Opinion

A way to see them both has to be found. There is need to see and hear everything. Do you feel it? It overwhelms me and wears me out

Frank Turner is a nice enough guy who sings lots of shit and milks his Britishness. The poser kids of today who refer to everything as ‘punk rock’, wow my hat is so ‘punk rock’, I’m too ‘punk rock to wash dishes..) have embraced this guy as their own personal Jesus

Many places I have lived are not exactly live music meccas (ladies and gentlemen, I give you MANHATTAN, KANSAS) and I’d rather not skip meals to attend arena shows

This is the faves, 56 years in the making, my fave live shows of all time, in chronological order

Paris Hilton reportedly ‘threw a fit and rand to her bedroom slamming the door’ upon being told she could not attend last Thursdays Marilyn Manson, Alice Cooper show. Just like hundreds of other teenagers who don’t get their way.

Maybe punk rock now only means being non traditional and underground with venues and recordings? Maybe anarcho just means saying you don’t like stuff. Could be, times change.

Talk about streamline. Each song would be better than the one before it for the entire length of the album. Yes, you would lose the Imperial Bedroom sense of a major statement but you would gain one of the greatest albums of all tim

Wills incorporated blues, country, big band, tin pan alley, and folk music into his unique brand of exhilarating Western swing.

His self love is contagious, this is how he pays the bills. Iggy and The Stooges are back in a second revival and they’re old and tired and cliche’ and what bothers me most is he now is quite arrogant about the one thing that got him fame to begin with, Punk Rock.

2010 had two of them: Titus Andronicus’ The Monitor and Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. 2011 just the Tyler The Creator debut album, Goblin. 2012 had none. And now it seems like there could be three “A+” albums in 2013.

Lana Mir World Dommination Tour

Here we go again, through the past darkly with a look back at four years of Mays and starting with one of the loveliest singers rock nyc ever ever covered. This is another case where I could’ve sworn she would’ve broken through but it is such a crap shoot. She had the songs, the looks, the smarts but four years later…

Here we go again, through the past darkly with a look back at four years of Mays and starting with one of the loveliest singers rock nyc ever ever covered

This of course got me thinking about pizza…..and music. Imagine if you will scented CD’s. Now granted we also don’t use CD”s anymore but with the resurgence of vinyl who knows- CD’s can make a comeback and when they do- they should be smell infused!

From Johnny Taylor to Chic, all these beats are used over and over again like DNA building blocks. When you hear “Love To Love You baby”, if you can get past the wall of synths and the humming metal sensuality, you left with a bass throb and a drum pattern and it is that which is lifted and reused

he band has effectively done a certain number of cover songs, and this is not an easy art. If everybody can learn somebody else’s song, not everyone can appropriate it, transform it without torture it, and QOSTA does exactly this: they manage to make the songs their owns by injecting in them their unique sound, while always remaining loyal to the originals.

I think it hasn’t mattered less since the birth of jazz in the 1910s. The roaring ‘20s through the 1950s jazz was integrally the sound of the States and the sound of America, eaten up by rock and roll in the late 50s and rolled over by MTV.

Of course, anyone that listens to Det var så länge se’n is eternally altered. What does one do with all of that Scandinavian street cred?

I am inked. Each tattoo has a story (not that I’m always willing to share) but I really love the art and the times they remind me of. I like the discomfort of a tattoo gun and the elation of it being over with

“From the beginning writing was always very therapeutic. A place to plop down all the mixed and passionate emotions of youth and love, returned and otherwise.”

Her Dresden Doll tales of revenge and power, sex and taunt were brilliant and aside from her ode to her bush her new stuff has been very good. She is every college kid with a trust fund and shes not a kid and she doesn’t have a trust. She’s a facade, she’s a mess, she is Boston.

9-11’s greatest success was NOT killing 2000 people in the World Trade Center, it was the incredible inconvenience of fool security at airports throwing away people’s toothpaste.

This enormous paragraph (did he type this on wordpad?!) he rambles as if he’s been hitting the scotch. I suppose to a citizen of the UK it ‘hits home’ but to a fan in the US its the redundancy and proverbial ‘beating a dead horse’.

His father had a cabin in Medford, where Vernon found refuge. It was there in that cabin he pondered “Bon Iver” and what that really meant, but not without some inspiration.

Musicians think and talk about music all day, so they have lots of practice discussing it. They hear lots of new stuff and find out about it before most people. They certainly know how the sausage is made. And guess what: a lot of them can write really well.

So now I am going to see both bands, and what this proves is a variant on Herman Edward’s, former NY Jets coach, “You play the game to see who wins”. You play the album to hear what’s good.

His brand new Duet album finds you with the Anka not of the early 1960s but the mid 1970s when he had convinced himself that he was a modern pop phenom and releasing overorchestrated slop for the people and not Bobby Soxer pop ballads for Sinatra’s audiences children.

‘I don’t have a problem with gay people. I got some gay homies. Yeah, for real. People who were gay used to get beat up. It was cool to beat up on gay people back then. But in the 90s and 2000s, gay is a way of life. Just regular people with jobs. Now they are accepted, not classified. They just went through the same things we went through as black.’

This is a form of infinite regression and an aphorism, people lose their faculties as they decay and degrade on the way to death. We are all the same. We are all turning and turning and getting worse and getting worse

Using his ‘celebrity’ in such a way has become tiresome. We know your ‘solar bi polar panic disorder’ we know you got done wrong as a dad in your fathers rights crusade and we know your ex wife wasn’t nice and we know you adore your daughter more than life itself.

It’s nearing the witching hour and a topless girl wearing a horses head, tights, men’s underwear and sneakers and drenched with beer is frugging near the stage to Shit Horse, while Odessa Records owner Paul Finn dances with wild abandon and Shit Horses’s lead singer Danny Mason is twirling center stage before settling back into a semi-improvissed rant about love and death “Twelve Horses”

We need to be that person whether they are heroes or villains, normal or abnormal. whatever we are is whatw e must be. And we can’t be that if we stifle thoughts we disagree with.

I doubt that Shocked is a savvy enough media presence to have purposely orchestrated the event. If one were in the diabolical public sentiment manipulation business, there are better end states than career suicide. It’s almost too easy to play armchair psychiatrist with Shocked.

Winner – Billie Joe Armstrong – After derailing his career with a killer alcohol addiction and interrupting a tour to support three (count em) albums last year, Billie Joe and Green Day are back with a a great live show and a new temperate viewpoint. Tough to admit you have a problem and tougher still to fix it, his Rolling Stone interview was on this side of harrowing and the news he is sober is a good one for fans like me!

If I was Taylor the first thing I’d do is fire Paula Erickson for this terrible terrible excuse for spin. What was needed was an immediate and loud statement from Taylor

Joni once claimed she found it very rude to call somebody a “new” anything while the old one was still alive. Fair enough. But since 2011’s A Creature I Don’t Know, Laura has been following a path reminiscent.