RoneBreak Contributor: NewmRadio

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Mike is Associate Producer and Segment Writer for Alice Cooper's syndicated classic rock radio show, Nights With Alice Cooper and also writes music pieces for several blogs, including Blog Critics and his own, NewmRadio.

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http://newmradio.wordpress.com/

Texting Ozzy

This Ozzy/Samsung advert is hilarious! And check it out…if I’m not amiss here, Ozzy texts the “F-bomb” to the barista at about 12 seconds in. Am I right?

What’s This Tell You About The Way The World Sees Our Bush?

You give America a bad name, Jorge. Good riddance. Try not to fall on ‘the button’ on your way out. Thanks for never once representing anything I believe in while in office. Nice work, douche. (Sorry, venting after 8 years of biting my tongue)

Book Review: Classic Electrics - A Visual History of Great Guitars

We’re nearing Holiday shopping time again and I’ve come across a perfect stocking stuffer gift for your favorite little rocker. Jawbone Press brings you Walter Carter’s Classic Electrics – A Visual History of Great Guitars and it’s sure to please the gear-head axe-grinder in your life …or perhaps that’s you!

From Bruce Springsteen’s Telecaster to Brian May’s signature Guild and from Eddie Cochran’s Gretsch 6120 to Strawberry Alarm Clock’s custom-made green skateboard cutout Mosrite (yeah, you have to see it to believe it!), Classic Electrics is pure eye-candy for electric guitar geeks. There are over 350 guitars represented in the book and they all have brilliant photos and informative text, and some with period brochure reproductions and promotional shots. Perfect coffee table fodder and rock conversation starter. Read more

Frances Comes Alive!

If you’re in the New York tri-state area this Friday (November 21st), then you MUST go to the Mercury Lounge to see our good friends, Frances, play their energetic, super-tight live show for their debut full-length album release party. The album is called All The While and it is absolutely brilliant, full of catchy hooks, amazing harmonies, and melt-in-your-mouth melodies. If you can’t be at the show on Friday, you can get yourself a copy of the album from Amazon for under $10 or you can get the digital download at Amie Street for just half of $10! Dig the cover/flyer for the show…

So, hopefully I’ll see you at the show, but if not, make sure to catch this band on the rise in the near future. They’ll probably play in your town in 2009!

The after-party is at Stanton Public.

Listen to songs at the Frances website.

Download the song “All The While” for free at RCRD LBL.

Cheers!

R.I.P. Mitch Mitchell

First, this year we lost the amazing Buddy Miles of Jimi Hendrix’s Band of Gypsies, now we must mourn the loss of another fantastic and truly original Hendrix drummer from the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Mitch Mitchell.  R.I.P. Mitch!  We’ll always love your killer snare fills!

Yes - The New Director’s Cut DVD

On the same day that the phrase “Yes We Can” became the United States’ official new governing philosophy, the premier progressive rock band of all time, Yes, kicked off their In The Present 40^th Anniversary tour…with at least one big but. Due to some respiratory health problems that have plagued long-time Yes singer and spiritual leader, Jon Anderson, the band has replaced him for this tour with Canadian Yes tribute band singer, Benoit David. And the smaller but is that keyboardist, Rick Wakeman, who has always been a little flighty anyway, has been replaced by his son, Oliver. The band is rounded out by Yes mainstays Steve Howe (guitar), Chris Squire (bass) and Alan White (drums). Replacing Anderson has been more than controversial to Yes die-hards (including this writer) and even to Anderson himself, but reports from early In The Present gigs are very positive and Benoit David really does nail Anderson’s vocals perfectly (perhaps too perfectly). Even so, many fans still won’t be rushing out to buy Yes concert tickets until Anderson is back in the band. And to bide time until that happens, those skeptics can turn to Yes - The New Director’s Cut from MVD Visual. Read more

Lee Dorsey & Barack Obama - YES WE CAN!

I’ve had this Allen Toussaint-produced album for a couple years, and it’s never sounded better than today…especially with Obama speeches mashed up in it! Dig…

Direct link = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gooD9rYUm3k

David Byrne Just Emailed Me…

…and he’s got some things to say to counteract the douchebaggery of Mr. Lawless a couple posts below. Seems David is sans bloody saw blade codpiece…

*photo courtesy of Chris Buck

Click through to read the email… Read more

And the Endorsement (and Codpiece) Everyone’s Been Waiting On Is Finally Here…

Everyone has been on the edge of their seats, not sure of who to vote for up till now. It is now that we can all breathe a sigh of relief; now that the political guru and musical icon who is known to “F*ck Like A Beast” with his rotary sawblade crotch, and who is known to the world over as the amazing…the one…the only…Blackie Lawless, of course of W.A.S.P. mega-fame, has finally laid down all the wisdom that we will need in order to step into the voting booths on Tuesday! Thank you for doing the thinking for us, Blackie…why can’t you be President instead?!

Click through for the Lawless Manifesto… Read more

Dungen @ Kemado Records CMJ Showcase - Music Hall of Williamsburg

You’ve probably heard me singing the praises of Dungen’s brand of Swedish psych-folk rock before, and I’m still singing…especially after the recent release of the 4 album and the Kemado Records CMJ showcase that they headlined on Friday night at the Music Hall of Williamsburg. If you have any kind of ear for beautiful throwback psychedelic rock they way that I do, you are already a big fan. And if you’ve never heard them and you’re still reading this, listen up below! This is “Satt Att Se” from their new album, 4 (which is indeed their 4th album)…. Read more

Chinese Democracy Really DOES Exist!

