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As stories go, this reminds me of the one in the UK back in the 70s where two A&R guys bought out the Pretenders first single causing it to appear […]

It is about Cloud, a new service that allows people to store their music collection on the web and therby be able to take it anywhere. It is very interesting

After singing (pretty horrendously) “Cherry Bomb” in The Runaways movie, sixteen year old actress Dakota Fanning has been pusued for a potential singing career. Very smartly, Fanning has turned down

I’ve been as mean to Jay-Z as anybody I’ve written about -including Bono. But Jay-Z was still friends with the lengendary Biggie Smalls and Bono is still a putz. At

It seems to me I need to stop mentioning bands that I don’t care for. Suddenly everywhere I turn is Green Day, and its nothing to do with St Patrick’s

No. 1 1969 Cream: Goodbye UK LP 1969 Tommy Roe: Dizzy US 45 1975 Led Zeppelin: Physical Graffiti UK LP 1975 Olivia Newton-John: Have You Ever Been Mellow US LP

“a glorious, rambunctious, unsettling album” – Jon Carmanica  in the New York Times

“OK, you think it’s all an image – well that’s so not true. I would hope to come off as a walking celebration of fuck off irreverence and youth and

Patricia Caudwell. Whenever I hear this song I think of her and want to cry. The Titus reference on “Richard II”, which Nessing called his fave off the The Monitor

From the New York Times: “The most striking thing about “The Runaways,” a new film about the trailblazing bad-girl rock band from the 1970s, is how authentic it feels.,” Yeah?

Content – No Paws (No Lions) – The future of rock hangs on guys like this ignoring everything but what they wanna be. So hip youre gonna be name dropping

Because we love you, we’ll save you from the wretched drag that is the RollingStone interview written by Dacid Fricke. Not for you “Beck nods firmly in agreement” for pages

1. I Turned Out A Punk – Big Audio Dynamite 2. I think I Need It To – Ian McCulloch 3. Look Back In Anger – Television Personalities 4. Happy

Lemmy Kilmister mad man of Motorhead is 62 years old. This week at Austins SXSW festival the world will get a second look at this metal god with the release

If early reports are any indication, “The Monitor”, by New Jersey band Titus Andronicus will wind up being one of the most positively reviewed albums of the year, if not

 Every year I have looked forward to The Honda Civic Tour. Fall Out Boy, Panic at The Disco, even Phantom Planet toured with it. Imagine my horror to see this

Seems to me everyone (including me) has something to say. I’m going to use music to jam my poitics down your throat, tell you how to score with chicks, sing

No. 1 1963 Cliff Richard: Summer Holiday UK 45 1981 Roxy Music: Jealous Guy UK 45 1987 Boy George: Everything I Own UK 45 1987 Hot Chocolate: Very Best of

Many say there is a peak age for a rockstar. For today’s boy bands and alternative stars, it seems to be middle twenties. I couldn’t see The Summer Set or

A lot of rockstars blog and document their tours and adventures. The Rocket Summer does it, and it’s fascinating. You get to see their journey across the world. Seeing a

Nevershoutnever!, who I’ve tried to forget about recently, came out with a music video for a new song “Seewhatweseas”. I think it’s time for him to fix that space bar.

Iggy Pop, Alice Cooper, Moby, and Henry Rollins all appear in Suck, a low-budget vampire comedy about musicians who become vampires to get famous From the films website: “A rock’n’roll

Sunday news that sucks Styx is touring……yeah Styx The good news is theyre coming no closer than South Carolina. Its just a matter of time before theyre touring with State

We mentioned last month that the Stooges are finally being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, now we know what we will be hearing. After years of

Not to be left out Connor Oberst is auctioning of a painted guitar for Haiti Relief. I like the later fundraisers that pop up. So often its the initial shock

Kevin Grenspon is a smart guy. Not just because he has a truly wonderful record company called Bridgetown Records  but he also figured it would be the sort of sounds rock

Justin Furstenfeld day… Why? Cuz I fucking rule today… I offer you the Blue October Shuffle 1- Somebody- Angry Justin, ‘now I’m face to face and I’m fucking you’, yeah

Anyone who was a kid in the 1970’s can remember the glory of the cereal box record.  Simply cut it out of the carton and throw it on the turntable. 

