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UK Top 10 Albums, February 2nd, 2013

In 2013, albums sales are not like singles sales, singles take weeks simmering on the charts and when they finally hit they stay a long while but albums shoot up the UK charts and then disappear. So this entire list is a weird one, most of it is from 2012 as we enter February nothing seems to have done well.

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UK Top 10 Singles, February 2nd, 2013

the Bingo Players dance track has been around for a coupla years now and Far East Movement, a terrible band, add a whole new dimension with lyrics. Otherwise, here is a question: where is Bowie and Justin… here’s a half answer: Justin is at #11,

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Hear Ye: What rock nyc Is Listening To 1-28-13

Bat – The Joy Formidable – Welsh rock band start off smooth but bash out insanely by the end on this Yeah Yeah Yeahs soundalike without the blues affectations in a rave up about the creative process. “I had a reason but the reason went away” is an all purpurpose catechism – Grade: A

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Iman and Hel Do SNL : Kendrick Lamar

Poor guy is stuck on Saturday Night Live, sorta like visiting an aging Aunt that used to be something ‘back in the day’, I wont even waste my time complaining about how much this show sucks but at least this week we get a decent musical act. Unlike that crap hipster shit they’ve been sticking us with.

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Pissed Jeans Rule the Earth

Pissed Jeans have been at it since 2004 and so they have what time gives you: assurance and tightness. And they have something else, a follow up to the awesome King Of Jeans, Honey, coming up and a gig at the 550 SRO Bowery Ballroom on April 13th, 2013.

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Active Viewin': Concert Picks Week Of January 28th, 2013

I am blowing off the Vaccines to see blues singer Trixie Whitley at Le Poisson Rouge on Thursday. I caught Trixie at Rockwood last June and was suitably awed and await her first album Fourth Corner out on Tuesday. LPR is down to SRO tix and I still recommend you go and see this extremely ta;lented, ready to break 25 year old.

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Winner And Loser Week Of January 21st, 2013: Ed Sheeran And Beyonce

Here is young Sheeran on his big chance to hug Katy Perry: ” a lot on stage and did a show in Canada. I played the set. Stormed it, sweated a lot, got off stage and bumped into Katy Perry. I was like, ‘All right Katy Perry, how are you?'”She said, ‘I came to your show and I love your album. I was gonna give you a hug but, eeurgh!’ and went. That was my chance ruined because I sweated so much.” Ed is moving in more and more rarified air since we saw him a year ago at Mercury Lounge but while everybody around him are crazed ehomaniacs, always the bridesmaid Ed remains his sweet old self.

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Singles Going Steady: New Album Reviews For Week of January 24th, 2013

Beta Love – Ra Ra Riot – A girl I knew was very friendly wih Ra Ra Riot and though we are not friends any more, she fed me a steady enough diet of the indie plus strings quintet that I feel a lot of affection for them. But not enough enough for me to recommend this electronic mish mosh about living forever and becoming machines or something – Grade: C-

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Open Book: An Evening with Justin Furstenfeld

The “Approaching Normal” tour had a fit and energized Justin hip thrusting in his live show while the girls swooned. His “Every Man In America” Tour had a bloated scuffing scruffy Justin that had the women screaming I love you”. Crazy huh? You either want to save the guy or fuck him

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Musicians Covering Musicians, Clever Chain Songs Concepts First Release

It is in the nature of life that an eye for an eye is an infinite progression. The only way to stop it is thru forgiveness and to hear of it being conducted by one people to another is very moving, very important. If anger is like drinking poison and expecting it to kill the other person, forgiveness is like feeding your enemy and finding yourself fully nourished.

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Jimmy Page and Jon Varvatos Collaborate

This isn’t the first (nor will it be the last) time John Varvatos dips in to the jukebox for models his past posers include Paul Weller and Miles Kane, Green Day, Franz Ferdinand, Perry Farrell of Jane’s Addiction, Alice Cooper, Iggy Pop, Chris Cornell, Joe Perry of Aerosmith, Ryan Adams, and Slash

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Hear Ye: What rock nyc Is Listening To 1-26-13

Upholstery – Beach Bums – “Carburetors man, that’s what life is all about…” Paul williams brilliant Beach Boys parody makes fine use of his “Faust” theme while extolling the virtues of love in a car: “Upholstery, when my baby sits up close to be…” is as perfect an explanation for the meaning of life as any I’ve heard – Grade:A

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So Beyonce Lip-Synched The National Anthem On Monday?

