rock nyc

Shape I’m In – Spider Bags – In my rock nyc interview with him, Dan McGee pinpointed the “I was never too tall and I was never too thin” line as an example of how his skills as a writer of fiction coincided with his lyrical bias. How he told a story. Personally, I think the girl who wears her shoes just a little too tight, is a better example. Here’s why: it is because the girl chooses to wear em too tight that it becomes a characteristic, a snapshot. It suggests something about the girls coolness to life, and coolness to the singer. Grade: A+

Poor Pussy Riot and stupid, stupid Putin. The last thing he needed was to jail three 20 something women, two who have children. It is like putting a huge Billboard outside the country reading: “No Freedom Here”.

I can still nod my head to this song and pretend I’m a soulful black woman crooning to a rainy windowpane about how I’m sick of having no love, but chances are: this song isn’t winning any awards.

Swift’s songwriting is nothing but art, it’s simply too obvious, too trite, too mystery-free! It’s lacking this necessary ingredient of mystery in art, which people tend to always forget about. Of course many songs are about love deception, heartbreaks and so on, but her songwriting is so direct, generic and simple.

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.

Greenwood, who had previously composed the disturbing soundtrack for Anderson’s Oscar winning film ‘There Will be Blood’, has this time written 11 original tracks, and six of them were performed by the London Contemporary Orchestra

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.

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.

I love Flo Rida but I hate whistling unless it is John Lennon at the end of “Two Of Us”. Definitely, this is my worst fave hit by Flo Rida since… forever!

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

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

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?

So, stupid (but not bad) politics, same old same old lyric which fails to make its point about the Black population being hurt more than the majority. AND everything else various degrees of very good.

Fay Fife will be at Bowery Electric November 10th!!! And that is the embodiment of a must see. If the vids I’ve seen are anything to go by, expect a thrill a minute pop punk fast loud and gorgeously melodic rave up.

if you don’t have your dance card filled, this is a must must must see… Put it this way, from a Grade of MS1 being the lowest must see to M being the abslute kill if you have tom Regina is a M4…

I say this- thank GOD they chose to air the full Spice Girls Bentley Square dance and chop out Ray Davies. I mean this was the legends of British Pop right?

Lead singer Damon Albarn is an excitable lad on stage and he is nearly jumping out of his skin here, and the audience is singing at the top of its lungs, but what do you and I care?

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

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.

There is a lightness of touch to the rocker, “He calls me up saying ‘I still love you'” Taylor says funning the guys needy response, before adding “I’m just, I’m like this is exhausting…” It is really hysterical.

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.

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.

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.’

I am going to either the April or the May concert. I think maybe the May 4th (a Saturday concert), which is the performing of a new work, so you gotta think. The April 26th show is a Friday, so I could definitely live with that.

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

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’!

I see no problem with legit porn so this to me holds not interest. But who has the dollars? Your basic average suburban mother. Disposable income and dreams of life outside the mundane make this Fifty Shades of marketing for their dollar.

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

That’s the worst choice for a cover ever! That sing-along chorus, this indulgent guitar solo, I mean I am bias because I had never been able to stand the song, and the fact we have heard it 3 billion times doesn’t help.

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.