rock nyc

The audience is a vision of a shared esthetics shouting down its irrelevance, its loserness, in the shared moment. If everyone is a loser, no one is a loser. That’s the point. But Sunday night it is a point that Stickles seems not to be sharing.

Qello, the digital streaming service, along with Eagle Rock Entertainment are hosting a Facebook Digital Premiere of The Doors 1968 live concert at the Hollywood Bowl.

A lot of these albums are very very good, and the best may have some lasting power, but it doesn’t seem to peak nearly high enough and that is not to put Spider Bags down or to pull Rihanna up, it is just to state the obvious.

Killer Mike is proof that a great concert will change the way you feel about recordings and Justin Townes Earle is proof that a poor concert won’t always ruin a great recording. This hasn’t been an album year, we have lived in one track after another till it accumulated to a pretty good year.

Only Wanna Dance With You – Ke$ha – This is the one where the Strokes join her and it is a killer track. Nothing much on its mind, but it bounces in perfect elctro pop vein and when julian joins her he doesn’t do much but add background candy but candy it is. Grade: A

According to a few posts on Facebook and Twitter, they played new songs, ‘which were generally described as fun, dance-y and groovy’, but so far no photo and no recording have surfaced as a strict no-phone-no-camera policy was reinforced at the entrance. Hey, according to someone ‘there was even a guy who had his phone thrown on the wall for trying to take a picture!!!’

No I wasn’t all that thrilled over Ke$ha either, didn’t think much of “Die Young” the first single, but then I streamed in on ITunes and I must tell you that for sure: the Doctor Is In. This is a terrific mix of electro pop and rock and roll and should be a wildfire hit.

You Just May Be The One – The Monkees – If nothing else. the reunion concert on Saturdy reinforced what a terrific songwriter Nesmith is and this, off the “we played all our own instruments and wrote all our own songs” Headquarters, received an enormous outpouring affection and the reson is simple: t isn’t just a love song but a cll to Universal love and need – Grade: A

It’s a bombastic and aggressive charge on your eardrums with an infectious rhythm and some visceral tunneling screaming, that certainly reminds the best of Nirvana, empowered by a paranoiac high G-force and some astringent guitar-drums combination

I can’t tell if K-Pop is ever gonna blow up Stateside, but Juniel will be a treat for teen girls if it does. As for Kendrick, perhaps since I’ve grown to, well, admire this track, perhaps the floodgates are open!

How bad are Girls Aloud? Listen to their cover of Chrissie’s “I’ll Stand By You”. Go on, I dare you. I loathed The War Of The Worlds prog rock atrocity in 1978 and assume the Next Generation is just as bad.

2013 will be the year Olly breaks Stateside, new album will drop in April and if he manages it right, it should break him. But I thought that in 2011 and I was wrong then. Igh, that Alicia Keys song. Ugh. Ugh , Ugh.

Scream & Shout – Will I AM, Britney Spears – Return to form for the BEP leader after years in the wilderness, and always a pleasure to hear from Brit, except that if you wanna pout your hand in the flame you’ll get burnt and Britney will be seen as the savior of this song. Because she is – Grade: B+

artists write songs lacking meaning simply because they’ll bring greater success. Although the song is based on a serious subject matter, this does not take away from the fact that this is a great song to move around to. The blend of instruments are immaculate and as the song comes to an end, it still goes out with a bang!

Of all the tortured-punk-teen bands to have lost their original edgy sound, I’m glad a band as great as My Chemical Romance has started to find their way back.Number One was released on October 30th of 2012 but here are the digital release dates for the rest of MCR’s Conventional Weapons.

The Kraft Group just happened to own the property where the drinking took place. They did not supply it, nor is it a ‘over 21’ parking lot. Their only liability here is not catching it in the act and with the expanse of this venue there is no surprise in that.

One of the toughest rock albums of the year and next thing you know, the perennial bridesmaids of punk rock wake up to find themselves… THE MAIDS OF HONOR!!! Tuesday at Webster Hall is the Canadian rock band Japandroids’ coming out party and in a week that finds both the Who and the Stones playing around time, it’s a blast to remind the archivists among us that rock and roll is alive and well in 2012.

Despite snorting ants, eating bats and being the prince of darkness, he’s just a regular guy. His band Black Sabbath has been around for what seems like forever and is in the studio now with their eye on April for release

I couldn’t dislike Alicia more, she is a stubbornly, arrogantly boring woman and whenever she heads for her piano I head for the nearest exit. Also, 95% of her songs are really awful and while “Empire State Of Mind” wasn’t much, she managed to make it worse. This is the same dreary AOR for people who should know better but a little more. “Tears Always Win” and the Maxwell duet are both OK. Yes, I said it, I admit it – Grade: C+

Girlfriend – Ty Segall – Garage rock with the the most minimalist piano break bang in the middle and a deep in the world of indie sense from the heart of Cali by a man who won’t stop recording – Grade: B+

The talented woman posted an update on the Screaming Females Blogspot this week, and rather than writing a blurb, she used a comic strip to explain what she went through during this past month: a muscular chronic pain in her arms, chest and neck that wasn’t going away,

The auto-tuned Maroon 5’s song is greatly forgettable as everything they do and the Carly Rae Jepsen’s tube of the year is as annoying as the number of times she repeats ‘call me may be’… and so we are left with number 8, M83’s ‘Midnight City’, which may be the most interesting one on the list by far

Recent release of old concert footage sold out theaters and cause as much buzz as an actual tour(sorta). They’re blowing up the charts as well. Their new live album, Celebration Day, from the 2007 02 London reunion, sold a projected 98,000

More than two years after first trashing the album, I am more than happy to remind you what a morose, spiteful, miserable emotional train wreck 21 is. It seems to stand up for every bad thought you have ever had about women being emotional dysfunctional nutcases. All she does is whine and sob and rage against terrible terrible lyrics. It is horrid.

Two Little Hitlers – Elvis Costello And The Attractions – This is prime Elvis, a heart damaged manifesto of emotional fascism building to a denunciation that questions both his and the woman’s shared humanity. And no, I don’t mean “I wouldn’t cry for lost souls you might drown”but “I thought i’d let you down but you were just deflating” -the sort of pun not only he but me and no one else can write today – Grade: A+

Blondie, the B-52s, and the Talking Heads were cross pollinating dance beats/rhythms into a traditional rock context. Pink Floyd built the wall, Cheap Trick brought Budokan to the States, and AC/DC paved the highway to hell. 1979 – the year is gone but it’s not forgotten.