Pick Concerts Week Of December 19th, 2011
The surprise of the year has been Eric Contractor, whose debut album Night Escape, a baroque pop of immense power and beauty. Now we get to see him live on Wednesday at Sidewalk Cafe -a 7pm set.
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Please Mr. Post Man – The Beatles – Covering Tamla Motown is always a dodgy business, improving upon the original almost impossible. Here is the rarest of songs, it is more exciting than the Marvelettes original, mostly due to Lennon’s tour de force lead vocal.
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Iman and hel do SNL: Michael Buble
With a Jimmy Fallon opening that has more energythan the entire season to date, we set ourselves up for a great show. Fallon is a musical comedian so of course this will be the zinger of the year, but can Buble show any real personality?
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Swedish House Mafia At Madison Square Garden, Friday, December 16th, 2011
They sold out MSG in ten minutes of presale. And the audience were berserk, a truly fun buncha kids, who were like dayglo hippies on ecstacy instead of weed, and dancing up a storm. I, myself, who only white man dances, felt moved to shake it. But it wasn’t a “concert”. It was a DJ set.
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Do You Believe In Magic? A Wizards Playlist
I’ll be in the Wizarding World Of Harry Potter theme park pretty soon, which is very exciting because I’m a huge Harry Potter fan. To get in the spirit, here are some magic-inspired songs.
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Swedish House Mafia feat. Pharrell & Pitbull – Your Name (Remix) Reviewed
This really does nothing but provide some sound in the back ground to which I get the occasional Cuban thunk which actually grabs my attention.
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Cat Power New Download For Christmas
‘ALMOST DONE WITH ALBUM. IN 9 DAYS WILL HAVE A SONG AVAILABLE FOR HOLIDAY CHARITY DOWNLOAD W O R D ! XXXX’
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New Interactive Video For Arcade Fire's "Sprawl II"
‘With the help of your camera, you will influence the pacing of the video with your movements. There are no specific moves, just dance with your hands. The camera will detect the movement you are making. The crazier you get, the faster the video will go.”
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Sherlock Holmes And The Game Of Shadows Reviewed (More Or Less)
One scene occurs during a production of Mozart’s Don Giovann -begging an answer to the question, why do supervillains love opera? iHere and there the score gets topical, an occasional waltz.
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Foo Fighters' Show In Auckland Caused Seismic Vibrations
Until the concert ends at 11 pm, ‘vibrations were recorded as a semi continuous harmonic signal with a peak osculation of 3Hz, ie the ground was shaking 3 times per second in a nice rhythmic motion’
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Singles Going Steady, Week Of December 19th, 2011
Mac And Devin Go To High School – Snoop Dogg And Wiz Khalifa – It is what it says it is, one guy who should know about, another who shouldn’t, go back to High School and remain “Young And Wild And Free”. What a strange idea. Grade: B
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MFT 12-18-11
You’re Mine – Jeremih – The finest new Christmas song this season is this Chicago soul guys old time doo wop cmon There is an easy going chard to his come on and male and female choirs right beneath him, carrying the song along.
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Anthony Hamilton's "Back To Love" Reviewed
On song after song, crisp smart production by the likes of Dr. Dre and Babyface, assure they aren’t claustrophobic, and while the lyrics are asinine by definition, the songs, which Hamilton co-wrote, never devolve into love jams.
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Dinosaur Jr. at the Music Box, Wednesday, December 14th, 2011
the loud ferocious sound, full of J Mascis’ multiple pedal effects, Lou Barlow’ bass and Emmett Murphy’s drums attacks; it was a dissonant beast, building distortion over distortion, liberating itself into a weird psychedelia.
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Lady Gaga Cyber Party
Shes a very intelligent woman with a horrible speaking voice so this may actually be one of the niftiest things yet.
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New Edition 30 Year Anniversary Plan
“2012 is going to be an incredible year for us…. we just feel like our road to the 30th is going to be special because all of these different things that are in front of us. It’s just gonna be an incredible ride.”
