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July 24, 2023

Miranda Lambert lashes out at fans during the concert, causing people to walk out: ‘It’s p—ing me off’

Miranda Lambert put a group of fans on blast during her concert Saturday night, eliciting a mixed reaction from the rest of her Vegas audience.

Only a few bars into her hit track “Tin Man,” Lambert told the audience, “I’m gonna stop right here for a second.… These girls are worried about their selfie and not listening to the song. It’s p—ing me off a little bit,” she said motioning to an area in the crowd.

“I don’t like it, at all,” she said to many cheers. “We’re here to hear some country music tonight, I’m singing some damn country music.”

“Sit down,” she told the group, motioning for them to take a seat. “Shall we start again?” she then asked the crowd, before beginning the song.

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Miranda Lambert called out a group of girls at her Las Vegas concert focused on getting a selfie rather than listening to her performance of “Tin Man.” (@redneckinvegas/Pop Nation/TMX)

While she continued to sing, Lambert received mixed reactions from the crowd. Some began to holler, cheer and whistle for the 39-year-old, while others left the arena in protest.

In a fan-recorded video, a person can be heard saying to those around her, “Let’s go. C’mon. You don’t do that to fans.”

WATCH: MIRANDA LAMBERT LASHES OUT AT FANS DURING CONCERT

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Miranda Lambert in a jean jacket with a braid at an event for Willie Nelson

Many concertgoers walked out after Miranda Lambert called out fans for taking a selfie. (Gilbert Flores/Variety)

The court of public opinion chimed in on social media – with thousands of comments being left on the TikTok video.

“I love Miranda, but what?” one person wrote.

Another TikTok user was more sympathetic, writing, “I mean give the artists you paid tickets for your undivided attention… you don’t need to record everything. EMBRACE IT.”

Miranda Lambert in a sparkly dress at the top and then dark blue train

Miranda Lambert received mixed reactions online after the video of the incident surfaced. (Gilbert Flores/Penske Media)

Most users were not as forgiving, offering criticism of the “The House That Built Me” singer.

“Yeah I would’ve left, f— that,” one person wrote. “They paid to be there. If you don’t want pictures then don’t allow phones. That’s ridiculous.”

“I’ve seen tons of people record their reactions to hearing their favorite song live… I feel like they were just excited, that’s so uncalled for,” another person suggested.

“And that’s when I’d have walked out,” another comment read.

Miranda Lambert on the Grammys carpet in a sparkly fringe black gown

Miranda Lambert’s next Vegas performance will be on Wednesday. (Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)

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One of the women who was reprimanded by Lambert is now speaking out on the situation, saying she has left “appalled.”

“It was 30 seconds at most,” Adela Calin, 43, told NBC News. “We took the picture quickly and were going to sit back down.”

“It felt like I was back at school with the teacher scolding me for doing something wrong and telling me to sit down back in my place … I felt like she was determined to make us look like we were young, immature and vain. But we were just grown women in our 30s to 60s trying to take a picture.”

Miranda Lambert in a black jacket with sequins

One of the women reprimanded by Miranda Lambert did not appreciate the situation, comparing Lambert’s actions to those of a school teacher calling out a child. (Charles Sykes/Bravo)

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Calin said he believes Lambert’s reaction could have been fueled by the latest dangerous trend of musicians, including Taylor Swift, Harry Styles, Kelsea Ballerini, Pink and Bebe Rexha having objects thrown at them while performing on stage.

A representative for Lambert did not immediately return Fox News Digital’s request for comment on Calin’s statement, having previously shared they had no comment.

Lambert’s next performance from her Velvet Rodeo residency will be on Wednesday.

Caroline Thayer is an entertainment writer for Fox News Digital. Follow Caroline Thayer on Twitter at @carolinejthayer. Story tips can be sent to [email protected].

June 24, 2023

Feeble Little Horse: Girl With Fish Album Review

Half a decade or so ago, the electric guitar received a wellness check. As sales plummeted and legacy manufacturers slogged through financial straits, concerned parties blamed the popularity of pop, hip-hop, and electronic music, genres more often built from synthesizers and drum machines. Even Paul McCartney chimed in, telling The Washington Post in 2017 that young people lacked “guitar heroes.”

It’s safe to say that the four members of Feeble Little Horse, most of whom were still in high school at that point, were not tuned into this conversation. The Pittsburgh noise-pop band’s second record, Girl With Fish, speaks to the idea that a younger generation of musicians would recognize the confluence of guitar music and digital sounds as a doorway rather than a death knell. It’s a familiar story, but Feeble Little Horse’s wall of influences—textured shoegaze guitars, exacting pop hooks, idiosyncratic production flourishes—has been wheat-pasted with such vim that it feels fresh and, just as importantly, emotionally resonant.

