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So did I really need a post to say that… OK FINE  but LOOK AT HER!!! ps: the last album sold 300K -not so hot by Shakira standards… and the cheapest […]

Concerts at record stores suck, you just can’t see if you are not front row, and if you want to be front row, you have to camp out for hours

For as many hits The Turtles had, they probably have just as many misses that should’ve been hits and hits that should have been bigger ones. “Can I Get To

Madonna has told Interview Magazine she has no record label, no idea how she is going to release her next album (doesn’t she have a 360 degreess deal with Livenation?)

You heard me:  three of the last four live reviews (yesterday the Corrine Bailey Rae ) Dan quotes at least one attendee by first and last name. Why would he do

From the what a loser category Meatloaf was on QVC. The home shopping channel. He actually performed a two songs.. then promoted “Hang Cool Teddy Bear”, in a collectors package

New York Daily News report ileak.com have an mp3 of britney bitch’s demoing LGG’s “Telephone” before turning it down!! Now here’s the kicker… downloading something of ileak.com is to your

Chris Brwn is 21 today!!! But life aint giving him much love. Over the past week he is had a fight at a radio station, and, according to Page Six,

May 5 was a big day in rock crime, we have 2 great ones actually. I couldn’t choose, so lets do both! In 1981, Wendy O’Williams of The Plasmatics was

A day late because so many people wrote so much I couldn’t fit it in yesterday!!! A real pleasure for me because yesterday it wasn’t just Helen and I writing

Aaron Kelly. Do I even need to say what I say every single week? He’ll probably win just because I want him to be sent home so badly . Casey

Go Team Young Veins! The Young Veins (Ryan Ross and Jon Walker) are touring to support their ‘Take a Vacation’ cd. The first release from this amazing band is out

Rock NYC’s slacking off contributing writer Bobby Sciortino shrugs himself out of hibernation once a month or so  to remember we exist and he is a coupla months late on

No Dammers but still free  -THE SPECIALS ARE COMIN’ Some other goodies too… Jimmy Cliff, the XX… This is from new York times announcing the biggies: “… highlights including the

On April 10th, Melinda Hsu, a Morrissey fan who travelled thousands of miles to watch him from the front row wherever he played, died. This is what Morrissey had to

I love the new Ozzy song “Let Me Hear You Scream” Just downloaded it from iTunes and it is currently on constant replay on the iPod. The tune sounds like

Heaven Is Whatever – The Hold Steady (yes, I bought the album!) My First Kiss (feat Ke$ha) –  3!Oh!3 Not Afraid – Eminem Mt Time – Minus The Bear Cuando

USHER DRAKE TREY SONGZ LUDACRIS FABOLOUS NICKI MINAJ GUCCI MANE JUELZ SANTANA HI-TEK & TALIB KWELI DJ KHALED & Friends   June 6th at the New Meadowlands. I split down

Patrick James is a unique, gifted artist. I was so surprised when I heard his music that he’s not signed, mega festival touring, and / or getting on the cover

Those of you inclined to watch American Idol will remember that hotshot Usher, mentored the contestants (hey yeah remember its a contest?) a few weeks ago. But whats interesting is

6th Street is a band that everyone should know about. They’re creative, they’re unique, and they’re not afraid to take risks. “Angels Falling” is a gorgeous song that just makes

Peta2 is the kinder cleaner Peta. Geared primarily to teenage activism, it carries the same mission statement but without the really depressing and disturbing images. (Though seriously nothing is worse

First- we had “House Party”, then we had album art, now.. “First Kiss” 3oh!3 is ‘leaking’ more than a lactating cow for Gods sake. OK OK ..I don’t see hype

On May 19th, the likes of Sonic Youth, Lou Reed, Moby, The Virgins, and Technicolor Skull will come together to perform at Hiro Ballroom, for the benefit of the Anthology

Nickasaur!, who I have been a fanatic fan of for a while, came out with a new song and I’m ecstatic. The song is called “Clue” and is shoving everything

