rock nyc

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

The drums, more than the different languages or instrumentation. or voices, places you somewhere else than what used to. It is subtle but shifting, it shifts your ears from where you are used to having it.

I wonder why Mayer wrote this stuff, or Superchunk? Do Superchunk think, hey, we do it because this is what we do? Somebody somewhere will… well, what will they do?

It would be unimaginable to imagine the unbelievable: in a world of constant surveillance, Gaga is surveyed constantly. Everyone is a potential threat. She is right: some people won’t be happy till their identification is complete.

The intricacy of the different beats and sounds used has always been their forte, but this tune brings it above and beyond anything they’ve done before.

I think these guys need to be ushered to the memory ward of the music nursing home.

Mickey Dolenz sang the hell of it. Not just the coda (where you can hear Jones singing back up) but the build up has a deep and sexy undertow just below: it is a passionate vulnerability and it made the Monkees stars – A+

2 – # 5 all reflect recent deaths which is always depressing enough but the weekend has meant a constant diet of Lil Mo and Afro Jersey to me and that is where my ears lie.

I am actually happy to hear The Long Lost alone, I’d rather not think about Story at all:I enjoy the integrity of giving the audience no easy answer, not even a difficult one, just leaving them riddling on the deep, troubling, beautiful flawed album

Dearest Lord in Heaven- do not allow a ‘reunion’ tour. Please sweet Jesus and all the angels–NO NEW ‘CLASH’ MATERIAL.

It looks pretty and wealthy enough, and I wouldn’t mind Liam’s apartment if I could get my hands on it but the movie stretches credibility so well passed the breaking point that it becomes hard to ignore even in a “B” movie

Of course, the song is complete nonsense, the white keys on your piano are natutal and the black keys are flat and no folks, they are far from being in “perfect harmony”. Nobody does sincerity worse than McCartney; does he think we’re all morons? Why didn’t Stevie Just Say No??- F

This was the week of the single and while I applaud “Applause” and deplore “Roar” and having nothing against the new TVOTR and Regina Spektor either one way or the other, still as week goes the week completely and totally was overshadowed by the pop single

I can’t take much of White Lies, they sound like the National without the baritone and without the melodies; a sort of bland melancholia

So I guess at least in the UK the world is all Gaga all the time, “Applause” hit # 5 two days its release!!! The Ellie song at number one is also surprisingly good

I Could Get Used To This – Li’l Mo And The Monicats – This country classic is an original.? No way. Well, I’ve just spent half an hour looking for the original and can’t find one. This band burns with talent – A

Far too British to be Maroon 5 and far too ugly to be 1 Direction.

it is never a problem to hear these songs again, but if I am stuck making it my ALBUM OF THE WEEK -especially when the choice of songs make no sense to me having not read the book (it’s all 60s, lotsa ‘don’t hate the longhairs’) it seems like the mid-60s – B+

Amy Grant is the best selling Christian performer of all time, she is an AOR performer with a whole lotta heart, who went mainstream and then doubled back. With a fair to middling album to push, which includes a duet with her husband Vince Gill, Amy plays Irving Plaza on Friday.

Say What You Mean – Allison Weiss – Title track off her new album, catchy as hell dumping song, the verse is especially snazzy and the guitar break a pleasure – A