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“Bang Bang” just totally passed me at the time, but it has grown into a firm favorite of 2013.

Mick just turned 70 last week (props Bro) and well he looks it. Not as near dead as Keith Richards (who resembles a leather bean bag) but hes a liney limey.

Live Nation wants your snack money now so they have take a stance using ‘locally grown produce and humanly raised meat’

Curiously only 40 seconds of Arcade Fire’s cover of ‘Games Without Frontiers’ showed up on Soundcloud,… and it sounds exactly like Arcade Fire!

On Friday night Beyonces tour reaches Barclay Center? Diva or dynamite? You gotta to go to find out…

Jesus – Curtis Mayfield – So finely constructed and sung but feels like a thought process being worked out, “drink the wine…” mr. toot and toot – A+

Extreme wealth for extreme talent and extreme mental health issues all around. Money can buy happiness and therapy- thank goodness

As 80s icons go I do like him kinda. I don’t hate him.

‘You’re looking like a man, you’re talking like a baby/How the fuck is your song in a Coke commercial, crazy?/I don’t get it’

Though the projected 300,000 units sold is down 40,000 from their “Live While We’re Young” height, the streaming numbers are over the moon high

With Richie in rehab, he stuck his paid lackeys -some of whom have been with him for 30 years and are still just paid employees, and ran off on a stadium

After giving Bon Jovi a master class in rock and roll, Peter Wolfe is ripe for another of his reassessments in the rock and roll firmament. Might as well start here – A

I love his old stuff- and I love him live. These facts make me a legit fan

ban music festivals? That’s ridiculous, since gigs and festivals are probably the main source of revenue for artists.

The ‘mock-umentary’ of heavy metal Spinal Tap may show up as soon as next year acording to writer Chirstopher Guest

all of that fades into oblivion with the terrible news that he was been producing Arcade Fire’s new album set to be released October 29th

All Night – Icona Pop – if there was a band of the summer of ’13, this would be that – A

I have seen Hütz and his band a few times, and although this guy may not be the most handsome man in the world, he is a total chick magnet, they are all crazy about him

His latest attempt at intellectualism is caught on video but has an amusing quote in response to why we haven’t seen new Slipknot material in so long.

I bet Rihanna is kicking herself for turning down the song.

I listened to Sara again, just to be sure I hadn’t missed anything and unless you are in deep denial about the Lillith fair closing up shop, there is nothing there worth boothering yourself about.

Who Says You Can’t Go Home – Bon Jovi – A big song for Jon because it proved he could still write a hook that hooked – B+

In any case, he is keeping his sunglasses on the whole time, and there is absolutely no action going on, so everyone looking for anything naughty will be very disappointed.

So yeah to being there and if you want a memento to a show you’ve never seen, 19 tracks for $9.99 isn’t a terrible deal.

I did not endorse this, it is unauthorised and it has happened behind my back

All Night – Icona Pop – The best electro pop duo in the world right this minute offer up another terrific slab of joyful hedonia – A

A unique style and a fabulous set of pipes, when the dynamic duo of Ryan Ross and Urie ended so did an innovative style that pop music so desperately needed.