Skins Season 5, 'Rich'
as unattractive as possible and you cant be called unattractive. Its a mask of music. Just as rappers hide behind shades grills and sags, goths hide behind cloaks and hoods. Nifty huh?
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Hey Los Angeles, The Satellite Has a Week of Free Shows!
I don’t know if it is because things become a little slow after the NYE parties, people tend to stay home to recover from all this champagne, but it is an excellent idea. My only complain is that I have to go back to work, and a show every day is not a reasonable idea!
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Dick Clark And the Unbearable Passing Of Time
The ambivalence is self-evident, it feels like by calling for Clark’s retirment we are in the process of warehousing the aged. Still, Clark is a very rich and very successful man. It is time for the American teenager to set down.
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Black Keys Streaming Boycott
I can tell you right now that I have actually purchased more music and looked up more bands to see live since using Spotify. I am listening to more types of music, rediscovering stuff I had forgotten I loved and searching for tour dates.
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Can Dance Survive Without A Lead Singer?
From Jack of the Cosmonauts thru Wade of KiLR, all the way to Jagger, Daltry, Bono, the lead singer of a rock band sets the tone and leads the band and it is just about impossible to have a great band without a great lead singer.
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“Love You Madly: A Concert For John O’Brien,” Scott Weiland and Velvet Revolver
The House of Blues in West Hollywood California is the venue where Mr. ‘Fall To Pieces”, will hopefully NOT fall to pieces before a benefit crowd.
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Michael Jackson Glee Episode
The big buzz is usually the song list for a particular episode and a ‘leak’ of the Michael Jackson episode is causing more rumble than a royal wedding dress. The last thing I care about is what songs a weekly sitcom is going to karaoke, but I suppose I am in the minority.
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Music As Mood Enhancer
I’m listening to Kurt Vile as I wrote and I am not certain that is a good thing at all. “Music like scent has an immediate neuro pathway that can bypass your thinking brain and effect your emotional state.”
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Now Is The Winter Of Our Discontent…
now it’s all over, like a telescopic love seen from a distance, always in the rearview mirror and stuck in this eternal present. It is alway January and February. The seventh year of a marriage, the cold, blustery boring part of the year
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MFT 1-3-12
Mike “A Wombling Christmas” Batt wrote this song for Art and it feels like a thematic contination to Simon’s “The Only Living Boy In New York” , there is also a sense of AOR Beach Boy-y updated. “It’s not the sun you’re trying to find, something else is on your mind…”
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Katy Perry's Divorce and Religion
However her whole life and career are hypocritical, and writing about this insignificant celebrity misstep is just another occasion to point out how religious people can be beyond insincere and just plain fraudulent.
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Auld Lang Syne Reviewed Over And Over Again
Robert Burns poem of remembrance, has been around for 250 years and everywhere I know gets a good airing, even though the lyric seems a little nonsensesy. It isn’t. It suggest we remember the past as we move in the future.
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Bon Iver Work Out and The Pain Below
He approached Vernon since he thought something “wasn’t right” about him. Pause. That’s a pretty funny statement.
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Abandon All Ships "We'll Be Fine" Cover- Maybe Not
They had an option- hardcore the mother out or pop it up
DONT DO BOTH.
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Pick Concerts Week Of January 2nd, 2012
a great country crooner, on a farewell tour after being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Of all Alzheimer’s insidious torture, at least it is slow enough for us to get the opportunity to see him him one last time. Saturday at Town Hall.
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UK Top 10 Albums, January 7th, 2012
And so Sheeran starts the year at the top of the albums, while his second single off the album “Lego Land” hurls itself into the Top 10. But will it translate Stateside? It is so hard to tell.
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UK Top 10 Singles, January 7th, 2012
I can’t take Coldplay at any priceand even by their standards “Paradise” is a dog. A very popular dog. Coldplay are middle class boys like Blur only without anything close to Blur’s coolness quota, they are pristine bedwetters and uber good guy pop egotists.
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MFT 1-2-12
Drake in the past, Florence in the present, Laura in the future. Drake is trying to survive a relationship on the skids, Laura is ruminating the price for lying and Florence just wants to get over a hangpver. This is apt stuff for New Year’s Day: the place the present meets the past and the future.
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Etta James Takes a Turn
Most famous for the song “At Last”, Etta is a legendary songstress who has performed with the greats and earned her place in the Halls of Fame.
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Look- a great band. Look Mexico!
Look Mexico has so much talent as a whole they’re a powerhouse and I really want to see them live.
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New Screaming Females Tune!
The song, which does not seem to have a title, showcases Marissa Paternoster’s loud and bold howl over shredding guitars and quite a lot of distortion.
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Divided By Friday: Turning Heads and Turning Tables
I’ve never heard a voice like his, but it’s really enjoyable because it is so different. His range is impressive and it makes it his own, making it dimensional and interesting.
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The Fake Radiohead Song
a random band that nobody has ever heard about, can compose songs which can fool at least 50% of the fans and 80%of the media, what does it mean for Radiohead?
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Chili Peppers and The Russian Billionaire
Here is yet another example of how money cannot buy taste. The guests were instructed to dress in ‘island chic’. Can we please take a moment to comprehend how insanely stupid that is?
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Coldplay Paid £1 Million For NYE Concert In Abu Dhabi
Coldplay had accepted to play at the Volvo Ocean Race venue, and each ticket cost,…are you ready?…. £4,300 or $6,630 if you prefer!!
