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411maina.com is showing this photo as ‘Joan’s first’ PETA photograph and although she looks beautiful, I’m thinking theres a whole lot of filter on that 54 year old face

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.

He is also a megalomaniac and egocentric B grade musician whose shelf life is about the same as a loaf of Wonder Bread. I really like him and Falling in Reverse.

Not to be mistaken with the dreaded Ben Folds, Vaughn wrote Marshall Crenshaw’s masterpiece “I’m Sorry (But So Is Brenda Lee)”. He is more like a rockabilly Randy Newman with a wicked sense of humor and a taste for country, and Ramblers.

We may all disagree about many things over the years but I think we will never be able to agree on anything as much as we agree that Coldplay are passive-aggressive egocentric bedwetters, who suck live at almost inhuman proportions

I started out 100% certain I was going to hate this. Seriously even the thought of remaking this tune is horrible. The band altered the tempo and threw in some awkward pitch changes and it came out as..

Ne-Yo and Kylie have been getting props all over the press and new Dionne is always a pleasure but hot the heels of the awesome Most Of My Heroes Still Don’t Appear On No Stamp , on Election Day, Public Enemy is the team to beat. I wonder if Obama Baby is gonna make a liar outta Chuck D and get four more years. My prediction? Yes he can

Disco Boogie Song (Live) – We’ve Got A Fuzzbox And We’re Gonna Use It – If I had a band all we would do is cover this song for 20 minutes and then leave the exhilarated audience screaming their approval! With a zipped out two note synth leading the way, and Magz improvising a call to dance – Grade: A+

As he performs his new EP “What Will Be” in acoustic and hipster black and white you get a real feel for the reserved and almost sullen Beckett.

The Aimee Mann album improves with every listen and “Gamma Ray” is the best song, both Taylor and Titus are the best song of three. and the dB’s only had two killer tracks… but they did have two killer tracks.

There are only two types of people in this world, pop fans and everybody else. I am a pop fan, and as such can’t wait to see the South Korean K-Pop phenom BIGBANG at the Prudential Center on Thursday. An all boy band of bubble gum pop without the usual layer of complete weirdness, BIGBANG are the pop band as writ with bucketloads of electronics throw in for the helluva it.

The question isn’t whether Calvin Harris can conquer the UK, obviously the great DJ can, but whether Calvin Harris can conquer the US, and I don’t know what the answer to that might be… but I fancy his chances.

Robbie Williams threatened not to tour the UK if “Candy” didn’t hit the top of the charts. So it did of course, and, having seen Robbie at Hammerstein once (actually, once at Jingle Ball as well) I am hear to tell you EVERYBODY WINS! This modified, orchestrated reggae rhythm is a pure pop stroke of immense and beautiful extremes. Cmon, Robbie. We need you Stateside.

Kilmer, who is also part of the cast, erupted on stage during the Black Lips’ already chaotic set, he was seen ‘wielding a prop chainsaw to destroy a guitar amplifier and then using a bowie knife to cut off clumps of his own hair’! You can watch him below trying to smash a guitar.

Old Shep – Elvis Presley – “When I was a boy, Old Shep was a pup…” . One of the great death songs and when Presley can’t shoot the dying doggy I bet you can’t hold back a tear. If Presley sold this song any harder, you’d believe his name was Jim! – Grade: A

changing the way the lyrics were sung in the original and making them sound so much more interesting. Clearly Issues has shown that even the shittiest of songs can be improved.

Marvin Gaye will be forever remembered as one of R&B’s greatest voices. He died tragically at age 44 when his dad took him out with a gun. A sad end to the man who was called the Prince of Soul and The Prince of Motown.

From Gainsbourg To Lulu – Lulu Gainsbourg – So many guest stars, I’m expecting Serge’s on to change his name to Lil Wayne any second now, and the 26 year old looks a though he’s 47. The stench of stale Gauloise is all over the album, but it is really quite good. Especially on the songs where he is channelling his Papa, who, indcidentally, wrote all the songs to start with – Grade: B

1. Africa – The Meters – Thinner and funkier on record, louder and more anthemic in person, either way it sounds like a funk band bringing it home – Grade: A-

We have friends and family members that have died, had damage to their houses or lost power as a result of the storm. Needless to say, we have been severely effected

In a very satisfying synchronization, Anthony sings Anthony, Billy’s punk move by a punk band and two Queens boys salute each other through the decades. Grade: A

As we continue our Soul Train line dance through the 1970s, we’ll note that 1974 was the first year that music was produced as much for the dance floor as it was the transistor radio

I recently came in direct contact with a tune I’ve been humming to myself for a long time, and only now do I know the title and band. It’s “Ho Hey” by The Lumineers. Insanely simple, yet it packs a punch.

Cheap Beer’ is like a rush of adrenaline you get out of your chest in two minutes, while running for your life… With its reminiscence of The Cramps’ guitars and an infectious-stormy rhythm, the song is a multi-facet of influences, both pop-tune and wild-thrilling punk ride

Wild bitch nature, maybe. If you were in the Northeast and got smacked in the face by Hurricane Sandy, you were taught a quick lesson in just how puny we all our against the forces of nature. With a week of warning, we played defense all the way and all we could really do is run and hide till the little sucker blew over

Sous Les Soleil Exactement – Lulu Gainsbourg and Shane Macgowan – You think you’ve lived a long life, done a lotta things, some good, some less so, but you’ve seen it in full. But you ain’t lived till you’ve heard the Pogues leader slurring in French – Grade: B+

It’s not even that just the lyrics are poetic- the way that the instruments blend and mesh is poetry. The emotional depth is genius and shows that the band has grown exponentially

Siblings in a band? Yup, that’s what this indie pop band has Audrey and Cameron Scott along with Miguel Morales create a trio of unique sounds with an interesting angst.

This sort of musical project is one the likes of which I haven’t ever seen and it’s unique sound makes The Cinema all the more impressive to me. Thus, I shall eagerly await news from The Cinema