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The Big To Do – Drive By Truckers Under Great White Northern Lights – The White Stripes Down The Way – Angus And Julia Stone Almost Everything I Wish I’d […]

Nothing Rhymed – Gilbert O’Sullivan – One of those thoroughly depressing songs nobody does better than GOS. The “Alone Again (Naturally)”  hid his strange temperament in proto-glam plus orchestration. Keep

An album I’ve spent all year ragging on, gets a dud of the month from the March Christgau Consumer. Same Column? Rock NYC fave Vampire Weekend gets an “A”. Quite.

Mequita Oliver is the UK network Channel 4 presenter who got herself suspended for telling Ke$ha to go fuck herself. Apparently, that pussy Ke$ha’s management complained to C4. Not very, how you

I got this off clash.com who got it off the Quietus. Bernard Summer (sometimes Albrecht) on his legacy with Joy Division: “”Well, as an older musician, you either get forgotten

Titus Andronicus producer Kevin McMahon, commenting on Mike Nessing’s The Monitor review, wondered if the press had been paid off. Well, as my old pal Julie Burchill once noted, the

Birthday Boy – Drive By Truckers – I was obsessing about these Alt Southern rock county punky sons of Steve Earle circa Flag Day but kinda cooled off and loathed

Tonight on IFC they’re showing the film Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten. A Julian Temple film in tribute to Joe. Released in 2007 I think. Amazing work with documentary

Upon the passing of Alex Chilton, Iman did an amazing post on his heroes of music. I was supposed to take part in that but was unable to do so

Call Hallmark cuz I have never heard of this until today. I think the record business is in big trouble. Announcing RECORD STORE DAY This year, Record Store Day takes

Whens the last time you went to the store and purchased a CD? I do it still now and then. Especially if I love the band I want the case

No 1’s All Sucked Births only Slim Jim Phantom born in 1961 is cool Deaths no one cool died Other 1960 Elvis Presley records first session since leaving the US

1. Left And Right In The Dark – Julian Casablancas 2. The Mystery Zone – Spoon 3. The Static Age – Green Day 4. Send Me No Flowers – Nellie

rocknyc is venturing from your eyes to your ears.. fun huh? Yeah, not just a little blog anymore at just under a year old were forging ahead. Me, I’m pretty

Sleeping With Sirens new album is streaming on myspace. With Ears To See And Eyes To Hear is availabe 3/23 on Rise Records  You should stream it here: www.myspace.com/sleepingwithsirens The

Panic at the Disco, which have been a mess ever since some people leaving the band, are now The Young Veins, consisting of former members Ryan Ross and Jon Walker,

According to pitchfork’s Tom Breihan (a writer I like a whole lot), Titus Andronicus killed last night at Beauty Bar/Palm door. Despite sparse attendence, and thereby proving how stupid the

After getting their first single, “Animal” for free off itunes, I listened to it twice and immediately bought their first album Habits. The Provo, Utah quartet definitely have it going

I couldn’t give a shit about SXSW -unless you’re in a band it hits me as a long trip for dozens of bands you can see at Mercury Lounge on

Last year the singer and drummer of panic! released the excellent “New perspective” single. A froth pop rock blast of fresh air. Just now I streamed the half of panic

THE RUNAWAYS REVIEWED

25 songs from my march 2010 mix and I am gonna review the lot!! Send me No Flowers – Nellie McKay – Shamanism, that’s how Nelly is conjuring up Doris

I mentioned a  coupla days ago that I was having lunch with the guys at bella blunt today. The man in charge is an old pal of mine and he

I got this off some enterprising young lady on Facebook. Here was the message: hey everyone. we are giving away free tshirts. check out our site! http://www.mybieber.com/ So all you

A week or so ago I read about how, with the new paperless tickets (you have to show your credit card to get in), the new Thom Yorke band Atoms

Hel’s Playlist for a Warm Sunny Day Feeling glad to be alive, I’m healthy, I’m in love I have great amazing friends and so with nothing to bitch about.. Why

Busy trying to make even more money off their wretched last album, U2 are offerring this vinyl extravaganza. Here is the press release: “Artificial Horizon is a limited-edition collection of

Usually you’d just shake your head when a famous artist gets her butt sued -frivolous lawsuits come with the territory. BUT Rob Fusari is Lady Gaga’s former boyfriend and manager

The Cast of Glee will be sitting down with Oprah on April 7th. A great opportunity to see the sets and behind the scenes footage! All those silly out takes!

Writing this post seemed like a lot more fun BEFORE I started writng it. It must be a slow news day in the UK. A man in a cover band

I am a huge Bright Eyes fan and so with two new songs on the horizon and I got in touch with Robb, the owner of Bright Eyes Record company,

There has never been a decent No 1 hit on this date Birthdays 1946 Paul Atkinson (Zombies) 1946 Ruth Pointer (Pointer Sisters) 1953 Ricky Wilson (B52s) 1955 Derek Longmuir (Bay

1. September Girls – The Bangles 2. In My Room – The Beach Boys 3. Animal – Neon Trees 4. Happy Accident – Bright Eyes 5. Open Book – Kevin

Michael, Robert and I used to work together about 2 million years ago. It was a bad bad scary place.  But I think it may have been the above boys

Alesana is a loud, scary, screamy hardcore band. One of the few that I can tolerate, they’re most certainly the most talented hardcore group out there. So when I bought

Mystikal Urges Troubled Youths To Turn Lives Around

Primal Screams Bobby Gillipsie (who I thought hate everyone) had this to say to BBC 6 about the late great Alex Chilton: “He was a geniuss of rock ‘n’ roll

Marie Osmond has cancelled the rest of the week of her Donny and Marie Show in Las vegas, too overcome with grief over the death of her son eighteen year

In a fucked up looking Native American head dress and an energetic if less than thrilling “Blah Blah Blah” Here is the url off rolling Stone:   ttp://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2010/03/18/american-idol-eliminates-lacey-brown-gets-a-visit-from-keha/

The Ballad Of El Goodo Chilton/Bell Years ago, my heart was set to live, oh and I’ve been trying hard against unbelievable odds It gets so hard in times like

1. Battle Of The Sexes – ludacris 2. Plastic Beach – Gorillaz 3. Need You Now = Lady Antebellum 4. Valley Of Neptune – Jimi Hendrix 5. Get Off On

 Jon Pareles of NYT claims: “The songs are still morose about many human failings, but not so withdrawn, a shading that makes a difference–more psychedelic, less studied.” I’ll bet.

Everything I’ve heard on the new She And Him album Vol 2 has been a bore. I liked Vol 1 a coupla years ago but the concert is disinteresting and

Alex Chilton 1950-2010 Although Iman has already reported on this devastating news, I feel compelled to chime in on the passing of this awesome musician from an apparent heart attack

With the passing of Alex Chilton earlier today, I thought it might be worth while to write some of the obscurer bands (no beatles or Stones) who have made this

The loathsome Courtney Love sucking up to the loathsome Billy Corgan because if she doesn’t, Billy won’t allow her to use the song he wrote for her:  “I hope you

Enter Shikari needs your help. I love these guys and Im so stoked to see them in Boston April 12. But alas I am just 1 girl with a keyboard.

I know you are as excited as we all are… Here are the dates for the teen sensation. Saturday, August 28 Justin Bieber with special guest Sean Kingston Prudential Center

As a teenager with the Box Tops, Alex Chilton recorded “The Letter”. A coupla years later he all but invented power pop with Big Star. In the early eighties he