Soho Johnny

I was sitting behind this guy at a Springsteen concert in Giant Stadium once and man was he stoked. Though way up in the cheap seats, he was surrounding by […]

Wow, those opera buffs are nasty bastards!!! The great Spanish Tenor, Placido Domingo, made his grand return to the stage after having cancer surgery on Friday. Performing at the cathedral

Madonna: ‘My Glee Episode Is Genius’ A real shocker their, Madge. Nothing like joining the zeitgeist a year late.

Absolute Classic Rock -the UK radio stations, have released their listeners fave UK singles of all time. They are wrong, of course, the greatest UK single of all time is

The Country Music Association sent Taylor Swift a message at their annual awards yesterday and the message was this: you can be pop just not that pop. Taylor Swift eas

It is not very often that songwriters release two albums 6 months apart, but Mark Oliver Everett (the Eels) managed to release Hombre Lobo on June 2, 2009 and End

1. Antisocial (fear Myah) – Gucci Mane – A Motown move with a hip hop production. 2. Massive Nights – The Hold Steady – Took the show for me to

Chesney Henry…Chet… Baker, the “voiceless epiglottal fricative” (H) poster boy of “west coast” jazz. Horn. Heroin. A halftone, tarnished silver stained angle of a man (thanks to Bill Claxton’s iconic

1. THE DEFAMATION OF STRICKLAND BANKS – PLAN B 2 – EVERYBODY WANTS TO BE ON TV – SCOUTING FOR GIRLS 3.THE FAME – LADY 4.  CONGRATULATIONS – MGMT 5.

1. OMG – USHER FT WILL I AM 2 . THIS AIN’T A LOVE SONG – SCOUTING FOR GIRLS 3. I NEED YOU TONIGHT- PROFESSOR GREEN FT ED DREWETT 4.

1. Gucci On The Rise – Gucci Mane 2. Massive Nights – The Hold Steady 3. Antisocial (feat Mylan) – Gucci Mane 4. Stop Rip And Roll -J Roddy Watson

Just two days after commenting that a nude Ricky Martin actually resembles Shakira, news released by Billboard.com that Shakira and African band Freshlyground will be be recording the anthem for

So last week we covered Brian Setzer, and Eddie Cochran and Gene Vincent. .and horror core… which (follow me now) landed me smack dab into The Cramps. Psychobilly? Hmm not

I just weakened and picked up the new Gucci Mane mix The Burrrrprint 2: HD only to realize every single best song in the world on it featured Memphis producer Drumma Boy.

Courtney Love’s Music Therapy Just How Russian Was Stravinsky? There’s a Theorbo in the Rock Bin From Natalie Merchant, a Literary Tour Europe’s Cloud of Ash Casts Pall Over World

It’s Sunday morning, I just spent an hour and  a half writing a Hold Steady live post, I’m wondering if I have the words left to nail a Ke$ha on SNL review, and it

Here is the Soundgarden opening day setlist taken off http://www.earcandybeat.com/ . The review by Travis Hay is really good and worth listening. Here is what they played… and while I

The BurrrPrint 2 HD – Gucci Mane and DJ Holida Jason Castro – Jason Castro Year Of The Black Rainbow – Coheed And Cambria Congratulations – MGMT Comment: Readers will

At the Bowery Ballroom last night star turner Craig Finn and opening leader J Ray Watson got on stage and sold you their songs and if you didn’t like it,

The Dear Hunter have announced a limited edition lifetime fan club package which will guarantee entry into any Dear Hunter show in the world. Along with the laminated “Dear Hunter

1. I Changed Address – The Jam 2. The Factory – Warren Zevon 3. I Know You – Bright Eyes 4. Homosapiens – Pete Shelley 5. Girls Like Status –

I was writing about great songwriters the other day and here are two of the very best. Hip hop up and comer Kid Cudi and pop queen Taylor Swift would

Blink 182 senior frat boy Mark Hoppus is joining forces and sucking the youth out of All Time Low for a new side project. Now before you start whimpering like

When he is not busy destroying his son’s life by spoiling him into a rotten savage refuge from a William Golding novel (not even  “Lord Of The Flies” -“The Innocents”)

In the early eighties King Sunny Ade -a player of the Nigerian Juju Music, heavier and more intricate drumming than African World music as we were used to it, was

An exercise in real  time as Albarn writes about his first day of April where he ends up recording “Fool’s Day”  with the rest of Blu at the end and released

VH1 Classic can be amusing sometime. Today Ive seen Bryan Adams and Loverboy. Pretty funny stuff but I also learned something else (aside from the fucked up non stop animal

Over dinner with my nephew Samer Diab the other night Samer noted that I was probably wrong in saying Ipod were jacking prices due to deaths in the musical world. Samer

If a great artist is gonna die of terminal cancer, let it be a Dennis Potter… or a Warren Zevon. The great English Telewriite Potter turned his brain into a

Ricky Martin is out and in his new video for the upcoming coming tour he looks great. Take a peek!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcLKqvr_K74

Tipping my hat to the fathers of rock and roll we pause to remember this days tragedy, In 1960 a car carrying Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochran blows a tire

1. Chambonea – Omega 2. I’ve Change My Address (Live At The BBC) – The Jam 3. I Know You – Bright Eyes 4. I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone

I swear to God I didnt know.. I swear… HAPPY BIRTHDAY PETE SHELLEY! Born in 1955 this sexy freakin beast who had every damn right to be an “Orgasm Addict”

Hey, Iman and Alyson: GO GO GO! Wave those red flags and charge the LAPD fort! I just wanted to cheer you on. The truth is a lonely place. Years

Congratulations to rocknyc’s very own Mary Magpie for her dual roles in the Hartford Children’s Theater collaboration of The Hobbit. Aside from being an ace writer, bassist, pianist, Mary has

Jonah Weiner’s review of Insane Clown Posse’s new song “Miracles” is real good though the song is a a piece of crap. It seems the guy sucks only half the

Amy Winehouse seen visiting Mark Ronson at the Mayfair Hotel in London with a fistful of lyrics, and ninety minutes later coming back out after working on new material. I

Talking to MTV about Nicki Minaj dropping out of the tour: “I hadn’t heard that. Is that true? Oh, that’s a bummer.I have no idea why and I hadn’t even

Jay Z openin up a can of legal whoop ass on Big Papi. Seems Z is concerned that our beloved Red Sox slugger stole the name 40/40 Club, which is

Helen toldja Billy Idol was playing in Boston and New York this September. Now Rock NYC can EXCLUSIVELY (and by exclusively we mean everybody else had the story yesterday) reveal where

Omega is a merengue singer working in the  Reggaeton form. He’s from the Domincan Republic and hasn’t made it State Side though he is friend swith folks Pitbull and his DR

Most music fans know about the summer of love. 1967 was the year the rest of the world caught up with what was going on in California and elsewhere up

Forty three years at your fingertips? Oh brave new world.. I don’t believe there is a music blogger in the world who isn’t gonna do this: pony the $3.95 a

Bang Shang A Lang. That was the sound of the eruption of a 200 years dormant volcano in iceland nd does have one good thing going for it. It’ll settback global

Weller says he didn’t want US scuccess enough… yeah, repeat no. Weller said to Spin Magazine: “I’ve been waiting 30 years (to have a U.S. hit). When I first went

1. Goin’ Against Your Mind – Built to Spill ): Guitars, guitars, and drums and more guitars for more than 8 minutes, epic! 2. Yoshimi pt1 –  The Flaming Lips