Black Veil Brides, What a Difference A Year Makes
Let me state they ALWAYS put on an amazing show. They are so very young yet so very talented. They make me proud.
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Chris Vrenna Quits Marilyn Manson
I wish my brothers well but with the recording largely completed I felt it was time to return to other facets of my career which involves production work, film scoring, and future musical collaborations
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Pick Concerts Week Of November 28th, 2011
Steve Wynn still sounds like Lou Reeds more harmonious kid brother, and Miracle 3 sound like the Byrds on acid, so Friday’s gig at Bowery Electric is a must see.
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MFT 11-28-11
Ka Kakani Ka’illi Aloha – Gabby Pahinui – What’s with the “ka” in Hawaiian ? It means “the” which makes Gabby ka greatest in my books. This is a lilting folk ballad playing over the titles to “The Descendants” it implies a sort of descent into the real world.
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Breathe Carolina At The Studio At Webster Hall, Friday, November 25th, 2011, Reviewed
For 45 minutes, Breathe Carolina were a study in artistic professionalism. The pacing immaculate, the audience rapport a study in contol, they were so good that at the end they interrupted a two hit medley with a slow one.
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Odd Future Pop Up Shop In LA
Come Spend Your Fucking Money And You Never Know, You Might Meet Someone! 410 North Fairfax, Los Angeles CA 90036. Monday Threw Sunday, 12pm Till 5pm. GOLF WANG.’
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Hoops and YoYo Ruin Christmas
The music in the repair scene is pretty dang snazzy. A Blink 182 sorta Mark Hoppus pop punk beat. Its funny as I watched I thought it was going to be New Found Glory or something. Instead I wait til credits and find its… Parry Gripp.
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Ryan Adams Performing With Laura Marling
I wonder whether Adams will venture into heavy metal again,… since I caught a little discussion on twitter between him and Vacation Vinyl a few days ago; Adams, regretful to have missed a performance in the store, was saying he was ‘at the studio all week every night’
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Kanye West, Sued For Plagiarism. Claims Nietzsche The Inspiration for 'Stronger'
Nietzsche is common place? This sentence at least is… anybody has read it without having heard about Nietzsche! But has Kanye West even read the German philosopher or did he just google a few quotes?
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Congratulations Mrs RL Cooper!
Lily is an avid Twitter user and had mentioned last month she was experiencing ‘Braxton Hicks” contractions or ‘false labor”, yet her last tweet? “totes excited’
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"Yule Shoot Your Eye Out" FOB We Miss You
First of all, it isn’t super cheesy with any jingle bells or ridiculously cliche lyrics, which is nice. Patrick’s voice is the perfect mix of soft and sweet and sincere, as always.
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Singles Going Steady, Week Of December 21st, 2001
50 Words For Snow – Kate Bush – A very beautiful meditation on winter with her always evocative piano taking center position. Kate’s influence is legend and this should add to her reputation. Grade: B+
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MFT 11-27-11
1. Snowflake – Kate Bush – As poets go, she is no Emily Bronte, “Wuthering Heights” notwithstanding, and on cold paper, her artistry, all horses walking thru snowdrifts, is a naturalists Patti Smith. But when she sings em they feel like they are revelealing the place where heat is cold.
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"A Very Gaga Thanksgiving" Reviewed
the entire show is squirmy unwatchable and sad. It’s like a trainwreck. How could Gaga be uncool and counter-culture at the same time? It is like performance art, the theater of the real and only she is in on the joke.
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"Runaway", Silverstein vs Kanye West
Leave it to Fearless Records for assigning this beauty to Silverstein.a Canadian post hardcore band whos been screaming since 2000. I have to stop a moment for some Silverstein appreciation? Shane Told has a beautiful voice
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Elliott Smith's Lost Song, Washington Post Follow-Up
He was SHOCKINGLY shy and it became clear he had on air jitters. he pretty much locked himself in the promotion office – alone – to tune and practice. he was super nice, but very sullen and soft spoken.
