Alyson Camus

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Notorious B.I.G. Has Been Denied A Street Name In Brooklyn

He started selling drugs at 12, he was a school dropout at 17, he was arrested for drugs and weapons charge, he was arrested for parole violations, he was arrested in North Carolina for crack cocaine, in 1996 he was again arrested for assault, he had a violent death and physically the man is not exactly a role model for youth.’

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Gary Numan At Amoeba, Wednesday October 16th 2013

But first of all, Numan looked super elegant with his white shirt and sleeveless suit vest, he had his usual black raven hair and a passion in his delivery. Surrounded by four musicians and no less than two synths, the beats were violent, the tempo aggressive and the delivery both sensual and cold.

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W. T. Schultz's Signing At Skylight Books, Saturday October 12th 2013

I pointed out I have talked to people who don’t believe it was a suicide! He seemed to be more and more pissed off, probably already regretting to have come to LA to argue with this crazy woman… What can I say, you can’t sell me stabbing in the chest as a current form of suicide, and Schultz was particularly mad at me because I wasn’t impressed by his Scheinin interview.

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Miley Cyrus Wins A Bet And Gets A $10,000 Toilet

anyway hasn’t Sinead O’Connor written one hundred open letters to straight this girl up? Four letters actually, but it seems like one hundred because I must have read about this sooooo many times I have lost count. Then the worst happened when the omnipresent and always-opinionated Amanda Palmer wrote to Sinead in defense of Miley

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Conor Oberst At Way Over Yonder Festival, Sunday October 6th 2013

Jay Sweet, the organizer of the Newport Folk Festival, who has decided to bring the West Coast version of the festival on the Santa Monica Pier because ‘it’s an iconic place that’s not a traditional music venue’, had warned Conor, ‘no rock songs, only folk ones!’ Conor certainly followed the rules, and played lots of his most touching tunes

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Kim Fowley Signing At La Luz De Jesus, Saturday October 5th 2013

Listening to him and his non-stop flow of words, you could have imagined this guy doing about anything, touching elbows with the greatest but staying weird enough to be at the edge of mainstream culture. He looked like a cross between John Waters and Kenneth Anger, this kind of iconoclastic and colorful character who rarely exists anymore these days

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A Family Member Speaks About Schultz's 'Torment Saint'

As ‘Torment Saint’ continues to receive rave reviews and to be quoted everywhere as if it was the bible bringing new revelations, I continued to dig into it and find inconsistencies, discrepancies with previous reports. Of course, this is based on what I know about the case, and most people don’t pay attention to important details, which makes Schultz successful in his demonstration toward suicide

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Why People Should Totally Shut Up At Fiona Apple's Concerts

I have never seen someone like Fiona Apple, on stage, she is a fragile and vulnerable person giving fierce performances and her songwriting is brilliant, pure and so authentic she makes me cry each time. After all that has been said about her physical appearance, she demonstrates a tremendous courage to show up on stage

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Yo La Tengo's New Song + Vinyl Dolls + DVD Set

Honestly, I have a hard time recognizing Ira, Georgia and James, but if you’re familiar with Woodring’s work you shouldn’t be surprised. The short animation coming with the dolls, curiously doesn’t feature any music and I am just wondering why on earth someone would want to buy these crazy creatures,

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Thom Yorke: Spotify Is The Last Desperate Fart Of A Dying Corpse

But it’s all about how we change the way we listen to music, it’s all about what happens next in terms of technology, in terms of how people talk to each other about music, and a lot of it could be really fucking bad. I don’t subscribe to the whole thing that a lot of people do within the music industry

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The Most Expensive Band T-Shirts In The World… Are People Insane?

Secretly acquired? What is this, the t-shirt mafia? I don’t want to give people bad ideas, but all these designs can be easily ‘stolen’ from the site and reproduced with a simple transfer, I have made cool t-shirts to myself using $5 plain white t-shirts! The DIY way, because honestly, there is nothing punk about a $1,000 Sex Pistols shirt.

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Dolphins Love Radiohead Says Las Vegas Yoga Instructor

Okay, so does it mean that Radiohead’s music sends more vibrations than other types of music? May be, but Willow exposed them to other bands such as Sigur Ros, Earth Rise Sound System, Andrew Bird, Inspired Flight, The Beatles, Pink Floyd and MC Yogi, and she noticed they also liked The Beatles and Pink Floyd,… ha these animals are so classy!

