Katy Perry Hosting SNL On December 10th
what’s the bet SNL haven’t got the slightest idea how to deal with her on December 10th? It’s not that they are bad with women, it is that they are bad with everything.
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MFT 11-23-11
Runaway – Silverstein – No they don’t speed or punk Kanye West’s masterpiece. They re-arrange it for guitar and change it from a rap song to a pop song of the first order.
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Black Cobra Wiltern Theater Friday, November 18th, 2011
With their ‘Invernal’ album art for background, a sort of phantasmagoric landscape made of menacing gothic tree-dragons that could have come up directly from a scene from the Lord of the Rings, the vocals were savagely screamed above a wall of noise of distortion.
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The Sword Wiltern Theater Friday, November 18th, 2011
The Austin-based quartet had indeed a bottomless collection of sharp strident guitar riffs, playing these furious and destructive songs, which were going from hard rock to metal and vice-versa,… and I was thinking about some other element at times, with a brighter side just to compensate the doom side of metal.
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No One Should Ever Cover Mumford and Son
M&S are the epitome of pure calm and beautiful folk music. To hear a band with zero talent cover them puts me in an absolutely horrific mood. I can say that my day’s pretty much ruined now. What is wrong with the world? I just don’t even understand.
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Taylor Swift On 60 Minutes: Lazy, Sloppy And Already Well Documentated Reporting
A fantasy where her songwriting abilities are under appreciated because her fans are teenage girls. This is complete nonsense. Swift is considered, and rightly, one of the greatest songwriters of her generation. IT’S HER SINGING THAT WAS GETTING DISMISSED
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Springsteen announcing a 2012 world tour
With Keith Richards claiming that he has hopes for a Rolling Stones tour in 2012 to mark their 50th anniversary (although Jagger seemed to rule out the idea), Radiohead having already announced dates for their upcoming tour, and Paul Simon planning a Graceland anniversary tour, 2012 will certainly be the year of all the heavy-weights!
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Forever The Sickest Kids to release new music video
The teaser video contains a Breakfast Club reference, so it has to be good. Whenever a band likes good movies, it just makes them even cooler. It leaves me wondering what the actual video will be about.
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From YouTube To IPods: A New Generation Of File Sharing
With the birth of Google Music, Itunes has yet another competitor and this time a big one. Trust me, if Google thought subscription based rentals were the future, they would have gotten into that as well.
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In Praise Of The New Girl Same As The Old Girl: Zooey Deschanel
I am sure I am not alone in falling in love with Zooey Deschanel around the middle of her “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” duet with Wil Farrel. And I am not certain if I am alone in getting completely sick of her around Vol II, her dire She & Him sophomore effort.
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Craig Finn, Solo Adventures
“But the title is obviously a nod and a wink and a lift to it. And I always loved that part, when they would say, “Clear eyes, full heart, can’t lose.” I thought that was really poetic, you know, for a high school football team. So I was just playing around with that
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Grammy Awards Hall Of Fame Nominees 2012: "I Have A Dream" and "The Message" Among Them
The 2012 inductees into the Grammy Hall of Fame are here, and to be honest, it is a little difficult to argue with them though quite why Cole Porter’s “Anything Goes” is only showing up now I don’t know
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Here Are The Winners Of Sunday's American Music Awards… A Study In Irrelevance
Though based upon the votes of record buyers, it seems to be a referendum on youth. Honestly, Speak Now was the best country album. Best pop album, OK I can see that. But country???
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MFT 11-22-11
I Want To Be Loved By You – Sinead O’Connor – A straight up homage to the Marilyn Monroe version and what makes it somewhat bewildering is it is so out of the Sinead character at the time. It is similar to Andy Kaufman’s Elvis Presley imitation. Having said that, I believe I am alone in loving the album it arrived on.
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"Hugh Jackman Back On Broadway" At The Broadhurst Theater, Saturday, November 19th, 2011, Reviewed
The performance is sexy, charming, self-effacing, hugely fun, fleet of foot, beautifully maintained, with a full orchestra and six back up dancers/singers for the guys in the audience. Jackman’s rapport is easy and genuine and his singing fine and robust. This is a star making a star turn.
