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May 22 Exclusive Interview With Central Park Summerstage Artistic Director Erika Elliott
“The diversity and strength of the music SummerStage presents is arguable as well rounded and representative of New York City (and the World) as you will find anywhere, and Im extremely proud of that.”
Posted 22 May 2012 by Iman Lababedi  Add comment
May 22 A Renaissanc​e- Chatting With the Goofy, Tall, Individual William Beckett
Starting anew, Beckett says that in a band “you’re a bit tethered to what you’ve done before.” Now that he’s solo, he’s able to “focus it all in, and hone it and follow my instincts.” He’s doing it how he wants, free from the reigns of other’s input.
Posted 22 May 2012 by Mary Magpie  Add comment
May 22 What The Toxicology Report Says About Elliott Smith’s Mysterious Death.
I have to repeat it: he had a normal dose of prescribed meds the day he died, hadn’t drunk any alcohol nor taken any street drugs,… no cold turkey, no overdose and all other stories you may have read or heard are lies.
Posted 22 May 2012 by Alyson Camus  Add comment
May 22 WCCC Mass Chaos 2012 Comcast Theater Hartford CT Saturday May 19, 2012
I got there later than I wanted to but I got there in time to catch some great band with a great crowd on a perfect late spring day. WCCC has been around as the hard rock station of Hartford CT for longer than I have but still remain current and keep rock alive in this lame city.
Posted 22 May 2012 by hel and zach  Add comment
May 22 Maroon 5 ft. Wiz Khalifa “Payphone” Video, Reviewed
The song itself is your typical “we broke up and I miss her” song. It kind of has the overall message of people change and I guess we changed because you dumped me but I wish we could go back to the way things were.
Posted 22 May 2012 by Henry Sins  Add comment
May 22 Not With The Band: Isn’t Forgiveness Always A Lie?
First of all why should I forgive Chris Brown? I wasn’t the one whom he assaulted, he didn’t do anything to me (or to Cheryl Cole), I have nothing to forgive him, if there is some forgiveness to occur, it’s between him and Rihanna. But then, abusers, especially physical abusers, are a special species, there are actions which are truly unforgivable.
Posted 22 May 2012 by Alyson Camus  Add comment
May 22 From Sinead O’Connor To Van Halen: Meet The Week Of The Cancelled Concert
I caught Sinead and Van Halen earlier this year. The VH reunion beat out the Beach Boys gigwise, so if you have tix and now aren’t going… well, it sucks to be you!
Posted 22 May 2012 by Iman Lababedi  Add comment
May 22 Despite What You Think, Delta Goodrem Has Never Heard Of Arcade Fire
There is an undeniable similarity indeed, that crescendo with the piano, but her voice is auto-tuned-commercial-style, and for me, her song sounds so much like a bad remix ready for dance clubs, that it is difficult to hear the Arcade Fire song. But the most surprising in this story is that Goodrem had never heard of Arcade Fire… wow, Australia is really the last frontier.
Posted 22 May 2012 by Alyson Camus  Add comment
May 22 Can I Get a Hum Hallelujah? Patrick Stump Not Quitting Music
is not unlike the pretty girl who keeps saying shes ugly to get the compliment bus heading her way, or is it? Stump seems the most un-ego driven artist in pop. He doesn’t hug a genre and he didn’t bow to Pete Wentz (then again where is he these days??)
Posted 22 May 2012 by Helen Bach  Add comment
May 22 New Goth Heroine For A Bored Old Anti-Magical Age: Cate Le Bon
So I went in search of Cate on stage, only to discover I missed her at Mercury Lounge in February and more fool me. Proof again that in the 21st century, you can’t keep your ear close enough to the grounnd.
Posted 22 May 2012 by Iman Lababedi  Add comment
May 22 Mark Ronson’s “Wild Nights” With Michael Jackson
”I was probably 12. He was super cool. You’re 12 years old and he’s the world’s most famous overgrown kid, who’s running around your friend’s apartment with you. It was pretty wild.”
Posted 22 May 2012 by Iman Lababedi  Add comment
May 22 Chrissie Hynde The 200,000th Signature To End Animal Testing
Animals are kept in deplorable conditions and subjected to barbaric tests to make sure that shade of lipstick will do you no harm. The problem is the tests have been done thousands of times before. The results are the same, yet we continue to torture in the name of beauty.
Posted 22 May 2012 by Helen Bach  Add comment
May 22 Listen Up 5-22-12
I’m Still The Same Person – Sister Crayon – How were they last night? I dunno yet, but if this is anything to go by they were a haunted buncha kids with a good chick singer, sound effects and keyboards aplenty in this Sacramento indie band – Grade: B+
Posted 22 May 2012 by Iman Lababedi  Add comment
May 21 Paul Weller At Best Buy Theater, Saturday, May 19th, 2012
His set at Best Buy on Saturday night was the man we have seen for over 35 years; playing his solo material, more,than that, his 21st Century solo material, looking back atsome mid-90s solo career highs and throwing in an occasional Jam song for taste.
Posted 21 May 2012 by Iman Lababedi  Add comment
May 21 William Beckett The Space Saturday May 19, 2012
Opening up with a Damien Rice tune, playing a few unreleased songs, and even an acoustic rendition of “Seed”, it was certainly eclectic. The live version of “Girl You Should Have Been A Drummer” was so great and his energy was untoppable.
Posted 21 May 2012 by Magpie and Hel  Add comment

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Nat and Alex Wolff of The Naked Brothers Band went Indie?!

Written by Layna Cloud
Tuesday, 15 November 2011 00:13
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Excuse me? Hold on, and where the fuck was I?!

I am going to sound like a total dweeb and/or tween right now (it seriously kills me inside,) but I was going through a bunch of old mixed CDs I made through out the years, laughing at all the Gwen Stefani, Ashlee Simpson, and Japanese J-pop I had on there, and I came across a song called “I Don’t Want To Go To School.” That’s when I started laughing hysterically at myself, remembering how obsessed I was with these guys. No, they weren’t grubby, unwashed, lonely, hot and drunken rock stars.No, they were Nat and Alex Wolff from the 2005-2009 popular Nickelodeon showThe Naked Brothers Band.

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Ten Years Vamp – Ing: Their Time Is Coming

Written by Iman Lababedi
Monday, 07 November 2011 00:08
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Why a certain band makes it and another doesn't is a matter for conjecture though if Ten Year's Vamp doesn't crack the charts, I'll be surprised. And I will also pinpoint the problem: TYV are a mainstream rock-pop band who need a major label to push em.

Lead by Debbie Gabrione, the Albany, New York band come across as a dance rock mash up but their abilities lie in rock and roll. Debbie is a powerful singer who feels trifled with when she sings ballds, she strains to resist rocking out; in the hard fast number she seems to explode out at you.

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William Beckett, “Ordinary World”

Written by Helen Bach
Thursday, 27 October 2011 00:10
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First off, I forgot how much I loved this song.  Its a total tear jerker.  I never liked Duran Duran, the original creators of this ditty but I did adore this song.  William Beckett, the former lead of The Academy Is…seems to take away some of the flash and add an almost melancholy to it.

The Academy Is..  has broken up leaving its charismatic leader band less.  With guitar and a LayZ Boy chair he certainly brings a new element to this song.  I cant help but wonder what will he do now?  I mean I don't think making youtube videos in your bedroom is a moneymaker… well not if your singing cover songs.

I hope.  I hope William Beckett gets on board with a new band.  I sorta dig him after seeing this.  Hes more mature but still vulnerable.  Very catchy and a great growth spurt for a great song.