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UK Top 10 Singles 6-21-14

Ella Henderson came in 6th in the 2012 UK X Factor contest, and so the eighteen year old went away for two years and returned with a new song that sold over 140,000 copies (in the UK, mind) and went straight to the top of the charts. That’s all I’m saying.

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10 Songs: Monday, June 16th, 2014

Keep It Gay – Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick – Uproariously funny celebration of all things camp and magical and, well, gray about the musical theater… stopped the show when I saw it on Broadway. Of course, so did everything else – B+

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Trash Talk Fan Pisses Into Own Mouth

“It went everywhere, all down his shirt and in his hair, he seriously went for for like a solid minute. It was feral. And yes he just went on like nothing happened afterwards, it was one of the funniest/strangest/most disgusting and confusing things I’ve ever seen in my life.”

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Black Flag Now Ready To Play A Kids Show

May be that’s a new outlet for Greg Ginn’s new band, I heard that the tickets were not selling as fast as expected? So I don’t know if Mike Vallely will change his language but last time I saw him he was saying a lot of fuck… Definitively not good for the kids. And what does stripped down mean in this case?

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Sarah Brightman Way Way Out There

Let’s say Sarah ,the soprano who used to be married to Andrew Lloyd Webber, figures you can film it for a TV special, make an album, tour behind it, does she think she can make it back? I guess, maybe, I mean nothing in her life story gives you the impression she has those kinda numbers but still, maybe just possibly…?

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Sneak Peaks: Upcoming Album Releases Week of June 16th, 2014

A huge week, the debut album by Big Freedia, a really great disco guy whose 2012 “Booty-Whop” and current “Explode” are just so much fun, Cerebral Balzy are a blast live, everything I’ve heard off Lana’s Ultra Violence has been first rate, and J Lo better come up with the goods, but the week belongs to soul brother # 1 Sam Smith’s eagerly anticipated debut album.

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10 Songs: Sunday, June 15th, 2014

Toreador Song – Christopher Lee – Electric guitar riffs to introduce the Bizet thunder and lightning with Lee’s harsh, unprettified singing interrupted guitar solos, the main question being, why bother? At 91, Lee may very well be immortal – C

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Kanye West's New Testament?

Is Kanye West the new prophet? The new chosen one? The material is impressive, I had no idea Kanye’s insane verbal diarrhea could fit so well basically… with anything as long as it is scored by Jonny Greenwood’s ‘There will be Blood’,… or is it ‘the Master’? It’s so ironic

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Glen Tilbrook Happy Ending US Tour

Squeeze was and will always be one of the most memorable bands of the 80s to this day I adore their work and find myself belting out random lyrics at the oddest times. Granted, this tour is not Squeeze but just the blonde guy but still- he was the pipes so you can be sure he’s throwing in some classics and that alone is reason to attend.

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Hank Williams Bio Pic Starring Loki On Its Way

According to Billboard: “Tom Hiddleston will play country western singer Hank Williams in Marc Abraham’s “I Saw the Light,” which will chronicle the performer’s rise to fame and fame’s ultimately tragic effects.” Based on the Colin Escott 2004 biography, which has already been turned into a four hour PBS special

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Direct Currents Summer Releases

Here comes summer, school is out on happy days and the wild world of music is coming your ways so… what are we looking forward to here? I didn’t care less about Jenny Lewis but after her terrific turn at Governors Ball, I am wondering if this will be a biggie for her. Sinead O’Connor –because, well, because she is an enormously consistent recording artist, and Spider Bags who released the best album of 2012

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10 Songs: Saturday, June 14th, 2014

Crazy Little Thing called Love (Live At Wembley Stadium) – Queen – We could debate it but this straightforward Presleyish rocker is Freddie’s finest moment, just not this version where the extended end doesn’t work – B

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Apple To Rid Of Headphone Port

They would change to what is called the Lightning connector, or port, and with Beats, they would make special headphones that would be Apple-only. They’re creating a more and more exclusive market this way.

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Gerard Way's "Action Cat" Reviewed

Maybe we don’t have Gerard the deep thinking mastermind terminal, but we do have “Action Cats this glorious slab of power pop, a wall of fuzzy guitar, it’s like the the Cure circa “Mint Car” without Smith’s thick voice, –yes, THAT GOOD!!! If the rest of the album can maintain this sugar and spice, Gerard is back on parade again.

