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Hear Ye: What rock nyc Is Listening To 1-23-13

Money Honey – Aaron Neville – Off the blue Bayouish Mr. Neville’s new album of great oldies, this cover is so great it stands up in a world ruled by Presley’s Sun session version. Less swagger but just as much blues and maybe more rockabilly – Grade: A-

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Iris Dement At City Winery, Sunday, January 20th, 2013 Reviewed

The first song is a pure country “Making My Way Back Home” could be covered by Loretta Lynn or maybe more to the point Patsy Cline, it has a deep country stir and a joyfulness which, as so happens, seems singed by a deep well of sadness. It is very lovely and it takes Iris a couple of minutes to get her bearings, “I wanna play it again” she laughed

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Lupe Fiasco Thrown Off Stage At Obama Inaugural Party

I can’t imagine any one else, Jay-Z folks?, coming close to this political statement and artistic mayhem. It doesn’t matter how good or bad it was, and a half hour Lupe rap sounds like hell on earth to me, just the sheer thrill of open political dissent in the closet area of an Inaugural is thrilling.

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Greta Garbo's Record Collection

“I now own Greta Garbo’s Beatles records, her twist records (she was a big fan of the dance craze and even ventured out to the Peppermint Lounge to see it for herself on the dancefloor), her Linda Ronstadt records, and mind blowingly — her own copy of Gene Clark’s “No Other”.

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Winner And Loser: Beyonce And Justin Timberlake

Winner – Beyonce – Not only is she playing the Superbowl of Superbowl Half Time Shows in a couple of week, she is looking quite remarkable in the GQ pictorial, her upcoming album # 5 features The-Dream, her great foil, all over it, and while the world wasn’t thrilled by her Destiny Child reunion single, they will be on stage. And if it isn’t enough having hubby Jay-Z Carter crazy about her, so ios the President who has placed her front and center at his Inaugural Ball…. again!

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Sneak Peaks: New Album Releases Week Of January 21st 2013

Alyson Camus has been going on about Fidlar for a couple of years now (she did the same with Fucked Up a couple of years ago and look where that gone them) and I streamed the album on Pitchfork and liked it fine. So I guess it’s time for them to become an overnight sensation). Otherwise I am looking forward to Adam Ant and Bad Religion.

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Hear Ye: What rock nyc Is Listening To 1-22-13

Faller – Pieta Brown Iris Dement’s step-daughter and that sure wasn’t why Iris covered this terrific country folk song. I love it when writers make up words and calling yourself a “faller too” suggests a fall from grace and a fall into illicit loves arms, two sentiments Brown brings to life on this magnificent song – Grade: A-

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UK Top 10 Albums, January 26th, 2013

The buzz on Manchester indie band Everything Everything is pretty positive, put em alongside Elbow and other arty indie rock bands who owe a debt, but not too great a debt, to Radiohead and seem to have their nose up in the Public School riff raffer where Coldplay and Mumford And Sons extrapolated into a world of privilege.

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Iman and Hel Do SNL, The Lumineers

But Its been a nice break from Saturday Night Live over the holidays and this isn’t really what i expected as a sweeping ‘welcome back’. They could have rocked us a little harder instead of rocking us to sleep

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Latest Warped Tour Bands Announceme​nt!

My Warped Tour Tip for this post is something the tour’s Facebook page posted earlier today: “Buying earlier this year, you’ll pay less. Buying later, you’ll pay more”. If you haven’t already got a ticket, they’re available for all dates in all cities except Las Vegas

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Singles Going Steady: New Album Reviews Week Of January 14th, 2013

Love Sign – Free Energy – I love the way Free Enrgy sound all the time, a modernnew wave with dance beats to kill, big guitars, sweet solos, the whole lot, bringing it home. But for allt hat, the songs aren’t there, and really, surely new wave hybrid is more than anything about songs. So I will given them “Backscratcher” and “Electric Fever” and pass onto much of the rest – Grade: B-

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Hear Ye: What rock nyc Is Listening To 1-20-13

The Gun In The Closet -Mike Cooley – Drive-By-Truckers other songwriter spins a sad story about a woman who lives her own quiet life with a parachute out of her life for whenever she needs it. A live track and the guitar is quite beautiful – Grade: B+

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Bob Seger On Tour! Rejoice!

Right now focused on the West side but hey no complaints from me. This ‘brilliant song writer’ and talented musician is sure to heft himself over to the East eventually to pacify his worshippers. As I have said before I don’t even dislike Seger…

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US Top 10 Albums: January 26th, 2013

I didn’t like 90% of Tomlin’s Christian Contemporary rock album, but a coupla songs got thru my defenses. In the world Of Christian music, this breaks pop because it sounds pop. Hollywood Undead are repaid for a decade of touring… or was that on American Tragedy?

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US Top 10 Singles: January 26th, 2013

# 2 and # 3 are both true indies and what has become clear in 2013 is that bands can break without major label distribution though it isn’t remotely easy. Indeed, it is the equivalent of winning the lottery. Despite all the hard work behind, there is a huge element of dumb luck.

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