Supreme songstress Laura Pergolizzi better known, of course, as LP is one of those
(rare) voices that cause chills every single time it comes on. So far she manufactured six albums, with last year’sChurches as most recent one. In between, she wrote/writes songs for other stars including Cher, Rihanna, the Backstreet Boys, Leona Lewis, Mylène Farmer, Céline Dion and Christina Aguilera. Wow.
Early this month she performed at Rock Werchter Festival in Belgium
showing (again) why she’s so special. She can wake me up every day.
Here she comes with 2 of her gigantic hits.
Girls Go Wild (more than 59 million streams on Spotify)
and Lost On You (more than 560 million streams!)
“The lyrics were partly inspired by phone calls with a friend who was living and working in the Arctic. The song developed from a keyboard, bass and clarinet jam. This then took shape during our pre-recording sessions with John Parish and Joe Jones in Bristol and finalized at Rockfield studios a month later, with some musical inspiration coming from the dramatic scores of John Barry. The song is observational and sensual.”
Magnetic stuff.
Let Dry Cleaning do
the talking on the phone…
Artist: CASS ELLIOT
Born Ellen Naomi Cohen. Due to heart failure,
she passed away in 1974, at only 32 years of age. Who: One of the mamas of Californian pop legends The Mamas & Papas.
Single: DREAM A LITTLE DREAM OF ME
The title track of her solo debut LP in 1968.
Written by musicians Wilbur Schwandt,
Fabian Andre, and Gus Kahn.
CHARLI XCX, the synth-hip-pop star born Charlotte Emma Aitchison
29 years ago in Cambridge, England has a new, terrifically sexy-hip-shaking
bass booming banger out called HOT GIRL. Weird teasers of the song popped up
on the Internet some weeks ago, but now the final, official cut streams on Spotify.
Hot girl features on the soundtrack of new horror movie Bodies Bodies Bodies
(see the trailer below) produced by film company A 24. It hits movie theaters
on August 5.
If your limbs don’t move one inch to this killer you really should consult your doctor.
To my eager ears and itchy body Hot Girl is the summer dance knockout of 2022 (so far).
Hands down.
Let Charli introduce herself.
I’m a hot girl, pop girl, rich girl
I’m a bitch girl, fast girl, catch me if you can girl
You a swerve, girl, who the fuck are you, girl?
You just wanna be me
I’m a hot girl, pop girl, rich girl
I’m a bitch girl, fast girl, catch me if you can girl
You a swerve, girl, who the fuck are you, girl?
You just wanna be me
Singer-songwriter JULIANA HATFIELD was born in Boston on 27 July 1967.
Happy 55 to the sassy rocker who played in bands such as Blake Babies, Some Girls, The Lemonheads (with Evan Dando), and her own group The Hatfield Three. In between
all that fuss she had her debut solo, LP Hey Babe, out in 1992. She actually never took
a break. Last year her 19th longplayer, called Blood landed.
I just sang Happy Birthday To You, Juliana under the shower but before
ruining your morning I’d better play one of her songs to celebrate the lady.
The label built an impressive roster over the years of (in)famous and underground punk/rock/hardcore bands such as Social Distortion, Pennywise, The Ghost Inside, Rancid, Quicksand, Weezer, Jamie T, Quicksand and so many more progressive acts.
Full list here.
Epitaph, just as many other indie labels (hello major corporations???) support – with
the proceeds of music compilations – the Ukrainian people who suffer severely after Russia invaded the country last February. The number of civilian casualties is horrific
and the cruel conflict is, as the world knows, far from over.
The digitally benefit compilation Epitath launched last April features 18tracks
of 18 different artists/bands with old and more recent tracks. All profits go to
the Doctors Without Borders organization to help fund their humanitarian
actions in Ukraine.
TRACKLIST
1. ‘Animals’ by Architects (Amazon Original) 2. ‘Scavengers’ by Thrice 3. ‘Every Night’ by Millencolin 4. ‘Peaceful Day’ by Pennywise 5. ‘Toy Soldier’ by The Menzingers 6. ‘Wild Eyes’ by Parkway Drive 7. ‘Earth Is A Black Hole’ by Teenage Wrist 8. ‘Eye of the Quarrel’ by Converge 9. ‘My Sanity’ by Bad Religion 10. ‘Broken World’ by The Interrupters 11. ‘Indestructible’ by Rancid 12. ‘Sanctions’by Raised FIst 13. ‘One Choice’ by The Ghost Inside 14. ‘Daydreams/Heartbreaks’ by HUNNY 15. Early Eyes ‘Catch You’ by Early Eyes 16. ‘Cop Just Out OF Frame’by Propagandhi 17. ‘Ode to Joy 2’ by Remo Drive 18. ‘On The Radar’ by Grade 2
Buy this great collection here below on Bandcamp for only $8 USD (or more) and
help the hard-stricken Ukrainian people.
Band: THE ZINVANDELS Who: 4 uproarious rockers from Wales
New single: BLACKHOLES
Their sixth one. A statement of intent
ahead of their debut LP release.
Turn Up The Volume: Oh my, oh my. Expect riff schizophrenia bucking up
this flipped-out stunner for its whole 4 minutes. Blackholes is a rollicking post-punk
juggernaut that scurries full tilt without looking back.
Add a steamed-up drums/bass tandem and poignant vocals and you know this
head-over-heels thunderstorm will attack your speakers on repeat.
A couple of weeks ago,Bruce Springsteen revealed
tour dates for a new 2023 North America stadium tour.
When fans searched for tickets – that went on sale last week – on the Ticketmaster website they ascertain varied income prices, but some of the “platinum” tickets cost as much as $5,000 .
Ticketmaster calls this a dynamic pricing model.
Dynamic pricing is Ticketmaster’s way of squeezing out scalpers and sites like StubHub and SeatGeek. The idea is that Ticketmaster can charge a ton for tickets when they first go on sale, and if the tickets are still available a while later, the prices might drop. This basically means that Ticketmaster is scalping its own tickets. Greedy bastards.
Varietyreported that Ticketmaster defended its strategy with a statement that revealed statistics about costs and percentages for the dates that went on sale last week.
Downplaying the number of controversial “platinum” tickets with variable prices that reached as high as $5,000 apiece on the first day of on-sales, Ticketmaster says those represent only 11.2% of the overall tickets sold. By the ticketing service’s calculations, that left the other 88.2% of tickets sold at fixed prices that ranged from $59.50 to $399 before added service fees. Ticketmaster further says that the average price of all tickets sold so far is $262, with 56% being sold for under $200 face value.
Although the service does not dispute reports of tickets being priced through the platinum program for high as $4-5K, Ticketmaster is claiming that only 1.3% of total tickets so far have gone for more than $1,000.
When the not-rich among us want to see big names play live these days, they need to rob a bank first. Over the years big rock concerts have become a privilege for the rich. It starts of course with the money-greedy artists.
It’s not only Springsteen. Check the ticket prices for Bob Dylan, Rafe Against The Machine, Kiss, Green Day, Nick Cave and so many more billionaire stars who became capitalist sharks over the years and just don’t care who can see them perform or not, as long as they pay.
The irony of it all is that many of those stars still claim to be for real and stand against all injustices in the world, except for the injustice of the fact that so many fans can’t afford a decadent concert ticket to see their idols play live. Fakers!
