Ice T, Knows It All
‘Music as a whole is delusional. If you listen to pop records right now, you’ll believe every body’s rollin’, poppin’ bottles, life is perfect. Life is f**ked up right now! …
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Spin Magazine Tweets Away Its Responsibility As A Rock Mag
For Spin, the worst rock mag in a world that includes Rolling Stone and Pitchfork, to give up on its duty to review music, that’s pretty damn weak.
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"Contagion" Reviewed (More Or Less)
A bat gets mixed up in a pig and a contagious virus knocks off 26 million people while Matt Damon doesn’t get it infected and spends the rest of the movie cock blocking his daughter’s boyfriend, Lawrence Fishburn tries to contain the virus and Jude Law plays one of those low life bloggers and tries to make a buck off it
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Sneak Peaks, Week Of January 23rd, 2012
The story is the return of music after a six week hiatus, this is the sound of a gun being shot off and the race begining. There are people who will already have at least one of these albums among their best of 2012. I would be surprised if Lamb Of God doesn’t survive the year
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MFT 1-24-12
“Fuddum fuddum” -what the heck does that mean? Barclay’s mix tape as excerpted here for over four minutes is a thing of beauty and wonder. It isn’t seamless, indeed, it insists upon you noticing the seams but from an inspired use of the ittitular note on a Buzzcocks to the end it is an amazing achievement.
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Minimum Wage VS Music Sales
I remember the old times, before the digital age, when buying an album cost about $18-20, these times are definitively over, there are more and more music available and it is almost free
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Village Voice Pazz And Jop: A Sense Of Wonder About Itself
Really, if you are gonna irritate 700 people, do so for a reason. If I had to pay for the Village Voice, this would have been bad enough for me to dump it.
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Koji and La Dispute are Peacemaker​s
The lyrics are beautiful, too. They’re just accentuated by the singer’s raw and powerful voice. The way the instruments support his voice really pulls the song together and makes it interesting to listen to
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Lana Del Rey's physical transforma​tion, Does It Matter?
As I wasreading about Lana Del Rey’s debut and her physical transformation, from shyand casually dressed Lizzy Grant to provocative and sophisticated Femme fataleLana, I was thinking how much looks
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Bruce Springsteen To Play 2 At Izod, 2 At MSG Before European Tour In May 2012
sources close to Bruce Springsteen have announced Bruce and what’s still living of the E Street Band will be playing two nights at the Izod Center and one at MSG before he takes the “Wrecking Ball” tour on the road to Rome and the rest of Europe.
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Chelsea Grin 'The Foolish One' Video Reviewed
So then, since I am not a teenaged boy why do I like this ‘noise’ so much? I’m not sure but the sound of a proper scream can be liberating even to an old crow such as myself.
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J Tillman leaving Fleet Foxes
I remember the tunes being grave and melancholic with poignant lyrics, often talking about biblical characters or also being almost the confessional type.
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Television Light, January 23 – 29
They say that video killed the radio star- I honestly thought video created the radio star- looking a this weeks music on television seems no one is killing nothing but time.
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Tim Riley Gets "Morecambe And Wise" Appearance Wrong In Lennon Bio
Writing about the Beatles on the English comedy show TV program “The Morecambe And Wise Show”, Riley gets it so wrong, I was left wondering if Riley, an American, doesn’t really understand English culture.
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No Escaping Nicki Minaj's Ghetto Fabulous
I mean first off the colors are more ghetto fabulous then a platinum blonde weave and gold grill but my issue becomes who would by this? And would they really be in an ULTA?
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Pick Concerts Week Of January 23rd, 2012
Gigantour is all well and good and I might have gone for Megadeth but for MOTORHEAD…. I am so there Saturday night at the Theater of MSG. Believe it or notm, I’ve never seen em live and I CAN NOT WAIT.
