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1. Courtyard Hounds – Courtyard Hounds 2. Sparks Fly – Miranda Cosgrove 3. Drowning Pool – Drowning Pool 4. The Age Of Miracles – Mary Chapin Carpenter Comment: Streaming music […]

This is what a great live set does for a band. After years of being entirely on the fence over the Hold Steady. Indeed, a day before I went to

I was discussing running a record store with an anwer the other day and she told me that while they did see a great leap in customers, they got royally

1. No Surprises – Regina Spektor 2. Mi Entere – Daddy Yankee 3. Gitane – Shakira 4. Stop The Music – The Pipettes 5. Magic (feat Rivers Cuomo) – B.o.B.

It is always amazing when very young people wrote music and lyrics because you need to have experienced life to do that. Kate Nash is 22 and she has already

1. Sorry Only Works The First Time – Wesley Wolfe 2. Crest – The Kingsbury Manx 3. Clap Your Hands (Diplo remix) – Sia 4. Blah Blah Blah (feat 3Oh3)

Happy Birthday to Kate Pierson. The cuter of the 2 B-52 girls, the nifty note hitter. I loved her collaboration with REM too “Shiny Happy People” was just plain fun

Look at the pic. Last left in glasses and dark blonde hair. That is Ryan Richardson, he is an original Kingsbury Manx and the epitome of an all American rock

I received an email from itunes today and for once they weren’t hitting up the wrong credit card for $30. Nope, instead they were giving me a free remix of

Free Zappa download at the Vanity Fair website- From the upcoming “Greasy Love Songs”, the aforementioned celebration of Frank’s “Ruben and the Jets” LP comes this free taste of the

Today in Rock history ‘We Are The World” hits number one on the US charts. Written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Ritchie as a fundraising endeavor for relief of African

10 years ago today Mr Guns and Roses Axl Rose wed Erin Everly, beautiful daughter of Don Everly (*stay tuned on that one of our writers is busy absorbing The

I was a little surprised Alyson Camus did not namecheck Charlotte Gainsbourg in her Beck post yesterday. I am a big big fan of Charlotte and if you haven’t heard

Being friended by the 5-piece screamo/hardcore band Ten After Two totally brightened my day. The second I hit the “play” button, I fell in love. “Silent Creek” shows that TAT

1. Live Until I Die – Wesley Wolfe – Should make him a Big Star!! 2. Graduation – Transportation – Sounds like 10cc 3. Supertheory Of Supereverything – Gogol Bodello

I  dont get it but Slayer will perform “Seasons In The Abyss” and Megadeth will play “Rust In Peace” for the American Carnage Tour. Why would a band tour to

Insanely sexy Scott Weidland and those other guys who make up the  Stone Temple Pilots are giving it away. The band will post a song a week leading up to

Seemingly in response to my horror cry at the news of Scottish band The Fratelli’s break-up news emerges now that they are actually on hiatus. According to John Fratelli; “We

Cher, now 63 has announced that she will be hitting the road again once her contract at Las Vegas’ Ceasars Palace ends.  Cher told the press shes been inspired to

Leave it to former Clash manager Bernie Rhodes to cause a funeral scene. Apparently, ‘Bernard’ wasnt getting enough attention as he was prone to outbursts throughtout the ceremonies for Malcom

If there was any doubt as to Fall Out Boys future, the virtually sad stumbling and dodgey response to the inquiry from front guy Patrick Stump pretty much sums it

Spin Magazine, quite possibly the worst major rock publication ever (well, except for “Circus”) since Guccione sold it, have come up with their throughly pathetic best albums of the past

A Loss For Words is on tour but before I tell you those dates, I want to draw your attention to thier next release “Motown Classics”. Very much like Me

Poison lead singer is still in critical condition following a brain hemorrhage last Friday. Slurred speech still,  no source of bleeding,  and still critical, Helen Bach reports.

As much a rock and roll writer as Salinger, Alan Sillitoe was the great English author behind such “angry young men” masterpieces (and great movies I might add) as “The

I have seen a lotta hysteria over teen idols in my day but you’d have to go back to Beatlemania to see anything like what is happening with Justin Bieber.

