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May 17 Regina Spektor At United Palace Theater, Tuesday, May 15th, 2012 Reviewed
The set was so well paced but it was hard not to be. Regina has so many great songs but is really a schticky chick: she pulls out the Music Hall “Sailor Song” and is as willing to go deep into her Russian roots and pull out a gypsy folkie refrain as an glammy popness or a classical U Turn.
Posted 17 May 2012 by Iman Lababedi  Add comment
May 17 And Now, CBGB The Movie
But wow they are really re-launching this CBGB thing full time! A new location, a music festival and now a movie, it is difficult not to see an exploitation of the famous name behind all this
Posted 17 May 2012 by Alyson Camus  Add comment
May 17 Lady Gaga Flesh Dress 2
I’m not quite sure why I am even giving this the time of day, its really just a pathetic attempt at shock cuz it isn’t shocking me. Wear an outfit of human skin then maybe I’ll turn my head- this is just sad and desperate.
Posted 17 May 2012 by Helen Bach  Add comment
May 17 Conor Oberst’s “One Of My Kind” Reviewed
The movie closes with Conors scribbled lyric and him sitting and singing it, “I can’t live here but I’ll I’ll probably die here…” he moans. It is terrific. Better than anything on the last Bright Eyes
Posted 17 May 2012 by Iman Lababedi  Add comment
May 17 Jay-Z Endorsing Obama’s Statement About Gay Marriage
There was obviously some part of calculation in Obama’s decision to speak in favor of gay marriage, it was a very good thing to do, but it is a little laughable when you remember the president’s less-than-pro-gay-marriage declaration when he met with pastor Rick Warren in 2008:
Posted 17 May 2012 by Alyson Camus  Add comment
May 17 Doctor Don Henley, Berklee School of Music Gives Honorary Degrees
Should there not be some sense of musical education? Should there not be more than just a boat load of standards? Apparently not. Maybe they were available for graduation weekend so they booked them since there were slim pickin’s?
Posted 17 May 2012 by Helen Bach  Add comment
May 17 “Dark Shadows” Reviewed (More Or Less)
Musically, it is awesome. T-Rex, Curtis Mayfield, Barry White and of course, the one and only Alice Cooper in a cameo.
Posted 17 May 2012 by Iman Lababedi  Add comment
May 17 Lady Gaga Forced To Cancel Sold Out Gig In Jakarta Because of Muslim Protesters
What can I say, these people live in another century, in another geological period, they keep their women under Burkas, so Gaga in full bra may come as a shock indeed. Muslim extremists have the biggest problem in the world with sexuality, as they come just behind the American Santorum-type.
Posted 17 May 2012 by Alyson Camus  Add comment
May 17 Last Post About The Rolling Stones on SNL This Week
Mick Jaggersits on a tiny stage with the Ghost of Rock and Roll Future, upstart hipster frauds Arcade Fire, the pathetic excuse for current Ghost of Rock and Roll Present Foo Fighters, and The Ghost of Rock and Roll Past Jeff Beck.
Posted 17 May 2012 by Helen Bach  Add comment
May 17 Noel Gallagher Cried Like A Baby
I swore a lot and then I cried like a baby because I’ve never seen anything like that before. It was mindblowing.”
Posted 17 May 2012 by Iman Lababedi  Add comment
May 17 Three Years Later, Bret Michaels Settles The Score with The Tonys
There were warning strokes and a mish mosh of other maladies all screaming headlines of the rockers imminent death. The dude was being circled by vultures for months
Posted 17 May 2012 by Helen Bach  Add comment
May 17 Streaming Services To Get Own Chart In UK… Can US Be Far Behind?
who will be providing the figures and why would they open their books and, how does this effect Pandora, where the music is programed more like a radio? What;s to stop a rock band giving bucks to Pandora for additional airplay which will push them further up the charts?
Posted 17 May 2012 by Iman Lababedi  Add comment
May 17 To See Or Not To See? Bon Iver At Radio City (Plus Setlist)
Justin Vernon is a lugubrious bore but his songs can hook you if you don’t have your guard up and while his falsetto at first sounds a form of torture Obama has made illegal against Al Qaeda terrorists (or soldiers: tomatoes, tomartoes), it has grown on me after being inescapable for years
Posted 17 May 2012 by Iman Lababedi  Add comment
May 17 Listen Up: 5-17-12
Only The Horses – Scissor Sisters – A loss leader from their upcoming album, this is a disco ballad which takes advantage of Jake’s falsetto on a song that isn’t all there. There is better on the way. – Grade: B
Posted 17 May 2012 by Iman Lababedi  Add comment
May 16 Jail Weddings‘ (There’s Nothing Worse In The World Than A) Crying Girl’ Reviewed
it’s so bombastic and theatrical it could be an Arcade Fire tune sung by Nick-Cave-meets-Ziggy-Stardust, whereas its title is so long it could compete with any Fiona Apple’s song.
Posted 16 May 2012 by Alyson Camus  Add comment

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Great Vampire Weekend Profile In the New Yorker

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Thursday, 31 December 2009 23:40
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There’s a real fun profile of Vampire Weekend in Cali in the current issue of the New Yorker.

