Helen Bach

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Arctic Monkeys "R U Mine?" Reviewed

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“R U Mine?” brings us back to the old Monkeys sound, with a tougher almost rock God guitar sound. Its a nice evolutionary sound. Merging the vocals that got fans hooked in the first place with music that sounds more full and more mature.

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Black Stone Cherry, ‘In My Blood’ Reviewed

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Their latest video “In My Blood”, is the rockers lament of how tough it is to be away from loved ones when you’re on the road. I am seeing this as a possible huge hit for the old time rock and rollers. Generic guitar rock with a nice shout out chorus

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rock nyc Wild In The Streets, Rebellion Lives

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So maybe I was wrong on my earlier rant regarding what you would do for rock and roll. Maybe its my mature age that makes me think these type of things dotn still happen. Yes, we can buy time with our heroes but if your 17 without a job or cash, you do it old school style

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Nick Lowe Hits The States

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After touring with Wilco, you’d think Nick Lowe would take to the easy chair. That cool cat is doing just the opposite. He is repacking and coming back to the States for a brief spring tour.

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Runaway Reunion?

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“I’ve had this reoccurring dream. It started about 25 years ago and in this dream I was sitting with a woman I had spent my teenaged years with, been through a lot with.”

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Sergio Mendes Loses To Muppets At The Oscars

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the Oscar for Best Original Song went to…’Man or Muppet’ from The Muppets movie. Pretty much the best news from the Oscars. If you recall we were so excited to see the film and although it was not an epic success it had just enough retro cuteness to win me over

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Ed Sheeran "Wonderwall" Acoustic, Reviewed

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A rock tune stripped down acoustic. Although, I do feel he sounds alot like Tracy Chapman in the ‘Fast Cars’ era, I can not dispute that this man has a great voice. I think its the interpretation and pauses in the lyric that take a rather overdone tune and totally revamp it.

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Marina And The Diamonds "Homewrecker" Reviewed

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It has that 80’s sort of thump, which could be why I appreciate it. A touch of nostalgia is never a bad thing. A female vocal must always be distinct and run a very fine line between tough and trash, girly and saccharine. This song is just that and it really is well done

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Ian Anderson on Rockline March 28th

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As we baby-boomers look back on our own lives, we must often feel an occasional ‘what-if’ moment. Might we, like Gerald, have become instead preacher, soldier, down-and-out, shopkeeper or finance tycoon?”

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Television Lite Week of February 27-March 4

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This weeks musical guest on Saturday Night Live is none other than Jack White. This has great potential and I’m hopeful it will live up to my expectation. With host Lindsey Lohan we can only hope the writers show no mercy and make this the best episode of the season.

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Glamour Kills Sampler, Free Download

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So a spring anything seems odd. What is more odd is that Glamour Kills has offered up a really really good freebie. Figure if you’re going to spend $70.00 on a hoodie with a flying pig some free tunes would be a nice gesture.

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Chunk! No Captain Chunk!

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I’m excited to announce that www.rocknycliveandrecorded.com will be speaking with the band this Saturday February 25, when they open for Attack! Attack! in Danbury CT. Someone should really rename this the exclamation mark tour.

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Russell Crowe In 'Les Misérables', The Movie

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Crowe will be portraying Inspector Javert in the latest version of the Victor Hugo classic. Who cares, right? There has been a million adaptations of this thing- it’s as if we have all lived it already. This film has an somewhat interesting twist though- it’s music

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Crashing The After Party

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“I was driving at the time and already really low on sleep,” “We were only five miles away from where we were staying and I was starting to get really drowsy, but since we were so close I wanted to just finish the drive.

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No Spice for The Jubilee

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Is that legal? I mean if you’re a Brit and the Queen summons you, even if it’s a party, aren’t you supposed to go? “Too busy”? I think you can get hung or put in a dudgeon or something for things like that.

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Chris Martin, Snarky Winner

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Coldplay was named Best British Group at The Brit Awards in the UK and gave an interview about the award following the ceremony. In this interview, some rather snarky comments arose.