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Yuna At Make Music Pasadena, Saturday June 7th 2014

She appears on stage like a gracious and thin statuesque figure, quite dignified and she sang with a soulful and velvet voice,… I read that she interestingly describes her music as ‘a cross between Mary Poppins and Coldplay’, whatever this means, but I didn’t get the Coldplay vibe nor the Mary Poppins side, and I don’t think she was making allusion to her full-clothing

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Meet The Shoe At Their Hotel

I’d read she was a celebrity actress (the cult fave “Donnie Darko” and “The Hunger Games”) but I didn’t quite know who she was until I saw the video below and then I thought, hey, she reminds me of someone. Jena reminds me of herself of course.

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Body Count's "Manslaughter" Reviewed

Life repeats itself three times, first as tragedy, second as rap music and third as farce. Ice T has been on the third revolution for a long long time and any idea that the former Tracey Marrow is still using memory recall from his gangbanging, drug selling (not to mention stint in the army) days has to be taken with a huge huge dose of reality TV

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10 Songs: Friday, June 13th, 2014

Bill Bruisers – The New Pornographers – This is a nicely bruising pop rocker with vocal hooks on top of vocal hooks from a band who have been around forever but for whom I’ve never had all that much time, by this one they got right – B+

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Mr. Little Jeans At Amoeba, Tuesday June 10th 2014

As she was wearing a long black skirt and a black top with a white collar, she might have looked like a sage schoolgirl entering catholic school had it not been for for her totally-Margot-Tenebaum dark eyeliner… And knowing that Mr Little Jeans is a name of a minor and humble character (the janitor) in Wes Anderson’s ‘Rushmore’, this makes complete sense

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Brian Wilson Has Recorded With Frank Ocean!

It seems to me, Brian Wilson’s decision to make a new album featuring the likes of Zooey Deschanel, Lana Del Rey, Frank Ocean and Kacey Musgraves is a great one… and except for Zooey all these names excite. Especially Frank Ocean, the only name here with real production chops that might work well in tandem with Wilson.

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Morrissey: What Next?

It seems incredible that after his disastrous 2012 tour, which also ended with cancellations aplenty, Moz got insurance for the 2014 jaunt and also, even more remarkable, that he did so without a check up which found him capable of catching a virus from Kristeen so virulent he had to cancel the midtour.

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US top 10 Singles 6-21-14

Yeah, yeah the stroppy Aussie kid is full of herself and I don’t doubt she has the song of the summer here, and I don’t doubt it won’t be Sam Smith because Smith is too downbeat, but I am real happy he has hit the top 10 because when you’ve spent as many posts trumpeting Smith as the next big UK soul sensation I’d feel like a total twit if he wasn’t.

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US Top 10 Albums, 6-21-14

Better Led Zep’s first three albums than all those damn Bro boys, right? And much better Miranda Lambert, who, should stop dressing like Bozo if Bozo was a honky tonk hooker, than any Bro including Eric Church. Between the four of em you’ve got a solid album charts for a change.

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10 Songs: Thursday, June 12th, 2014

Rollercoaster – Bleachers – This indie pop track from the fun. Composer is so good I am kicking myself for not getting to Governors Ball early and checking him out; it doesn’t go up and down precisely, it kinda builds to the chorus which is anthemic in a not un-fun. Way and subsides, so more like waves. Still damn good – A-

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Sylvan Esso At Make Music Pasadena, Saturday June 7th 2014

The result was quite minimalist, Amelia’s vocals were always front, but everyone was cheering at each of her moves,… I was taking tons of pictures and they came up all great. ‘Wait! Small adjustment’, she said while they had to move their equipment away from the sun, visibly ‘not used to direct sunlight’ and ‘designed for pale people in a basement’ as Nick Sanborn notice.

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The Late Rik Mayall's "Noble England"

As they tend to do in the UK, they had started a Facebook page to get everybody to buy “Noble England” and get it into the charts thereby supporting the World Cup (which England doesn’t stand a chance in hell of winning) and Rik, which, after word got out of his death, has caused 500 girls to kill themselves.

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Morrissey Cancels Remainder of US Tour

“It is with great sadness that the remainder of the US Tour has been cancelled. The respiratory infection Morrissey contracted in Miami has worsened, and in the interest of making a full recovery, all further touring plans have been halted”

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