rock nyc

I can’t even find enough words in the English language to describe how horrendous the song is without using very offensive profanity

” Songwriting’s never been a natural art for me; it’s always been a bit of a struggle. I just thought it had got up and left me.” Which makes it especially a pleasure to hear Stewart sing a remembrance of himself past like “this scruffy beat up working class teenage troubadour

This isn’t just star power, it is a circus of fun and providing the opening salvos will be wordspot and the Illest, young but old school rappers of the first order; Lauriana Mae, Jazz and R&B vocalist and roots rocker Alexandra & The Starlight Band.

The fact remains their first album was the best and while their third album, released on Tuesday, Modern Vampires Of The City is probably the equal of Contra, Contra hasn’t aged as well as it might have, has it?

Yes, I bought a three day ticket and yes I plan to use a lot of it except on Saturday when I am blowing off Guns N Roses to hightail to Barclay Center, figure 6pm, to catch McCarney

Chugalong to the Dixie Chicks mainstay Natalie Maines and you may be surprised by this piece of Eddie Vedder cover, a superb vocal performance. The Rod Stewart is the finest moment on his finest album in decades, “22” is finally available on Spotify (but who was waiting, right?) , I got past my problem with Andre 3000s vocal and the Lonely Island is there usually incongruity put to good use.

Some of the best music came out of the punk scene through the new wave and new romantic phases, hell even goth and hardcore were all born of this decade.

The song is a self portrait but not just of Davies -a rock and roll star never entirely comfortable with the shenanigans, of any man has had enough pressure, who just wants to lay back and enjoy the day

Looking like a cross between a biblical prophet and Star Wars’ Obi-Wan Kenobi stuck in an underground brothel, Bowie sings in the middle of an odd crowd made of self-flagellating monks coming straight from the DaVinci code

I guess it is the horns that are hooking them on M&L’s # 1, but I am not sure why if that’s the case I can’t hear em? Both songs are huge shrugs to these ears and while I am not unhappy for them, what else do i have to say? Not a damn thing, it is average hip hop which for some obscure reason won the Lotto. Couldn’t be happier to see “Cruise” in the top ten

Kenny Chesney might well own the worst album of the year not. Not country album, no, no, no, worst album period, on your bike, that’s it. But country is well represented by Blake Shelton and Randy Rogers, the latter is living up to years of promise with an album on the verge of a major crossover

Never a big fan of Kid, but “Kid” is a pretty good stiff upper lip lad piece of advise, 7 of the rest of these songs are also new releases, two are off “The Great Gatsby” as well, and “#Beautiful” is growing on me but I’m sure I’ll be sick of it soon enough.

The album itself gets a little much, everything is warmed over twice and as a defined unit it accumalates into one long headache, but if you break it down by track -well, the quality of individual songs is consistently high, I’m impressed.

The song, precisely called ‘I appear missing’, has the QOTSA’s dark and grandiose sound, going crescendo with huge guitars, thundering drumming (Dave Grohl?), and Josh Homme’s romantic croon

The never ending love circle is as strong as ever and although Morrison is now nothing more than fairy dust his fans are younger, and more tech savvy than the mutton chopped bell bottom originals. So it seems fitting that the marketing machine keep up with the times.

Apparently, Rod is sick of the Great American Songbook and has returned to writing his own songs and while there will never ne another album as great as even Atlantic Crossing, the new one is good enough. Jay and The Americans are at BB Kings this September and I went to see Rihanna yesterday. The rest are all new.

We hoped and prayed it would be on whole other levels of gratuitous self-indulgence and divaish slo-mo diselegance and while it has its moments, all in all I am a little disappointed

Obviously Vampire Weekend is the one to beat here, but the runner ups are pretty impressive. I’ve liked everything I’ve streamed off the new Rod Stewart, Talib Kweli and Fitz And The Tantrums are long time rock nyc faves, Van Dykes Park is his first album of new material since the excellent Orange Crate Art with Brian Wilson. If you haven’t heard it, the album sounds better now than it did in 1995.

8 of these songs are here directly because of live concerts, three reference the Peter Tork set, three are a preview for tonight’s Rihanna show, one for the past date Mac show and one for the I am not gonna see Van Dyke Parks show at MHOW on Sunday May 16th, 2013.

I found a version of “Migraine” captured in The Live Room and to be entirely honest, I like almost cried the first time I heard it. This band is absolutely perfect.

Haven’t the people of Beantown been tortured enough? I mean, look that was a mess. Three dead, lots of injuries but life goes on and that’s the price of living in a democracy.

Fantasia and Melvins are on the second songs off their later albums, Paramore is on the third, Fleetwood Mac on the second off their otherwise disappointing EP, Johnny Marr a surprise return following the live show and as for The Passenger… who?

If Passenger are this year’s Gotye (and I certainly hope so) than without a reasonable doubt,at least it doesn’t sound like Sting. electronic twins Disclosure put the great Eliza Doolittle to pretty good use one way or the other on a boring song. Otherwise, electronic pop songs rule of 2013 continues

I’ve only given Passenger a perfunctory listen, so it might be better, it might be worse, Blue -a typical European Boy band, is nothing much and Bo Brice is very good. Passenger -I wonder… let’s wait and see.

I hate time because time means Conor Oberst doesn’t have the wild innocence of his youth, as he does on “Train Under Water” where you can see the innocence comes unstuck like a young Van Morrison singing “And if I don’t call that just means I’d rather not”. Both of these guys are confused by how cruelty and honesty interlock