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Justin Beiber, Serendipty, and Underwear
Beiber took a break from filming his holiday performance at New York Citys, NBC Studios and caused a commotion. Not such a big surprise there, the kid cant blink without
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Tyler, The Creator At L.A.'s Odd Future Shop: Our Intreped Reporter Alyson Camus Risks Life And Limb For This Exclusive
I could not take many pictures about The Odd Future shop, I could not get in, there was such a long line and the security guard was very nasty! And there was a ‘no fucking photo’ sign at the entrance!
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New Song by Sharon Van Etten
Sharon Van Etten will release her new album ‘Tramp’ on February 7th 2012, following her last year Epic LP. The album is produced by The National’s Aaron Dessner
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Michael Jackson's "Immortal" Reviewed
It needed a better producer to meld it together, too often it uses sound effects to move from one set piece to another where what was needed was musical bridges
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Warped Tour 2012
Now until December 11, you can buy tickets to your local show at a discounted rate. Less than the cost of upcoming presale and they’re specially designed collectors item tickets
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GZA to Lecture At Harvard
Genius will live up to his name, lecturing at Harvard’s Black Man’s Forum on December 1st, 2011
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MFT 11-26-11
Ghosts – Laura Marling – For the most part, I find Marling’s charms real but limited. I wish the songs were, how you say, catchier. Except this one, With its galloping hooves drums and hooky “ghosts” repitions, it is an economic revelation of romantic disappointment
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The Macys Parade: New York City
I hate crowds and people annoy me so jam me into a crowd of sniveling kids and its a recipe for homicide. This year was best of all as I became separated with no money, no credit card, no gloves and a half dead cell phone
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Adam Brand At Madison Square Garden, Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011 Reviewed
Adam Brand is a good ol’ boy from Australia, playing some of that country-pop and, along with three other acoustic guitarists and a washboard, he performed a pretty good 20 minute set that didn’t come close to wearing out its welcome.
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Pyramid Vritra, Origami Vinyl Wednesday, November 23, 2011 Reviewed
Pyramid Vritra was in fact a duo, rapping over a sluggish-druggy sometimes jazzy or even electronic beats,… people were laughing, as they visibly knew the lyrics, which were delivered with detachment and a sort of second degree, venting some frustrations, sometimes rhythmically with dynamic beats, other times more melodically
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Missy Elliott Is Not Dead
Poor Missy has had not one but TWO episodes on Twitter announcing she had died. What a creepy event especially when it gets blasted all over the internet. Maybe she needs to tour or release new material to prevent the death hoax epidemic.
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Henry Rollins Hosts Charity Concert
The show will be a benefit concert and all proceeds will go to Drop In The Bucket, a Los Angeles-and-Uganda-based organization, that constructs wells and sanitation systems in sub-Saharan Africa in order to provide clean water to populations
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"Black Friday", Steely Dan. Keep Your Wallet In Your Pants
This song is fantastic. There is every cool element, shout back lyrics, air guitar solo, Fagans nasal cavity and of course that electronic twitter so retro cool I could scream
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The Flaming Lips and Yoko Ono Plastic Band for New Year's Eve
The New Year’s Eve Freakout #5 will actually be a two-day party (December 31st and January 1st) and will happen at the Coca Cola Bricktown Events Center,… will Yoko enter Wayne’s bubble?
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US Top Ten Albums, Week Of December 3rd, 2011
Absolutely Drakes newbie deserves the top spot, though it sags in the middle the first six songs are astounding. It is just a shame there wasn’t only 10 tracks to the album. Nobody has recovered from the CD days
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UK Top 10 Singles, Week Of December 3rd, 2011
Rihanna is a strange woman, so young and bruised, so sure and defensive, there is something messy about her and there is something messy about this song. I’m a little surprised it is as popular as it is, it is a downbeat Drake like ballad that changes direction and becomes a dance anthem
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MFT 11-25-11
Someday Soon – Judy Collins – In the late 70s I used to work in a bar on East 39th and we had a folk singer who played for tips and this song always got a ton of money. As much a teen fantasy as anything Swift has ever come up with and a reminder of a time less innocent
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The Final Night Of Taylor Swifts' "Speak Now" Tour At Madison Square Garden, Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011, Reviewed
Lady Gaga’s fans treat her like a very cool maiden Aunt, sticking up for them when their parents just don’t understand. Katy Perry’s fans treat her like a big sister, testing the adult world’s waters for them. Swift is a mix of sister, role model and best friend forever
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Breathe Carolina The Space November 20, 2011 Reviewed
But when Kyle said that one sentence and I saw all the lights on stage go out, I knew they were about to perform their latest single “Blackout” and my heart damn near exploded.
