The Raconteurs are pleased to announce the following North American tour dates. You want tickets before they go on sale to the public this weekend? Tomorrow, March 20th, at 10 am local time, you can visit the following links to buy your tickets before everyone else. Please note they are on a first come, first served basis and you’ll need the special password which is “consolers”.
Of course the name not only congers up images of the vivacious Mexican artist, but also that of another Latin sensation, one mister Ricky Martin who’s pop hit “Living la Vida Loca” skyrocketed to the top of the charts in 1999. Said Chris Martin to Rolling Stone, “Everyone thinks it comes from Ricky Martin, which is fine. I have absolute respect.”
This is not the first time Martin (er… Chris, not Ricky) has made some interesting name choices–his children’s names are “Apple” and “Moses.” He and Gwyneth Paltrow‘s unborn third child will be thankful that Chris got his Spanish-language infatuation out with this album title. (Surely he/she would have been named “Burrito” or “Paella”.)
How long will it be before the first “Livin’ la Vida Loca”/”Viva la Vida” mashup surfaces?
Holy sheboigies! According to the LA Times, the second Raconteurs album, Consolers of the Lonely, will be out NEXT WEEK, on March 25th.
Why is this the first time you are hearing about this album? Oh, that’s because Jack White just dropped it off at the record label LAST WEEK. According to Radiohead’s Atease message board via Rolling Stone:
Jack White went into the Warner Bros. office last Tuesday, handed them the master tape for the new Raconteurs and told them that he wanted the album out this Tuesday.
The album will feature 14 tracks and will be available at “mom and pop” shops, iTunes, Amazon, and corporate superstores who are able to stock the title with such short notice. It will be released on Third Man Records via Warner Brothers and XL Records.
The first single, “Salute Your Solution,” will also be released on the 25th via the internet (all editing disasters aside). [click to continue…]
Post so far have given props to buddy Jesse Malin and Jonny T on “The Bowery Electric” (whicH I’m presuming is some kinda of music venue or studio (?) on Bowery and 2nd/3rd–complete with a crazy song. He’s also name dropped Albert Einstein and Anne Frank. Funnily enough, even though he’s clearly a crazy person, I still kinda sorta find him all sorts of attractive/appealing.
UPDATE: ARUGH! It appears as though Ryan has gotten blog-shy and deleted all the entries to his Tumblr account. So no more potential blog flirting and intriguing insights into the wonderful world of David Ryan Adams’ brain. Too sad. I’m sure it won’t be long until he surfaces again in some other form. He’s to emotive to resist.
In the early 2000s one of my guilty pleasure songs was “Teenage Dirtbag” by Wheatus. I recently got nostalgic and Googled the song name which lead me to finding this absolutely horrendous version of the song by British pop girl group Girls Aloud. Witness the horror:
There’s no way any of those people have ever listened to Iron Maiden.
I have often been accused of having incurable Anglophilia, but IT’S JUST NOT TRUE, OK? I actually have Scotophilia, which is the obsession with Scottish people. Am I to be held negatively responsible for their hot accents?
Check out the latest installment of the Basement Tapes for exclusive performances of the now Seattle-based indie rock fave, Say Hi (aka- the artist formerly known as “Say Hi to Your Mom”). (The 16-year-old kid down the hall who loves robots, rainbows, and being scared of bullies will be eating this shiz UP!)
Features some videos, photos, and live MP3s, one of which is a cover of the Beatles song “I’m So Tired” [DOWNLOAD: Mp3]
Oh and speaking of Beatles covers… did anyone see American Idol on Tuesday night? It was about 2 hours of pure TORTURE, as the contestants took turns brutally gang banging the Lennon-McCartney songbook. There were some rare moments of decency (that willowy blonde chick wasn’t THAT bad and I kinda sorta liked that hilariously over-the-top Creed wannabe dude doing “Eleanor Rigby”), but for the most part a consistent stream of cringe-worthy performances. [click to continue…]
When you watch ads for the new Fox television show starring Parker Posey, “The Return of Jezebel James“, you might recognize one of the tunes playing–”Coco” by New York band Stellastarr*.
Apparently the character that “Six Feet Under” star Lauren Ambrose plays is Parker Posey’s (Sarah) sister–a wacky, carefree spirit named “Coco”–so the marketing department went crazy with the Stellastarr* song (which some theorize is not even about a person)–at one point even going so far as to have the lyrics flash across the screen, a sing-a-long style.
