rock nyc

Ted Nugent isn’t exactly the coolest guy in town. He has to be one of the most repulsive humans I have yet to read about. I am unsure about his fans but considering most fans are more psychotic than their idols.. its pretty scary.

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.

During foie gras production, huge amounts of grain are pumped into the stomachs of geese through metal pipes, which are rammed down their throats several times a day. Their distended livers ‘ which can swell to up to 10 times their normal size

Street artist Shepard Fairey was on my street this week, doing one of his signature murals in front of a hardware/art store. I stumbled on him and his team in action and was quite impressed by their efficiency – they were done in just two days! – and by the awesome result!

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.

Maybe this isn’t a MISERABLE top ten, but really. Emili is still at # 1, Buggs (who was pretty bland on stage) is still at # 10 and Ben Howard and Ben Howard are inbetween and holding the Fort.

“Mirrors” is 8 minutes long and it is pretty good but nothing great. It ain’t that easy, Justin. Like Dylan said once, you can come back but you can’t come back all the way

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”.

I stayed around three hours and left in full rave. This will be Swedish House Mafia’s last tour, mostly because there is no good reason for the three superstars to split the bread three ways. Still, it was a great show. It renews your faith in a USA who still come to rave and love.

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.

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

It is March Madness at the Beacon and after screwing it up the last coupla years I got a tix on the Amex presle and nabbed the Friday 8th gig. if it is half as good as when I saw em in 2010 a splendid time will be had by all as we boogie long into the night.

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.

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.

None of the above issues are, of course, as important as Jimmy Kimmel himself, who has finally revealed his show to have an overwhelming loss of meaning. Tune in and relive the intellectual fog of the 1950s.

It is like they are the last band in town writing new, young, classsic rock worth a damn, as though Normal Living are wrestling away from daughtry and Linkin Park and giving it to another generation.

Seriously, Bowie is making his album ‘The Next Day’ available on iTunes, and I am streaming it right now! After releasing two songs through YouTube, this is another sign that the 66-year-old rock star is totally in touch with today’s reality.

– 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.

The Kate Nash has been a favorite since i heard it, the Claire’s Diary will be throwing up songs for the next couple of weeks. and Polysenso are a new find but I really love em. Still, not a great week all in all. we are in Mrch now and i am waiting for something to happen.

Costello and the Who were highlights of their respective Thursday night sets, and the song between them is from the Mavericks surprisingly excellent new album -their first since reforming in 2011 and worth the wait.

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.

Naked Asian people, foaming beers, tattooed boobs, cigarettes in the nostrils, wild sex on fast motorcycles, BBQ octopus? That was not my vision of family

Claire’s Diary – ABC No Rio – February 23rd, 2013 – First album release party by upstart rock and rollers pn the last stop on the way to college, brought plaster down from the ceiling. That’s the way it is meant to be done.

Higgs Boson Blues – Nick Cave – If you’re gonna name your song after the “God Particle” it better a song this good. A bluesy weird trip to the bottom of the swimming pool.

m b v – My Bloody Valentine – Decades later and this is nearly exactly the album you had hooped, guitar modulations and bruised melodies aplenty.

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.

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.

There is nothing new, there is nothing cutting edge and there is nothing at all cool about it- other than the name of the artists involved. Oh, and there will be a tour as well.

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.