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Expect More Spice Girls

believe we have not seen the last of them. Posh is so thin no one would notice if she didn’t show up anyway. Perez Hilton (which is the dumbest pseudonym of all time) suggests a 1 week residency a Vegas hotel once every six months.

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Johnny Depp Touring With Alice Cooper

See Johnny Depp came to Hollywood to be a rock star but that face ended up getting him a TV gig. The rest as they say, is history. Alice Cooper that ‘shock rocker’ of days gone by is still very much in the circuit.

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US Top 10 Albums, August 25th, 2012

When you alive in a moment it feels specific to the NOW, but in retrospect, it is part of a larger paradigm. And what is difficult to notice is how much we are in a period of transition. The biggest transition since recorded music becausethe end result could well be the death of the recorded music business. And then albums like NOW 43 will be completely extinct.

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Listen Up: 7-17-12

Landslide – Antony – With just an acoustic guitar to back him up, Antony steals the Fleetwood Mac tribute album from the likes of Marianne Faithful. It is not true that the song is such a great standard it is difficult to screw up. It is easy to screw up. Antony doesn’t come within a million miles. his deep, emotional croon is perfect for this song – Grade: A

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"It Just Beats Regular Life" An Interview with Joyce Manor

“I feel like a lot of political bands don’t know what the fuck they’re talking about. There are some bands that are really really intelligent and can get their point across. Where the thing is with most bands, you don’t really have to be intelligent. You can be an awesome band and be fucking dumb as a wall,”

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Deana Martin Croons at Feinsteins This Week

As tribute to her father and a skip down memory lane Martins shows accentuate the positive and give insight to life as a Martin. Although it wasn’t a world of on liners and romance tunes it was an almost stereotypical Italian/American American dream

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Free Public Reading In Support Of Pussy Riot

The verdict for the Pussy Riot trial will be stated on Friday August 17 @ 3pm Moscow Time (8am EST). ALSO: There will be a march and rally on Friday. Free Pussy Riot encourages any artists / activists to join Friday in solidarity with the three detained women, Maria Alekhina, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Ekaterina Samucevich of Pussy Riot.

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Earlimart At The Henry Fonda Theater, Monday August 13th 2012

It was totally logical for them to open for the band from Modesto, as Aaron Espinoza and Ariana Murray have also formed this Admiral Radley side project with Grandaddy’s own Jason Lytle, so to speak, we were between friends. And the public was sending the same vibe, with many ‘I love you’ and other forms of affection.

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Gary Powell Calls Morrissey A Prick

Morrissey has earned the right to be a prick, a knob and dare I say a flaming douche bag should he chose to behave as such. Mr. Powell has opted to portray himself as a slighted little boy with two sticks and no future. Who’s the knob?

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Spotify Is Great But Try Finding Any New Releases

Sometimes, it is so user unfriendly, I figure they are doing it on purpose. God forbid you try and getsomeone to actually speak to you at Spotify. I dare you. I double dare you. They have THE WORST SERVICE ON THE PLANET WORST THEN THE GOVERNMENT. They have zero, none nada

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Listen Up 7-16-12

La La La (Produced by Major Lazer) – Snoop Lion – I don’t know why Snoop didn’t dscover Reggae much earlier. Honestly, it is tailor made for his roll em up aesthetic. This doesn’t sound like the Dogg, he ain’t rapping and he has that ny the umbers dubby feel going on. But with a poppier feel to it. I mean, “la la la” right? Grade: B

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The Closing Ceremonies: So Long Summer Olympics

Heres the truth- I tried. But watching a zillion people in idiotic track suits march into a collesium cell phones in hand was more than I could stomach. Biting medals, kissing medals, hopping on your team mates back… it was watching a party I wasnt invited too. I lost my patience.

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Jaz Coleman, Alive and Well and Laughing At You

Well cryptic messages and sudden disappearances will generally get some attention. Coleman claims no knowledge of the Facebook posting. So then that leads us to believe that he literally just disappeared from the tour? I think he is having a good time at our expense and I happen to find it fantastic.

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Adam Yauch Will Rest In Peace

The tricky issue becomes in the other two remaining Boys. They’re free to do as they please but with out MCA? Yauch really was the ‘face’ of the group. Interesting that there is a lawsuit with Monster Energy drinks going on as this information is released.

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$10,000 worth of Jimi Hendrix Video

Three reels contain close-ups and clips from three different show during 1969 and 1970. The fourth reel contains unreleased footage from Monterey Pop Festival in 1967. The seller said in the description the fourth reel was Chandler’s prize possession because it was Hendrix’s ‘first appearance in a major film.’

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Blur At The Olympics

Look, Blur, until you get your lazy butts to nyc who cares? Gorillaz greatest moment was at MSG, why not bring the other band over. And not at fucking Roseland. Rent out Radio City for 5 nights. Fuck Hyde Park, that’s how you say goodbye.

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Listen Up 7-15-12

Ho Hey – The Lumineers – These are hard working kids who have been at it for more than five years and have just broken out with this album. If you can get past the lead singers voice, they are fairly original moods for moderns and here discover a very original hook – Grade: B

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Kill Rock Stars Releases Elliott Smith's Alternate Version Of 'Punch and Judy'

If ‘Needle in the Hay’ and ‘Alameda’ were alt-releases still close to the original songs, this new one is quite different from the version we all know, featured on ‘Either/Or’. I would even say that it is a totally different song, the music and the lyrics are totally reworked and the ‘new’ song (to us) has taken another direction around the traditional puppet show characters, the violent Punch beating his wife Judy.

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Not With The Band: Can You Enjoy The Music When You Hate The Lyrics?

So do you imagine Ryan, the guy who wants to cut social welfare, harm the poor and enrich the rich, screaming with Zack de la Rocha his despise for capitalist greed while using the elliptical machine at the gym? RAMT doesn’t only empower you to run faster, but they want you to participate into a social revolution, and Ryan has just declared he believes ‘our rights come from nature and God’!

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Amanda Palmer's The Killing Type" Reviewed

The declaimer? “But I would kill to make you real” isn’t worth the wait: it isn’t really satisfying but Palmer isn’t that great a songwriter. She has other gifts, self promotion she is the tops at. But as a songwriter, she should be a cover artist

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The Adicts "Horrorshow" Reviewed

The look saves them. Since 1975 these guys have been producing fabulous British Punk. Monkey Warren has the most contagious vocals and the best part about all this is you can understand the words. That was the glory of old punk- it wasn’t screaming or growling it was fast but comprehensive.

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Sneak Peaks Week Of August 13th, 2012

Woke up this morning and picked up the Taylor Swift off Itunes, and then added Lupe, Rita and RHCP just because I couldn’t be bothered waiting till tomorrow to see if Spotify will have (no, they will have them, the question is WHEN). Beak is terrific.

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Listen Up: 7-14-12

I Love You More Than You’ll Ever Know – Kenny Latimore – Here the great r&b man brings down the hammer on a great blues soul conglom, he lets it build as hard as it can as keyboards swirl around him, and then throws in glissandros just to keep us honsest – Grade: A-

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