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How many ways do you use “Lambourghini” in a rhyme? Raitt, Ward, Mayer and Florence Unplugged. The Raitt is self-released, the Counting Crows ain’t going nowhere.

1. It’s A Thin Line Between Love And Hate – The Pretenders – Chrissie Hynde’s greatest vocal achievement here, a near perfect rock and roll adaption of an r&b classic all ends up in body talk and hospital beds, and Chrissie digs down as deep as she can get. Grade: A

The excitement is building as Warped veterans and newcomers gear up for what may be the biggest tour yet. I am captivated that so many bands are returning, to see Four Year Strong and Mayday Parade is almost tradition. Taking Back Sunday is going to be facing a new sort of crowd.

So for people who cannot afford the pricey festival, or just don’t want to suffer too much in the Indio valley, there is… Brokechella 2012, at Six01 Studios in the Los Angeles warehouse district, on April 21, during the second Coachella weekend!

With its pulsating guitars, layered vocal harmonies, and an ethereal beginning, the upbeat and dynamic song transpires the sap going up in roots and branches at each of its energetic outbursts of bright guitars and soaring chorus. It is a sort of inspiring and vibrant ode to life, it’s rich and dense, elaborate and catchy, and it captures your attention till the end

Oh my! Actually, Nicki looks a little bit like an Easter egg, she wears both its pastel colors, tender pink, light blue, chick yellow, grassy green, and its rounded form, as she exposes every part of her curvy body.

I once wrote a short story about going on a date with God (it’s a long… er, short story), and we went to see Pulp on the date. If all you know of Pulp is “Common People”, get thee to Radio City on Tuesday (which still has tix available) or Wednesday (sold out) and see God.

Once you get past Jessie, Adele, Guetta and Sheeran, this is kinda interesting. Nicki at # 1, Madonna slipping right down and away, Bruce already out ot of the top ten, Moshii Monsters are the best kids band ever and Lostprohets are awful

Carly’s hit just caught my ear (and I wish she would give it back)… it answers the musical question, “If you have a good hook, how often should you repeat it?” The answer is: over and over and over…

Johnny 99 – Bruce Springsteen – In which Bruce begins his evolution from new Jersey upstart to American Citizen as he adapts a thick Arkansas hillbilly accent to a tale of poverty and injustice and, Friday night at MSG, retooled it as a death rattle hootenanny for the sets best moment. Grade: A+

The Academy Is… is now The Academy Was. It was inevitable this band would fail based on timing alone. These kids came out of the whole MTVu scene and were run over by the likes of Fall Out Boy (who!?) and the lot.

The catchy tune starts with a few guitar-drum electric shocks (may be to animate the mechanical wooden doll-like woman laying on the table) and some oh-oh-oh-nos before exploding into a higher lever of power-pop chorus, that will certainly stick in your memory cells for some time.

Welcome to Marilyns death dinner party! Yes its shoddy cliche’ but its so very Manson. We have already reviewed this wonderful song “No Reflection’ would be a great song to crack charts.

On album after album this year, the production values on modern Gospel albums have been at a moral quandaryt. Whether great or indifferent, they were also outrageously untradional. Here is a major exception. Smokie toggles between r&b and soft jazz, essentially landing at a soulful heat as he pulls his voice from tenor upwards. Much better live then on record, this is sung and played very well. Grade: B+

Fresh off writing how much I hate her English accent and then finding mmyself in the unlikely position of defending her on Facebook, then dismissing her new album here somewhere, this song actually is kinda fun.Grade: B+

As they were starting into their first loud and powerful tune, there was something that came over those in the pit, causing them to start thrashing and moving around. The energy in the room escalated and you could hear the band having their very own lyrics shouted back at them.

Simple, noisy, nasty drops are woven with intricate little rhythms and every single song has a crazy beat that you can’t help but love. Porter has only just recently come into popularity but, with the recent rise in popularity of dubstep artists like DeadMau5 and Skrillex, Porter will soon be at the top of everyone’s charts

Mute the sound on this and it is every 35+ musicians ‘artsy’ video. I would say I’m disappointed in this wanna be Twilight Zone, Outer Limits 50s duck and cover influenced three minutes but its too comedic to say even that. What has happened to Garbage and who hid their cool?

what does it say about your respect for his work if you can tear up the pages and smoke everything? Anyway, the book is in fact a promotion for Snoop Dogg’s Kingsize Slim Rolling Papers created by San Francisco agency Pereira & O’Dell, and will probably be more a collector thing than anything else.

Does Taylor Momsen know Don McLean? Hard to say since she lives in such a bubble. But, she does a classic Mclean idea (can music save your moral soul?) proud on this hard rock ballad. Grade: B+

It has a bad case of the shakes. It turns down the radio, turns up the window and drives from nyc to Memphis iand back n a mood of deep melancholy. Grade: A

. ‘For the first two verses I’m complaining, but in the third verse, it’s tinged with envy as well,’ he says. ‘I’d like to be that age again and that silly, that excited about idiotic things. So I’m not being insensitive, just tired.’

So, Madonna steals the crown off Lionel Ritchie… just as we toldja she would back in Match. Poor, Lionel. His re-recording of his greatest hits with country stars may be a crime about nature, but it is a crime against nature that sold enough to be # , but Madonna swiped by bundling the album with concert tickets.

The return of the tweens! If you include Carly, that makes four spots. Ps: while a # 1 would’ve been nice, fun. Has a tight grip on the spots, and given the hard beats on the track, and given the competition, and given it is a single not album and therefore has legs, I believe congratulations are in order.

Three girls sing together with a high pitched siren out and the band enters like an indie punk outfit and exists like Sonic Youth. Shame this didn’t come awcross on stage. Grade: B+

The world today is so focused on the latest and greatest trend; this is just magnified in my generation by the changing times and the already limited attention span of the average teenager.

This band capture feelings in a net. Easily relatable and in proper form La Dispute oozes emotion in a darker sense. Dark but not depressing. The introverted art form of expressing thoughts with power and conviction and just a tiny bit of fear.

I’ve been prevaricating between MDNA being borderline and very good. The remixes might throw me onto the very good side forever. Try the Facebook link, the album is $3.50 and you could find out before I do,