Direct Currents Upcoming Releases
I was sad she never improved upon “Untouchable Face”. Ani’s problem was her music ended up as a bluesy jam way too often. Still, I am looking forward to hearing what else she has up her sleeve
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MFT 12-16-11
the Marvelettes were the Supremes redux, and forever remembered for the Beatles cover of “Please, Mr. Postman”. But I am in the middle of their greatest hits vol 2, and give em a listen.
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Support Your Local KiLR: Hard Rock Group Launches Video Here At 2PM
Around 2pm this afternoon, rock nyc will be exclusively streaming KiLR’s first video “Crazzzy” as part of the always fun rock band’s attempt to get 100,000 clicks on youtube and thereby go viral
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Most Overrated Album Of 2011: Adele's "21"
Adele is the chick flick of singers: she is a Lifetimetime Movie, a broiling, bitter, broken, psychotic moaner. No wonder women love her. All the clingy, needy, demanding, bull men hate in women are manifested here
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Michael Buble Has Himself A Merry Little Christmas
On the same day it was released (along with Justin Bieber’s Under The Mistletoe, which it trounced) (and on Spotify, so so much for the Black Keys theories), his sales soared and soared and at the moment it has sold a mindblowing 1.54M copies
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Spotify And The Atomic Bomb
I pay $10 a month for Spotify and have it on my cell and two pcs. When I have suggested this to other people as the deal of the century they think I’m crazy. They don’t spend $10 a month on music, why would they pay $10 a month for a subscription to a streaming site
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US Top 10 Singles, Week Of December 24th, 2011
Though the album was a bit disappoint, T-Pain’s take on Lily Allen is a masterstroke, the sort of stroke you might expect from the man who sang a duet with Taylor Swift at the CMAs.
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US Top 10 Albums Week Of December 24th, 2011
not being on Spotify hasn’t helped the Black Keys, it certainly hasn’t hurt them much. Album at # 2, adding a second night to MSG, and, er a shave??
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MFT 12-16-12
Charlotte is such a Daddy’s girl, her Mom, Jane Birkin, is lost in the background somewhere. But if the vocal here isn’t a tribute to Birkin, what else explains the breathy desirability?
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Best Tracks 2011 #61 – #80
Firefly – Ed Sheeran – The girls love him because he is sensitive. This pretty song is very, very sensitive. This is the sorta sound that slips out of Owl City’s grasp
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rock nyc's Best Movie Of 2011: "Another Earth"
. Former LCD Soundsytemers Fall On Your Sword have written a nerve dangling, thought proving beauty of a score. All tech stuff except for a piano that comes in here and there.
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Bobby Womack To Release New Album
XL Records Richard Russell’s annoucement that he is co-producing Bobby Womack’s latest album with Damon Albarn is both tidings of great joy, because we are getting new Womack material, and whatever
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Beach Boys To Reunite At Grammys
a re-united Beach Boys will be appearing at the Grammy’s next year, just in time for their 50th Anniversary. I don’t know if this means Brian Wilson will rejoin his band for a tour
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Madonna Signs To Universal
her contract with Warner Brothers came to an end and Universal Music, who have been doing an awful good job of sticking it to WB this year (UMUS bought half of EMI from under WBs nose) , have signed her to a three year $3 Million contract.
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MFT 12-15-11
Chicago’s favorite sons are a rock nyc fave but not one of mine. The opening song off their latest track is a relation to grunge, at least in that it is all playing with pace and tone. The song is hard but not too hard, sorta teen rock.
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Jane Birkin At the Town Hall, Sunday, December 11th, 2011
In well cut black pants, a white tux, the androgynously beautiful Birkin looks every bit the living legend, leading her Japanese four piece quasi-jazz band through a treasure trove of Serge Gainsbourg songs and stories.
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Must See Concert: Shinobi Ninja At Gramercy Theater, December 18th, 2011
If seeing Shinobi isn’t enough to get you out of the house, how about this? Madina Lake are also on the bill. That did it, right? See you there.
