Video of the Week: Gogol Bordello’s “Wonderlust King”

As I type this, Gogol Bordello is in the middle of a 3 day residence at Webster’s Hall, Manhattan.  I could have been there but something better has come up:
I’m going to be attending their New Year’s Eve concert down in Philly with a good friend of mine I haven’t seen in ages. It’s going [...]

The Classics: La Ley’s “Invisible”

Base solely on the opening trifecta of: “Animal,” “Dia Cero,” and “El Duelo” this album is rock perfection in any language.  But to give credit to La Ley, INVISIBLE turned out to be an album full of awe-inspiring rock offerings beyond those three songs and much more.

La Ley (“The Law”) were a  Grammy winning rock band from Chile formed [...]

Video of the Week: Eros Ramazzotti’s “Favola”

Italian pop-rock superstar Eros Ramazzotti has had many great songs become hits during his whole career.  Though I like many of those songs, nothing has ever come close to my love for “Favola” which means “fable” in English.
The song lyrics talk about a man who became a tree and live as one with nature…until the most [...]

The Classics: Monica Naranjo

Monica Naranjo’s whole persona is of an acquire taste.  From her looks to her music to her videos, she runs the gamut of pop music and yet, she can’t quite be labeled a *pop* artists.  For the last 15 years she’s gone from pop to opera to baroque to rock to dance to orchestral and even [...]

The Grammys Nominations or the Year of the Joke

Granted, every single year, the people over at the Grammys find many ways to *make* jokes by nominating…well, shit. crap. dunk. whatever you wanna call it, and then they go so far as to give us plenty of WTF? moments when the actual winners are announced.
(read the full list of 2010 nominees here, ’cause I just [...]

Video of the Week: Maxwell’s “Pretty Wings”

All that talk about Remy Shand last week–not to mention the radio at work anchored on the classic/modern soul and r&b station by our supervisor–got me on a Maxwell mood, in particular his latest hit single “Pretty Wings” which is classic Maxwell.  Gorgeously song, groovy instrumentation and impeccably, sexy vocals makes it an instant winner and one [...]

Neko Case: Live at the Beacon Theatre NYC 16-Nov-09

Last night–believe it or not–was my first time ever witnessing the sheer power and beauty of Neko Case in concert and she was fucking amazing!
 
Show opener Calexico (a mainly two-man band, were joined at times by members of Neko’s band) was very, very good. Vocalists Joey Burns has a very clear, very expressive and quite powerful voice, and thanks [...]

Quality Assessment: Patrick Wolf’s “The Bachelor”

I know, I know, I’ve been taking my sweet ass time with this one, but here it is at last.
Let me begin with the at once surprising and obvious: Is Patrick Wolf incapable of producing albums that are anything but great piece of art?  Yes, that sounds a bit pretentious but how else to describe [...]

Video of the Week: Damien Rice’s “9 Crimes”

In celebration of the news that Damien Rice is finally putting out some follow up music to 2006’s “9″ album (about bloody fucking time!) I’ve decided to pick one of his videos for this week.  The man has a penchant for odd videos and this isn’t a depart from it, but I find the video [...]