Ready To Rock!!!!

CocoRosie: After The Afterlife

I quite like this duo formed by sisters Bianca (Coco) and Sierra (Rosie) Casady. Their free spirit exudes from every song and video. 

"After The Afterlife" is taken from their forthcoming album "Tales of Grassiwidow" and looks like something psychedelic. Directed by Mike Basich, it was filmed in Hawaii, where the two sisters spent the first years of their lives.

By the way, They have also provided soundtracks for Escada and Prada campaigns. Definitely a bonus point. 

日本大好き！

The Japanese Rising Sun Flag featured in the original version of Muse new single 'Panic Station', set in Tokyo. The flag is a symbol of Japanese Imperial Army during World War II and it is especcially controversial in China and Korea. 

So the Britsh band had to re-edit the video. 

But I don't know, I'm sure they didn't have any political aim. Music should be free, shouldn't it?

However, here's the video without the flag:

Needless to say, this video made me want to go back to Japan!

Amanda Palmer: A Poem For Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

Amanda Palmer definitely know how to make people tal about her.

This time it's because of what she's written in her blog: a poem from the point of view of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, responsible of killing people during Boston marathon last week.

Here's the text:

you don’t know how it felt to be in the womb but it must have been at least a little warmer than this.

you don’t know how intimately they’re recording your every move on closed-circuit cameras until you see your face reflected back at you through through the pulp.

you don’t know how to stop picking at your fingers.

you don’t know how little you’ve been paying attention until you look down at your legs again.

you don’t know how many times you can say you’re coming until they just stop believing you.

you don’t know how orgasmic the act of taking in a lungful of oxygen is until they hold your head under the water.

you don’t know how many vietnamese soft rolls to order.

you don’t know how convinced your parents were that having children would be, absolutely, without question, the correct thing to do.

you don’t know how precious your iphone battery time was until you’re hiding in the bottom of the boat.

you don’t know how to get away from your fucking parents.

you don’t know how it’s possible to feel total compassion in one moment and total disconnection in the next moment.

you don’t know how things could change so incredibly fast.

you don’t know how to make something, but the instructions are on the internet.

you don’t know how to make sense of this massive parade.

you don’t know how to believe anyone anymore.

you don’t know how to tell the girl in the chair next to you that you’ve been peeking at her dissertation draft and there’s a grammatical typo in the actual file name.

you don’t know how to explain yourself.

you don’t want two percent but it’s all they have.

you don’t know how claustrophobic your house is until you can’t leave it.

you don’t know why you let that guy go without shooting him dead and stuffing him in some bushes between cambridge and watertown.

you don’t know where your friends went.

you don’t know how to dance but you give it a shot anyway.

you don’t know how your life managed to move twenty six miles forward and twenty eight miles back.

you don’t know how to pay your debts.

you don’t know how to separate from this partnership to escape and finally breathe.

you don’t know how come people run their goddamn knees into the ground anyway.

you don’t know how to measure the value of the twenty dollar bill clutched in your hurting hand.

you don’t know how you walked into this trap so obliviously.

you don’t know how to adjust the rearview mirror.

you don’t know how to mourn your dead brother.

you don’t know how to drive this car.

you don’t know the way to new york.

you don’t know the way to new york.

you don’t know the way to new york.

you don’t know the way to new york.

Long Live The Vinyl!

I still remember the vinyl player we used to have when I was a child. And I still remember my dad teaching my how to use it: the needle would have touched the disc and the music would have started. Then it got broken and I don't know why we never fixed it up.

Until one day I went back home and found out my parents had binned it.

Then the CD mania came, it seemed to be the new music frontier. Many years later, CD was replaced by mp3s, Netflix, TiVo, iTunes bla bla bla. And everybody seemed to have forgotten about the beautiful times when they could hold a vinyl in their hands, big disc, great art-designed covers...

Still, as Jack White puts it, 'There's no romance in a mouse.'

True. Just one simple click and you can have all the music you want.

But for all music lovers (and vinyl fetishists) there's no more rocking place than a record store (ok, probably a good gig would be a little bit more rocking...). I'm talking about proper indipendent record stores, the ones that  when you step into you can smell the passion for music, the ones that when you ask the owner for some advice he does know what you're talking about. Nothing to do with money maker chains like HMV, Fnac, Ricordi, whatever (although I know competitive prices are always appealing).

