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
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US Top 10 Singles, Week of January 2nd, 2012
Despite LMFAO finally getting the # 1 position, and despite Big Sean getting a remix with Nicki, and despite Adele getting another hit off her album, this is awful bland compared to the UK singles charts at this time of year.
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MFT 12-30-11
The most bizarre kids song of all time. The titular bull’s biggest ambition was to be part of a bullfight and be stabbed to death by Spanish guys. The moral is… actually, I’n not sure what the moral. dates from 1959, so I guess that might explain it.
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George Glass at the Satellite, Monday, December 26th, 2011
They played their set effortlessly, very tightly with a big sound for only three people, going to a catchy-melodious sound to a sort of captivating dissonance in the same song
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3oh!3? Oh No!
However the lyrics lack any real thought and it feels fake, overdone, and just boring. It’s absolutely nothing special and quite disappointing.
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Peter Frampton Sues Universal Records
Now in an era when a tangilble CD is a rarity, artists are feeling ripped off. Eminem was successful with Nashville attorney Richard Busch, a partner with King & Ballow … and now Pete wants cash too
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Best New Bands Of 2011
Going to a lot of local shows made me discover a lot of new bands this year. Here is a list of 12 of them I have discovered in 2011 and which let me a strong impression
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Must See Concert: New Build At Mercury Lounge
Tix go on sale on Friday and 12p and no presales I can see, so you and your luck but definitely worth the attempt.
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Lou Reed, Bono And Chris Martin: Not All Egomania Is The Same
Of course Smith is an egomaniac, even his kids are and they haven’t accomplished anything yet. As are the three names on this little list.
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The Flaming Lips Cover 'I Am The Walrus' Reviewed
The Flaming Lips are about to do their big New Year Eve thing with Yoko Ono Plastic Band in Oklaohoma City, so this must be a sort of preparation for the show. And if you have ever doubted that the Beatles say ‘everybody smoke pot’ in the brouhaha at the end of the song, there is no more reason to doubt:
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Nickasaur! Releases New Tune!
It is the best thing he’s ever released, and not only because his editing and singing skills have gotten better but because it shows off his real talent and that he’s back and better than ever.
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Hayley Williams Gossip? Must Be The Last Post Of The Day
I was really scared Taylor was going to leave too.Me and Taylor went to a show and after we went out to eat and he was like ‘You know I’m not ready to go anywhere. I still have more to do in Paramore’.
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KISS Boots On Tour
Monster Mini Golf is pretty cool. Its indoor miniature golf by black light. I have been and its fun as hell and I am terrible at it but it doesn’t matter. The whole atmosphere is cool and strangely unnerving.
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"Oliver": Comfort Movie Musical
there was every reason to expect the West End Musical of the novel to be a sugar coated morsel, But Lionel Bart wrote it, and it ended up a poisonous bon bon.
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Jack Phillips To Release Live Album
Jack introduces to his mindbogglingly excellent material and plays it so well. The sheer wealth of music is a revelation and though i do have one complaint. I wish it was longer
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(No) Sneak Peaks Week Of December 26th, 2011
As Alyson Camus noted in her “Not With the Band” column, Christmas week is not the time for new music. I checked on Tuesday 26th, no music, then I checked on Wednesday, 28th… still no new music. Wow, I feel so deserted.
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MFT 12-29-11
High On Sunday 51 – Aimee Mann – Off her last great album, knocking on a decade ago., a song of adultery and desire and a comparison that works all too well: heroin. The shaky morality is a real pleasure and the encroaching disaster sexy as fuck.
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New Years Eve From Your Easy Chair, Music To Watch on Your TV
You don’t get gifts, the next day you can’t write the date correctly, and I don’t drink. What’s worse than being the only sober person at a new year celebration? Nothing.
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All The Shows-Parties Going On In LA on New Year's Eve, 2011
New Year Eve in Los Angeles seems to have piled up a large amount of shows and parties everywhere in the city.
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Patrick Stickles Covers Lana del Rey's "Video Games"
the young sex symbol of modern alt can be seen here crooning rock nyc’s picked to click in 2012’s Lana Del Rey’s great song (made my best of 2011) “Video Games.
