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Just downloaded “Can We Go Wrong” from former Northern Stater Hesta Prynn and zero scarlet letter here!!! An excellent modern dance number and I am over my indifference to her […]

Additional bands have been added to the Hoodwink Festivals I love the whole concept of this and would LOVE to see Say Anything doing The Misfits but they’re on the

Hard Day’s Night-Live At Shea Stadium-Lennon is talking jibberish into the mic before they start because George is having equipment issues. Probably switching to the Rickenbacker for that opening chord.

Hurray one of rocks best sets of pipes is gonna DO IT! Patrick Stump of hiatusified Fall Out Boy is recording a solo album More than vocals, the impression given

Motion City Soundtrack never fails to make me happy. So different, so great, so…talented. My Dinosaur Life, their latest album, lived up to that and more. “Worker Bee”, the first

Robyn Whitehead, the granddaughter of Teddy Goldsmith, the founder of The Ecologist magazine and brother of the billionaire Sir James Goldsmith, was found dead of a drug overdose last night.

I was a huge fan of “female beastie boys via long island” Northern State back in the day and so I felt a bit queasy at the news she has

PR company Girlie Action announce Groove Armada will be playing some dates Stateside in March, 2010. We will tell you more when we hear it.

This Ke$ha quote speaks for itself: “Oh, I’m such a crazy pop star, I’m haunted,’ but actually, almost every night I have some psycho dream of the same ghost, either

J.D. Salinger’s book about a teenage boy dealing with everyday hypocrisy Catcher In The Rye is the second most important tome in rock history though time has proven it to

Octupus’s Garden/Sun king – from the love mash-up which is pretty good but not here. Penny Lane – One side of the absolute zenith of psychedelic pop and everybody has

Heath as Dylan, Charlotte as his wife All I really Wanna Do – Somebody was telling me how moving this song. A call for friendship. I read it is a

are we not men? we are eno Eno quoted in the UK Guardian on the death of the recording industry as we know it. “I think records were just a

Apparently there’s a Republican candidate running for congress from Illinois named Joe Walsh who thinks he’s….Joe Walsh. A lawyer for singer Walsh named Peter Paterno wrote to candidate Walsh to

My contrary friend Marie Lynn is giving me a hard time. She writes as rarely as Sciortino, she is nervous about going to the titus interview -which is feeling more

On February 10th, Bob Dylan and others will be performing at The White House as part of a music series sponsored by First Lady Michelle Obama. The theme of the

1. Hope For Haiti – Various Idiots – 171,000 2. Animal – Ke$ha – 152,000 3. Contra – Vampire Weekend – 124,000 4. Transference – Spoon – 53,000 5. 2010

Thinking of Versa Manos made me think of Paul Finn of Kingsbury Manx. Finn is the owner of Odessa and has been consistently kind to Rock NYC, going out of

When you’re teasing Helen always a little care because she’s volatile but at least the exception that proves the rule viz live rock albums sux is Costello’s new Live At Hollywood

Versa Manos, the head of LAs Gorgeous PR, and rep of Rock NYC faves like Shinobi Ninja, Saint Motel and Love Grenades is in town for the Le Poisson Rouge Shinobi

The Rolling Stones The Black Eyed

Congrats to Keith -here seen in his naughty, early days

Perez hilton reports Black eyed Peas have been sued for plagiarism. The claim is  a songwriter named Phoenix Phenom forwarded a song named “Boom Dynamite” to Interscope Records who gave it

I am knee deep in the Gary Giddens biography and discovered this gem. When asked what was new, Armstrong replied: “Nothing’s new. White man still winning”

“Bah Bah Bah Bah:…” another completely killer track off my big album of the moment Romance Is Boring. To my mind (if not to my sound) Los Campesinos are closer

American Idol’s guest judge: Neil Patrick Harris- likable enough I suppose but a bit soft. Guest Judge. Joe. Jonas. Seriously? You expect to find talent on this show with a

I like Girls. There I said it.“Laura”, was mentioned here in November as a new single in the UK I finally get around to hearing it WHY? Cuz it was

Shuffle time! Didja think I wouldn’t eventually play along? Adult Books X – you hate her -I love her. At one point I wanted to BE her, I am now

It isn’t all about fellatio you know… I have spent today mostly listening to Romance Is Boring but when I can pull myself away from the album I’ve been listening

From the NME DEVO are to perform at the official 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver. The new wave band, who have recently been working on new material produced by

In the same continent Bach was born… (stretching I realize)

My fave bog is brooklynvegan.com . We slam em from time to time but more often than not I think they’re excellent. But i took a peek at yesterdays posts. They

Former Beach Boy Brian Wilson reportedly blew away approximately 50 premier clients of the San Francisco Art Exchange this past Saturday night with a 14 song mini-set performed by him

With all the hoopla over the pro-life commercial to air during the Super Bowl, I got to thinking about a Costello classic “Crimes Of Paris” from back in, i dunno,

Listen I steal off pitchfork as much as the next blogger and more than most BUT I have every right to consider them loathsome nitwits when they say things like: “It says

Mary J. Blige and Andrea Bocelli will perform Simon and Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water” during a fundraising segment for Haiti relief at this year’sGrammy Awards.my God can this suck

Solange Knowles joined Of Montreal on stage for a cover of “I Want You Back” The first lady of Brooklyn soul!!! here with her kid, and here blowing out the

The late great Doug Hopkins I’m sorry Mama, but I’ve been drinking again… songs to sing when you wanna sing about drinking. The saying goes, when wine women and song

Jack White one of the top 10 sexiest rock beasts of all time (ask Iman he agrees.. no wait.. start again)Jack White, my own personal Kesha, is coming to my

where are the ra ra riot when you need em? 15 more added to BAMBOOZLE! May 1 Drake Bullet for My Valentine 100 Monkeys Bobby Long Escape the Fate Relient

Never Shout Never–the band of 18 year-old singer/songwriter Christofer Drew–released their new mini-album, What Is Love? today. Produced by Butch Walker (Weezer, Katy Perry) in Los Angeles and at Abbey

David Bowie live double dvd has been released and if you want to pretend your at a concert sans restroom line you can tune in to FuseTV tonight. Cable network

I just heard the Damon Albarn – Massive Attack and maybe i’m simply sick of Albarn but “Saturday Come Slow” is a dreary, dubby, drag and three songs in the

Dave Matthews is embarking on a huge US tour this year. You wanna know where? Go elsewhere, i won’t be a party to it. As Nevin sez: I’m not going

Jessica Simpson has started a shoes for Haiti charity. Because in a sweltering country with no food and no pavements at least you can, you know, look stylish.On a serious

But, as Tod Leibowitz mentioned to me, two weeks after calling me an idiot, I am sitting on a subway train with what lools like a copy of Blueboy

We all have our assumptions so I coulda done one on Ke$ha’s pro-animals rights activism but what the heck, I’ll take this one off her RS interview “What was your

Teddy Pendergrass – A mix of greatest hits and Bluenotes stuffRomance Is Boring – I have just begun writing about thisLouis Armstrong – Mix of an African tour in the

Any writers with thirteen year old daughters? you have been warned. In 1954 the incomparable James Stewart was learning to play sax to portray the uncomparable Glenn Miller for the

Having already been to one filming of Spectacle I have no doubt a five hour taping of an episode must have been pure torture, which is not to say the