The Music Thread

[mmmm8]

I know she has some serious detractors (for good reason), but I have been a fan of Courtney since the very first time I heard Hole back in the early 90s. I think "Live Through This" is brilliant, and I love love love "Celebrity Skin".

Courtney's doing a short solo tour, and playing an intimate club in Philly next month. Just got tickets, and so very excited to see her again. Only saw Hole once back in the 90s, and it was quite a memorable show.

Think I've posted "Celebrity Skin" in the past, so I'll throw up the vid for another favorite of her songs.

How are you so burned when you're barely on fire

Congrats, Moose. You must be pretty psyched up for that concert!

[Moose]

I downloaded Daft Punk's new project, "Random Access Memories" this morning, and have been listening all day. I knew I'd like this - big DP fan, and first single "Get Lucky" is fantastic (it features Nile Rogers from Chic, and the instrumentation is straight out of "Risqué").

The entire CD is wonderful. It's nice hearing a serious artist look at 70s disco (and surprisingly, pure pop) era music and thinking there's a lot worthwhile there to play with. There are so many genres and sounds incorporated, and it is almost entirely live instrumentation. Love "Giorgio by Moroder". "Touch" (which is pretty epic both in sound, and in tribute to Moroder and Paul Williams, who apparently DP fell in love with watching "Phantom Of The Paradise" back in the day), "Motherboard" and "Doing It Right". Aside from the 70s holdovers, Panda Bear and Julian Casablancas also make great contributions.

Many of the reviews say this is an old-school headphone album. Looking forward to trying that out tonight.

Easily the best CD I've heard so far this year.

[Jessie181]

It's good to hear someone I know praise it! I haven't listened to it yet, but it seems like most of my friends really dislike it and are incredibly disappointed with it. I was thinking I might want to skip it if it was rubbish like they say it is, but now I'm tempted to listen to it

[JTContinental]

I like the new Daft Punk, too. It's very poppy, but also very groovy. I downloaded 4 of the songs, which is almost unheard of for me, and most of the ones I didn't download were also listenable. Doing It Right and Instant Crush are my two favorite tracks.

[Ti-Amie]

Nice review of Janelle Monae's appearance with the Chicago Symphony. There is one disturbing note though.

Many huge mainstream artists have been backed in concert by full orchestral accompaniment. Jay-Z mixed hip-hop with strings at Carnegie Hall last spring, and Phish's Trey Anastasio noodled on his guitar alongside several metropolitan city orchestras on a cross-country tour a few months prior. However, few have slid so comfortably into such a hit-or-miss experiment as Janelle Monáe did on Monday night in Chicago with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

The futuristic, funky R&B singer – who is set to drop her second album, The Electric Lady, this fall – was filling in for Aretha Franklin at the League of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association's annual Corporate Night. Due to illness, Franklin was forced to back out of Monday night's benefit show.

(Apparently Aretha had to cancel a similar appearance in San Francisco, also due to illness).


http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne...-city-20130521

[mmmm8]

Dry, have you heard yet about Paulina Rubio's exciting new job??? She can be on your TV every week!