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look at Paul McCartney’s latest trip down memory lane this way: if anybody else hoad recorded Kisses On The Bottom, if Seth McFarlane, whose own take on the Great American songbook isn’t that much worse than this, had recorded it, the world would be laughing itself sick.

Obviously, Doctor, you’ve never been a 13 year old girl”. I loved the novel, the movie not so much. It is the sort of story that lends itself to being imagined rather than seen. The Air soundtrack was terrific. Especially here with the very doctored voice of the male narrator, reading highlights from the book as Pink Floyd keyboards along with soaring chants playoff in the back ground.

Tickets are going on sale February 11th at 10am EST with a pre-sale for the Metallica’s fan club from February 8th to 10th. The two-day general admission is priced at $125, andyou can visit the website at OrionMusicAndMore.com.

Wilson has gone on record as saying this is a money making proposition. He has been bullied into it, and he couldn’t turn down the bucks. Really, this is the Beach Boys Cousins And Sworn Enemies tour.

misery, adversity and oppression have always triggered great art and music in particular, if you look at black music the evidence is overwhelming

Madonna reminds me of Michael Jackson circa HIStory. Like MJ, she is sliding somewhere, somewhere irrelevant, and she has fought back by exploiting her past and her present and while in theory what do I care? In practice, I have been a huge fan and this song is drag and a disappointment

After you’ve listened to the first two, what is left? McCartney will be a bore and Van Halen will be a cobbled together piece of crap if “Tattoo” is “Tattoo” is anything to go by. No, the keeper here is gonna be Aior. I’ve been a fan since “The Virgin Suicides” and am looking forward to hearing the techno Kings again.

Representing the English glam hard rock which would morph Stateside into hair metal, UK band the Darkness return to Irving Plaza on Monday. Expect lots of recycled riffing and some killer melodies Foxy Shazzam opening.

The problem with Lana’s album is the great thing about Cohen’s: the production. It is so de rigeur. The beats are so received, so often heard, so similar and so kinda out of place. Whatever you wanna say about Cohen, it sounds exactly like itself

Dance is changing over the last couple of months. If its emotional concerns are still somewhat on the lame side, the flip is a musical deepening of the sound. “We Found Love” is one, “Titanium” is another

: ‘At the end of the day, we set the $5 ticket price out of naiveté. We have to make sure we do what’s fiscally responsible for the organization, and make sure we have a safe, clean festival.’

Metallica were beyond cliches like “cool”. There were times when they were the only metal band that mattered. It was as simple as that. But before the Sandman enters, he wrecks destruction on your body and brains so somewhere in the folllowing 30 years they stopped being cool characters from an update of “On The Road” and became terrifying refugees from a Victorian Goth novel

Around the mid-way point, the Teens get a little serious and the dark notes overtake the ebullience. But they recover and mostly this is the purist of pop pop gems., harmonies, guitars, indie pop flavors and a sensibility many, many alt pop bands can’t quote get tTheir problem is they make it look too easy. Grade: A-

The Imposter -Steve Nieve’s organ pumps right through this bedeviled soul sound put under another brilliant Costello lyric. The song ends with the two best lines on the album: “He’ll only bring you you souvenirs, it’s only going to end in tears”.

This months offering has absolutely left me wanting much more The lyrics are punchy, but this time its the insanely erotic musicianship that made the track a knee trembler.