Saturday Night Live: The Musical Guest
This got me thinking, why do I remember so much fabulousness with the infamouse ‘musical guest’? I mean I recall ‘staying up’ just to see the guest. Who was it that made me do so?
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Pick Concerts Week Of January 16th, 2012
Christopher Paul Stelling, the Texan folkie, always slams it live. So Laurel Canyon boy Jonathan Wilson, the headliner at Mercury Lounge on Thursday, is something on added plus.
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UK Top 10 Singles, January 21st, 2012
Sure do love my Jessie J but this has been out since summer, so why is it in the charts now? I might say something similar about the best song off Guetta’s last album. Oh, and four of these songs aren’t available in the States. Olly Mur is a particulalrly bizarre loss
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MFT 1-16-12
In the latest of a long list of bands I missed, meet Felt. Real Estate covered em Saturday night and I think thet were awesome though long gone. Produced by a Cocteau with an English Lou Reed for a lead vocalist this is an epic indie UK style from around 1990 and is simply a great lost track you need to find.
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Magpie and Hel Do SNL
It sounds like a friend doing really bad, drunk, karaoke and all you can do is sit there and cringe. I’m horrified by the overall severe suckage of the performance
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Black Sabbath Pull Out of Coachella
According to the LATimes, which got it from Billboard magazine, the famous heavy metal band was supposed to be one of the headliners but had to pull out because of Tony Iommi’s lymphoma diagnosis.
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Music Sales: The Top Artists Comprise Most Music Sold
numbers mean a lot for all these unknown but ultra-talented musicians I get to see all the time around LA, only the top is selling, and these developing artists are completely in existent in these statistics
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Win A Trip To The Grammys (Unless You Have Time Warner)
am paying $200 odd dollars a month to the thieving bastards at Time/Warner and the thieving bastards at cablevision have taken MSG (so no Knicks) and Fuse off Time Warner. Begging an answer to the musical question: how soon is now to burn down both institutions of advance thievery.
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Patti Smith Cancels The Chelsea Hotel
But the buiilding is under restoration(of course) and there is a feud (of course) between the new hotel owners and its residents. The hotel has approximately 100 residents that live in the building, the hotel has been closed to guests since summer 2011
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Direct Currents Upcoming Releases
Wow, January sure seems like a waste of time. I wanna hear the Lana Del Rey album, and I haven’t heard anything new by Ani DiFranco in years so I’ll be checking that out. case the winter isn’t miserable enough..
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Singles Going Steady, Week Of January 9th, 2012
I had a friend in the 1980s who fronted a country cover band and his band was about as good as Norah Jones foray into c&w. They ever made it out of the bars, but they were always up for a party. Little Willies were never in the bars and if their lackluster “Fist City” is anything to go by, they don’t know how to party. Grade: B-
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MFT 1-15-12
Munro’s beautiful reworking of an Italian pop song, plays over the opening titles of the chase movie “The Italian Job” from 1969. The movie doesn’t stand up, the song does. A sense of time having passed and a twinge of loss, “on days like these I wonder what became of you, maybe today you’re singing songs with someone new
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No at the Satellite on Wednesday January 11th, 2012 Reviewed
The songs were catchy, several had that ascending-anthem component, instantaneously familiar and activating your musical memory,… you know that feeling, a riff comes up and you get the impression to have it stored somewhere in your brain…
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Deathcab For Cutie, "Underneath the Sycamore" Reviewed
He has the perfect voice for this song; it really shows off his talent. The instruments are tight and dynamic, which makes them really interesting to listen to
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A List Of Things That Look Cool But Really Aren't
Running a music blog – the very definition of hard work for sod all. As uncool as humanly possible. Maybe more. Plus thanks for all the hate mail… I mean, really, last time I looked we hadn’t invaded Poland.
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This Years Super Bowl- Bad for The Ears
Our beautiful National Anthem needed a larger than life performer and gosh darnit we scored one. Kelly Clarkson.
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Trash Talk "Slander", Video Review
It is super short and works like an awesome hammer hitting you repeatedly on the head,… it is true you don’t need to be ‘fucked up’ to experience what this guy does at a Trash Talk concert, as the bloody ambiance seems pretty realistic to me.
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Moonrise Kingdom, New Wes Anderson Movie Trailer
The movie is set in the 60s, on an island off the coast of New England, and tells the story of a young girl who falls in love and runs away with the young boy, forcing a crew of adults to hunt them down.
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Taylor Swift, Nicki Minaj And The Painting Of Dorian Gray
Wigs and ironing your hair might not necessarily constitute real life plastic work, but it doesn’t help. And they look so doctored, so invasion of the body snatchers weirdedness that instead of being sexy they are scary.
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Mylo Xyloto Will Be On Spotify
For all of you cheapskates (like me) (well, actually a burnt a friends copy but) who held off buying Coldplay’s Mylo Xyloto in the vain glorious hope that Spotify will eventual get it for you… guess what? YOU’RE RIGHT!!! They WILL!!! IT SHALL!!!
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Dolly Parton, Lady Gaga, And Queen Latifah
Couple that rack with those chipmunk jowls and well who knows- maybe it would be fun. I think Dolly fits her name shes just a bubbley happy hillbilly coated in glitter and cash.
