Where’s Dave?
Aug 28, 2009 Boys With Guitars
Here’s a vid of Them Crooked Vultures playing the Lowlands Festival in the Netherlands this week. Unfortunately, due the placement of the camera and its focus on Josh Homme (not a bad thing, mind you), you can only see drummer Dave Grohl for fleeting nano-seconds. But the song, “New Fang,” rocks mightily, as you might expect.
More of this pairing, please (part 2)
Aug 26, 2009 Boys With Guitars
Cute Aussie newcomer Daniel Merriweather snagged Adele as a guest vocalist for his just-released debut album Love & War. Don’t know what he had to do to get the “Chasing Pavements” chanteuse– thoughts drift to prurient places– but it was worth it. Their slow-simmer duet on “Water and a Flame” is the album’s highlight. Check it out.
More of this pairing, please
Aug 25, 2009 Boys With Guitars
Amy Winehouse joined the reunited Specials to sing “You’re Wondering Now” at the V Festival in the U.K. on Saturday, Aug. 22. She didn’t add much, but hey, at least she didn’t fall down.
RIP Les Paul (1915-2009)
Aug 13, 2009 Boys With Guitars
What can be said about the father of the electric guitar? Without him there would be nothing. Anyway, enough with the hyperbole, here’s a clip of Les playing The Birth of the Blues (with Chet Atkins! Did I ever tell you about the time I met Chet Atkins? Eh, it’s a long and not very interesting story…)
Tags: Chet Atkins, Les Paul
Have lungs, will bellow
Aug 13, 2009 Boys With Guitars, Reviews
Florence and the Machine
Lungs
Universal Island. 13 Tracks.
Rating: 4 stars (out of 5)
Introducing the most aptly named album of the year. Lungs, the debut effort by London-based singer Florence Welch, is about many things, theatricality, emotional violence and girl power among them. But mainly it’s about Welch’s sometimes frighteningly robust voice, a pneumatic wonder that that hits with stunning force even as she sings about being a “rabbit-hearted girl frozen in the headlights.” (No, I’m not buying it either.) Read the rest of this entry »
Ahoy, Monkeys!
Aug 12, 2009 Boys With Guitars
The Arctic Monkeys get waterlogged in the video for their wordy but beguiling new single “Crying Lightning,” produced by BWG fave Josh Homme. (See below.) If you ask us, the vid is a none-too-subtle tribute to Echo and the Bunnymen. But who asked us?
We can’t wait for…
Aug 9, 2009 Boys With Guitars
…Them Crooked Vultures.
We’re wetting ourselves a wee bit over the prospect of this new supergroup made up of Foo Fighter Dave Grohl, Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme and Led Zep’s erstwhile bassist John Paul Jones. The Vultures made their live debut this week in Chicago and will release an album in October. BWG vows to bring you every scrap of info we can dig up. But first, we must change our trousers…
Welcome Back, Bad-Ass
Aug 6, 2009 Boys With Guitars
After more than a decade of exile in indie-label land, George Thorogood returns to the majors– Capitol/EMI, to be exact– with The Dirty Dozen, a scorching set of six new tunes and six re-recordings of “fan favorites” from his glory days. Will the new album produce another classic rock staple á la “Bad to the Bone?” Check out “Born Lover,” the most promising contender:
Elliott Smith
Aug 6, 2009 Boys With Guitars
Today would have been Elliott’s 40th birthday. Drink up, baby.
