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Here’s a great idea lets throw a music festival and have no bands! Welcome to Pitchfork Music Festival taking place in Chicago, playing the Windy City’s Union Park July 16-18. […]

1. Almost Saturday Night – Dave Edmunds 2. Knockout – Lil Wayne 3. Theme From “Cheers” – Titus Andronicus 4. Can We Go Wrong – Hesta Prynn 5. Fortune –

1. Tik Tok – Ke$ha 2. Bad Romance – Lady Gaga 3. Bedrock – Young Money 4. Imma Be – Black Eyed Peas 5. Sexy Chick – David Guetta 6.

Mike Nessing writes: Tin Soldier -Small Faces 1) For that little echo effect on the snare 2) Because Steve Marriot is channelling every great soul singer that ever lived. 3)

“While we’re young Boys, everyone, Rise your glasses high Here’s to the good times Here’s to the home team Kiss good times goodbye” -Titus Andronicus I love Titus the way

How far will looks getcha? In the music biz it’s like sales, it’ll get your foot in the door but then you gotta come up with the goods. The question

Black Horse and the Cherry Tree – KT Turnstall – Oh, dear. This is a very ordinary piece of blues estrogen product and only in the UK could it have

Listen, I love this kid if only because she survived Courtney Love as her mom and her dad was the voice of a generation. Francis Cobain makes her singing debut

Brian Johnson of AC/DC sounding like the voice of sanity talking out against rock stars abusing their positions to proselytize from way on high. Speaking to the Melbourne Sun, Johnson

Oh no… first Lil Wayne forms a rock band and then Mary J. Blige covers “Stairway To Heaven” with a supergroup: Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker, American Idol judge Randy Jackson,

There is something a little icky about this story but let’s try it out for size. Connoly’s is a pub on West 45th street. In August 2008 a Springsteen cover

1998 was about one thing. Hip hop radio station Hut 97 played Hard Knock Life and Miseducation months before either was released till a year after. Incessantly. And for good

careful you don’t drop something The Taylor Swift damage control team is in full on defense mode in response to the negative backlash following that train wreck Grammy performance. The

My fave Buddy Holly would be most definitely His Peggy Sue . I loved the history behind it ,the way I heard it  (of course I could be dead wrong

I’m old enough to remember hearing the news about Buddy Holly. But for me it was the news about Richie Valens that struck hardest, because I really like his single

Weeezer!! Target Cancer is a non-profit organization devoted to helping fund research into rare cancers–has launched a download series called, “The Right Track: Tunes To TargetCancer.” So heres how it

I just downloaded former Hole bassist Melissa Auf der Maur’s new song “Out Of Our Minds” and also watched the video and I love em both. Less then thrilled with

Three big shows are going on sale at BB King’s though they won’t actually happening for a long, long while!!! I saw Iris Dement last year and she was tremendous and

Speaking to the NME, Terry Hall questions teen rebel  spirit: “I find it very hard that a teenage kid doesn’t want to do that anymore. It’s totally gone. I mean

“It” girl of the moment and guess which half of She And Him folkie duo Zooey Deschanel will be portraying supergroupie Pamela Des Barre in HBO’s production of “I’m With

Just like Village Voice rock journalist Rob Harvilla and everybody else in the audience I was was blown away byTune-Yards opening set for the Dirty Projectors late last year. Using

1. Every Ghetto, Every City – Lauryn Hill 2. Can I Get A – Jay-Z 3. Lions – Tune Yards 4. It Doesn’t Matter Anymore – Buddy Holly 5. Lions

OTiS No, I am not screaming. This is how the band writes its name. Capital “O”, capital “T”, lover case ”i” capital “S”. This is a brand new band forming

Rockers and games must be a huge trend (none as good as the i-app Shinobi Ninja Attack btw.. that’s freaking mad fun) But Just as Fall Out Boy parodied the

I got this piece off info from Highline Ballroom: WE THE KINGS, MAYDAY PARADE A ROCKET TO THE MOON, THERE FOR TOMORROW FEB 8, 6:30PM SOLD OUT congrats, our Helen

Yo Chicago Kev check it out your very own Bamboozle! 3OH!3, COBRA STARSHIP, TRAVIS MCCOY TO PLAY BAMBOOZLE CHICAGO Bamboozle Chicago will take place Saturday, May 15 at the Charter

Let’s not bother with the obvious. Who wouldn’t wanna interview a Clapton or McCartney or Stevie Wonder. So except for superstars and the dead, who would I wanna sit down with…?

