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Hear Ye: what rock nyc is listening 6-26-13

I am as shocked as you are but it looks like Attila have released the best album of the week, they have definitelygot the single of the week, a hardcore bowels of hell screamer. Indeed, this week looks like a substantial improvement over last week, song for song, if not album for album.

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Not With The Band: Let's Speed Up Beethoven

Beethoven was one of the first composers to work with a metronome, he became a sort of enthusiastic of the invention and went back to all the symphonies he had already composed (8 out of 9) to mark for posterity the tempos to which they should be played

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Sneak Peaks: New Releases Week Of June 24th, 2013

When has Wale ever sustained it for an entire album? Then I was thinking of Smith Western, but their last one was a real disappointment. When a minor player in a major band releases a solo album, you ten to realize why they are minor players. I guess that leaves India. Arie who is untrustworthy though at her best is pretty damn good.

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UK Top 10 Singles 6-29-13

Sure I like Jason DeRulo but I like him for “The It Girl” or maybe “Don’t Wanna Go Home” not for this disappointing product, just goes to show you what jerks the British are

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UK Top 10 Albums 6-29-13

Kodalin are the best old school rock band I’ve heard in years. They are much better than their closest competitor, the Script, and write the sort of songs U2 stopped writing in 1991. I wonder why they haven’t cracked the States.

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Frank Turner Hardcore?

Frank Turner is a nice enough guy who sings lots of shit and milks his Britishness. The poser kids of today who refer to everything as ‘punk rock’, wow my hat is so ‘punk rock’, I’m too ‘punk rock to wash dishes..) have embraced this guy as their own personal Jesus

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rock nyc's Top 10 Songs Week Of July 17th, 2013

Yes, it is all about Kanye West. Of course it is. But really, now the thrill of the new has passed a little, it is yet another album that cuts through the middle. 5 great tracks, 5 less great tracks. Still, people claiming J. Cole is competition are just fooling themselves.

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Hear Ye: what rock nyc is listening to 6-22-13

Former Musician editor Vic Garbarini name checked Heart Like A Wheel the album as a masterpiece and the song itself, a McGarrigle sisters masterpiece, is tough to screw up and even so Ronstadt made it her own. If you don’t know the album, it is as good as Vic claims it is and survives as a pinnacle of So Cal country

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