I realize this is an unpopular opinion for someone of my generation (age 19-22 during the Pixies' heyday), but Frank Black's Solo Career > Sporadic Pixies Reunion Albums
Seems like adding "LG x" to the end of every Tweet is kind of a waste of those precious 140 characters. On a related note, it seems like coverage of anything related to Liam Gallagher is a waste of the internet.
Two things:
The worst thing about the swing revival was that it got a bunch of Vince Vaughn wannabe douchebags saying crap like "you're money."
Also, the best swing revival album (and the only necessary one) is Joe Jackson's "Jumpin' Jive" and it came out in 1981.
When I say "devote their energy to the availability of their father's music," I mean "focus on releasing unreleased Zappa music" and not "play their father's music." Tribute bands sort of bug me too, but what makes Zappa Plays Zappa particularly annoying to me is that they play note-for-note versions of Frank's music. Technically admirable, sure, but from a creative standpoint it's kind of useless. At least the Zappa tribute band Project/Object (who Dweezil apparently dislikes and Gail has threatened to sue) tries to do something interesting and different with Frank's songs, an approach that I'm sure would please Frank more than the carbon copy remakes.
Moon has gone on record (as has Dweezil) as saying she opposes the Kickstarter documentary project, so it's likely she's Dweezil's side regarding the whole situation in general.
In Dweezil's defense (something I don't normally do), he does write and record his own stuff. I'm not a fan of it, but whatever. In terms of family business, I'd much rather see them devote their energy to the availability of their father's music than Dweezil's quasi-hair metal.
As someone who’s been a Zappa fanatic since 1982 (when my brother’s copy of “Shut Up and Play Yer Guitar” quietly blew my 13-year-old mind), the activities surrounding the Zappa Family Trust have always interested and concerned me. Gail reigned with an iron fist and made the posthumous releases from Zappa’s voluminous vault painfully few and far between.
With Ahmet taking over, things started to look up: the release of the long-awaited Roxy Movie, the legendary “Dance Me This”(Frank’s 100th album), the upcoming Alex Winter documentary (whose groundbreaking Kickstarter profits are helping fund the preservation of the vault). In terms of the availability of Frank’s music, things seem to finally be taking shape.
Gail has always been a pain in the ass regarding tribute bands, and whether or not the Ahmet/Dweezil beef is just a matter of he said/he said (with Ahmet flat out refuting basically everything Dweezil said in the NYT article), Ahmet seems to have the fans in mind regarding the music. If it’s true that Dweezil has to change the name of his tribute band (again, a claim Ahmet refutes), he can still play the music. The fans will still come. On the other hand, this is sibling drama being played out on social media which seems icky and sad.
TL/DR: I hate the fact that this once-close family can’t get their shit together and hug it out, but I just want to hear more Zappa music.
I doubt that. Dylan's setlists are always wonderfully random, and I don't think he usually tours with the intention of promoting his latest album. For all we know, he won't do a single one of the standards he's been recording.
I bought "Parade" right when it was released - it's still my favorite Prince album - and I've always been disappointed that this song never really got the recognition it deserved, but this version may change that.
I can't imagine kind of hell Hughes (and the rest of the people in that venue) went through on that night, but from what I understand, he was a right-wing nutjob long before Bataclan. This isn't like Dennis Miller becoming a conservative after 9/11.
Jesus, Grohl. I like you and everything, I dig that whole meat-and-potatoes “I’m just a regular dude geeking out about getting to meet all my heroes” stuff, you’ve got talent and all that, but could you find at least ONE event that you don’t need to horn in on? Give it a rest. Let someone else have the spotlight.
I love how the hall of fame induction ceremonies have turned into a sort of Thanksgiving dinner where there's that obscure cousin or uncle who nobody wants to see and everyone causes a stink about it.
Worst song ever? I don't like it, but it's nowhere near the worst thing I've ever heard. Having never heard a single other song by Macklemore & Lewis, I don't have a frame of reference as to how this fits into their catalog. Parts of it sound like Pinkerton-era Rivers Cuomo trying to sound like G Love and Special Sauce, which is not really a good thing.
Forgive my snobbery, but if we're referring to a guy who made a living writing songs for Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys and Adam Levine as a "genius," we may want to rethink that word.
"The guy is the most important and influential songwriter and producer of the last 20+ years..."
Really? On what planet?
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