Of the top 5 songs, 4 are anti-man and one was released in 1992. I don’t REALLY care except they are awful songs except for the one released in 1992. I hope Katy isn’t gonna go all Adele on us after her dreamboat turned out to be a footnote.
Two old timers chart, one deservedly. A death. And the rest is the Grammy’s afterglow. The Civil Wars are as much folk as country and one of the most tasteful albums from 2011. That was tasteful, not tasty
In anticipation of seeing her tomorrow, I went back to vintage Bjork. Better than the Sugarcubes. Better than her swan at the Oscars. Definitely better than the Bjork I’m gonna see tomorrow, this is a near perfect art-pop moment. She was great on stage as well.
Here you goMHOW = promise
Bowery Ballroom = Shadow
good humor, smarky lyric and a sense of community will get over better than harangueing every time. And a song you wanna singalong to will enlist more people than a stomping snarl. Especially if the snarl sucks.
Clinton? Baby boomer. You can’t imagine him quoting Jay-Z. And while it is true that Clinton could actually blow the sa, he never had the cool of Obama. Obama is a hip hop president. Nixon, Reagan, Senior? Dubya was a lonesome cowboy who never got much further along than Toby Keith.
Look, the Bech Boys are NOT Bon Jovi. When you paid a coupla grand to meet Bon Jovi, you got stuck with their roadie. I am assuming you will get Al Jardine at the very least! Plus, cmon, it’s the Beach Boys.
this is a remix of a song that hardly thrilled on the album and absolutely fails to shock here. Grade: B-
it is bereft of guest star turns and I am okay with that, though I am waiting for the day Tyler and Kanye colloborate, It should be mind bennding.
The magic of the blues, certainly the magic of the blues the way Johnson played it, was its intimate timelessness. Johnson met the devil on the crossroad and then he went back to Chicago, and ever since then we’ve made that trip with him.
Really? We want to screw over George Clinton? To What end? Jigga and Jeezy owe him a fortune, why don’t the cheap bastards give him the 50K. This is infuriating. How can Clinton not raise a lousy 50K? After his music has been used for decades.
I think I’m gonna go for MHOW. I know what you’re gonna say, but sightlines aren’t great at BB and if you arrive early enough and walk up a small flight of steps to the side, the sightlines are awesome at MWOH. Plus, yeah it is further away but
Poses is one of the best albums since… ever. As gay albums go, it transcends its bent with ease and flies at you. Do you know it? Play “Greek Song” and listen for the violins and wait for the pay off, “When I get back I will read in Barnes And Nobles…”
At the end of the movie there is a picture of the real couple. Not only in the real couple much better looking than these Hollywood puppets, but they make sense of the entire movie as they smile with their two kids. You understand instinctively how the man won his wife back
the entire act was a series of distractions. When I saw David Cassidy at BB King’s he at least attempted to come to terms with his past, Davy completely ignored it. C’mon, he is one of the greatest stars of the 1960s. Why does he act as though he is a has been comic?
I like this band a lot but there is at least one reason they don’t break pop and that’s because they don’t write pop. The song breaks here are constantly disrupting the flow of the song: it’s like they’re attentionally perpendicular.
In person, he looks like Clark Kent’s kid brother, thin, gangly, awful young. It is 3pm and the light from the street makes the least mysterious of venues homey, and Eric in a jeans and a shirt is so casual we might well be in his living room. This is a problem but it is not a deadly problem. Eric must realize the incongruity so he shrugs it off
Whitney is incredible. Her eyes are slits, as though she is Asian, except they seem to be so narrow because her cheeks are puffy and it gives her a dreamy, sexy, just out of bed and ready to get back in post-coital glow for much of the movie
If B was keeping to his child of Babyface, r&b sound and not looking for Usher or ever Songz for production simulation, his 7th album would be a better thing. The sons are often pretty good, but the production is average hip hop and they are weighted down by dance jams. “Amnesia” is great. Grade: B
It’s a really cool new romance and they get along perfectly.They’re really good together. Everybody thinks it’s awesome. Both of them are so talented. It’s a great Los Angeles romance for her now that she hasn’t been in London.”
A new Cursive album is always a pleasure and Sleigh Bells “Comeback Kid” plus terrofoc SNL performance makes them of special interestBut do Fun have more than one song in em??? Should be an interesting week,
O’Connor’s canon deserves serious study, on album after album is spotted dark and lovely songs like this one. The acoustic Dublin version is the keeper though the London session is nearly its equal. Sinead takes Song Of Solomn 1: 5 and builds a romantic meditation around it -completelly timeless
How great is Sinead O’Connor live? So great, I once saw Van Morrison have problems following her on Randall’s Island. She is so great, I once saw her play one homage to Jah after another at the Beacon and still kill. Sinead is at the Highline on Friday and is as close to a must see as is possible
You don’t know much of this? You aren’t missing much, from MOR dross like Rebecca to AOR blues bore Emili, run and hide because the UK has lost its cool completely.
