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Yeah, he’s old and beat up and sort of a parody but I still love his psychosis. He tries so hard and the Industrial-Goth scene wouldnt amount to a hill of beans with out him.

As we eagerly await the release of What We Saw From The Cheapseats, the new Regina Spektor album, here is the question of the moment: can she sustain the sheer brilliance of “All The Rowboats”.

“has more the flip zip of a disc by Katy Perry or Ke$ha than something by a woman who may be older than both their mothers. Then again, we are talking about Madonna, a woman who, at this point, seems just as hellbent on giving the finger to expectations about.”

Watered down Bull because it is at service to something bigger than itself: THE MEN IN BLACK FRANCHISE. Where, from its pricey sample to its subdued laugh, Mr. 305 appears to phone it in. Actually, he is doing something tougher. He is playing to another persons audience. Grade: A-

It is released on April 10th and streaming on NPR as we speak and, yeah, it is kinda draggy. The writer at NPR called it music for transistor radios and exactly. Like his song “One Life Away”, everything seems a little old out of time, out of synch and somewhere out their in the distaance.

This take on a video game, wait or is it Hunger Games, wait.. or is it Deer Hunter or is it wait.. So poorly excecuted that we have no idea what theyre trying to say? Yes, thats it. This over budget GI Joe wanna be ‘Nam crap is laughable and pathetic. Im embarrassed for them.

I guess middle aged movie reviewers considered gratuitous female breasts and hot bodies, male and female grinding, misogynistic. Why? I dunno why. I think it is fun.

Really excellent rap and pop mix with a bluesdy backbone. The little girls who dig him should dig this, the little girls who are dropping him for One Direction will have a harder time. And the rest of us? Grade: A-

Lyrics apart, the music of ‘Port of Morrow’ sounds extremely familiar, it is as fresh and charming as The Shins’ music has always been, there is brilliance, guitars layered with keyboards, wordless harmonies, inventive jumpy noises, earworms and big choruses, yes all this, with a twist.

I guess I am happy to get anything at all on the big screen. Maybe, as a framing reference, maybe as a cultural check and balance, But it still feels like there simply isn’t enough room to tell the story right. It’s like ODB isn’t big enough.

Buick was the car your grandpa drove.  Get in the Buick go on down to the Sears and get a pair of pants.  Safe, dependable and boring.

Usually when an artist covers a song from a genre very different from their own, the cover has the same basic instrumental sound but with the covering artist’s own style. I saw no evidence of that in this tragic cover.

For them, some sort of music is always on, on their computers, phones or… from a noise in the street, they will listen to anything as long as it has some sort of rhythm,… and they want to listen to it all the time. Music is like oxygen around them, it is vital and part of their surrounding, but it is also regarded as some background element,

Small bands were playing 12 sets in three days and were entirely overshadowed by Bruce Springsteen, Fiona Apple, Lil Wayne and Jay-Z. So not only is everybody exhausted, nobody got what they came from.

The Madonna is way, way, way better than I thought it would be, the new Justin and Pitbull songs are excellent, Macy, Lionel, Justin all on their game… at first listen!

The Zenith Beast reissues have been systematically rocking my world for a couple of days and over and above that I’ve been readying myself for the Of Montreal gig on Friday night.

thought maybe you would play a quick gig in nyc as long as you were in town. Maybe Roseland, wishful thinking Beacon Theater. And along with an AMEX presale I would have been so there. Well, six months later and still you are elsewhere.

The song is an exhilarating, super-upbeat, 80s-influenced tune off their debut self-titled album, and knowing how energetic and especially funny they are on stage, they could not have found a more comical way to express their sibling attachment.

Stereogum has one minute preview of ‘Horn Of Plenty’, the orchestral track composed by Win and Régine, which is supposed to be the ‘national anthem of the fascist Capitol’, as Win explained.

it is like a mix of “The Truman Show” and “Survivor” with the lamest heroes and villains on earth. With nobody to much give a shit about it drags for a coupla hours and then stops and even the ending isn’t such a rush. Lawrence is lousy in the lead, and her love interest is beyond cipheric. He isn’t there at all and has all the passion of, I dunno, somebody with no passion.

Kevin Barnes newbie, Paralytic Stalks, is a downer, but a cool downer. Just hope Solange shows up on Friday as Of Nontreal turn Webstar Hall into a raucous party.

Sometimes I forget how big Weller is in the UK -too much of the time he is just the Godfather of Punk, a younger Pete Townsend or something. In the UK he has a vibrant, conitnuing career. Actually, he does in nyc as well.