However, in 2007 Chris Brown of Bull Moose, a record store in Portland, thought about creating a 'Record Store Day'. Maybe it looked like something stupid at the beginning, but the vinyl day has been celebrated since then, with many stores all over the world joining it.  Even musicians have joined this initiative with limited album releases for the special occasion.

Yesterday was Record Store Day, and the number of interesting releases has been countless. Some of them included David Bowie, R.E.M., The Rolling Stones. You can have a clue at Record Store Day official website and have a clue about what you bought and what you missed. 

Some musicians even performed inside some stores: for example, Paul Weller feat. the Strypes played a gig in historical Rough Trade East in London.

However we put it, let me say 'God save Chris Brown!'

Another Album For David Bowie?

I'm not sure Noel Gallagher is the most accredited source of information and news... but (because there is ALWAYS a 'but'), according to his words super star David Bowie will release a new record after this year's 'The Nex Day'. 

'According to people I've spoken to, there's another album in the pipeline. There was, like, 29 songs or something', former Oasis man says. 

Although we don't know when, and if, David Bowie is actually going to release a new record, let's stay tuned! The full interview to Noel Gallagher will be broadcast tonight at Absolute Radio, 7pm.

Fingers crossed for David Bowie.

Good Bye Mr. Thorgerson

Defeated by a cancer, Storm Thorgerson died yesterday, at 69

A childhood friend of Pink Floyd, the artist designed many album covers for the band, but he is most probably famous thanks to Pink Floyd masterpiece: 'The Dark Side Of The Moon'. 

Pink Floyd, 'The Dark Side Of The Moon', 1973

As Pink Floyd's Dave Gilmour said: 'We first met in our teens. We would gather at Sheep's Green, a spot by the river in Cambridge and Storm would always be there holding forth, making the most noise, bursting with ideas and enthusiasm. Nothing has ever really changed."

Thorgerson has also been the author of album covers of many artists such as Muse, Led Zeppelin, Peter Gabriel, Dream Theater, Audioslave... and many more. 

Here some of his works:

Muse, 'Absolution'-2003

Led Zeppelin, 'Houses of the Holy', 1973

Peter Gabriel, 'Peter Gabriel I', 1977

Dream Theater, 'Falling Into Infinity', 1997

Audioslave, 'Audioslave', 2002

DAVID BOWIE IS BACK!

Announced ten days ago on his official Facebook page, here it si Bowie's new single, 'The Stars (Are Out Tonight)'.

It belongs to his upcoming album, 'The Next Day'.

I'm already thrilled!

C'MON CREW!!!!!!!!!!

Many international music legends feature in Johnny Depp’s new album ‘ Son of Rogue’s Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs and Chanteys’.

The work, which will be released on 18^th February, follows the 2006 album titled ‘Rogue’s Gallery’. Produced by Johnny Depp, director Gore Verbinski and producer Hal Willner, it’s made by two CDs for a total of 36 tracks and sees important collaborations such as Patti Smith, Tom Waits featuring Keith Rochards, Macy Gray, Iggy Pop and many others.

But I already know that my favourite track will be ‘Rio Grande’ which features Michael Stipe and The God Courtney Love.

NO, I CAN'T LISTEN TO IT!

OH

MY

GOD

!

It sounds like an bunch of teenagers singing!

It should belong to Goo Goo Dolls’ new album (to be released on 7^th May)...

Please, please, give me ‘Iris’ back!

-_______-"

And happy Valentine’s Day to everyone.

THINGS THAT CHEER ME UP IN THIS 2013

Nara Yoshitomo

It’s well known that life’s tough, hard and cruel. So sometimes I prayed for the end of the world last December. I put all my hopes, actually.

But January gave me some reasons for enjoying this world. Reasons that does NOT include the fact that I didn’t find a better job and left my small countryside town and don’t get how to open the windows in my bedroom... Other reasons.

  Sound City, the documentary directed by Dave Grohl (I’m sure he never sleeps or I can't explain how he can manage to do so many things at the same time while me, I do the laundry, I tidy up my room, I go for a coffee and the day is over and I didn’t do anything!). I would have been able to go to Sundance Film Festival to see the première.
*tears*

  

Sound City Players, who performed at Sound City première and they made fireworks!