With this revelation, I am tempted to ask, has she done this before? May be she lip-syncs during her concerts too, I am going to start a rumor! Seriously, if she can’t sing live on this special day, when she has received the highest honor of singing the national anthem for the president she has supported so much, it looks very bad.

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Is Ted Nugent Gay?

The latest in our ongoing, ground breaking, dirt raking and all too true series of “Are The Gay?” exposes finds us face to face with one of the wild men of rock. A man not quite willing to go up against Bambi or Thumper with a rifle and blow the animals head off

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'Oh, the fire, the fire!' Ozzy Burns His Brows Off

He comes down and goes, ‘Oh, the fire, the fire!’ (and tries to put it out) with his hand in the cast. Then he opens the French doors and I go into the kitchen and throw water on it and it erupted…”Ozzy’s front of his hair from (his ear down is), gone! His eyebrows (are gone)…

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US Top 10 Albums, February 1st, 2013

From Cockiness to cockiness, A$AP is a talented lad, meanwhile Kidz Bop does what it always does chartwise though I found it a weaker than usual effort, Pitch Perfect and Red are both Pitch Perfect and hey, you got to hand it to young Lumineers. I bet they don’t know what’s hit em!

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US Top 10 Singles, February 1st, 2013

Perhaps I am just monitoring it more closely but I am consistently surprised at just how bands suddenly become popular M&L and The Lumineers suddenly break after years of hard work leaving us all scratching our heads. The difference is before a band would go top 20 a couple of times before hitting it big. Taylor took years till “Love Story” pushed her over the top. Now, it just happens.

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Hear Ye: What rock nyc Is Listening To 1-25-13

(There’s) Always Something There To Remind Me – Sandie Shaw – Unlike the original, this one sounds very youthful. There isn’t the harsh of experience to Shaw’s vocal, instead it has a swinging England vibe not at edge but in distinction to Davids intense feelings. I coulda sworn Dionne did the original but she sang the demo. Sandie brings a generational schism to the 60s masterwork – Grade:A

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Soon, A Documentary About Pussy Riot On HBO

The documentary narrates the Russian band’s trial after having staged a ‘Punk Prayer’ against Russian president Putin in a Orthodox Cathedral in Moscow, as well as the three women’s first months of incarceration in terrible Russian camps.

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Guns n Roses In 3D

From the clips I have seen they are your basic live show slather with a Elvis like Axl Rose attempting to hoist himself and serpentine as he did 30 years ago and the moves aint working.

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‘A State Of Trance 600’ NYC Lineup

This thumping good time will be traveling through Madrid, India and The Netherlands but also swoops in to Madison Square Garden for one night of thrusty fun. The show is March 30th and will be broadcast live via Astateoftrance.com. THAT is worth hanging out for and watching.

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Jahn Xavier And The Bowerytones: New Album On The Way

“There are 12 more. Most of the rockers are not yet mixed, as we added new guitars this past week.”. So it feels like a couple of months and if you have yet to listen to his band the Bowerytones get ready to remember just how great blue eyed soul can be in the hands of a great rock band,

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Wilko Johnson Farewell Tour

Dr. Feelgood,they bled beer and sawdust and an aesthetic so far away from the boogie black delta blues they performed: as though just the shared humanity and financial tyranic burden was enough to forge the two societies into one.

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Hear Ye: What rock nyc Is Listening To 1-24-13

Ready – Fabolous And Chris Brown – A slow burner getting the job done with a little help from the most hated man on the planet not named Lance. But it is four year’s since “Imma Do It” and Fabolous just isn’t living up to it and this sex boiler song ain’t changing much – Grade: B-

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Must See: Hilly Eye Record Release Party On Saturday, January 26th, 2013

Amy said about the band: “Sleater Kinney meets Lightning Bolt meets a watery bridge at the end of town”, which is pretty cool, right? The Ep is an epic New Jersey tall tail of sound and experiment and corrupts your ears with pleasure, back in the day I said they sounded like the Roches being covered Bikini Kill. Unmissable, right? I mean, they are a really good band

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Essential Songs of 1989

Public Enemy fought the power and The Beastie Boys released their brilliant Paul’s Boutique album. As we look back at the decade, we were able to survive a decade of synth-pop, kitschy videos, and electronic drums. As we peek around the corner to the ‘90s, I’m seeing flannel.

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Who Should Taylor Swift's Next Boyfriend Be? Bono?

Those of us who love Taylor Swift have watched the serial monogamist with a mix of prurient interest, bemusement, surprise that a star of such magnitude wouldn’t control the story a little more before involving the world and a straight out surprise that she has become a slut Maria Von Trapp.

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