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Blondie and X: The Angry Ovary Tour

This is amazing and cool and who the hell would have ever thought this would happen. Iman hob knobbing with Debbie Harry last month and she never even told him. That sassy dame. Starting in New Hampshire it looks like a great opportunity for me to get to Hampton Beach

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Paul Simonon Didn't Want A Clash Reunion

I’m not the type to wonder what Joe would have done, it doesn’t matter. We lost Joe and the world is a much dimmer place. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is the lamest institution of all and holds no prestige in my eyes

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US Top Singles 6-22-13

Summer songs? First Blurred next Lucky all summer long, that’s my bet. Also, one other will be coming up soon, the Miley Cyrus, it will be the third and all summer long they will be at the top. Everything else is gonna be biting at their ankles!

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Sneak Peaks: New Album Releases Week Of January 24th, 2013

Yes, that’s what a great live performance can do for you. Performing three Frank Sinatra covers, Legend changed me from a decades long hater to an intense admirer and if Love In The Future, his first album in five years, is halfway decent (and that is no promise mind) consider me so there when he plays in town. Otherwise, count me in on Beady Eye, Mavis Staple, maybe Wale, definitely Hawthorn Heights, definitely India Arie. But Smith Wesson, I prefer em when they were getting thrown out of Broolyn nightclubs for underage drinking.

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Hear Ye: what rock nyc is listening to 6-18-13

End of the weekend music and after watching Viva Las Vegas it’s been all Kweezy all the time. Three days of listening to the album and it becomes clear that the first four songs reach a heigh of consistent industrial strength power that the rest of the album doesn’t quite pay off, and then it ends with a reminded that he can turn on the hit making whenever he feels like it. “Can’t Tell Me Nothing” -he killed it at Gov’s Ball.

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Blue October, "Bleed Out", Reviewed

I’m hoping for a little something more from this Austin Texas band. I want them to be huge (no pun intended) but they need to steer in a less depressive direction and mix it up a bit. I’m not implying ‘walking on sunshine’ happy, but for Gods sake stop being so beaten.

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Active Viewin': Concert Picks For The week Of June 17th, 2013

“Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory”? That’s the 1997 bio of the greatest Gospel singer of all time, and Summerstage will be presenting a screening of the movie on Saturday. Along with performances by Della Reese and the mind boggling Joshua Nelson. If you have never seen Redman, he is a thrilling live performer who would blow the roof off Summerstage if it had a roof.

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UK Top 10 Albums, 6-22-13

The Beady Eye is surprisingly good, I mean we all thought it was TV On The Beady Eye, but it isn’t really at all! It’s kinda like prog-English rock. Very very impressed. I would be much more interested in Black Sabbath if they were playing Manhattan.

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UK Top 10 Singles 6-22-13

Leah McFall is the leader of the Voice UK pack and she does have amazing range, her high notes are sky high. Somewhere along the way “Grime” became rapping with an English accent. And the rest of this is the usual suspects.

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Hear Ye: what rock nyc is listening to 6-24-13

The Kris Kristofferson song at the top of the chart is a brilliant piece of aphorismatic self evidence and a call that should echo through the ages: “Life is the question and life is the answer and God is the reason and love is the way”. Very true but onbly instinctively.

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