I take my hat off.

      

       David Bowie’s new single, 'Where Are We Now?' that makes me almost cry every time I listen to it and makes me actually wonder what the fuck I am doing here in London... But it anticipates a new forthcoming album, so I’m alreadyexcited to listen to it.

          The Strokes’ new single One Way Trigger. Because I can’t help laughing when listening to Julian Csablancas’s falsetto. Which, by the way, it’s not the kind of falsetto I like the most.

Here some falsettos I do like:

     Sometimes I also forgot I bought a ticket for Muse’s concert at Emirates Stadium and my lovely friend will be flying from Italy to see Muse and will be crying with me under the stage. Thing that cheers me up a lot, actually. 

When’s May coming?

FROM OXFORD WITH FERVOUR

Radiohead will record a new album, it seems.

According to an interview released by Colin Greenwood to South African newspaper Mail and Guardian, the band from Oxford will come together again at the end of the summer to start working on a new album, two years after ‘The King of Limbs’ and various solo projects, among which Thom Yorke’s Atom For Peace. 

THE STROKES- ALL THE TIME

New Single from The Stokes’ upcoming album (out on 26^th March 2013)

All The Time

AN INVESTMENT FOR THE FUTURE

Hard Times for everyone…

Wall Street and Co. are going (up and) down and I need some more safety. Perhaps I should start thinking about the future and make an investment or something. Like buying some Joey Ramone’s sunglasses. Or one of his leather jackets… Memorabilia only go up and up and up… Like diamonds they are forever. Unless you decide to sell them and make a good earning.

I’d probably would do it if I had some extra $200.

Displayed on Febrary 7^th at the Bowery Electric on Joey Ramone Place outside what remains of the legendary CBGB’s, all items (t-shirts, passport, glasses, jackets, guitars etc.) will be auctioned on February 21^st during The Marvels of Modern Music.

For more info:   http://www.rrauction.com/

BIJORK GOES TO KICKSTARTER

So, after Amanda Palmer (she collected over 1,2 milion dollars to self-produce her solo album Theatre Is Evil), also Bijork asks Kikstarter for help. 

It's a project related to Biophilia, her eighth album and linked to various environmental educational projects that saw the artist collaborating with some universitieas and science museums (Manchester, Reykjavik, Buenos Aires, Oslo and New York City).

RHCP: IN LOVE DYING

New single for the Red Hot Chili Peppers

I don't know... I don't like them more since John Frusciante has left...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

Happy 40th Birthday to KISS!!!!

THE STROKES: ONE WAY TRIGGER

Brand new single for The Strokes from their upcoming fifth album (probably to be released later this year).

According to Hammond Sr. 'the stuff they're doing is incredible. They're doing it themselves with thei friend, engineer and producer.'

A little bit like Mika (he does rock after all), much The strokes, One Way Trigger definetely make me move. 

To get free download:  http://www.thestrokes.com/

OF RAPE AND FRUSTRATION (real life)

I’m a sales assistant. Yes, I’m a fucking sales assistant. 

Which means I have to stand hours convincing myself I do like what I’m selling. Which means smiling and being polite even when I want to kill the customer in front of me. Which means I have to keep a serious face when they ask me if they can wash those leather boots in the washing machine. Which means many things, actually. 
But I could stand it all better if I just wouldn’t have to:

 1. listen to the same fucking CD taken from some dance club in the countryside where Adam Levine thinks he moves like Mick Jagger… Like Mick Jagger.
I'm Marianne Faithfull, by the way.

2. listen to Jennifer Lopez singing she wants to dance and dance and dance all night and make love to you baby…

Dear Jenny from the block, 

from a Beverly Hills villa (or wherever you may live),

I know you’re an easy going girl and want to reach everyone’s heart, but you’re almost 44. And you can’t sing love like a 15-year-old! You’ve grown up, hopefully.

Listen…

…and find the difference:

And it's not because I still don't have a home and I'll be selling shoes for the rest of my life and I envy you. 

No.

You They are raping my ears. With your song.

Then, I know… God Money makes people do anything.

Still... 

Anyway, that's already one step ahead, isn't it?

Don't be offended, eh. I still remember all the lyrics of Jenny From The Block since the first time I heard it on MTV!