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The Joy Formidable have had a killer year, and, thankfully, they’re wrapping it up here in town December 14th at The Metro! Thanks to Twihards and Dave Grohl alike, 2011 has been a breakout year for the Joy Formidable. The rapturous pop-rock trio from London has opened stadiums for the Foo Fighters, landed a coveted spot on the Twilight: Breaking Dawn soundtrack and built buzz at major festivals – all while they prepare to record their second album.
As lead singer/guitarist Ritzy Bryan tells Rolling Stone, the band has loved their time on the road. ”We released our album just before South by Southwest and that was our first [time at the festival]. It was chaotic to the extreme, but we very much enjoyed it. We did nine shows,” she says. “We opened the main stage at quite a lot of festivals: Lollapalooza, Reading and Leeds. I think particularly Reading and Leeds were real nostalgic moments because they supported us when we were kind of a baby band three years ago. We started on their introducing stages.”
At the moment, the band (which includes bassist Rhydian Dafydd and drummer Matt Thomas) is enjoying similarly vast crowds in their stint as the opening act for the Foo Fighters. Recruited by Dave Grohl after he heard a song from their debut album, The Big Roar, on a British radio station, the Joy Formidable were invited to open a handful of dates. Says Bryan of the Foos, “They’re such a good live band – we’re very, very honored to be opening up the night for them. They’re very respectful to the bands they take on tour and the importance of camaraderie is a big thing on their tours. That’s definitely an ethos that we abide by when we go out on the road with different bands as well.” There are additional perks to traveling with the Wasting Light rockers, as well: “We all like a good story and I think Mr. Grohl is one of the very best storytellers around. We have a lot of fun backstage, lots of giggles,” she adds.
To cap off their triumphant year, the band’s track “Endtapes” recently snared a spot on the upcoming Twilight: Breaking Dawn soundtrack. While Bryan admits that she’s not familiar with the films or books, something she says always “horrifies and disgusts everybody,” she is aware of the musical acts that have come before them in the series. “They’ve always had great artists before and their soundtracks are always very, very strong. And they support new bands as well,” she says. ”In our flatmate’s office, there are some people who are ridiculously excited. A lot of them are middle-aged women, apparently. We’ll wait and see if the guys [in the band] get a huge female admiring.”
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-joy-formidable-very-excited-for-new-album-20111115#ixzz1dnaklx5t
Source: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-joy-formidable-very-excited-for-new-album-20111115
Kurt hated Dave? AND Axl? The latter we can understand. Who doesn’t hate Axl Rose? But Dave Grohl? Re-he-healy?
The divas and divos of the ever-egocentric music industry sound off on EACH OTHER. Wow are these people petty, even catty. Check this out:
Flavorwire lists the top 30 Harshest Musician-on-Musician Insults in History and quotes some major heavies such as Kurt Cobain, Elton John, Tupac and Christina Aguilera.
Read some favorites below and click here for full article. You will not regret it.
29. Christina Aguilera on Lady Gaga
“I’m not quite sure who this person is, to be honest. I don’t know if it is a man or a woman.”
24. Courtney Love on Dave Grohl “As for that drummer, well, he’s hit on me so many times. He’s just a very very conflicted guy about me, which is why he continually writes songs about me to hear he ‘hates’ me more than ‘anyone else.’ Kurt loathed HIM more than anyone else (except a journalist) … He’s just sub-mediocre kind of [guy] who does this ‘nice guy’ nonsense.”
23. Dave Grohl on Courtney Love “She’s an ugly fucking b*tch.”
19. Kurt Cobain on Guns N’ Roses “They’re really talentless people, and they write crap music, and they’re the most popular rock band on the earth right now. I can’t believe it.”
15. Elvis Costello on Morrissey “Morrissey writes wonderful song titles, but sadly he often forgets to write the song.”
14. Noel Gallagher on Jack White “He looks like Zorro on doughnuts.”
7. Elton John on Madonna “Anyone who lip-synchs in public on stage when you pay £75 to see them should be shot.”
6. Boy George on Madonna “A vile, hideous human being with no redeeming qualities.”
5. Boy George on Elton John “All that money, and he’s still got hair like a f*cking dinner lady.”
4. Elton John on Keith Richards “It’s like a monkey with arthritis, trying to go onstage and look young.”
It’s hard to argue with Elton there. No offense to arthritic monkeys.
READ MORE HERE
Source: http://www.stylecaster.com/lifestyle/15039/kurt-cobain-hated-dave-grohl-guns-n-roses-apparently
Twenty years ago this month, Nirvana’s sophomore album ‘Nevermind’ was released. The band’s major label debut (first record ‘Bleach’ had sold on modest independent Sub Pop), it unexpectedly came to define a generation of disaffected youth and sell 30 million copies.
Many view ‘Nevermind’ as being responsible for bringing alternative rock crashing into the mainstream, with its usurping of Michael Jackson’s ‘Dangerous’ at the top of the Billboard charts in 1992 signifying a dramatic shift in popular music among the masses.
Undeniably, the album is a classic. From the opening riff of ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ to the carnage of ‘Endless Nameless’, a hidden track buried nearly 14 minutes into album closer ‘Something in the Way’, ‘Nevermind’ pulses with energy, imagination and introspective lyrics. Propelled by killer singles like ‘In Bloom’, the album tore the mainstream to shreds, ringing the death knell for the rock monopoly held by 80s hair-metal bands like Motley Crue and Guns N’ Roses. Bombast was out, flap hats and torn cardigans were in.
Nirvana sounded like nothing you ever heard, and yet there was a familiarity about them; from the Beatles-esque melody of ‘On a Plain’, to the punk-heavy medley of ‘Territorial Pissings’. Even ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’, so gamechanging and timeless, owed more than a passing debt to The Pixies. Kurt Cobain himself admitted he was ‘trying to rip off the Pixies’ when he penned the tune.
Everything about the album was iconic. From Kurt, bedecked in a leather jacket, flipping the bird toward the camera in the album sleeve, to its front cover depicting a baby in water pursuing a dollar on a fish-hook, Nirvana were suddenly the band of the moment, capturing the ‘why ask why?’ apathy that was the post-Desert Storm zeitgeist. ‘Nevermind’ spent a whopping 253 weeks on the Billboard 100 chart and features frequently on ‘Best Albums’ lists to this day. It’s no surprise then that Universal Music is repackaging the original disc into a 4-CD/1-DVD edition packed with bonuses to commemorate the album’s 20th anniversary.
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