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Today there was a flurry of headlines announcing the death of metal God Ronnie James Dio. Although very ill and hospitalized with stomach cancer, the words of his demise are […]

Six months on the Shinobi Kids are all grown up. So grown up they forgot to put my name on the guestlist so twelve bucks later at a packed out

Besides my taking truly ghastly pictures of them both, hard rock, hip hop party band Shinobi Ninjas and jersey shore bar prog-rock wall of guitar band Saturday Astrology  would appear

Magpie faves Minus The Bear have released a video for the first single off Omni, their new lp. “My Time”, in video form is reported to be a minute shorter

Verdi we know. How don’t we know the great operas, the “Il Traviata”s and “Aida”s are part of the canon and part of our musical culture. But Requiems? Towards the

1. Born Free – MIA 2. Stop! – Shinobi Ninja 3. Don’t You Want To Share The Guilt – Kate Nash 4.A/B Machines – Sleigh Bells 5. Albert Camus –

This post is solely self serving cuz it simply gives me a chance to  have a really yummy picture of Scott Weiland put up to stare at.  Mr Weiland is

The Daleks are back Repeat The Daleks Are back The very last spaceship of Daleks, injured, dying, have managed to duplicate their DNA. Also, the new Dr. Who’s Matt Smith

Tom Kaulitz, the 20 year old heart throb from the oddly plumaged and talentless Tokio Hotel had a 2 day hard on. Honestly, I couldn’t make this up and it

Life Alert was NOT there but should have been cuz Today in Rock History May 16 1998 The Rolling Stones are forced to cancel a few dates on the European

Happy Vegas sized birthday to. Liberace!!!!!!! Actually its Wladziu Valentino Liberace born May 16 ,1919 So you’re saying, “hey hel what the hell are you doing writing about.. who the

Maybe you hadda be there. Maybe Mary Magpie can find some redeeming qualities once she fully revcovers from her concussion (she was in a car accident: best wishes, kid) though

Ian Astbury is acting like he still has a career. Lead singer and former hotcake of The Cult apparently now sits on his ass and complains about people As you

I have already written about Harper Simon’s debut album a month ago, but I want to come back to him since he has recorded a session on Daytrotter.com. After the

Today in Rock History we all got the feeling we’d been cheated 1980 Sex Pistols film The Great Rock and Roll Swindle has limited release Directed by Julian Temple (No

Happy Birthday to that freaky bastard Brian Eno. Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno musician, composer, record producer, music theorist and singer, inspirer? There is

1. A/B Machine – Sleigh Bells 2.Acarpenter – Gucci Soundsystem 3. Giant – Vampire Weekend 4. I Like It (feat Pitbull) – Enrique Iglesias 5. Albert Camus – Seizing Elian

Will Drake please shut the fuck up about his new album because a) it is prolly gonna be no better than the B.o.B. viz a coupla great songs and a

1. California Gurl (feat Snoop Dogg) – Katy Perry 2. OMG (feat Will I Am) – Usher 3. Not Afraid _ Eminem 4. Airplanes – B.o.B. 5. Your Love Is

1. The Monitor – Titus Andronicus 2. Raymond Vs Raymond – Usher 3. Storage – Wesley Wolfe 4. Treats – Sleigh Bells 5. All Days Are Nights: Songs For Lulu

Readers with no life whatsoever might remember I was whinging about having bought Sleigh Bell’s excellent first album Treats (already one of the best of the year) Clean version by

Pitbull cancelled his Phoenix gig because of Arizona’s new State law which allows the police to ask for documents proving people they stop for other reasons live in the country

So I’m planning to catch Verdi’s requiem at Hunter’s College at 730p because rock nycer Bobby Sciortino is singing with em and I gotta represent!!! And then 1030p, the Shinobi

I’ve had it. Nostalgia is for suckers and listen if you want width or depth forget the foucking sixties, And if you were gay, black, a woman… FORGET THE SIXTIES.