Feeble Little Horse began as a collaboration between guitarists Ryan Walchonski and Sebastian Kinsler while both were students at the University of Pittsburgh. Jake Kelley joined on drums for 2021’s ModernTourism The EP and Lydia Slocum rounded out the band later that year, signing on as a bassist and lyricist during the hasty recording sessions for the band’s full-length debut, Hayday. Built around sticky melodies and samples both homemade and borrowed—though many of these have since been removed for copyright reasons—the record gleefully jumped from idea to idea.

Hayday‘s nimble shapeshifting was prompted in part by a shrinking window of opportunity: With graduation day looming for some of its members, the band imagined there wouldn’t be another chance. But instead of becoming a brief blip in the annals of equine rock, Feeble Little Horse acquired word-of-mouth buzz that encouraged them to stick together. (A deal with Saddle Creek, home to experimentally ambitious contemporaries like Palm and Spirit of the Beehive, couldn’t have hurt either.) Girl With Fish solidifies the notion that Feeble Little Horse’s creative alchemy, born in college dorm rooms and nurtured at DIY basement shows, is a deserving force of further exploration. Remotely self-recorded and produced across various Pittsburgh apartments, its 11 songs are oddball bursts of imagination, whimsy, and discord.

The early minutes of Girl With Fish work overtime to establish the band’s flair for fuzzy pop hooks. The spiky adrenaline of “Tin Man” is especially satisfying, a poetic takedown of emotionally impaired manipulators driven by Kelley’s metallic percussion and a freaky little riff. “I gotta go ’cause you flash sadness,” Slocum sings, a guttural “huh” punctuating the breath between verses. “I found you all rusted and leaky/Took him apart and I found nobody.” The tight opening gallop spotlights the lyrics, abstract fragments from which the band launches equally beguiling arrangements. One of her most delicious lines arrives early on “Freak,” a fuzzy appeal to a crush’s physique: “How can you be satisfied/She’s 5’1″ and you’re 6’5″.”

May 8, 2023

Random music news for Saturday, April 29, 2023

If you don’t have enough to worry about this weekend, read this. Believe what you will. All of music news for April 29, 2023, is real, though.

Here are 82 million reasons to keep AM radio in cars.
It’s hard to believe that American radio still doesn’t pay artists for airplay. Pretty much every other country in the world does. (They pay the composers but not the artists.)
And one more: The Radiodays confab is part of Canadian Music Week. Radiodays runs June 8-9 and deals with everything from radio to audio to podcasts. A preview here.
Classic Albums Live is celebrating a big anniversary.
Rivers Cuomo of Weezer wants to write a musical and he needs your help.
In case you had your hopes up, Noel Gallagher says there won’t be an Oasis tour next year.
Besides, Noel’s still bitter about Friends ruining music sales. Wait–what?
Ex-Fugees rapper Pras Michael has been found guilty in some kind of influence scheme involving the Chinese government.
Well, that was…odd.
CD sales are hot at these London, Ontario, record shops. Here’s why.
Another biopic for Little Richard.
Alien radio signals. Probably.
This band’s challenge to AI: Can AI do a better job of re-recording of one of the group’s previous albums? Sounds like an ol’ John Henry vs. steam shovel battle. Who wins? Humans or machines? You are the judge.
How about pop hits covered in the style of Donald Duck? You’re welcome.
Kenny G’s house is for sale in Studio City CA. Just US$7.5 million.
Meanwhile, this Drake pile is going for US$62 million.
Drummer Carl Palmer is recovering from heart surgery.
No thanks. Is there really any use case for these headphones? (Rick J)
I had no idea that the Chainsmokers were into high finance.

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BONUS: Everything about this pizza commercial came from AI. It’s got a way to go.

Definitely wasted 3 hours of my life making this today… Everything is AI from the VO to the video and images. Assembled in After Effects. More info below. pic.twitter.com/CXv6gWM8gj

— Pizza Later (@Pizza_Later) April 24, 2023

April 18, 2023

Mayhem Singles Round Up Part 4 2023

I think it’s time for another Mayhem singles round-up, don’t you? Here coming the fourth for 2023, it includes a baker’s dozen of tunes that have been passed on to me or recommended during the previous few weeks and months, there are some rather spiffing tracks.

It features many artists and bands that have appeared on Mayhem’s pages before. There are also four great cover versions in this collection. There are new tracks from Avalanche Party, Apollo Junction, Vaquelin and Liz Davinci who I think all have new albums coming out sometime this year. Judging from their latest offerings, choosing Mayhem’s album of the year for 2023 will be very difficult! Let me know what you think of this great collection of tunes!

You will find a YouTube link to each song in the title (or a link to the audio of the track) and a link to the artist’s website or one of their social media pages when you click the artist’s name. You can also find the link to a Spotify playlist of all these songs by clicking here.