It is worth mentioning on a Rock NYC day where we seem to be writing MOSTLY about Buddy Holly that another fave, Elvis Costello was dubbed Buddy Holly having a

I got an email from Larry Schneiderman, the VP of the media buying company I work for, with a newsletter from the Wolfgang Vault. Larry just about invented selling rock

above: a last album below: blind faith covered “Well… Alright” Well alright, so I’m being foolish Well alright, let people know about the dreams and wishes you wish in the

“Knockout” does the job. The Lil Wayne and Nicki Minaj track off Rebirth finally does the job. It is a legitimate contender as a hit rock song by a guy

Jesus Luz -Madonna’s boy toy, has dumped her. Apparently a life of poverty is better than no life at all.

“For me, God is in my life. I don’t hide from that. I think the search has been on since the 1960s. I stepped off the path there for many

Marshall Crenshaw portrayed Buddy Holly in La Bamba Whenever I think of Buddy Holly I think “Peggy Sue”, not simply because I’m a huge fan of his or the song, but

As I am sure you know by now The Runaways movie features a homosexual romance  between the Joan Jett and Cherie Curie characters. Here are the two characters moments before

Playing my mother’s stereo in the living room was a definite no no and I accepted that until she played Buddy Holly’s “Every Day”. Then, when she would go outto

Killing Joke are playing the Filmore at Irving Plaza on May 21st in support of their April release album Feast Of Fools. Worth catching pop pickers, I’m telling you.

James McCartney -Paulie’s only boy (with the lovely Linda of course), has formed a band named Light. They’ve played some secret gigs and have spent two years recording the album

The great. Folkie, rocker campfire fire girl Michelle Shocked (remember Short, Sharp, Shocked?) was considered the female billy Bragg back in the day and so I am very happy to

I text my nephew Chris Chappell to ask for some opinions on Buddy Holly. Here is his reply: Buddy Holly: looked like Gary Busey, died in a plane crash with

I hate this album already. The new Slash album features guest appearances by: Ian Astbury, Chris Cornell, Rocco DeLuca, Fergie, Dave Grohl, Myles Kennedy, Kid Rock, Lemmy Kilmister, Adam Levine

Tom Scholtz is warning a fake Boston featuring, well, nobody who had anything to do with the original mid seventies band are raking in bucks offerring an intimate evening with…

The greatest duo in the world, Sleigh Bells, are opening for Major Lazer (another fave) but not at Terminal 5 and to be honest -if Sleigh Bells were opening at

Who doesn’t love Buddy Holly? Who doesn’t love Weezer? How about both?!! A great song with laughable lyrics you cant help but feel the awkward feeling of being class dork.

“Raining In My Heart” is a snap shot of poodle skirts an finned cars. If you can listen to this and not picture Mayberry and Junes pie in the window

If you are in London this April you might want to go and see Billy Bragg appearing in a play about three generations of a working class family “Pressure drop”

I had the best intentions to cover last nights American Idol auditions in Texas. The show that is usually covered here by Mary Magpie. The assignment had to get the

Last night was a great night for music and philanthropy.. and I’m lying. Last night in LA and also in London musical genius flexed its muscle for Haiti. “We are

On this, the forty first year of his death, it is a sad pleasure to dip back again into the great sinbger-songwriters back catalogue. Though really, from both the Stones

1. I’m Gonna Put My Foot Down – Buddy Holly 2. Flume – Peter Gabriel 3. Knockout – Lil Wayne 4. Lost One – Lauryn Hill 5. Bleeding A Girl