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The 1975 "Robbers" Video Reviewed

I love them, and was hoping they’d make a video for this tune. Matthew’s voice really gets to shine because it’s a slower song and he croons a bit and shows off just how well he can sing. “Now if you never shoot, you’ll never know and if you never eat, you’ll never grow,” he sings.

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Ellie Goulding Misses Cheese

Consider Ellie Goulding among those who won’t touch animal by product or product at allaccording to contactmusic.com: “I went vegan a few months ago. I feel leaner and healthier, but I miss cheese. A cheese plate with fruit is my weakness!”

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Active Viewin': Concert Picks Week Of May 5th, 2014

And now here she comes again, the woman, the legend, from Sonny and to disco diva, to half native American hippie queen who let the Stones sleep on her floor in 1964 through TV diva, divorcee, Mrs. Greg Allman, Studio 54 denizen of the demimonde, gay icon, Chastity’s Mom, and all round believer in life after love, at the Barclay on Friday. The one and only Cher.

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10 Songs, Sunday, May 4th, 2014

Rhode Island Is Famous For You – Buddy Clark – They don’t make em like Clark any more, he died too young, just 37 in a plane crash, but this is the version of “Rhode Island” you want if you’re looking for one – A

Album Reviews, Slideshow

"Z" By SZA Reviewed

It is all very studio driven and also all very deeply and quietly felt but unlike a little too much alt r&b it sounds very good as well, it isn’t flimsy and the songs have sticking power. At some point, SZA has to go further along than this chill jazz r&b sound. But not right now.

Opinion, Slideshow

The Decline Of Bruce Springsteen

In 2014 he bristles so much he seems to made of tinder, his eager is so fragile it is constantly as display, his super-ego has taken a snooze, and his quality control has snapped. Springsteen is such a self-proclaimed genius he writes his own reviews now… and he likes his work very much.

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rock nyc Top 10 Songs w-o 4-27-14

I’ll say two things about NEEDTOBREATH, I keep forgetting they are born again Christians and I am still listening to their album with various degrees of pleasure. I’ll see this about Iggy -I underestimated the album earlier this week. I’ll say this about SZA, I overestimated the album when it was first released.

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10 Songs, Saturday, May 3rd 2014

Hong Kong Gardens – Siouxsie And The Banshees – The purely disparaging colors Siouxsie is painted in Moz’s autobiography at least leaves some musical room to maneuver. Well, I’ll give her this one – A-

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Cate Le Bon At Amoeba, Wednesday April 30th 2014

Her music was pleasantly surprising, bringing some novelty at each song, exactly like her vocals, going from the detached morose tone of her singing during certain songs to a more plaintive ambiance, from angelic dreamy vocals to long high-pitch howls screaming crazy,… she had quite a range

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Ozzy Ale No More

Think of all the burger joints youve gone to with interesting menu names. The deal there is that they arent known to the star themselves (or their reps) but when the advertising takes off.. a cease and desist mail arrives on your doorstep.

Opinion, Slideshow

Bob Mould On Coming Out As Gay

The nature of coming out about anything is fraught with dangers unknown. Whether it is real or not, whether you are the same person or someone else, simply expressing a truth about yourself is scary and it is one thing to come out to your friends, family, business colleagues.

Slideshow, Television

"Grease" Is The Word At Fox For 2015

I would have recommended “Spring Awakening” though I understand the problems with the censor and the lack of family might make that unacceptable. But how about something huge and smashing like “Showboat”? Or the adaption of a movie, say “Singing In The Rain”?

Slideshow, US Top 10 Singles

US Top 10 Songs 5-10-14

Again, not the worst singles chart I’ve ever seen. The Azalea song is a real keeper and one I’d have missed if it wasn’t on the charts, proof positive that our fate lies not in the charts but in ourselves. I bet you wish you’d thought it up. Me? I wish it meant something.

Slideshow, US Top 10 Albums

US Top 10 Albums 5-10-14

Both Iggy and Future are pretty good albums, though my bet is Future falters fast. Neon Trees –well, it is not as though they were that big to start with and if you ever catch em live your opinion will of em will instantaneously improve.

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10 Songs, Thursday, May 1st, 2014

Sheezus – Lily Allen – I think Lily is starting the wrong fight here, surely anything you can say about Lily Vs Katy you can say about DeRulo Vs Flo Rida –they’re all being exploited. Still, anybody who makes their hook “I’ve got my period” knows from post-pomo feminism – A-

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Cliff Richard On Morrissey (No Not That Way)

“I’m really excited, because even though I’ve had seven Top 30 successes in America, only three of them are in the Top 10, so I’m kind of unknown there, and have no identity there. So for me it’s fantastic. I shall always be grateful to him for getting me a chance in New York, of all places, to be able to sing to 12,000 or more people.”

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Electric Zoo Is Back and Safer?

Increasing the number of plainclothes undercover security officers, placing drug-sniffing dogs at all entrances, and running background checks on all on-site vendors and employees. The latter of those plans being rather… idiotic but hey you do what you can.

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