A scan of the Billboard charts finds all the usual suspects hapilly in the firmaments and every name known and registered and hey, who the hell is Circa Survive? There

Miracle Whip is betting that you’re an impressionable slut and that you have boring, awful taste. Let’s see if they’re right. The famous faux-mayo slash salad dressing decided that their

AHOY! MINEHEAD, BRIGHTON, LONDON, MANCHESTER & GLASGOW! HEY! B(ritish) P(eople) & fun loving Scots. QUASI is headed yer way. Go see ‘em and (maybe) tell ’em you’re willing to donate

According to Eddie “Angel” Casco, whose parents were friends with Michael jackson in the 90s and who was signed as a house songwriter to Sony/BMG while still in college, he

Happy Birthday George Wadenius!!! (who the hell is that, .. you’re asking aintcha?) Well its the guitarist for Blood Sweat and Tears. One of my earliest musical memories is jumping

I’ve been trying to write about the Odessa compilation Odessaic Arrtctosk Plation for a couple of days now and I have been getting nowhere.Maybe because I have been coming to

Todays Crime in History Still you turn me on… In 1974, during a tour of America the members of Emerson Lake and Palmer were arrested in Salt Lake City after

The Black Eyes Peas “I Gotta Feeling” has been downloaded 5,561,000, which, give or take, is a helluva lotta bucks. It is also the most downloads  of a song to

So i don’t know anybody on this list… but I love them all!! Neon Indian Trap Them the Joy Formidable Whip lash Horse Feathers Whips Gloom Descender Night Of Joy

Phil Collins in Rolling Stone: “All my life I’ve put out music and people have criticised it. Why keep doing that? I don’t need the money. In the future I

Well now, this is not gonna make Kiss many friends. particularly after their last album tanked. But here is surgically enhanced blowing hard to canoemusic.com: “You don’t know how big

Watching the Simpsons opening credits last night i was thrilled to see the great Ke$ha’s “Tik Tok” being lip-synched by the denizens of Springfield. personal best? Groundskeeoer Willie, Edma Krabappel

Remember how back in the day, in the 70s and ’80s, folks like Public Enemy would release BIG ALBUMS, STATEMENT ALBUMS, STATE OF THE ALBUM ALBUMS. This is the opposite

So in 1968 on May third, the Beach Boys went on tour with Maharishi Mashesh Yogi co – headlining. A disasterous idea if there ever was one, The maharashi’s “set”

My Man Mike Nessing reviewed “The T.A.M.I.” show a coupla weeks back and I’ve been playing catch up on this terrific movie I had never watched before. Right now I

For some reason best known to himself Ben radcliff chose to review the new Hold Steady album # 5, Heaven Is Whatever, in the style of a Craig Finn lyric.

Chris Brown blew up at a DJ in Virginia. Brown said in part:  “All I’m saying is that you don’t play my shit. What number is it (my song) at?

Sure Miley Cyrus’s last hurrah before she destroys her career attemtping to become a serious actress, “Can’t Be Saved”, is a modern pop confection: all BPMs and multitracking to an

On B.o.B.’s first album is a song called “The Kids”. Sound familiar? It samples the entire chorus of  Vampire Weekend’s “The Kid Don’t Stand A Chance” and loops it between

Since I returned to work on Friday I have not had the time to transcribe anymore interviews from my trip to Odessa records, though I am looking forward to it.

Harmolodics: 2B ORNETTE 2B A little interior design today, folks, courtesy of Ornette Coleman. LET’S REARRANGE SOME FURNITURE. Here are just the fellas to help us do a little heavy

1.Tell ‘Em – Sleigh Bells 2. Try And Stop Love – 6th Street 3. Cannibal – Inspector 22 4. Airplane Pt. 2 – B.o.B. 5. No Surprises – Regina Spektor

I have a Twitter account, helenrocknyc actually, and I update it when something good is happening but I mostly use it to GET information. Tweets can be pretty useful to

Despite starting their career at the Cavern and despite being managed by a certain Brian Epstien, from day one, from “How Do You do It” on, it has been exceedingly