rock nyc

I’ve had a soft spot for Lita Ford ever since she shared her turkey sandwich with me back in the early 1980s. People don’t forget moments like that.

If I was dead, I would trip right down to Austin and go from one show to another and sit on the stage, or dance, depends upon the band, and have the musicians move through my invisible ethereal body.

I am so pissed that Glee of all people beat me to fun. That’s ridiculous. And not just Glee but Spotify had them play when they introduced their apps back in Novemember. So here, from the better never than late, congrats to fun. for their second week at # 1.

Over Adele by a mere 1,400 units, a win is a win. And in this day and age, 196,000 is OK. Bruce’s third consecutive number one. Still, think it will go Gold? How? Otherwise, what the heck is Andrew Bird doing there???

Here’s why I am listening to a son from an album whose lead track is “Here Come the ’80s”. I went to see the Stones tribute Tuesday night, Rosanne Cash sang “Gimme Shelter”, Cash covered this song on her brilliant Somewhere In The Stars album. Crowell was not only Cash’s husband at the time, but he wrote the song himself and did a pretty good job singing it. Not as good… Grade:A-

To fully appreciate their fusion of breaks, electro, hip-hop and every other form of music that whips a crowd up into a sweaty, writhing heap of body parts, it’s best to see NBTD live

It’s nothing like their previous albums passion-wise and it felt lame. However, it’s totally grown on me and it’s the only thing I’ve been listening to for the past 24 hours.

Walking down an icy grave, leading to my Schizophrenic father. Weeping willow won’t you wallow louder, searching for my father’s power…he’s a black magic wielder some say a witch.”

Seeing them live is a celebration of life, which can turn a little too mushy at times (yeah this is a love feast!), but it sure will make you happy if you still can feel your feet after all that jumping and bouncing.

They advertised Night Moves on the gay escort service website Rent Boy. If you’re gay I highly recommend it, these guys have the biggest magic wands on earth.

this song, like so many off those first two albums, was about one of the sexiest voices in the business. Chrissie is all come on, all flirt, all casual tension And it is also a perfect melodic countrpoint to the vocal and lyric, the break seems to be rushing head first into a new romance and the verses and choruses are oddly coy. Grade: A+

Bethany Consentino’s bright vocals with lots of stretched syllables and repetitive lyrics,… how many times does she say ‘you don’t know why I cry’ anyway?

My feelings about Laura Marling are pretty well known by now, right? I hated her for years, got buzzed by an obscure album track, on one wild Sunday night caught her at the McCattrick Hotel (wild? I went to see Jane Birkin the same night) and have been a complete fanatic ever since.

I have never seen Garbage live but this is the treat of all treats. Playing a tiny club in Boston (and other locations, of course) Shirley and the boys will bring their recorded genius to the eyes.

The music is your expected club music, with lots of dance-floor-disco rhythms, some cheerleader-lines in the mix and techno-beats turning madly hypnotic, while you are watching disturbing and bloody night club scenes

Now here is the problem. The 29th is a Sunday. For the most part, I won’t do Sundays. I went to that Coldplay radio City gig, right? It knocked me for a loop all week. Then I have a Monday, which I might have done and a Tuesday which I won’t.

Mozart, and apparently it’s quite sexy. I wouldn’t know from that, not quite, but the violin/piano interplay has a lot of tension. They seem to interprete each other before going their own way. Leionard is the violinist and it feel like she is keeping the piano in check, he keeps on building and then she stops him and he recedes again. Grade: A-

In L.A. it would be considered A GOOD WEEK, in Cleveland a good month. Over here it is a quandary, a world filled with sound and vision!!! And we can only go to one. And nyc is the capital of live music. London can’t claim this sort of night.

Matt Skiba and the Sekrets released a new tune called “All Fall Down” and I’m not exactly sure why I’ve never heard anything by them before, because I’ve been missing out.

You might think this has something to say about hiomosexuality, but it doesn’t. If you need to be told it was safer for homosexuals to remain closeted in the 1950s, you haven’t been paying intention. And if they have made MacGregor a bigot, anti-gay, you might have had an interesting conflict. But Ewan loves gay, and his dad, and his Mom. What is the nivelling shits problem?

laughing in front of a funny video, drinking a glass of alcohol (yes!), or doing any other relaxing activity have demonstrated the important benefit to ‘not paying attention’, and not being focused in the creativity process

band is the generic modeling clay for every mall walker. A very small demographic that in 18 months will move out of this pep squad sound to more mature fields.

Kelly Clarkson takes on Paramore and boots Hayley and her boys down the stairs. This version is a thousand times more believable and heart felt than Williams could dream of. Why?

Dexys Midnight Runners are now Dexys. They lost half their name and half their fun. The oddest offering for free download on their soundcloud page is “Nowhere Is Home”.

Ah yes, editing a music blog. 5 years I knew two of the songs on the February and except for Justin, not all that well. 2012, I know all of them and the albums they came off as well!

Why the hell is an Irish boy band getting a big push from ITunes? Because their record company is paying for it, that’s why. Otherwise, wow, nothing major going on here. Miike Snow, I guess.

Girls Like You – The Naked And The Famous – An infectious rethinking of glam rock for the post-electronic age but a couple out of Auckland, New Zealand, many miles from home, and dealing with a harsh reality. Beauty is skin deep. Grade: B+

Bruce could write, “My business manager is investing in gold and Euro Dollars but I don’t wanna know…” that would be brutally honest. Or get to the bottom of the rift between him and his audience, how “he walks this world in wealth” and yet feels pain and empathy for people he must be wondering about. I mean, do they even exist? They sure can’t afford tickets to his shows