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There is also an almost religious dimension to this music, Wayne Coyne has occasionally said he doesn’t believe there is an afterlife, but the album sounds like a religious ode celebrating nothingness

I mean, love it or hate it, you’ve got your David Guettas with massive hits or, like, Calvin Harris – all that kind of shit, which is the Marks & Spencer of this.

This is a tricky endeavor .CBGBs is sacred in many peoples eyes. It has been watered down to a trendy t-shirt but for those of us who lined up on that filthy pavement or sat against that wall every Sunday its nearly holy ground.

This has been Pink’s year, slowly the album has built and topped by the stuperdous live production Pink has done what she has needed to do, as taught by Katy Perry two years ago, to mine her album for all its worth. I love the Psy song, love it.

Congratulations to Fall Out Boy who deserve a hit with one of the best albums of the year under their belt, I wonder who Kid Cudi’s demo is? Male college kids is my bet, they started with him four years ago and haven’t left. White? Oh yes.

80% of this is new releases, some, who needs a live ELO?, are completely useless but fun, some, like Tom Jones cover, are less useless but not right at all, and some, Reese and Mike are just bizarre.

The merriment was cut short when disgruntled opening act “Puddles Pity Party” jumped on the stage to punch EELS leader Mark Oliver Everett aka E in the face and take his guitar from him

”According to people I’ve spoken to, there’s another album in the pipeline. There was, like, 29 songs or something ‘I don’t know what’s next for Bowie.”

A new track called ‘Animal X’, an outtake off ‘Push the Sky Away’ – a sort of follow up, mirror song, sister track to ‘Water’s Edge – has surfaced.

#9 and #10 is the beginning of a songlist I am thinking of, either a song for every day or 10 songs for each day, #1 and # 2 are some religion for you agnostics out there. Black Sabbath have the brains of a peanut and Shea had the voice of a god.

Now it has sporting arenas belting out the ‘bah bah bahhhh’, from New York to LA as a sign of solidarity. Its a great song- its a pathetic unity tune but hey, we have handled this entire event pathetically.

As I write this review, an additional adjective comes to mind: infectious. When first listening to this song, I did not at all like it or Grimes’ style. However, after hearing it 4 or 5 times more, I was hooked and am now listening to this song almost every day.

15 years is a long time to go without his most successful incarnation hitting the stage and so I bet I am not the only person thrilled to hear Buster is back in tux and slicked back hair sipping on Old Fashions and singing songs from the 1940s and/or Latin American swing

Ther are lots of bills to pay. Legal defense domestically is astronomical, international representation is outrageous. So its time to put up your devil horns and support the band if only to show them that rockers stand together and to toss them some coin.

Did I miss the meeting where we all decided Tom Jones wasn”t a first rate entertainer but a second rate artist? Anyway, in a three way tie for first between Phoenix, Buble and Fantasia, I am going with Fantasia because “Lose To Win” is the best of the three introductory singles. Also, I have a soft spot for Fantasia.

Scott Severin’s last album, which I am just getting into, is an old fashioned sprawl of thought on form, but “The Edge Is Gone” is a straight forward piano rollicking rocker. Plastic Visions are scuzzrockers from Nashville, all fuzzed out indieness. And #3 – #5 are a direct reflection of new releases today. At the time I didn’t much care for The Rainbow Concert, today it sounds better than Blind Faith.

I will have more to say about the line up tomorrow. Obviously the prediction last week of a great deal of Hip Hop wasn’t inaccurate. However the Hip Hop musical of “King Kong” brought to you by the guy behind “Speak No More” looks very good, and the This Is Hip Hop Series should be awesome

Lucinda explained she wanted to bring all her support to record stores, especially because she used to work at some of them, like Rockaway records which still exists on Glendale boulevard. She was talking slowly, and announced right away that the store would be playing her handpicked playlist.

The show is called “In This Generation: My Life with The Monkees And Beyond “ and is a multimedia extravaganza of film, pictures, stories, music and songs. a

The Buble album is released Stateside tomorrow but for now at least “It’s A Beautiful Day” is an excellent self-penned AOR pop song. Figure anything “B” or better is alright in my books, which means only two albums aren’t alright with me.

Will I Am is releasing his new album, a modern DJ EDM sounds plus guest star except he sings as well, and this is a real good one. Biever sounds brilliant, wonderful vocal. “Gentleman” is working its way into the national conscious but the bet is it will be no “Gangham Style”.

I have been reading Pete Townsend’s “Who I Am” and he writes about backing Clapton at the Rainbow Concert and just being on that zone during “Layla” -cut here from its original ten minutes. As for #10, that’s from the 2009 gig and it was wonderful and this is Blind Faith redux. Between the two is some 30 years and Clapton lost nothing in the interim.

Fall Out Boy is playing Bostons House of Blues on May 25th. This ‘will call’ only show sold out in seconds and scalpers didn’t have a chance. Show ID or get the hell out of here. A nice idea for the FOB boys a logistical nightmare for others. They will also be playing the Tsongas Center in Lowell on September 6th. Your basic stadium show, they have chosen this larger venue as their fundraiser.

The funkiest sax player of all time, living legend James Brown foil and self made icon of all things that move, the great Maceo Parker, will be be playing a week long residency at the Blue Note. I will be there to get down and get funk on Tuesday. I haven’t seen him on stage in years, since a great set at AVery Fisher Hall in the 1990s, and if that is anything to go by, this will be one long skronk!

The UK X Factor Winner is about the best you can hope for, a charming, smart, good looking pop product with the good old fashioned woman appeal to cut through generations and a handful of potential hits here to break him pop. “Troublemaker” has already set the tone and “Heart Skips A Beat” has built up the traction. They are both modern dance pop moves, but elsewhere Murs digs deeper, with calypso flavored rthyms and deep ingrained melodies. It should do the job – ALBUM OF THE WEEK -Grade: A-

Yes folks, the dream we all dream of: Shellshag release the album you always knew they had in em but they never quite pulled off –a melodic lo-fi masterpiece. And Paramore do the undoable, instead of falling apart they arrive with their best album to date.

50% of these songs I heard at Friday’s Diana Krall gig, 50% of these songs I heard while writing my album round up. I said the Art Brut album would be great and it most certainly is terrific, and as for Tom Waits, I saw him sing this at the Beacon in 1999 and the verse Diana gave us was much lovelier!

Michael Morisy filed a Freedom of Information Act public records request for ‘a copy of the backing track used during Beyoncé’s Inauguration performance, as well as copies of other backing tracks created in preparation for Inauguration events, whether or not they were actually used.’

In some ways, Shell Shag are a folkie indie DIY iteration of Yo La Tengo, an exciting exploration of love and monogamy, strength through love and friendship. A clear eyed view of love and how love can bring you through to the other side.