Allison Iraheta Gives Us “One More Reason” To Love Her With Bonus Track
Allison Iraheta is on her way to becoming one of the more successful fourth-place finishers of American Idol. Of course, it will take a lot (and we mean a lot) of album sales to stack up against Season 5’s Top 4 finalist Chris Daughtry. But from what we’ve heard on Allison’s debut album Just Like You, we wouldn’t rule out the possibility of the Magenta-haired, raspy-voiced teen taking over the pop charts. “One More Reason,” a bonus track on the Japanese edition of Just Like You, is more proof of this girl’s potential to be the next Kelly Clarkson (not that the old Kelly Clarkson is going anywhere). Listen to it below.
Allison Iraheta – “One More Reason”
Fun, catchy and perfect for a young talent like Allison, we’re not sure why this didn’t make the final cut of Just Like You, though it could be that it sounds much more bubblegum pop than the rest of Iraheta’s rock-heavy LP. Regardless, we think all of the Idol alum’s fans—and this one in particular—will dig any sort of song she generously drops into our laps.
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The Big Pink meets A Place to Bury Strangers, in possibly the loudest blog post ever
Anyone looking to make a quick buck would do well to buy a trash bag of earplugs and hock them at huge markups in Mid-City tonight. Londoners The Big Pink and New York's A Place to Bury Strangers, two exciting and pulverizingly loud rock bands, will kick off a fiendishly curated co-headlining tour at the El Rey Theatre tonight.
But on the bands' latest albums — "A Brief History of Love" and "Exploding Head," respectively — there are real streaks of romance, misanthropy and grandeur beneath the brutality. To steel our poor little eardrums for the occasion, we got frontmen Robbie Furze of the Big Pink and Oliver Ackermann of A Place to Bury Strangers on the phone together to talk about the pleasures of kicking the bejesus out of your reverb unit, Alan Moulder's black magic behind a mixing desk and how to cut through the chaos to make a song break your skull — and heart — alike.
You both put out really dense, sonically involved records last year. What strategies do you use to re-create them live?
Ackermann: I take it with a completely different approach. In a live atmosphere, you can do completely different things, depending on the space. We try to create as much chaos as possible, and you can play around with so many things to do that.
Furze: For us, live, it's far more aggressive than on the record. All the samples get effected again through an effect chain; I use a lot more pedals live than on record. There's just a lot more going on.
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Eric Church, Josh Thompson Spend a Little Tulsa Time
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Eric Church and Josh Thompson took the Jagermeister Country tour to the legendary Cain’s Ballroom in Tulsa, Okla. Sunday night (March 7), serving up a show that proves country rocks.
Eric, sporting a ballcap and sunglasses, kicked his set off with the rowdy ‘Ain’t Killed Me Yet,’ followed by his humorous song about an unplanned pregnancy, ‘Two Pink Lines.’
“I have waited a long time to say this: Welcome to the Jagermeister Country Tour, Tulsa, Oklahoma!” the North Carolina native announced, as the screaming audience raised fists (and beer bottles!). “We’re here to kick your ass, so you better give it all you’ve got!”
