rock nyc

If you are looking for anything from a toaster to a thong- you can get it with teh KISS logo on it. Its genius and its annoying. The die hard fan must roll in it happy as can be- but for the rest of the free world its an odd obsession. The fact is it earns money and the memebers of the band honestly are set for life as are their spawn and their spawns spawn.

Like It Or Love It – Kreayshawn – It’s worth mention that Kid Cudi’s rap here is better than his solo rap with GOOD Music, and it is also worth mentioning that Kreayshawn isn’t a faker, the entire album is real good, but this is even better – Grade: B+

With a punk-rocker look and a new haircut, she and a guy fight against zombies with a futuristic gun under a scorching hot sun,… there are also magic crystals, a dog (the same one that was at Amoeba!) and other people in Native American outfits involved, but I don’t know exactly what’s going on

Actually, English people are really the worst thieves in the story, when we compare both populations – 62 million for the UK, 311 million for the US! They are a fifth of us, and have downloaded almost half of what we have!

They used to say that rock stars dated models but now musicians are so airbrushed and stylized they ARE models. Rob Thomas of Matchbox 20, modeled jeans and Burberry has chosen numerous Brit pop stars to stand and smile.

Fine, it is Pink, so who gives a fuck? I do when it involved Lily Allen, one of the most gifted songwriters from the start of the century who has chosen this crappy song to ease herself back in the music world

The R&B groove of the song is totally cool, although very retro-familiar! Many people have noticed some similarity with ‘Take Me With U’… Hella yes! these synths sound totally sampled from his own hit song, and, if you are a Prince’s fan, I guess it is not gonna be the only Prince’s song that you will hear in the track.

I actually hung out with a couple girls during my Siouxie days, generally all of my friends are men. These girls and I made the perfect trio of good girls gone bad and with enormous black hair, alabaster skin, blackened eyes and red lips, we made a ruckus…shamelessly

There sure was a heap of hoopla over that Led Zeppelin countdown.  The kids went crazy and the geezers started hand wringin’.  Could it be?  Led Zep back together and

I think Amanda has so little to add to it except an instrument, it is pointless. Except it is such a great song and she sings it so straight and so in her underwear, it is its own reward.

The Boys – Nicki Minaj and Cassie – Nicki’s best song since, well it is better than “Starship” if not “Super Bass”, has a lovely chorus by Cassie before Nicki trashes that other sex and really very well. Hey, talking of bests, her best rap since “Monster” – Grade: A

he is like a hurting wild animal nobody can control,… until he meets the Master, Lancaster Dodd, played by charismatic and debonnaire Philip Seymour Hoffman, the cult leader, who introduces himself with the humble and Hubbard-esque declaration ‘I am a writer, a doctor, a nuclear physicist, a theoretical philosopher, but above all I am a man, a hopelessly inquisitive man, just like you.’

Kickstarter is an online services that allows bands (or anyone) to fundraise for themselves to support a project. Highly successful with Amanda Palmer netting over a million and setting the bar pretty high with B level hardcore bands demanding nearly $350k to record. Someone needs a new car on that one.

Have you noticed that these goose bumps appear when the music is moving, melancholic, nostalgic, it is not really happening when you listen to happy music, which still trigger an emotion, a happy one. Goose bumps mostly occur when we have sad emotions, however, some people may prove this wrong

This video takes on that vibe brilliantly, in the beginning. Then something goes horribly wrong. That wasn’t good enough. We had amp up the hip factor by turning it in to a giant instagram video. Like a million others. As the video gains color the lines blur and we are smack dab in the center of hipster village and Joy Formidable is the mayor.

I am blowing off Bon Iver at Radio City Music Hall to catch the band at Local 269, where they will be part of the CAVESTOMP RECORDS presents evening of fun and rock and roll on Saturday, September 22nd. Also present are McGee faves the Lime’s and, in his opinion the purveyors of the album of the year, the Golden Boys

This is a great song in theory. The problem is the topic has grown up but the music has not. This is generic ‘pop punk’ and unfortunately not even evolved from early ATL offerings. If anything they sound a bit more boring and a bit less creative. How did this happen?

