Monday, February 13, 2012
News First Slice: 2/13/12 Beach Boys reunited, Whitney Houston remembered, Christopher Cain busted
Posted by Chad Radford @ChadRad on Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 9:02 AM
Dailymotion has posted up a nice video of the Beach Boys' historic reunion for the 2012 Grammy Awards ceremony last night. Unless the idea of watching Moron 5 and Foster the People butcher the Beach Boys' "Surfer Girl" and "Wouldn't It Be Nice" sounds good to you, go ahead and fast forward to the 4:47 mark to see a very real performance of "Good Vibrations." And hey, check it out, David Marks is back in the band!
... And sadly, as anticipated, Foo Fighters cleaned up shop at the Grammys, beating out our beloved Mastodon.
Some Atlantans reflect on their encounters with Whitney Houston over the years.
Fox News is reporting that some of Houston's relatives are saying that a combination of Xanax and other prescription drugs mixed with alcohol may have been the cause of her death.
Police have arrested and charged Christopher Cain with aggravated assault and robbery as he is one of three suspects in the videotaped beating of a gay man, Brandon White, in southwest Atlanta’s Pittsburgh neighborhood on Sat., Feb. 4. In the meantime, the community has rallied for White's support.
AJC weighs in on the city pushing Anita Beaty's Peachtree-Pine homeless shelter out of the picture.
The Walking Dead returned from its mid-season finale last night, and it looks like they're finally getting somewhere with this show. If you read the comic you're probably asking yourself, "is this how the debacle with the folks from Woodbury gets started?" We shall see.
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Foo Fighters last album Wasting Light is an amazing album. And IMHO David Grohl is the coolest guy in the industry.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTSWxKeWb98
Side note, for some reason DaveFM while playing old Foo Fighter songs never played anything off the new album, though 99x plays it frequently. I'll never understand radio, if they play 3 songs from a band over and over instead of going deeper into a catalog that obviously their listeners like.
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Yipes, Foo Fighters. I was in love with them when I was 15, and their music just got more and more banal as time went on.
I like Dave Grohl as well, but methinks he uses FF solely as a moneymaking vehicle. Anthem after anthem about rising up and beating the odds by a bunch of millionaires who started their band AS millionaires. It wouldn't be so straight-up insulting if the songs weren't totally vanilla alterna-rock.
Having seen them 3 times in the last 6 years my impression is that the guys like each other and enjoy very much enjoy making music and playing it. True they want to make money.
Not sure about the rising up anthems, I always thought he had more songs about women and relationships.
Yes after 7 albums they aren't on the edge of anything since they are basically the definition of arena rock or even power pop. As a one review said "It’s a good chance to headbang without being a metalhead,."
So for folks like me who like everything from Mana to Pitbull and Enrique to the B-52's to Joe Jackson to half the folks at the Grammys the Foo Fighters are just what I need.
Especially since at this stage in my life I don't have time to go to the edge of any specific genre of music not to mention I really do think Wasting Light was their best as a whole.
We may never see eye-to-eye on this, InATL. A great schism of disagreement, have we!
Foo-ey.
I really wanted to like them after Nirvana was gone, but it just ain't doin' it for me. I appreciate them more than like them. I salute them for their Westboro prank. Grohl is a mensch.
I hope Krist Novoselic saved some money.
While, Krist Novoselic made an appearance on Wasting Light playing bass and accordion on "I Should Have Known" it seems like he's not that active in rock by choice. I think he's probably still getting good royalties off of Nirvana.
A lot of fascinating (to me) back story to the Wasting Light. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasting_Light .
Dear Rosemary with Bob Mould of Husker Du's backing vocals is cool. Rosemary happens to be the name of Courtney Love's attorney, though I think its just a matter of that name working rhythmically. I like that Pat Smear is back (vs. just touring with them) he's always got a very enjoyable smirk on when he's playing.
Sorry I've just gotten hooked on the album and not because its making a comment on the whole CFL vs. Incandescent issue ;-)
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