rock nyc

Can I take a moment of your valuable time to spew contempt on tedious and poorly written Supergroup (if a Snow Patrol and an REM not named Stipes constitutes the bastard) lame-o Tired Pony

Familiarity breeds indifference and this is weak gruel. Goulding is not the exception, Lady Gaga may be but I have docked her a notch for failing to turn on the world. And where is Katy???

Sean, Ellie, Klanarussell and Matt are all off the current UK charts, Paulie is part of my continuing rundown of the best selling songs in the past 55 years, George Jones is part of Spotify’s ongoing attempt to get his entire catalog in one place

Say Say Say – Paul McCartney And Michael Jackson – 1983 – This is not great disco but it isn’t as terrible as I remember it by any stretch of the imagination. The beat is disco 101 and much more than on “The Girl Is Mine”, it cuts the cute for vocal high medium interplay – C+

The antecedent here is Best Coasts wildly underrated The Only Place, another album where the L.A. sun soaks you into a quiet disturbed place. One more question: who on earth listens to either album for fun? ALBUM OF THE WEEK – A-

David Guetta? I’ve seen him twice. The first time opening for Black Eyed Peas and the other time at Jingle Ball. Both performances were great. And together they are the reason I am going to Electric Zoo’s EDM festival at Randall’s Island this Saturday

Three of these are a reflection of Friday’s Amy gig, and one of these is a reflection of Steve Crawford’s Jerry Lee Essential list elsewhere here

Really guys, its a comedy when it’s supposed to be dark. Well the filming is dark but the ghosty dance is a hoot.

I guess what he decided to do, rather than pick up and check into rehab three, six months before. Instead he kept drinking and a cool $250K a week couldn’t straighten him out

Meanwhile, Earl Sweatshirt has the second best hip hop album of the year after Kanye West. Or at least it feels that way from this far away and especially after Freddie Gibbs disappointing effort earlier this year.

Thomas Mars, the singer of the band is married to Sofia Coppola and she hates the Beatles!!! He said so in an interview and even revealed that John Lennon was her least favorite Beatle… this is just insane, what did she lost in translation exactly?

Yeah, it is weird, but I kinda like “Sway”. The rest of the album is nothing much but Blue October got that one right for a change. In the meantime, let’s get ready for the VMAs

Sure, Moz is sassy and smug, but when it comes down to it, he’s loving and caring, and has all of us in the Moz Army under his wing and in his thoughts. We love you too, Morrissey.

I have written a ton about their numerous financial adventures and for the first time I think I understand it- they’re marketing genius

Between the three, Americana goes from going nowhere, to going round and round, to going somewhere, while the music changes itself to a disco deadend.

If they cover old folk songs well then so what and if they are writing new songs in the style of old songs, what are the chane of them being any good?

Meanwhile, this reflects, the following shows over the next week or so: the Cult, Amy Grant, Perez Hiltons Pre-VMAs, the VMAs, Ty Segal and the Zoo!!

She’s hardcore, but maybe its time to enjoy the scenery.

I wonder if Sheeran has the audience to fill 20,000 seats. Now, since he has joined The Voice as a mentor on Christina Aguilara’s team that might soon change, certainly it can’t hurt his public image, but can it help enough.

I Will Always Love You – Whitney Houston – 1992 – Today it is her signature tune and at the time nobody believed for a moment that Dolly Parton sang it. Still, listening to it, you can hear echoes of everyone since, every Beyonce and Kelly, echoing through her vocal – A+

That Luke album is such a dog and while K. Michelle isn’t a dog, it isn’t that much either. Between the two they are as boring a lead of the charts as we’ve seen all year.

I predicted “Roar” and “Applause” in the top two positions and “Blurred Lines” rule over and done and guess what? There is Mr. “In The” Thicke Of it.

Meanwhile, “Spoonful” was a highlight of Monday’s Summerstage and “Candida” was the Tony Orlando track that was “Tie A Yellow Ribbon”.

He can write a love song that doesn’t make you cringe.

It’s happening and for one glorious night, you’re a star again!

I love the folkie stuff, it kinda reminds me of Good As I Been To You and World Gone Wrong -two great albums of folk covers which lead him right out of the wilderness and over to Time out Of Mind in the early 1990s

Don’t ask me exactly how, but they pretend to have used ‘the new science of sonic enhancement of food where different pitches and frequencies make food taste bitter or sweet’…Whaaaat?

True it isn’t as blatant a rip as “Express Yourself” and I myself didn’t notice it until it was shown to me, still the two are too close for comfort, particular the hook ‘the hyah hyah hyahs” are a signal post for the “applause applause