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.
Why was such a fine set not a great one? Because it was a professional hit job, it was too occluded, like all charmers, and all relentlessly witty people (I know this because I am one). it is used to hide and not reveal. A fine set, good set, sparkling and wonderfully played.
I wasn’t there, but earlier this year, the police shut down two of her shows in Venice Beach, because the parties got a little out of hand, with too many underage punk kids having too much beer, and doing too much skate boarding in the middle of the street! There were some arrests made by the LAPD, and by now, FIDLAR have received their rowdy-punk-riot-trigger title.
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.
his March, Taylor Swift is back on the road with three local shows at Newark, New Jersey (aka the Prudential), on March 27 & 28 & 29 in Newark, New Jersey which probably means MSG and or Barclays is still be be announced, or it means that Taylor will get to nyc on the second lap round. In 2010 she played MSG and got to Prudential the next time round, and in 2011 she slept us till the last night of the Speak Now tour.
There is thunderstorms over Europe,…There are hailstorms, and I mean major hailstorms, in the Middle East. There are storms brewing through China, through Asia, through everywhere, and there’s only one man that… The other night when President Barack Obama, God bless him, said to Mitt Romney, ‘The Cold War is over.’ I have never heard such a thing in my life…. There is one man who will stand tall in this country and fight the storm and bring the United States back to what it should be — Gov. Mitt Romney!’
The big revelation was made by Lynne Spears on Friday when she told the Los Angeles jury that Lufti had told her he had crushed up drugs in the singer’s food to help her sleep and disabled her phone lines when she was in the middle of the meltdown that made her shave her head and lose custody of her kids.
Travie McCoy has the NY Giants, Kelly Clarkson has The Dallas Cowboys, Kid Rock has The Detroit Lions… you get the drift. All the songs are available for free download.
It is difficult to watch the fall from grace and since the death of his ex wife Whitney Houston, Brown has been under a microscope like never before.
Two Door Cinema Club gets a nod from me this week. I’m not a fan but I can tell you their European representation is top notch. What lovely people, on the flip side their US firm is the exact opposite
Unlike when I was stopping strangers on the street and begging them to listen to “Tears On My Guitar”, I am winning no awards for prescience in celebrating Red. Number 1 in 31 countries with three of the first four songs going Top 10 in the UK and the fourth going top 20.
Labrinth is a Cowell find and this song, a modern ballad UK style, big, prefabricated, powerful, will break HUGE if it gets the right push. But really, this is a smart smart list, Especially Calvin Harris who just got a “C+” album review in EW! GASP!!!!
Paradise By The Dashboard Light – Meat Loaf – When Eddie said he didn’t like his teddy… if Smashing Pumpkins is rained out, I am going to Bowery Electric to catch X play three songs off his upcoming album Thursday, then rushing uptown to see Mr. Loaf – Grade: A
With every opportunity for Valli to reaffirm the bands preeminence in the world of popular music, he performed a poorly constructed set of misses, hits, plus some prime 60s hits to cash in on his resurrected fame. I realize that’s too harsh, but I’m disappointed
Satan was working overtime in ’73, loading the pop charts with demonic material by Tony Orlando and Down, the Carpenters, and Marie Osmond. However, during Beelzebub’s lunch breaks, the New York Dolls and Bruce Springsteen and Iggy Pop pushed some timeless goodies into the marketplace.
There were these big colorful, naïve, and plain weird things hanging on the white walls, either very simply representing a yellow surf board, or an orange Chelsea Hotel, or being extremely busy and intriguing, built like graffiti where there are a lot of things to read.
There has come a trend of endorsements from the entertainment industry, and I am terrified that this is what Joe Public is basing their choices on
TMZ caught Mark Foster arguing with a security guard for a few minutes, trying to explain himself with a few sentences such as, ‘I wasn’t taking pictures’, and ‘I’m a musician, I understand’, and ‘I am from Foster the People’, whereas the guard told him first to ‘go home’ and finally let him in again
Singer Anthony Green cracked a rib and this statement below is refreshingly honest and candid. “cracked a rib somehow’, is one of the best lines of any band statement ever.
Now all religions are crazy, but some are crazier than others, and Brandon Flowers looks so embarrassed, surprised and totally pissed off when Dawkins tells him his religion is a fake, and he even denies that Smith was convicted.
I said, ‘No, I can’t be bothered. Those days are over.’ But we sat down, I started humming a melody and he took it away and sent it back and said, ‘Listen, this is pretty good,’
Lost In A Lover’s Dream – Georgie Fame – Half standards, half new stuff, the great English singer and piano player is in full jazz momentum with just bass and guitar to accompany him, this is actually a singers album and Fame has always been a fine one. The songs are calmly love sophisticates, “Wide Eyed And Legless” so more than “Blossom” – Grade: A-
Let’s Hang On – The Four Seasons – He skipped this masterpiece on Friday night, it’s a simple lyric but when it is sung write it sounds like poetry: “there isn’t anything I wouldn’t do, I’d pay any price to get in good with you, the repeat on “any” is a blast, it plays on the roof of your mouth – Grade: A+
the song kicks ass, the girls are beautiful and the atmosphere that of ghetto excess. This is perfect portrayal of the decadence of the nouveau riche’. Spot on actually.
