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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-

The Queens, NY guys are currently in Connecticut (hollah!) recording a new album of covers. YES! I love covers and this band doing tunes originally performed by Billy Joel, Elvis Costello, Del Shannon, Van Morrison, and The Ronettes, will be a major event

Ok I got it, the power couple has just raised a lot of money for your campaign ($4 million), so you have to kiss their ass a little bit, and in the case of Beyoncé, it is not too hard to do, as everyone, Obama included, has the hots for her! But just tell me why Beyoncé is a role model?

Not surprising (nor stereotype!) for a metal guy to dig horror but it is quite an undertaking to put together a book. I am unclear of its content, be it factual or staged but I am sure that most will just buy in to it for the authors name.

Tickets go on sale Monday September 24, at LiveNation.com. That is if you are a commoner, there are numerous presale events prior to that. For VIP ticket packages, including opportunities to meet band members, backstage tours, great tickets and more, visit Aeroforceone.com. Everyone has a price. There is also a Facebook event, visit their page for details on that one.

There is a medical marijuana dispensary at the corner of my street, and there are basically hundreds of them in Los Angeles. But Texas has still these obsessive outdated laws about weed? It is obviously just a way for the state to make easy money.

The Carly song samples “Cupid”, so a) Sam Cooke is doing somersaults , and b) This might be the follow up she’s been looking for, and Minaj is back and she wants Cassie NOW. Lizard Kisses best song, by the way.

Wedding Song – Anais Mitchell and Justin Vernon – Much better than the name would suggest, a coutry blues opener to Mitchel’s 2010 rock opera with Justin as Orpheus. typecasting it says here – Grade: B+

She has been the center of blog conversations since the add posted on her website to hire musicians to play with her each night of her tour, and to offer them just hugs and beers in return.

He nails the feel of it, captivating the listener in a soft way, making it feel like a hug, then pulling you in, just like the original does. William’s voice has that quality as it is, but mixed with the warmth of the guitar and the pattern and the simplicity of it all amplifies it in a way that really no one else has captured.

Yoko Ono with the backing of Amnesty International, will be giving the grant to Pussy Riot in New York City on 21st September 2012 in the hope that they will be released as soon as possible.

Among the other bands I have seen, The Fresh & Onlys and White Fence, whose frontman Tim Presley’s style has been compared to Syd Barett’s. Basically, all of them seem to have this psychedelic thing going on, so it should be fun. Oh but wait,… vinyl only? I don’t do vinyl! But there’s nothing to worry about, the tracks will also be released digitally on various websites between October 15-29.

“It’s delicate enough that I’m not going to offend people every which way, but I wanted to get it right as best I could,” said Newman, who added that he’s always worried there may be some backlash following the release of a song like this one.

I am claiming I saw him at Roseland years ago and that Prince would wipe the floor with this Prince the way the 1998 Yanks would slaughter the 2012 Yanks.

The Beatles, Elvis and Frank Sinatra, The Beach Boys, Tony Bennett, and Neil Diamond are among the top 40 nominees in place as we speak. Fans as well as industry folk can vote online during the next few weeks.

I’m tired of people just using us 35 years later as the ones who got up and said something about what was happening

‘Warning, Do not buy this album, this man beats women’ sticker was applied on John Lennon’s CDs, and a photo of the ‘crime’ was posted on Twitter by the account @abusesticksout, indicating that the picture had been taken at a Fopp store in Manchester. Even if the store employees were able to find out and remove the sticker fast, it was already too late, the picture was out there on the internet

Go to this if only to people watch. I don’t suppose you’ll l be able to sing along but you may be able to fake it and shake around a bit. The characters in this scene are flamboyant ala Harijuku Girls but with a bit more polish and a little less street grime.

Over the years, the singles and album charts have switched places. The album charts are now the houses of the one hit wonders and the sudden spark of interest before the fan base subsides, while as the Singles charts are tough to get on but once you are on there, you’re marooned 5 on there for life .

