Soho Johnny

I got these pics off Hifi Cartel’s website…

Lady Gaga and Jeremy Scott of tres cool fashion designers “Proper Attire” have come together to provide the world with high fashion condoms. “Everybody wrap it up with Jeremy Scott

1/ Helping Haiti – Everybody Hurts 2/ Florence & The Machine – You Got The Dirtee Love 3/ Owl City – Fireflies 4/ Timbaland – If We Ever Meet Again

Speaking to Rolling Stone, Pete Townsend said: “”If my hearing is going to be a problem, we’re not delaying shows. We’re finished. I can’t really see any way around the

1. Glee – The Music Season One Vol. 1 2. Lady Gaga – The Fame 3. Florence And The Machine – Lungs 4. Alicia Keys – The Element Of Freedom

Watching a soccer match on Fox Sports yesterday afternoon, I was surprised to see Katy Perry hawking acme cream Pro Active. Apparently, the two popsters are joing Alicia Keyes as

1.Put ‘Em Up – DMX 2. Ambling Alp – Yeasayer 3. On To The Next One – Jay-Z 4. One Way Trip – Lil Wayne 5. Fenway Lights – For

The Continental on St. Marks and 3rd Ave was once a great club… I saw the Rmones there twenty years ago. Now? Killing time before the Harper Blynn show they

“Roses”  a track off the new the Rocket Summer’s album Of Men And Angels, makes you stop dead in your tracks and listen. He’s one of the most talented music

Jay Z about the Prez: “Barack loves hip-hop,. when I called him he was playing [The] Blueprint in the gym.” I realize it’s a new day, etc. But is there

Ohhh I sorta like the music shifting around. DRUMS! yay.. what concerns me here is that the lead singer is going all Husker Du. You can at times hear his

Readying myself for next weeks Hesta Prynn concert I listened to her first band Northern State’s Dying In Stereo which I adored at the same time and if it’s possible

When it comes to artsy stuff I’m really not your girl. I mean I can walk a gallery with you and pretend to oo and ahh but the fact is

Okay I am officially obessed with this band. “The Last Word” is fifty nine seconds of glory. It shifts speed, swifts dynamics and, because it is is For Science, has

Nearing a year of Rock NYC and I think the biggest surprise I’ve had is how great the Public Relations people are. As a rock journalist you don’t really know

Still on a Disney Mission to Mars adventure Angels and Airwaves unveil “Love”. Upon first listen I thought perhaps this is the type of music you have to be in

Hands down, no doubt, Mainstreet beats Guysville in the battle of the Exiles. Now I’ve said that, what next?  Mainstreet beats most albums, it is one of the greatest albums

Get Ready – Rare Earth-Too white for me. Find The Temptations version instead. Gimme Gimme Good Lovin’ – Crazy Elephant-They still play this on the oldies stations, and it has

Easy To Be Hard – Three Dog Night Eli’s Coming – Three Dog Night-Both these can be lumped together. These guys were almost as big a hit machine as Creedence.

You can shuffle the Ramones all day and never remember what songs you hear. Well unless your a lyric listener- which I am so what happens when you take SIXTY

1. How Low – Ludacris 2. The Last Word – For Science 3. 25 Years – Harper Blynn 4. Sliver – Nirvana 5. Fenway Lights – For Science 6. Seven

Standing at the front of the stage last night at Mercury Lounge I turned around and all I could see is a a sea of girls and this is what

I’ll get around to a full review at some point, but I wanted a few more words on Cobain on the anniversay of his birthday so half way through the

Why do more bands not cover Marshall Crenshaw songs? It would save em a lot of time and they know that whatever they do to a Crenshaw song they simply can’t

Finally Scanners gives us more to listen to! Got the news on Facebook that the new lp was available and tread lightly cuz you know how I am with girl

New to me this week is a 2 song release from Liars, Liars is a three-piece American band consisting of Aaron Hemphill (percussion, guitar, synth), Julian Gross (drums) and Philippine-born

Last night Lambert and Ke$ha hooked up at gay club Providence in the village where a spirited conversation lead directly to a heavy make out session!!! From contactmusic.com: He says, “She

“I like it, I’d buy it and I’ll give it five”. As we move further away from the innocence of the fifties and early sixties and find ourelves confronting as

the legendary for science Fenway Lights – For Science – They say Dusthead is an influence, I’ve got news: these guys leave everybody in their dust. The best first couplet

Iman speaks of Groundhog Day I think more like.. “uh..” See its funny what to write about I can think of stuff but just as easily talk myself out of

In celebration of Kurt Cobain’s birthday I downloaded the DVD Live At Reading and hope to watch it and review it before I go to Mercury Lounge for the Harper

Remember the old Bill Murray movie where he wakes up every day and it is the same day, Groundshog Day, over and over and over again. I live my own

Music journalist Tom Moon’s “1,000 Recordings To Hear Before You Die” is an essential guide to, not popular music, but to ALL MUSIC. He covers everything here. From Bach to

If he hadn’t offed himself, today would have been the legendary songwriter Kurt Cobain’s forty-third birthday. The voice of his generation and one of the greatest of all rock stars,

In an interview on Spinner picked up by contactmuic (everybody happy now?), Uber-producer Tony Visconti revealed how Marc Bolan played for David Bowie and was to join Bowie’s band in

Lyric is to be sung, poetry to be read. Lyric gets it meter from bpms, poetry from iambic patterns -thru stress. What you can get away with in lyric, you

I was trying to escape from a ballroom, where i had been condemned for eternity, out a window, when one of the family who had imprisoned me began to sing:

1. My Name Is Lion – The Morning Pages 2. Seven Sisters – Hesta Prynn 3. There Goes My Baby – Usher 4. It May Be Late – Harper Blynn

Do It Again For Jeffery – Kaleidoscope Yet another garage psych pop masterpiece, this one is British. Do The Funky Chicken – Rufus Thomas-Seems at first like a novelty, but

Sting played the Bell Boy or is that the Face? in Quadrophenia the movie, Billy Idol played the role at MSG and now Daltry wants Liam Gallagher for it when

It is great who you can be fans of on Face Book and what they post. I am a fan of Slash on FB. He just posted… “I’m on a

Next Tuesday the new album by Clem Snide -a sorta semi-popular electro song band from Boston who have been around since the 90s will be releasing their newbie The Meat

This is from Sony Music… Good luck First Ever Live Show – TONIGHT 2/19! Broken Bells has confirmed the details of its first ever live date. The band will perform

Rock NYC will be there to review the Black Eyed Peas Show

Did Frank Black really need to tell us the Pixies reunion was about a pay check. He did tell us and we already know it was. It’s like when a

The video for Vampire Weekend’s “Giving Up The Gun” is an hysterical tennis match starring RZA and here is the url from spinner so you can see for yourself: http://www.spinner.com/2010/02/19/vampire-weekend-giving-up-the-gun-video/

Our errant UK editor Remy Caplan turned me onto the West Coast Dance-Bass-Glorious Weirdness that is Flying Lotus last summer, with the Lil Wayne featuring “Robo Tussin” rocking my world. Today

Last year our very own Marie Lynn made it to Nashville’s CMA and reported on it for us -took us months to shake off the country fans. This year I’m

The Red Shoes is one of the most glorious dance movies of all time and there is a 35mm showing of it tonight at Film Forum on Houston Street. Here