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Singles Going Steady: New Album Reviews, Week Of March 4th, 2013

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-

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Hear Ye – What rock nyc Is Listening To 3-10-13

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…

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Jimi Hendrix, Poster Boy for 2013 Record Store Day

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

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Winner And Loser Week Of March 4th, 2013: Elvis Costello And Justin Bieber

Winner – Elvis Costello – I’m gonna call him the Magus from now on. On Thursday of last week, Elvis Costello performed a 45 minute concert at the Theater at Madison Square Garden that magically rolled back time to the late 1970s (without the bile) and unleashed a dynamite set ranging through his first two albums as well a s couple from Get Happy! and Armed Forces. Anybody who was lucky enough to be there won’t forget it soon.

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Must see: Blackstreet At Best Buy April 2013

Ted Reilly (not unlike Larry Blackmon), who soon after this started working with Michael Jackson on Invincible, would never become the superstar he deserved to be.

Ted Reilly (not unlike Larry Blackmon), who soon after this started working with Michael Jackson on Invincible, would never become the superstar he deserved to be.

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rock nyc's Top 10 songs week Of March 4th, 2013

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.

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Hear Ye: what rock nyc Is Listening To 3-9-13

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.

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David Bowie's "The Next Day" Reviewed

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.

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3OH!3 Are Back

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

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D'Angelo At Radio City Music Hall 2000 Annotated Setlist!

At the time I thought that this what it must have been like seeing Teddy Pendergrass in his prime, all those white boys claiming to be long time fans weren’t in the orchestra, it was me and thousands of screaming black women. Now, I don’t think even the great Pendergrass could’ve been this good.

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Oasis and Blur Leaders Dis One Direction

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

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Hear Ye: What rock nyc Is Listening To 3-08-13

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.

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Celebrity Apprentice Boots Bret Michaels (yeeeeessssss)

But wait there is redemption. Little John! I freaking love that guy with his grill and shades. I love how his look completely contradicts his intellect. This is no moron thug, this guy is sharp as a tack and a fabulous on fast thinker. My hope is that he wins the season- cuz he’s cool and no one else is.

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US Top 10 Albums: March 16th, 2013

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.

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US Top 10 Singles: March 16th, 2013

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.

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Hear Ye: what rock nyc Is Listening To 3-7-13

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.

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Blaze Foley: Forever In Duct Tape

Foley played in small Austin bars, when they weren’t banning him due to drunkenness, and lived in a car. He released a few singles in his life, but album releases were never meant to be – master tapes were continually lost or stolen.

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The Joy Of New Music

I ran right home, recorded it onto a cassette tape, went to a bar called “Uncle Sam” and the bartender played it all night long while me and my friend Jean Jacques got trashed on Almaza beer and shots of Southern Comfort while chain smoking Gauloise and Marlboro Reds, sometimes dosed with hashish

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Hear Ye: what rock nyc Is Listening To 3-6-13

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.

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Rhett Miller At High Fidelity, Sunday March 3rd 2013

we got to listen to Deer Tick’s ‘Divine Providence’, The Wedding Present’s first song of their first record ‘George Best’ (I had no idea of who they were), Gary Numan’s M. E., Rhett Miller’s duo with Rosanne Cash, ‘As Close As I Came To Being Right’ from his last effort ‘The Dreamer’, and X’s ‘The Hungry Wolf’, from ‘Under the Big Black Sun’

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Voli & Pitbull, Is This OK?

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?

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"A Good Day To Die Harder" Reviewed

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

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The Fall Hate Their Last Album

You’ve got to be honest for the fans.I would say five songs on the last record were bad, but I will make it up… Re-Mit is going to terrify people. It’s quite horrible. The Fall have had enough and we’re coming for you.

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