Queens of the Stone Age

I was given a ticket to see QOTSA at the WAMU Theater inside MSG the other night. Brief observations:
I was in the cheap seats, where you could safely stand in aisle for 30 seconds before a security guy gently prompted you back to your seat; the mix up there was heavy on guitars and the [...]

Celine Dion channels… Janis Joplin?!?

Celine Dion has “edge.”
Billboard magazine reports that the French-Canadian Adult Contemporary Queen, after wrapping up her record-breaking run at the Colosseum at Caesar’s Palace, is releasing an album that includes “an abundance of guitars and an overall tempo that is brisker, with a deliberate rock tint.”
Sound cringe-worthy? Definitely. The music world – in fact, [...]

PJ Harvey’s White Chalk

Yesterday the new PJ Harvey album came out here in the U.S. Here’s the cover image:

It came to me as a gift in the good ol’ fashion way, through a record store, at a retail price, by paying in cash. How quaint, you say? I still feel a twinge of excitement in handling a new [...]