US Top 10 Singles Week OfJanuary 28th, 2012
Quite a week for rap, if you including Nicki’s guest starring appearance, half of the charts is rap. And the only newcomeer is Tyga’s fabulous ode to mamarries
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US Top 10 Albums Week Of January 28th, 2012
Change is good and the Hot 100 tends to change much faster than the singles charts. Though not here. Only David Crowder has worked his way in. The reason? The Crowder album is very good AND there is nothing else out there
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MFT 1-20-12
I don’t remember it from “Shrek 4” at all -of course, the last of the series was such a dog, most of it has drifted out of my memory files. Lucy sang a lovely version of this Tuesday night and all I can add is, the recorded version of the pas de deuz is quite its equals.
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rock nyc Protests Against The "Stop On Line Piracy Act"
At the core of the issue is that these bills could cause censorship of the Web and deny website owners the right of due process central to our legal system. It is the first salvo in a war to make the Internet less Open. Many sites, including Google and Wikipedia staged black-outs of their sites yester
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Seasons at the Echo on Monday January 16th, 2012
As more people ended up in stage, petals were flying everywhere, the odor of the flowers was nicely filling the air and the public was catching up with the free spirit emanating from the music; people were jumping and bouncing as the sound was making more and more noisy swirls
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President Obama's A List Wish List
Jay-Z, B.o.B, Jack Johnson, Counting Crows, Adam Levene… Lea Michele? All off celebrities the Prez wants supporting him but NO BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN.
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Lucy Schwartz At Mercury Lounge, Tuesday, January 17th, 2012, Reviewed
Maybe she should change her name to Miranda Schwartz and move to Nashville. God knows, there is always a market somewhere for gifted songwriters who can do it all on stage.
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Killjoys, Make Some Noise "We Are The Kids From Yesterday", Video Review
The song has always held a special place in my heart because of the lyrics. It really is the MCR anthem to me, and it is truly symbolic of how things get better, times are rough, but you just need to remain yourself.
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Blue Ivy Carter Gets More Security Than Obama?
“It looked like the president was on our floor. The hospital’s security cameras were taped over. Internal windows from the hallways into the ward were blacked out.”
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The Lonely Wild at the Echo on Monday January 16th, 2012
On stage, there is alot going on, as one of the musician was juggling between synth, bass and trumpet, and all of them were at some point participating to the vocals. The female-male parts were delicate, abandoning the cinematic view for a little while, and approaching a hymn-like territory.
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Lana Del Rey: Let The Video Games Begin
Perhaps you think she sucks, perhaps you hate her her. But don’t hate her because she hasn’t worked for it. I hate all that “Outliers” crap, spontaneity is as important as experience when it comes to ROCK AND ROLL. Just a willingness to stand up and scream at the top of your lungs
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‘Under African Skies’ the documentary about the album Graceland
This will only be the beginning of a year-long celebration commemorating the 25th anniversary of this release, and, as we had already announced it, there will also be more goodies for die-hard fans,
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Glamour Kills Tour 2012 and Album Release
Glamour Kills is the pimp of bands lately. Alex Gaskarth of All Time Low is just one of the alty pop bands who hangs tight to this clothing merchant. Their high end hoodies make sure that the kids are lookin’ spiffy. Cute graphics for boys ang girls, takes all the pressure off fitting in at shows- its nearly uniform.
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Ed Sheeran Best Buddies With Mentor Elton John
Who has he actually helped? Kiki Dee? John waits till somebody breaks and then supports them: it is like guessing the lottery numbers the day after the drawing. He did it with Lady Gaga. There is no star too big for Elton not to discover.
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Its Unanimous (less 1!) Lana Del Rey sucked on SNL
Lana’s debut album ‘Born To Die’ will be released through Universal Music next week. You will then all love her and like a skinny Adele she will be the anthem girl for every lowball no self esteem 20 something who cant get laid.
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1969's "The Italian Job" Reviewed (More Or Less)
Back when I was a 12 year old whippersnapper, I flipped out over this caper flick filled with English dollie birds all over Mchael Caine and a fonal three with mini coopers zipping through the streets of Turin as they life $4M in gold!
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MFT 1-19-12
I was surprised to hear Bon Iver produced this, proving that everybody was born for a reason, and his was his spare beautiful work with Edwards, who finds the best use for punchline as a punchline since “B Movie”.