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UK Top 10 Albums, January 28th, 2012
I kinda forgot about the Vaccines at the end of last year and ignored em on both my album and singles best off. They should have at least made the singles for “If You Wanna”. Meanwhile, Beyonce got a baby bounce and I guess some people get Enter Shakira.
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UK Top 10 Singles, January 28th, 2012
I imagine very big things for “Titanium” -a much better song than that Usher rip off Guetta was lucky he didn’t get sued with. Swedish House Mafia are back on the charts, Pixie Lott a purely English phenim and Coldplay help on earth.
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MFT 1-23-12
This is my big, big, big song at the moment Nothing else has the happiness of this song and happiness is catchy. Incidentally, if writing about happiness is easy, why can’t Kathleen do it more often? Don’t bother, it was a rhetorical.questio
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"Priscilla Queen Of The Desert" Reviewed, Friday, January 20th, 2012
What do you expect when you go to a Broadway Musical filled to overflowing with 1980’s disco hit songs telling the story of two drag queens and a transgendered person in Australia? You expect a gay fantasia somewhere in the land where camp, cliche and homosexual equality lives? Good. Grade: B+
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The Internet, 'Fastlane' Video Review
It features two runaway lesbian gangsters, played by Syd and actress Jasmine Flemings, armed to the teeth and greatly enjoying the killing and the robbing during their journey in the desert.
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Obama Got His Groove On
1,400 in attendance, Three million dollars earned and two lines sung. C’mon America, I beg you don’t let this be cool.
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Exene Cervenka Writing An Advice Column For OC weekly
So now I wonder what I could ask Exene, Personal question? General question? Why this guy never calls me? Why republican candidates are so ugly? It’s gonna be hard!
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Nicki Minaj, "Stupid Hoe" Video Reviewed.
Shes the hoe hero and always came off a bit too prison yard for me. Yet in this video she comes across as a bad ass smart girl that you’d pretty much avoid in a hallway
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Bruno Mars Free At Last
An alert and really odd restroom attendant felt that Peter Hernandez was spending too much time in a stall back in September 2010. So they called security. Pause for a moment and ponder how odd that is to begin with.
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Telegram On Wayne Coynes Doorstep, Let's Record A Song!
They drove from LA to Oklahoma during 22 straight hours, and took the risk to ring at Coyne’s door without notice, but they were actually welcomed by the Flaming Lips’ frontman
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The Beatles Best Album: "A Hard Day's Night" Reviewed
All three of McCartney’s leads are standouts, Starr rules the album from beginning to end, it manages to be tremendously ambitious and completely cool at the same time. 13 songs, all works of modified genius. The Beatles greatest album? Sure, why not.
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Singles Going Steady, Week Of January 19th, 2012
“Sidecar” is an excellent song, “Empty Threat” and “Chameleon Comedian” are pretty good too. But the sound is too ambitious for the songs. Grade: B+
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MFT 1-22-12
seems to jump upwards with a discovery of a new love and the thrill of discovery. The melody is just lovely, “Wake up, wake up, wake up, I want to take you…” is the sound of a woman on the first day of love.
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The Dillinger Escape Plan, Center for the Arts in Eagle Rock, Wednesday, January 18th, 2012
People looked totally mad at each other with grim expressions replacing smiles on their faces, but they actually seemed to have a great time and it was a strong bonding, a strong male bonding fueled by an adrenaline-rush.
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A Failure To Communicate
I wonder why so many “serious” rock bands, so many Phish’s and their elk, don’t try and just speak to their audience, about their music, about what’s are on their mind.
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Anthony Raneri's, "Cathedrals", reviewed
The way that Anthony’s voice dances on top of the instruments is absolutely incredible and uplifting. It’s almost effortless and puts you on a cloud when you hear it. It shows off his immense talent and it’s wonderful.
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WAKARUSA 2012 full line-up announced!!
WoW! Now that was an amazing collect of music, and I CAN NOT WAIT to venture to middle America to do it again.
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Megaupload Shut Down By Feds And Alicia Keys?