…and it WILL actually be released! I believe it’s late November. BUT, I just found out that I’ll have a (legal) copy at work as early as today. I’ve gotta say that I’m kinda excited about it. And no, I won’t share it with you because I’m looking to stay out of jail. So what’s it been, 15 years since The Spaghetti Incident album? And that wasn’t even a real album. Do you think this one (of the 15 or so that were posted on Amazon) will be the cover…

And Once Again… Republicans Don’t Rock!

Rolling Stone reports that even light country-rocker, Jon Bon Jovi wants the McCain/Palin campaign who have been using the Bon Jovi song “Who Says You Can’t Go Home” at rallies, to lay off of their music! Says RS:

The McCain campaign maintains that they have made the necessary clearances for use of songs by Foo Fighters, Heart and others…

But the point is none of these rockers have any respect for your campaign, so clearance or not, they’re gonna speak up for their songs so their fans don’t think they’re as douchey as you and Palin. Especially after that huffy-puffy whiny performance at the final debate last night, John. You’re a sad, lying, grumpy old man.

I’ve said it many times before and I’ll say it again…Republicans don’t rock in any way, shape, or form…so please stop trying. It’s embarassing. Want to prove that you still have a little bit of your soul intact…vote for Obama on November 4th!

Black Ice Leaked

…legally.  Check out AC/DC’s rockin’ new album at VH1’s The Leak.  I’m telling you, this is an album you’ll want to own if you just have at least one rockin’ bone in your body.  The album will be released on October 20th at a Wal-Mart near you.  We NYC’ers thankfully don’t have Wal-Mart’s evil empire stores in our city, so I wonder where we’re supposed to get the album from.

Anyway, stream Black Ice here and be ready to bang your fuggin’ head!

Again…Republicans and Rock Don’t Mix…Cease and Desist!

There’s a great piece over at the Rolling Stone blog today that talks about all the recent artists who took umbrage to Republicans using their music for their campaigns…primarily McCain/Palin.

The best part of the piece though is the commenters who are upset with Rolling Stone being “the liberal media” that wonders why Rolling Stone isn’t “attacking” the Obama campaign for using someone’s music. Duuuuurrrrrrrr!!!!!! And they’re also telling RS to “stick to music” and “stay out of politics”, which is hilarious since Rolling Stone has always written about politics since its inception during the Vietnam War, and made no bones about their leftist stance. Be sure to check out all the comments…they’re sad and hilarious all at the same time…as is life. Here’s a fun little sampling though… Read more

Jesus Was A Democrat

I’ve never been a big Everclear fan, but Bob Lefsetz just turned me on to their new song, “Jesus Was A Democrat”, which the band is giving away on their website…absolutely no strings attached (no email address, no pop-up ads, no nothin’). Here it is on their website. Grab it, take a listen, and conitnue reading. Why are they making it free? Lefsetz says it best:

…America is pissed.

America is pissed about so much. And feels too often that politicians don’t care about them. And there’s scads of ignorance, purveyed by biased talk show hosts and bloviating, supposedly neutral, TV talking heads. And everybody’s afraid. You get people saying Sarah Palin won the Vice Presidential debate and you wonder if you watched the same show. When I didn’t answer the questions in school, I flunked. And suddenly, by going to school, working damn hard, studying to get good grades to get into a good college, I’m an elitist, my opinion is to be discounted. I shouldn’t have gone to public school, I should have gone to a parochial institution, to be indoctrinated in viewpoints that don’t square with reality. Worse yet, be home schooled. That’s code for “Christian Right Education”.

Hate me all you want. Tell me you can get infections hanging with the underprivileged in regular high schools, that you can teach your kids better than those underpaid teachers. But what about socialization, what about opposing viewpoints? How can there be a dialogue when there’s not another side?

And that’s what we have in America today, only one side. Everybody’s on his own side, only speaking to himself, like-minded people. Who’s going to change the equation? Certainly not politicians, elected officials. Obama’s got to say he’s for drilling to get elected, because the person paying four bucks a gallon doesn’t know that it’ll take eons for said oil to reach the pump. We’ve got the businessmen raping and pillaging, the politicians lying, at best being expedient, and the only people we can count on to speak the truth have abdicated their power, their duty, their role. That’s what the job of the artist is. To question authority, challenge convention, speak the unpopular, if it’s the truth. And that’s what Art Alexakis and Everclear have done in “Jesus Was A Democrat”.

That is a large quote from Lefsetz’s argument but you should also read the rest here, because it’s pretty damn brilliant. He’s right, America is pissed, and I’ve never been more pissed about the ignorant thinking of some of my fellow Americans than right now….after seeing the McCain campaign chose Palin as a running mate (pure bullshit right-wing strategy that even Sarah Palin should be offended by), the lies that McCain’s campaign is spewing about Barack Obama (which Obama’s campaign is brilliantly taking the ’stay positive’ moral high-road on), the bullshit emails from right-wing relatives in the sticks claiming that Bill Clinton is responsible for all the disasters of the past eight years (c’mon!), the scary YouTube videos of folks outside the McCain rallies in Ohio and Pennsylvania yelling that Obama is a terrorist (and somehow believing that), and all the other complete idiocy that bull-headed Republicans have to make themselves believe in order to stick with their party…which has now become more important than the well-being of other fellow Americans who live under different circumstances then they do. Read more

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