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Why I'm Going To See My Morning Jacket Tonight
I’ve been prepping for tonight except MMJ don’t have a set setlist except they open with the dreary “Victory Song”. The band have five albums, I know one of them very well, two of them OK, and the rest not so much
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Drake Touring But Not On The East Coast?
With A$AP Rocky and Kendrick Lamar supporting. Sound like a good time? Happy are you? Not if you’re on the East Coast. Drake gets no closer than Miam
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New York Knicks 2011: Vivrant Things At The Orange Nation
Anything but “Empire” or “Go New York” -I can survie not getting Lamont, but I can’t survive another season of that dross. new York Knick fans deserve better
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Spin's Top 50 2011: Modern Middle Of the Road
Wait a second, where is Tyler, the Creator??? SPIN are like your hip, but mot too hip, Uncle. The definition of straight down the middle.
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MFT 12-11-12
Roman In Moscow – Nicki Minaj – I found all that Roman crap a drag when I saw Nicki opening for Britney earlier this year. But that notwithstanding, she is a truly great rapper
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Laura Marling At The McKittrick Hotel, Sunday, December 11th, 2011
In black jeans and turtleneck sweater, her blonde straight hair, her English rose complexion, her neat, finger picking, her ease and intelligence and passion, what Laura has is star power.
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Michelle Shocked Reaches Across That Burning Bridge
” it says they’re proud of her, and affirms the choice she made, and speaks to the emotional power of rock n roll. And, it’s just a great, affirmative story song about two old friends who went their separate ways, but the emotional bond is still there”
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Must See Concert: Craig Finn At Mercury Lounge April 8th
There is an Amex presale at noon and onsale is friday at noon. There is also an artist presale. So good luck with all that but beg steal or borrow, get there.
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"I Melt With You" Reviewed (More Or Less)
As an examination of male bonding or male angst it beggers the imagination, and while I should have probably disliked it more, it has a sort of visceral power and I enjoyed the mens affection for each other, I didn’t really enjoy it.
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Sneak Peaks Week Of December 12th, 2011
Wow, talk about a crappy week of music. Boils down to Snoop and Charlotte. Snoop and Wiz is a buncha of songs about rolling blunts and Charlotte a live album. The Smiths tribute not available on Spotify
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MFT 12-13-11
“Let it be known that I was who I am” is a better benediction than peace on earth or good will to all men. It is nearly impossible to be who you are, how wonderful if you could be.
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Eric Contractor Going For Baroque
Baroque pop” is an obvious claim, but his own “bel-canto art-rock” is better. How about this: imagine 1980’s band the Associates Billy Mackenzie singing Broadway tunes arranged by Burt Bucharah… ?
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Craig Finn's "Honolulu Blues" b/w "Rented Room" Reviewed
Now you and I are free to believe what we feel but the truth is, people either have faith or don’t. Much like being in love, you can’t fake it
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Best Tracks 2011 #41 – #60
Ohio – The Black Keys – You are probably too young to remember the scratch and sniff album cover of the Ohio punk compiliation in the 1970s. It smelled of burning rubber. Only a local like Chrissie Hynde or the Black Keys could romanticize the State and get away with it
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Pick Concerts Week of December 12th, 2011
Sold out MSG on Friday in a Facebook presale, Swedish House Party recently added a set at Roseland later that night. These guys are the monsters of House and the most eagerly awaited concert for dance denizens this season
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UK Top 10 Albums, December 11th, 2011
Hugely successful, straight in at # 1, but so sad that Amy’s third album is this cobbled together piece of product.. It will be a huge hit but still a mere shadow.
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UK Top 10 Singles, December 11th, 2011
In the month Lily Allen gave birth to a baby daughter, I wonder how she feels taking a look at the charts and seeing her back up there. How wonderful for Stummer’s God Daighter. It’s a good song as well. T-Pain does her proud.