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Girls At T5, Saturday, January 12th, 2012, Reviewed
thought Album was better than Father, Son, Holy Ghost, but that wasn’t the problem. And, unlike the last time, neither was the pacing or the playing. The problem is Owens. he isn’t a rock star and he doesn’t know how to play one on stage.
Hey, Chris, I just wanna be friends forever and ever… Too late, the Caravan has gone.
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Traps PS at Origami Vinyl on Saturday January 14th, 2012
I am not sure how to qualify their hiccup music, punk? Post-punk? Garage-rock? All of the above? It was more assaulting projectile music sprinkled with a few surfing riffs and tribal drumming than anything else to me.
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D.R.U.G.S.' New Song is Crazy
It’s a huge step up and is the best song that D.R.U.G.S. has ever released. For the first time, I am appalled and stunned by the perfection and how I can feel the effort they put into the song. I’m totally blown away.
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Must See Concerts: Jonathan Wilson And Cloud Nothings
Cloud Nothings on January 26th at the Studio At Webster Hall and Jonathan Wilson on January 19th at Mercury Lounge.
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Neon Trees “Everybody Talks”, Reviewed (Another View)
The thing about Glenn’s voice is that it is in no way smooth and clear sounding tothe ear. It is raw and passionate and it adds an element of explosiveness to the song that is hard to miss.
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Thomas Dolby Time Travel Tour
Dolby’s March through April road trip will feature an actual time capsule that looks like something HG Wells might have come up with if he had crossbred a time machine with a tear-duct travel trailer. The chrome and brass-plated vehicle seats three and features a high-tech video recording suite.
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Springsteen Upset About Economic Injustice? Then Why Doesn't He Pay His Taxes?
Ron Aniello? The guy who produced Jars Of Clay? That should give him that angry, contemp…. I can’t even write it. Maybe Rolling Stone was right. Maybe Working On A Dream was a 5 star album, relatively speaking.
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Will You Marry Me, Kate Bush?
Luckily without weapons or chemicals. Unfortunately Miss Bush was not at home at the time. Wonder what her response would have been. I mean it was a Tiffany and well, shes not getting any younger.
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Les Savy Fav frontman’s Tim Harrington's Artful Offerings
This looks so ,… err Martha Stewart if you want my opinion, nothing outrageous at all for a guy who came on stage with a fluorescent orange piece of fur covering his head and runs half naked in the bushes last time I saw him.
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In Praise of Broken Headphones
In an world we forget how intricate music is because it is so properly balanced and delivered. I recall listening to Bowie’s, “Space Oddity” on an old Victrola, yup vinyl with a bad speaker so much that I only heard the countdown as the intro to the song. THAT was classic and very cool
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Coachella Sells Out
I was on the phone with a friend of mine who was loudly bemoaning that his girlfriend and her friends had got tickets to cross the country and sweat and maybe die from the heat while watching rock bands from 50,000 miles away. I understand kids will be kids, but claiming you’ve seen a band after catching em at Coachella is like saying you’ve been to the moon after seeing it through a telescope.
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Grohl On Rock: 2012 Is 1991
“The late ’80s was full of over-produced pop that kids had nothing to grab hold of – they had no way of connecting to this hair metal band singing about strippers in a limousine on Sunset Boulevard.”
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MFT 1-18-12
I saw Trina on TMZ the other night and she was so, no, really, demure, I could have sworn it was joke. Here, she gives LIl Kim and Nicki Minaj a run for their nasty. This is blessed profanity indeed. Trina is awesome.
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Public Enemy at Occupy/Operation Skid Row Sunday January 15th, 2012
Many of the other acts originally rumored to be playing (Cypress Hill, Kurupt from the Dogg Pound, Mellow Man Ace and OG Kid Frost) finally canceled, and the event was announced as ‘not a show’,… I went there, and if it was not a show I don’t know how to call it
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King Krule At T5, Saturday, January 14th, 2012 Reviewed
Towards the end he plays “Out Getting Ribs”, recorded when he was 15 I guess, “I feel hate running through my blood girl, don’t you want me back?” An excellent song and the band clicks just as they have ben doing all night long. though they have some stage presence, they don’t have nearly enough.
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Real Estate At T5, Saturday, January 14th, 2011, Reviewed
Real estate are what they are. And I like what they are. And while I have no idea who would consider them their fave band in the world, I can’t imagine anybody disliking them. Not even me
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Not With The Band: The disconnect between rock stars and their audience
In the 70s, punk rock exploded and wanted to get rid of class privileges by denouncing greed, preaching independence, anti-establishment philosophy, and a DIY ethic to stay away from major corporate record labels.