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Kyuss, Wiltern Theater Friday, November 18th, 2011 Reviewed
A guy in his late 50s next to me was yelling the same song title, ‘Big Bikes‘, every five minutes, quite unsuccessfully as they never played it, and overall the very male crowd was clearly there to see Kyuss Lives!, wearing their best Thin Lizzy t-shirts, denim jackets…
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Saint Motel's new song ‘At Least I Have Nothing’, Reviewed
At rock nyc we are fans of the Los Angeles cinematic-explosive band Saint Motel, as we have written about them numerous times. And A/J Jackson was nice enough to send us their new song!
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Heavy D, Send Off By The Stars
“He became my friend. He became my brother, and I’m not talking about friend-brother like we cavalierly use the word, I’m talking about a real friend, a real brother,”
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Our Visit To Elliott's House
Nevertheless, two weekends in a row, Brandon Ferguson of the OC Weekly and I tried to enter the house where Elliott Smith died, but we were unfortunately not successful. The bungalow is a unit, part of a four-unit complex, located up in the hills of Echo Park, with a really nice view of downtown Los Angeles
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"Twilight: Breaking Dawn, Part 1" Reviewed (More Or Less)
Edward is marrying Bella, Jacob is pissed, Edward and Bella have unprotected sex (meaning before he changes her into a vampire) and Bella gets pregnant… an impossibility and the half human half vampire fetus is killing Bella from the inside out… lucky fetus
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Rihanna's "Talk That Talk" Reviewed
pure pop for now people, one piece of glossy product after another: from electro pop to dubstep, a smash hit, a couple of maybes, a Jay-Z rap, and a very good acoustic number. It adds up to a field of top pop producers coming together to release a Christmas gift of an album
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Music On Your Television
What the heck is a “Very GaGa Thanksgiving”!? Otherwise yet another rerun festival. It amazes me how many times late night TV serves us leftovers- maybe we should all stay drunk or asleep?
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Van Halen, Are The Rumours True?
Just what the world needs, economic disaster, Twilight part 3, Occupy city parks, pervert coaches, child abductions, horrible weather patterns, inflation, disease, war, famine and worse of all…….Van Halen is back
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Noel Gallagher To Write New James Bond Song
source told Limey tabliod the Sun “They’re going to talk about potentially writing and performing the song for next year’s new Bond film. Nothing is signed or official, it’s just being discussed at the moment.”
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The Muppet Movie Soundtrack
Fozzie now performs with a Reno casino house band called the Moopets, Miss Piggy is a plus-size fashion editor at Vogue Paris, Animal is in a Santa Barbara clinic for anger management, and Gonzo is a high-powered plumbing magnate….
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Pick Concerts, Week Of November 21st, 2011
So I am back on Tuesday (she is also performing Monday) for the Speak Now MSG stop. What do I expect? More of the same. Why am I going? Because it’s Taylor Swift.
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MFT 11-21-11
Any Old Iron – Peter Sellers – The best of Goons? Hard to say when the competion is Spike Milligan and Harry Secombe. The most famous? Absolutely. Here Sellers is playing low class/upper class to very amusing effect on a Brit Dance Hall perenial.
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Iman and hel Do SNL: Florence + The Machine
Florence is far more normal, far less edgy and much more talented. Although I am not a fan of this group I can see why people love her. She is powerful and she is interesting
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Porgy And Bess On Broadway: How Good Will America's Greatest Opera Be?
I saw “Porgy And bess” at the City Opera few years and thought it was one of the greatest musical experiences of my life. I knew so much of it (so do you, “Summertime, and the living is easy” -that’s here…
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Natalie Wood’s death investigation being reopened
Could the fight between Wagner and Walken had been a fight between Wagner and Wood or even the three of them?
Autopsy reports showed facial abrasions and bruises along arms of Natalie Wood, who once declared ‘her greatest fear was of dark seawater’.
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Michael Jackson's Death Bed Pulled From Auction
Julien’s Auctions have put up Michael Jackson’s belongs from the last place he lived in, a house he rented in Los Angeles as he rehearsed for what would’ve been his come back concerts in London.
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Will.i.am wanted to save the music industry with circles
I don’t know what he is talking about, does he mean that if iPods and laptops were round, the music industry will not have its current problems? I see, he is the kind of guy who has all figured it out, and it is very simple: squares and circles!
