rock nyc

Unfortunately the ‘Dont You Want Me Baby” singers The Human League want ‘math’ more than audience. They have pulled out of the tour and now the stage needs a replacement. Already on board are Howard Jones and Andy Bell of Erasure. Yeah, I cant see that filling my lawn let alone a venue of any size.

“To think that our surname would be indelibly linked with London through the naming of a street after Amy is remarkable. “We’re a London family through and through and it would be a tremendous honor if we do become a literal part of the fabric of this great city.”

“I’m so happy that so many people have connected with the stories and the songs on the record, this really is our version of events now”

The Stone Roses are a legendary Madchester dance band, the sound of ecstasy with a rock and roll back beat and the 1990s game changer who, in the UK, pulled the country out of the 1970s more thoroughly than grunge ever did. Liam is a nob.

Daughter’s eagerly anticipated debut album is upon us and I am very excited over a new Hanni El Khattib but unless you are in the market for LL Cool J, not much else going on here. Did I ever mention that I take this list off Metacritic? Seven years ago I tried to put together a website that collated reviews of new albums from everywhere and was half way thru the process when somebody mentioned Metacritic. rock nyc is the grandchild of that idea.

Did you read Steve Crawford’s excellent “The Essential Songs Of George Jones”? “The Old Rugged Cross” is the song he choose off my fave Jones album. # 1 is from a phenomenal album Tomas Doncker turned me on to, part of Red+ Hot charity albums, this one is from Red+ Hot + Riot. A superb, like mind bending album I may actually review though it is years old.

The low light of the week is Iggy and The Stooges on Colbert. Steve Colbert is going to eat him alive. We all saw how he interacted with Morrissey so his chat with Iggy should be epic. Oh, and I have lost all respect for Mr Pop since his god awful cameo in the John Varvatos edition of luxury car commercial. How un-punk rock.

Sure, the album was the definition of a disappointment and sure, yet again, Morrissey wipes Marrs clock BUT he is one of the greatest guitarists of his generation and he was born to do it live on stage so stop whining and check him out at Music Hall Of Williamsburg on a Friday no less.

OK, so They’ve been on the charts long enough I figured I’d give Bastille another shot People get things wrong, you know. But this album is completely horrible and I overestimate it with a “C+”.

Daft Punk’s single would be good any way but Niles Rodgers guitar lick is so good it overwhelms everything else it is perfect. Britain’s Got Talent runners up sound like Olly Murs only less so.

Both Dylan and the Band roar through this version off Before The Flood, he snarls, it spits, it feels political (Nixon is the mark). The entire album is not punk but gangsta rap in its lack of subtlety. He never stops. It never stops. I am thinking of writing some more about George Jones, I have written about him many times through the years, but every time I saw it feels as though I am rattling off cliches.

Kaplan International Colleges, a leading provider of English courses, revealed that 86% of ESL teachers play music during class to enhance lessons and help students improve their understanding of the English language.

Think about it, you’ll be the only one of your friends to see the Rolling Stones in such a small venue and when they ask you how you pulled it off, you can show them my bloody, decaying wrist.

This is what Scott does: he pounds order on to chaos, he changes the random chance of evil into the bordered form of art. It says, life is bad but through our abilities we can take Children’s Crusades and hurricanes and terrorists attacks and we can place order through art and through love

Side Effects Of You – Fantasia – In the battle for American Idol diva supremacy, Fantasia always played suicidal kid sister to Jennifer Hudson’s late flowering superstar. But this is a terrific album, with three sure shots and handfuls of groove filled post-disco movers. Fantasia wins. ALBUM OF THE WEEK – Grade: A-

This is Fantasia’s week, here excellent new album has dominated my work all week. But as far as singles go, Talib’s single is closer to Motown than anything featured play Miguel has managed before. Makes em both worth taking seriously immediately, even the rap is excellent.

Half of these tracks were listened to in celebration of George Jones life, the other half a mix of Pusha T and Fabolous in celebration of the BB King gig. Fabolous’ “Into You” I had forgotten about but it sure sounds great a decade later. Jones I am getting a little obscure on but “The Gospel Collection” is awesome. He really wasn’t much of an album artist, was he?

Every single tune on this album is special and fun and holds a special place in my heart- there’s not one song I ever skip. The rarity of that is something I don’t think I’ll ever find again any time soon. They’re just such a talented band and everything they do, I fall in love with.

I persuaded Bowie, somehow, to give me a sort of a work flow diagram for The Next Day, because I wanted to think about it in light of what he was thinking about it, I wanted to understand the lexicon of The Next Day, and so I simply asked if he would provide this list of words about his album

with their reunion album at the top of the charts and billets to their performance too hot to handle, the emo rockers have returned from bad marriages and good diets to take their place as the rock and roll band to beat. Save Rock and Roll is (debatably) their best album but that isn’t enough at all, they have given all the earnings from their Boston gig to benefit the victims of their marathon. yep, everything is coming up FOB

Tom should sing Dylan more often, #4 – # 5 were all recommended by Mary Magpie and Flatsound is a major find, and as for Pusha T… he is no good at intimacy. And a whole lotta George jones.

‘We are honored to have been a part of its remarkable story. While a change like this is difficult, we look forward to putting together a series of great shows that will celebrate everything about this marvelous building’

The opening Morrissey voice over (and the closing) are cute and hopefully piss Morrissey off so he goes on a little rant and the lyric about the fain flattening his hair. That’s about it. This is a parody song for Morrissey fans but its just not funny enough to stick. Using song snips is well and good but they’re somewhat random. I wanted to love this- I couldn’t

The song is a memory trip with a specific focus on three young women from each rapper’s past. The song’s saving grace is that, where it could have delved further into the cesspool that is mainstream rap, it pulls back and instead allows for lyrics with more poignancy and meaning

The Brooklyn band is going to perform the same song ‘Sorrow’ off their album ‘High Violet’, for 6 straight hours at MOMA’s PS1 on May 5th.

Its pretty absurd how not only addictive these games are but how they are simply part of mainstream life. Name one boy you know between the ages of 11 and 23 who isn’t glued to a screen at least once a week wearing that ridiculous headset and I’ll give you ten bucks.

I had a busy day at work, streamed the new Iggy Pop album on NPR but have no hard and fast feel for it right now, caught Maceo Parker at the Blue Note with Tomas Doncker, and felt lousy all day long

I dismissed Tom Jone’s Leonard Cohen cover earlier this week, but it caught up with me, his deep bass vocal is sturdier and more aggressive than Cohen’s stately bemusement. A like like “I was born with the gift of a golden voice” sounds like self-deprecation when Cohen sings it (in concert, it receives a roar of approval but also a few chuckles), when Tom Jones sings it it is all swagger. And the poetry of “the rich find their channels in the bedrooms of the poor” becomes political when the son of a Welsh coal miner sings it.