Bryan and Tara Ferry Rock H & M
Mr Roxy Music is in the ad campaign with his adorable son Tara. Leave it to some fine genetics to make a $9.99 dress shirt and $29.99 jacket look ultra chic.
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Jose Gonzalez Needs Your Villa
So José is looking for a quiet place to compose his music? And he thinks he could disturb the neighbors? He looks like a very quiet person himself, and his music is peaceful and comforting. So, José, my place is far from being a villa, but California is general really sunny
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Shut Up and Play the Hits, James Murphy At Sundance
Sundance Film Festival will premiere a rockumentary so to speak titled “Shut Up and Play The Hits’, a chronicle of the day of and day after the final MSG performance. Where did that title come from?
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Liam would Rather Eat Nasty Stuff Than Reform Oasis
Liam Gallagher, who seems to never be out of words in order to insult his brother, will play at the Wiltern with his Beady Eye on Saturday, and the LA Weekly spoke with him,… but what else could be expected? Liam talked shit about Noel,… literally!
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"Flipper" for Sale, Cobain Rip Off?
Grunge is apparently ‘back’ and homogenized and the shirt is currently sold out online. No credit or mention of Nirvana is made in the shirts description
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"My Week With Marilyn" Reviewed (More Or Less)
On the soundtrack there are lots of pop songs of the period, here a Dean Martin, there a Nat King Cole. Best of all is Marilyn singing “I Found Dream” in the bath, while Colin looks on from the back dazzled. It might never have happened but I treasure the daydream of proximity to greatness.
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Music On Your Television week Of December 5th, 2011
This week though we have the bonus of ‘Mr. She’s Havin’ My Baby’, Paul Anka. This guy was the smarmiest of love song singers.
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Pick Concerts Week Of December 5th, 2011
Fever pitch excitement for Ryan Adams at the great Carnegie Hall on Tuesday. A solo acoustic set to go along with his acoustic recent release. I have zero prediction here. It could be the set of a life time or it could be a somnabulistic nightmare. But I can’t wait to find out.
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MFT 12-05-11
I Found Dream – Marilyn Monroe – Only a verse, but it offers Monroe singing Hungarian(?) folk song very, very purely. Monroe so overshadowed herself, that her ability to be anything but a movie star was invisible. A doomed woman unable to maintain the illusion.
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Iman and hel Do SNL: The Black Keys
They aren’t as horrible as most, not as great as I’m told, but they’re a rock and roll blues band and well perhaps their flannel loving fans will perk up tonights Saturday Night Live? Yeah, we doubt that as well.
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Ryan Adams Signed Single Givaway Coming Soon
Is it really a rare piece? the vinyl, which features two previously unreleased tracks ‘Empty Room’, with wife Mandy Moore on backing vocals, and ‘Nutshell’, a Alice in Chain’s cover, and we’re giving away a signed copy free
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Another Horrible DubStep Remix, "You Make Me Feel…" Juice Box
What they did to sell their souls to Justin Beiber is a whole ‘nother bag of crap. But really when all is said and done- its pretty amusing that they ended up on a Macys float.
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A Mulish Happy New Year
had no intention of standing for three hours -otherwise I was open to persussion, The NO SRO meant Patti Smith (one of my finalists) was out and it also meant i was leaning hard towards Fitz And The Tantrums at the Gramercy. But they would lose.
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Le Butcherettes at the Palladium on Thursday December 1st, 2011, Reviewed
With her cute doll-dress, black tights and blood-covered housewife apron, she seemed to make some big feminist statement, i.e. the gender bender name, and the fake blood to denounce violence against woman. But how many bands have such a strong female presence going insane onstage?
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George Harrison's Sister To Write Tell All
First off, he wasn’t quiet, but the weekend they flew into New York to do ‘Ed Sullivan,’ George was very sick. They were staying at the Plaza Hotel, and we got him to see the hotel doctor, Dr. Gordon. Dr. Gordon said, ‘This is a very sick kid. He’s got a 104-degree temperature and has strep throat
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How Lady Gaga Lost Her Cool
In May 2009, rock nyc had been up a month and I was fond of “Paparazzi”, so I tried to get a tix to see Lady Gaga at T5/ It was sold out. But then she added a late night show and a hmmmd and I haaaaad and finally decided to buy a tix
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The Black Key and The Arctic Monkeys?