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Whither Dance In 2012?
At a rave, the audience consuming the music, they are using it for their own distinct ends. Dance, drugs, sex. They are not watching James Brown, they are listening for beats and feeling their heart beats race and their movements, the expression freedom of letting go but controlled. They are the stars.
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Geoff Barrow, Kanya West,Victoria's Secret, Child Labour
Its [Victoria’s Secret] undies that are purported to be made with “fair trade” organic cotton actually utilize some unseemly labor practices in the early stages of the supply chain
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Harry Connick Jr & Brandon Marsalis Sue Medical Practice
The whole Harry Connick Jr/New Orleans thing gets a bit old. I’m sure more people know he is from there than that the Beatles are from Liverpool- enough already.
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Janet Jackson Named As The Grinch Of The Year By PETA
First of all, minks are rodents?? Certainly not! They belong to the same order than dogs and cats, would she wear her pet on her back? She is an idiot.
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Trudie, Sting And "The Big Issue"
‘There’s a synergy between the Bag Issue and the Big Issue. Both Big Issue vendors and the children at Karm Marg are working their way from the streets.’
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The Violin, The Student and The Mega Bus
Why they send kids out with uber expensive strings is beyond logic but I am sure its with cause. Right?
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Poly Styrene: She Watched the World Turn Dayglo
. With her braces and her curly hair and her tin lunch box, Poly was the opposite of cooldom. And yet she exuded the punk form of cool: the political edgy dangerland. The neo, dayglo, end of the world , tip of the finger, soundstress songstress germfree adolescent wordsmith.
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Sinead O'Connor Splits From Husband Of 16 Days
“He is a wonderful man. I love him very much. I’m sorry I’m not a more regular woman. I truly believe though it is painful to admit, we made a mistake rushing into getting married, for altruistic reasons
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Bobby Gillipsie Hates Conformist Rockers
There doesn’t seem to be a lot of artists out there anymore Rock music is no longer where creativity is and it’s no longer taken seriously by creative people. It’s been absorbed into the mainstream culture and has become too conformist and normal.
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"The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" Reviewed (More Or Less)
The entire Reznor/Ross score is electronic plus organic mayhem and is most effective at its most tense. Still there is nothing as brilliant as the walk across the Harvard campus in “The Social Network”.
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MFT 12-28-11
Feel Good – Eric Benet feat Faith Evans – Off one of the best albums of 2010, the melody is not the strongest he has written but Evans, one of the most underrated singers, is just terrific.
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2011: The Year In Death
Yup, we are all busy transitioning into a higher state of something or other and all we can do when famous rock stars die is say a fond adieu and grade them. GRADE THEM!!! Well, what can i tell you, it is in the nature of rock nyc to grade and list everything. Alphabetically
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A New Column: Not With The Band Debuts
On Christmas day, nothing is happening, every news stops, there’s nothing, nada, rien!The XX released a mere demo of 2 minutes and all the blogs were after it, as if it would be the only thing they’d be able to feed on the whole day. And it was. Bands, if you want attention, release something on Christmas day, everyone will talk about you.
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Top Five Interviews of 2011
The Devil Wears PradaHartford CT Riding high on some new found fame you would expect an ounce of arrogance- to actually know they screened their press options (and chose us!) was an honor not to be dismissed.
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Darryl DMC McDaniels At Knicks On Opening Christmas Day, 2011
Trey Lorenz -he sang the MJ cover “I’ll Be There” with Mariah Carey, was perfect with the national anthem and Darryl “DMC” McDaniels rapped a Santa Claus number and then performed “Walk This Way” with the Knicks City Dancers behind him and yes, really, two turn tables and actual real scratching.
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'Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close' Reviewed
There were so many people sniffing and weeping in the theater that the moviemaker should be a little ashamed to have exploited loss and grief so much. It’s way too easy to make people cry at watching other people crying, I don’t think there is a dry-eye scene and Sandra Bullock is crying every time she is on the screen.