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Twin Sister are a duo from Brooklyn and Long Island and I have yet to hear a thing from them though  they have a new EP Color Your Life. It […]

Today only: How To Destroy An Angel’s debut EP -this is  Mr. and Mrs Reznor’s new band, is being given away free on their website. I will review it once

Didja ever call the Irving Plaza, the Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza? That isn’t a club name, it’s a run on sentence. So don’t bother remembering it now because effective June

Speaking with DJ Grace Of Spades Sunday at Bowery Electric, she bemoaned the State of New York Rock Clubs. Me? I thought the state of club life was fine -there

Further to rock nyc contributor Hala El-Djazairy’s post last week, Lady Gaga has testetd borderline positive for Lupas. Her Auntie died of the disease and though she does not have

Hey Mr. Drop the Lime, Mr. Trouble And Bass. Mr. Venezia. What the fuck??? rock nyc have been writing incessantly about you since the summerstage gig and we don’t expect

When rock stars are under the influence of drugs or alcohol, it really changes your opinion of them. Perfect example? Christofer Drew Ingle. He was growing up right with his

If ‘Yoshimi battles the pink robots’ was about the fight between the girl and the death, with all these ‘she’ in the lyrics, ‘Embryonic’ could be the fight between the

Last week did not only take Dennis Hopper and Slipknot bassit Paul Grey, but also Mr Gary Coleman. That lovable boy who turned into a freakin psycho kicking women’s asses

The teen pop sensation, Miley Cyrus has revealed that she doesn’t like the hit TV Show, Glee. She may like Madonna and Lady Gaga, but she just can’t stand the

As regular readers will probably have realized by now, Joe Steinhardt is one of my vaorite wrongers certainly of this decade and possibly ever.If all he had ever written was

If you can’t sit down and study for finals in silence, tapping your pencil against your desk and hoping that you ace it, you need a sufficient playlist that won’t

On May 15th new York State failed to renew the law allowing ticket brokers to resell tickets and any price they choose to putting online ticket brokers into chaos. Why?

Yep, read the title of this post. Kaiser Cartel’s second album, Secret Transit, to be released June 8th is all of that and more…The Brooklyn based duo, together since 2004,

1. Hater – Various Productions 2. All Talk (feat Chip The Ripper) – Kid Cudi 3. Brave Enough – Kaiser Cartel 4. Content – No Paws (No Lions) 5. Getting

Why would I do this? No idea, I just feel like it… let’s go: 1. Lover’s Day – TV On The Radio – Undeniable brooklyn fuse sex song 2. Red

Before becoming an embodiment of Gladwell’s Outliers as the US’ greatest living Soprano, Renee Fleming lowered her voice a little and sang in cabarets. Her version of the Nat King

After the set I ask the chick singer if Obamanation have anything recorded yet. they haven’t. Obamanation have just started out. They don’t have a webpage, they don’t have a Facebook

I went to the Bowery Ballroom at 8 on the dot to finally watch Don Giovanni Records (co-owned by friend to rock nyc Joe Steinhardt) after missing em a couple

It is very hard to be objective when you love a band for who they are. You can see past a slew of weak with an ounce of love. Shinobi

There are three great baseball songs a) Take Me Out To the Ballgame b) Brown Eyed Handsome Man c) Centerfield There is no seventh inning stretch without “Take Me Out

I got lucky. Twenty years after I stopped being a rock critic I got back into writing about music where 1) It is possibly the greatest era ever for popular

Hey Wheels: Please help me. I have two dates tonight! One girl wants to go to the Pregnant concert, the other to Bon Jovi. I prefer the Bon Jovi girl

MIA posted both the NYT interview (I listened for a minute but it is as boring as the interviews I have to listen to for rock nyc) and there is also

1. Pendulum – ‘Immersion’ 2. Michael Buble – ‘Crazy Love’ 3. Glee Cast – ‘Glee The Music Vol 3 Showstoppers 4. Katie Melua – ‘The House’ 5. The Rolling Stones

Journey’s is a store. Like, hmm a cool kids sneaker store. Catering to skaters and hipsters I suppose but basically theyre just 100 shoes So theyre smart enough to capitolize

When Helen Bach emailed me that Dennis Hopper died, my somewhat laconic question was “did he ever play in a rock band”. Well, he didn’t but he seemed to find

1. Dizzee Rascal – ‘Dirtee Disco’ 2. B.o.B – ‘Nothin’ On You’ (feat. Bruno Mars) 3. Iyaz – ‘Solo’ 4. Jason Derulo – ‘Ridin’ Solo’ 5. Eminem – ‘Not Afraid’

1. Content – No Paws (No Lions) 2. All Talk (Feat Chip The Ripper) – Kid Cudi 3. Gettin’ Over You (Feat Fergie and LMFAO) – David Guetta and Chris

“Jonathon Low”, Vampre Weekend’s new song off the eagerly dreaded “Eclipse” soundtrack, answers two question: 1) Yes, you can write a song for the “Twilight” series without automatically losing every

All I can do is stream this awesome Major Lazer remix tape featuring La Roux who I don’t write about often enough at all because I don’t like her hair

66 year old French singer superstar Johnny Halliday drank himself into a coma according to L.A. Cedars-Sinai Hospital. This comes after Halliday sued the hospital for botching an operation on

Hey Wheels, love what you are doing here and i need your help. I am in love with my best friend’s girl. I feel so dirty when they start talking cute.

Scratch a glossy, big selling, cool, youthful business and what you get is the sort of thieving, carpetbagging monopolists I’ve been warning you about for a year. 1) Twenty-Six year

Writing for Broadway (whoops, the West End) is not the same as writing songs as Lily Allen, who has just signed on to write the score for a musical version

Days old gossip: you can’t start it like a car, you can’t stop it with a gun… and this gossip is so old Helen has already covered the hayley and

Rock NYC back at Summer Jam for the first time in years… Drake Trey Songz Ludacris Juelz Santana Nicki Minaj Fabolous Talib Kweli & Hi-Tek (NOT billed as Reflection Eternal)

I found these guys while reading a review of Lana Mir’s upcoming solo album. I am not sure sure if they are a play to pay site and the writing

I am sure I am not alone in gagging in anticipation of the new T.I. album. He has been on a roll since he got out of jail (he is

Have I got time to add these indie jerks on to my list of bands i am sick of? The Drums are the most over-rated band on earth, even Morrissey

So there I was grooving on some Decemberists on youtube. So I just left it working on another screen when the song another begins. Nothing Id heard before but I

I got this from contactmusic.com Here is Kanye West on the Arizona Immigration State Law: “”When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, they arrested her. As a result,

1. Open Book – Kevin Greenspon 2. Vivre Pari Te – Los Amigos Invisbles 3. Getting Over You (feat Fergie, LMFAO, Chris Willis) 4. Content – No Paws(No Lions) 5.

Madeleine Peyroux belongs to the special kinds, she does not follow any trend or style, she stays away from publicity, she does not want to be famous, her songs are

Mary sez: Kevin Greenspon’s song “Open Book” is not very pleasing to the ear. The music isn’t too bad, it’s the vocals. What’s with the two people singing in completely

June 5th, Saturday, 3p – Living Colour/EBony Bones/Pillow Theory/CX Kidtronic – Vernon Reid Hard rock conglom back for free. June 6th, Sunday 3pm – Los Van Van/Jose Conde –  Tribute to

June 4th – Nellie McKay at Feinstein’s June 5th – Living Color At Summerstage June 6th – Summer Jam at Meadowland June 8th – Kaiser Cartel at Joe’s Pub June