rock nyc

There will be only 150 of these sold so you can forget ever owning one. The 50th anniversary celebration is in full elitist swing with this one

the new Bruno Mars is a deeply disappointing piece of pop product, by the numbers r&b that Mars outgrew around the time he was pleading guilty to cocaine. I can’t believe it is a pop charts move, he has already proven he can handle the charts fine… then what? A lack of imagination? No, folks, he ain’t the new MJ

The Stone Sour album is really great, I prefer it to Slipknot. Taylor deserves where she is and I figure there are 5 more winners here. The Lady Antebellum Christmas album is the pits, and Brandy? Really the worse.

Luv Letter – Tina Marie – I am sure I wasn’t the only one very upset over the death of the great “Coffee, Tea Or Me” gal, but this, the full version of her great last song is a reminded of how just much we’ve lost. Better than anything Brandy released this year… by far – Grade; A

How sorry or even concerned can you feel about Stickles hubris distaste for the rock and roll lifestyle? It’s like that Nick Taylor memoir, you want all this and you want us to feel sorry for you? It makes empathy hard and harder

It kind of almost sounds like an Ed Sheeran song- the reason? It is an Ed Sheeran song. Both he and 1D put together this masterpiece.

Drunk sound guy pulled a knife on me in Kansas when I commented on the awful job he was doing. Oh and last night, our bass player woke up from a drunken nightmare and threw his iPhone out the window while we were on the highway outside of New Orleans

Bon Jovi to play the Etihad Stadium in June next year – with tickets priced from £12.50. The New Jersey legends will be at Manchester City’s home ground on Saturday, June 8, 2013 as part of their Because We Can – The Tou

Both Iman and I were able to catch Morrissey on this tour and were both very pleased with the performance. It was my first time seeing the legend and I am so grateful to have had the opportunity.

Killer Mike At CMJ Showcase, rapped for half an hour on one of the best vibed and most communal hip hop shows I have ever seen on October 18th, there was nothing I didn’t love about this set except, wait, he didn’t perform “RAP Music” and it was over way too soon.

Comment: The two heavy hitters of the year came up with the goods so good for them, and good live shows made me reconsider both albums and songs in October.

8. Red – Taylor Swift – Perhaps I over rate, but anyway, I rate it highly. The best songs are the best of the year and the worst aren’t the worst. Isn’t that enough?

Guap – Big Sean – The best thing about GOOD Music, and one pretty good album under his belt, Big Sean has a lot of good will accrued, some of which he loses on this ode to money. This is plenty generic with a catchy chorus and a very good beat from Key Wane. Wane comes out looking like a star – Grade: B

I have seldom heard such a well formatted album: it is all of a piece and it moves with a resolve to its, not denouement but it moves to an opening, a begriming. It begins as a tragedy but becomes a comedy of life

Jagger has signed a pact with the devil, it’s understood, and this thin athletic silhouette of his is certainly a proof that sex, drugs and rock’ n’ roll is the true fountain of youth. But he just can’t believe it himself, as he said during the show, just after the third song: “You’d think some of us would be sitting by now but we’re not !”

I’d be much more interested in what Aimee Mann, stranded on the East Coast, makes of it all. She probably feels justified in that overwhelming sense of impending disaster she sings about so well. “One thing leads to another and none of it’s good” she recently sang

Whoopi, Rosie, Sarah and Cyndi: maybe more like I guess I will see because it is a Saturday and I wanna see Cyndi and a couple of the other names lots and lots.

have a friend who has problems eating peanut butter and jelly because he doesn’t like salt and sugar hanging out together. I feel the same way about opera singers singing pop music.. Though, of course, Sarah isn’t much of either so it should be OK.

In a series of stills teenaged fans hold up signs of their dreams and its as cliche as teenaged has ever been. “I want to stop teen suicide”, I wish I felt comfortable in my own skin”, common pleas from the kids who are battling their own chemistry.

Disco Boogie Song (Live) – Fuzzbox – This song is so good it is sick, a perfect introduction to the great band with a fuzzy lick stolen off a surf guitar track and a call to dance and the best lyric ever written ever ever ever; “and it goes arrrh… and it goes grrrrrh…” I worship it – Grade: A+

There are pages and pages on the internet how famous bands got their names, and I am not going to go there, but usually bands have a few techniques to find a moniker

Titus and Taylor represent their new albums, if K’Naan has only two good songs at least they are REAL gone, three representatives from CMJ, and Cat Power salvages what she can from Hammerstein Ballroom.

Prince Jackson actually looks very much like Corey Feldman! I know that this could be totally subjective but still! I did some research on the web, it is wildly discussed on message boards of course, even the Black Lips agree with the idea as they posted a tweet about it a few weeks ago! And the Black Lips are cool.

t is apt that Hurricane Sandy is bearing down upon us ready to wash out two, maybe three nights of concerts in nyc -apt because Wednesday is Halloween and it blows away the unlucky prome Smashing Pumpkins from the Pick of the week. for their Halloween gig on Wednesday at Barclay center. With visuals by the guy behind the Wall. And two parts. One the newbie, which isn’t bad, and the other hits which s better.

I’ve been merrily streaming the new Calvin Harris all day and I quite like it, new Neil Young seems like a winner, I loved the Lulu Gainsbourg track earlier this year and always cool to hear from Tracey Thorne.

Sherry Darling – Bruce Springsteen – With Hurricane Sandy bearing down upon us, and we stranded like John Travolta at the drive in, perhaps it’s as good a time as ever to hark the words of the Boss: “Let there be sunlight, let there be rain…” and keep on writing till the break of day – Grade: A

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of Hurricane Sandy, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, this post must show… or if you prefer, I am writing this Monday morning and don’t know whether it will be a natural disaster or a fizzle. My bet is on the former.

The movie I would like to see are of the times I worked there, when the club wasn’t doing so well. It was like living in a hangover from the 1970s. There were some great musical moments, but more often than not CBGB was just a mill for low-talent acts.