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Lyric is to be sung, poetry to be read. Lyric gets it meter from bpms, poetry from iambic patterns -thru stress. What you can get away with in lyric, you […]

I was trying to escape from a ballroom, where i had been condemned for eternity, out a window, when one of the family who had imprisoned me began to sing:

1. My Name Is Lion – The Morning Pages 2. Seven Sisters – Hesta Prynn 3. There Goes My Baby – Usher 4. It May Be Late – Harper Blynn

Do It Again For Jeffery – Kaleidoscope Yet another garage psych pop masterpiece, this one is British. Do The Funky Chicken – Rufus Thomas-Seems at first like a novelty, but

Sting played the Bell Boy or is that the Face? in Quadrophenia the movie, Billy Idol played the role at MSG and now Daltry wants Liam Gallagher for it when

It is great who you can be fans of on Face Book and what they post. I am a fan of Slash on FB. He just posted… “I’m on a

Next Tuesday the new album by Clem Snide -a sorta semi-popular electro song band from Boston who have been around since the 90s will be releasing their newbie The Meat

This is from Sony Music… Good luck First Ever Live Show – TONIGHT 2/19! Broken Bells has confirmed the details of its first ever live date. The band will perform

Rock NYC will be there to review the Black Eyed Peas Show

Did Frank Black really need to tell us the Pixies reunion was about a pay check. He did tell us and we already know it was. It’s like when a

The video for Vampire Weekend’s “Giving Up The Gun” is an hysterical tennis match starring RZA and here is the url from spinner so you can see for yourself: http://www.spinner.com/2010/02/19/vampire-weekend-giving-up-the-gun-video/

Our errant UK editor Remy Caplan turned me onto the West Coast Dance-Bass-Glorious Weirdness that is Flying Lotus last summer, with the Lil Wayne featuring “Robo Tussin” rocking my world. Today

Last year our very own Marie Lynn made it to Nashville’s CMA and reported on it for us -took us months to shake off the country fans. This year I’m

The Red Shoes is one of the most glorious dance movies of all time and there is a 35mm showing of it tonight at Film Forum on Houston Street. Here

Adam Lambert (his 5 minutes sorta went fast huh?) performed in New York on Monday night at a ‘secret gig’. What’s that?! Anyway He halts the entire show stops the

1. Tik Tok – Ke$ha 2. We Are The World 25 – Artists For Haiti 3. Imma Be – The Black Eyed Peas 4. Bedrock – Young Money 5. Bad

Didja hear about former Presidential Mitt Romney having a fight with some bloke on an airplane. Interesting to think of hot shot pols travelling like the hoi polloi but nothing

Come And Get It – Badfinger- McCartney throw away becomes a big hit thanks to those Beatlesque treatments. Come Together – The Beatles-Meanwhile, Lennon records a monster, although Macca’s presence

Middleman – Bright Eyes – Lovely strings on a forgettable folk track. Freedom Of Speech Won’t Feed My Children – Manic Street Preachers – From one of their best, Know

Elton John told Parade Magazine in an interview: “”I think Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems. On the cross, he forgave the people who crucified

In their recent cover interview with New Musical Express , Vampire Weekend claimed it would be shallow to get excited about their album reaching number one in the charts. “The meaningful

Break In The Road – Betty Harris-Wow! What a bombastic track! Where has this been all my life? Incredible! Bayou funk! Brother Love’s Travelling Salvation Show – Neil Diamond-Reminds me

1. Can We Go Wrong – Hesta Prynn 2. Little Freak – Usher and Nicki Minaj 3. There Goes My Baby – Usher 4. Doomsday Device – Drop The Lime

You can find the comment underneath Mike’s review. And you can go onto A.J.’s website at http://dylanology.org/ and discover some somewhat extreme stuff like… Dylan is a sex addict who

EMI to sell Abbey Road. “I hope not” sez Sir Paulie Jay-Z sez they shouldnt remade a classic like “We Are The World” Dale Hawkins dead. Yoko Ono concert (because

