rock nyc

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.

Songs For Slim – The Replacements – ‘Mats guitarist Slim Watson had a stroke and will need full time care for the rest of his life so Tommy and Westerberg recorded a couple of songs together and drummer Chris Watson recorded a song by himself. The results are not exactly a reunion but it is as close as we are gonna get. And the Nico cover “I’m Not Sayin'”reminds you why so many people worship the band – A-

he Allmans song was the killer Friday night at the Beacon, and Kat Edmonson’s cover of the Purpke Rain track did her nothing but favors on Thursday and best of all, Boz Scaggs has even improved with age though this Elton John wannabe was plenty good back in day. As for Surfer Blood? Dig dem horns…

I have been to many events where parents use their kids as ‘cute pawns’ for attention from rockers. Even Morrissey was face to face with an 11 year old boy who instantly became prey to the crowd. Kids have the ‘awww’ factor, to some.

This is quite bizarre, and if you had previously listened to the song, you had probably noticed the Asian inspiration at the beginning, but nobody was expected this whole Chinese-Korean soap opera

The atmosphere of the video couldn’t be more bizarre, as it seemed to have been filmed at night in the coldest place on Earth, may be Alaska where the band is originally from?

In honor of the event many artists will offer up unique recordings or special offers. Record companies get involved as well. Last year we scored some fabulous vinyl from The Clash- I personally only liked it for the cover art. I want this poster though, its pretty cool and rumor has it the photo was taken in New England right before “Are You Experienced” was released in 1967

The Mavericks own one of the best albumss of the year and this is the best song on one of the best albums, but it is has been a quiet week for great songs and Normal Living, Nick Cave, James Blake -all these folks have been around a couple of weeks already. The newbies are from #2 to # 6.

Thurston Moore is so pretentious he named his band after phillip Glass moving company before he became famous. And Pretty Little Demons balance on the edge of precocious and don’t fall over> Otherwise, the Nash album is a little disappointing, the Raekwon is disappointing, the hendrix is growing off me, Ball died and I am not going to see Blackstreet at Best Buy.

In fact the first six songs taken collectively are so strong you start to think that Bowie has delivered something that would rival his greatest achievements. But things get a little uneven in the middle before the last four tunes rally the set to a fine conclusion.

As for the video, I kind of don’t even want to mention it. It’s pretty boring. The only plus is the cuteness of the boys. The story doesn’t really hold anyone’s attention because it’s too subtle and mediocre.

3OH!3 were the sound of 2008, approximately. I remember going to see them at Toads Place in New Haven, CT- I have never seen performers move faster. I don’t know what was in their RedBull but they were fired up to the point of it being impossible to take a photograph. They appeared as streaks

I am pretty certain they are a couple of middle aged sots who, since no one one cares anymore, and since they are both rich and so can ignore the Public School Toffs Versus Working Yobs class wars that fueled the Brit Pop Wars of the 1990s, and note that they do, in fact, have more in common than they thought

I’ve been on a Drifters jag since listening to the Brad Paisley instant nostalgia instant song of the week or at least the immediate past, Prince? well, I bet D’Angelo sang it at Carnegie Hall last night . Pretty Little demons hole cover is a revelation. ten years old? the older member? That’s cray. And as for ten years after… I was never a huge fan but sorry to hear about Alvin Lee’s death.

‘For a female to write about her feelings, and then be portrayed as some clingy, insane, desperate girlfriend in need of making you marry her and have kids with her, I think that’s taking something that potentially should be celebrated’

If Bruno Mars wasn’t available for a buck 99 last week on Amazon, Atoms For Peace would have taken # 1. Also, if AFP had given up the album for streaming they would have probably been # 1 anyway. Otherwise, Hillsong United? As far as Christian rock bands go, they are the best not known as P.O.D. or The Devil Wears Prada.

What happened was this: hip hop got very weird musically but lyrically it is mostly the same ol’ dick waving wallet huggin stuff and so the end result is something like the new drake song: it sounds bearly mainstream but asks with the same intense sense of inflated ego that the rest of hip hop staggers under the weight of.

The second Elvis in full effect, he can’t write songs about the girl he is with crying for somebody else anymore, the Hlly cover is really good, i’ve loved olof ever since I saw her at Joe’s Pub and see no reason to stop now. Katy is a disappointment, Monroe is nothing much country and Rose is something else country.

The two little demons were actually very good, showing a real confidence and a true stage presence, talking to the crowd – especially the tiny charismatic Marlhy, who was almost invisible behind her big drum set – as if they had done it for years and years.

These are intricate pop song portraitures which work whether you’re paying attention or leaving em in the background.

Rockers are responsible (more than I am) Randy Blythe facing the music with such grace is pretty damn impressive. There was never public drama, he took it like a man and it was inspiring.

By dating boys so much younger than she is, Taylor has managed to remain a sort of modern times Doris Day, despite the press best attempts there is something squeaky clean about her. She even dodged the John Mayer bullet

This is just showing off, an abundance of riches and a must see of course. 4am??? That is one late long show… I will wait around for the rapture but that’s all I’m promising…

I am not sure it is real news, as these two seem to always be touring together! I know that, I read their mutual interactions on Twitter! Ted Leo and

While it is surprising that the Styne and sondheim classic can be so seamlessly added to the replacements catalog even after all these years, and surprising that both Buble and Paisley have come up with the goods on their new releases, less surprising that Yeah3 and Raekwon are good not great and not surprising at all Reznor is reforming Nine Inch nails.

Well then, how will the marketing folks at Voli handle this one? Funny? Yeah of course but as a spokesman do you really want ‘pussy juice’ on the bottle of the product that creates your paycheck?

The artist should be permitted anonymity, unaware of the presumed demand of the marketplace. They’ll make contact on a much more meaningful level

I would’ve guessed that the producers made a deal with the Tourist Bureau Of Russia (we’ve all seen “Argo’ we know how it’s done) but since it insults the Russian legal system (for good reason -pace Pussy Riot, but that isn’t the point) and uses Moscow for nothing except blowing to pieces I don’t see why