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At a Ringo Starr concert a coupla years ago the Beatle drummer tells the audience “I’m not gonna leave the stage just to come back on for an encore. Pretend […]

I never thought this would happen.During “Blake’s Got A new Face” the ground is actually moving from the pounding drums.For Vampire weekend???Yep, this is VE Act II. With a superb

Take Good Care Of My Baby

Mary Magpie Helen Bach Meet The Best Unsigned Band In The Country

vampire weekend’s best performance ever

As gigwise mentioned, Florence and the machine, ubiquitous on TV and radio in the UK beat VE who came in third. Not bad without a hit song, which they’ll need

Interviewing Paul Simonon many years ago I took him to task for “the only band that matters” tag that was appearing on all their advertising at the time. “Don’t look

Sometimes a post follows you around until you write itYesterday I went to see The Lovely Bones -Peter Jackson’s film adaption of Alice Sebolt’s novel about a fourteen year old girl

Did you ever listen to the “End of the World as We Know It”that the REM song with the fun fast lyrics;“The other night I tripped a nice continental drift

I quote Dylan all the time. Can’t help myself, he is just imminently quotable. And not the obvious stuff (or at least not just the obvious ones though the obious

The next three sets I will be seeing  (unless I can find a ticket around the buck fifty range for Ladty Gaga at Radio City since she canxd the Connecticut

Cypress Hill have signed to Snoop Dogg’s Priority Records -hardly a shocker there, and has recorded a single off their upcoming album, same title Rise Up with a man I’m

I am gagging for the release of Massive Attacks first album in  six years Heligoland so am happy to post my second non story of the day wherein the band

I know thiss seems like a non-story but it means something to be because my dad was fifty four when I was born and dead by the time I was

I started off thinking I’d write a parody of Middle East Clubs silly how to get booked advise on their web page Helen posted yesterday. But it is tough to

so Im checking out the club were going to tomorrow and under ‘booking’ this is what it states not  sure why I find this so amusing but I do (Iman

When the kid and I are at the gym we always hit the treadmills and give a mad shout out to OK GO. They’re the band that stole the vid

Believe (feat D’Angelo) – Q-Tip – Gets as close as anybody has to a hip hop/jazz meeting of sounds, sure closer than Branford Marsalis ever did, and Q-Tip has always

Crunkcore, a blend of hiphop, screamo, and experimental, is  a smaller genre with great potential. A questionable experiment started by BrokeNCYDE. Dot Dot Curve, who also took on the title of

I’ve been listening to Teddy Pendergrass since he died… the way you do, you know, and I’m deep into his “IT Should Have Been You when I think, I’ve heard

Ipod shuffle play list at random 3 day weekend extra bullshit edition.1) Piss Aaron-Todd Rundgren. an odd choice for the weekend kicker-offer, but this is at random. If I had

Mercury (Poisoning as Graham Parker once dubbed em) have signed Glee’s Matthew Morrison to a recording contract. I know I play pop fan to Helen’s Indie cred but some days it’s

the boys emote I’m no fan of Simple Minds (though Jim Kerr was married to Chrissie Hynde and that’s GOTTA count for something) but lest we forget: by the mid-point

London band Scanners feature Sarah Daley on bass and vocals just like me! And  what a beautiful and haunting melody on their song ‘Salvation’. Its almost Patti Smith with class.I

One of my favorite (and mysteriously un googleable here) sites is Pollstar.comI have been known to sit in front of that screen and go band by band checking on tours.My

I got an email from Mario Criscuolo from “very forward-thinking and innovative buzz marketing team called BuzzParadise” who are trying to create buzz for Carrera Sunglasses. Essentially Mario is contacting

Although not a huge Blink fan I AM a huge fan of helping others and cute clothes…….buy it ———- Forwarded message ———-From: Mike Date: Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 5:25

Death Cab For Cuties will be covering Simple Minds’ “Don’t You Forget About Me” from The Breakfast Club at part of VH-1’s The Critic’s Choice Movie Awards today at 9pm.

That’s a great article – thanks for sending me the link. I was the unofficial other sibling in the Fantina family. I am the same age/grade as Richard’s younger sister

cover bands? Contact.com reports: “IDOL SLIPS — BUT NO RIVAL COMES CLOSE After roaring back with sky-high ratings for its season debut on Tuesday, American Idol saw its numbers slump

As it happens, Lady Gaga cancelling isn’t all bad because i’d already gotten a tix to see Titus Andronicus opening for Vampire Weekend at United Palace on Sunday. I love

Now it’s official: Citing exhaustion, Lady Gaga has canceled her show Sunday night at Toyota Presents Oakdale Theatre in Wallingford, and postponed her performance Monday at Mohegan Sun. Gaga bailed

One of the greatest bands you don’t know the blue nile

Semi-Precious Metals  are opening for Lady Gaga in Connecticut and I am going to be able to review em for you, you lucky reader(s?) you…

I think I’ve got this twitter and celebrities worked out. Most celebrities can’t write more than four words in a complete sentence so twitter size sound bites is the shiz

Betraying the Martyrs, a Christian/hardcore screamo band hailing from the home of the croissant, Paris, France are without a doubt insane. “The Hurt The Divine The Light” is a catchy,

sorry about the small picture This is one not to be missed under any circumstances… by me at least!! Even though I’m gonna end up behind the stage, I just

Helen Bach SEZ: Music is a business. Yeah it may look like booze and broads but simply said.. How much bad behavior do you hear about these days? Not as

NEW YORK (AP) — MTV is joining the major broadcast networks and several cable channels for an all-star telethon for Haitian earthquake relief on Jan. 22. A statement released by

i hate her so much right now: kelis caught with the fur on her back Those crazy PETA people are at it AGAIN! This time getting up in the grill

Lady Gaga finished taping her Oprah performance a couple of hours ago, she didn’t discuss the fainting episode and is apparently up and running!!

According to New Musical Express Jay Reatard’s sudden death at the age of twenty-nine is being investigated as a possible homicide. This is what NME posted: “According to My Fox

Brian Eno will be the subject of a new BBC FOUR documentary set to debut at the end of the month. One report online says that Eno will provide “unprecedented

At the premiere for the Blur documentary “No Place Left To Run”, Damon Albarn admitted the making of Blur -their usually successful brit breakthrough was a blur due to heavy

Rock NYC perennial fave Chrissie Hynde is reportedly in the studio as we type working on a new solo record.Hynde has very high praise for the project claiming it to

sorry, i can’t find a picture of singer-songwriter bobby charles Singer-Songwriter Bobby Charles, the man who wrote “See you Later, Alligator” as well as hits Fats Domino and Bill Haley

In the first class lounge of British Airways, on her way to the States for the Oprah Winfrey Show, Susan Boyle picked up a a mop and started belting out

River Cuomo, who has been LA rehabbing from his injury in a car accident twittered as follows: “Doctor says my lung is all healed – cleared to fly to Florida

Lady Gaga collapsed due to dehydration though exhaustion is probably more like it and cancelled her concert in Indiana. The docs say she needs bed rest for a coupla days.

is that a gun in your pocket Speaking of bands I kinda forgot about last year, Semi-Precious Metal’s are a glam hard rock band extravaganza sorta like New York Dolls