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Shit! Apparently RollingStone thinks so.

Was overcome tonight by a sudden urge to listen to Frente!. After some searching about on Bearshare, bitTorrent, Napster and AOL, I was saddened to learn that group disbanded in 1996 (okay, I’m not exactly a hard core fan).

But what of Frente’s talented vocalist, Angie Hart? Marvin the Album seemed to offer a glimpse of their potential, and in no small part due to their lead singer’s ethereal voice.

Sure enough, Ms. Hart has her own site which includes a surprisingly personal blog. Perusing through it reminded me of Jefferson’s days in Los Angeles, working office jobs to pay rent and to eat while constantly relying upon some inner resevoir of strength and hope: I’m gonna make it someday and they’re going to love me.

Rockers upstage Mariah and Kanye at forty-eighth annual awards show

U2 upstaged major nominees Mariah Carey and Kanye West last night at the forty-eighth annual Grammy Awards, winning five awards, including Song and Album of the Year.

“If you think this is gonna go to our head — too late,” joked the band’s singer Bono after accepting the award for Song of the Year for “Sometimes You Can’t Make It on Your Own.” Both the song and the album, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, Bono said, were dedicated to his late father, whom he thanked “for giving me the voice and a bit of attitude to use it.” The band also won awards for Best Rock Song, Best Rock Album and Rock Performance by a Duo or Group, and colleague Steve Lillywhite was honored as Producer of the Year. Read the rest of this entry »

The Killers have been nominated for three 2005 Grammy Awards:

Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group – “All These Things That I’ve Done”
Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group w/ vocal – “Mr. Brightside”
Best Remixed Recording (Jacques Lu Cont) – “Mr. Brightside (Jacques Lu Cont’s Thin White Duke Remix)”

This is the second year in a row the band has been recognized by the industry. Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group and Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group are two of the biggest categories at the awards ceremony, and they are nominated in one category [Best Pop Performance] against their heroes, U2. We congratulate the band, and also Jacques Lu Cont for his fantastic remix of “Mr. Brightside”. The awards ceremony will be held in Los Angeles on February 8, 2006.

The concerns: troubled relationships, self-worth and identity. After struggling for years with issues of social responsibility and conscience…the new songs deal with disappointment and deceit — how love, yes, can take you higher and also tear you apart.

ONE

Is it getting better, or do you feel the same?
Will it make it easier on you, now you got someone to blame?
You say one love, one life, when it’s one need in the night.
One love, we get to share it
Leaves you baby if you don’t care for it.

Did I disappoint you or leave a bad taste in your mouth?
You act like you never had love and you want me to go without.
Well, it’s too late tonight to drag the past out into the light.
We’re one, but we’re not the same.
We get to carry each other, carry each other… one

Have you come here for forgiveness,
Have you come to raise the dead
Have you come here to play Jesus to the lepers in your head
Did I ask too much, more than a lot
You gave me nothing, now it’s all I got.
We’re one, but we’re not the same.
Well, we hurt each other, then we do it again.

You say love is a temple, love a higher law
Love is a temple, love the higher law.
You ask me to enter, but then you make me crawl
And I can’t be holding on to what you got, when all you got is hurt.

One love, one blood, one life, you got to do what you should.
One life with each other: sisters, brothers.
One life, but we’re not the same.
We get to carry each other, carry each other.
One, one.