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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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Classic Landscape bt Charles Skeeler

What has this to do wih music? I was listening to Talking Heads when I Posted it. Thanks , Marie Lynn
 

The Icarus Accounted For By Helen Bach

Surprisingly enough we get contacted by alot of bands, well maybe 3 or 4 a week who will friend us on Facebook or Myspace and ask for us to listen to their music. Most people who’s profiles indicate they are music fans get the same. Some think its still a big deal to be ‘internet friends’ with bands and well it is to a point but really- they arent friends at all.

So, to be honest with you I don’t pay much attention to most. This isn’t a good thing at all. I’m missing just as much great stuff as bad stuff if this were a 50/50 world.

Which leads me to The Icarus Account.

These gentlemen friended The Magpie awhile ago and I have been asking her to check them out forever but she hasn’t been able to get to them.

So imagine my surprise in this months Alt Press to see this duo with a full page ad.

huh?

I hit their myspace to check them out. Hey huge tour going on and although not going to NYC they ARE coming to Connecticut on May 19. You guys can camp in my backyard it you’d like.

So I tug in the kid to have a listen with me.

I adore the song “Proud”, it has the simplicity of NSN but with more balls. Maybe its NSN after puberty?

Mary agrees musically similar to NSN but vocally.. she hesitates and thinks, Stephen Jurzak without auto tune? No no.. she compares the vocals to Every Avenue. hmmm

“Control” is a bit more power but controlled power (get it?). Theres a maturity in this sound, and the falscetto is beautiful. I’m worried they’re going to get lost in the shuffle of good bands with similar sound. They have the twin brothers angle which will help them in the identification area but still.

I like their myspace quote:

“We are The Icarus Account
We are twin brothers Ty and Trey Turner
We live in Florida
Thank you for listening to our music it means the world to us =)
We’d love to talk to you guys, drop us a message/comment!
If you like what you hear please help us spread the word <3
If you want to see us live send us an email about booking, we’d love to play for you!”
- Ty & Trey

Its this absence of arrogance that make me pay more attention.

This is such perfect background music for a Sunday morning. “Mayday” should have been heard earlier this stressful week. Theres a few people I know who would benefit from the lyrics. I never really put up full lyrics cuz it hogs space but these are beautiful and timely

Mayday
Mayday Mayday
Someone save me
I am fragile
Oh somebody rescue me
Oh somebody tell me you will
Concrete Heartache Left me awake
Sleepless Sleeper
Oh somebody wake me up
Oh somebody tell me you will
Tell me that you’re going to save me
That everything is gonna be ok
I’m screaming but nobody can hear me
Can you save me from myself?
How can the be? I’ve tried and tried and tried
But I’m sill lost out at sea
When did I become the things that
I used to hate I’m stranded to this ship
Left to fall with a crash of the waves
Tell me that you’re going to save me That everything is gonna be ok
I’m screaming but nobody can hear me
Can you save me from myself? Mayday Mayday Mayday

Please have a listen to the Icarus Account.
 

Old fashioned By Iman Lababedi

Mike Nessing got it right on this album EXCEPT ti sounds so dated. It sounds like Twist fell in a rabbit hole. That’s the only way I can express my reverence for the fake out ending of “Monkey With A Flashlight”.
There is a question here (Rock NYC has the same one), what are you srlling and who are you selling it to?
I can’t believe the blokes at Pitchfork or Spin are not flipping for this. I realize it’s tough gertting tons of tracks a day but even if Kelley doesn’t perk your interest, if Don Dixon doesn’t don’t pretend you know what you’re doing.
This is a great album (read Nessing’s review if you wanna know why, it is fallen out of time and big time of the moment pop fan me? Love it.