By Sarah on May 9, 2010
There are few things that amuse me more than hilarious covers. A capella choirs, groups with strange instrumentation, whatever. Do a cover well and make me laugh and you’ve already won.
With that in mind, check out this thoroughly amusing Lady Gaga medley.
Posted in Sharing | Tagged lady gaga, the breaking winds
By Sarah on April 9, 2010
Like Lady Gaga but wish it were less techno dance-hall beats? Like hard rock or maybe even metal but harbor a secret love for top 40 pop? Then check out these two covers, put together by a couple of guys from Toronto well schooled in metal and heavy music.
Posted in Sharing | Tagged bangin', lady gaga
By Sarah on April 6, 2010
In case you took an internet hiatus overnight, here’s some “news” for you: Lollapalooza’s lineup for the 2010 festival has been released in full, including all the letters and &s and *’s, because god forbid they write out Fuck Buttons on their website.
Posted in Upcoming Events | Tagged afi, american bang, arcade fire, b.o.b, balkan beat box, blitzen trapper, blues traveler, chromeo, company of thieves, cut copy, cymbals eat guitars, cypress hill, dan black, dawes, deer tick, devo, dirty projectors, dragonette, drive by truckers, edward sharpe & the magnetic zeros, erykah badu, foxy shazam, freelance whales, frightened rabbit, fuck buttons, gogol bordello, green day, grizzly bear, harlem, health, hockey, hot chip, jamie lidell, javelin, jimmy cliff, jukebox the ghost, lady gaga, lollapalooza, los amigos invisibles, matt & kim, mavis staples, metric, mgmt, mimicking birds, miniature tigers, minus the bear, mumford & sons, mutemath, my dear disco, mynameisjohnmichael, neon hitch, neon trees, nneka, phoenix, raphael saadiq, rebelution, rogue wave, royal bangs, semi precious weapons, shawn fisher, skybox, slightly stoopid, social distortion, soundgarden, spoon, stars, switchfoot, the antlers, the band of heathens, the big pink, the black keys, the constellations, the cribs, the dodos, the ettes, the ike reilly assassination, the kissaway trail, the morning benders, the national, the new pornographers, the soft pack, the strokes, the temper trap, the walkmen, the xx, these united states, violent soho, warpaint, wavves, wild beasts, wolfmother, x japan, yeasayer
By Sarah on February 20, 2010
With my feed reader at 1000+ unread posts (thanks a lot, busy work week and unexpected out-of-country trip), I might as well just claim defeat and start from scratch, but not before compiling some things that have caught my eye.
Posted in News & Links | Tagged corey tut, dosh, empty bottle, kate mcgarrigle, lady gaga, peter gabriel, phantogram, schubas, st. vincent, tegan and sara, the decemberists |
By Sarah on January 4, 2010
“This Week in Great Music” might as well just be renamed “This Week in Chicago Residencies That I Couldn’t Get Tickets To”, with series of shows by Butch Walker and Lady Gaga both selling out before I could even get around to clicking the purchase button. (Bet you never thought you’d see those two names in a […]
Posted in Upcoming Events | Tagged alejandro escovedo, buddy guy, buddy guy's legends, butch walker, double door, empty bottle, fitzgeralds, kevin o'donnell, lady gaga, martyrs', mucca pazza, old town school of folk music, rosemont theatre, schubas, the damnwells, the four treys, vampire weekend
By Sarah on December 23, 2009
So between now and the end of the year, I’ll be bringing you my 20 favorite albums of 2009. Â These 20 albums aren’t in any particular order, aside from the fact that I put them into four groupings of five albums each. Â There’s nothing scientific or measured about this, it’s mostly just an order based […]
Posted in Album Reviews, Best Of | Tagged lady gaga, loudon wainwright iii, metric, sarah jarosz, zee avi |