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The Kings Crown's Up For Auction

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Memphis dentist, Henry J. Weiss, was dentist to the King and has amassed a plethora of dental delights from his time inside Presleys mouth. Currently the molds of Elvis’ teeth and an actual crown are encased in glass in TN

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SKRILLEX "Bangarang" Video Reviewed

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The video is an epic adventure that the basic Fight Club or World of Warcraft geek is going to find ‘awesome’ and ‘amazing’ but that anyone who can get in to an R rated movie without an adult will find a bit cliche’. Been there, done that, took the Advil.

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Twisted Apprentice

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This season is disturbing. It contains Dee Snider, who even with a ponytails’ scares most people out of their wits. Yet similar to rocker Gene Simmons who appeared in a previous season, Snider is showing that there is a rather competent brain inside that fuzz.

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Caleb Followill Soon To Be A Dad

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Yup, that crazy King of Leon has just entered the magical third trimester with model wife Lily Alderidge. Considering this bands maniacal fans they’ll be knitting blankets from their own hair.

Music Festivals

Unheard No Matter How Hip You Are

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A Eurotrash hipster bamboozle where basically no one speaks English and everyone smokes. A great opportunity to hear things never heard and really be cutting edge The festival, which also takes place in the fall in Krakow, Poland

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Naked Adele? Songstress Suing French Publication

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Now hold up. If these were flattering- I say go with it Addie! So people think you’re a bit risque’, where’s the harm if the fake Adele has a better bod? All actors use body doubles and you can actually profit on it- perhaps with songs of sexy bump and grind beats? Just a thought

Music Festivals

Bonnaroo Ticket Sale Halt

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This years show, which features The Beach Boys, Phish, Bon Iver and The Red Hot Chili Peppers (among others) reportedly is causing the most buzz of any other years line up. It is also one of the most diverse if not brow furrowing line up I have seen in awhile

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Aretha Franklin's Spasms and Skips

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You have an army of handlers and you couldn’t have the courtesy to pop a pain pill and haul your ass into a wheelchair to show respect? That’s an atrocity. It is hard to look up to someone with such contradictory behavior. Or was there some deep dark secret that kept her away?

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Television Lite: February 20-26, 2012

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Television this week seems lighter than usual, not sure why. I also find it an odd mix. Nick Jonas on Fallon and Joe on Conan? Whats up with that? Die Antword are on to scare the crap out of yuo and Hearltess Bastards is an awesome name for a band if not an entire gang.

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Rihanna's Special Guest, Chris Brown

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Rihanna was probably already feeling guilty when she did not oppose the restraining order reduction last year, something typical of battered woman, and this was a bad sign. But she should be aware that this new move will not be taken well by the audience

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Chris Cornell "I Will Always Love You", Reviewed

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There isn’t a positive thing to say about it. It’s so bad its not even funny. I suggest you put down the bottle of Jack. Find some reality television show to permeate or hmmm how about actually recording some new Soundgarden instead of being an ego junkie?

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Dave Grohl's Grammys speech

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To me this award means a lot because it shows that the human element of music is what’s important. Singing into a microphone and learning toplay an instrument and learning to do your craft, that’s the most important thing for people to do.

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Fashionista Minaj-inista

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“I’m not impressed to be in that world. I’m in my own world. I think sometimes the fashion world isn’t even about clothes anymore; it’s about this “in” crowd, and I’m not into that,”

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Monkeys touching Paul Wellers New Junk

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‘There was an inference that I was going through a mid-life crises’ Paul says ‘Which I found really amusing: the clichéd notion of it. And that was the impetus for (the song) even though it isn’t really about that.

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GARBAGE ALERT!

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The art, well it is generic and nothing really noteworthy. What is noteworthy is that the band sounds fantastic and Manson is a Goddess. Think of how long six years is in the scheme of things. This could very well have been a flop- music can sound so dated and cliché’.

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Born This Way Foundation To Launch In Boston

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In partnership with John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation, The California Endowment and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University to launch the foundation. This is a great thing considering how much cred can any organization have when led soley by a caricature?

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Stoning The Olympics

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“We’ve got more meetings, everyone wants to do it. I’ve been asked to do the opening ceremony with the Stones and close the games with The Faces,’ he told British newspaper The Sun.

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