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Bamboozle 2012 Worst Line Up Of All Time
The multi day event was always brimming with promise and coolness. So much cool in fact, that it was soon followed with the Bamboozle Road Show, which gave out of towners a chance to get their groove on as well.
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"New Year's Eve" Reviewed (More or Less)
How bad can a movie with Bon Jovi getting slapped not once, but twice? Prett bad. Perhaps if Gerry Marshall had Katherine Hegl slap every member of the casr they might have been on to something.
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H.F.T. 01/01/12
Happy New Year Fools. Yup, its that time again, all those lame resolutions you’ll never carry out a fridge full of healthy shit you’ll toss in a week and a week of torture trying to prove it wrong.
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the ten Elliott Smith's songs which could be on the charts
we were trying to get a song by Elliott Smith on the UK and US Charts, what would be your best bet? Which song could actually make it? It is a tough choice
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"My Valentine", Paul McCartney Reviewed
Paul McCartney has fans that will rip your lungs out and kick them down the road if you say the slightest negative word. So how bold am I to just jump right in here and take a stab at this Soundcloud offering from Pauls forthcoming album?
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Cosmonauts At Pianos, Wednesday, December 28th, 2011 Reviewed
Cosmonauts are four bright sparks who have played catchy if a little dark alt rock for two years in various variations and at Pianos on Wednesday night, played a nothing but pleasurable set of Echo And the Bunnymen quasi-psychedelic jams.
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The Academy Was…
It’s painful to see that the band still updates their Facebook page every once and a while because it sparks the feeling that I just want them back together, and now.
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Van Halen With Lee Roth Rehearsing At the Roxy, LA
Sammy Hagar revealed to Rolling Stone that the new album will not be as fresh as expected, but will actually contain ‘old outtakes from the old days. I mean, stuff from before I even joined the band’, and that ‘Ed and Dave didn’t actually write new songs’.
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New Pearl Jam Aired by Cameron Crowe On Sirius Radio
It’s mellow-haunting in a detached way, but still emotional enough, especially because of the vocals at the end which seem to repeat ‘alive’. I suppose it is a big deal for Pearl Jam’s fan
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"We Bought A Zoo" Reviewed (More Or Less)
The score by Jonsi of Sigur Ros fame is a beauty, especially the song “Boy Lillikoi” -just a haunting complement to the movies tamed glory
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Gordon-Levitt & Deschanel "What Are You Doing New Years Eve?"
This is sorta cute but a bit phlegmy- like she should have cleared her throat or maybe she had just chugged some egg nog or something. Not wonderful, but not a horror.
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Brooklynvegan Invade Chicago
BV is not really music criticism, they are unwilling to get their hands dirty, but they break music story after music story and are completely invaluable when it comes to supporting local bands
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MFT 12-31-11
A song that is your golden ticket to simply be yourself. Think about it, we spend so much time hiding what we feel- this song is your free pass to letting it all out. The end result being we are loved by those who matter for just being ourselves
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rock nyc And The Elliott Smith Hit Single
The problem is not necessarily in getting 50,000 to buy a song but in getting 50,000 people to buy the song in the same week. So how do we plan to do it? I don’t have the slightest idea but, hey, that’s no reason not to try.
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And Your Bird Can Dance
Researchers think that parrots’ dancing skills come from their talent for mimicking the sounds of their surrounding, which made them develop a very good coordination between their excellent sense of hearing and their motor functions
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The BEST Album of 2011, and Possibly Ever
The album was a real step up and forward for the group lyrically, musically, and spiritually. It set them ahead and showed that they can shake it up and yet still remain punchy, addictive, and heartfelt all at once.
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Sinead Smokes The Blokes
O’Connor stated they had “made a mistake rushing into getting married,” and added that her husband, who she called a “wonderful man” who she loved very much, had been “terribly unhappy.”
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The Suicide Dolls At Pianos, Wednesday, December 28th, 2011
dissipating the slightest of melody, heavily bashed by the bass and drummer Matt Covey anyway, and his guitar becomes steely feedback before switching directions again, and again, till you’re feeling dizzy.
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The Man Who Twittered Jon Bon Jovi to Death
First of all it was presumptuous from the guy to think he would go to heaven once dead, but this is beyond the point…. The person, who is responsible for this bad hoax spoke out!
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"Lua" by Bright Eyes: A Retraction
The lyrics are so ridiculously amazing that it makes you just want to hear them over and over again, with the gentle guitar and Oberst’s whispery yet strong voice makes it driving and attention grabbing, yet still calm and emotional.
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The Great Mastodon Swindle
i’m not interested in hearing any shit talk about ebay or Germans. it’s really just the PRINCIPAL that i’m fighting for. to not let these things just go. maybe someday you will be in the same situation and be able to DO something about it.
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Chris Martin And The Garden Intruder
Coldplay’s Chris Martin said to the Daily Mirror he had to throw out an intruder who broke into his garden and was serenading passers-by with Coldplay songs.
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Adele Saves 2011
21 sold more than 5 million copies.The last time an album topped the year-end chart with more than 5 million copies sold was in 2004
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New York Times Best Albums of 2011
New York Times can get too Mr. Loaf-y for my tastes. But even even so, I prefer their arts and entertainment pages to their hard news
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US Top 10 Albums, Week Of January 2nd, 2011
next week Christmas and Mistletoe will be in moth balls so what will happen next? I predict, Adele will be back at # 1, essentially because there is nothing else around