rock nyc

Sealed With A Kiss – Brian Hyland – 50 years ago: it was all about how his voice jumped an octave between “let’s make a pledge to” and “meet in September”. Today: it’s all about the harp at the beginning. Grade: A

I am really finding it hard to believe that actor Johnny Depp and industrial rocker Marilyn Manson will soon be collaborating on a song and yet it will definitely be happening.

The Doors are one of the most influential bands of our lifetime. There are times when I shun them as uncool and times like right now, when I am stunned at how thrilling they can be. This video couldn’t be more perfect.

I’ve seen Kiss a coupla times and they always deliver the goods whether you want them to or not! Blood spewing, stadium flying, ear cruching gum smacking pop metal and why the hell not? Really, there is nothing wrong with giving people

May 19th would have been Joey Ramones 61st birthday. There are those of us who were (and are) in awe of what this lanky bean pole did for rock and roll. I do believe he single facedly made being ugly sexy as hell.

In two charts, for the first time ever, 10 Irish boys like you lots and lots and lots. How does this happen? No idea, but the tween girls npw have 10 potential replacements for Bieber. Davy was irreplaceable.

was shocked to see One Direction -Simon Cowell’s suggestion that X Factor contestants make a boy band, at # 1. This is an Irish band, and I am not certain how the US heard of them at all. Then again, as the daily Telegraph noted, “clean cut, wholesome, middle class parent friendly pop: cute boys advocating puppy love. And what could be better than one cute boy, if not five?”.

So it looks like the Hunger Games Soundtrack won’t be the dog I was hoping… er, expecting! Sometimes Burnett gets it right. Remember his work with Costello in the 1990s. No gueeses on how Arctic Monkeys were last night?

First of all, in order to be protein deficient, you have to be calorie deficient. Everything you eat has at least some protein in it. Therefore, the only way to not get enough protein is to not eat.

I saw Ceremony a few weeks ago, they were a real fury on stage, and when I re-imagine the energy of this song played live, I would have never come up with this sort of story for it

A top purveyor of Chicago electric blues, he started his career in Muddy Waters band and steered through the the 1960s influencing, well, everybody. All those Brit blues guys, Clapton, Green -the lot.

News that this eagerly awaited album will feature folk standards leaves me with this great urge to crawl into a ball and go to sleep and the addional news that a children’s choir is included makes me wonder why they don’t cover “Career Opportunities” as well (check out the last song!! -at least I hope it’s the Sex Pistol)

4.14M English people have bought the sucker. Er? Look at it this way, there about 61M people in the UK, so that means 1 out of every 15 man woman and child own this piece of crap,

That is what a real good concert can do… take over your fave track list! Though, at least three of these songs are on my best of 2012 list and only one is by Odd Future.

I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning is the best album of all time lyrically, musically, and content-wise. It’s pure perfection that is so deep and thought-provoking and will forever strike a chord in me.

it is the track listing of Nicki Minaj’s new album Pink Friday: Reloaded, dropping April 3rd, essential the first album plus extra tracks. Oh, look, Cam’ron is making an appearance.

Safe And Sound – Taylor Swift – I’ve ragged on this before, an ordinary folk song from the just released “Hunger Games” soundtrack produced by the way over rated Burnett. I’d like to take that Mandolin and smash it to little pieces. Grade: B

Nearly every single original hint of emotion is lost. Only Conor Oberst’s voice can pull of his songs. Brandon Flowers’ voice just simply isn’t made for the types of songs BE does.

I never take any music with me when I run marathons, it is simply too long and I want to avoid another friction around the ears, but I have enough music memorized to entertain myself… I was playing in my head the songs I have played on my iPod lately, from the Bad Brains, to Ceremony, Fucked up, Iggy and the Stooges.

a sincerely tongue in cheek spin, with Jonah Hill (so good in “Moneyball) as the nerd and Channing Tatum (so good in… hold on, give me a second) as the hunk, going back to High School to uncover the Mr. Big who is dealing a deadly designer drug.