“Serious Dance Music” – Avalanche Party

Ain’t no party like an Avalanche Party and the AP boys are back with what is most definitely a tune for partying to. You probably wouldn’t play this at a work event! I sense an Amazing Snakeheads influence in this fast-paced, frenzied, frenetic, funky, feral, fest of a song. The band all seem to be in top form, especially Kane’s drumming. This is the first single from their upcoming sophomore album, ‘Der Traum Über Alles’. The video is very classy indeed.

“History” – Apollo Junction

The Apollo Junction boys are back with another offering that will feature on their third album, due out later this year. For the first minute, it is soft, acoustic, mellow and pensive. Then the sound continues to build with an almost drone-like guitar sound underpinning it. It finally builds to an immense orchestral-sounding, epic finish. The harmonies are superb and I can imagine this sound echoing across festival fields for years to come. Possibly my favorite Apollo Junction song so far.

“The Grayston Boogie” – Hazy Janes

This is a fine slab of fuzzy, dirty, electric blues. If you are not doing the Grayston Boogie by the end of the track then you should frankly seek medical help. The video has a few fleeting tips as to how to boogie in a Grayston way!

“Back To Black” – The Palava

A brave choice to cover this one. No one could ever hope to emulate the original Amy Winehouse, so the Palava chose to take the song in a different direction. An immaculate blues rock vocal and some gritty, scuzzy garage rock style guitars. I have seen the band play this live and they do it well, but this recording is so much better than that! I bloody love it!

“FKN H8 U 2” – Sad Like You

This bunch is from Adelaide, Australia and this track is reminiscent of the softer side of Blink 182. It is a close-to-perfect amalgam of great pop punk and emo. A heartfelt tale of heartbreak. I am looking forward to hearing more from Sad Like You.

“Pain Reliever” – Liz Davinci

Is Liz Davinci descended from Leonardo? I don’t know, but she is certainly an incredibly talented artist. Vocally there are elements of Kate Bush, Suzanne Vega, and Marcella Detroit here. This tune is beautiful and almost baroque in its construction. I love the way that Liz is not afraid to use the space between the notes. This augers well for her forthcoming album ‘Fata Morgana’.

“Five Years” – Easy All Stars/ Steel Pulse

This is the second cover in this singles selection (there will be more) and it does what I think makes a perfect cover in that it isn’t a simple facsimile of the original. This is the first track to be released from the Easy All Stars forthcoming album of a reggae reimagining of Bowie’s ‘The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars’ album. This one works perfectly and bodes well for the album. The Dame’s rarely touched reggae, and when he did it was never particularly good in my opinion. But Easy All Stars with Steel Pulse show with absolute certainty that Bowie can work in a reggae style.

“Feelin’ Good” – The Black Skies Ft. Hellbound Glory

We have another cover in the singles round up. This time it was a smoky, heavy, swampy, garage rock version on Nina Simone’s iconic classic “Feelin’ Good”. For me this version takes back ownership of the song from Muse after Matt Bellamy’s somewhat histrionic and over-the-top take on the tune from a few years ago.

“Tell Me With Your Eyes” – Witch Of The East

Witch Of The East returns with a fabulous new song. This is punk, post punk, electro, dance with a goth icing and a pinch of New Order. Based on this, if there is another Witch Of The East album in development it will be bloody wonderful.

“Back-Alley Barn Dance” – I Tell Lies

Get into this band now, then when they break big you can impress your friends by saying you were there at the start. This song is full on rock with large shots of Yard Act and Sleaford Mods and a shady undercurrent of mounting anger. Go see them live as soon as you can!

“Wicked Game” – JW Paris

Gemma, Danny and Aaron returned with a stonking cover of Chris Isaak’s “Wicked Game”. It feels like the Velvet Underground made the song originally back in the 60s and then Isaak covered it in 1989. OK, I know that isn’t true, right? This must be top of the list to be on the Twin Peaks soundtrack if there is ever another remake, prequel or sequel. I love that in the blurb to the video on YouTube the band state “Dear lovers, snoggers and nighttime doggers. We’ve recorded a cover of one of our favorites in light of the smoochin’ season” that cracked me up, well the nighttime doggers bit anyway!

“The Bona Fide Money Laundering Society” – Vaquelin

Another banging tune from Vaquelin, it kicks off like Led Zeppelin on Quaaludes and the vocals are classic 70s rock style with a dash of Bowie’s Tin Machine Style. The screaming lead guitar, particularly in the last part of the track is something Mick Ronson would be proud of. The second album from Vaquelin looks like it will be better than the first based on this tune!

“Greed” – The Undercover Hippy

The Undercover Hippy is an expert at protest tunes, because it’s done in a very clever and subtle way. The reggae backing has shades of another great band, Captain Ska. This song questions the greed and or incompetence of our less than industrial leaders. We need more artists like this calling out the scummy liars in government.

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