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Top 10 Albums: 1/ Alicia Keys – The Element Of Freedom 2/ Andre Rieu – Forever Vienna 3/ Paolo Nutini – Sunny Side Up 4/ Florence & The Machine – […]

Leonard Cohen is to me what Etta James is to the President: if either of them don’t get back up we’re over. So all I have to say about each

Me and John Witt are Sade fanatics. I met her in the early eighties when she was still a model and poked fun at my somewhat grubby appearance at a

Since the Saints are the Haiti of football teams, and since everybody from Drake to, er, Drake, want the Saints to win I’d support em honest. But I loath that

Do the words shut your fucking face mean anything? SHUT UP. From the President to Lady Gaga everybody talks and talks and talks. SHUT YOUR MOUTH. OK, here’s the latest

Off subject I realise but I was saddened to hear of the death of one of my fave comedic actors of all time yesterday. Ian Carmichael was so perfect as

I need no excuse to obsess about Marshall Crenshaw. I edit a music website for precisely the excuse to scream and shout about how perfect this fella is. I mean

So, if you’re keeping score folks, im very tired and old at bowery ballroom and im talking to a little knockout named Diane and she namechecks Star Fucking Hipsters. So

A night full of interviews, great music, and kind strangers made the Take Action Tour Connecticut date more than memorable. After our chaotic interviews, Mayday’s on their tour bus and

Pure brilliance -five bands of unparralled fun, energy, charisma… no, wait, let me start at the start. Sometime around the end of December I began to obsess over Screaming Females,

1. The Other End – The Groucho Marxist 2. Dear God, I Hate Myself – Xiu Xiu 3. Watch Me Make You Hate Me – Call The Cops 4. Give Blood

The last band  I saw, Screaning Females, was best. BUT the Groucho Marxist were breathtaking. I didn’t know one song (except the Carole King cover) but they played thirty minutes

Helen Bach says: I need to get this off my chest so sit back shut up and read. What the fuck is wrong with up and coming local ‘bands’ these

This is a Presley quote from the ’68 special: “I’d like to talk a little bit about music. A very little. There’s been a big change in the music field

So this is what I did… I typed in Elvis Presley on my itunes search and this is what came up Dirty, Dirty Feeling – Now you thought I was

Rumours are abounding: Howard Stern to replace Simon Cowell on American Idol next year. This makes perfect sense to me. Like, perfect perfect -Stern has become irrelevant since he went

Joys of blogging Part 490: first I call em Snoozefork and then I steal their content One of my very favorite bands in the world since watching em open for

So what do you do when you cant get through? I had been prepping to speak to Call The Cops, suggested to me by Earshot Media and loving their myspace.

Mayday Parade and our Mary Magpie Meeting with Mayday Parade was an event that consumed two weeks of my life. I wanted to do it, I heard so much about

So I noticed that when I was offered a freebie and cool mp3 from Pitchfork I tended to find myself on Stereogum so today I cut out the middleman and

Legendary New Order and Joy Division bassist Peter Hook opened the Hacienda Part II, a new club called Fac251, in Manchester last night with a performance by his band the Light

Hey Helen, don’t blame me. If you recommend a band to me I’m gonna listen to em and though I eagerly await your and Mary’s interview with Call The Cops

Sure I’d heard the buzz about beach House, so I bought a song and fell asleep in the middle of it. Hype, I said. Didn’t even mention it (if memory

At last nights Haiti telethon (yeah, I had heard about it but forgot it) , Sean Combs, the Courtney Love of hip hop, called on Wycliff Jean to run for President

Don Giovanni Records are the guys behind not just Screaming Females, which I guess you know, but Jeff the Brotherhood and Pregnant -two other faves of mine. Unfortunately Pregnant has

Guest list totally fucked No photopass makes 3k camera have to sit in my car. Mayday amazing guys tour manager cordial Sent from my BlackBerry Its always a good time

1. Get Close – Call The Cops 2. Morning Bird – Sade 3. Bruised And Scarred – Mayday Parade 4. Out Of Our Minds – Melissa Auf Der Maur 5.

Pavement added to snoozefork line up -congrats to all…

My friend Chickie Bucco -who I went to the Debbie Reynolds concert with, is up for this one. Betty isn’t just “Memories” or Eight Is Enought but, at least when

got this off titus blog… apparently they are too busy playing birthday party for millionaires to meet with us (they played the bloke who owns pitchfork.com’s birthday -a bit nauseauting)

I know there is a world of reasons to believe Lefsetz nonsense about how BEP can’t sell out presales because… wait I forgot why: oh because they are not LONG

There is an old Biblical saying about how when it comes to charity don’t let the right hand know what the left hand is doing. Nick Jonas: “”Just finished volunteering

How can nothing, I mean nothing, change between the ages of forty-three and fifty-one. I dunno but listening to a pre-release copy of Sade’s Soldier Of Love, all I can

About a month ago, we reported on Rock NYC that some children’s advocate groups were trying to get the NFL to reconsider their decision to have British rock legends The

I’ve spent much of today trying to figure out why I love Rebirth and everybody else I know doesn’t love it so much. Here’s a reason: people expect the jail

The cover of a limited edition 500 copies 45 of Yeah, Yeah, Yeah’s “Skeleton” art by guitarist Nick Zinner.

Following the exit stage right of the best alt rock equivalent to Springsteen the Brooklyn based Hold Steady’s keyb Franz Nicolay (can’t figure out where to put in the commas,

One more time, Hole’s Pretty On The Inside was great, Hole’s Cobain inspired (at least) Live Through This was a masterpiece, Hole’s MTV Unplugged And Plugged bootwas filled with songs

Further to Helen Bach’s post earlier today, here is the first band names dropped for the Pitchfork Festival in Chicago. Will Pitchfork please try and stop being so fucking boring

Further to our report yesterday that Bruce and ASCAP were suing Connoly’s on West 45th comes word Bruce wants his name removed from the complaint. Apparently ASCAP didn’t tell Bruce

Following the “American Idiot” Grammy performance, the Broadway show sold one million bucks in tix. ergo? If the musical is halfway decent itll be a hit. Congrats to our Mary

In preparation for tonight’s Take Action Tour Show noticed that I’m going to have to walk by throngs of teenaged girls who are literally camping out at the venue to

According to Brooklynn Vegan Australian power poppers are recording their newbie in Brooklyn. Which begs the question if you could be in Sydney why the hell are you here. Which

we got these pics from a friend of rock nyc…

February is my least favorite month. Too cold to do much of anything but wait for spring and play tunes. 1) Barry White-I’m Gonna Love You Just A Little More,

So this is it my friends Take Action Tour is coming to town and the Magpie and I will be there front and center sucking it all in Interviewing Call

Check this out. Now I’m not a Coke drinker and we don’t endorse anything here but music and angst.. oh and cursing sez we but Coke is actually giving out

Johnny Depp and Keith Richards are back together again (after their father son pirate crap) The film, which is the first proper Keith Richards documentary , will be titled “Happy,”

Paul Simon better guard his wallet A man claiming to be the Paul tried to make a withdrawal from Citibank New York yesterday. $4300.00 was the requested amount. Rafael Ramos………are