MGMT has released their first track from their upcoming sophomore album Congratulations. It has an expected release date of April 13, 2010. The new song entitled “Flash Delirium” became available

We The Kings  leader Travis Clark has posted the new song, “Let’s Sleep In Forever,” on his blog. Quoth the King:   “I’ve been working on some new stuff for

Since I didn’t get to interview Alesana on their last go round, I decided to rip off Revolver magazines Guest Blog featuring Shawn Milke. Whats interesting to me here is

Of Mice & Men will debut their new video for the song “Second and Sebring” on Monday, March 15th on HotTopic.com and MTV2/Headbangers Ball. The online premiere is first thing

Perhaps Jonah Weiner is no worse than any other rock journalists. Maybe in some ways he’s better. But he is so fucking pompous, so fucking arty, such a kiss ass

Metallica and Facebook don’t mix. To update a post I wrote about a few days ago regarding Metallica’s show in Colombia….. I mentioned that that Colombian police had 4 tanks

Phantom Part II opened the other night in London to what we in the biz like to call mixed reviews. The title track I have heard and it’s an abomination

Found this on sleazeroxx.com This would be a great fight…to see who the best live band is. Kiss Challenge U2 And The Rolling Stones To A Duel March 12 2010

The Performing Rights Society of Britain named the top ten most musical cities in the UK are: 1. Bristol 2. Cardiff 3. Wakefield 4. Glasgow 5. Cheltenham 6. Edinburgh 7.

Just like her mama and papa (and Helen Bach and Mary Magpie), fashion designer Stella McCartney is a strict vegan and she uses those standards when deciding the materials she

It may well be a bit snotty to a) steal Brooklynvegan’ Broken Bells pic and then dis their review SO… I feel bad but “a stunning record of golden nugget mining

Rock NYC heroes Americans In France looking cool and degenerate in the wilds of Florida this year. I’m hoping to catch em at the Odessa Records festival April 24th and

If you were at Bowery Ballroom around a week ago you would have found Titus Andronicus leader Patrick Stickles and me deep in conversation. Stickles, while up to his neck

In 1986 a movie called “Dreamchild” was released. It imagined an eighty year old Alice evaluating her relationship with Lewis Carroll -the author of “Wonderland” and “Looking Glass”,  and coming

Check out this article on pollstar. This new band Rock Sugar. They mix rock/metal music and use lyrics from other songs. For example… they play the music of Enter Sandman,

The great daytrotter have a new way of downloading songs and it was completely baffling me me but I finally figured it out, it’s wonderful and I’ll review at some

The useless Billy Corgan on walking STD John Mayer: “I think for any person who has celebrity to sort of drop rocks at somebody else’s feet like that, there are

James Brown’ illegitimate daughter LaRhonda Pettit claims James browns body is missing from his crypt because Miss Petit wants to perform an autopsy on his remains according to contactmusic.com. Mis

So where did the Dolls plus Dead Boys supergroup Batusis get its name? From the Adam West (and still the best) Batman version of the watusis on the old TV

1. Happy Accident – Bright Eyes 2. Just Pray – For Science 3. Intro – The XX 4. Clouds Of Dust – Wicked Liquid 5. In A Moment – Ray

Apparently just to annoy me Green Day is back in the news. The latest addition to the Harmonix ‘Rock Band’ game series will feature.. them. for Xbox 360, PS3 and

Eddie Vedder equaled sweltering hot sexy beast, before the beard. I was a wicked Pearl Jam fan…which seized at Vitology. I think Eddie has one of the most beautiful voices