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Album Sales For The week

I still contend that ITunes will not be killed by streaming it will be killed by price. What Lefsetz skips out on is that people who are not music fans will not shell out ten bucks a month. If a CD cost as much as a Mocha Grande, sales would return and fast.

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10 Songs: Wednesday, October 28th, 2014

Number One – Mystery Skull – Brandy sounds fine and Niles Rodgers doesn’t over do the funk riffs, so that means the song’s success must belong to the estimable Mystery Skull, a man who seems to breath disco beats in his sleep – A

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10 Songs: Tuesday, October 28th, 2014

All Due Respect (feat Travis Baker) – Run The Jewels – Their best song to date and not because of the drumming but because of the harp that opens the track and leads you through one of the great original backing tracks… and the drumming – A-

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UK Top 10 Albums 11-1-14

Status Quo go acoustic!!!! The greatest UK hard rock band ever, the heads down no nonsense monsters of riff go mellow??? It sounds like Crosby Stills and nash in a very nasty mood for the band lead by legend Francis Rossi for FIFTY TWO YEARS!!!!

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10 Songs: Monday, October 27th, 2014

electronic dance fun and games and with zooming sound effects like space invaders and a steady as she goes beat, all of which is like a flash back old time disco thriller by Arthur Russell. Purely beautiful till the horns get funky at the end, and then it is a dance blast- A

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10 Songs: Sunday, October 26th, 2014

Between us girls, this is a hot, cool LES rock band who kinda missed it on their debut album mostly because their romantic scruff scene songs were kinda lifeless on record, but how much can you complain about this masterwork? – A

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The A+ List: 10-25-14

It is in the very first couplet, “make my heart come all undone” -it is like he is begging for the sweet sensation of love: make and undone are the two words that come tumbling through and it captures her illsuiveness, his insecurity: the earliest sense of insecurity of love

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10 Songs: Saturday, October 25th, 2014

This sounds like the climax to a high drama opera, a German composer, played backwards with the vocals pitched even wilder than ever before and the sound modulating between drone and droner with Bernard Hermann brought back from the dead. An acquired taste? Sure, but superbly different even if you hate it – A

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rock nyc Top 10 Songs w-o 10/20/14

Sleater-Kinney is growing on me with every spin, it is exactly what you think, angular, atonal, guitar shards and it works like a memory reflexive. Meanwhile Taylor Swift’s least song off the upcoming album ain’t bad at all, I mean not at all, and the Game reminds us why he is the best rapper this side of Cam’ron.

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10 Songs: Friday, October 24th, 2014

Lips Are Moving – Meghan Trainor – If Meghan is descending to schtick it is very good schtick with a funny hooks “I know you lie you’re lips are moving” and meghan throws everything she has at it including a rap – A-

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US Top 10 Albums: 11-1-14

Jessie kinda blew right? But the two of interest I haven’t heard till now. Mo excuse. The Bob Seger one is so bad it makes you think Helen went easy on him and in a bad year for hip hop, the Game comes through yet again with another powerful collection chockablock with gangsta and guestars

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Listen To Ariel Pink's 'Black Ballerina'

If it sounds like a druggy party, may be it’s really one and the song progresses for a few minutes over the same going-into-circles funky bass beats then goes into some typical Pink musical delirium with strange lyrics. Although I certainly can’t really understand everything about the lyrics/spoken words… ‘take your bra and panties off,’ comes up

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Kelly Clarkson Sings Sam Smith

Recorded at Symphony Park on October 18th, 2014, Kelly gets every ounce of the song and shares it right back with her audience, as if their voices are raised together in a hopefulness not actual written in at all. This isn’t actually Clarkson’s gift, she is another torch singer stomping the country side of love, but here with a song that doesn’t belong to her, Clarkson invites us all in.

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