Dave Matthews isn’t as bad as I claim he, is much worse, and Amanda deserved to move more than 24K still a Top 10 hit is a Top 10, but the surprise here is Little Town, which follows in the footsteps of Sugarland and Lady Antebellum but with better songs.

Sober – Little Big Town – In a world where the simple gifts of songwriting have been replaced by the slave to the beats, this is a well well written song, spinning on a simple simile, being in love is like being drunk – Grade: A-

The video for ‘Labrador’ replicates quite loyally the one made for ‘Voices Carry’, Aimee Mann’s 1985 hit when she was with the band ‘Til Tuesday. You can judge by yourself as you can compare both videos below! It’s true that you don’t see videos like these anymore, with a story playing like a mini Lifetime movie

The Sex Pistols will always be the symbol of punk rock. Everyone before or after them will never live up to the image and urban legend they left in their wake. The death of Vicious only adds to the mystique making them masters of the genre with (in comparison to other acts) very little material.

This band, especially if they had this song up their sleeves, would have had every drugged out college kid at Bisco losing their shit. While it’s a real shame that Swedish House Mafia will be breaking up after their One Last Tour

The song is a kind of blues, inspired by Hurricane Irene, which was forecast to destroy New York, but never really got here. In the days coming up to it, we were practicing and writing in our basement and had to get everything up off the ground so if the storm hit, we wouldn’t get flooded and lose all of our gear and what not.

The rest is over and as you can see below- she is back. I love that she is singing acapella and obviosuly annoying the commuters of Tokyo, much like she will be annoying me once this is released. The news on this is that she has apparently cleaned up her act. Less glitter more natural, less synth more drum. Did she grow up?

The tipping point for me was the very funny SNL skech where mall employees are brought out of their funk by the song, culminating in PSY, the South Korean rapper slash overnight sensation -slash Autumn Carly Rae, doing his invisible horse dance

Another discovery was that across the genres, jazz and pop tickets cost more than reggae or folk. Also, older acts tend to have higher prices because they have a loyal fan base, typically made up of older audiences with more disposable income

seeing how many people (of all age, I insist) were already on line at 5 pm for a 9 pm show, and were pushing a little bit later to be front row, when I saw him at the Fonda theater in Los Angeles a year ago, I can tell you that the old guy still got it, and that Graceland is without any doubt, a legendary album

If you are looking for anything from a toaster to a thong- you can get it with teh KISS logo on it. Its genius and its annoying. The die hard fan must roll in it happy as can be- but for the rest of the free world its an odd obsession. The fact is it earns money and the memebers of the band honestly are set for life as are their spawn and their spawns spawn.

Like It Or Love It – Kreayshawn – It’s worth mention that Kid Cudi’s rap here is better than his solo rap with GOOD Music, and it is also worth mentioning that Kreayshawn isn’t a faker, the entire album is real good, but this is even better – Grade: B+

With a punk-rocker look and a new haircut, she and a guy fight against zombies with a futuristic gun under a scorching hot sun,… there are also magic crystals, a dog (the same one that was at Amoeba!) and other people in Native American outfits involved, but I don’t know exactly what’s going on

Actually, English people are really the worst thieves in the story, when we compare both populations – 62 million for the UK, 311 million for the US! They are a fifth of us, and have downloaded almost half of what we have!

They used to say that rock stars dated models but now musicians are so airbrushed and stylized they ARE models. Rob Thomas of Matchbox 20, modeled jeans and Burberry has chosen numerous Brit pop stars to stand and smile.

Fine, it is Pink, so who gives a fuck? I do when it involved Lily Allen, one of the most gifted songwriters from the start of the century who has chosen this crappy song to ease herself back in the music world

The R&B groove of the song is totally cool, although very retro-familiar! Many people have noticed some similarity with ‘Take Me With U’… Hella yes! these synths sound totally sampled from his own hit song, and, if you are a Prince’s fan, I guess it is not gonna be the only Prince’s song that you will hear in the track.

I actually hung out with a couple girls during my Siouxie days, generally all of my friends are men. These girls and I made the perfect trio of good girls gone bad and with enormous black hair, alabaster skin, blackened eyes and red lips, we made a ruckus…shamelessly