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Anthony Raneri, "Sandra Partial" live Reviewed

His voice is absolutely beautiful; he’s undoubtedly one of my top three favourite vocalists simply because his voice is so unique and beautiful. The tune is simple and catchy and lovable on the EP, but hearing him perform it makes it my new addiction.

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Television Light, February 13-19

You would think that there would be a network dedicated to providing fantastic visual music to the masses. You know.. maybe a network that had music 24 hours a day 7 days a week and offered up new things for us to learn and appreciate

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Pick Concerts Week Of February 13th, 2012

A friend of mine claimed she wasn’t gonna pay $100 to hear Aretha Franklin wander off the stage for an hour and sing for half an hour. Me? I would. And i have. But last time I saw her, our greatest living singer (give or take a George Jones) played 90 minutes straight and was magnificent

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UK Top 10 Albums -February 18th, 2012

I have a new theory about why acts like McCartney are charting again. In the 1990s his fanbase were younger and more willing to experiment with other music and leave the McCartney’s alone. Now, they just want the same old same old. And God knows, this album is the same old same old

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MFT 2-13-12

An African singer who took the UK, followed it with the US and died in an air raid in 1941 at the age of 43. This dates from 1932 and with a minute i and a minute in, all instrumental, was written to be danced to.

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Iman and hel Do SNL: Karmin

I knew from the moment I saw Heidemanns fake persona this band…wait…is it a band? NO its a keyboard and a croaker. This is pathetic and horrific and just a perfect move for SNL- which is also horrific and pathetic.

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"Sleep No More" At The McKittrick Hotel Reviewed

You put on mask that make it hard to breath if you wear glasses and you wander through darkly lit mazes and pop in and out of rooms and spaces where you run into extremely fit looking athletic actors not wearing masks who, with minimal speech but lotsa balletic movements rush about from foom to room, often disappearing entirely (a bitch if you are trying to catch up with them.

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Get OFF! At Burgerama

Sure, I have already seen most of these bands, but this is why I know it is a fantastic line-up, with OFF! and its old-school-Black-Flag-revival hardcore sound, Wavves and its distorted-surfing-messy-weedy melodies, Ty Segall and its sunny-garage-punkish-reverbing rock

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The Clash's "Sandinista!" Revisited

I have listened to this album without thought so many times that I realize now I never actively listened. Have you heard “The Leader” lately? Holy hell stop reading and go get it right this minute. If the beat don’t grab you the story will.

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Hoax -ed! Angriest Band In The World!!!

The lead singer is a skinny bloke with a naff ‘tache and a naffer attiutude who seems ready to derail at any moment. Spitting out spiteful lyrics while the band sound like a deranged Disturbed, and their anger isn’t just for we commoners who deem to listen up, but, “all corporate leeches”

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Madonna, MIA and The Middle Finger

Listen to this! Madonna is offended by a middle finger? It looks like she is rather pissed off because the attention was shifted from herself to M.I.A.,and so things didn’t turn exactly as she had planned.

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Singles Going Steady, Week Of February 6th, 2012

The classic early silent movie is given a new soundtrack by the French techno duo Air. Meant to be pplayed simulatenously with a viewing of movie, in context it must be a thing of intence beauty,. Spacey, weighless, It builds efforlessly to the 18 second “Homme Lune” (Moon Man). Without the movie it is like reading Flaubert’s “Madame Bovery” with 10th Grade French. You get the gist but get lost in the nuance. Grade: B

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MFT 2-12-12

The wittiest named band of all time takes a shot at the Scottish National anthem, which sounds pretty good with bagpipes on the second time round, but the song istself is like a dirge set to a see-saw, with the words changing emphasize every go round. No wonder the English beat em in 1755.

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The Ramones, 1974 (Video Included)

This isn’t proto Ramones, it is pro. Sure the melodies would get better, and sure Jooey would thing better, but otherwise, they didn’t change a bit for the next quarter of a century. The leather coats and jeans, the lounging, roaring, tight as fuck, loud fast lRamones are rolling through your brain cells.

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Nicki Minaj, "Marilyn Monroe" Reviewed

The song “Marilyn Monroe” is a pathetic pop drone with weak lyrics, weak music and a weak un credited rapper with too strong a volume. Maybe shes just a great rapper and a horrible singer? That could be it.

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Michael Jackson Glee, and Jesus Weeps

Forgive me if I am missing something but this is the most nauseating thing I have heard since Nickelback. In a world with so much to offer the lazy Dorito eating lumps are rocking out to kareoke tv? Its repulsive.

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MFT 2-11-12

Their masterpiece. Starts like the Who, then changes into a books on tape with a great backing back, before Pink Eye ramrods it and at the very end, a high pitched woman joines in. 15 minutes later you go home better for the experience.

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Killing Joke, MMXXII

Everything is speeding up. It’s not just our minds shrinking. We are heading towards the Eschaton and no-one really knows what’s going to happen.

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"Whiskey In Hell", Anarbor Reviewed

The band was never about being cool, never about impressing the masses. I always admired them for this considering they seemed to be the rare few who weren’t singing about a bottle of Jack and getting lucky

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The Maccabees – 'Feel To Follow' Reviewed

Perhaps we are all to buried in BONE EEVAIR (Bon Iver) and the horrible Black Keys to identify worthy music. Step in with the video for “Feel To Follow” an ultra Euro weird jaunt into floating imagery that suits the tune to a T

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The Fall "Laptop Dog" Reviewed

It’s Iggy and Sid and Hell and swaggering swag and not ghetto swag. The constant drumbeat and repetitive music whipped me right back to the seedy side of town. What a retro sounding single from The Fall.

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Fucked Ups "Year Of The Tiger" Reviewed

Epic in intent, and epic in execution, the song goes through moods and sounds, vocalists and guitar parts, pianos and drums and it moves and moves and moves sometimes hash hardcore, sometimes, wall of sound prog rock, sometimes twee pop

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Paul McCartney Wont Stream

McCartney follows Coldplay, The Black Keys, Tom Waits and Adele, artists who recently removed their last albums from streaming services. Don’t worry, you can still download McCartney’s albums through iTunes or Amazon, but the free listening is over!

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MFT 2-10-12

Listening to Fred Hammond the past couple of days got me thinking about the dearth of greats soul songs. The difference between Wonder and even an 80s wonder like Babyface, or a legend like Hammond, isn’t content or sound, it is tune. The tunes aren’t strong enough.

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Salt and Peppa Spice Up McDonald's Bite

What the hell are they doing? Everyone knows (and anyone who doesn’t simply chooses to be ignorant) that McDonalds is a killing machine. Worthless ‘food’ filled with chemicals and death served up fast and friendly by workers who scratch their ass hair into the batter.

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