Nobody likes everything and when Elvis Costello is mentioned, you’re bound to get strong opinions either way. Lyrically, he can be a little “wordy“. Then there‘s his voice. A nasal […]
Feb 16: Heavy Bass Champions of the World Vol I : Drop The Lime – Doomsday Device March 2: Drop The Lime – Devils Eyes w/ Remixes by Diplo, Classixx,
1. Crest – The Kingsbury Manx 2. Eleven! – Solfege radio 3. Headaches – For Science 4. Little Wolf – Americans In France 5. New Jersey In Denial – Solfege
You Shook Me-Jeff Beck More bluesy than the Zeppelin version, and a more faithful rendering of the original. Rod on vox before he became Rod. Dignity-Bob Dylan “Tell Tale
Yoko Ono – Betwen My Head And the Sky – Animal farm? Sheep, dogs, cows, and some other unidentifiable creatures. Along with speaking, and other unusual vocal sounds/lyrics ruin a
How can I enjoy a movie with zero redeeming points like “Valentine’s Day” while being eager to cause bodily harm to the soundtrack and if there was a book? I
1. Marina & The Diamonds – ‘Hollywood’ 2. Plan B – ‘Stay Too Long’ 3. Biffy Clyro – ‘Many Of Horror’ 4. Hot Chip – ‘One Life Stand’ 5. Massive
We don’t mock the recently departed… rule of thumb is give it a day or two. But Doug Fieger, the leader of the Knack who died on Sunday at the
By Sunday morning it was the No. 1 single on iTunes and had been viewed on YouTube four million times. reports new york times.
I don’t know what anyone can add about a band, Kingsbury Manx, whose third best song on their current Ascenseur Ouvert is “Crest” -absolutely gorgeous the song ebbs and flows
Not all of us hipsters have the honor of living in NYC proper and not all of us have the means to partake of Opera held at The Metropolitan Opera.
Mary Magpie Sez: “”Headaches” by For Science, sound like everyone else, with a scratchier voice. Boring, it just doesn’t catch your attention. Put on anything from the “School Of Rock”
Straight Off App Straight off the AP WOODLAND HILLS, Calif. – Doug Fieger, leader of the power pop band The Knack who sang on the 1979 hit “My Sharona,” died
Mary Sez: Going to The Space, you know you’re in for a good show. We got into the venue, with not a lot of people. and Find Vienna was on.
There is no better feeling in the world than going to a show to see a beloved band and walking out loving their opener more. Sorta what happened last night.
The horrendous help Haiti sucker song arranged by Simon Cowell sold 450,000 copies in its first week of release. Hey, Wheels, should we trash it again?
I can’t wait!!! But while we do wait pick up the current Time Out -there is an excellent interview with the woman!!!
1. Rudeboyz – MIA, Rihanna, Diplo 2. Grace – Bebe and Cece Winans 3. Headaches – For Science 4.Getting To The Money – Gudda Gudda5. Knockout – Little Wayne6. With
Love Will Tear Us Apart- Joy Division Love Will Keep Us Together- Captain and Tennile Love is the Drug- Roxy Music Love Hangover- Dianna Ross Love Stinks J Geils Love
I Second That Emotion – Smokey Robinson – Well, where would you begin if not with the poet laurate of love? Of all the myriad of things I love about this voice of
Modern metal is a bit like modern jazz, a bit too specialized and a bit too whatever but there are exceptions. My beloved Lamb Of God is one and a new
Chuck D. where are you to point the fist in the face of the corrupt and immoral exploitation of Haitian misery by music stars and celebrites too lazy, venal or
Wow. I didn’t think this piece of garbage could suck any more than I imagined it would. But god bless america, they managed it. “We Are The World 25” interspersed
Trey Anastasio- Wallingford CT Sucks. There really is nothing else to say. Bland as his fans. I was told ‘Shine’ would change my mind that Trey was “afuckingmazing”. uh no
Asking someone to give you their play list is this decades ‘hey baby can I have your number’ so personal it seems that out of the 5 people I asked
“Nobody should be homeless” Baby Girl of Shinobi Ninja’s was quoted while explaining her participation in the multi-artist recording of Gudda Gudda’s “Getting To The Money”. in aid of Rock NYC’s
From contactmusic (more or less -we paraphrase), Gloria Estefan is putting together a Spanish language “We Are The World” with Ricky Martin, Paulina Rubio, Shakira, Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony and
I know everyone thinks when it comes to Ke$ha I’ve been listening with my dick but I haven’t. I love Ke$ha a) because I love the music and b) because
Some hearts are lucky and some not so much… if all my fave love songs seem a little, er, depressive, I’ve always lost in love by the end of the
I can’t express my love for this band loudly enough. If you think it is easy to write loud fast punk rock songs you are wrong, it is hard. For
1. Little Wolf – Americans In France 2. Rudeboyz – Rihanna, MIA, Diplo 3. Grace – Bebe amd Cece Winans 4. Gettin To The Money – Gudda Gudda 5. Why
I guess if you’re still reading you will have decided whether you trust my taste or not so if you do trust me, please trust me on this one: Bebe
Four on the floor, straight up no chaser rock and roll and here is the entire lyric: Titus Andronicus Forever And this band is so great IT MEANS MORE THAN
Getting ready for Tuesday’s Plastic Ono Band gig I went in search of Season Of Glass. I’vel stened to Life With The Lions more over the past coupla years and
Half asleep I completely missed the release of Gudda Gudda’s Guddaville on Itunes till today while writing the Cash Money post.I love it ofcourse, I had heard a lot of
BBC America’s “The Inbetweeners” is officially the best show on TV. Tangentally only about music (how can you make a sitcom about teens without a soundtrack), it follows the story
From Drake to Lil Wayne and back to (personal fave) Gudda Gudda the brothers and owners of Cash Money Bryan and Ronald Williams have founded an oil and gas company. Do
But if you cared to know the info, you prolly already did. So let me just mention Axl showed up three hours late to Vartosa and took the stage at
So sometimes we rockcrits get tired of howling at the moon and want tp back to Broadway. Here we go then… Comedy Tonight – Ken Thorne – From A Funny
Helen got a PR email informing all of us with NO CONNECTS that Ke$ha is performing tonight at Webster Hall!!! I saw her Jingle Ball and though she only sanf
Preservation act 2 stands out as a much more muscular affair than it’s predecessor. Dave Davies’s lead guitar takes a front seat more often making these tracks a tad edgier,
1. Little Wolf – Americans In France 2. Rudeboyz – Rihanna, Diplo, MIA 3. Knockout – Lil Wayne 4. True Love – Bing Crosby 5. Route 66 – Nat King
I’ve been wanting to write about this album for awhile now but haven’t given it the fullblown review it deserves. The reason is one of the ones I expressed earlier today:
We who read and write here have at least one thing in common, a love of music ‘live and recorded’ (* quote source masthead of www.rocknycliveandrecorded.com, all rights reserved. Chief
Is this a Rock NYC post or this a cut and paste job? I got it off NME who obviously got it off a Press Release. If it wasn’t off a
At some point you gotta say, OK I get it, John Mayer is a scuzz but he is a fucked up, rock star, great guitarist publicly scorned fucked up and
I have found it exceedingly difficult to write full length album reviews -much more difficult than not just my youth (which figures) but even than six months ago. I have
True Love – Bing Crosby – With Grace Kelly on their honeymoon in a boat and a dream of a perfect happy ending (though they’ll have to wait another hour
Hel Sez Me having to watch a Nickelodeon program? Blame it on the flu, but I didn’t send her out of the room to cover this show. Funny how similar
