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VIVIAN GIRLS

HOW WEEZER INVENTED EMO

Bob Dylan’s early career seems fated now but in the 1960s it appeared to be veering off in million directions

The difference between the songs used in the just released DVD of “Watchmen” and the the just released movie “(500)

Bob Dylan in the 1960sEvery Album reviewed

LOS CAMPESINOS WILL GET DRUNK AND CALL YOU AT FOUR IN THE MORNING

Money Won’t Change You – James BrownPromised Land – Chuck BerryMrs. Vanderbilt – Paul McCartneyThe Man Who Can’t Be Moved

The warm up act Irish lads the Script are doing their best, even pointing out Paul McCartney’s dressing room somewhere

MACCA AT CITIFIELD REVIEWED

Did you ever see that Twilight Zone where astronauts land in this place and everything looks like white picket fence

FANSNAP IS DA BOMB… IT IS BRAND NEW, IT COMPARES ALL PRICES FOR SOLD OUT CONCERTS OUT THERE, IT TELLS

English journalist Julie Burchill once said to me that rock critics were frustrated rock stars with a lot of unused

Many years ago I interviewed the Pretenders, wrote the story and mailed it to Creem. Upon publication I was shocked

George Best was the greatest English, er, Irish winger of all time. A legendary Man United soccer player and worldclass

Whitney Houston was the best vocalist to come out of the 80s. Even the weakest of songs were saved by

Popular young Salsa singer Frankie Negron will be at Joe’s Pub on Astor Place, 730p, Tuesday August 11th, 2009. If

THE ROCK CRITIC AS ROCK STAR

GOD ONLY KNOWS

You and I, we have a bad hour, a bad day, we’re irritational, we say what we shouldn’t say or

“now I live here and I’m fixing wheelchairs…”

Hot Girls in the Bathroom – Dallas AustinExasperated – Dallas AustinYellow Light – TwislaThe last time I saw Austin he

MORE ABOUT RUFUS’ OPERA FROM NEW YORK MAGAZINE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMtab4n3q_k

The difference between London Punk 1977 and New York City Punk 1977 is the difference between a snarl and a

A great young rock singer, a Patrick Stickles or a Gareth Campesino, is like a street car racer: they roar

POP SINGERS, KANT, AND THE MORAL IMPERATIVE

Thanks Brooklyn Vegan for using my review to help illustrate Leia Jospe’s pics Of Titus Andronicus at the Whitney Friday

All property is theft so I took what was already mine when I lifted this list of most popular summer

IN MY EAR? BELLS ARE RINGING aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!

The Ugly Duckling – Danny Kaye – After a thirty year reign the musical was showing its age and never

I am standing behind a kid during the last song of Titus Andronicus’ fascinating set at the Whitney Museum of

Just for the heck of it and because The Beatle post took so much out of me and I’m not

So much has been said about the Beatles it is difficult not to tread where others have or even everyone

Two newly minted West Coast bands for you. Hockey are from Portland, Oregon. Mi Ami from San Francisco. Hockey are

Obsessed – Mariah CareyYesterday afternoon at the MJ tribute MC over did the glissando’s as she does all too often,

Marie Lynn took these photographs of Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band, July 3rd, 2009 at Toad’s Place, New

Yeah Yeah Yeah’s “It’s Blitz”? Hasn’t stood the test of time. Dead Eyed Peas? Maybe. Franz Ferdinand? Maybe again. Eminen

American Saturday Night – Brad Paisley Her Diamonds – Rob Thomas – Fine version on NBC’s Macy’s Firworks last night

Halfway into his first vocal on the jaunty “Sausilito” it is clearly apparent Conor’s voice is shot. He isn’t hoarse,

This the best… Taylor gets her thug on… You can find it on dailymotion.com (they took it off youtube for

Here’s a syllogism for all you pop pickers. Demand for MTV lead to the demise of the Soviet Union. Demand

Novelist Martin Amis has always had a tiring air of priviledge about him. His father was the great English comic

May I be the last to say too much from “Horizon” and no “Stuck In Moment”??? Breathe No Line on

EVERY BEATLE US UK ALBUM REVIEWED AND GRADED

In 2001 I went to see Madonna on the Drowned Tour (her best of the decade, maybe ever) and in

Novelist Vladimer Nabakov once noted that all fiction writing is an act of faith in God: as God gives life

Questions For the Angels – Paul SimonTennessee Jed – Levon HelmGrowing Trade – Levon HelmReal World 09 – Rob ThomasHer

This is an hysterical parody taking on the great Z, and besting him…Enjoy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nej4xJe4Tdg

I have no idea what I am talking about but I don’t like this at all. On a sunny Sunday

As we mourn the passing of R&B crossover genius Michael Jackson let’s remember a genius English pop Princess Kirsty MacColl

PHIL LYNOTT AND THIN LIZZY VISIT THE QUALITY STREET GANG ON THE STREETS OF MANCHESTER