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"Blogging and Flogging", Billy Bragg At Occupy Sheffield
There is nothing worse than a preachy preachy entertainer. Some are notorious for it (anyone remember Richard Gere and his Tibet obsession?) and there is the delivery of your message
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Tickets for the Sunset Junction Fair Still Not Refunded
The Weekly is also reminding us that ticket prices ranged from $15 to $100 (VIP tickets) and with an average attendance of 100,000, the amount of money the fair has to refund could reach a million dollars
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Bonnie Pointer Arrested In LA
Every disco in every town had a stash of their stuff. Bonnie ventured out solo in 1977 and did quite well scoring numerous hits before fading out. Now this.
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Singles Going Steady, Week Of November 17th, 2011
The Parachute Chronicles II – Gyrm Class Heroes – Absolutely, “Stereo Hearts” is a great single -released in June. The following three songs off this album sung without a trace and you can hear well. For pop-hip hop, it is neither poppy or hoppy enough
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MFT 11-20-11
The remnants of British vaudeville in the early 1960s were represented by this sweet tempered pianist and expert one woman party. Mrs. Mills banged out British (and Yankee) favorite and everybody sang along -and she didn’t dilly dally on the way.
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‘Swear It Was A Dream’ by Joe Firstman Reviewed
The Charlotte-born and Los Angeles-based Joe Firstman has been the band leader for the show ‘Last Call With Carson Daly’ on NBC for four years, and has attracted the attention of some industry heavyweights
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Ellie Goulding At Madison Square Garden, Wednesday, November 16th, 2011, Reviewed
her, hard htting, energetic, loud and fun set opening for Katy Perry at MSG on Wednesday belied our bad press. Singing in frot of a drummer a synth player and a keyboard ist while banging a drum mid stage, Ellie was a little ball of dynamite
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Lou Reed teaming up with Klipsch
‘I enjoy the beauty of the unhyped bass-the clarity and depth of detail and extraordinary comfort of the headphones. These are my Klipsch. Serious headphones for the serious listener.’
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Taylor Swift On CBS 60 Minutes This Sunday
At age 21 Taylor Swift has acomplished more than most people. With great handlers and a doey fresh face she has hornswaggled the American population. Oozing peaches and cream and heart done wrong shes a powerful gal. Shes on televisino news magazine 60 Minutes this week, hot diggity!
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Selena Gomez's Stalker Back On The Street
Stalking is one of the most insane dilemas for any person. Stalking a teenager or young adult is more heinous than words can describe. It is hard enough to function in this world without the thought that your being traced.
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Lady Gaga, TMI
Lady Gaga has run out of costume changes to shock us-she now must share with us her body functions. Problem is this isnt shocking its just plain lame and a really pathetic way of making a wave (no pun intended)
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Frank Ocean Adds Night At Bowery Ballroom -Sold Out, Of Course
Next year Frank Ocean will break big. The r&b soul man is not only a friend of Odd Future (his “She” with Tyler, The Creator, is a single of the year), he has two tracks on Watch The Throne, has two excellent singles and a mixtape floating around and instantaneously sold out two nights at Bowery Ballroom.
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Michael Stipe Plays "Password" With Kermit The Frog And You Are There
nothing here but a coupla Muppets, a late night talk show host off his game, a comic past his prime, and a humorless indie superstar pretending he is a good sport.
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MFT 11-19-11
Moonlight Becomes You – Bing Crosby – In the middle of “On The Road To Morrocco,” da Bing sings this ballad to Dorothy Lamour and steals her from under Bob Hope’s, er, nose
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Katy Perry At Madison Square Garden, Wednesday, November 16th, 2011
It wasn’t particularly good music, but it was particularly good entertainment. Much better than Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” tour and the little girls squealed but in some ways more maturely then they did during her dreadful set at Jingle Ball last year
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The Black Lips video for Raw Meat, Reviewed
‘Raw Meat’ is one of these poppy-sunny-surfy-catchy songs that fill their album, and Director Phil Pinto chose to turn down the brightness of the tune with a black and white movie, and the guys behaving more or less like some reincarnation of the Beastie Boys singing a Ramones-inspired tune.
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ST Holdings Pull 234 Labels Off Spotify, Other Streamers
St Holdings is a record distributor and 234 of their labels have pulled off Spotifty. The numbers are staggering but before I give them to you, a couple of caveats.
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KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas
The 22nd annual KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas, the two-day event organized by the Los Angeles radio station, has announced its lineup.