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Austin might well be a great place to conduct business if you know who you are going to conduct business with but if you don’t, what do you do there but get ignored

Have you been following the Jon Pennington most influential songs off the 1960s here? It is superb and if you haven’t we’ve tagged it so get caught up. Coltrane’s “My Favorite Things” is there somewhere. The rest of the list are album tracks fromnew releases I, for the most part, don’t much like.

I honestly respect his acknowledgement of ‘past prime’. So many artists will trudge themselves up on a stage a shell of their former greatness that for Seger to say 70 is the cap, is wonderful

Let me start this review by stating that Suzanne looks great, sounds great, acts well and the video for the title track is a soap opera music video and really really good

Before you get too excited over Jimi Hendrix’s best showing on Billboard’s Hot 100 in 44 years, keep in mind that it sold 20,000 less copies than Valley Of Neptune did in 2010. Plus given the probable age of Jimi’s core audience, it is fair to say that streaming had little or nothing to do with it. Suggests to me, the higher placing has everything to do with less sales at the top in 2013.

Macklemore and Lewis are the Carly Rae Jepsen of 2013, no one has the slightest idea how they can possibly follow up “Thrift Shop” and so they probably won’t follow it up ever. And as for Baauer? He isn’t quite a one hit wonder, more like a phenom gone wild and never to be repeated, by him any way

I was discussing the Go Gos early years with a friend who knew em pretty well (went to school with Belinda) and thus i gave em a listen, plus Kathy Valentine just quit plus I am seconds away of getting a tix to see em at Roseland. I went to droplick Murphys yesterday. What else? # 6 to # 9, will probably be around a couple more days…

Try as we may we can’t stop Scarlett from doing what she should be doing, acting in movies which feature her in skin tight superhero costumes and dating ridiculously handsome men just to rub our nose in the we take these truths to be self-evident impossibility of even an averagely gorgeous guy will never get within a million miles of her.

#1 – # 3 are all very very good, I really love Earl Sweatshirt ever since seeing him at Gramercy a coupla months ago. The Bowie is the best song on the album , definitely third tier Bowie (meaning pretty damn great) and along with Modern Hut’s “History”, Marling’s song may be the best single of the year.

The band tried to reform a couple times and Peter Murphy has always incorporated Bauhaus into his solo sets, but the “Mr Moonlight Tour’ will be 100% Bauhaus material. Does this mean we get no live ‘Cuts You Up’?

we have always seen teenagers in tears, screaming and tearing their hair apart, Elvis, the Beatles and the Stones certainly triggered this kind of reactions, but this meanness, this plain awful behavior seem to be new. And it’s not that people are getting worst, I just blame the social media!

Rolling Stone announced it so it must be true…right? Billboard reported that the band will play “fewer than 20” arena dates in North America, with Australian promoter Paul Dainty and Virgin music promoting the tour.

Which is a long way round for us to share this picture of Bowie, wife and model Iman, and daughter 12 year old Alexi on our streets… just like real people and not like the aliens from outer space they so obviously are

Sure, I get get it, a new David Bowie album… but then what? The Bon Jovi single was fabulous but it would hardly be the first time VJ have only written one good song on an album and the reviews have been deadly. What else? The Clapton song was lousy. Devandra is very very very boring. ANd I’ve had enough Mindless Behavior for one life time.

araabmusik track is off a new album I’ve just noticed and one of the best electronic sample seance I’ve heard all year, Blank Realm is from Brisbane but don’t hold that against em, this song is pretty magical lick on a loop, and “Senorita”? just in case you thinj I’m being being too hard on the Kkd (whoops, kid no more), here is a reminder of what he actually used to do

Now, this film seems like a pretty lame kid’s film, but I can assure you it is a truly great work of art. The budget was $215 million; it’s a pretty lofty goal, but worth it for the gorgeous scenery and special effects. It made me jump a few times, which is rare

Witnesses claim Ms Banks stopped mid-set to confront the Stone Roses, when the fight occurred.
It is alleged lead vocalist of the Stone Roses, 50 year old Ian Brown, was restrained by security after coming within two feet of Ms. Banks.

Ludlow Street – Julian Casablancas wrote a song about it and why not? It is the Red Light District of rock and roll, a Street so cool there must be 30 bands a night you can check out while you go on the pub crawl rock and roll of a life time.

From the folks who wrote “The Hangover” how is this for high concept? “The Hangover Goes To College”? Not bad and starring Skylar Astin, who was so good in “Pitch Perfect” as Casey

I’m not overwhelmed by Bastille, who sound like a million English bands before em so if you like that English rock and roll stuff, be my guest. Stereophonics, Welsh guys so… you know, say no more. I prefer em to Bastille but whatever.

I know for sure that Timberlake and Hova are gonna sell out Yankee Stadium Tuesday…. the question is will they add a date. And the other question is, why is the new stuff such a bummer? The Pink song with the Nate sounds an awful lot like fun. so figure this was more than just a guest star role.

Langhorne is new to me but he is a talented guy and cool as hell, but the day belongs to Karen and ELla, these two singers are all cream, all loveliness. It is a moment lost in time, and at the end they harmonize to “As Time Goes By”. See for yourself…and then the counter melodies on “Don’t Get Around Much Anymore” ahhh… see for yourself!

Steven Drozd said he wished the album wasn’t connected to the Super Bowl – their song ‘Sun Blows Up Today’ was used for a commercial which aired during the game – because the record doesn’t sound like this song at all:

It sounds like she just got back from Europe where somebody stole her camera but gave her back her smile, though the smile isn’t really complete and the song is troubled, it is all journey and no arrival

Depending on your level of tolerance for fascinating things that don’t necessarily make sense, you will find this video fantastic or weirdly lame.

What do you make of a DJ set where the headliners go on stage at 1am? On a Thursday night/Friday Morning? Not much, right? But the Le Poisson Rouge set was an immediate sell out because the DJs are Atoms For Peace Thom Yorke and Nigel Godrich. Plus apparently THERE WILL BE MICROPHONES… Finally, AMOK is a very good album so do what I did, take Friday off work.