rock nyc

>> – Beak – Drone rock from one of the best experimental bands around. I saw Geoff Barrow’s side project at Bowery Ballroom a coupla years ago, and they blew me away there. This is is even better than the first album: it is background grim rhythm which, at its best, on “Yatton” lets its repetitive notes build into a song before subsiding. My only complaint is that Geoff doesn’t do enough with the drums… for obvious reasons I guess – Grade: A-

You Make Me Feel So Young – Steven Maglio – An astonishing interpreter of Sinatra but really, with that voice, I don’t see what this guy can’t sing. This is a gorgeous take on Ol’ Blue Eyes – Grade: A

A fantastic rendition of “Three Little Birds” which is adorable when you swap in an Irish accent for the Jamaican. I love Larry Kirwan’s vocals and energy. He took that crowd and owned them like a cool MC, unfortunately he was playing to the throngs of drunk bikers.

‘The truth is there was no intention behind any of it. There was no intention for my voice to sound old. The songs come out like they do because I like the sound of stuff like that. I didn’t start writing songs to get a record deal. I wrote songs to express myself and they ended up sounding old.’

But here comes the corn row wearing bloated AXL Rose with a 12 show stint at the Hardrock Hotel and Casino arena ‘The Joint’ I don’t know if I should laugh or cry. Titled the “Appetite for Democracy” residency it makes me think it should honestly be listed as the “Appetite for Buffet” residency.

Apparently Beady Eye at the Olympics wasn’t a coup d’etat by Liam Gallagher but an abdication by Noel Gallagher. And trust it to Noel to come off like a self-righteous dick while doing a fun and funny and right thing

But then she sorta morphed into this opinionated flag waver. Boom I left her camp straight away. Last thing I need in my life is some preachy broad in a wife beater. This is the lament of the woman rocker

What nags at the song, what Linda Ronstadt did, is pull up instead of down here. Nona’s plaintiveness is powerful in a subdued emotional declaration of desire. Linda’s reading was too smart. Too perfect. It gussied it up too much. Just about everybody else has no idea what to do with the song.

Declared in front of a Singapore crowd, during a concert, that Obama has staged episodes of mass violence around the US to pass a gun ban.

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.’