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Village Voice Pazz And Jop Veers Into Irrelevance
Could the Village Voice Pazz And Jop Poll get any more irrelevant? If I wasn’t hitting deadline I don’t think I’d mention it at all but since we’re all here, this kinda is obvious
A Christmas Special: Ten Reasons Not To Hate Coldplay
In the spirit of the season rock nyc has decided for one post only to bury the hatchet with the loathsome Coldplay… I mean lovely Coldplay and find ten positive things about the wretched ponces.
The Beatles For Sale Again!
Just in time for the 50 th year anniversary of the day the Beatles landed at JFK February 7 th, 1994 (50 years, wow, the mind boggles), a box set of all 13 US only releases, some of which are making it to CD for the first time, will be available January 21 ST
How Can An Artistic Form That Lives On Repetition Survive Without It
So if we can’t get from Industrial Beats to Britney Spears or from classical dark strings to Disney soundtracks, if thew time to get difficult music stops, how does music evolve? If we won’t give music time, what will happen to music?
English Folkie Roy Harper Arrested For Sex Offenses
it is 36 years since the alleged assault and the alleged assault took place over two years. I don’t know whether it is true or not but whether it is true or not, that is a breathtaking amount of time to wait between the assault and indictment.
Aerosmith "Rock For The Rising Sun" Reviewed
The band are good humored and friendly and a superfans comment that it is still the same members in the band as it was 40 years ago should be remembered and appreciated
Christopher Nolan And Kanye west Changed The Face Of Fun In 2008
But depression, sorrow, the infiniteness lightness of blueing, the pain of fame gam?. These are the colors of modern r&b and superheroes. Thanks, guys.
Kinks Reunion In 2014? Makes Sense
Given the state of affairs, a tour seems inevitable and I would guess it would be very very good. Talk about a catalog to fall back on, the mind boggles as to what they could provide we Kinks Kultists. My assumption is that Ray is too much of a pro to get into the deep album cuts, we’ll be lucky if we get “Harry Rag”
Another Side Of A Bob Dylan Box Set
A waste of money? Oh, I guess, it is the sort of thing you treat yourself though you know you have no real need for it. It just looks cool, like the mono album CDs in their original covers earlier this century!
Taylor Swift Was Going To Be A Novelist!
“You can convey a thought or a story or completely describe a character or a situation through words and the whole process of editing and re-editing and rethinking and imagining. I think that that’s what I loved about writing the novel”
Diddy On Losing A Cool Million: "It Ain't Nothing"
I don’t envy Diddy, I mean, who’d want t wake up in the morning and discover that they’d Diddy? On the one hand you’ve got half a billion bucks in the bank but to offset it, you’re Puff Daddy
Elton John: Miley Cyrus Fixing Like She's Going To Die
Elton is such a mother hen and such an aggressively self-satisfied born again sober guy that he can’t tell the difference. Just because he is straight doesn’t nobody is gonna take any drugs any more.
Dream Society: When Is A Tee-Shirt More Than A Tee-Shirt
On top of that, there is a Dream Society Foundation, which aids emerging artists all over the world:”Every season we develope humanitarium fundraisers will support, will provide support for every child that is within our initiatives”.
Bon Iver break Up
“I’m really honoured that Bon Iver gives me a platform to do whatever I want, but there’s only so much time you can spend digging through yourself before you become insular. I’m not in a hurry to go back to that temperature”
David Bowie Offered Big Bucks For Concert
Live Nation have tabled a multi-million dollar bid for the 66-year-old icon to play a huge concert at London’s Olympic Park next year (14). Now their rivals at Aeg are reportedly considering a similar offer for the British star to headline at London’s Hyde Park
"Let It Be" Bows Out
I received a $25 coupon and for $25 I was gonna try it but when I went to use it, they would only sell me $80 for the last row and I passed. Now that greed has killed it off
Lady Gaga Is A Mess (For Dummies)
When you work so hard getting from A To B, you’d hope it would be over but it had only just begins. At the level Gaga has been playing at, getting there isn’t close to being the trick.
"Get Lucky" Passes 100 Million Streams On Spotify
The next largest streamer on Random Access Memories was streamed 15 Million times aka $90,000. So now what? How high can the highest get to?
The Last Picture Show, American Graffiti And Grease: Satire And Parody
Between the three, Americana goes from going nowhere, to going round and round, to going somewhere, while the music changes itself to a disco deadend.
The Complete Impossibility Of Getting A Handle On Modern Music
Music is completely out of control, it is an unknowable behemoth of sound bearing down on you. If you embrace it, it will smother you to death, if you ignore it you’ll miss some of the greatest music of all time
Separated At birth: "Girls Gone Wild" And "Applause?