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Free show with Deadmau5, James Murphy, for the release of 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo'
I still don’t get why Deadmau5, James Murphy, Proxy and Eye are having this dance party while NIN Trent Reznor has composed the score of the movie, can someone explain?
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Piano Man, Billy Joel Hangin With The Big Boys
There was a period when everything he touched was perfection- then the brief period when he was just plain awful. A ball player in a slump.
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2011 In Review: The Death Of The Album
From Avenged 7Fold to Tony Bennet, these acts were the top of the Billboard 200. How did that happen. Easy. People stopped buying albums so established acts with a fanbase only needed their fanbase to buy the album to have a “hit”.
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The Beach Boys Reunion Is On
What are they going to do? Put him mid stage behind an unplug keyboards while Mike Love runs around like a octogerian teenager singing “Be True To Your School”? I’m squirming at the though.
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Direct Currents Upcoming Releases
I was sad she never improved upon “Untouchable Face”. Ani’s problem was her music ended up as a bluesy jam way too often. Still, I am looking forward to hearing what else she has up her sleeve
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MFT 12-16-11
the Marvelettes were the Supremes redux, and forever remembered for the Beatles cover of “Please, Mr. Postman”. But I am in the middle of their greatest hits vol 2, and give em a listen.
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KiLR Exclusive Video Launch!!!
rock nyc exclusive: A fast, fun, hot and fuming ride from start to end, with lots of naked skin, lots of ‘ooooohs’ screamed at the top of their lungs and guitar riffs, while the bad boys are lying in bed with girls in black lingerie or powdered wigs.
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Support Your Local KiLR: Hard Rock Group Launches Video Here At 2PM
Around 2pm this afternoon, rock nyc will be exclusively streaming KiLR’s first video “Crazzzy” as part of the always fun rock band’s attempt to get 100,000 clicks on youtube and thereby go viral
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The New Shins Album ‘Port of Morrow’ Released March 2012
As usual James Mercer was the only songwriter, and handles the lead vocals as the majority of instrumentation… at this point the Shins is a one-man band!
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Most Overrated Album Of 2011: Adele's "21"
Adele is the chick flick of singers: she is a Lifetimetime Movie, a broiling, bitter, broken, psychotic moaner. No wonder women love her. All the clingy, needy, demanding, bull men hate in women are manifested here
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Watch The "Rock Of Ages" Trailer!
Based on the very successful Broadway musical, it is about a rock superstar Stacee Jaxx (Tom Cruise) and the religious activist (Catherine Zeta-Jones) determined to bring him down
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Barry Manilow Hospitalized
Before you go all ‘yuckin it up’ over Barry you have to consider some things. First off this guy has been around forever and although spray tanned and buffed up now he really was quite cool.
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New Radiohead Songs
Nothing was said if or when this new material will be released, but Thom Yorke had spoken to Rolling Stones in October (at the time they played these New York’s Roseland Ballroom shows), and had declared that Radiohead will record in December and January.
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Foster The People Spring Tour
Foster The People and their pumped up kicks will be touring some really large venues this spring and its surprising
Tickets for the tour go on sale today December 16th and guess what.. the opening bands are amazing
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Michael Buble Has Himself A Merry Little Christmas
On the same day it was released (along with Justin Bieber’s Under The Mistletoe, which it trounced) (and on Spotify, so so much for the Black Keys theories), his sales soared and soared and at the moment it has sold a mindblowing 1.54M copies
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Spotify And The Atomic Bomb
I pay $10 a month for Spotify and have it on my cell and two pcs. When I have suggested this to other people as the deal of the century they think I’m crazy. They don’t spend $10 a month on music, why would they pay $10 a month for a subscription to a streaming site
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US Top 10 Singles, Week Of December 24th, 2011
Though the album was a bit disappoint, T-Pain’s take on Lily Allen is a masterstroke, the sort of stroke you might expect from the man who sang a duet with Taylor Swift at the CMAs.