Performing in bare feet and alternating between a sly “did you see what I did there?” grin and a huge Jimmy Carter smile, Snider kept the crowd in the palm of his hand
Sometimes I think I live in a sort of third world country! Last night, the winds were strong, but it wasn’t even close to a hurricane! What happened? The city wasn’t able to restore electricity after an hour and the whole neighborhood was in the dark for I-don’t-know-how-long
She had everyone up and dancing throughout the 2 hours. It was an amazing night with an amazing performer!
rock nyc has thrown five questions into cyberspace and some of the coolest bands around got back and we will be posting their answers! Thereby, giving you the opportunity to get to know the brains behind todays vibrant music scene.
With the release of his major label debut, Blak And Blu, last week 28 year old guitar slinger makes it abundantly clear that he is sharp enough to not want to be Hendrix, a) because he can’t but also b) it isn’t enough to be the best in 2012, you have to be a wild, eclectic whirlwind thing. And Clark is just that, a good looking 28 year old heir to the Prez future passed black man who can really play, all deadly blues riffs and calm insouciance
The song ‘Here We Go’ is embracing the soft side of Girls’ albums, as it is a sort of folk approach with Chris’ heartbroken and fragile voice harmonizing with a… girl. If it gives any idea of what we should expect for the future album.
As it was reported by the Guardian this year, she stepped down as manager of the company, and she ‘is not entitled to income from any new deals relating to Cobain’s image’. So how this could be possible?
The band will have to go by no name and no billing or ever fanatic Stonehead will be camped out at the neighborhood bar for a week.
If you have ever been to Boston you already know that there are more alleys and caverns than in the Harry Potter film.
Wide Eyed And Legless – Georgie Fame – When we last ran into Fame he was playing keyboards in Van Morrison’s band. Not that Fame is a rock journeyman, rather he is a pop eccentric with a taste for jazz, who played with Alan Price and his own Blue Flames back in the day and never bothered to top. Off his terrific new album, a terrific version of the Andy Fairweather-Low ode to alcoholism – Grade: A
The crowd – who only paid 15 Euros for their tickets- went wild as the Stones came back on stage for an encore of ‘Jumping Jack Flash’ and ‘Brown Sugar’…a hot and sweaty night, the Stones back where they belong
“Everything is turned to love with her. New love, absent love, lost love – I never knew a heroine that makes such noodles of our sex”
Everyone’s different, like Zayn [Malik’s] got microphones and music stuff and, like, Harry has more personal things, like he has little things for his mom and all that kind of stuff.
But his isn’t the first time Neil Young slams Bono, as in his new autobiography ‘Waging Heavy Peace: A Hippie Dream’, Young had this to say about Bono’s tribute speech for Frank Sinatra at the Grammys.
All of which leads me to this fabulous Skilz And Kuts, 50 years of Bond mega mix which answers the musical question, which is the best Bond theme song, and the survey says: ALL OF THEM!!. PS, a terrific pix right?
Manilow is returning to the place where it all began, his hometown, New York City, with a new concert series on Broadway – marking his return to The Great White Way
Let’s see, Anti has Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, The Black Keys, and Tom Waits, Burger Records has the Black Lips, The Oh Sees, Ty Segall, Dangerbird has Fitz and the Tantrums, Minus the Bear, Silversun Pickups… who’s gonna show up?
. I prefer it to a whole helluva lot of Wrecking Ball. “Forward and away we go” is a great little hook for the Prez’s re-election campaign and for the icing on the cake, Springsteen does a not lousy Obama impression. PLUS!!!! A great rhyme for the Prez’s name? “Let’s vote for the man who got Oussama”!!!
Swift has the lock on the female country artist title and Linkin Park is in the running for alternative artist but honestly what are they the alternate to? Good Music?
Sharon Van Etten is releasing a deluxe edition of her ‘Tramp’ album on November 13, and not only the new edition will feature demos for each track from the album, a self-portrait, liner notes including Sharon’s journal entries, but also the demo for the song ‘Tell Me
Now this is a much better top ten: except for Clare and Ke$ha, I’ll go along for a ride with the lot of them, even Pink which, while admittedly, I’m not that cray for. The top four are awesome.
I don’t know when I’ve been less thrilled by a top ten in the history of rock nyc. Aldean, Brandy, Miguel and Adele, all various degrees of sucks and if Mumford is the best you’ve got count me out. Metacolypse: Dethklok are hysterical.
Die Young – Ke$ha – Two years ago I really liked the girl, but there is something too intellectually scattered about the song: it seems to be dance but not purebred, as if it is trying to get somewhere else. Perhaps the way Pink used indie but in reverse. I keep on expecting it to tighten up the beaten while flying a little closer to the moon. Plus songs about dying are always a drag -Grade: B
I am happy Cat has her life back in shape, I am happy she has a cracker band playing quasi ambient blues and indie workouts and a good one, and Alyson met Cat at a CD signing and wrote her how nice Cat is. So I am happy about that. But even if she was Matahma Ghandi, this would be have been a drear, dark and boring set.
Idol’s manager said: ‘When we first became aware of Michael’s project we were inclined to see it as just another extreme idea from a well-meaning fan. But as Michael’s campaign continued, his persistence and resourcefulness won Billy over.’
The video is silly but for the first time there is only implied rape instead of strippers, so well done! The song is great there is no denying that Cradle of Filth still owns their brand.
