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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

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

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.

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

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

“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”

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?

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?

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

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.

I never bothered to stay for the show knowing that just the sour taste of the over glorified roadie would force me to write horrible things about a band I actually like. It was a wise move but it also made the band fall out of my rotation.