rock nyc

From the insanity of the opening ticks to the swirly fun house ride through sound there was no containing my love of this album. Loving Devo was a death sentence.

He wrote a very odd letter to rocker Marilyn Manson- I have no idea what he is talking about but I don’t think he knows either. The photo is of the exact document and below is the transcript for you to trudge through. The dude is a head case. I dig it and if anyone can outcreep Manson….its the original Manson.

I can’t say much about the band, I have never seen them live and have never been interested enough to listen to a whole album. I just know he made an album in a cabin in the woods, probably because he likes that Northern Exposure TV show so much, and because it looked so cool at the time,… and so indie, although I am sure you can buy Bon Iver albums at Walmart.

If you have tix to the Monday October 22nd show at the Beacon, well, you will definitely gonna hear “Judy” as they will playing their entire first album. Tempting but I went for Saturday’s show because, well because it’s a Saturday.

Green Day are pretty good when it comes to opening bands, I saw Kaiser Chiefs open for em one time, Velvet Revolver another. But Best Coast I’m really thrilled about.

Walk Like A Giant – Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Neil’s best new song in decades, maybe since stuff off El Dorado, is an expansive 16 minute hot diggety proto- Sergio Leone theme replete with whistles and deep guitar struts. By the end it is just a marshal shrapnel plummeting, and in between Young worries about getting old. The reason I am so happy I’ve failed to like anything Young has produced till this year, is so when I say this is a return to form, you can believe- Grade: A

What Pete got to see was two renditions of “Happy Birthday” and Bruce’s 87 year old mom Adele, along with his sister and wife, present him with a cake. Pretty amazing right. This was the first time Bruce has played on his birthday since cells were invented!

They’re there for girls to swoon over them, and boy do they do that well. Their smiles are genuine, and they even do the Inbetweeners dance, which I thought was the cutest thing ever. The best part is when they’re on the lake in those gigantic inflatable hampster balls- that looks so fun.

It is certainly impossible to predict the future, but among the hot artists of the moment, will we see any of them – from Rihanna, to Pitbull, Train, Flo Rida, Nicki Minaj – on a high school kid’s t-shirt 30-40 years from now, the same way we see the Beatles, The Stones, Pink Floyd and Jimi Hendrix? Personally, I don’t thinks so, but what do I know? My point is that nobody knows.

I worry that it will tarnis the amazing memories of “Bizarre Love Triangle” or the stellar brilliance fo “Blue Monday’. Best of all “Age of Consent” with some of the best drum sounds of all time. Decades and decades later theyre going to the studio.

Raise your hand if you're sick of cant Lo Greene.  The guy is everywhere and painful on the eyes.  He breaks one solo hit and hes like shrapnel, you can't

Everybody is gagging for the new No Doubt, doubtlessly, but after “Lamborghini Angels” , there’s a new chance this is the Lupe album we’ve been waiting for/ As for Green day, nice timing Billie Joe.

Rehab – Amy Winehouse – The classic update lyric with down home sound and that voice. When it was first released it was a great joke, today it aches with poignancy and warning – Grade: A

I realize of course with 11 years on a shelf comes some aging process but how about more ska less club? This isn’t ‘duh club’ clubbing music, on the contrary this is haggard Madonna wanting to pulse it for the queens.

According to some websites, she must have gained about 30 pounds, which is not negligible for her short size, 5′ 1″, but she is still doing exactly what she was doing before the transformation, walking around in bra and underwear, not afraid to show off her extra pounds, all packed into her tight and revealing stage outfits

This is as good as Taylor Swift’s “We Are Never Ever Getting back Together Again” -a song it resembles in its breathless perfectness. This is a s good as Titus Andronicus ever needs to get. Sometimes they are better than this but no, they don’t have to be at all

In honor of the big event there will of course be a meg super duper deluxe box set edition of the album bonus tracks which include the band’s last singles ‘Great Depression’, ‘The Bitterest Pill’, and ‘Beat Surrender’.

I agree that it was not cool to cut Green Day’s performance to accommodate Sir Usher and princess Rihanna, he has reasons to be pissed off, but this come across as trying a little too hard to be badass and, you know… punk…. But on the other hand, would real punk bands play that family radio festival, this ClearChannel top 40 line-up?

“As a musician, I’ve benefited the most from demonstration,” says Abasi, Animals As Leaders’ guitarist. “I hope to create an environment for other aspiring musicians to do the same

How exciting!! The former Sleater Kinney lead singer Corin Tucker at Mercury Lounge. I guess she will be celebrating her second solo album, which will have been released two days prior two this Thursday evening release party at the tiny club. Added plus? “Groundhog Day” is my jam.

I haven’t much cared for the Script since I saw em open for McCartney at CitiBank Fields, and see no reason to do anything but exentuate the negative. The Killers? The lack the consistency of a great band. And on this list the xx are the best… so consider it a bad week.

The Script! Ugh Ugh Ugh… I can’t stand that song at any price. Otherwise, this is a relatively slow moving chart this week. Also, I like the Guetta but the first Sia song was better.

On her two albums, Amy used jazz and souk to work out her London lexicon, not a million miles from the way Lily used pop. The frank strategy was to make the old new again in the vision of a rehab candidate. “The way his shirt hangs off his back, my train of thought stays right on track”, she sings in this stunning little admission of sexual need. “I know that I’d look good on you” she claims. That’s her moral parallel – Grade: A

Get clean and Get well so I can get back to hating you.

I don’t really understand, why would people buy a track they can listen to for free whenever they want? If it is true, there is no logic, could it be because people who pay for Spotify are music lovers, still nostalgic about owning it? Spotify has only been there for a year, and it may change soon with the future generations, who will not even know what it is to own music.

Nestled between Echo Park and Los Feliz, the trendy community boasts some of the nation’s most lauded food trucks and farmers markets, a multicultural blend of residents with eclectic professions, and a booming arts scene.

Two songs a month for ten months. Why? Well to keep the dream alive of course. What a better way to sustain hype?

Battle Born – The Killers – The Killers are the Mitt Romney’s of rock, big, brash, Mormon, and not a brain in their haircuts. When I put it on as background it is charmingly aggressive, tugging at my sleeve and saying “hey, we found ourselves a place and we belong in it forever” but whenever it gets my full attention, it is so wretchedly silly and loud, I wanna punch it in the nose. Grade: C

Milo – Quilt – Boston trio mix close harmonies with druggy empathy on this dreamy slice of folk rock, starting slow and building to a Whoish middle. Good on record but live the moments become movements and the let’s the band do it what it does best: stretch – Grade: A-