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.
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Mr. Brainwash’s exhibit: Art Show 2011 preview,Thursday, December 22nd, 2011
Brainwash’s giant collages you will recognize about anybody: Michael Jackson, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Cassius Clay, Keith Richards, Miles Davis, Brigitte Bardot, Louis Armstrong, David Bowie, Jim Morrison, Sid Vicious, Santana, Slash, Ray Charles, James Dean, Serge Gainsbourg, Tyler the Creator, John Kennedy
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Lady Gaga's New Song "Stuck On Fuckin' You" -Listen To It Here
Acoustic guitar, handclaps, blues singalong, one take on a bus in Minnesota, what’s not like about “Stuck On Fuckin’ You”, Lady Gaga’s Christmas release released gift to her little Monsters.
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Craig Mabbitt "Making Christmas", Reviewed
Craig Mabbits amazingly sinister tone take this one step further into the dark side. The haunting background chant isn’t credited either.. It’s a shame since this song is done so very well.
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What Happened At The Odd Future Show
Adler is even defending Tyler’s decision to jump on the sound board and obviously doing some damage, saying ‘it looked worse than it was’.
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"The Adventures Of Tintin" Reviewed (More Or Less)
Since the success lies in the medium, even live action animation isn’t gonna solve the problem.That doesn’t mean Spielberg’s action adventure isn’t a doozy. Watched in IMAX 3D it is a thrill ride oand a half. But it doesn’t have the Herge magic
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Saturday Night Live, There Is Hope
The most perfect impersonations I have seen in forever. Michale Buble, does a brilliant job in reacting the to the cast of weirdos that show to duet with him.
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Singles Going Steady, Week Of December 19th, 2011
The Head And The Heart – Generic indie folk outta Seattle. But generic are just as good as the original only earier t get. A consistently pleasurable kichen sink of folk sound. Especially the haunting “Down In The Valley”. Grade: B
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MFT Christmas Day 2011
Santa Bring My Baby Back to Me – Elvis Presley – Remember, you can’t spell elves without Elves. The best part? That ineleuctable bridge where the Jordanaires join him.
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Trans-Siberian Orchestra At Prudential Center, Thursday, December 23rd, 2011
It is actually pretty amazing: it begs the question, why has no one ever thought of adding Emerson, Lake And Palmer to Queen and Charles Dickens, taking Broadway type staging, spending that much money, and puting it on the road.
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Tyler The Creator Arrested
I can only imagine the chaos over there, with all the fans probably defending him. It was even reported that officers used bean-bag guns on the crowd, and helicopters arrived on the scene to contain the riot. And I know how fast the LAPD can go overboard.
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Christmas Music, The Great Equalizer
As hard as we or other ‘moderns’ try to update traditions it simply doesn’t work. Oh now I’m not saying there hasn’t been a winner of a Christmas song since 1962, but I am saying that the true bulk of holiday repetition is done by the masters.
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Peter Pan At The Theater At MSG, Thursday, December 22nd, Reviewed
Rigby is a pleasant singer and ridiculously athletic for any age, the children in the audience adored it, and it kept their attention, including Juliet, who sat next to me, eating popcorn and watching the action intently.
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Queen Kwong at Boardners, Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
she is a sweetheart, reading a blog listing her most-loved ten things, there were, among other things, cats , Iggy Pop, Nick Cave and chocolate. I think we could get along pretty great
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Justin Beiber Does Good
Beiber used the time to not only sing some hits and Christmas songs but to discuss his own younger days and his familys financial struggle.
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Hexham Heads at Boardner's, Wednesday, December 21st, Reviewed
Their guitars were like thunder, the vocals had swagger and belligerence in their delivery, and their songs were often venturing into a gloomy and a sort of cold psychedelia with some My-Bloody-Valentine-meets-The-Cure-meets-Joy-Division-meets-the-Cramps (and probably many others) accents at various times of their set.
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Michael Jacksons Interior? One Million Bucks
This is one of the saddest things I've ever read. The contents of the late King of Pops final home "Neverland Ranch", sold at auction for 1 million dollars. That's
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Must See Concert: Glen Campbell At Town Hall
“Rhinestone Cowboy”, “By The Time I Get To Phoenix” and “Dreams Of the Everyday Housewife” to name just the first three songs on his “In Concert” album. Not to mention new material from his latest release, Ghost On The Canvas, which made my best of 2011 list
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MFT 12-24-11
The most underrated album of the year was this bands Portamento -it made my top ten of 2011. But, shockingly enough, I didn’t get them at first. It took a live concert, Halloween 2010, and this song (I originally heard it on their Daytrotter session) changed my mind. Just about perfect surf rock as played the Smiths.
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Helen's Top 5 Concerts of 2011
All Time Low, Wallingford CT. There is nothing more fun than hanging out with ATL. The guys are exactly what you want to spend a night with. I have never laughed harder at a non comedy show in my life.
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Outernational's ‘Todos Somos Ilegales: We Are All Illegals’ Reviewed
Todos Somos Ilegales: We Are All Illegals’ may be talking about another kind of war, the one going on at the border, but the feisty energy carried with a gentle but determined fist in the air is there from start to finish, along with an invigorating and genuine vehemence, and a part reserved to satirical humor.
