Soho Johnny

Twelve years ago, almost to the day, I left a Mary J. Blige concert swearing up and down the opening act, a young r&b singer Usher, was the next Michael

Murder By Death was a movie starring Peter Sellers. So everytime I see this name, I think its stupid. So well I had nothing better to do and I like

OK what the hell… Justin Beiber has male dancers. this is so wrong on so many levels especially since they’re older than him. Actually even the dancers look embarrassed, do

I was friend-requested on Myspace by Let Me Love, saw that it was a girl singer, and wasn’t sure if I was going to like it. The second I hit

Some kid in Tennessee got sent home from school for wearing an ” I love Lady Gay Gay” t-shirt. The kid is getting enough press so his name omitted on

50 Cent wants to add to his G-Unit posse ‘You’ll see new faces, because I’m looking for new artists now. I’ll sign new artists and take them with me and

I like Chris Martin cuz I like boys with a gap between their two front teeth and I also love his voice. Apparently he was considering a solo venture, dig

Song two off the reissued  One Jug Of Wine, Two Vessels is just about perfect Bright Eyes. The claims that it is more, how you say, arranged is fair compared

“An Open Letter from the Red Hat Society- Friends and consumers from all walks of life, The time has finally come. DEVO Inc., and it’s musical division DEVO, are in

“Touring is a den of sin — it really is. It’s hard to just not exploit the evil side of partying,”  – Julian Casablancas to Canoe

1. I Know You – Bright Eyes 2. Unbreakable – Lana Mir3.Brat Pak – The Rocket Summer 4. Titus Andronicus Forever – Titus Andronicus 5. Double Dutch – Malcolm Mclaren

Iman writes: The unstable, unreliable and essentially well past the sell by date Courtney Love all but has Robert Pattinson of Twilight infamy set to play Kurt Cobain (to play

Museums aren’t for squares.. you can be a artsy hipster to New York’s Museum of Modern Art hosts some cool events, way more cool than you’d expect AND better than

There seems to be a new trend evolving at least in the Hartford / Boston area. Lobby-core. I have just experience 2 shows put on in the lobby of a

Social D! Social Distortion are old as Hades but, like the Misfits before them it just plain doesn’t matter. Scooping up fans as young as 10 and igniting punk rock spirit

Yeah, I can’t make it out either but I’m still gonna be there!!! Last February’s show at Bowery Ballroom was the show of the year… until this one.   Here’s

As some of our readers may know, Green Day’s last two albums have been turned into a musical, on Broadway no less. Their massively successful rock opera album American Idiot

Rock NYC  met up with Bryce Avary, leader of the Rocket Summer,  in Uno’s and I sat across from him and was so excited out of my mind. The first

There are times when a show is so bad all you can do is keep your head up and feed off the energy of the crowd. More than once the

Two musicians in forty years of concert going I’ve seen do this. Marshall Crenshaw at the Bottom Line stood center stage during a weekend afternoon gig at the Bottom Line

At school yesterday, go ahead and ask any of my friends, all I could talk about was interviewing my hero. Bryce Avary. Nervous? Extremely. Excited? More than anything. Getting out

Lana Mir -the Ukrainian transplant who began her career as a teen spokesperson for Ukraninian Radio but moved to the States and pursued a career as a chanteuse, looks amazing

Word is out J.Geils and Aerosmith are co headlining (seriously?) at Fenway Park. Tyler and J. Geils Band vocalist Peter Wolf announced the August 14 co-headline date during Wednesday’s Yankees

Half an hour after I buy a tix for Rihanna at MSG on August 12th, with Ke$ha and Nicki Minaj opening, my friend Yannet tells Nicki is out. So I

Well he’s designed clothes, changed diapers, petitioned for clean drinking water, sworn its just a hiatus, dodged Stumpf… he’s done everything but pick up a bass. And now? Director, Pete

I have mentioned Band of Horses in the past. Although, they are sorta ‘indie’ for me I do love the vocals. They sound unique and fresh, and they carry a

I would like to introduce to a wider audience a band whom I have become enamored with: The Temper Trap. The Temper Trap is a rock band from Melbourne, Australia.

Blur have recorded a new track, “Good Song”, their first since 2003’s Think Tank. It is to released on vinyl only to help support some UK one day only support

How much money is enough? Steve Jobs – the legendary forward looking scumbag, raised the price on Malcolm Mclaren tracks from 99 cents to $1.29. They did the same when

Rally Round y’All Its time again to lend a voice for Shinobi Ninja Why? Cuz I said so, and cuz this is rockNYC and the NYC Afro Punk Festival needs

Lydon once told me McLaren sort of killed Sid Vicious. But it was a bit of an over-reaction though the hurt was still fresh at the time. Still the former

On Friday April 23rd I am jetting to Chapel Hill, NC (near Raleigh, geography fans) for day one of the two Odessa Fest. I woulda stayed for both only my

“Again, there’s Lady Gaga — people say we’re similar, that we both mix all these things in the pot and spit them out differently, but she spits it out exactly

So how much long? How much longer will ALyson and I keep on writing Elliott Smith’s death both we run out of leads? Dunno, but it won’t be today. I

Jakob Dylan is fucked. Jakob was handsome enough and talented enough to have made it with the Wallflowers without shit from daddy Zim. Instead he didn’t get shit from daddy

Four years after Sleater-Kinney went swimming with the fishes, guitarist/lead singer is working on a solo album for Kill Rock Stars. October release is the claim. Acoustic, not electic, guitar

1. Ready To Go – Kaiser Cartel 2. I Know You – Bright Eyes 3. I Wanna Be Adored – Lana Mir 4. Telephone – The Morning Papers 5. No Tears

FROM KNEBWORTH 1996 COOL, EH??

Rock NYC. I write, review, interview. Even have a column for reviews in my school newspaper and interviewed my hero. But what was I doing before it? I was a

This is what the late Sex Pistols manager didn’t do: McLaren didn’t invent punk rock. What he did was take the music he heard managing the New York Doll’s and

The rock world is reeling at news of the death of the former Sex Pistols, Bow Wow Wow, New York Dolls manager and agent provocateur. We’ll get to work on

I think Nessing is a Yes fan -he has a bit of that prog wonk in him. Me, I liked the Frampton Comes Alive album well enough. Yes and Pete

Last night Public Image Ltd played the Jimmy Kimmel Show. They performed “Rise” and “This Is Not A Love Song”. And I didn’t see it at all… I’ll go on

One year old. We are still in diapers. Still sucking on a pacifier. Still drinking from a bottle. Still dropping shit on the floor and not picking up after ourselves.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROCK NYC

Just wanted to chime in here to congratulate everybody on one year of awesome hi-jinks.   Not sure when I climbed on board here last year (Iman says: August 19th,

In Honor of the big ONE I present   The Anniversary Playlist Cake- The Distance Cake rules, the band and the food. I hear they get preachy live, but recorded… this