rock nyc

The Turns – David Bronson – It’s not that this sounds like Cat Stevens circa “The Foreigner: Suite”, but rather that the music is absorbed into its DNA (and Bronson has a similar voice), it comes from a simlar place though with the addition of years and years of indie folk rock under its belt – Grade: A

According to the author, the first thing Katherine Jackson did when she arrived at the house where Michael died was to call the ex-nanny Grace Rwaramba to ask her: ‘Grace, the children are crying. They are asking about you. They can’t believe that their father died. Grace, you remember Michael used to hide cash at the house? I’m here. Where can it be?’

Just a ordinary average guy… Who has been serving up in your face rock journalism for decades. Happy Birthday Iman Lababedi

“We’ve all gone on to have happy, successful lives, we’ve had our bumps along the way, and of course there’s friction at times, because all of us are strong, independent women with opinions.”

It was not my introduction to Los Lobos, but when I bought the album, I couldn’t get enough of this atmospheric pop music tainted by Tex-Mex, Latin and jazz rhythms and habited by poetic imagery.

I don’t know much about what exactly happened – what do they play? How many songs do they play? – I just stole these pictures from the San Francisco Weekly, and I just know that the three of them had been playing the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival the same day.

Jury is still out on Barclay Center, figure if a show ends at 11p, you still aren’t home till 1230ish. And there is something very uneasy about the place, from the hustler’s paradise courtyard to the no terrorists allowed here metal detectors to the where the hell is everything first day in a new office confusion. It is going to take some getting used to. On the other hand, Barbra Streisand is singing there on Thursday

Muse deserves the # 1 spot, Mumford the # 2 is deserved as well, the xx are still on the charts? Or is that back? Good… And Green Day… actually, a pretty good chart.

I bet if I was a tween girl, I’d love One Direction as well. As a grown up, they are just off by a touch. The difference between One Direction and, say, Justin Bieber is that Bieber is a musician and One Direction aren’t . Their song is still better than the lousy Rihanna track.

I’m Telling You Now – Freddie And The Dreamers – Brit Invasion, cheeky chappie Freddie Garrity wouldn’t quite make it as a sex symbol, but as a sweet softie, well, why not? Catchy novelty number that stands as a reminder of an innocence long since gone – Grade: B+

If this was an album, you could listen to side one forever. You would never have the need to rotate the vinyl to side two

The song is actually not that new, as Arcade Fire already played it during a surprise show in Haiti last year, but the video below is apparently the first recording of it. It is a very quiet and slow tune, with some angst in the vocals but the bombast and the grandiose are definitively gone,

This retrospective chronicles the band from the mid-1960s until today through documentaries, fiction features, concert films, music videos, experimental shorts, and archival footage, tracing the film careers of Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood

I hadn’t heard about the Wallflowers for quite some time, and Jakob Dylan apparently manages to have a good career despite the enormous shadow watching him over his shoulders.

No surprise that White got some love from me, the surprise is English X Factor runner up, Cher Lloyd, is. Note two members of the world of lo.f. DIY are there. Your loss if you don’t dig em

Glad Rag Doll – Diana Krall – When I Look In Your Eyes was released in 1999 and while it hasn’t been all bad since then, certainly her position as Queen Of Jazz seems based on shaky ground. The material, what I know of it, is ace early jazz. The production, by one T. Bone Burnett, is as tasteful draggy as you’d expect. And the entire thing is as diaphanous as you’d expect. Is that a good thing? – Grade: B-

Heaps Of Sheep – Robert Wyatt – The prog rock former Soft Machine leader, solo superstar, who for some bizarre reason we have yet to write about on rock nyc, here we are happy to tip the hat to this straight up masterpiece of dreams and strangeness and by theend, as he “wanders ship shape on the shore”, re are reminded he is a paraplegic and admire the strangeness and beauty of the dreamscape – Grade: A+

I have no idea why anyone would put so much effort into hoping a band would reunite when they don’t want too. Last thing we need are four pouting grown men doing a job. The Smiths magic is GONE let it go

He played it overly dramatic, hand on heart, storming through the song,.. I bet he does this all the time. He also did ‘You have Killed Me’, in a much more muscular and roaring manner.

Take a moment to laugh at Morrissey driving the tractor at 2:53,what the hell is he doing! The other what the hell moment is when he is randomly carrying a dog. Dude put him down

This is exactly what they needed, a femme-fatale sultry voice, a Paul Epworth-produced retro-piece recorded with a 77-piece orchestra at London’s Abbey Road studios, which brings about zero surprise.

‘Nirvana was playing Maxwell’s and after the show I was talking to Kurt and [Sonic Youth’s] Thurston Moore, Kurt said, ‘you should join my band.’ I think he was sick of the guy Jason [Everman] who was in the band at the time, and thought I should play guitar. I didn’t think much about it.

I Will See You In Far Off Places – Morrissey – This is his masterpiece. Working around a Middle Eastern riff that sounds as though it’s calling you to prayers, Morrissey says good bye to a young man and imagines a date somewhere down the road when they will be together again, “if the USA doesn’t bomb you”. Morrissey’s deep affection for the man flows through the song like a river of love. Perhaps his greatest achievement. “I will see you somewhere safe…” Stephen hopes, in an open hearted love song – Grade: A+

trippy video effects, odd lights, and black and white clips of beach and dance parties popping up in the background, “I Want You” is an unyielding onslaught of musical expression. As video effects make the band look like they’re playing in an old movie, a super-imposed, tri-colored Nicole glides back and forth across the screen while playing the shy girl very well. If you just listen to the song by itself, you feel colors and static

Who is Blue Coupe? Now this is where it gets awkward. Albert and Joe Bouchard of Blue Oyster Cult and Dennis Dunaway from the original Alice Cooper Group. These are legendary performers who are asking for financial help just to record an album

Falling in Reverse isn’t a metal band but rather a victim of stereotyping. There are idiots in every genre to ban an entire category of rock and roll based upon the idiotic actions of a chronic offender is absurd.

Babel’ was streamed 8 million times on Spotify during the first week of its release! This is astonishing and demonstrates that streaming services like Spotify do not interfere with an album sales, on the contrary it seems it would have stimulated them?

The film will debut in the UK on October 15 and venture over to us shortly. Keep an eye on your local art house cinema. Of course, there is also a soundtrack available along with a new box set due out soon.

Let’s state the obvious: all that stuff with Conor Kennedy (JFK’s Grandson) was done in such a way as to be publicized. The pictures of Conor and Taylor reading to Rose Kennedy were posed and planned

The amazing Lily Allen, and Radiohead both support the Featured Artists Coalition or FAC, who is working to negotiate the ‘dumping’ of the label by Universal.

“The FAC was formed by musicians who were fed up with the industry taking decisions without considering the impact it would have on those who actually make the music,”

I am so happy when my taste and the zeigteist cross on the pop charts, I loved two of the top three!!! No Doubt? Well, that first single killed and the title track is pretty good. But maybe Gwen should stay solo after the tour.

PSY promised to perform the song in public with his shirt off, probably his fans found out and stopped buying it… Two up there for TS, apparently her refusal to allow the songs on streaming sites is effecting her chart position. We leave in a world where sales is not the only arbitrator by a long shot.

Cry For Judas – The Mountain Goats – John Darnielle is a talented fellow, though maybe needs a little quality control. But not on this folk song with lovely horns and the best opening line: “Somethings you do just to see how bad they make you you feel” – Grade: B+