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UK Top 10 Albums, March 17th, 2012

Forget # 1, but # 2? It is like a reality TV show about army wives singing. Since The UK is not at war and doesn’t have conscription, so quite what they’re winging about Hey, wait a second, Lionel Richie has a new album? And Springsteen in at number one.

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MFT 3-12-12

Elitist, wiseacres, rhythmically jumpy, ontense, insulated, New York centric, it’s a big country and you can kep it, David Byrne claims. And the band slithers through the snideness like a beacon for funk still to come.

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Iman and Hel Do SNL: The Shins

I’m pleased but not surprised that they opted to do “Simple Song”, I really like it. As mature and grey as they appear they still have a great youthful sound. This is simply a good pop song performed well, if not robotic.

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Attack Attack And What Constitutes a Hit Album

17,000 units moved may be many things, but it isn’t really a hit album. I mean, I would be shocked if the record company made a profit on it. 17,000 units and an on the border top 10 album? If that’s the case, while Billboard are doing many fine things, I don’t think they are telling us the bottom line on succesful bands any more.

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Fiona Apple's 23 word Album Title

It is funny how blogs and magazines have posted quite old pictures of her, probably because that’s all they had. I stumbled on this curious and recent interview, and she looks so luminous and fragile

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Singles Going Steady, Week Of March 5th, 2012

Four years after “American Boy”, the English r&b star is back with an album about relationships replete with sketches between some of the tracks. Romance is fine and while I find the constant a little obvious, this is a well sustained and detailed series of provocations on the art of love. Grade: B+

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MFT 3-11-12

Knocking on a century later, what did we learn from WW1? That men in their millions were expendable. That Europe could kill off a generation of their youth and 20 years later do it again. When I hear English war songs, I am moved to new heights of cynicism, and, since my Gradfather died in a nameless faceless war for no reason, I have a right. This English sister act from the 1950s jollyfy an already jolly act. The question isn’t whether there are things worth dying for. The question is what they are and who is making the decision. Grade: B

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Lady GaGa Made For TV Movie

Gaga is concerned that the soon to be made film will show her as vulnerable and weak- she wants her image to be strong and self confident. This is also a contradiction since her whole rally cry has been about her triumph over insecurities

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Tenacious D Spring Tour

We recorded down and dirty in a friend’s garage with a shoestring budget of 600 dollars, much like Nirvana’s first album Bleach – or the Beatles first album Help.

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MFT 3-10-12

After dismissing the album out of hand as gloomy soundscapes, I noticed the album was in at an astounding # 3 on the Hot 100. It still sounds like doomy soundscapes but doomy sounscapes off a hit album are always going to be more interesting. Grade: B

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ShipRocked 2012

When did rock and roll become posh enough to have a cruise? Arent we supposed to be gritty and blue collar? Did we really want our metal with creme’ bruele?

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Having Fun. With breaking Bands

Obviously I’ve seen many, many bands very early in their career, from the Sex Pistols (before Sid Vicious), Elvis Costello (before the Attractions), X-ray Specs (with Lora Logic), Grandmaster Flash, Diana Krall, Prince, cyndi Lauper, Blur, Oasis…

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Sarah McLachlan's Highbrow Tour

There are some ‘packages’ available, none that include a free kitten but of course, we all want VIP right? Let’s put it this way, if you were really a VIP you wouldn’t be paying in the first place

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MFT 3-9-12

New York Dolls went looking for a kiss, and this girls, equally lousy spellers, sure found one. Absolutely classic

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Jesus Christ Superstar At The Neil Simon, A Second Opinion

am a Catholic but non-practicing. I found the lashing of Jesus Christ disturbing. Again, I am a bad Catholic but I don’t see the crucifixion or torture of Jesus Christ as musical theatre. I felt the 39 lashes to a great rock hook is surreal. Not sure how I was supposed to react to it? And the finale with Christ on the glitzy cross almost brought the audience to its feet. It was a bit too surreal for me.

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Mainstream Music Makes You Racist?

Those who listened to the rock music gave more to the white group, but split the rest equally among the other three – in other words they weren’t punitive against the others as were the listeners of the white power rock

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Steve Aoki “Heartbreaker” Video Review

Aoki is your typical DJ trying to make it big in the world of mainstream music, much like Skrillex or DeadMau5. The difference is, I hear no sort of unique style in his music; instead, I see his unique style in the video for his song.

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Annie Lennox on Rihanna

Unfortunately, in this universe, Rihanna is just your average stupid kid, taking on Twitter and Facebook (according to some gossip sites) to attack Brown’s new girlfriend and get her wife-beater back.

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Lady Gaga Twits Out

The icing on the cake is that lady gaga has just reached 20 million followers on Twitter. 20 million? Wow, if each one bought an album… or a ticket for that matter…

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MFT 3-08-12

– I like the beats a lot, maybe more than ever song I’ve heard this year. But the raps, while very strange, don’t quite gel

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