Sade turned down hot young rappers numerous requests from Drake to collaborate on a song with him. She claimed she didn’t want to disappoint her fans by going out of

Backfield In Motion – Mel & Tim -It’s about football. Bad Moon Rising – Creedence Clearwater Revival – It’s like “Eve Of Destruction” with better sales. Bad Night At The

In which Usher gets his R. Kelly on with help of Nicki Minaj and a very powerful bpm machine and a Stevie Wonder sample (cost a fortune no doubt) and

I was  sorry to hear of the death of Kathryn Grayson. Apparently she went to sleep and never woke up. Always a favorite of mine, I’ll never forget her as

One of my fave bands of al times, Primal scream, are performing one of their top albums, the 1991 Screamadelica, complete  according to Liveforever. Unfortunately they are doing it in

Getting ready for the Harper Blynn set Saturday at Mercury Lounge, I started listening to Loneliest Generation again and wow is “25 Years” great. It reminds me of all those

The head of the riot grrrl movement of the nineties was Bikini Kill’s Kathleen Hanna and Bikini Kill’s shining ode to lesbian love with a bad chick “Rebel Girl” though

Looking more like Stevie Nicks than anything human, Courtney Love lead her band Hole (minus the other two important Holers) last night in London. NME (obviously, right?) have the story

45 rpm’s of 1969-Unshuffled 1969-The Stooges This is like listening to a pissed off Bo Diddley. Great Wah wah pedal on the intro, with a delay effect? Smokin’ guitar. 2002

You can’t find a drop in replacement for a drum God And upon the death of Jimmy ‘Rev’ Sullivan what was Avenged Sevenfold to do? Well why not go scoop

There are some days when you’re just so happy to NOT feel horrible anymore that you literally forget you’re a stodgy old hag and feeling this coupled with some amazing

On line at Gigwise I was surprised to read that one of my fave bands on the nineties, Fun Loving Criminals, were doing a webcast interview promoting their March release

I was in the down loading mood and got the following. Some new stuff, some older stuff, some covers, some free stuff…ha-ha. Nostradamus – Judas Priest This is the title

I was reading a review of a recent gig by Los Campesinos in Clash.com. The person who wrote it, Robin Murray, was probably right. It was probably a powerful, arched,

1. There Goes My Baby – Usher 2. Centrifugal Motion – Harper Blynn 3. Little Wolf – Americans In Paris 4. New Jersey In Denial – Solfege Radio 5. Doomsday

As surrogate correspondent for American Idol since our blogs biggest fans seem to busy enjoying it to write about it I offer the following The ‘field’ has been reduced to

Wow are the seventies over and done with. First Johnny Rotten who, famously and astutely capturing the moment, had a Pink Floyd tee-shirt back in the day with “I HATE”

Cape Canaveral – Conor Oberst – A song so lovely, it seems to live in its world: it is like a remembrance of someone past but so open ended it

I know people who know Mellencamp and they are all agreed upon one thing -if you agree with his politics or otherwise, the man is an asshole.Fox News reports  Johnny

I just streamed Robert Smith of the Cure’s cover of “Very Good Advise” from the Disney cartoon version of “Alice In Wonderland” and recorded for the eagerly anticipated Tim Burton

A friend of mine in the computure biz and a big fan of Apple, tells me sales are way down since they raised their cost to $1.29. Serves the pigs

Every time I think I can’t love Ke$ha more she does something to make me overjoyed. In an interview on rollingstone.com she called Bob Dylan’s Nashville Skyline her favorite album

Subterranean Homesick Blues Wyclef Jean today said that Dylan was one of the original rappers. Sadly, CNN considers this news. She Belongs To Me Every performance on this track is

Inge Colson of Presshere sent out an email to remind us that New York finest Harper Blynn, whose “Centrifugal Motion” was all over my fave tracks of 2009, are playing

So what I did was shuffle my February 2010 playlist and I am gonna try to keep to a one sentence review; Lions – Tune-Yards – Everybody who saw her