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rock nyc Launches New Series Of Posts: We Interview Dead Rock Stars
rock nyc is so small, we are nearly entirely ignored by the major labels (and the minor, come to think of it). Sooooooooo, since we can’t reach out to rock stars via the usual methods, we figured we’d trying something, how you say, alternative. I have emailed the woman who performed the Elliott Smith interview for us
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Felt "Primative Painters"… and More
Felts goal was 10 albums in 10 years. That was done- and so were felt. I like that, no reunion no resurection. Did what they had to and moved on.
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Neon Trees "Everybody Talks", reviewed
The music is fantastic, so upbeat and with loads of high and lows. Tempo? Perfection. Even the voice is fine- its just how its said. Petty? Perhaps but like a small pebble in your shoe at first it can be overlooked, four hours in and you want to amputate your leg
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Beyonce's Bug Butt
Betcha Jay Z feels jealous and pays big bucks to have an insect named after him sometime in the future. Wonder what that bugs attribute would be…
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A New Song By Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth), "Off The Wall"
It is quite a departure from Sonic Youth’s distorted sound; instead,the gentle upbeat pop-rock song has a catchy melody,… but curiously, after listening to it for several times, some slight Sonic Youth’s riffs magically reappear.
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Kid Rock, Smokin' Rebel
Apparently Kid busted out a cigar after a Travis Tritt show in Detroit and well- it was a non smoking venue. Kid stated it was an accident and that he ‘had been drinking’. Hold up, its a Travis Tritt show, OF COURSE he was drinking, its required.
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A Random Picture Of Francoise Hardy
In the world of stunningly beautiful pop chanteueses from France, none chanteuses nor pops the way the great Francoise Hardy did, or is that does? Alyson mentioned that one of her songs is on the soundtrack of the trailer for Wes Anderson’s upcoming movie.As good an excuse as any to listen to some of her Le Pop Francais
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Sneak Peaks Week Of Januaty 16th, 2012
The McCartney is a dog with fleas and about as big a disappointment as you can want on a Tursday morning. Kathleen Edwards is an excellent songwriter and it isfour years since “Asking For Flowers” so its good to have her back. Oh great, a Martina McBride greatest hits -just what I needed.
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UK Top 10 Albums, January 21st, 2012
I love the Bruno album but it’s two years old!!! More interesting, memo to Maccabees: next big rock albums shouldn’t enter the charts at #4. And Kasaban never released their album Stateside? Why???
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MFT 1-17-12
By the 21st century we should be immune to concepts of national identity. I mean, McDonalds is McDonalds is McDonalds, right? But in the 20th Century, the particularness of an Englishman was legion and Coward, playwright, actor, composer, and linchpin of a century that feels like another millennium, still walked the earth on this ode to eccentricity as defining rod. After, they saved the world during WWII
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Gorgon Zoloft at Origami Vinyl Saturday January 14th, 2012 Reviewed
From the Origami loft, Matt Perozzi on bass and Thomas Jefferson on drums were playing ina sort of violent urgency which wasn’t taking itself seriously, as the two guys were screaming like mad men some weird and repetitive vocals, furiously vociferating after some invisible enemy, while seemingly running away from it.
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Must See Movie: Robert Bresson's "The Devil Probably"
“I hate life. I hate death. My sickness is that I see things clearly,” which is about as punk as a sentiment can get. Disenchanted youth, disillusioned youth, is the language of rock and roll.
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The Stranglers, Still Going Strong
The Stranglers are about to release a new LP and go an a very extensive European tour. The album titled “Giants” is due out on March 12th. I would hope for a US tour but I’m sure it would be brief and select.
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Television Light Week of January 16-22
This all girl band was the epitome of fun ‘in the day’. Much the same as eating fist fulls of cotton candy- awesome but teeth rotting in excess
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Spellemannprisen Nominates Taake Despite Anti Islam Statements
‘Our view, in the name of freedom of expression, is that it is shameful to adhere to Christianity or Islam’, and adding that ‘Taake has never been a political band, and we do not encourage either violence or racism.’
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The Flaming Lips Announce Collaboration With Bon Iver (And Others)
I can see how a Nick Cave-Wayne Coyne co-written tune could be an interesting thing to discover, but Bon Iver? He is the antithesisof the Flaming Lips!