A spokesperson for the Catholic Church of Scotland has invited Susan Boyle to perform for Pope Benedict XVI when the Pope visits the UK in 2010. And so Ms. Boyle

P. Diddy told Nicki if Nicki drops out of the Rihanna tour and signs with him, Diddy will get her the opening slot on Lady Gaga’s summer tour. Now it

So what does a teenage girl in the wilds of Chicago listen to? Well, if you’re Haylee Belvedere just about the same as a middle aged man in NYC does when

1. Live Until I Die – Wesley Wolfe 2. Karn Evil 9: 3rd Impression – Emerson Lake And Palmer 3. Martha – Rufus Wainwright 4. Bet I (feat T.I. and Playboy Tre)

“Only Ray of Sunshine’ is the opening track of Storage, the new album of Wesley Wolfe, dropping on Tuesday on Odessa Record. I had never heard of him before and

“Fit and You Know It” by the Streets (aka Mike Skinner) , is one of the coolest songs ever and if you’ve not heard it I suggest you find it.

Courtney Love told Canoe Billy Corgan is great in bed. I find it difficult to imagine a more nauseating concept than those insect figured uglies fornicating… well, maybe them singing

Today April 26, 1977 Studio 54 located at 254 54th St NYC, opened. A former Broadway theater turned CBS studio was ripped up and blinged out to usher in decadent

Sox and Roll? Well not really but I was assigned the task of listening to what songs accompanied ballplayers up to the plate. I have to say (and spare me

What ‘s with Beck and the Lord Of Darkness? On his Record Club page, Beck covers INXS’ Devil Inside’ of INXS. On ‘Stereopathetic Soulmanure,’ there is ‘Satan gave me a taco, in

1. Diana Vickers – ‘Once’ 2. Usher – ‘OMG’ 3. Chipmunk feat. Esmee Denters – ‘Until You Were Gone’ 4. Plan B – ‘She Said’ 5. Scouting For Girls –

1. AC/DC – ‘Iron Man 2 – OST’ 2. Paul Weller – ‘Wake Up The Nation’3. Plan B – The Defamation Of Strickland Banks4. Meat Loaf – ‘Hang Cool Teddy

There was loads of talk about Panic! at the Disco going all ‘Beatles’ and to look at them during the ‘Pretty.Odd’ days, it seemed very retro. But now, that the

Jakob Dylan’s “Women And Country” is a pretty, occasionally monotonous, often stirring, American dust bowl country-folk album. And T. Bone Burnett’s production drags me. Afgain. He is like the Rick

Frank Zappa was allowed to testify in front of the Senate at about record lyric labeling in 1985 but  Rock NYC reinstated censorship last  Friday!!! We are so sorry. I have

I do not believe that it is fair for a famous artist to lip-synch during a performance. If you pay money to see a band perform live and they are

Some metaphors sit on your head until you write em. Odessa records owner Paul Finn and I  are stuck outside of Nightlights late Friday afternoon knocking back Pabst Blue Ribbons

Joni Mitchell told the LA Times (we got it off Canoe) “Bob is not authentic at all. He’s a plagiarist, and his name and voice are fake. Everything about Bob

If Ringo Starr wants to reference John Lennon, as Starr does on his hideous “Peace Dreams”, for fucks sake don’t write crap lyric ‘Can you imagine this coming true/ It’s really

Sometimes it’s alright to meet your idols. Last night I met one of mine. Her name is Stephanie and she is the muse behind For Science’s masterpieces Tomorrow’s Just Another

Who takes that note that nobody wrote and puts it down?* (You know who) I mean…Thelonius Sphere Monk — aka. Melodious Thunk. If Jelly Roll Morton and Duke Ellington traversed

1. Graduation – Transportation 2. Don’t Smell Too God  (But It Keps Me From Burning) – Shit Horse 3. Your Friend – Wesley Wolfe 4. Supertheory Of Supereverything – Gogol

Ir’s nearing the witching hour and a topless girl wearing a horses head, tights, men’s underwear and sneakers and drenched with beer is frugging  near the stage to Shit Horse, while

Poison was my childhood’s favorite band. Still today, they are my favorite band. They are the band that I probably have seen the most in concert. They are the band