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Strange – Aorta-Ultra obscure Rockford, IL based psych-pop band. Another example of late period psych blending into what would become early progressive, if you’re into labeling things as such. Sugar […]

American Idol to cover only Rolling Stones songs next week.

OK -I don’t care what comes up, I’m gonna review it…. Green Flower Street – Donald Fagen – Fagen (the most aptly named man in pop music history by the

I saw Charlotte at the Highline earlier this year and just loved her, so I can wholeheartedly recommend you catching her on the US Tour. here are the dates: 04-11

Sick of me writing about For Science? Fuck you. I don’t care. “Just Pray” is an agnostic’s handbook plus harmonica and a cool one off their awesome Out Of Control

I, in common with most smart people, worship the virgin queen Doris Day: as the best comedienne of her generation, Miss Day’s work Rock Hudson and Cary Grant is the

1. Lady Antebellum – Need You Now 2. Sade – Soldier Of Love 3. Blake Shelton – Hilbilly Bone 4. Danny Gokey – My Best Days 5. Almost Alice Comment:

Madonna and her thirteen year old daughter Lourdes Ciccone are forming a fashion line. OK, I guess. As long as they don’t sing while they’re doing it.

The pic above dates from 1980. One of my best friends works for the New york Historic Society, but she was zero use during the New York during the civil

I was speaking with my employer, Larry Miller, who owns the advertising company I’ve worked for the past quarter of a century, about my review of the band Larry’s nephew promotes

Tonight on American Idol, there is no doubt in my mind that Katelyn, Todrick, and Alex should’ve been voted off. But Lilly Scott against Katie Stevens?!  Lilly is more talented

Number 1 songs 1983 U2: War UK LP 1988 Rick Astley: Never Gonna Give You Up US 45 1994 Ace of Base : The Sign : US single   Births

Our Mary Magpie In The Middle Its been less than three months since the sudden death of Jimmy ‘The Rev” Sullivan. A great loss to Avenged Sevenfold and a very

With out wishing to get too prurient, or too overexcited about the Jett-Curie kiss in the Runaways movie, it is hardly my fault if the publicist have kristin Stewart on

Opening the Titus concert Saturday night was a Cleveland lo-fi pop band from Cleveland, Ohio called cloud Nothings. Though live on stage they were a lot less lo fi then

Off contactmusic.com, La Gaga on saying she could fall in love with a woman: “”Love is about danger, always. Love jumps off cliffs, love is irrational. It keeps you alive

Following up Helen Bach’s post yesterday about EMI selling single Pink Floyd tracks thru MP3s and EMI replies that the contract was for other media forms: PINK FLOYD WINS. The

Listening to the first new Bright Eyes release, “Happy Accident” since 2007 is like when your best friend gets married and moves out of State and you’re in an airport

I’ve just gotten started on Wicked Liquid. They absolutely have that je ne sais fucking quo going on. But it takes time for me to assimilate, plus I’m not quite

1. Happy Accident – Bright Eyes 2. Just Pray – For Science 3. Hammer And A Hard Hat – Alan Jackson 4. Juicy – Biggie Smalls 5. The Battle Of

OK Johnny Thunders and Stiv bators are long daddys so I guess Sylvain Sylvain from the New York Dolls and Cheetah chrome from the Dead Boys are gonna hafta represent

Want to know what pisses me off? Living a year behind the cool world, or a year behind Joe Steinhardt anyway. So OK check this out last month we wrote

From the guys who brought you the Jerry Springer: The Opera , here comes Anna Nichol the Opera thanks to Mark-Anthony Turnage. Unlike the Springer story I can’t think of

With news that Billy Corgan is holding open audtions for keyb players in the style of Yes, writer Wade Tatengelo of the OC Weekly came up with six things not

We’re gonna do the Biggie Smalls Shuffle

Lessee here, RS spoke to RS about one of the greatest bands of all time AND FORGOT TO ASK THEM ANYTHING. You can hear Jaggers sneer from here and fuck

Jason Gross nailed it in yesterday’s Village Voice: “Let’s see them support up-and-coming bands and smaller shows; expanding music-education programs would also be nice. And how about supporting health care

American Idol tonight was filled with talent and unfathomable horror.  Alex, Casey, and Aaron should go home right now. Don’t even bother to allow them to be voted for. No

Just heard that my of my favorite bands will be releasing a live 2CD/DVD set. Extreme will release “Take Us Alive” on April 23rd. This is something I will definitely

“Dot Com” by Secret Secret Dino Club is a song that can be taken as a joke or incredibly genious. I think it’s genious. With just a hint of an

Today in Rock History (things are improving!) Number 1’s 1965 Tom Jones: It’s Not Unusual UK 45 *madly loved him* 1967 Supremes: Love Is Here and Now You’re Gone US

It’s called “Happy Accident”, starts like a nursery rhyme, ends like a breakdown, it’s huge, it’s really, really Bright Eyes and stop fucking about go and get it. That means

That’s what Rolling Stone reports. We have been writing about this disaster since forever. It’s kinda fun to be honest. They are aiming for Halloween but aren’t we all. Ps

According to Colombia Reports, some 1,500 police will be employed to stand guard at the site during tonight’s (Wednesday, March 10) METALLICA concert in Bogota’s Simon Bolivar park, as well

A really nice Ray Davies pic… Maybe kindakinks.net can link it and we can get another thousand hits?

The godawful Gorillaz set to be be the number album of the week this Sunday in the UK

Farber posted his review in the daily News early this morning. Hours after I’d bought the sucker.:”So who should buy “Valleys”? Completists, obviously, and young’uns new to the fire in

1) I know the new album will be terrible 2) I’m guessing the show will be a train wreck 3) I hate terminal 5 4) So why did I just

So in my never ending pursuit to find music that doesn’t suck I embarked upon a journey to discover with ‘dubcore’ was. I like hardcore, I like dub…….gotta be a

October – Broken Bells – This band will not change your life. What happened to James Mercer? This bloke wrote some of the best songs of the past decade and

Broken Bells are at Brooklyn’s Music Hall tonight (shouldn’t they be at the Bell House). It would be sold out but if you are made of money and have no

OK Go have been OK Let Go by Capitol Records after Capitol Records (insanely) wouldn’t let youtube stream their video thereby singlehandedly killing the goose, etc. OK Go are overjoyed

I have been waiting all year for the follow-up to last years “Clear The Tear” by the great Portishead only to read that they are collobarting with Goldfrapp. Goldfrapp sux. WTF???

“God bless the working man…” I don’t work with my hands but I sure do work hard, what between one thing and another it never bloody ends. Plus, I’ve always

DMX has been arrested on 5 counts of probationviolation according to contactmusic.com. Readers of Rock NYC are probably aware I have been shouting out DMX’s new single “Put Em Up”

1 Almost Alice (Music Inspired By the M… 2 Smoke & Mirrors (Deluxe Version), Lif… 3 My Best Days, Danny Gokey 4 Jason Derülo, Jason Derülo 5 Need You Now,

The Monitor reminds me of Exile On Main Street and not just because I love both albums but always because both are concept albums where you hafta meet them half

1. The Battle Of Hampton Roads – Titus Andronicus 2. Under The Sheets – Ellie Goulding 3. Big Girls Don’t Cry – Fergie 4. Sorry Only Counts The First Time

IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry) chief executive John Kennedy states bands without record labels are: ‘Screaming into space” In a report, it said virtually no new artist had

Learning to just ignore the judges, I watched the singers and pretended there was no judges. Siobhan and Crystal were great and incredible and the most talented ones on the