Cure for the Mondays: Five Finger Death Punch - "House of The Riseing Sun"

Five Finger Death Punch - "House of The Rising Sun"

"Two Men Enter, One Man Leaves!"



Still riding high from last years highly successful double album release of The Wrong Side of Heaven and the Righteous Side of Hell ─ Volume 1 and 2, the hard rocking band Five Finger Death Punch is having fun living out cinematic dreams in the high deserts of Nevada. One step closer to a full-length 5FDP movie this video for their rocked-up cover of the classic "House of the Rising Sun" is part The Gambler, part The Road Warrior all wrapped up with a Tarantino feel. This is certain to cure you of your Mondays "Raggedy Man".

Living Room Performance: Best Coast - "Baby I'm Crying"

Best Coast - "Baby I'm Crying"




Southern California based Best Coast offers up this soulful ballad from their latest Fade Away EP. A wonderful contrast to their more guitar pop tunes, this track reveals a sweet vulnerability and further fleshes out this band.
A LiveAudio recording, this session was captured with a binauarl microphones set up for an immersive 360 degree field of sound. Developed to provide listeners with a more authentic live sound experience, the microphones are built into the heads of human dummies and factor in the way sound travels at different rates of speed to each ear. The result is a three-dementional sound best experienced through head phones of a Jambox speaker and offers the audience a true audio picture.

Living Room Performance: Paolo Nutini - "Iorn Sky"

Paolo Nutini - "Iorn Sky"

Abbey Road

London, England

2014



Returning from a 5 year absence Paolo Nutini is ready to grace the limelight once again with his forth coming album Caustic Love set for release later this year. His sweet little tunes are grandly orchestrated instrumentation wrapped around the aching resonance of Nutini's soulfully powerful voice. With a preemptive US Ep set for release in April, its sure to be a great return of an amazing artist.

Cure for the Mondays: Jessica Childress - "I Quit"

Jessica Childress - "I Quit"

It's Monday, I know we're all thinking it.



LA soulstress Jessica Childress has a voice like the soul queens of old. Combining rock 'n' roll pinaz with traditional R&B into her own sassy style Childress is taking the industry by force with her awesome talent. Riding the wave of exposure from her time on the show The Voice, she has recently released her debut EP Don't Forget My Name and is playing sold out show in her native California. With any luck this will all translate into a full-lengthed album and more extensive touring.

Living Room Performance: Slash & Myles Kennedy "Sweet Child O' Mine"(Acoustic)

Slash & Myles Kennedy - "Sweet Child O' Mine"(Acoustic)
Foxtel's Max Sessions
Seymour Center
Sydney, Australia
2010



I doubt that he needs any introduction, having slung his six strings in some of the most iconic bands to ever play rock 'n' roll, Slash, guitar god extraordinaire, has had more effect on the instrument and style of the guitar in the last 4 decades then any other artist in the last century. How many of use have found ourselves in the basement adorned in a top hat and strumming an air guitar. If anything this performance demonstrates the immeasurable skill Slash has with his insturment.
Sharing the stage with him is Myles Kennedy, Lead singer of the band Alter Bridge and long time Slash collaborator. Kennedy also held the vocal lead for Slash's 2012's Apocolyptic Love. Enjoy this rare rendition of a true classic.

Quick Pick :Vikesh Kapoor @ Mississippi Studios 02/19

Wednesday, February 19th
Vikesh Kapoor (Supporting)
Eleni Mandell
Mississippi Studios
3939 N. Mississippi
Doors:8PM /Show:9PM
Adv.:$10/Day Of:$12
21 & Over

Possessed by a folk spirit, Vikesh Kapoor creates music that allows his organically rustic voice to  swim freely through beautifully simplistic instrumentation.  Like Guthrie and Dylon before him Kapoor sings of the human condition that exists beyond chronological boundaries. This is the ache and struggle of every human heart. Touring in support of his album The Ballad of Willy Robins  which tells the story of one of the many hardworking blue collared souls over looked in our digital age. Supporting the beautiful melody of Eleni Mandell's country-folk this show should sound like heaven off the wood paneled walls of the lovely Mississippi Studios. Nothing gets you over the hump of the week like getting your folk on.

"Finals Week with The Hard Lessons": The List: Top 5 Best Worst Foods To Eat on the Road

THE LIST: TOP 5 BEST WORST FOODS TO EAT ON THE ROAD

After touring the world for the better part of ten years, here are the best worst things to eat after a night of rocking.

5) Donor Kebab! Kurt Cobain references the "Kebab Machines" of the U.K. in the liner notes to Incesticide, and being the students of Rock N Roll (and greasy food) that we are, we mowed through that rotating-spit-meat all across Europe while touring with OK GO and Motion City Soundtrack.

4) Pizza Rolls! I don't think a lot of people realize that Totino's Pizza Rolls are safe to eat without microwaving. More times than I care to admit we'd stop at a gas station, pick up some frozen boxes of pizza rolls, put them on the dashboard to defrost in the sun, and proceed to eat them. Boom! Dinner without stopping the van!

3) Complimentary Tater Tots and/or Bacon! Sometime around 2007 it started becoming trendy for bars to have nights where they would put out plates of bacon or tater tots instead of peanuts. It really took the guesswork out of dinner.

2) The venue's pizza! "Oh, we get a complimentary pizza. I bet it tastes great."

1) In N Out Burger! All fast food is the same and it all sucks, except for this precious gift from the Western states. We once stopped at In N Out Burger for three meals in a row after leaving California. Animal style never goes out of style!