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Bret Michaels "Get Your Rock On" Reviewed

The duck lips pursed (don’t ya just want to kiss him daddy) and enough fuzzy lighting to kill the pain of his aged self cannot masquerade the horrible tune he has decided to use for a come back. I have a theory that if you use the word “rock” in a song, you’re trying to hard

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Another Crazy Lawsuit for Michael Jackson Estate

Kimberley Griggs is suing MJ’s estate for $1 billion, no less – but I guess she can, now that he is selling albums as if we were back in the good old ‘Thriller’ times. Kimberley is claiming she had an intimate relationship with Jackson in 1979 and so has inspired albums like ‘Thriller’, ‘Bad’ and ‘Dangerous’!

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Elvis Presley TV and Tour?

After Tupac showed up as a “hologram’ every corpse with a corporation is getting propped up for one last hurrah. Can ya blame them? Its tough to come up with new ideas from an expired product. So lets make digi-king and send him on the road!

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Listen Up: 6-10-12

Give That Bass Player Some, Part One – James Brown – In 1979, Brown was zig zagging between hard business as usual funk and synth based disco funk and here the real thing won, though the chick backup singers may have been a balm to the age – Grade: B+

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fun. Performs on Jimmy Kimmel Live

I have to commend him for being able to deliver such a great performance while still doing more exercise on stage than I do in a month. Though unable to flail about the stage like Nate, the two guitarists on stage had just as much energy

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God Save The Queen?

Here in the States, we consider it a mix of smart and silly, we can afford not to care after handing King George his hat back in the day. Will Elizabeth Rex ever retire? Morrissey is considering it yeah, but Lizzy? I sincerely doubt we will ever see her leaving any way except thru Westminster Abby.

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Listen Up: 6-9-12

This is one of a handful of times where Costello the song composer trumps Costello the songwriter. This is one of those rare songs where everything is perfect: the mood of distressed guilt, help together by the girl back up singers like a Greek chorus, and a metaphor playing on the origins of the city name. And finally the horns, adding to its anxious beauty. Grade: A+

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Wakarusa Day 1: Live from the Ozarks

Armed with an equally babetastic and studly crew of RYTOR, Dreadlock McKleary, hoopin Hono and Tink, we began our Thursday with some funky bluegrass on the main stage with ALO and Railroad Earth, with some added energy from the our glowing ball of fire in the sky

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Iggy Pop and Ginger Baker "Lonely Boy" Reviewed

Iggy is a genius, Ginger Baker is legend and together they take a kid tune and make it an oom pa pa slow decent into auditory hell. But why? This crap is coming off of a new album in as tribute to The Black Keys titled “Black on Blues”. Why the fuck do The Black Keys deserve a tribute album

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Animals As Leaders Javier Reyes, Busted

Well then raise your hands if if you have even heard of the band Animals of Leaders- ok those five people can go sit down now. This band has yet to truly ‘make it’ but they are very good (not great) and what is better to do when you’re not so fabulous and you need some press? Get busted

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The Cab's Alexander DeLeon Covers "Boyfriend"

If ‘Hey Jude” could take a sad song and make it better then there is proof that Alex DeLeon can take a bad song and make it worse. I blame the webcam. Everyone shoving their mugs up in the circle and hitting record pretending they sound good

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CBGB The Movie, And Now The Casting!!!

Despite a vague resemblance, more due to the hairdo than anything else, I really wonder what made them choose this guy, he is not an actor but a drummer! And it’s kind of ridiculous because it looks like they are trying to match current Pop’s straight blond hair, but when he was Hawkins’ age, he didn’t really look like this!

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Neil Young & Crazy Horse Dates

There are a heap of Okies out there in ‘Merca so I say gas up the Ford, take the shotguns off the gun rack hire Aunt Weezie to watch the kids and take your old lady out for a good time of “Sugar Mountain”,

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US Top 10 Albums, June 16th, 2012

Sharpe is better than he looks, Regina gave away the album with tickets, so figure they are a dead heat. Not bad at all, his debut album didn’t even chart. Also? if you sold 22,000 units last week you had a top ten album….

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US Top 10 Singles, June 16th, 2012

Of all the pop charts in all the world, this pop chart is the poppiest. It is the mainstreaming of pop , dance, boy bands, and multitracking ad infinitum. And at its best, Flo Rida, Rihanna, Minaj’s song, it’s fine with me.

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Listen Up: 6-8-12

This is 1931 and Bing Crosby is definitely not the singer he would become, it almost sounds like he’s using a bellhorn and, the gilted lover story, is glazed over, only Bing’s pleasure in the puns remains. And the song isn’t much either. The big band behind himis just a coupla strings, and it doesn’t swing. But there is a glimmer here of what is yet to come – Grade: B+

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Morrissey Ready To Retire

In 1982 he started up The Smiths, in 1988 he opted out for solo and it appears 2014 will be his retirement. He simply acknowledges he is too old for rock and roll. Why on Earth have others not accepted this fact?

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Tom Cruise "Paradise City" Reviewed

Perhaps if he had not opted to hit the tons that pop balloons with their frequency we would be ok but the shrill “taaake mee hoo o ome yeaha yeaha’ made me want to not only kill myself but everything around me

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Must See: Stumblebunny At Bowery Electric

Marky said, “Yo Chris, wha’diya gonna do now?” ” GOD PROTECTS DRUNKARDS AND FOOLS!”, I declared. “I’ll start my OWN band, and I’ll call it Stumblebunny!” I marched down to Max’s Kansas City and told them I have a new band and I want a date to play

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Ed Sheeran's First US Headline Tour

Beginning in mid-September, Sheerhan will headlining VH1’s “You Oughta Know Tour’ that showcases new artists Pastparticipatns have been Adele, Bruno Mars, Amy Winehouse and The freakin Fray. Why the hell would anyone want to know The Fray? They’re an abomination

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Listen Up: 6-7-12

Woody interviewed Curren$y for us some three years ago and Marsha I caught on stage last year. The reason we covered em, Curren$y long before he broke, you can hear on this fine rap plus soul song. A beauty. – Grade: A

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Ben Howard At Amoeba, Monday June 4th 2012

He had a very good contact with the crowd, making friendly conversation with many people there, and someone asked him to play Carly Rae Jepsen’s ‘Call Me Maybe’, a song he has apparently covered during a BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge. ‘I’m not going to do this song again!’ he said as if he had been caught doing something borderline sinful

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Bringing Sexy Bach: ELO "Greatest Hits" 1986

ELO’s Greatest Hits 1986 was a guilty pleasure that I played when my cool friends were too fucked up to notice what was going on in their ears. Starting out with the strain of “You Made a Fool Of Me…” from ‘Evil Woman’ this ‘greatest hits album is nonstop guilty pleasure

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Christofer Drew Produces A Joke

I only heard snips of the lyrics but I am entirely sure that they aren’t meaningful or interesting at all. I can’t even hate it, it’s so pathetic. A weak attempt to be cool ended up a tune so horrific that it’s laughable

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Fun. “Some Nights” Video, Reviewed

This music video is the only one I’ve ever seen to focus on a civil war battlefield but this appears to have been the best possible way to portray the message of the song. I don’t doubt the decision for a second

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Scissor Sisters single 'Baby Come Home' Reviewed

For those of you who missed the 70’s there was a time when breakfast cereals contained a 45rpm record embedded in the box. You’d just cut it out at the perforation-and pop it on your close and play. This song would have been perfect on a box of Boo Berry.

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