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Hey Monday Hiatus
suppose their handful of fans are on their knees crying, but truth be told no one knows who they are so no one knows what they’re missing. Hiatus means broken up by the way.. please give me a list of five band who have gone on hiatus and returned to work
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Boo Band Songs Reviewed
a sort of Ramoney fun-fast punk song, with mummy Adrienne Armstrong on vocals, daddy Billy Joe on bass and the two kids on drums and guitar. It’s simple, sure enjoyable, but bubbly and girlie like the color they chose for their CD
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David Archuletta, Breaking For The Lord
It is all well and go to perform evangelical acts but its another to announce them in front of fans who dropped cash to watch you perform
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Game, Tyler (And Weezy) Video For "Martian vs Goblins"
I am not sure why Game gets no love, maybe because he is an arrogant prick except… well, doesn’t that come with the job description. As for, TLC: he is way on top of his own game here.
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George Jones To Receive Special Merit Award At Grammy's
Also to be honored will be Diana Ross, Gil Scott-Heron, The Allman Brothers Band, Glen Campbell, Antonio Carlos Jobim and the Memphis Horns and who can deny any single name on that list?
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Military Wive's Choir To Be UK's Xmas Single 2011
They took the words from letters written by wives of military personnel and added music tby the dreadful Royal Wedding composer Paul Mealor. It is worse than it sounds.
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Paul McCartney Falls Off The Stage
Now McCartney is not exactly a dancer and well I dont think anyone had thrown business cards at the stage, which we know makes things mad slippery
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Vince Neil Is Thinking About Quitting Motley Crue
I just don’t know if I can handle it. Vince did say “not definite” so I am holding on to that hope, I am grasping it, and not letting it go,. Maybe, just maybe, wiser minds, will prevail. Maybe this madness will come to an end.
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Sondre Leche Covers Beyonce's "Countdown"
It is sure very very different from the original, and you will be surprised by the stripped down rendition of the exuberant bombastic Beyonce song! As he said there are elements ‘useless to even attempt replicating’,
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US Top 10 Singles Week Of December 31st, 2011
This hasn’t moved much in ages. All winter long: Rohanna, LMFAO, Adele, Maroon 5. The only adds have been T-Pain and the Throne. It is the opposite of the album charts this year, where there is almost constant movement at the top
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US Top 10 Albums, Week Of December 31st, 2011
Christmas means giving in country land and that’s why Lady Antebellum and the American Idol kid are back up there. Two of the top three will be gone soon. And congrats to Black Keys, who aare now a legitimate big time rock band.
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MFT 12-23-11
I can hardly bare the sight of lipstick, On the cigarettes there in the ashtray Lyin’ cold the way you left them. At least your lips caressed them while you packed.”
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Trent Reznor Explains How He Composed ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ Soundtrack
“You were hearing a lot of live, modular synthesizers creating a kind of icy or pulsing bed with something that feels very non-electronic, an organic and imperfect instrument played imperfectly, sitting on top of that?”
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Kanye West Will Throw You Out, Unless You Raise Your Hand
I see them come from that direction so like, all four of them gotta go. Unless one person raise their hand and say ‘I’m the one that did it’, all that whole section gotta go.
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Say Anything? Say No.
Bemis’ voice almost saves the song, and the instruments feel weak and forced. The lyrics don’t really hold a special meaning and there’s not even a hook. The song isn’t absolutely terrible, because Say Anything can never be anything less that okay
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On Common, Sharon Jones And Getting It Wrong
if Common is not bragging, he is plying Gangsta, loverboy or holding hands over black excellence. There is something so horrible, so undignified, about this calling up the centuries dead ghosts of black slaves to point at how great you are.
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Ben Kweller: Fun Name, Fun Contest
Now if I were a BK fan I would be on this like a magnet, what a very fun contest.To enter you need only pre order his latest release “Go Fly A Kite” before February 6th.The lp is released on February 7th.
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Television Personalities Lead Singer Dan Treacy Out Of Coma
Fantastic news, Daniel is out of Itu (intensive therapy unit) and making great progress. Daniel has a way to go yet but at the moment all is going in the right direction..
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FMLY fest 2011 on December 29th and 30th.
music-art-activist collective FMLY is organizing a big fest to celebrate the end of the year with the best new and upcoming LA bands. There are so many bands in the lineup
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Gym Class Heroes touring with T-Pain, Grieves & Budo
Interesting is the upbeat party music that GCH provide and the depth of emotion out of Grieves, its as if he’s there to set up the crowd so Travie can be the Pied Piper of happy dust as the grand finale.
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Paul McCartney"s New Album Of Oldies
early Beatles , when they left the path of early rock and roll, seemed more likely to sing showtunes like “Till There was You” or novelty hits like “Besame Mucho”.
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Panda Bear's New Video
an abstract experience going on the trippy psychedelic side, with a few close-ups of human and canine lips and wet tongues that can make you borderline uncomfortable
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Must See Gig: Saint Motel At Mercury Lounge, March 1st, 2012
Catch L.A.’s finest at a small club in the West Village for ten bucks. What’s not to like?
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Two I Missed On Best Albums Of 2011
But she pulled it through in the end, just through her relentless singlemindedness. Any sort of self-revelation aka “Piece Of Me” was over and done with, what Spears was offerring was a pure pop product
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2011: A Disappointment
this was not the year of musical innovation it was a holding pattern: from indie to pop, from rock to dance, it was more of the same but without the thrill of the new.
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MFT 12-22-12
An 8 minute epic of identity, reunion and time as an identity, revolving around a question: “Can’t you see that should’ve been me…” John explains, and the two lovers are dazzled through time, getting nowhere.
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God, Man And Music
“Those old songs are my lexicon and prayer book. All my beliefs come out of those old songs, literally, anything from `Let Me Rest on that Peaceful Mountain’ to `Keep on the Sunny Side.’ You can find all my philosophy in those old songs”
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Green Day Family Band "The Boo"
I would pretend to be excited but its not worth the effort. This is nothing more than a family sing along that I suppose they want fans to buy in to. Self serving? Egotistical?