rock nyc

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.

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.

My dislike for Rick Ross means I tend to ignore his crew, but a friend of work force fed me “M.I.A.”, and she also offered up “Fred The Godson” and I am better for the experience

But this song is so ridiculous that I cant help but love it. Which is the magic of Pitbull. I find him so hilarious that I adore him. I don’t even know what hes talking about half the time.

The Silver Lake Chorus didn’t take the easy road with this one, this song is not for your average NPR-listener/Lips-fan, as we are not in ‘Yoshimi vs the Pink Robots’ territory there. Rather the track comes from the most experimental side of the band

Directed by Floria Sigismodi (who also directed the Runaways) it builds very very nicely from an early denouncement of Brad Pitt to a scary “The stars are never sleeping, the dead ones and the living…”

“One of the cool things about coming back was that we decided everyone has to be in on every idea, or else it’s out. We did ten songs [for the album], maybe there will be eleven songs on there,”

This time of the year is coming up, the best weeks to be in Los Angeles, I am talking about the weeks around Coachella date

Right now I am prevaricating on the Desaparecidos show, songs like the one here, ten years old, don’t do it for me at all. And some of “Fake French” remains, the other seven are all New Release Wednesday, with Bowie at the top, Hank poorly recorded and Atoms For Peace on hold till tomorrow.

The tall guy who is standing just in front of you, the drunk-beyond-any-hope-of-recovery who is kicking you in the legs for 2 hours, and this is without mentioning the sweat odor, the bad breath, the unbearable heat, the unnecessary body contact, the cold beer on your pants, the outrageous priced parking and drinks

Cub Koda and company are best known for their pro lung cancer anthem “Smokin’ in the Boys Room” which made it to #3 in 1973 and was covered by Motley Crue in 1985, becoming that band’s first Top 40 hit.

This cruise though, its pretty interesting. I really admire the cost. Starting at just $599. its not a massive rip off as some others are and the Florida to Bahamas itinerary is solid.

The rest of the movie has some “boooo -gotcha” moments but it is really a miserable slog to a sucky and sad with just a tinge of hope ending and it could’ve been so much more. The entire thing has some irritants that only emerge as major problems towards the end: it is like being told you have a cough and discovering it is really lung cancer.

Claire’s Diary, Tinvulva and Kelly Montoya are because I am still buzzed on the Fake French gig and Tomas because the song I wanna hear from his set I don’t have yet. Nick Cave song is so good I forgive him most of his sins on the new album and X was covered by Tinvulva

I put the poster in my bag and kept the setlist on hand. ‘I think he will sign it’ told me the guy standing just before me on line. He obviously was right, and I wasn’t the only one to break the rules, a guy made him even sign his leg for a tattoo template!

“They have never achieved competence – they are actively untalented.”

Reading the letter, it is hard to quite grasp what his problem was. I guess he just, to paraphrase Joe Steinhardt, has no appetite for life

Isn’t that Alyson Camus book signing post, the one where he signs the setlist, up today? Enough with Nick Cave already, and how about Joe Cocker for a change? In at # 7 in the UK, and about to be released tomorrow Stateside. Yeaaaaa for Joey!

Blondie cover for Comedy Relief and I guess you gotta smile at the mash up with the Undertones. It really really isn’t the worst thing I’ve ever heard though that pix with Harry topless and tats? That’s the worst thing pix I’ve ever seen

Western Mass – Claire’s Diary – Still buzzing after the concert, this is the one where drummer introduces as about the only time she ever got arrested! And then the song is a really strong payoff withhim leaving her in jail while he hightails it. Boys will be boys!! Grade: A