rock nyc

The Crenshaw in segments is a major pain in the ass; you have to buy the vinyl, wait two weeks for it to be delivered and it is expensive. But Crenshaw is worth $5 a song.

Joey Covington, Jefferson Airplane drummer, died in a car crash earlier this week. I will write about him at some point, for now I went back to his best album. Robin may have the single of the summer/ The two National songs are from the Barclay Center gigs, the Crenshaw I just got, and the last five is in anticipation of not getting destroyed by the weather at Randall’s Island today.

With the brain of an overactive peanut and the religious backtracking you might expect from men of a certain age, if you can get past the silliness you’ll discover Back Sabbath have done the difficult

Is there anything older than last weeks releases? Well, this week I actually missed two of these completely, the Alice In Chains which is alright but not much more and a surprise hit for Little Mix, spurred on by a hit single no less. But really does VW and JT and DP all seem a little “May 2013”?

Except for Daft Punk, I am just about sick of every single song here. I don’t know how the same damn pop can stay in the charts for months on end. No wait, a second. Where’s Bruno Mars??? Anyway, “Blurred Lines” is new, and as predicted on Monday, it has hit the charts! A coupla more listens and I bet it gets me.

The first three are re-evaluations from yesterdays new releases, the big leao being Miley which is catchier than I gave it credit for. The other Portugal is to assess whether “T-Shirt” is a fluke, jury still out on that one. The two Daft Punk tracks was after reading Rolling Stone’s interview. The Lonely Island song was to teach me how use a semicolon; difficult: I prefer a colon myself.

Hook wrote em, he has as much right to play them as the rest of the band does. what else are they for? And it is not as if the rest of the band has done so much to place themselves in a bright light of innocence. After regrouping in 2011, all they’ve released in odds and sods, no NEW MATERIAL AT ALL.

Frank Turner is genius; he’s one of the best musicians of the century. Everything that he does is so real and captivating, and I want to see him live so badly, I want the chance to tell him this in person. I now understand why my friends worship the ground he walks on- he’s otherworldly

A kind of twilight of the gods, with Liberace older now, in the last act of his life, playing residency in Las Vegas and with a succession of cute young men

Musically, it is a stand off, but what the music signifies? No contest. The version of “Young Hearts Run Free” with Mercutio singing is worth the entire Jay-Z soundtrack.

I figured I would write a random series of Costello single reviews. You know, just a couple of words and a grade, like the old days, before rock nyc took itself so seriously.

All released yesterday, and only Megadeth and Portugal portend the possibility of something special. PTM is a real surprise to me: a band I’ve never held in all that high an estimation have released an ice cool indie rocker, produced by Dangermouse no less

Music is free on the internet, there is almost no value to a MP3, a total paradox for people which value music. And this may be a reason why we don’t hesitate to spend a fortune on concert tickets. Furthermore, we are social animals and we crave for these social interactions that the digital age has erased, and the dematerialization of music has brought us back to the pre-historic start when we were listening to a singer around a fire, technology has brought us back to live performances.

Mariah Carey come out to perform “#beautiful” but more amazingly given last years debacle where she refused to play, Nicki Minaj performed two songs with 2 Chainz. And finally, Rick Ross and Lil Wayne came out to perform “Pop It” with French Montana

Not much of a Queens Of The Stone Age fan myself so them being the pick of the litter has more to do with the many runts. Otherwise: Dave Davies, Kelly Rowland, Megadeth though I’m not sold on em. Haven’t heard from Rogue Wave in a long while… Nothing really going on.

“i hope the day will be a lotta highways…” so sang Elton on the title song of this weird 1970s movie about two teens who run away, she gets preganant and he goes to work in the wheat fields of France. At the time it was a pretty cool daydream but I have no idea how I would feel about it now. The live version of the Phillips track? he has to release it.

I last saw him in some movie- he looked like Jagger in a platinum wig, I felt embarrassed for him and haven’t done more than the Twitter follow since. Can’t do it, and technically I wish I could burn the image from my memory

Officially, she died from an heroin overdose and her friend Paul Erickson found her dead, on June 16th 1994, locked in her bathroom with some drug paraphernalia on the floor. The last person who saw her alive was Hole guitarist and boyfriend Eric Erlandson, who visited her the evening before

I wonder how Ellie found herself back in the charts. The UK isn’t like the US, an appearance on a talk show could pop her back in. London girl group Stooshe, who I like lots for their soul pop, rode a hit single to the top five of the charts.

The new Robin Thicke is a sweet beat lovers rocker that should be real big Stateside as well once it hits, and Jessie J is enormously average. Jessie J is a talented woman, no doubt. But I am hard pressed to prove it on product like this… still, Dizzee’s rap is rap is really good.

Vin gets them out of retirement to foil a master criminals plan to make a techno weapon which can blind a country to oncoming attacks for 24 hours. And that’s much more back story than I should have had to write.

Five of these songs come from the same Tuesday night, Phillips own “Paris” plus NKG and Short cover and the two Laura Marling songs. The Italian band at # 4 sound like psycehdelic Beatles meets Big Star (if that isn’t a redundancy). The Peaches remix is first rate and the Nationals? I am going to see em on Wednesday.

I can’t get enough of “Old And All Alone”. It’s super catchy and has your typical pop-punk feel, but once again, the vocals give me goosebumps. The harmonies and deep guitars lead up to the stadium-worthy chorus; what I like about this is how the song goes from 1 to 10 without it being awkward

Laura and VW are both pretty new albums and both are taking up more of my time than I can spare. Three strong women, Fantasia (well, she comes across strong) Laura and Natalie have been taking up more time than I can manage, and two country excursions , one real (Darius) and one imaginary (Natalie) have been taking up more time than I can spare.

A liver transplant? How the hell did they keep this one so hush hush? Reed who is 71-year was admitted to the Mayo Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio after rejecting New York hospitals because he claimed were ‘dysfunctional’. What a spitfire, ay?

Last year I promised not to go back to Governor’s Ball ever again, so what did I do? I spent $500 on VIP tickets this year and I will at Randall’s Island June 7th – June 9th and ESPECIALLY June 9th for the Kanye West gig. West killed me dead at 12-12-12 last year and I couldn’t be more excited to see him. Now will I dump Saturday altogether? I am seriously considering it and I am definitely leaving early! So no GNR for me, but plenty of KoL and Kweezy

Stelling is a victim of geography, always jumping trains on the way to Brooklyn. The result is a certain incongruity between what he is, a blue collar worker pushing hard and what he sounds like, an ancestor of Richie Havens with a chip on his shoulder. But then, like Dylan before him, he steamrolls right through it. So while he may never go quite as deep as last years “Mourning Train To Memphis”, a song like “Every Last Extremist” doesn’t need a backstory. ALBUM OF THE WEEK – A-