I hope the Arctic Monkeys break off and do a small solo jaunt while on this weird ride. I would love to see them live but The Black Keys I could do with out.
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Singles Going Steady, Week of December 28th, 2011
In The Present – Live From Lyon – Yes – I used to believe that if they toned it down a notch or two and stopped acting like such pompous asses maybe I’d grow to not hate them… well, with no Rick Wakeman to sexually brutalize the keyboards they tone it down. At it is unbearable. Grade: D+
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Someday (You’ll Want Me To Want You) – Patsy Cline – In the1980s I wrote a novel about an alcoholic guy, just out of the armed forces, and blocked on a bio he was writing about Patsy. Yup, that’s how great she was -she inspired novels.
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Mary Magpie Is 15
From the start, Mary was a good writer, and through the years she has become my favorite rock nyc scribe. A complete professional, who, with a sense of commitment, dedication, and self-control (yes, self-control -it is difficult to maintain your cool while meeting your rock star heroes) beyond her years.
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PiL, Spring 2012
Now PiL, as well as a modified Sex Pistols have toured as of late. Actually its more like Johnny has stayed in the spot light as best as you can with no new material.
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Motion City Sountrack, "Here Comes The Sun"
What do you do? “Make it your own’? Risky to say the least. You’ll get some tool purist saying, ‘how dare you’ or something similar.
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Ryan Adam's Super Rare Seven Incher From Vacation Vinyl
If you want a signed copy (yes, signed!), go to the store, and give the secret password to purchase it: SATAN! There a limit of one customer, and the offer is only available with purchase of an item from the Black Metal Section
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Los Angeles Gone With The Wind Playlist
the Santa Ana winds blew up to 80-100 mph, trees fell down (one was across the street when I drove to work this morning), power went down in some parts of the city, and schools closed down for the day! Here are a few songs about the wind.
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Don Giovanni Records Annual Showcase Next February And For Science Are Back
the real excitement here is For Science reforming. One of my fave bands of all time, the pop punk quarter with guitarist Joe Steinhardt writing some of the greatest songs I’ve ever heard and Joe Slovan singing them
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Viva La Britney
“I want to return some of that love so I’ve decided to give my fans in Mexico a special night and perform my Femme Fatale show for free.”
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Sid Vicious Documentary "Sid By Those Who Knew Him" Available Here
Nancy Spungen is profiled with new interviews from Jah Wobble, Steve Severin, Vivien Westwood, Malcolm McClaren, Dave Vanian, Rat Scabies, Marco Pironi, Viv Albertine, and many others who actually knew Sid.’
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MFT 12-03-11
He Called Me Baby – Patsy Cline And The Jordainaires – The surprise here is that when you think of Presley’s backing band, you think of country boys helping invent rock and roll. But what you get here is country boys helping invent countrypolitan.
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Bono On The Daily Show For World AIDS Day
Bono arrives in the Daily show with his messiah aura, but in reality, he will always make his interests come first: Stewart will certainly never ask Bono what happened to his wife’s company, Edun, the organic clothing company destined to provide jobs in Africa: when finances looked bad
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Vybz Kartel, Not As Much Of A BAMF As We Thought…
Dancehall artist Vybz Kartel, born Adidja Palmer, was reported to have escaped from Horizon Adult Remand Centre in Jamaica with seven other inmates, in an elaborate break out that included smuggled guns,officers being taken hostage
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Ace Frehley, Broken
Ace Frehley legendary KISS guitarist has fallen at his home (this is sorta where I would go on a Life Alert tangent) and broken his wrist.
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Another Look At Ryan Adams And Laura Marlings Latest Albums
This is 2011, if an album doesn’t kick in, there are a million more just waiting for our attention. So when neither Adam’s “Ashes And Rain” nor Marling’s “A Creature I Do Not Know” hit my mental repeat button I moved on. Till I bought tix to see them live.
