rock nyc

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

It seems that not long ago it was summer, and now we are approaching the end of the year! It’s crazy to think we are already thinking about 2013

I know about the success of this Twilight series, but I have never seen any of the movies, and it’s certainly not this new Green Day’s sentimental ballad that is gonna give me any desire to go see it!

As though there wasn’t an idea, a sound, an explosion they wouldn’t through at you in their attempt to seduce and beat you into submission. Songs come in acts, birds tweets, tracks flit and start, in waves of power that wash over you like the oceanic metaphors floating across the sea of sound

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+