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MFT 1-14-12
Just Because – John Lennon – Dr. Winston O’Boogie clowns through the spoken parts and the rhythm slows down the song, but the vocal is immaculate and a reminder of how tough and tender our (debatably) greatest rock and roll singer could be
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"Lana Del Rey" EP Reviewed
On Tuesday, Lana released a four song teaser for the upcoming album and all four songs are excellent. “Video Games” -a moody blue deep love song we all know and love (made my best of 2011 list). Grade: A
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Dave Grohl's interview: His Band Thinks They Suck (not really)
‘We don’t feel like the biggest, best band in the world. We just feel like the same five dorks that were touring in a van 17 years ago, that hasn’t changed.’
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Oh No, Achtung Baby
Twenty years after the release of Achtung, animation and unseen footage chronicles the bands rise to glory. Glory.
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Aretha Franklin Tumour
“I had a tumour and that was taken care of. It’s behind me and thank God it’s behind me.” Congratulations Aretha!!!
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Ludwig Von Beethoven Letter of Discontent
The letter includes that he needs money to assist in paying his nephews education, how sweet is that? Buy my Mass I need the cash, coulda been the slogan- then again he didn’t know me.
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Albums of 2012, What I'm Looking Forward To
From Queens of The Stoneage to Fiona Apple, 2012 looks to be a great year of the comeback album, here are some personal highlights.
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Manson Made Me Do It
2009 was a long time ago, so it’s time to blame him again for some spiffy psychosis
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Bjork VIP Tix Very Expensive
What does a thousand bucks buy ya in 2012? I don’t know. I went for the cheapest tix I could find for Bjork at Roseland and ponied up a mindboggling $90 + for the honor of looking at the back of lots of peoples head
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Jay-Z's Secret Son
Star magazine was all over the story a few months ago,…. Jay-Z may have fathered a secret son with a Trinidadian model, Shenelle Scott, nine years ago.
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Dee Snider. You’re Fired.
Dee Snider. This dude shows up way too often. Annoying brash and a media pig, wasn’t he supposed to be on Broadway or something?
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LCD Soundsystem "Shut Up And Play The Hits" Trailers
But just take a look at the trailer: it is so New York and has “All My Friends” ever sounded more thrilling. A must see movie, of course…
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US Top 10 Albums, January 21st, 2012
Surprised to see SafetySuit on the charts and happy to see Florence still hanging in the there. Drake had one of the best albums of 2012 and me and the zeitgeist concur for once.
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US Top Ten Singles, January 21st
Can we not get that pestilence Adele out of the damn charts? It feels like it is gonna go on forever -cmon, folks… any suggestions. Good for Mraz, charting on past history alone since the song sucks
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MFT 1-13-12
Rap rocker, rocks instead of raps and comes uop with the best rock song so far this year. The weakness is the average new rock problem, the song isn’t all there. But the performance is invigorating and the vocal is all that.
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Falu At Joe's Pub, Tuesday, January 10th, 2012, Reviewed
Falu was born to crossover, but tonight it was like a couple sitting at a table speaking in a language you don’t speak: it seemed cordoned off, private. There was a new song, the sort of crossover Falu excels at, “Mystified” that just needed a push
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Leonard Cohen 'Darkness', Reviewed
The song, which was performed live during his last world tour, is the second single from his upcoming album ‘Old Ideas’, set to be released on January 31st on Columbia, his first studio album since 2004!
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Killswitch Engage: Help Wanted
“We’ve been getting a lot of inquiries about the KsE singer position. If you are interested, please send an MP3 or a song link, a photo and a brief description of yourself to the management email address provided in the contact section of killswitchengage.com.
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Jay Z More Money Making
He is a billionaire, sold his clothing line for more than $200 million, hasn’t had a single which did not go platinum, has a $150 million deal with Live Nation and he and Beyonce are the top earning couple in the music industry! How much money does he want his Blue Ivy to inherit?
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Charlie Watts Want's To Rock
“Ronnie plays, I still play, Mick sings, he can do it anyway, I think Keith is doing some records. Anyway it would be great if we did, we are just getting to an age where it’s getting a bit difficult to get it together and it’s such a bloody performance getting us together.”
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"Glory (B.I.C.)" Reviewed (The Song Is Here As Well)
Perhaps if what Jay-Z wants to do is express his feelings about about being a parent, he should do so by writing the best song he can.
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Polyphonic Spree Announce First Tour In Four Years
Damn! Some people were really into it, wearing gospel robes and jumping till they were entering in an exhilarating trance
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Lily Allen To Sing At Amy Winehouse Tribute Concert
There is a little of what killed Amy in all of us, certainly in Lily. Lily came out the other side, maybe it is safe for her to return to the limelight again.
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Madness, Nutty Recording and Touring
I adore this band you cannot hear a Madness song and be angry. G’head and try it’s instant feel good, throw your shoes off and get dancing fun. No one can duplicate them and no one is dumb enough to try.
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Ol Dirty Bastard's FBI File
I got this off pitchfork who got it off Gun.io who got it off the the FBI (heavily redacted) through the freedom of information act,
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50 Cent: Twitter Fiend
“Ok I tried to be cool with my record company. I went to the meeting to talk to everyone and sh—feels like there moving in slow motion.”
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Whose FBI File Does rock nyc Wanna See?
we reported about a website called gun.io getting its hands on Old Dirty Bastards FBI files through the freedom of information. Which got us to thinking, which dead rock stars would we like to read.
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New Paul McCartney Album, "Kisses On The Bottom"
I don’t have high hopes for this album and the reason is, McCartney was always much better at early rock and roll than mid-season American songbook
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MFT 1- 12-12
Sure sounds like the Shins as opposed to Broken Bells, except the drums are very doctored and ring out throughout the track, which pretends its easy going and it isn’t.