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MFT 12-12-11
Danny’s Song – Loggins And Messina – This is soft rock, it floats on a cloud of mellow and all these years later I bet someguy somewhere is singing it to his wife.Full of the hope in young marriage and family at the beginning of a journey. Loggins wrote it for his brother and I wonder how it worked out..
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My Fave Tracks Of 2011 #21 – #40
Video Games – Lana Del Rey – Internet hype will only get you so far, a song as good as this will get you a lot further. Smart as a whip romance. She sounds down in love.
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Singles Going Steady, Week of January 5th, 2011
Speak Now – World Tour Live – Taylor Swift – Fan only momento except three covers in the middle, I wish the “I Want You Back” was longer. If they had any imagination, they’d release another album just covers. The DVD is the show on video. Grade: B
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MFT 12-11-11
On The Floor – J Lo and Pitbull – When not tooling around L.A. and pretending it’s the Bronx, or wasting her time on American Idol, J Lo can occassional kill it. as in this track with the incomparable PR PB.
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Z100's Jingle Ball 2011 At MSG, Friday, December 6th, 2011, Reviewed
All the action was on the Top 40 and the Top 40 was ruled by dance, which made last nights “Jingle Ball” the most consistent night of live music this year. 10 artists and everybody at the top of their game
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Jessica Lea Mayfield At Carnegie Hall, Tuesday, December 6th, 2011 Reviewed
In red shoes and brown acoustic guitar at Carnegie Hall on Tuesday, Jessica Lea Mayfield did herself zero favors with her endless 20 minute opening set.
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MFT 12-10-11
James Baskett won a special academy award for his portrayal of Uncle Remus. But you wouldn’t know it because Disney refuse to release it on video, after claims that the movie, a retelling telling of Briar rabbits misadventures, perpetuated racial myths
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Exclusive Interview With Joe Steinhardt On Reforming For Science
The band broke up, when, truly way out of control, Slovan disappeared while tripping and the always unruly band, disbanded. Their last concert was a Don Giovanni Showcase in February 2009. Three years later they’re back.
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My Fave Tracks Of 2011 #1 – #20
my top 20 fave tracks of 2011. I have written about them so often I see no reason to write about these any more and will list more as time goes buys I’mi in the 105 track range but haven’t tried to jog my memory too much!
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Mark Stewart Of the Pop Group Is Back
Lead by Gang Of Four, the young Human League, but including bands like the Au Pairs, Throbbing Gristle, even the Fall and PiL, it and at the forefront was the Popgroup -a funky, skronky up against the wall ravishing tirade lead by Mark Stewart
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US Top 10 Albums, December 17th, 2011
Buble and Bieber have been battling it out all season long, with Buble always on top and Bieber always hanging in. Indeed, Buble is the better of the two albums though neither are all that.
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US Top 10 Singles Week of December 17th, 2011
The story here is how did The Throne guys get on the charts. They were selling this like a crack whore selling her booty at the MSG concert -playing it three times in the show
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MFT 12-09-12
The Trouble With Love – Kelly Clarkson – I caught Kelly live early in her career and I didn’t watch AI so I didn’t know who she was. And I was blown away. I am seeing her again tomorrow
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Ryan Adam's At Carnegie Hall, Tuesday, December 6th, 2011, Reviewed
This was a different Ryan, his comfort in his own skin was palpable and he managed to be serious and be funny. I shouldn’t hold it against him yet I do. The intensity was there but it felt dispersed
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D'Angelo Back In 2012
The purveyor of precisely two albums, each a masterpiece, his performance at Radio City Music Hall -a three hour act of stamina and bravado, is the one to beat. And other than a featured slot on a Q-tip strack and an arrest for soliciting a prostitute, we haven’t heard much.
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Amy Winehouse's "Lioness – Hidden Treasures" Reviewed
no more an album than the name of the album, a clumsy, uncomfortable, hobbled together branding, is a name of an album. Instead it is exactly what I said it would be when I first heard about it: somewhere between post-humus tribute and cash in.