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Stream Beach Day's Seashore Swooner 'Stay'
Raised equally on '60s girl groups and just-gritty-enough garage rock, Beach Day follow in the hazy power-pop tradition of fellow oceanside revisionists like Best Coast and Dum Dum Girls. "Stay," the latest track to wash up from the Florida trio's upcoming debut, Trip Trap Attack, marries tight, ragged riffs with...
spin.com (5 hours ago)
Summer In Michigan Means Non-Stop Festivals
Techno Fans have been waiting all year for the Movement Electronic Music Festival -- and the good news is it's almost here. The event, which takes place this weekend in downtown Detroit, has a well-deserved reputation for being one of the premier electronic dance music gatherings in the country. Aside from bringing...
huffingtonpost.com (1 day ago)
Peter Van Buren: Review: Doing Bad by Doing Good: Why Humanitarian Action Fails
If Christopher Coyne's new book, Doing Bad by Doing Good: Why Humanitarian Action Fails needed a subtitle, I'd be willing to offer up "We Meant Well, Too." Coyne's book puts into formal terms what I wrote about more snarkily in my own book, We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the...
huffingtonpost.com (2 days ago)
Tokyo Has Never Sounded This Incredible
What do you get when you combine a 1:1000-scale model of Tokyo, 3D video projection mapping and catchy techno riffs? Three minutes of awesome, that's what. To celebrate the ten year anniversary of its opening, the Roppongi Hills complex (part high-rise residences, part shopping district, part entertainment venue)...
gizmodo.com (2 days ago)
That Thing Where Your Guitar Shoots Lightning
If you're ever out for a walk with your friends, just hope you don't run into a dreaded guitar bandit or you could be murdered by some sick riffs. And you'd better not try to defend yourself with an ukulele. See the epic guitar battle unfold in this video for YouTube Comedy Week featuring YouTubers Freddie Wong,...
huffingtonpost.com (3 days ago)
The Great Escape – review
You certainly can't fault The Great Escape for variety. Here, Iggy Azalea's impeccably turned pop-hip-hop fights for attention with Hacktivist, who ply crushing metal riffs and grime-influenced MCing over dubstep-paced beats, and Filthy Boy's literate, louche alt-rock shares space on the bill with Tom Odell's Radio...
guardian.co.uk (4 days ago)
What's the best meal I've ever eaten?
As a restaurant critic there's one question – other than "how do you live with yourself?" – that I'm asked more regularly than any other. It's this: what's the best meal you've ever eaten? If only all questions were so easy. It has to be the 42 courses I was served at the now closed El Bulli, Ferran Adrià's famed...
guardian.co.uk (5 days ago)
Cannes film festival 2013: A Touch of Sin - first look review
Cannes is a place for shocks, jolts and surprises. This change of artistic direction from Chinese film-maker Jia Zhang-ke offers plenty. He has been known until this moment for an intensely considered, quiet documentary realism - particularly in the movie Still Life (2006), about communities preparing to be drowned...
guardian.co.uk (6 days ago)
Colin Quinn Unconstitutional: Theater Review
The veteran comedian delivers riffs on the U.S. Constitution in his new solo show.
hollywoodreporter.com (6 days ago)
Buckcherry fits in just fine at Rock On The Range (Photos)
It's not surprising to find Buckcherry return to this year’s Rock on the Range. The seventh annual event at Columbus, Ohio’s Crew Stadium has become the Midwest’s premier hard rock event. It’s not only grown from a one day concert in 2007 to its 2013 version of three days of live performances but the bill has...
examiner.com (6 days ago)
Samba Touré: Albala – review
Inevitably, there are reminders of Mali's greatest guitarist, the late Ali Farka Touré, in this gently rhythmic but thoughtful and brooding set. Samba was once a member of Ali Farka's band, and was more recently invited by Toumani Diabaté to recreate his mentor's work on his Ali Farka Touré Variations tour. But...
guardian.co.uk (6 days ago)
Airbourne: Black Dog Barking – review
It would be easy to be cynical about Airbourne. An unashamedly gruff and primal rock'n'roll band from Australia, dominated by the scabrous bellow and thudding percussive pulse of siblings Joel and Ryan O'Keeffe, they have so much in common with AC/DC that you could perceive the whole enterprise as a passing of the...
guardian.co.uk (7 days ago)
Robin Williams Thinks He Looks Better Than Kim Kardashian & More Tweets Of The Week
Are you tired of the Met Gala yet? Well, don't turn away just yet; we have some pretty good tweets that reflect our final feelings about the whole ordeal. First up, Robin Williams tweets a hilarious fashion comparison of him back in the day as Mrs. Doubtfire versus Kim Kardashian's floral dress at the Gala. V...
huffingtonpost.com (12 days ago)
Ennio Morricone sued as guitarist's daughter seeks a few euros more
Rarely have a few notes on a reverb-drenched guitar defined an entire film genre, but half a century on, the twangy riffs of Ennio Morricone's soundtracks are for many the perfect expression of Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns. Which is why an Italian woman is suing for the €800,000 she says is due to her father,...
guardian.co.uk (13 days ago)
The Fall: Re-Mit – review
Re-Mit begins with a minute of blithe, bubblegum indie-bop so generic you have to double-check you're listening to the Fall. It's a short-lived sensation: the second track, Sir William Wray, has a needling riff and aggressive drums and Mark E Smith growling variations on the title, the volume and violence escalating...
