rock nyc

So why go and see him at Music Hall Of Williamsburg, Tuesday, October 29th. Because he is like Bowie with all ambivalence and subtext removed: al that’s left is a profound alienation.

Unlike Adele, where familiarity bred contempt, the album grew on me and as UK records sold like honey and UK RECORDS dropped like flies, I went from really not getting the appeal of the lovely voiced but essentially boring Hallmark card to a grudging admiration.

#1 and # 2 are where Moroder sampled himself on the new Daft Punk track, QOTSA is a dumb joke, but funny, and the new single is pretty food. The Dream has been better, but he has also been worse. And Tricky? That’s a Patti Smith cover!

I couldn’t be more wrong, this uniformity, this total lack of individuality and originality is so depressing that I am about to lose any little faith in humanity I still had!

Wrote a Song For Everyone is like one of those tribute albums that are never ever as good as they would look to be, even when McCartney is covering Buddy Holly they suck, and even when Fogerty is covering Fogerty this is a terrible money grubbing little exercise

Go to heaven and have a hit song apparently. “Clouds” is a pretty good song, enough promise to assume that he would’ve gone on to bigger things. At fourteen he got diagnosed with cancer and 10 major surgeries and 20 rounds chemo later he was told he had a year to live. Zach died this month of cancer at the age of 18. There must be an easier way to get a a hit single

This is about as thrilling an album chart as you are going to get. 5 of the top 6 are new and 9 of the top 10 is first rate. Indeed if you get rid of 30 Seconds To Mars I could’ve written this up myself. Special shout out to the National who I am going to see next week , for providing us with a very good album that maintained its doom and gloom while widing their sound.

A real mish mash but two surprises, Tiesto’s best track in a long while is EDM one oh one witht hat steamrolled bet pattern all over it as written a hundredtimes but stillf resh and Buju Banton who ws still in prison the last I looked so either this was recorded behind bars or it is an outtakeand either it is a very good song, dancehall one oh one true, but there is no escaping the voice.

“Because we’re all so very 21st century, you’re probably listening to me on some sort of portable stereo. Maybe you’re sitting on the back of the bus, or it’s running up your sleeve and you’re across from your boss, or you’re sitting in your bedroom on your own with the lights down low.”

The crowd chanting ‘Kanye’ or ‘Yeezus’ didn’t change anything. So what went on exactly? Did the police order to shut down the projections because they were too controversial for Texas? Was Kayne West’s video a threat? Were they expecting a riot?

It’s less scary to me than if he wanted to be a dentist in that I couldn’t help with what he’d chosen

“Some girls at college had started making nasty comments, but it escalated really quickly. The girl came up behind me and dragged me off my chair by my pony tail, then started kicking me in the face.”

You can see my quandary, right? Two unmissable concerts on the same night. I am writing this the day before and posting it the day after, but I am going to call Roulette and hope Laura goes on 9pm or later and see as much of Jack as I can possibly manage. Laura’s new album (released yesterday, so this is the release party) will probably be the best of the year. But Phillips was in the top ten from last year. Every song on this list will blow you away, but “Goodbye To England” is among my favorite songs of all time.

Gone is the hungover amnesia framing device of the first two movies, this time the Wolf Gang , Brad Cooper, Ed Helms and the one who always goes kidnapped are on the way to rehab after Alan (Zach) goes off his meds and the one who always gets kidnapped gets kidnapped

you know that 46% of Americans still believe that God created humans in their present form during the last 10,000 years, even when they are presented 2 million-year-old hominid fossils? I know it too well as, when I teach evolution, I come to the sad realization that many people are still creationists and aren’t open to scientific ideas.

This is manufactured good times but then so is a skateboard, more than any other band around 1D do what they are meant to do: they are a product manufactured by Simon Cowell but with a certain amount of self-confidence and inherent charm.

Jon Bon J, did a very public scolding of Justin Bieber. First off, his fans are young, these are school nights- just because he dropped out doesn’t mean they all have

No doubt, Laura Marling is the one to beat and I wouldn’t be the slightest surprised to discover it is the best album of 2013 after hearing just two songs. But it looks like a modern classic of a week: Polyphonic Spree, Tricky, the Stranglers,. Plus: the Rolling Stone “5 Star” new Fogerty. New? Re-recordings of the classics with stars, sorta B+ listers, like Bob Seger and Foo Fighters. I agree, RS are probably wrong but David Fricke wrote it so who knows.

:The long weekend is over but the songs remain the same! Three by Yacht! Plus new shoutouts: “Burn the motherfucker down”, “who needs breaks when it’s all downhill from here?” “graveling, gravelly groans”. A pretty good weekend music wise!

I understand that most of these associations were made on the basis of shared initials (when it was possible) because the first letter is a big part of a logo design, but some are very awkward, like Darwin as Danzig… so much to bring Darwin closer to satanic science!

The UK charts are always a quick study in bands I don’t know. It is here I first heard of Emilie Sande, Olly Murs, and quite a few others. Emmilie De Forest? Folkie. Chris Malinchak EDM. Naught Boy r&B. Hope that helps.

The new Texas is excellent and it is always a pleasure to hear from the band, my old pal Johhny Mcelhone and his wife Sharleen Spiteri have lost nothing much. I notice “Detroit City”, Ramona’s old track, is here. Meanwhile, Daft Punk continue to rule the world with the UKs most populr best selling album of 2013.

Six of these songs are from Saturday/Sunday morning’s DFA’s anniversary gig and all are excellent and all are better live but especially “Dystopia” which I kinda wish I had taped so I could hear it instead of the original. Though the proceedings were being taped so maybe DFA will beat me to it.

Musicians who want to make a difference in a community that is not their own and selflessly give is a wonderful thing, regardless of whether or not you assume they’re doing it for the press. What Blink 182 has done was recognise that they could make a serious difference, which this auction will do.

The good news is that Alice’s greatest hits filled setlist could’ve come at just about any post- Welcome To My Nightmare period, the bad news is so could the special effects and the good news is that the cheesiness of Cooper’s special effects are part of the charm

I know Jack Phillips pretty well and so have been privy to the arrangements leading up to his performance Tuesday night at Don’t Tell Mamas, and it has been exhaustive. But this is a major concert and Phillips will have a band accompany his performance of songs off Cafe Nights In New York as well as songs from the American Standards songbook. Let’s hope he decides to give us “I Remember You And Paris.