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Hear Ye: What rock nyc Is Listening To 3-5-13

Country Tuesday, right? I’ve been listening to Nesmith quite a bit, in excited anticipation of the Town Hall solo gig this April, Gram I’ve been listening to as a reminded as to what good ol’ boys should sound like and Iris as a reminder that there is a way to write about God without being a moron.

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Caspian at the Echoplex, Friday, March 1st 2013, Reviewed

The whole thing was very, very ambient, quite cinematic, if your brain was willing to provide the images, and at times contemplative. It wasn’t that nothing was happening, their soundscapes were abruptly and constantly changing like a moody-stormy weather, but you had to do some efforts if you wanted to follow them

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"Warm Bodies" Reviewed (More Or Less)

Teenage zombie falls in love! Twilight goes flesheating with a wink at the public. We would know it’s based on a book any way because of a relentlessly tedious and unfunny voiceover by Hoult, who mostly grunts in zombie state.

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The Worst Tempered Men In Rock N Roll (UK Edition)

According to Gigwise these are the ten grumpiest men in rock and roll UK division (mostly, though I doubt you can perform one of these types of lists without including Lou Reed) and what do they all have in common? More money than brains? A disproportionate sense of self worth? All of the above????

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Hear Ye: What rock nyc Is Listening To: 3-4-13

How can you take these country boys seriously if you were raised on Gram Parsons? They aren’t serious guys, they just aren’t. The Bob Dylan song is one of his best of all time (though don’t bother with the Sheryl crow cover) and if you don’t believe me about the Mavs listen to Steve Crawford: “The new Mavericks album. Believe the hype. It is superb”.

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Hot Club of Cowtown At Live Oak Music Hall & Lounge, Fort Worth,Tx, Friday, March 1st, 2013 Reviewed

The trio is comprised of three outstanding musicians – violinist Elana James, guitarist Whit Smith, and stand-up bassist Jake Erwin. Performing jazz and pop standards and Western swing classics, the virtuosos rotate playing rhythms/melody and taking solos. They know when to be unobtrusive and when to take the spotlight. They simmer and burn with equal aplomb.

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Prince, "Screwdriver" on Jimmy Fallon

The last thing this world needs is a rock God behaving like a human. We need more psycho Rick James stuff. But Prince lived through some normalcy and meh… But this… this is Prince. There is nothing ‘average’ about him.

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Singles Going Steady: New Album Reviews Week Of February 25th, 2013

In Time – The Mavericks – This is the Cuban American Raul Malo’s return to his country music roots and inventing a new type of Americana where Spanish and Hawaiian music melds effortlessly into twang in song after song. Swing or salsa, mariachi or country blues it all adds together for this more than welcome reunited band. ALBUM OF THE WEEK – Grade: A

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

Of all the people I should see but keep on not seeing and haven’t see, Dizzee is up there with the Streets. In the meantime, Armand killed the track at MSG Friday. Both country songs are excellent, AFP is a very very good track, and Polyenso are absolutely one to watch.

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Bon Iver, "Holocene" Reviewed

The chorus is what really hit me: “And at once I knew, I was not magnificent. Strayed above the highway aisle (jagged vacance, thick with ice), I could see for miles.” This line here is one of the best the man’s ever written.

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Winner And Loser Week Of February 25th, 2013: Beyonce And Justin Timberlake

– She sold out her entire UK tour in under ten minutes, riots occured where there were actually physical box offixes selling tix, the V Festival she is headlining is expected to last 20 minutes… There isn’t a ticket to be had outside of ticket brokers and she sold out barclay center 4 times or if you prefer, she sold 75,000 tickets in New York like that. with the new album in the wings and the promise of lots of hits on album # 5, which includes The-Dream all over it, plus… well you know the resume by now.

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Johnny Marr, “How Soon Is Now?”, Reviewed

Why do guitarist do that dick rubbing move whre they both cuddle up really close with down turned heads like their collectively moving a moving a heavy piece of furniture or something. Its one of the dumbest things I have ever seen yet nearly every band does it

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Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp, Brian Wilson and Jeff Beck?

I love the idea of the rock and roll camp its just the smarmy sales pitch the site offers that I find offensive. it really is a fanatics dream come true or a corporate fun time- but I question Beck and Wilson.. WHY? I’d like to think they both find it amusing more than anything else.

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Hear Ye: What rock nyc Is Listening To – 3-1-13

The Costello Who is anticipation of what will be last nights benefit gig, and Steve Roth is opening but I plan to miss it (that’s he’s best song) Costello made me think of Prince (because of the Carnegie gig later this month) and that made me think of Miguel’s best song.

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The Essential Songs: 1991

The Essential Songs of 1991 have all turned 21 now. They’ve discarded their fake IDs – some are in college, some are in the military, and there’s a trust fund baby in the crowd. They grow up so fast.

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fun. Music Video "Why Am I The One" Reviewed

The equipment they used was crystal clear, the lighting was really nice, and artistically, every frame could stand on its own as a photograph- that’s rare, and I loved it. I watched it a couple of times out of awe, and rewound certain parts. It’s absolutely brilliant; the camera angles aid the story so well.

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Seth MacFarlane Song And Dance Man? Only In Hollywood…

Jack Phillips can’t catch a break and this useless twit is doing song and dance with two guys and only one of the three have the slightest idea what they are doing? At the Oscars??? You wanna talk about the dumbing down of America? This is the stage that once had Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, now we have this joke?

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Listen To A Live Recording Of A New Fucked Up Song

The band played this song, and a few other new ones, at the Great Hall in Toronto on February 8th, during one of their ‘Long Winter’ nights. The series of shows was ‘a monthly night of immersive and interactive music, installations, visual art, readings, food, and dance to help Toronto get through our long and cold winter’, and featured artists, lecturers, dancers, videographers, and other bands.

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US Top 10 Singles, March 9th, 2013

OK, Baauer is much to do about nothing but in a chart without a rock song and, yes, not even any country, he is just more of the same. This chart is total hip hop production values domination on every level. Not one song here isn’t about the beat, every single one takes its orders from programmed rhythmic patterns. Amazing, really.

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Top 10 US Albums, March 9th, 2013

Where’s you Grammy bounce now, jerks? well, next week it should show, in the meantime i find it amazing that a performance on SNL bounced the Shakes back up to the top 10. To be honest I am surprised the bounce us quite that big, though it only sold 33K. Back when I was a child, that wouldn’t have cut it.

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