guardian.co.uk (13 days ago)
Eddie Peake: from naked football to giant giraffes
What is it about Eddie Peake? Last year I watched a couple of his dance performances – called, obscurely, Amidst a Sea of Flailing High Heels and Cooking Utensils – at Tate Tanks and London's Chisenhale Gallery. Unfortunately I didn't attend his recent show at White Cube in Bermondsey, where roller-skaters performed...
guardian.co.uk (14 days ago)
Flight Facilities – I Didn't Believe: New music
Emerging in 2010 with the gorgeous Crave You – the video to which has been viewed almost 9m times – Australian production duo Flight Facilities have yet to properly settle on a sound, which seems to be working in their favour so far. Late last year they changed tack again, releasing the eight-minute Clair De Lune, a...
guardian.co.uk (14 days ago)
For a Fistful of Euros: Did Ennio Morricone Cheat Guitarist Behind Famous Spaghetti Western Riffs?
The daughter of Pino Rucher alleges her father, now deceased, was denied the proper credit for guitar solos for three classic film soundtracks written by Ennio Morricone.
hollywoodreporter.com (15 days ago)
For a Fistful of Euros: Was Guitarist Under Credited for Famous Spaghetti Western Riffs?
The daughter of Pino Rucher alleges her father, now deceased, was denied the proper credit for guitar solos for three classic film soundtracks written by Ennio Morricone.
hollywoodreporter.com (15 days ago)
Avishai Cohen with Strings – review
Maybe it's because he's a strings player, but the Israeli bassist, singer and composer Avishai Cohen revealed on this UK premiere how fine-tuned he is to what chamber players do best – in contrast to those jazz musicians who write for classical strings as if they just needed the usual riffs, but played on softer...
guardian.co.uk (15 days ago)
Florida Teacher-Turned-Sexy-Model Says She Won't Do Porn
Victoria James, the English teacher who recently resigned after her sexy modeling pictures surfaced, riffs on her decision to pursue modeling, her future aspirations and even her favorite novel.
palmbeachpost.com (15 days ago)
Michael Jackson Spectacular Hits Las Vegas
LAS VEGAS — Michael Jackson spent his life breaking music industry records. Four years after his death, the pop star's estate has delivered another first: Jackson is now the only person, place or thing to have inspired two Cirque du Soleil shows. The Montreal-based acrobatic-theater company presented a sneak peak of...
huffingtonpost.com (15 days ago)
New Yorker Riffs On 'Land Of Kale Chips, Sunshine & Helicopters'
A parlor game played by pretty much any New Yorker temporarily living in Los Angeles: a running tally of "How They're Different." After spending four months in the land of kale chips, sunshine, and helicopters, my list is almost entirely consumed by thoughts about driving. No. 1 (subjective, of course): Angelenos...
huffingtonpost.com (15 days ago)
Taylor Swift's SHOCKING New Music Video
Taylor Swift's new music video is a major departure from the singer's recent work of dressing up like a hipster. The music video for "Highway Don't Care," a collaboration with Tim McGraw and Keith Urban, made its debut on Tuesday. Originally released as a single in February, the track is featured on McGraw's recent...
huffingtonpost.com (15 days ago)
Arcane Roots – review
In 2011, when they were still just an unsigned trio from the London suburbs, Arcane Roots recorded a torrid cover of Smells Like Teen Spirit that took one of the most famous riffs in rock history and crammed in considerably more notes. That well-drilled, prog-influenced imprimatur is all over their debut album Blood...
guardian.co.uk (16 days ago)
City Room: Metropolitan Diary: Training a Subway Musician
Metropolitan Diary: Tired of hearing the same old Eagles tunes, a commuter gave a guitarist more rock riffs.
nytimes.com (16 days ago)
Eddie Izzard: Force Majeure, Liverpool Echo Arena, review
Some brilliant riffs confirmed Izzard as Britain's surrealist-in-chief, says Dominic Cavendish.
telegraph.co.uk (16 days ago)
The Stones deliver that renegade spirit and more
LOS ANGELES - The first measures heard at Staples Center as the Rolling Stones began their 26th (give or take) concert in Los Angeles didn't include Keith Richards' riffs, Mick Jagger's sweet falsetto, Ron Wood's delicate guitar lines or Charlie Watts' snare snaps.
miamiherald.com (17 days ago)
James Moore: The Little Red Heart of Soul Track Mind
It's an odd little spot, really, sitting between the Union Pacific Railroad tracks and Highway 90 as it runs through Alpine, Texas. Not much bigger than a convenience store parking lot, the location is flat and sometimes dusty when summer hovers relentlessly over the Davis Mountains. The great freight trains...
huffingtonpost.com (19 days ago)
Download RL Grime's Heavy Riffing 'Love Sosa' Remix
Chief Keef's "Love Sosa" is a marvel of open space, a song that quietly creeps along on rattling hi-hats that hit like tip-toes. L.A. producer RL Grime, on his new remix of the song, splits it open with huge, headbanging synth riffs that ready the song for modern bass drop-obsessed DJs...
spin.com (20 days ago)
