rock nyc

rock nyc

Listen Up: 11-10-12

Got Me Good – Ciara – this is a busy little track from the former Rihanna wanna be who found herself washed up after a disastrous opening slot for Jay-Z. This has beats to spear but the vocal is another nondescript effort – Grade: B

rock nyc

The Essential Songs: 1975

it was in 1975 that Mr. Springsteen ran onto the cover of both Time and Newsweek. He faded into obscurity the following year and is believed to be manning a hot dog stand in Atlantic City at this time. Patti Smith reaped critical hosannas with her unhinged, beatnik, word slinging persona and an English blues band named Fleetwood Mac morphed into a pop sensation

rock nyc

Once In A Lifetime Tour In UK: BRING IT STATESIDE FOR 2013

f you are in the UK right this minute, this is what you do, you check out this nostalgia line up, a who’s who of 70s pop charts. The best? Hot Chocolate. Given another shot at the big time, Errol Brown and go, who were to soul what Thin Lizzy were to metal, would make it all the way to the States and not be stuck on “You Sexy Thing”. I have never seen em live, but I would sure love to.

rock nyc

Aerosmith's "Music From Another Dimension" Reviewed

The album breaks down into three parts, rockers, blues rockers, ballads. The rockers aren’t great but they aren’t bad, and the ballads are just plain brutal. Steve Tyler has always sucked at ballads but we are saps for guys with long wigs too much feeling so he can’t help but roll em out. On Dimension it truly sinks the damn thing..

rock nyc

US Top 10 Singles 11-17-12

No movement on this chart, everything is exactly where it was but you are there. And it is not a terrible chart but fun. Are getting to be less and less fun and Taylor actually said, and I quote, love is not the most important thing in the world!

rock nyc

US Top 10 Albums, 11-17-12

Another 2.5M and 21 will be toppled by a 22 year old! Meanwhile, I haven’t hear the Meek Mill (it’s not on Spotify) though my nephew Jeff swears by it. As for Rod? The album is a train wreck but hey, it outsold Neil Young so you gotta think there are some people out there who like their aged raspy not fuzzy

rock nyc

Listen Up: 11-09-12

Toot N Toot N Toot – Curtis Mayfield – if ever a man’s career felt like one long highlight this is that man. But even so, those early 80s disco funk albums were phenoms. The reason people can’t write dance like this any more is because people can’t arrange songs like this any more. Because they aren’t using full orchestras live in a studio – Grade: A

rock nyc

"Flight" Reviewed (More or less)

Half an hour of awesomeness, especially the beginning where Denzel is nailing a girl young enough to be his daughter all night before lines of coke and Joe Cocker’s”Feeling Alright” gets him to the airport on time

rock nyc

Even When Rihanna Tweets The Tracklist Of Her Upcoming Album, There Is Controversy!

She is telling us, he doesn’t need to apologize to get in my pant again, and it’s not your business,… this is what I get from all this. And it’s not my imagination because the two have been seeing each other, and are probably dating again since the release of these two songs, ‘Birthday Cake’ and ‘Turn Up the Music’ earlier this year.

rock nyc

Tim Curry's "Paradise Garage" Reviewed

“Paradise Garage” was the great gay disco hangout that heralded House in all its beauty and my bet is this started a tribute even though the video is aggressively heterosexual. It used to play before the movie at the Waverly on 8th street every saturday and became part of the scene.

rock nyc

Listen Up: 11-08-12

Luv XXX – Aerosmith – I hear the rest of the album sucks and that might well be but this opening salvo is a crunchy little rocker that shakes the cobwebs off and from its “Hello, hello, hello…” first lines wonks its way thru in powerful fashion. Really, not terrible – Grade: B

rock nyc

Cat Power Is Definitively Postponing Her European Tour

The American tour has been wonderful and amazing, and with me being unable to AFFORD to bring my show with full production, (which i helped create) to Europe, financially, really dumped a huge additional amount of stress on me as i was and still am fighting trying to get tour support.

rock nyc

Christmas Time Means Crappy Christmas Albums Time… The 2012 Round Up

On This Winter’s Night – Lady Antebellum – A vision of hell, the breathing embodiment of Scrooge’s old admonishment ” “Every idiot who goes about with ‘Merry Christmas’ on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.”. With worlds of competition, this includes the single worst versions of “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” and “All I Want For Christmas” and “I’ll Be Home For Christmas”. A dreary, dire, humorless slog through worn out chestnuts that are like old horses dragging overweight Christmas tourists from the Mid-West around Central Park.

rock nyc

Watch Deer Park Avenue's Debut Video For 'Hey Maria'

After watching it a couple of times, I can tell that the video is as fun as the song is upbeat! Over a catchy chorus and driving guitars, we follow a high-school mini-story involving the two sisters Sarah (on guitar and vocals), Stephanie Snyder (on drums and backing vocals), and a love story viewed by 3 persons,

rock nyc

Manic Street Preachers, "Motown Junk" Reviewed

You simply COULD NOT listen to anything outside your scene. In an odd sort of gang mantality you all stayed the same in your quest to be unique. I missed out on alot of great music and still even tons of years later I am unable to allow myself to like alot of it.

rock nyc

Listen Up: 11-07-12

You Made me Change My Number (remix) – A.M.X. – Featuring Snoop Doog who for once doesn’t crowd the star out of his own song. A.N.X. thinks he is the next Marvin gaye but here he is just a Prince of electronica. Still, a good prince of Electronica – Grade: B+

rock nyc

"Argo" Reviewed (More Or Less)

Since we all know how it works out, kudos for a Tehran so tense and scary it is like another planet and a creeping, intense, nail biting thrill even after the flight with the six Americans going home, has left the ground.

rock nyc

Rihanna's Very Expensive New Album

The platinum edition contains a number of exclusive items that won’t be available to buy separately. It includes a copy of the album, along with a 2GB credit card-style USB, a unisex T-shirt with a Michael Muller photo printed on, and seven art print 12×15 lithographs

Scroll to Top