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Eric Burdon @ Highline Ballroom, 5/15/2013

The band came out, and warmed the room up. the audience had a good mix of people, some old, some middle aged, and some young. Everyone seemed pretty excited, and the energy by this point was strong. Finally, he came out, and the band kicked into "When I Was Young".

Among the highlights were "Spill the Wine", which really sounded very funky and had a lot of life tonight, "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood", which had a sort of reggae feel, We Gotta Get Out Of This Place", "I'm Crying", and, of course, the biggest and most famous song on the list, "House of the Rising Sun".

A strong overall performance by a musical legend, and it was really great to see him again! I think this show was probably a better performance than the two prior times I had seen him, although being front and center last time certainly enhanced the experience, I would say. But this was a very enjoyable evening, at affordable prices, and I was certainly glad to have been there! - [The Charbor Chronicles]

Rock legend Eric Burdon was in town this week with his current version of the Animals for two shows at Highline Ballroom on Wednesday and Thursday (5/15-5/16). (He also played a private show at the John Varvatos store on 5/14.) We caught his first Highline show and pictures from that, as well as the setlist, are in this post.

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It’s been a big year for Rush. Last month the prog-rock icons were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame; now, two of the band’s past labels are reissuing their entire catalog on iTunes. Rush: The Complete Mercury Years and Rush: The Studio Albums 1989-2007, from Universal Music Enterprises and Atlantic Records respectively, have been remastered with “increased audio fidelity, more closely replicating what the artists, recording engineers, and producers intended.”

The Complete Mercury Years features 12 albums released under the Mercury label, from 1974′s self-titled debut to 1989′s live record A Show of Hands. The complete collection includes Fly by Night, Caress of Steel, 2112 (Deluxe Edition), All the World’s a Stage (live), A Farewell to Kings, Hemispheres, Permanent Waves, Moving Pictures, Exit… Stage Left (live), Signals, Grace Under Pressure, Power Windows, and Hold Your Fire.

Meanwhile, Atlantic’s The Studio Albums 1989-2007 collects seven albums: Presto, Roll the Bones, Counterparts, Test for Echo, Vapor Trails, Feedback, and Snakes & Arrows.

The collections can now be purchased on iTunes as entire packages, individual albums, or single songs. Rush’s most recent record, Clockwork Angels, is also still available from An...

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Earlier this week, bassist Eric Avery announced his departure from Nine Inch Nails. Even though the band’s first show isn’t scheduled until late July, Trent Reznor wasted no time finding a replacement. As announced on the band’s Facebook page, longtime Nine Inch Nails collaborator Robin Finck has rejoined the band, and is already involved in rehearsals.

Fink has toured off and on with Nine Inch Nails since the mid-90s, and appears on five studio album. For this latest tour, he’ll perform alongside Reznor, Adrian Belew (King Crimson), and Josh Eustis (Telefon Tel Aviv), along with previous NIN collaborators Alessandro Cortini and Ilan Rubin.

Nine Inch Nails 2013 Tour Dates:
07/26

by Bill Pearis

We haven't had a new album from onetime Miracle Legion and Polaris frontman Mark Mulcahy since 2005's In Pursuit of Your Happiness (one of my favorites of that year). (He unfortunately had to deal with some personal tragedies.) That is too long to be away from one of the great voices in music. That will change next month when the singer releases Dear Mark J Mulcahy I Love You via Mezzotint/Fire on June 18. Working with veteran indie rock knob-twiddler Paul Q. Kolderie, the new album finds Mulcahy in fine form, his raggedly emotive vocals warming you like a great be hug. You can stream two tracks from the album -- "She Makes The World Turn Backwards" and "Let The Fireflies Fly Away" -- below and both are terrific. Welcome back, Mark!

As mentioned, Mark will play NYC on June 27 at Mercury Lounge, shortly after his appearance at Wilco's Solid Sound Festival. Tickets for that show are still available. He's got shows throughout the summer and all tour dates, plus new LP artwork and tracklist and those song streams, are below.

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Queens of the Stone Age have posted the video "My God is the Sun," the latest single from ...Like Clockwork and one of several videos/snippets released by the band. Check that out below and order yours via Matador.

QOTSA have a limited number of US dates scheduled thus far, but will play Made in America, Austin City Limits and select other dates. All other tour dates, and those videos, are listed below.

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Singer's nephew says choreographer's claims are untrue

Hey, another one of these! The fifth bloodily animated video for a song from the new Queens Of The Stone Age album …Like Clockwork is for the epic, churning, triumphant first single “My God Is The Sun.” In the clip, the dead stars of the videos for “I Appear Missing,” “Kalopsia,” “Keep Your Eyes Peeled,” and “If I Had A Tail” all reawaken as a gigantic winged sun rises in the sky. It all plays out like something a shop-class stoner might dream if he fell asleep watching Heavy Metal. Check it out below.

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VICE has former-Three 6 Mafia member Gangsta Boo review videos by M.I.A., Azealia Banks, Angel Haze, Brooke Candy, and more; here are some highlights.

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About three-quarters of the way through their first set in New York since 2011, Paramore brought things back to the start. Lead singer Hayley Williams relayed to the sold out Hammerstein Ballroom a story about the early days of the band, when the then teenage group played in empty rooms to crowds who couldn’t care less. This led into a rendition of All We Know Is Falling cut “Whoa”, which is about as simple as the title would suggest. Rather than a celebration of the past, the song was more of an awestruck ode to how far they’ve come. “This is such a simple song, and we thought we were geniuses when we wrote it,” said Williams, stifling a laugh because, for their brand of intelligent pop-punk, they may as well be labeled geniuses now. The occasion behind the show was the tour behind their latest and greatest (by some margin) album, the self-titled Paramore.

“This new album

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Mood Rings are a genre-melding indie pop group from Atlanta. They’re gearing up to make their Mexican Summer debut in June and with it comes “Hollow Dye (Defected Crystal).” The song rattles from dreamy post-punk before making a measured turn into its hazy conclusion. It has levels. Check it out below.

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