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Sky Ferreira: 'I Know For A Fact I'm Not A Drug Addict'

So… does she need help or not? I am not the kind of person to make fun of people taking drugs, that’s ridiculous, addiction is a serious habit that can kill you, but it’s hard to believe she and her boyfriend aren’t on drugs when they were caught with so much smack in their possession!

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Arctic Monkeys At The Wiltern Theater, Sunday September 29th 2013 Reviewed

One thing is sure, these guys were cool and not the type to give a lecture on how people should enjoy their live moment and leave their phones alone for an hour or two,… I guess I had never seen so many iPhones raised at the same time than during the great elastic-bluesy guitar noise of ‘Don’t Sit Down ‘Cause I’ve Moved Your Chair’ or their hit ‘I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor’,… the whole concert must have been entirely recorded bit by bit, with this constantly-erected electronic forest

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Fall Out Boy And Ryan Adams have Some ‘Love, Sex, Death’ For ‘Pax Am Days’,

As the song is blasting through my speakers, I can tell you this is not a joke, this is a furious tune with a hardcore spirit – more in the vocals than in the music – and a fast rock n’ roll pit-moshing number. It’s short and fast like a bullet (or a Black Flag song), with several aggressive punches in the stomach and some fun madness

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Not With The Band: On 'Torment Saint' And Bullshit Detection

Neil Postman wrote that, when asked about the quality needed to be a good writer, Ernest Hemingway declared, ‘Yes, a built-in, shock-proof, crap detector’, and it seems that too many forget about this. And this applies to readers too, readers should be able to detect crap/bullshit too! Postman was citing pomposity, fanaticism, inanity, superstition (I would say belief) as major role players in bullshit non-detection

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If You Haven't Had Enough Of Arcade Fire Already, Here Is Their Special

Some of the cameos were odd, the humor quite bizarre, except Zach Galifianakis screaming ‘you don’t need three drummers’ which was actually funny… but I could have go without it! The special was directed by Roman Coppola and apparently even Ben Stiller and Bono Showed up? Jeeez! Bowie, Bono, is there someone the Montreal band can’t get?

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Eurythmics' Dave Stewart: Artists Should Worship Spotify

his income from music has gone down by 92% in the past decade! And isn’t Spotify partly responsible of this? I really don’t get his reasoning. Just suppose his calculation was correct, how could Spotify possibly grow this much during his lifetime, it’s totally unrealistic.

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Rest In Peace My Friend Abigail Russell 1979-2013

I met Abigail Russell about a year ago, she had contacted me through Facebook after reading a few of my posts about Elliott Smith. We exchanged numbers and even met at a coffee shop, Abigail had a lot to tell me, she had been in rehab with Elliott, had met him quite a few times and was missing him greatly.

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Paul Simon Has A New Compilation Out Soon And An US Tour With Sting in 2014

But there’s a big difference with this new one as it will contain both Simon & Garfunkel recordings and solo hit singles and tracks from Paul Simon solo album catalog, a long career summed up in only 20 songs, in chronological order, from ‘The Sound of Silence’ to ‘Love and Hard Times’ off his last studio album ‘So Beautiful Or So What’.

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Late Night War Between Kanye West And Jimmy Kimmel

Kimmel mocking his fantastic and ever-expanding ego? The comedian got several answers from the rapper in the form of all-caps tweets. But the problem is that Kanye should have stayed quiet, very quiet, his arguments were those of a 10-year-old, his insults had the face of SpongeBob SquarePants and all he could say were things like ‘YOUR EX-GIRLFRIEND IS FUNNIER THAN YOU !’

Track Reviews

Starbucks Song Of the Week: 'Temple' By Kings Of Leon

It’s very listenable, you may even tap your foot but, at the end, it sounds like a million things you have heard before and you smell the formulaic song before reaching the middle of it. I haven’t spent any time listening to Kings of Leon, but I get the feeling this one sums them all. And oh boy, these repetitive lyrics are so lazy

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Flaming Lips Fans Fight To Restore Wayne Coyne's Instagram Account

The Internet is a free speech place right? Things like these should not happen and I wonder why these pictures were more offensive than anything you see around… So sign the petition and let’s restore psychedelia and all these alien vaginas! … Or may be it’s just another of Wayne’s clever publicity-tricks,

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Paul McCartney On The Jimmy Kimmel Live, Monday September 23rd 2013

The JKL crew was asking us to cheer up and applause every 15 minutes, it was for a TV show after all, and no one was complaining, that was the least these people could do. On stage, they were bringing a colorful small piano, whereas there was already a grand piano in the back, and soon Jimmy Kimmel and Paul McCartney were waving to us from the top of the El Capitan building

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