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Shins', 'Simple Song' Reviewed

It is quite close to The Shins’ typical sound, although the music seems to be escaping the chiming signature sound of their first album, while being bolder and a touch more upbeat than usual

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Metallica and The Bulging Screen

Disney Pixar? Hell yes, bring on the glasses, 3D is awesome. Sweaty Ulrich? No thank you. But now that Metallica is officially Lou Reeds bitch, it’s only fitting that they plaster their mugs on the big screen

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On Hating Van Halen

I don’t care how much better they are then Bon Jovi, I certainly don’t cate that they lead the way for Guns N roses (A much better band), they are just such horrible, horrible things. Eddie is an acohol fueled train wreck who married Valerie Bertanelli and still couldn’t take it one day at a time. His brother is a bassist. David is a sad and sorry creature of the night.

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AC/DC debut single sells for $1225 on eBay

This first single features none other than Dave Evans. The b-side was another original ‘Rockin’ In The Parlour’. Theres are the only songs with Evans who was replaced soon after by Bon Scott. The single debuted on May 8, 1975. it was never released outside of Austraila but reached number 19 on their charts

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Justin Bieber And God

I think if I was the son of divorced parents in Canada, one step ahead of an eviction notice, at the age of 14 and four years later was palling on Usher and nailing Selena Gomez, I might very well be having personal conversations with the big guy.

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MFT 1-11-12

I don’t much care for Christian rock but there are huge exceptions. Devil Wears Prada is one, POV is another and the third is these guys. This is the second song off their new one and it is big without being heavy. Good song and I am loving the album so far.

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Barry Adamson's New Song "Destination" Reviewed

Destination” is a rollicking Goth rave up off his February 14th release. Everything thing about it grabs your attention, from its overexcited Scott Walker vocals to its slap clap drum machine and most of all a piano that seems hijacked off a Ziggy Stardust track

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"Filth Friends Unite", I See Stars Reviewed

There is some balance though, in this new song “Filth Friends Unite”. Im not sure if they decided to meet in the middle or if it just worked out but the vocal quality for both on this is really very strong. Yay for something positive.

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Coldplay, "Paradise" Video Reviewed

Beside the fact that the video is ridiculous and only exists to remind us that the song has really nothing to say, the falsetto gushy chorus wants to hook the listener up like a sticky donut he or she absolutely wants to resist to.

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"Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" Reviewed (More Or Less)

Gary Oldham is a great actor. Has been since his portrayal of Sid Vicious. But he isn’t as good as Sir Alec Guinness. And in this severely truncated version of John Le Carre’s spy novel, later filmed as one of the great TV mini-series starring Guinness as masterspy George Smiley, Oldham doesn’t come close.

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Meet The New Year, Same As the Old World

2011 was a dreary year for pop music, it wasn’t terrible by any stretch of the imaginaton but it wasn’t a stretch of the imagination either. I waited to get excited by anything, everything last year. And I did. Music streaming. But if your top story is about music distribution, whatis your number # 2 story?

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Jack White's Third Man Records 'Vault' Series

But whats the real grabber? 7-inch record of two White Stripes songs ‘ ‘Dead Leaves’ and ‘Let’s Build A Home’ ‘ recorded during the sessions for their self-titled debut in 1999. This version is reported as much different than the one that ended up on the album

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Singles Going Steady, Week of January 2nd, 2012

OK, I know there isn’t much here and just outta respect for Odd Future I might give The Internet a closer listen,. But it isn’t my fault the world of music is dead. This is ridiculous How can you put the music biz to sleep for more than three weeks? Let’s get on with the rest of our lives, folks.

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MFT 1-10-12

I loved this song so much, if for no other reason than the bass licks it runs on, I became a momentary Yorke fan. But the next song not so much, and he brought Atoms For Peace to Roseland and so I passed on it. And any way, the moment passed.

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Power of The People: How To Make a #1 Hit

A month before, he started a Facebook group, proposing the crazy and bold idea to beat the Xfactor winner with a song having the complete opposite vibe, and he was helped onTwitter by a comedian, Peter Searfinowicz, who had more than 268,000 followers.

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Roger Waters To Play Yankee Stadium, July 7th, 2012

the one stop shopping will be July 7th at Yankee Stadium. A Saturday following July 4th and a thrilling concept entirely. And despite my dislike for the album, I think if and when it happens, it is unmissable and since I missed it at MSG , I’ll be making my way to the nosebleeds

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Ringo Star and Dave Stewart For Broadway

“Me and Dave wrote a musical, a complete thing – characters, story, a lot of songs. We wrote it for Broadway, but it will more likely end up (as) a movie… and I’m not telling you anything else. It’s about other people.”

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Television Light Week of January 9-15

Lana the musical guest on SNL this week but other than that- music on your television sucks. We have Snow Patrol all over the place and well, they’re really sorta depressing. Perfect I guess, for the blah days of January

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Bjork's New York Residency

I haven’t seen Bjork on stage since around the time she was dressing like a swan for the Oscars, and, except for the Dirty Projectors project, haven’t been overly thrilled with her recordings since about the same time

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Pick Concerts, Week Of January 9th, 2012

Falu hasn’t released much new material in years (her superb debut album dates from 2007) but she never fails to thrill has she expresses her classical training (this ain’t no Bollywood) with a Western sensibility. Tuesday at Joe’s Pub. A must must must see

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UK Top 10 Albums, January 8th, 2012

19 non-consequetive weeks at # 1 for Adele. Why? I don’t get it. I don’t understand it at all. Adele equals the record set for Bridge Over Troubled Water. How is 21 equalling Bridge Over Troubled Water? What are people hearing?

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MFT 1-9-12

Get Up And Use Me – Fire Engines – Lo, back in the day, Postcard was the only label that mattered and Scotland ruled the world. And Fire Engines were changing the shape of rock to come with angular, sweet, tough outbursts of energy like this: their greatest moment and a piece of advise for the ages.

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Black Keys' Patrick Carney Feuding With Nickelback

Rock& roll is the music I feel the most passionately about, and I don’t like to see it fucking ruined and spoon-fed down our throats in this watered-down,post-grunge crap, horrendous shit. When people start lumping us into that kind of shit, it’s like, ‘Fuck you,’ honestly.’

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A Kinder Softer Side of Ke$ha

“I’m really proud of that, but I have learned over the past three years of doing this that being vulnerable doesn’t mean you’re weak. I very much want to be seen as a strong woman,”

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Sinead O'Connor Not Getting Divorced

From secret suicide plans to sudden marriages, pot runs on wedding days and endless dumbass tweeting, O’Connor needs to live her life with a veil of secrecy before her kids, who must be well sick of this crap, disown her.

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MFT 1-8-12

In the verses, Dionne floats above the mundane day only interrupted by supplications. In the chorus, her life revolves around her love. A highly literate ode to obsession

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