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.
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The Associated Press: Top 10 Albums of 2011
No Beiber? No Gaga?They have Adele but I think if you don’t include Adele in your top something or other of 2011 you get shot or something or maybe she will stalk you from a tree outside yourhouse.
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How Tinnitus Influenced Beethoven's compositions
Neil Young, Pete Townshend, Bob Mould, Jeff Beck, Sting, Eric Clapton, James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Thom Yorke, Colin Greenwood, Ryan Adams, Lemmy Kilminster, Kevin Shields,Blinda Butcher, George Harrison, George Martin, Ted Nugent, U2’s Bono and the Edge, Moby, Phil Collins, Cher, Ozzy Osborne, Huey Lewis, Mick Fleetwood, Charlie Haden, Al Di Meola, Todd Rundgren, Trent Reznor, Will.i.am, all have different degrees of tinnitus.
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Strummer Ramblin', "Late News Breakin'. This Just In"
your backyard and if your dog is tangled up Im gonna help him. That’s metaphoric I’m not Adele, I’m not stalking you but I accept the fact that I am part of something greater than what I can fit in my handbag.
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Taylor Swift's "Safe At Home" Reviewed
The song is daring by Taylor’s standards, nothing like anything she’s done before, a haunting folk song that drifts in the night air, and seems to want to sooth and protect but still has an edgy fear about it. It is not an end song, it doesn’t reach a resolution.
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Bruce Springsteen, Rolling Stone And The Moral Imperative
According to Rolling Stone Mag, Springsteen told Bob Seger that Bruce’s next album will be his best in years. Where wil that leave RS loathsome 5 star review of “Working On A Dream”? If Dream is 5 stars out of 5 stars, what can they make his new one when Bruce is, indeed, correct and it is a return to form?
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2011: My Year in Concerts
By date and graded!! It was a better year for live music than recorded. The reason was, so many oldies came up with the goods on stage. Tops were McCartney and Rod Stewart. Both peaking.
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Jon Bon Jovi Shares His Pain
Sitting in a hip cafe, Jon tells us why Advil is so fab. I stumbled across this commercial while channell surfing and nearly gave myself whiplash. Why on Earth would he do this?
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MFT 12-27-11
Titus Andronicus – Titus Andronicus – The most self-reflective song ever written. In Stickles frustration at his inability to write the song, “I’ll write my masterpiece some other day” he snarls, he writes his first undeniable masterpiece. A great song. I still listen to it all the time.
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rock l.a.'s Best Albums Of 2011
I forgot which famous person said she would prefer to remove her clothes than reveal her musical tastes, but yeah, she was right in a way, it can be pretty intimate
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"Shake" Yin Yang Twins (ft Pitbull), Reviewed
The song shake “Shake” is a hot mess of thumps and bongo stuff peppered with some filth and a nice dash of Mr 305. This thing is six years old released in 2006, it never made it past the #41 spot on Billboard but what the hell do they know about music anyway?
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Holy Ship! Teese on The Seas
Deeta is gorgeous despite her coupling up with Marilyn Manson, she personifies thebeauty of decades ago. I find her simply perfect and it’s interesting that she’s on this ship of fools so to speak.
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Cat Power's new song ‘King Rides by’ Reviewed
Cat Power’s voice is particularly moving during this long and haunting incantation, which seems to beautifully agonize for some lost love, ‘You don’t miss your water/’Till your well is gone’
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Big Names Collaborating On "The Hunger Games" Soundtrack
Taylor Swift worked with the Civil Wars and Burnett to write and perform the song ‘Safe and Sound’ the Decemberists wrote ‘One Engine’. Other sources are saying that Arcade Fire are even doing several songsfor the soundtrack, including the theme song
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Pick Concerts Week Of December 26th, 2011
Handsome lads, those Gov’t Mules, aren’t they? I will be jamming down with the Southerners, most on leave from the Allman Brothers, this New Year’s Eve at Beacon Theater. What better way to make it past another year?
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MFT 12-26-11
How can a man sound so true so many years later? This tale of a small town boy knocked on his ass by the big city is an echoing cathedral of sound. It sounded so wrong for the songs aspirations back in the day, but now its charm lies as much in its inconguity as anything else.
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The Twelve Days Of rock nyc Christmas
To our loyal readers, the amazing writers, the record labels and PR firms who have shown us so much respect- we wish you the very best for 2012. Stick with us.. we’re holding nothing back
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Ten Versions Of "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" Reviewed
Darlene Love – The first and still the one to beat because of Darlene’s deranged, out of control, ending. There is something very moving about adding heartbreak to holiday and Darlene gets it all.