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Bjork Kickstarts Biophile!

You might very well disagree and if you do you might want to go give some money to Bjork on Kickstarter To help her fund her music educational app for Android. I would tell you more but I am getting pretty confused myself. On a purely subjective level I’d give to Kickstarter if it would finance another album as great as Post.

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Pissed Jeans Rule the Earth

Pissed Jeans have been at it since 2004 and so they have what time gives you: assurance and tightness. And they have something else, a follow up to the awesome King Of Jeans, Honey, coming up and a gig at the 550 SRO Bowery Ballroom on April 13th, 2013.

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Musicians Covering Musicians, Clever Chain Songs Concepts First Release

It is in the nature of life that an eye for an eye is an infinite progression. The only way to stop it is thru forgiveness and to hear of it being conducted by one people to another is very moving, very important. If anger is like drinking poison and expecting it to kill the other person, forgiveness is like feeding your enemy and finding yourself fully nourished.

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"Sellebrity" Reviewed

Mazur gives some history, Felline, 8 ½ Weeks, you know the drill, than shows some car accidents, shows a Papparazzi’s case for the defense, builds up on the terror the celebrities go through in the big cities, Miami, Hollywood, New York, blames the tabs who buys em, gets into the history of gossip and bails out 90 minutes later, none the wiser

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Must See: Dropkick Murphy's In March But Not St. Pattys 2013!

I like Dropkick Murphys fine but when I go to T5 on Wednesday March 13th (they are also playing the night before) it will be the first time I’ve seen em live and I am actually a little excited. T5 is a hell hole but I have a feeling these Irish Americans can fill the voice. I just wish it was six days later.

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Azealia Banks, Jake Shears And The "F" Word

Shears should really know the difference between one and the other, as a very public homosexual surely he has a duty to be more foresighted and calm. Banks is having her record contract threatened because of this nonsense. It is an embarrassment and an insult to homosexuals to fiund hatred where it most certainly isn’t.

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Rock Stars Gone Broke

Look, I’ve got nothing against Lauryn Hill as such but one great solo album does not a career make and making an audience wait four hours to see you and then putting on a terrible show ain’t gonna make you money or fans. Pay your damn taxes, you’re married to a Marley, you can afford it.

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City Winery's Top 12 Performances Of 2012

My problem with City Winery is that it isn’t the Bottom Line,, which is hardly their fault, that dinner can get pricey, which is more like that fault, and I don’t like their no man’s land setting -which is entirely their fault

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Paparazzo Dies Chasing Justin Bieber For A Pix

Bieber is looking for legislation to stop these guys from at least driving like maniacs. So far, the tough part is centering a piece of law based on a profession. I guess Bieber is thinking of something like the hate crimes law where the penalties are bigger for Paparazzi driving dangerously than for civilians but I doubt it will happen.

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Taylor Swift Is Trouble On New Years Eve

Taylor is not in great voice -she sounded much better a coupla weeks earlier at MSG during her six song Jingle Ball Christmas wonder, but despite a ragged “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” and a pretty good (though I still think it is TS in a minor key) “I Knew You Were Trouble”, man does she look good.

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Justin Bieber: What A Drag It Is Getting Old

I can’t see Justin having done anything very naughty at all. God knows, he is no worse (if no better) than the average teenager and the press should quit snipping. Remember the Rolling Stone interview where Bieber is enjoying a golf game till the Papapazzi sweep down and start snapping? You try growing up like that.

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Fifth Harmony Is The All Girl One Direction

Over in the US X Factor, Simon Cowell is trying to spin additional magic. Uniting five solo girl singers for an all girl vocal group called Fifth Harmony. And, despite the dresses, this cover of Ellie Goulding’s excellent “Anything Could Happen” is pretty good.

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This Year's Drug: Molly

“All the people are like, ‘I don’t know what it is, but every time I hear the song, I just wanna do it. “That’s a terrible excuse, but go ‘head, get high, go ‘head. Blame Trinidad, blame it on me.”

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"The One: The Life And Music Of James Brown" By RJ Smith Reviewed

From the 50s to the 90s he drove a power funk rhythm right through Jim Crow to Black Power and out the end and released some of the greatest dance music of all time. “Please Please Please”, “Sex Machine”, “Cold Sweat”, he ran roughshod over some of the greatest musicians of all time, and planted himself at the center of American pop to this day. Hip Hop owes Brown everything.

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More On Jack White And the Artificial

Art is fake. Rock is fake, the truest artist in the world is outrageously unreal, has nothing whatsoever to do with their own life. Life is too messy, too lonely, too inevitable: if you stare right into life it is so black you would suffer from nyctolopea, you would go blind.

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Justin Bieber Shows His Smarts… Not

I am not saying every 18 year old needs to know what J.P. Morgan is, but surely a guy with all the riches of a Bieber, and all the money, and with banking still in crises mode shouldn’t be so damn. Bieber’s idea of an education is quoting Frank Ocean songs

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Stones To Play 12-12-12

Presented by the highly respected Robin Hood Foundation and produced by Harvey weinstein, this isn’t like the disastous Haiti benefits, this should get where it is going…

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Game Born Again

“I love God… But at the same time, I love going to strip clubs. Sometimes I smoke marijuana. And I still love drinking alcohol and chilling. I don’t want to be judged for that…”

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Wayne Shorter To Carnegie Hall, February 1st, 2013

Shorter is playing a concert with the Orpheus Chamber Quartet at Carnegie Hall on February 1st . The man is a musical legend if only for his solo on Steely Dan’s “Aja”. If you are just starting off try the Blue Note The best of, which gives you the cream of his 1960s solo stuff.

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Must See Concert: Iris Dement In January 2013

Sing The Delta is her first album in 8 years but it is 8 years that has found her reputation widen and deeper, in the Alt Country stakes I put nobody above her in 2012. Neither of the Earles, nor Rosanne nor Hiatt, not even John Prine. That voice has an ache that Lucinda WIlliams also has but Iris has better songs.

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