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‘Misery Let Me Down’, New Elliott Smith Song Reviewed
The song, unfortunately incomplete, was a warm-up during a 1997 live session that had been forgotten in the vaults of the college radio station WMUC.
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A rock nyc Thanksgiving
Don’t worry. Victoria, is safe and sound after being adopted by rock nyc co-editor Helen Bach. One small step for man, one giant waddle for mankind.
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The Sex Pistols Graffitti and Historical Value
“We feel justified in sticking our tongues out at the heritage establishment and suggesting that punk’s iconoclasm provides the context for conservation decision-making.”
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Thursday on Hiatus
“Thursday will be playing our final shows, starting tomorrow night and ending with our tour in Australia. We would love to see you all one more time. So please, if we’re near your city, come out and have fun with us.
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Gruff Rhys' Atheist Xmas EP
The EP is described as ‘an unholy trinity of three turkey-free new tracks for the festive season’, and the three songs successively as a ‘Motown-tinged’ in which ‘Gruff is re-imagining the ‘Winterval’ through the semi-melted eyes of a nuclear holocaust survivor’,
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Rap Video Promotes Scientology
The hip-hop music video is a four-minute long advertisement for the cult, said to be intended for internal church use. It sounds like your regular, basic, generic synth-rap song, with bad breakdancing and is thought to be the title track of ‘Dauntless, Defiant and Resolute’ by artist Chill E.B.
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Gobble Gobble HEY!
Unlike most of you fools I show my appreciation to those who deserve it on a daily basis. I have good manners and always take time to thank people.
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MFT 11-24-11
All I Want – Joni Mitchell – What better way to celebrate Thanksgiving then with a Canadian national treasure. A love stoy about a thwarted desire cradled in a melody awash with hope.
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Ray Davies At the Beacon Theater, Sunday, November 20th, 2011 Reviewed
His solo show featured an eclectic range of music from an unplugged two man acoustic performance at the beginning to his full band and the accompanying Dessoff Choir during the second half of the show
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Occupy Morrisey, Secret Show At The Music Box
It is an intimate show for Morrissey, and a very unique occasion to see him, but it was quite a long process for the fans as they had to return to the box office to pick up their tickets the day of the show, Wednesday November 23rd
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Tickets for Burning Man Festival Being Sold By Lottery
People on Burning Man forums are angry and comments like ‘STUPIDEST IDEA EVER!!!!’ or ‘Fuck everything about this’, or ‘Lottery sucks big time!’ have been posted as they worried they will not be able to get a ticket. And does this solve the scalper problem?
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The Rolling Stones' "Some Girls (Deluxe)" Reviewed
the final, last, absolutely, definably, great moment. From country to hard rock,, from reggae riddims to punkish outrage (at themselves) and kicked off with the last time the Stones would find themselves in touch with the zeigeist
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Paul Weller, "Around The Lake" Reviewed
The beat is fun, the electronic twitter has a fabulous retro sound and best of all? A completely distinct tambourine. There is NOTHING more fun than a tambourine, and there it is in full glory.
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Al Jardine: Brian Wilson Prolific In His Psychedelic 1960s
Al Jardine had some interesting things to say about the Beach Boy’s Brian Wilson during the aborted “Smile” sessions; among them, Phil Spector was planning to murder him… hmm, maybe that wasn’t drug induced paranoia
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Sesame Street Composer Fernando Rivas Charged with Child Molestation and Pornography
arrested on April 19 when ‘FBI agents stormed Rivas’ home, discovering photographs of a 4-year-old girl naked and “restrained in handcuffs and other bondage type devices’.