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American Idols Judges Announced

I don’t appreciate talent competitions and the auditions are horrific. I despise the sob stories of broken homes and homeless song birds. Shut the hell up- sing and move on. Yet someone is watching- and someone is letting this show earn a time slot and a salary.

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Iman and Hel Do SNL: Frank Ocean

I had to mute the VMA’s when he performed and tonight I stay up to sit through yet another lame sketch comedy to be annoyed again. The difference, I get to be annoyed with my right hand man Iman Lababedi. Mr L will listen to anything, literally loves every genre and has more music knowledge then Wikipedia.

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Television Lite: September 3rd – 8th, 2012

We have here an assembly of musical guests on some talk shows. None are good, none are profound and they’re all basically there to promote themselves though you cant flip on your radio without hearing them anyway. In the present ‘social media’ is a hell of allot more efficient then television

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The Decemberists Guest The Simpsons

For those of you unfamiliar with the band I strongly suggest the introduction via the ‘Rake Song’. By far one of the best told musical stories. Melloy’s voice is outstanding and the overall mood sent over with such clarity that it will remain one of my all time favorite song.

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Justin Bieber On The Simpsons

‘Swaggy’, thats the word of the day! The episode titled ‘The Fabulous Faker Boy’ has Beiber as a contestant in a talent show- and not making the cut. A bit of pop star self depreciation. I gotta say though, Beiber has lost his standing joke status

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Ex-Wives Of Rock On Slice TV

When you are young and beautiful every musician will want you. Your wish is there command theres jewelry cars and gifts access to elite clubs and backstage antics. Then you marry them then you age and then you realize that some younger model has replaced you

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MTV's Inbetweeners, When Will They Learn

Inbetweeners- offer up the standard fare. The nerd, the stud, the fat kid and the social mess. The issue is can it play to the US kids? No. Not to any who have seen the BBC version. But there is hope in those who have nothing to compare it to

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Television Lite August 5 – August 12, 2012

Here we are, right back to rerun land. I know the Olympics are the cause. There is virtually nothing worth watching on any major network due to the games. The thought being that the world is glued to the battle dome of idiots looking for medals. Truth is there is a fair amount of folks in each country who couldn’t care less about the Olympics

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Henry Rollins Cast In Series

The program called “Dark Prophet” is scheduled for premier this fall. Seems a custom fit role for Rollins as a big know it all, so this could work. He has a great number of die hard fans too, so hes one up on the competition.

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Television Lite July 23- July 28, 2012

Rufus! Rufus Wainwright starts of the television week tonight with David Letterman, but then again ARETHA! is on as well.. tonight is DVR night thats for sure.
But really its Thursday that caught my eye..well, well, well, lookit there its No Doubt!!!

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Television Lite: July 16-July 21, 2012

This is a great thing, there are new things to discover rather than yet another week of Steven Tylers and fun. Seems a bit country heavy but hey, this is summer in America and for some reason that become synonymous with twang.

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Brand X Russell Brand Flounders

Its not easy for me to hate Brand. He’s so rock and roll did a great job in ‘Get Him To The Greek’ and he just looks cool. The slurry Brit speak the pin thin legs, what’s not to love?

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Californication and Marilyn Manson

A rock opera is a perfect outlet for someone as theatrical and Manson so this can potentially work- of course if it evolves into and actual rock opera it will be a hot mess cuz the last thing we need is another Rock of Ages thing going on. C’mon stop the torture. A one hour television episode though, thats a good thing

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Garbage On Jimmy Fallon

I may not be a big fan of the new LP but I am still a very big fan of Garbage and want them to continue to perform and record. There really arent band out there that offer the same intelligent lyrics delivered with a disturbing edgy quality. I say we hold on to these guys as long as we can.

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Rolling Stones In New York City

What could possibly be the reason for all the rehearsing? One thought is that since singer Mick Jagger is scheduled to appear as both host and musical guest on the season finale of Saturday Night Live on May 19, the Stones might join him on stage for the performance

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Lady GaGa Closes The Simpsons

There is nothing worse than Gaga’s speaking voice. That old sleepy stoner drawl that literally makes me want to smack her off a chair. Speaking from the back of the throat slowly isn’t sexy or hip its fake and stupid

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Mick Jagger Hosts SNL Season Finale

So for the finale we get Mick Jagger. Jagger has been the musical guest twice and if you ever saw the mirror bit with him and Jimmy Fallon then you know he has a wonderful sense of humor. He really doesn’t need it considering half of the writers are missing that laugh gene.

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Iman and hel Do SNL: Rihanna

As this not ready for prime time hot mess oozes across my screen it has been a torture chamber and with Iman off at the Prudential Center to see The Red Hot Chili Peppers, I am stuck here to watch this crap.

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Television Lite: April 30th – May 6th, 2012

Welcome to May!! This month of flowers and happiness will kick off with a week of mediocre bands and lots of bla bla bla. On the flip side there are some amazing LIVE acts coming to the Northeast so really this television bit is only for those of you who have the flu or insomnia.

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'Glee: Graduation' Soundtrack

I found it annoying the few times I have seen it with some of the most horrid stereotypes, yet for some reason it has a huge following. The season finale is fast approaching and the soundtrack is quite fitting

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The InBetweeners Final Season: One Of Them Will Die

Iman and I were sad it would never return. Well now, looks like there has been a change of heart. The UK Daily Star revealed that James Buckley (who plays the role of Jay Cartwright) let the cat out of the bag. The boys will return and either be at college or with job.

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Rob Zombie Directs Pesticide Advertisement

It seems to me that music isn’t really primary anymore, now that the big dough is in ooky stuff like them parks and films and now, advertising. The UK has a new add for a pesticide directed by Rob himself. How come we don’t get cool stuff like that?

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Television Lite: April 16th – April 22nd, 2012

, Video didn’t kill the radio star, video made radio stars. I mean seriously, would there be as many boy bands with limo’s if there weren’t videos? Ok, some may debate that there were boy bands before music video and of course there was, but that actually required talent- now all ya need is a good haircut.

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Iman and Hel Do SNL: Gotye

There are two million remixes of his song ‘Somebody That I Used To Know’, there is milking a cow and there is animal cruelty. When you have a hit, let it be a hit, lets not have the disco, reggae, hardcore, symphonic and salsa version of that same dumbass song.

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Glee’s “We Are Young” Reviewed

Instead of having nice smooth, slurred, descending notes on the word “tonight”, they decided to add in this terrible warbling, making it sound like “to-nye-ee-aye-ee-aye-ee-aye-ee-aye-ee-ight”. Please listen to the actual song so you know what I’m talking about; you will understand exactly

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Magpie and Hel do SNL: One Direction

Here we are though, watching these guys who’s fans are up past curfew to catch a couple tunes and scream. What I wonder is can the over 16 crowd relate? Can we get older fans to appreciate the bubblegum boys? Is there any talent or even showmanship for these British-Irish blokes?

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MTV Unplugs Florence And The Machine

“Unplugged” took our favorite bands and literally unplugged them, putting them in the round with no enhancement. Acoustic performances by those we never thought we would hear in such raw form. I would have to say Nirvana and Pearl Jams episodes are the most remembered to me.

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Television Lite: April 2- April 8

I suggest you rent Rude Boy. A Clash film to die for and well worth your viewing time. The Filth and The Fury is another fun movie you could rent if you need a bit of music on the box… cuz ya ain’t getting it from the Satellites this week.

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