And the fact is, over the past couple of weeks, a lot more people HAVE heard the debut CD by NYC quartet Vampire Weekend. After a performance on “Saturday Night Live” a couple of weeks back, their album vaulted back into the Top 30 on the Billboard chart.
I found out about the band a month or so before, thanks to a coworker who went to Columbia University along with the four members of VW. They’ve […]
Week 2 was a terrific example of why this show works even if the contestants have off nights. If you ask those who watched last night, based solely on the performances, it was definitely below par. But then again, what are we asking of these barely less than amateurs? They were doing Beatles songs which are some of the most revered records of all time. How could these folks pull off any of the material […]
Maybe I’m getting old, maybe I’m slowly growing out of touch with popular music nowadays.
What does it mean when I’m completely disinterested in the two potentially biggest-selling releases of the week?
For those of you that care, “Making The Band” favorites Danity Kane release their second album, “Welcome To The Dollhouse” today. Their debut album entered the charts at #1 and sold a million copies, so there’s a lot riding on this release, as my buddy […]