Familiarity breeds contempt -just look at the gifted Lady Gaga who has already felt the steady pitter patter of indifierence heading her way. And we can’t tell hype from the

Bret Michaels on Oprah Wednesday, May 19th. Set your DVRs!!! This is going to be great to see. I doubt he will be like Tom Cruise, jumping on the couch

In a day that has seen us steal a post off contact.com (the Love one) and namecheck one post as aconsumer guide, let’s finish this Friday with a stunningly irrelevant

Ah yes, the craziness that is Courtney Love. She drove the world crazy berating her assistant on a trip back from Europe and is essentially just the most whacked out

Albums, albums, everywhere I turn all I find is albums… Let’s consumer guide em and see where that gets us… Your Future Our Clutter – The Fall  Timeless industrial rock

Long term readers (well, as long as you can be on a blog that’s been around a little more than a year) will remember me writing incessantly about the UK

Don’t forget Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers are the guest on Saturday Night Live this week. I like one song of his, “American Girl”, the rest is a bit too

Streaming on NPR right now, four unreleased Stones songs off Exile On Main Street -one of which, “Dancing In the Light’, is as great as a Stones song which isn’t

I went to that rainforest gig once years ago. Steve Earle was great and everybody else sucked. Subsitute Lady Gaga for Steve Earle and I bet you have the same

At some point late during Taylor Swift’s Fearless Concert at Prudential Center, the young superstar introduces “White Horse” by claiming: “There are two kinds of love stories. Fairy Tales and

Every bar band in every town has had some drunken fool scream FREEEEEEEEEBIRD, sometime that person is me. Light a bic? Same deal. These are throw back tributes to the

My girlcrush is back in the studio! This just in Gwen Stefani and No Doubt are finally recording. I had the very distinct pleasure of seeing No Doubt perform on

1. Imaginary Love – Rufus Wainwright 2. Love Story – Taylor Swift 3. I Like It (Feat Pitbull) – Enrique Iglesias 4. Albert Camus – Titus Andronicus 5. What We

Earlimart is a Census Designated Place in  Tulare County, CA, but it is also the name of a Silver Lake band which has already released 6 albums since their early

my cellmate (its an inside joke yeah its rude but so what) Lil Wayne is in a heap of hot water. Not really but officials at Rikers Island confiscated, headphones,

You may not notice but I don’t do obituary’s. Death and I don’t get along too well and to be quite honest with you Ive seen WAY too much of

Boys Will Be Boys – The Majority Rules – Local talent waiting to make the jump with a tight pop combo melding 80s rock to 80s pop and a tough

Okay so I’ve heard the Muse song off Twilight’s “Eclipse”. And isn’t it all a little… purple? Overwrought? Overdone? The Muse bloke -the one one who looks as though they

Grab the Aqua Net and the spandex for today’s big birthday Born on this day in 1962 C.C. Deville, Poison ax man! Legal name Bruce Anthony Johannesson, cant help but

Skid Row Announces New Drummer…big f**kin deal. This to me is not news worthy. Seriously, how many people really care about this band anymore. The best thing to happen to

OMG WTF Today in History 1957, Elvis Presley was rushed to a Los Angles hospital after swallowing a porcelain cap from one of his front teeth, which then lodged its-self

1. The Oracle – Godsmack 2. Need You Now – Lady Antebellum 3. The Generous Mr. Lovejoy – Mercy Me 4. Live At The Troubadour – Carole King and James

We got our first taste of the September release Mark Ronson album record Collector yesterday on Stereogum. It’s called “Circuit Breaker” and if I hadn’t read the Stereogum blurb this

Whatever my problems might be with Jay-Z, the thought of him sharing Yankee Stadium with Eminem September 13th makes any pop music fan salivate!!! But that’s what the plans are.

No not the bi-sexual who only likes girls Nicki Minaj (though that wll happen one of these days if I what I’ve heard muttered is true) but the great English

01 Metric: “Eclipse (All Yours)” 02 Muse: “Neutron Star Collision (Love Is Forever)” 03 The Bravery: “Ours” 04 Florence and the Machine: “Heavy in Your Arms” 05 Sia: “My Love”