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David Bowie Denies Musical
The show, called ‘Heroes: The Musical’ was described as a futuristic fantasy, featuring various Bowie-esque characters like Major Tom, the starman and a ‘young dude’ called David
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Rock In The New Year With Coldplay
We decided to go big with Coldplay – really big. So we came up with the idea of celebrating New Year’s Eve with a 90-minute special.
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New LA Artists Could Get Grammy Nomination
Fitz & the Tantrums: We have to say it very loud, we talked about them first!! With their R&B-organ-Motown-revival, they are the real local success, growing big with their non-stop touring during this last year
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"A Twisted Christmas", Twisted Sister In New York
This just in.. Jesus will not be born this year. This in protest to the horrific news that Twisted Sister is playing live in honor of the holiday. New York
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Who Will Play Eponine in "Les Miz" Movie Musical
More interesting is the answer to who will play Eponine. According to Page Six it’s between Taylor Swift, Lea Michele, Scarlett Johansson and Evan Rachel wood.
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Jarvis Cocker Gets The Reason For Amy Winehouse Death Wrong
Being Princess of Wales is one thing, but Amy absolutely begged for the paparazzi. And even if she didn’t, running around London smashed out of your mind in your undies is gonna draw attention whoever you might be.
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Noel Gallagher Discussing ITunes
The romance has gone out of it”. That’s Noel Gallagher discussing what has changed in the consuming of music and it was certainly a much richer experience when you were actually searching out music.
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US Top 10 Albums, Week Of December 10th, 2011
Well now, except for Rihanna, Drake and maybe Mary J., this pretty much sucks.I gues Buble’s is about the best Seasonal albym but some of these acts are so bad… Nickelback are the second worst band on earth. the worst are at #10.
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US Top 10 Singles, Week Ending December 10th, 2011
Calvin Harris is a talented fellow, I’ve just gor around to hearing his album and his 2011 “Feel So Close” and the Rijamma hit is no fluke. Believe it or not, this is a case of a sharp as fuck production improving a great song
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MFT 12-02-11
It is not simply that this, a lost love lament written by Charlie Fink to former bandmate Laura Marling, is the best song on the album of the same not. Or even the best song Charlie has written before or since. Or better than anything Laura has ever written. Or as good as anything but the best by Ryan Adams. It is the naked emotions that flood this is song
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"Santa Baby" by Versa Emerge Reviewed
I had quite hoped that Versa Emerge’s rendition of this classic would make a fan out of me but sadly, it failed.
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Collaboration Between Beck and Charlotte Gainsbourg, Paradisco
The song, which was written and produced by Beck, is only sung by Charlotte and gets a little help from Ariel Pink’s Haunted graffiti Cole M.G.N. on the drum machine
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The Kooks, "Ooh La" Stripped Down and Gorgeous
I now want (if not DEMAND) a stripped down tour. There is more personality and clarity in this video then their live performance that night.
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Guards, "I see it coming" Video Reviewed
The new Guards’ black and white video posted by yourstru.ly could just give me the excuse to talk about this band again, but it is actually so good that it
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A rock nyc December!
Swedish House Mafia is the biggie here, a swift sell out (in never got past the Facebook presale). This is a huge gig for them (I believe they’re recording it), not only is it at MSG -a big room by most standards, but for dance fans anyway, it is the biggest thing this side of Miami (Or Ibiza).
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Elvis Costello Advises Not To Buy His Latest Release
All our attempts to have this number revised have been fruitless but rather than detain you with tedious arguments about morality, panache and book-keeping – when there are really bigger fish to filet these days – we are taking the following unusual step.’
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Florence Welch Covers Drake's "Take Care" (Video Included)
Drake and Florence welch have formed a mutual admirtion society. And to prove it, here is Florence with her machine covering Drake’s recent “Take Care” duet with Rihanna which samples the XX!!
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Nothing Will Silence Adele
I cant express to you how the sound of her yelping leaves bruises on my aura. I want to commit crimes, it sends me to rage. Not only is she an instant bad mood, shes a sniveling sapping cry baby who should be boxed.