True it isn’t as blatant a rip as “Express Yourself” and I myself didn’t notice it until it was shown to me, still the two are too close for comfort, particular the hook ‘the hyah hyah hyahs” are a signal post for the “applause applause
A&R Is Dead, Licensing Is Alive And Well
Remember when John Hammond was discovering Bob Dylan and Ahmet Ertegun was finding Aretha Franklin and Led Zeppelin, and working out their albums and Clive Davis was making Janis Joplin the face of Columbia. Well, forget about it, man. It doesn’t happen any more
Kendrick Lamar Disses big Sean On Big Seans Own Track
Hell, “The Real Roxanne” is scarier than Kendrick
Golden Slumbers: Deaths In the Musical 8-14-13
He produced Cash’s “Rings of Fire” as well as writing hits for as hits for hits for everybody from Elvis Presley to Cliff Richards
Billboards Top 100 Best Selling Songs 100 – 91
Always willing to exploit the opportunity fof an easy post on our incredible story eating website (20,000 and counting), we are gonna take 10 articles to tell you our opinion of them… in reverse order of course
Beyonce Goes For A Spin
If she got recognized with nobody around to protect her, Beyonce would be ripped apart. From love, jealous, who knows, right?
Muppets Most Wanted Coming Next Spring -With Diddy And, Maroon 5 covers
What we can’t say is how long it has been in production because, hell, a parody of Maroon 5’s “Moves Like Jagger”???
Drake 's "Hold On We're Going Home" Reviewed (Stream It Here)
Instead it has that certain post-808s Drake-y downbeat, it’s like mixing heroin with ludes
Cookie Monster Meets Icona Pop
Sesame Street, Cookie Monster, Cookies at all and Icona Pop, these are a few of my favorite things
Friends Follow "The Way"
It’s like a one way ticket to seriouslyness!
James Murphy Discusses Losing His Edge With Arcade Fire
all of that fades into oblivion with the terrible news that he was been producing Arcade Fire’s new album set to be released October 29th
Vampire Weekend Cover Robin Thicke: Pop And Indie Blurred (Lines) (Stream It Here)
Here is VW covering Robin covering Benny Hill -at least that’s my story…
Jaws – Pop Music Linked
I know how fast you need new product: it spits out information faster than you can feed it.
Lil Wayne's Fourteen Year Old Daughter Writes A Novel
While, admittedly, how far is a fourteen year old gonna go? Perhaps a little further than this.
Music Therapy Helps Pre-Mature Babies
This means that a love of music is part of our DNA, it goes beyond just being something we learn to something we are born with as simply an animal in a world of appearances.
Spotify Kill Off New Releases For Lame Musical Suggestions
It is really simple: LIST NEW RELEASES BY ARTIST. Imbeciles.
The Long Goodbye And The Moral Imperative
really it is like “The Code Of The Wooster” –a morality tale about never letting a friend down and then it becomes a different kind of morality tale
Pink Floyd On Spotify!
It is amazing how little material there actually is. A handful of alnbums, some extended and that’s it really.
Must See: Nine Inch Nails This October
It is not that that Trent Reznor is old fashioned, it is rather that his innovations have been so built into EDM and hip hop DNA that he sounds old fashioned
"Man Of Steel" Reviewed (More Or Less)
Character, stamina, humor, plot, believablity, everything is thrown away for the sole purpose of another action sequence
Kathleen Hanna's New Band "The Julie Ruin" Release Single, Album To Follow
“The Julie Ruin” named after her first solo album and a new album dropping September 3rd (James Murphy remixes one track so I guess dance is in their future and a new single “Oh Come On” (see below) which I for one really like.
"The Rides" Blues Supergroup With Steven Stills
“Rockin’ In The Free World” will be covered so I guess all is forgiven with Young, eh?
Blake Shelton Voices His Displeasure
So if I understand this correctly, Blake is threatening Guerra with implied violence because Joey didn’t like Holly? Who does Blake think he is? Lou Reed?
Legendary NJ Club Maxwell's Closing (And I'm Not Feeling So Great Myself)
“We were offered a renewal with rates that weren’t necessarily onerous. But after much thought, given the changing nature of Hoboken and the difficulties of trying to run a business in this town, we decided it was time.”
Hook Minus New Order or New Order Minus Hook: Which Is Worse?
Hook wrote em, he has as much right to play them as the rest of the band does. what else are they for? And it is not as if the rest of the band has done so much to place themselves in a bright light of innocence. After regrouping in 2011, all they’ve released in odds and sods, no NEW MATERIAL AT ALL.
Gatsby Versus Romeo? No Contest
Musically, it is a stand off, but what the music signifies? No contest. The version of “Young Hearts Run Free” with Mercutio singing is worth the entire Jay-Z soundtrack.
Taylor Swift Lookalike Attacked!
“Some girls at college had started making nasty comments, but it escalated really quickly. The girl came up behind me and dragged me off my chair by my pony tail, then started kicking me in the face.”
Cash Money Sign Paris Hilton To Record House Album With Afro jack
The sort of sidelong glance of a move that has kept the UMG subsidiary at the top of its game and Hot 97’s Summer Jam reeling after they lost their participation!