By editorial staff member Lizzie Widdecombe.

A lotta good stuff here. The meeting with Blink 182′s Tom Delonge is priceless and the Sheriff asking them if they’ve accepted Jesus is worth the read alone.

They are only offering an abstract on line (and the double issue is a mindboggling $5.99 – I am happy I subscribe) but here it is anyway. They’ll prolly post the whole thing in a week or two. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/01/04/100104fa_fact_widdicombe

 

Gaze Into The Future… It is 2010…

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Thursday, 31 December 2009 23:03
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What does the future bring? Nobody knows, nobody knows but me….


Arcade Fire – The newbie is Pitchfork’s # 1 album of the year, the Stones # 9 album, Spins #5 album. Doesn’t actually sell any copies.

The Cribs – Will change their name to Cribplay and still not crack the  States.

Bob Dylan – Takes the day off touring. Spends it dressed as Santa Claus scaring his Grandkids in the middle of March.

Kanye West – Holds a press conference, apologizes, requests privacy as he works through his problems. Nobody knows what he has done but it must be bad.

Kid Cudi - Opens fire on his audience at a club in Delaware. Holds a press conference, apologizes,  requests  privacy as he works through his problems.

Helen Bach -  Surprises everybody by marrying Mick Jones . Discovers to her dismay, it’s the Foreigner Mick Jones and not the Clash one. Divorces him and marries Paul Simonon instead.

Iman Lababedi – gives up day job to sequence drum machines.

Justin Furstenfeld – Cancels all Blue October activity, severely distressed over Helen Bach’s marriage. He holds a press conference, apologizes, requests privacy as he works through his problems.

Lady Gaga - Stops the big stage production. Goes on stage with a band, sings her songs. “Musicians should try this,” she says. Then she holds a press conference, apologies and asks for privacy as she works through her problems
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Love Via Dance Machine – Tour all year, hit puberty at a Vans Warp festival in August.

Mary Magpie – Switches to guitar, forms a band, bans Rock NYC from her concerts.

Mike Nessing – Finds the band of his dreams, a Zappa cover band, all of whom have beards and all of who have died in a car crash.

Phish – Have a bad trip. Hold a press conference. Apologize. request privacy as they work through their problems.

R. Kelly – Arrested for not having sex. Holds a press conference. Apologizes. “I have a problem,” Kelly admits. “Sometimes I can go hours without feeling horny.” His wife requests ”Privacy while we deal with this personal tragedy and so I can finish my homework”.

Robin Thicke – Admits he is really Will Downings with a bad headache.

Shinobi Ninja – Move to Cali, open a club, rule the State and secede from the Union.

Solange Knowles – Forms a band with Tune-Yard. Will only play the Bell House and songs can’t be downloaded out of the Brooklynn area.

The Strokes – Not seen all year. Believed to be hold up in U2′s studio in Belfast.

Taylor Swift – Interrupted while giving her acceptance speech for best supporting actress by George Jones who says “Imma let you finish, but George Strait deserves this:.

U2 – Admit that everybody who wants to see U2 have seen U2 and curtail their five year tour. Bono speaks at the United Nations. Apologizes. requests privacy as he works through his problems.

Vampire Weekend -Move to LA, , join  the young Republicans, run for Governor of California on an our parents will make up the deficit with their own money.

 

Nearly Missed This One…

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Thursday, 31 December 2009 22:15
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Off Phrazes For The Young, hidden behind a terribly dreary bass synth intto, lies Casablancas proto-country drinking song of your dreams, “Ludlow St.”.

The song soon segues into a synchopated waltz but a tweak of the arrangement and it’s true nature becomes clears: Dan McGee would love it.  George Jones could sing  it. And we could all get fucked up to it “Everything seems to go wrong when I start drinking,  everything seemed to go my way last night,” Casablancas swings in the best opening couplet since “Waking Up Drunk”.

Soon the problem (hereafter referred to as Nicki) becomes clear: “While I surrendered my ego you fed yours, all my fantasies died when you said yours, I have dangled my pride to forget yours, will my mind be at ease when I get yours? ”

All well and good plus it’s Julian’s most New York song on the album, Ludlow Street is on the Lower East Side and though it’s not Bleeker (and, isn’t it a little late to worry about gentrification), it’s as good a place to get toasted as anywhere.

Real good song.