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1. Everything In Its Place – Sonos 2. Pied Piper – Crispian St. Peter 3. Goodbye Girl – The Shins 4. Ferris Wheel – Michelle Shaprov 5. Like We Never […]

So I bought a Tix to Ring The Bells (yeaaah Snoop, yeeaaaaah Rakim. And sure they should guest list me, right? But they didn’t so… And I paid $107.25. $1

Sexier than Tom Jones and Elvis Presley he claimed,  and a two hit wonder only one of which I know, “Pied Piper”, Crispian St. Peter passed away this week. Sorry

Iman Says: “Crossfire” -“lay your body down, tell the devil to come back where he came…” Ah, yes, orgasm as religious ritual!!! Do I sound sarcastic? I don’t feel it,

As promised, the setlist from yesterday’s secret gig in Londay Wednesday night (yeah, I know… you already read this but…) ‘New York City Cops’ ‘The Modern Age’ ‘Hard To Explain’

18 year old Georgia Jagger is the Kooks frontman, apparently recovered from his bout of depression, is dating yet another model. This one has a famous dad who is getting

Advance buzz on a record release is always received by me with a grain of salt. However, in the case of “Fidelity” , the new collaboration between Chrissie Hynde and

I almost wish I had gone to see this film with Iman. He touched on this June 6 and today I saw it. Four days later and about a 180

Happy Birthday Frank Beard! That sharp dressed man from ZZ Top, that helped us all realize that a woman place is in short shorts and a bikini top washing your

My Morning Jacket are playing five nights at Terminal 5 . An album a night I plan to miss the lot but if I was to go I’d go to

Lemme see if I can translate this Christina Aguilera quote for you. Here’s the quote: “I’m such a perfectionist. I’m not doing something unless I give it my all. I

You have 24 hours to find a sexy outfit to wear to Best Buy My darlings Shinobi Ninja will be playing Union Square NYC Best Buy TOMORROW Night (June 12)

1. Ferris Wheel – Michelle Shaprov 2. Like We Never Said Goodbye – Clay Walker 3. Goodbye Girl – The Shins 4. SexSax – Drop The Lime 5. Sometimes I

I know, I know, it is stupid to love the competition (Helen says I’m obsessed with statistics!!)  BUT… next week? According to Billboard it is a three way fight for

I downloaded the free Warped Tour 2010 from Itunes and didn’t know anybody, so this is off the cuff and on the fly. Helluva lotta rock steady… Battle Royale –

So what am I streaming today? Toldja – Sali – Very excellent track from Stereogum and I am trying real hard to download. Sale is from Sri Lanka and here

Hey remember the Magpie and I interviewed Joshua Moore from the band We Came as Romans last month? Well google it, we did. Now news that everyone favorite NON Christiancore

Do you know what this list signifies? Backstreet Boys Beyoncé Knowles Big Mountain Billy Joel Bob Dylan Bobby Johnson Boney M. Bow Wow Boyzone (Hong Kong) Brad Paisley Brian Melo

Its tough when you grow up and realize your cute 20 something days are over. So long to the Go Go’s who wanted to cash one more paycheck before their

May I just say that when President Obama won the election I was neither thrilled nor indifferent. I was hopeful but I didn’t expect miracles. And so far so good.

James Mercer of the Shins has just recorded his cover of Squeeze’s ‘Goodbye Girl’ at the Levi’s Pioneer Sessions. James Mercer explained that he grew up around a lot of

Harmonix, creator of Rock Band just realized they were missing something. Keyboards. Rock Band 3 will FINALLY contain this instrument and I’m sure we will be one of its first

Here we go, where the review are shorter than the song titles. Put em up, knock em down… 1. Like We Never Said Goodbye – Clay Walker – may never

KoRn.. are boycotting BP. As they tour this summer, they will not use any BP products “The daily images are hard to watch,” says front man Jonathan Davis. “We need

I spent half an hour yesterday searching for the CMT Awards results. AP didn’t have em. Examiner didn’t have em. Who had em? Guess just guess. Contactmusic.com out of the

Chrissy Murderbot is the brain behind sleazebot -a really great dance record company. They brought is the great Hanuman “Bola” remixes a month or so ago and it blew me

A must must must see Snoop Dogg doin’ Doggystyle? Unmissable. The password is CLASSIC (thanks brooklynvegan) Here is the link: http://www.ticketfly.com/tickets/event-details/?tfly_event_id=10269

“I didn’t know you were going to be in that bar when I walked in till I walked in”. Two songs into country singer Clay Walker’s new album She Won’t Be Lonely

From Upstate to our house, My Pet Dragon, Todd Michaelsenand his wife, the charmingly named Reena Shah, lead this Brooklyn based band of what they call alt rock and I

1) God, Christina looks naff. What the hell is wrong with her. And 2) This is what she said to Out magazine: “My husband knows that I get into girls. I

Your Love – Nicki Minaj – The Annie Lonax sample is a give away as to how serious the rap world is taking Minaj. That’s some bucks but that’s not

HE’S BACK… Imma let you talk but first, Kanye West will be making his first appearance since his VMA disaster June 27th at the BET Awards. And, according to MTV,

Katy Perry on Lady Gaga’s “Alejandro”: “”Using blasphemy as entertainment is as cheap as a comedian telling a fart joke.” Speaking of fart jokes, Perry’s “California Gurl” stinks and Gaga

We laugh at, not with, the rock critic community (actually why the “critic” dissembler?) and here is another outrageous waste of space. What the fuck is that Rolling Stone cover

New York Magazine offered up their likely contenders for song of the summer. Now let us tell you what we think of their picks. Ps if you are interested in

Breathe Carolina’s always been one of my favourite bands, and when I saw their new music video for “Hello Fascination” I was immediately drawn in. I couldn’t take my eyes

Yeah, I know this is my third shot at Thom Yorke in two days  but… I was working on a yesterday’s hot stories and I got to thinking. Is this

1. Sex Sax (Bart B. More Remix) – Drop the Lime 2. She Won’t be Lonely Long – Clay Walker 3. Back Down To Earth – Michelle Shaprov 4. I

The music of the Beatles is a world apart populated by strange creatures, and I see their universe as a huge landscape, a bright sunny world with many sweet colors.

Happy Birthday Judy Garland. Born today in 1922. What an amazing story, what a fantastic voice. Ive always adored her younger persona she and Micky Rooney goofing it up. There

We have been telling you about how rock the bells at Governor’s island Auguest 28th will rock your world. Now here this. Snoop will be doing Doggystyle IN ITS ENTIRETY…

The Ready Set is the driving backbeat to my best or worst day. Jordan’s music never fails to put a huge goofy smile on my face (especially coming home on

Thom Yorke sees the end of the music biz looming: “It will be only a matter of time – months rather than years – before the music business establishment completely

I can’t find any mp3s on line but here is the poster for last years dance gig of the year at summerstage. All of you who mised it? HarHar!!

Remember how Zach said if Rage Against The Machine became the Christmas # 1 in the UK in 2009, Rage would play a free gig in London. It did. Rage

The Kooks lead singer, Luke Pritchard, fell into a depression after their second album was released (read bombed). And I can see why though I thought it was okay -as

KaiserCartel’s new album “Secret Transit” is exactly what Brooklyn has been working to produce for the last ten years. Thing is, the more you know about Brooklyn, the more you

A friend called me to ask whether she should buy the Broken Bells album. Of course she shouldn’t. It sucks. And nobody except hero worshipping rock critics and die hard

I love John Prine almost as much as the next guy so the thought of a tribute album fills me with something or the other… This one, Broken Hearts And