It has been a coupla of lifetimes since Nookie, and being a grown up doesn’t wear itself on Green Day. Like Blink 182, they don’t do adulthood well. Maybe they are too mewlingly adolescent for the roll of grown up.

Last time round I made our writers promise to really nail the Disco Biscuits story for us. Needless to add, that was a complete waste of time and energy. By the time the teenage writers left Camp Bisco, older but wiser, we were thankful for anything they provided.

This is like a list of must hears here. First and foremost Good Music, since “Clique” was so much better than anything Kanye has released all year. But really everything looks good here, the new Aimee Mann, Grizzly Bear… Richie Sambora?? And Kreay with a lot to prove. Color me impressed

Default – Atoms For Peace – This has been getting mixed reviews but I like it a lot more than Radio: it is a percolated ping pong beat with Thom’s discombobulated vocal and not much more. And that is plenty – Grade: B+

The totally indecipherable and buried-in-noise vocals were adding to the ambient nightmare, as the blasting sound was reaching saturation. On the subject of imagination, anything could have gone through my head while listening to the eviscerating metal-noise, like for example imaginary screaming damned voices falling into the entrails of hell!

While “Gun Shot”, off of Nicki Minaj’s Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded”, isn’t really designed to get everyone going nuts on the dance floor, Nicki and Beenie Man’s sound in this song is something really fantastic. With a chill vibe and lyrics almost entirely in Patois, you don’t get caught up in the stupidity that Nicki Minaj songs tend to be

He’s on a crazy journey climbing through the woods, stealing a moped, and nearly getting knocked out. The reason? He’s on his way to his wife, Tara. She’s waiting for him in the sunset and he comes to play her the song

Oh to be a Springsteen fan on the second leg of his US Tour. Finally, he has stopped flogging that dead horse known as Wrecking Ball (really,he dumps the newbie at this point of the tour every couple of years), gone from 40% of the set to 20% of the set and now, on any given night, he will delve deep into the vaults and pull out anything he wants to from any period of his career.

Believe it or not, she had already released a trailer for the add a month earlier, because she is Gaga, the queen of the fake build-up, the diva of the big suspense that bursts like a bubble full of stinking air

He is not a comedian but he is uproariously funny. He is not a motivational speaker, but he gets you off your ass. He is not a politician or a shaman but he makes you think he gets you armed with information and he send you on your way. I admire his intelligence.

The owner of Bridgetown Records, Kevin Greenspon finally brings his lo-fi sound modulations to the East Coast for one of the most eagerly anticipated gigs of the year at a friends house in Brooklyn on Tuesday

17 year old X-Factor UK style (where they are actually paying attention) Amelia shows what a a pair of teeth and a dye job can get you, a number two hit on a nothing great electro dance track. Is that a new Flo Rida track I see? Is “Whistle” finally suffering from dry mouth???

One song does not an album make, but if one song did make an album, that song would be the XX’s “Angels”. The Script beat, one of the worst bands on the planet beat out Dylan and PSB (which doesn’t) and Ora is the sole hip hop rep if you don’t include the Will I AM collab with the Script -and I don’t.

Pon T Loca – Damn Yankee – In the Reggaeton genre, I always went with Don Omar, the better vocalist. But DY’s current album hands him the crown, as he raps well but builds beats a whole lot better – Grade: A-

I like the way he makes the distinction between emotion and feeling, because this is exactly the same distinction used by neurobiologists: an emotion is an experience of the moment, an immediate reaction to what you are listening to, whereas a feeling is the memory of this moment left in your brain and that you are dying to re-experience…

Now if a pathetic old punk could booty pop or werrrrrrrk I’d do it to this tune but instead, I will just blast it really loud and try to sing the Spanish parts,though I don’t speak Spanish. I don’t know who TJR is but he should be pretty psyched to sing with Mr 305