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US Top 10 Albums Week Of December 24th, 2011
not being on Spotify hasn’t helped the Black Keys, it certainly hasn’t hurt them much. Album at # 2, adding a second night to MSG, and, er a shave??
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MFT 12-16-12
Charlotte is such a Daddy’s girl, her Mom, Jane Birkin, is lost in the background somewhere. But if the vocal here isn’t a tribute to Birkin, what else explains the breathy desirability?
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Adele "Set Fire To The Rain", Reviewed
One rainy night as Adele stood outside a bar trying to light a cigarette as her boyfriend bitched at her about how she wouldn’t be able to light a lighter while it was raining. Well, she finally did it and upon lighting her cigarette, she calmly walked away
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Black Keys Not On Spotify
They are really straightforward about it, saying that royalties coming from streaming services are not the equivalent to royalties coming from record sales, and that it is quite unfair to people who purchased the album that other people can stream it for free.
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Holmes Covers "Mr. Blue Sky"
In a nearly speak sing tone Holmes takes on a really odd group of pop songs and tweaks them just enough to not sound like a lounge karaoke.
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Best Concerts Of 2011
2011 was a great year for shows, I went to a lot of them, and as it is almost the end of the year, here is my list of the 10 best concerts of 2011. It was quite hard to classify them, since the list is so eclectic, I loved them all for different reasons
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Best Tracks 2011 #61 – #80
Firefly – Ed Sheeran – The girls love him because he is sensitive. This pretty song is very, very sensitive. This is the sorta sound that slips out of Owl City’s grasp
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Four Year Strong on The Daily Habit
Dan O’Connor is still the Yukon Cornelius of hardcore a happy lumberjack with a great disposition. Alan looks like a typical blue collar worker, he needs only a lunch box made of metal.
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rock nyc's Best Movie Of 2011: "Another Earth"
. Former LCD Soundsytemers Fall On Your Sword have written a nerve dangling, thought proving beauty of a score. All tech stuff except for a piano that comes in here and there.
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Warped Tour Announce More Bands and More Dates
More bands have been added including the AMAZING Chlesea Grin, Sleeping with Sirens and The Sliver Comet. Interesting fact, is that the dates are set for the tour- but the venues are not.
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Jimi Hendrix All Star Tribute Tour 2012
The lineup is unique to say the least- Robert Randolph, Kenny Wayne Sheppard, David Hidalgo and Caesar Rosas of Los Lobos? Keb’ Mo, Eric Johnson,Living Colour, Chris Layton and… Dweezil Zappa? An interesting group of performers to take on an enormous task of lending tribute to a rock and roll God.
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Tyler Carter Puts The Woe Back Into "Someone Like You"
Jilted ugly broad anthems. Something for the sniveling to sit around eating Doritos and watching Dr Phil to while sobbin over the guy that made a run for it.
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Bobby Womack To Release New Album
XL Records Richard Russell’s annoucement that he is co-producing Bobby Womack’s latest album with Damon Albarn is both tidings of great joy, because we are getting new Womack material, and whatever
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Paris Jackson To Star In Movie
What I still don’t understand is that how could these children go from never appearing in public without wearing burqa and veils to playing in movies? How did they manage to adapt so fast?
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Beach Boys To Reunite At Grammys
a re-united Beach Boys will be appearing at the Grammy’s next year, just in time for their 50th Anniversary. I don’t know if this means Brian Wilson will rejoin his band for a tour
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Madonna Signs To Universal
her contract with Warner Brothers came to an end and Universal Music, who have been doing an awful good job of sticking it to WB this year (UMUS bought half of EMI from under WBs nose) , have signed her to a three year $3 Million contract.
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MFT 12-15-11
Chicago’s favorite sons are a rock nyc fave but not one of mine. The opening song off their latest track is a relation to grunge, at least in that it is all playing with pace and tone. The song is hard but not too hard, sorta teen rock.