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Emmylou Harris may bore, but Rodney Crowell and Richard Thompson never have and everybody should be at the very top of their game.

The video shows off just how dorky they are; of course it’s all based around a video game. The boys pop a cartridge into their Nintendo, and the action begins. The special effects are quite impressive as well

Except for Timberlake, every song here will show up on my best of 2013. But for me ASAP Rocky, a guy I’ve found way overrated, proves it on this track and has sent me straight back to the new album. Pissed Jeans are gonna kill it later this year.

I assume Taylor Swift can fill Metlife a couple of times, that’s not the question. The question is can she play it? If she can she will be the female Springsteen in waiting.

I Need Lunch – The Dead Boys – They coined a word for nasty dead boys like Stiv: MISOGYNISTS, and this holla to the zipless fuck has improved with time before now it is not only nasty, it is also wrong – Grade: B+

Her voice? How do I even begin. Greatest female singer I’ve heard…ever. It flows so gorgeously, her range is flawless. Orla’s accent and pronunciation gives the cover a sense of originality

The tune is freakin awesome! I love Marrs vocals and the upbeat dance backing. It sounds so retro but without the same old 60s pop echo-dig?

The buzz on My Morning Jacket’s lead singer Jim James is getting pretty deafening, mostly because the first single, an electronic r&b beauty, better than anything he’s done since “Evil Urges” has all of us were huge fans now less so, excited again

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…

‘We took a more playful, LO-FI approach to songwriting. Much of the music was demoed in our little basement studio in Manhattan with drum machines, a shitty sample keyboard and tons of delay — which we called the soup.”

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?

# 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.

Sweet Tooth – Teena Marie – From the best album of 2013 (so far), an old fashioned metaphor with a sexy Lil Kim sounding rap, a great back beat and organic orchestration… and a little French for taste. Touche Ole – Grade: A

This latest announcement shows, I think, the great thing about Warped Tour: little known groups like For The Foxes play alongside well established bands like Goldfinger. It’s this aspect of the whole “discovering new music at Warped”

We missed the February 2009 New Line On The Horizon (rock nyc started in April 2009) and I feel terrible about all the sneering, snotty posts I didn’t write. Cmon guys, release the album now this minute!!!

The Greatest Albums of all time don’t change all that much in my book, one gets in, one goes out, but Presley and the Beatles tend to battle for second place and Hendrix always wins first place. In the end, there is no rock music as we know it without Hendrix and if that didn’t make the album important enough, it was a pop music move at the time and remains a slice of history and a stab of pop.

The problem is , just as in watching The Munsters or other ‘old’ campy stuff- its dated. What was cool in 1988 isn’t so cool now

Slide – Jake Bugg – What Jake can do it, which isn’t at first visible, is nail a metaphor. Here he compares a bad romance with sliding on a frozen sea. Not a bad concept. On stage, this was the highlight of his show. A powerful encore with the sort of vocal, rich and full of feeling, he didn’t seem to bother with the rest of the night – Grade: B+

It is in this sheer explosion of song and dance that make me love the video, song, and artist even more. There is very little that is poetic about the song, obviously, but it needn’t be – considering the song itself is fantastic enough that I blast it any and every time I party.

The Traveling Wilburys were the rare supergroup that deserved that designation and Public Enemy pushed rap music into a more stringent and confrontational direction. And if you haven’t heard Gary Stewart’s “An Empty Glass,” you’re missing out on one of country music’s most eloquently heart wrenching drinking songs

The song is really a skewed and odd mystical journey. In this live version below its a bit more trippy than the studio version. “It makes me wonder”.. ‘if theres a bustle in your hedgerow- don’t be alarmed now”, what the fuck is he on about? Intruders?

OK, Karen O is cool enough and I wanna see em live which I never have because last time they played I had a tix to see Costello filming that talk show of his and blew off KO for EC. A mistake sincethe filming went on for bloody years and Costello was about as boring a bastard as you’d ever wish to listen to and nearly as lousy an interviewer as I was with poor ol’ People Get Ready.

From Phoenix Arizona these guys are offering a big sound with some dynamic layers. Vocalist Zac Erfort has the swoon factor that will send the teenage girls woozy and thankfully the strength of guitarist Justin Grubb offer something for the boys in the crowd to relate to

Mazur gives some history, Felline, 8 ½ Weeks, you know the drill, than shows some car accidents, shows a Papparazzi’s case for the defense, builds up on the terror the celebrities go through in the big cities, Miami, Hollywood, New York, blames the tabs who buys em, gets into the history of gossip and bails out 90 minutes later, none the wiser

Close Chorus – A Sunny Day In Glasgow – The revolving harmonies on the top of this songs are so lovely, the melody starts large and keeps growing till the song is getting engulfed and the two voices go into counterpoint, as they sing solo then join together there is a disquiet very feminine sense of anthem – Grade: A-

The daughter of Will Smith who ‘whipped her hair back and forth’ is now hipster cool with lyrics like ‘I try to be sugar and spice, but I’m melancholy and can’t do anything right.” Oh, Jesus is this rich girl pre-teenaged self loathing

There was no whistles to announce the video, it unexpectedly appeared one morning as if it was a natural thing, and Bowie said he didn’t want to give any interviews, didn’t want to tour…

I grew to love Cohen over the past four years and am ready to try it again and admit my sins. At the scene of the crime, Radio City Music Hall, on April 6th.