rock nyc

Elvis Presley, has been dead nearly 40 yearsold now and yet here is Cliff: stil doing it, still touring, recording, performing. In the States? I’ve had my eye out for decades but if he has played nyc I must have been asleep at the wheel.

It’s all about inspiring gospelic choirs, soaring voices ending up in the celebratory mode of a love fest with hippie people dancing and skating around multicolor ribbons on a rooftop!

In what amounts to a good week for new releases, the new Holy Ghost is a stunning dance album that Arcade Fire and Daft Punk will find tugging on their tail. “Dumb Disco Ideas” -superb track they pounced all over at Gov’s Ball earlier this year, is just one of many

Charlie Fink and I continue to lick our wounds after being rejected by Laura Marling. I think that would have been my first question: “Hey girl, what were you thinking when Charlie started sobbing uncontrollably? Were you wishing he’d take the night off?”

The band themselves are on fire throughout this album and if David Barnes harp hijacked the Howling Wolf EP, Mark Henry’s horns steals this one. There are three guitarists here and you keep on going back to the horns, everything they touch they take over;

First off I think they’ve been hanging out with Bring Me The Horizon cuz those coven masks sure look just the same. But I cant fault them for goin’ creepy. This video for “Martyrs” is chock full of religious imagery and pleased to God and it takes the wuss out of praise thats for sure.

It is strange to review this Coldplay song after the Arcade Fire leak, it falls flat on its face and it’s not pretty to see. I mean Arcade Fire just reached some new epic levels, so effortlessly, and epic is precisely what Coldplay’s ‘Atlas’ intends to do, but never manages

Arcade Fire’s new single “Reflektor” leaked on Saturday and has been on heavy rotation ever since; a disco marvel that reminds me of LCD Soundsystem (for obvious reasons)

Neon Jungle’s dance rave house rusher is awesome and will definitely break here given the chance. Plus, don’t get me wrong, I don’t much like “Roar”, I just admire it for doing what it was created to do: hit thew top of the charts.

OK, sure, congrats to 1975, but, while not out Stateside yet what I’ve heard from Babyshambles new album is really good. I can’t wait to give it a proper test drive. Pete Doherty is like Keith Richards on fast forward

GiGi is a revelation to me, I’d heard her before on several Doncker songs (A lot of Doncker right, tonight is the True Groove release party), but I finally decided to check her out more and discovered a superb 1998 album One Ethiopia.

There is a brooding silliness to the performance but also an energy and rock and roll arrogance. The music is serious back of the Hall arena rock and when they get everything firing it is fun

The thing about QOTSA is they seem to be unable to play a riff without countering it with another one, everything is so complex it feels like showing off… and this from a guy who used to play with Screaming Trees

The beats are industrial and that figures but the hooks are industrial as well, and the melodies indelible in this brilliant album; not a return to form, they have never had this sort of form before. Experimental? Sure, it experiments with accessibility and achieves it- ALBUM OF THE WEEK – A-

Iit is Paul McCartney’s week with a classic McCartney harmony bridge, not to mention melody. The man, even when he sucks at everything else, can write a melody and this one is pretty damn good. So why is Ella Eyre’s picture illustrating this post? Have you seen Paul lately?

Now that we can no longer be Bon Iver fans, maybe it is time to turn our attention to Justin Vernon’s ambient wall of sound moody music Volcano Choir

Twosongs feature the great Bill Laswell, one with Doncker and one with Jah Wobble, the former Public Image Ltd bassist and one time… taxi driver??? Heading the list is blues rapping Ray!

The song turns epic, going hot and steamy like a wild jungle, with electronic chaos and an enormous sound sprawling like a monster, fueled by synths, horns, saxos, and what it seems to be David Bowie’s voice?

After more than four decades of hitless releases, Hubbard returned to Oak Cliff, Texas, where he attended high school with Michael Martin Murphy and B.W. Stevenson, to record a live album over two nights

I believe this will get them a greater fan circle- of generic pop kids with no real need to rock the boat. A shame really, if they were generic background before they’re officially entered into the nondescript world of music and wont survive until Adam Levine retires.

“Nine Inch Nails are a huge band and they’ve been headlining loads of festivals everywhere and I think their manager or someone told him they weren’t headlining Reading and Leeds, god forbid, and he basically spat his dummy out and decided to take it out on us”

I went in search of other other interviews and they fucking sucked. I could get more enlightening stuff out of her in five minutes than the diabolical Consequence Of Sound interview could in… well in how ever long they spent trying to get it.

The Twist – Chubby Checker – More than a dance a way out of 1950s, it was a trendsetting world changing romp of sex and sauce and, lest we forget, miscegenation – A

Despite my attempts to have Lady Gaga win this battle of the pop queens with her fine but no more and no less that fine “Applause”, she couldn’t do it. And while both Perry and Gaga were pretty lame at the VMA’s there is no discounting one crystal clear fact: Katy Perry has the most popular song in the country

Former Lazy Cowgirls takes his latest band, the wonderfully name rankoutsiders, on a rockabilly rave up here and leaves us the better for it. Meanwhile, Mary has woken up to Vampire Weekend so I refreshed myself before catching em live later this month

I should have mentioned first that these guys were young and super cute, that they spent four years non-stop working and touring, finally headlining a show at not other than London Wembley Arena in December 2011… So they are big in England, big in the dark post-punk tradition

The layering of the sounds makes it very Urban-Outfitters-chic, however, it’s even far superior to that. It’s a good tune to pop into an upcoming indie film or any stereotypical wannabe hipster’s playlist, and yet still caters to those with genuine music taste

It has been 18 years since Elfman hit a stage and he is headed to LA in celebration of Burtons films; the tribute is conducted by John Mauceri and features the 87-piece Hollywood Symphony Orchestra and the 45-member Page LA Choir, along with Elfman’s guest appearance.

it is important to mention this event anyway because Bragg and Kramer are the founders of Jail Guitar Doors, USA, a non-profit organization providing musical instruments and opportunities to help rehabilitate prisoners. The duo will also perform at the Ford Theater today September 6th to benefit their organization

Laura Marling? Those four songs art the top of her current release is the best stuff I’ve heard all year and she is playing MHOW on Sunday and Monday -sold out but tix aren’t that pricey and it is a huge gig. I saw her earlier this year and it was the second best concert of the year

On September 10th two EX MEMBERS and one Clash member will take part in a Twitter chat with fans in support of the three money making scheme releases, “The Clash Hits Back”, “Sound System” and “The Clash 5-Studio Album Set.” Help us.. please.

an music influence your drinking habits? I think music can encourage use of anything. Product placement means a lot and I know that in my teen years if I saw an idol with a brand I’d give it a shot- so that still must be a thing right?