah” by Leonard Cohen. Incredibly hard to sing but if pulled off always a home run. Jeff Buckley’s version is the most well-known. Here’s Justin Timberlake’s take.
He’s at the piano, heavily bearded to match his guitar buddy. That guy looks like every hipster-in-winter I see around Echo Park and Silver Lake. What’s with those hats? [...]
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January 24, 2010
Haiti Hits #3 Justin Timberlake and some Echo Park Hipster
January 24, 2010
Haiti Hits #2: Jay Z, Rihanna and Half of U2
Bono and Jay Z teaming up to write a song had disaster written all over it. Those poor Haitians needn’t suffer more with a thrown together vanity piece of crap in their name. Like the Minnesota Vikings enduring Prince’s anthem.
BUT I ended up humming this tune all day. Especially the Rihanna chorus “Not gonna leee-aaa-ve [...]
January 24, 2010
Haiti Hits: Sting Driven to Tears
The Hope for Haiti telethon aired on Friday. Many of music’s most famous and most likely to attend benefits were on hand–Sting, Bono, Alicia Keyes, Stevie Wonder and “The Boss”– You can count on them to come together to aid any catastrophe. Kind of like the superhero Justice League, but with guitars.
So I was prepared [...]
November 23, 2009
AMA Fashion: Saran Wrap and Leather
Fashion at the 2009 American Music Awards is probably better covered somewhere else but I did notice a few style trends. In fact I can boil it down to two recurring themes: one for each of the sexes (with Adam Lambert somewhere in there).
Males: Tight Leather Jackets
Tight fits, modern takes and cuts on 80s classic [...]
November 11, 2009
Defending Ono?
First watch this video of Yoko Ono with son Sean from Jimmy Fallon. Or as much as you can stand.
At least get past :45 where the guitar and drums kick in.
Terrible right? Laughably horrible even. But I can kind of defend it!
Though not in a way Yoko would like.
I would like [...]
October 23, 2009
Mixing Down to Best of 2009 Music
Almost near the end of the year and I have a very long playlist on the iPod that could become the “best of 2009.” I need to work on carving it down to a manageable list so by year’s end there’s a 15-17 song max playlist to give awards to and blog over.
Here’s my current [...]
October 11, 2009
John Lennon Lyrics: God is a Concept
In honor of Lennon’s would-have-been 69th birthday let’s look at the lyrics to a solo highlight: “God” otherwise known as “I DON’T BELIEVE IN….(fill in name)” song.
Here’s who and what John declared his disbelief for in 1970:
I don’t believe in magic,
I don’t believe in I-ching,
I don’t believe in bible,
I don’t believe in tarot,
I don’t believe [...]
October 9, 2009
John Lennon would have been 69
Today October 9th marks the birthday of John Lennon who if still alive would be turning 69. Imagine that. He was barely 40 years old when that fat loser Mark D. Chapman shot him. Think of Lennon’s 80s/90s and 00’s music…and add it to the tally of what Chapman took from us all.
Because music can [...]
September 14, 2009
Blame it on the Alcohol?
THE Clip of the week….Kayne tarding out and bullying a skinny teenage girl. (Having problems embedding the video here, but I’ll update later)
“Blame it on the Henny, Blame it on the ah-ah-ah-alcohol?” Kayne was pictured with a large bottle of Hennessey on the red carpet. Nearly half gone by the time he went up on [...]
September 7, 2009
NiN Echoplex Set List
What became the second Nine Inch Nails farewell show in LA was originally meant to be the last–at the tiny Echoplex club with no opening act–was this the planned set list all along? Gary Numan returned (see video below) and songs from my favorite NiN album The Fragile were featured.
How come the song “Echoplex” wasn’t [...]
September 3, 2009
Waving Goodbye to Nine Inch Nails
I scored tickets to one of the final Nine Inch Nails shows. After performances in NYC, Chicago and Toronto Trent Reznor is ending it all here in Hollywood. Night one and my show was at the Hollywood Palladium to be followed by The Henry Fonda (moved to 9/8), The Wiltern (on 9/10) and Echoplex.
The set [...]
July 20, 2009
Nirvana Gets Rick-Rolled
Nirvana + Rick Astley in this new mash-up.
Is it sacrilege or sweeeet?
Zoom to the chorus around the :50 mark. That part kind of works! In the bizarre way how mash-ups can make music of chaos and sound shitty on paper ideas.
This one is from DJ Morgoth, a behomoth german who self-produced [...]
July 7, 2009
Live-Twittering MJ’s Funeral
Here are posts from my twitter account during the Michael Jackson funeral/event. Gotta say live-twittering is more fun (and easier) than live-blogging.
They’re in reverse order. from last to first. Think of it as a rewind.
Jesse Jackson, Reggie Jackson, Pres.Andrew Jackson and Kate Jackson joined MJ for ‘84 Jackson Tour http://twitpic.com/9m7 tr12:39 PM Jul 7th from [...]
June 29, 2009
Nike is Driven by Mogwai
I love the song in this Nike “Driven” ad with Lance Armstrong & others. I know it well from the Scottish group Mogwai. Very surprised it hasn’t been heard more often in spots or trailers. It’s got melody, modernity, a building sense of inspiration and all that good stuff.
It’s called “Auto [...]
April 9, 2009
Eminem: Still relevant?
I’m not sure if Eminem can connect with the world of 2009. He’s been gone a long time and his music already sounds dated to me. That’s wrong, it’s not dated but it feels like nostalgia. Hearing him reminds me of the early 00s.
From the first single and video for “We Made You” I’m not [...]
