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am especially excited to hear a song by Bruno Mars, who I am going to see tomorrow, that I have actually enjoyed!

Yes, folks, as predicted last week: here comes Miley. I couldn’t be happier, she deserves success even if it is with a Rihanna cast off of a song, at least she cast off Hannah and did what she wanted

Why be Jesus if you don’t wanna walk on water. And while I am a huge supporter of the album, it wouldn’t kill Kweezy to salt the mine with a coupla hits, would it?

Climax Blues Band are covered by Jahn Xavier on Soundcloud, but you should take the original out for a spin. Crawford missed this one on his 1970s ultimate playlist.

All of which makes Yes, You sound like a downer and it isn’t. Too honest to be optimistic, it gets its optimism from the music

I am as shocked as you are but it looks like Attila have released the best album of the week, they have definitelygot the single of the week, a hardcore bowels of hell screamer. Indeed, this week looks like a substantial improvement over last week, song for song, if not album for album.

The band filmed the trip and will begin showing the movies at screenings; I went on to SSLY.com and they had zero info so I guess that’s still in the works

When has Wale ever sustained it for an entire album? Then I was thinking of Smith Western, but their last one was a real disappointment. When a minor player in a major band releases a solo album, you ten to realize why they are minor players. I guess that leaves India. Arie who is untrustworthy though at her best is pretty damn good.

Otherwise, the Mahalia tribute had me looking up two favorites which are real wows as well except, maybe her recorded music didn’t match her live performances

Sure I like Jason DeRulo but I like him for “The It Girl” or maybe “Don’t Wanna Go Home” not for this disappointing product, just goes to show you what jerks the British are

Kodalin are the best old school rock band I’ve heard in years. They are much better than their closest competitor, the Script, and write the sort of songs U2 stopped writing in 1991. I wonder why they haven’t cracked the States.

I have been watching Helen Bach’s favorite movie “Harold And Maude” and it stands up very well, especially all the Cat Stevens Tea For The Tillerman era songs

I have heard only a couple of tracks off it, and they weren’t mastered, but man this is gonna blow you the hell out the water

Tomas Doncker claims Buddy Guy is vastly superior live than he is on record and while I might not say vastly, I tend to agree that the great blues guitarist is something unreal live and should be seen at any price. So go check Buddy out Thursday night at BB Kings.

At over an hour in length including two skits and two great songs, and filler after filler, this is not as good as J. Cole’s debut by a long shot.

his is very informed by music I am discussing on Facebook and sounds that are just on my mind for some reason. Anna and Kate? Rufus just performed a tribute for his mommy at BAM so maybe that has something to do with it as well

I kinda took Screaming Females for granted because they were always around and so missed my last couple of chances to catch em but I won’t miss them this time. Plus, I can say goodbye to Maxwells at the same time. Visit the sick bed and miss the funeral

As Helen Bach reported yesterday, the far sighted folks at Warped extended their father’s day promotion to include a free ticket to any parent who is bringing a kid to a Warped Tour.

Yes, it is all about Kanye West. Of course it is. But really, now the thrill of the new has passed a little, it is yet another album that cuts through the middle. 5 great tracks, 5 less great tracks. Still, people claiming J. Cole is competition are just fooling themselves.

Former Musician editor Vic Garbarini name checked Heart Like A Wheel the album as a masterpiece and the song itself, a McGarrigle sisters masterpiece, is tough to screw up and even so Ronstadt made it her own. If you don’t know the album, it is as good as Vic claims it is and survives as a pinnacle of So Cal country

As food, water, supplies and patience dwindles, the six friends battle the Anti-Christ and each other while trying to get saved from eternal damnation.

the album was released in 1977 by the way. Just mentioning in passing…Me? I’m using the Greatest Hits night as an excuse to listen to A Deade Of over and over

Power Trip”, an undoubted hit with Miguel, a guy I’ve underestimated, killing it on the chorus with a one liner that rules the world: ” Constant drinking and love songs”.

Doncker is the best played, West sounds best, Modern Hut the most consistent and Marling peaks the highest

Like all those damn Cash Money kids, they be hating on nyc

Summer songs? First Blurred next Lucky all summer long, that’s my bet. Also, one other will be coming up soon, the Miley Cyrus, it will be the third and all summer long they will be at the top. Everything else is gonna be biting at their ankles!

I think I wear off albums way too fast. Sometimes they don’t last a week before I’ve completely moved on

I am going to see McLaughlin for the first time tomorrow. I own a 5 CD Davis set circa 1970, John played only one night but boy my boy, it stands so far out

Sunday afternoon I am gonna see Femi Kuti and when is that over I am gonna dash down to Arlene’s Grocery (just off Ludlow Street) -one of the best rooms in the city by the way, and catch Marla’s 815pm show

Yes folks, Tuesdays releases boiled down to a handful of songs… especially MIA!!!

Yes, that’s what a great live performance can do for you. Performing three Frank Sinatra covers, Legend changed me from a decades long hater to an intense admirer and if Love In The Future, his first album in five years, is halfway decent (and that is no promise mind) consider me so there when he plays in town. Otherwise, count me in on Beady Eye, Mavis Staple, maybe Wale, definitely Hawthorn Heights, definitely India Arie. But Smith Wesson, I prefer em when they were getting thrown out of Broolyn nightclubs for underage drinking.

End of the weekend music and after watching Viva Las Vegas it’s been all Kweezy all the time. Three days of listening to the album and it becomes clear that the first four songs reach a heigh of consistent industrial strength power that the rest of the album doesn’t quite pay off, and then it ends with a reminded that he can turn on the hit making whenever he feels like it. “Can’t Tell Me Nothing” -he killed it at Gov’s Ball.