Megaupload not only allowed to share music files but basically any kinds of file, and was accused of costing copyright holders more than $500 million in lost revenue from pirated films and other content
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You Cannot Escape From Bono
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, and their recent predilection for taking Western hostages for ransom. Even they didn’t want Bono.
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Publicist Asks That Lana Del Rey Satire Be Removed From Blog
‘Of all the bad press that she’s gotten in the wake of her‘performance’ on Saturday Night Live, I think it’s amusing that she (or her publicist, or both) chose to attack my article. It was a clear piece of satire.Is the real Lana Del Rey like the ‘Lana Del Rey’ I wrote about in my article? I don’t know. Probably not.’
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George Harrison? Yeah, There's An App For That…
The history of each guitar is shown with great intricacy; including the origin of the guitar, when and how it became part of Harrison’s collection, modifications he made to it and how each acheived a distinctive sound. Songs from his catalogue are organized by the guitars used on each track.
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Paris Hilton Has LMFAO On New Album
the woman has only one talent, besides disgracing her family name, that is self promotion. And she has nothing whatsoever to do with music. Zero talent. That doesn’t mean LMFAO and Afrojack can’t fashion an excellent album for me.
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MFT 1-21-12
great song no doubt, but man, all these years later it sounds like reprocessed cheese: the drums are tinny, the synth an irritant and no, Sir, it does not rock. Ripe for a remake. I recommend Swift kickstarts it.
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Twitter war between Public Enemy Chuck D and the LA Weekly writer
I would have expected more support from the LAWeekly, but Romero was insisting his story was rather about the lack of permit rather than being about being negative about the event, although he accused Chuck D at one point to be promoting his book
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As rock nyc Reported Exclusively 10 Days Ago: Roger Waters To Play Yankee Stadium
Right this second I have two huge stories in the works, and if these get taken without recognition I am gonna blame some people in this room. And then I don’t forgive.
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Gosh Darnit, Love Just Makes Taylor Swift All Ooky
‘I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid. [At the moment] I got nothing going on! I just don’t really feel like dating,’
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Jay-Z and the B-word
Z gave up the use of the word ‘bitch’ because of the new addition to his family. I don’t remember where I read this first,but it was reported everywhere, even on TV, Jay-Z would have written a poem to prove his new resolution of dropping the bad word from his lyrics.
Well,it is not true
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Gaga The Creator
For those of you who were not totally convinced that Gaga lost her mind when she wore the meat dress, or the phone glued to her head- word comes now that she feels she has invented her own genre of music.
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Must See Concert: M83 At Summerstage On Sale At 12pm
now you can sneer at your friends stuck in the aircraft hangar from hell while you’ll be grooving in the sun at summerstage! tix go on sale at 12pm today for the guys who brought you last years triumphant Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming. And only $41 fees including
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Jay-Z Won't Call His Daughter A Bitch (Or Something Like That)
I lost serious interest in Jigga post Fade To Black. The retirement might have been a game but it came back to haunt him, and Carter hasn’t been the same since. He is just lucky that his replacement, Kanye West, worships him and he is just lucky that nobody else can figure out how to dethrone him.
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New York Daily News Gives Craig Finn 5 Star Review
On “No Future” Craig claims “The devil lives”. He means: the devil lives. For an old time agnostic like myself, it is like watching a ballgame when you don’t support either game. You might enjoy the game, but there is nothing much at stake
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Corey Taylor and Dave Grohl: Wheres the Bucket?
Taylor has gone from being a really charismatic and intelligent rocker to a Bono-esque narcissist.
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'The Iron Lady" Reviewed (More Or Less)
The Iron Lady” -a biography of former English Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, is terrible and it is terrible because it is rushed and it is rushed because half of the movie is spent in the present day with Thatcher haunted by her late husband Dennis.
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Skrillex and The Doors, Jim Morrison Weeps
Sonny Moore actually got some collaboration with the remaining 3 Doors members Ray Manzarek, Robbie Krieger and John Densmore,