DJ Fresh is a clever little dub stepper, I haven’t heard this song yet but if his Kruptonite is anything to go buy, he’s a pretty excellent beats guy. Otherwise, Will I Am? That song is the pits.
The thing with Davy is he is truly a song and dance man, coming from English Dancehall (and a horse jokey!), by the age of 16 he was on Broadway singing this song and vying for a Tony. That is one reason his live shows are so bizarre, the Monkees were the anomalies.
Yes, rock nyc readers, you owe me BIG TIME for this one. I have two presale codes for the eagerly, and I mean EAGERLY awaited Beach Boys 50th Anniversary gigs at the Beacon Theater.
there is something so needy about Grohl. He keeps bending over backwards to prove he’s a regular guy when he isn’t. And all his albums are nothing much. Including, Wasting Light, which I am listening to now
Precursor to Destiney’s Child, not to mention TLC, this three piece covered Curtis Mayfield’s masterpiece and turned it into a three piece harmony sugar rush.A joy from a very good band.
Aretha Franklin’s brilliant performance last night at Radio City Music Hall has left the queen Of Soul too ill to perform at Whitney’s funeral, gong even as I write.
Music, religion, grieving, more music, transcendence, hope, memory, faith, soul . Some people need to mourn in private, Aretha had said. Some people ned to mourn with people. She needed to mourn with people.
Sinead is a biggie (I’m going to see her at Highline next week), Cursive is a biggie, Magnetic Fiels, Bruce, XIu XIu, Ceu we haven’t heard from in a couple of years
All of these creeps and I mean they are creeps, all right? Celebrated and its wink, wink, oh, let’s party, let’s get high. There is nobody in the media saying you know what? This could lead to death and if it doesn’t lead to death, 75 percent of all child abuse and neglect is done by substance abusers
Rufus Wainwright – From his most New York City, not to mention his best, album, Rufus peers across to the other side of the country and overhwlemed with choice… decides to stay in bed. Classic.
Miley is gonna come back with a bang, maybe she will be a cool Kelly Clarkson who actually likes sex or a Miranda Lambert who won’t bitch us out all the time. But she will do it, she will be good. Maybe dance wasn’t quite a perfect fit, country rock would be.
new releases by Van Halen, the Fall, Fucked Up and Heartless Bastards, Screaming Females, Cloud Nothings might not be enough to say 2012 is gonna be a better year than 2011 in the long run, it is definitely enough to say IT MAY WELL BE A BETTER YEAR FOR ROCK AND ROLL IN THE LONG RUN!.
‘You know, I think Santorum has some presidential qualities, and I’m hoping that if it does come down to it, we’ll see a Republican in the White House… and that it’s Rick Santorum.’
She wrapped up the seven minute tribute with, “Pray for her family, for her mother. She was a daughter, a wife, a Christian, a singer and a dear family friend.”
That Fun. song has the best verse and the worst chorus in the world. With the Superbowl behnd her, Madonna still bearly got in the top ten. And I wonder how well the album does once every one hears it.
I give up, I am growing to seriously love the Van Halen album. 19 made it into the top ten??? That Whitney is the one that had the fast side/slow side when it was released on CD and is simply the best way to listen to her right now
A weirdo blues guy releases a pretty good album and this is my pick of a letter. He sounds like a new Van Morrisson, singing between a flute -no, really, and stretching out a strong lick to the breaking point.
He already admitted earlier this year that he plans to take Blur on a US tour. It would certainly make sense, right? He already did the UK and Blur had one huge hit here (you can hear it at Sports Stadiums to this day: “Song 2”) and even if they didn’t were a big big cult band here
In the Gospel, Matthew 6:3, wuotes Jesus as saying that when it comes to helping the needy dib’t let the left hand know what the right hand is doing. It is in nature of true charity that it remains anonymous.
Movies, coffee, storefronts, production, hangovers and more: Oh to be James Murphy in his 40s.
“Sony heads have issued a statement insisting the albums were “mistakenly mispriced” and they “immediately corrected” the error once it had been discovered”
Tickets go on sale through Ticketmaster on Tuesday at 10am and I haven’t heard of any presales, though I think there was a Citicard presale for their Boston gig.
The guy should have broken indie by now: he is a one man Morrissey with a bit more range and just as much strangeness. But the good news is we of the plethora get to catch him in the confines of the tiny Rockwood Music Hall (don’t know if it’s I or II) this Saturday at 3pm.
Rat Scabies and Brian James, will be playing , from one end to another, the first UK Punk album ever, Damned Damned Damned, at, get this, at,, get this, “The Hog And Hosper Pub”. And what county is this strange and wonderful pub? Ponty Pool, South Wales.
A helluva long preamble to get to the heart of the matter, Babs and Armstrong’s love fest. It all sounds just wonderful -if you watch the movie, that minute makes it worth your while. Barbra sounds genuinely pleased to be singing with her equal, almost giggling. And wait till you hear how Armstrong scats on lap!
Subway Sect, formed in 1976, was one of the original bands , and even at that were never quite three chord wonders. Listen to “Ambition” and what you will hear is a keyboard driven post-punk art rock.
