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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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