rock nyc

Her first single since 2009 is a masterpiece. It is instanataneously the song to beat. A piano (surprise!!) based track with echoey drums and maybe a little bit overproduced. But it is a magnificently strange thing

On the the hand, Pissed Jeans were much better when I caught Ceremony headlining earlier this year, on the other hand it is exceedingly difficult this loud, drums heavy slice of punk. Yeah punk, not hardcore.

As the iconic in his own write photographer recently noted to rock nyc: “Mick Rock might have shot the ’70s but I had it covered after that!

It seems like a never-ending quest, finding someone’s personality through some tastes or preferences, and the eternal question of which one came first, the musical taste or the personality? Which one did influence the other?

See this is why some guys are legend. Lowe looks great by the way, all elder gentry in the Buddy Holly specs and its nice to see Wilco and Robyn Hitchcock helping out their pal.

James Brown was always an erratic performer by this stage of his career. He was pretty good and he was undoubtedly James Brown. And Rosemary Clooney was undoubledly Rosemary Clooney and there was a lot of her! She fell soon pretty soon after this.

“I called up my buddy Steve Diamond and asked him his take on the new Madonna single. “It’s pretty good, much better than the first. Good beat, works on the dancefloor, typically so so lyrics. I’ve heard some really good remixes”.

Bruce lead off with his two weakest songs, but on first listen this is his best album since at least The Rising. What does that mean? A B+ is my feeling..

If some of the old Motown hits seem tied to their era (it’s the shuffling bass), this Smokey Robinson song slips through time periods as it mixes in a jazz aesthetic with a disco (long before of course) rhythm section. Some people claim the lead singer is the best singer of all time.

London based Daughter have only one EP to their name, last year’s His Young Heart. Just three tracks butm this, according to the Guardian, musical progeny of Enya and Eno, is a doozy.

Now this is better and well done Meat Loaf. The album isn’t the worst thing I’ve ever, ever, ever heard. Though i thought he sucked on stage. the last coupla times I’ve seen.

Wow, is this depressing or what? To quote For Science, sometimes I wonder if the sun is outside, sometimes I wonder if I’m even alive.

1. Breakfast – Chiddy Bang – Title track off the best hip hop album of the year is all about a horns riddled sample that the two kids rap around, between and over,

the tune is a rather uplifting one, quite complex to describe, with lots of guitars, a dense pop-rock melody and Mercer’s high vocals. It is far less bombastic than ‘Simple Song’

Not bad I guees. Bruce, the Shins, the Ting Tings. The Hunger Games soundtrack -what I’ve heard hasn’t been all that… Magnetic Fields? I haven’t much dug them since 69 Love Songs, I have a friend who swears by Margot And The So And Sos and is going to DC to see em. One other? KAISER CHIEFS!!!

I don’t particulalrly like where Frankie came from, the drone pop of bands like Vivian and Dum Dum Girls, and I haven’t much cared for where she’s gone. But that’s as much a boredom inthe relentless amorphous melodies. It’s like trying to hang on to butterfly wings, the songs are crushed out of your memory the harder you listen. Grade: B

Ruby, Are You Mad At your Man – Carolina Chocolate Drops – The album is very good, but not this good. It puts the blue into bluegrass and slaps about every instrument in the room.