rock nyc

They are playing Death By Audio (a Brooklyn joint I’ve never been to) on August 9th and that’s it for the city but, if any show is worth a trip this one should be that.

I went back and listened to M&L, Imagine Dragons, and Florida Georgia Line, and they all improved after months of absence. So there you go, sell a million copies and you get bumped a grade.

The Jay-Z single is much more important than the Jay-Z album, getting to #8 is precisely why it sold 550K and not 410K and it is also why it might have a life on the album charts

New Madrid – Wilco – Does this constitute a cover, I mean Jeff wrote it. Anyway, much better than the attempt at Thin Lizzy – B+

Monch, a musician I knew nothing about, is not afraid, his song is a clear statement, determined to raise your IQ with intelligent and effective lyrics:

enough stuff from the Self Portrait sessions to make you believe he was up for a Part Two and shelved it when the reaction was so virulent

. Wildfire – John Mayer – Sounds a little like “Duquesne Whistle”, but the guitar ain’t so hot and I don’t like his voice – C-

This is where Kevin Lyman and his genius staff take over. Convert that sweaty gob of teenage angst into a raging party, safely and efficiently. How I wish every tour was as well run. But they’re not, not by a mile.

To a hot sweaty crowd in the late day of Hartford’s Warped Tour stop their incredible energy transcended the physical exhaustion of anyone who was in attendance- and they drew a crowd.

Why Jackson and not Jimi Hendrix or Ottis Redding (if you want another black musician) or anyone else in music who died young?

When Chris Brown is your pick of the week you just know something’s gone wrong again

Pusher Love Girl – Justin Timberlake – Justin’s falsetto here is what Robin Thicke keeps not getting quite right – A

There is another reason but I am unsure if we will ever know it, kKiller penne- be damned I say.

“Temptation” never ages. The song is as danceable as it ever was and if you don’t look at the performers you’ll be OK. These gigs are best because you cant see the stage clear from the pit. But what a great sound. I mean it really is purely wonderful.

She has actually received more than $10 million from different Russian dictators and corrupted businessmen, and she has apparently repeatedly forgotten to google any of their names

Ingrosso’s first song since Swedish House Mafia’s break up is pretty good but not much

No shockers here, Jay-Z and # 1 and everybody else in status quo.

One of a handful of songs in existence that needs to be like, seriously?, seriously longer

Heart wrenchingly sad, yet astonishingly beautiful, a failure of commerce, but an artistic triumph

Paris was welcomed into the Cash Money family by founder Birdman this spring

JT at his worse is still pretty good and Jay-Z is better than he has been since American Gangster

The best songs here, and there are a handful of really smart r&b poppers staring with the last one “Overdose” are more than good enough – ALBUM OF THE WEEK

Skittish dance from Manchester yobs in the early 1990s – A-

Things like this belong behind glass, siimilar to the Declaration of Independence it should be protected for historic value.

Tom Morello cranking it up with composer Ramin Djawadi on a couple of tracks and he leads some electric guitar whiz boom bah sounded like he has just escaped from an early Black Sabbath album

But hey everyone is in Nashville- so woo hoo let the party at Jack’s begin. That being said the same goes for Dead Weather (eww) but I suppose there is a style of Jack White for everyone

Despite the likelihood that Bruce would wallop me if he was aware of me and we actually met, I consider myself a fan and I will be going to this movie