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Wake Up PlaylistRemember Alarm clocks? Yeah that all to happy shrill of rise and shine. Well there was a time I didn’t need a clock I woke on my own, […]

I’m going to Boston Sunday.. to see Love Via Dance Machine a the Middle East Club.Crazy man its a 1pm show, if you’re in the area you should go. We

Helen Bach wrote:Driving home tonight the Magpie and I are less that upbeat feeling the drag of a tough week. Radio on softly we aren’t even listening just discussing if

From small things, baby. Wycliff jean has done with his success something worth doing with his success and since Tuesday his non profit organization Yele Haiti has raised one million

Left and Right In The Dark – Julian Casablancas – I’ve been reading the live reviews… uh oh!Love T.K.O. – Teddy Pendergrass – This R&B ballad is so destressed, “I

It’s been two months since Monsters Of folk ended their tour and except for a twitter later prover to be fake not a word from the rock hero. I’m guessing

This is what Axl sang last night in Winnipeg Set List: “Chinese Democracy” “Welcome to the Jungle” “It’s So Easy” “Mr. Brownstone” “Shackler’s Revenge” Richard Fortus Spotlight “Live and Let

Nothing I love more than good music criticism and here is Stephen Dalton of Timesonlin.co.uk writing about Julian Casablancas voice: “soothingly melodious, fuzzy-warm, honey-drenched growl”. Well put… 

I wrote a coupla weeks ago that Robin Thicke wished he was Will Downings. Will Downings wishes he was Teddy Pendergrass. Teddy Pendergrass died yesterday at the age of 59

The awesomeness that is Rhino Handmade will be releasing A limited edition box set of that under appreciated pop gem The Birds, The Bees And The Monkees Release date is

It isn’t that Julian Casablancas Phrazes For the Young is a bad album. Sure, the experiments are shit, and a lot of the songs are B listers, but here and

scared yet? We have been discussing cover songs lately but what about cover people? Tribute bands aren’t for the faint of heart that’s for sure. Beatlemania had a great run

The new M.I.A. “Space Odyssey” sounds like the remix rather than the original of whatever it is. I listened to it on pitchfork news and it is a very old

. “He created an undeniably classic album that contained so much pain transfered (sic) to tape in such an explosive way that it made you feel different after hearing it.

This post is reprinted from Gigwise “The artist behind the artwork on Ladyhawke’s eponymous debut album is auctioning off a painting to help victims of the Haitian earthquake. Artist Sarah

“Even after our first album went gold, I never got any good looking chicks. Black Sabbath was a blokes band … We used to joke that the only groupies that

seperated at birth: toby keith and trace adkins Toby Keith’s hugely successful Show Dog Nashville has merge with Universal Records and the first signing? Hugely succesful Trace Adkins. Adkins bailed

Here is Jay-Z on how he writes raps: “It comes from me trying to tell the story in the most clear, concise and truthful way — taking those everyday words

After telling People she thought her first album will be bigger than Thriller, the clearly wobbly reality star (Star?) had this to say. “I’ve spent over $1 million, almost $2

I was also at the Joes Pub concert. Falu is a New York based sing and song writer whose music blends ancent Indian melodies with contemporary western sounds.  She is

edgy… not British Broadcasting Corporation, a Goverment owned entity, have admitted their poathetic U2=BBC campaign to coincide with U2’s entirely forgettable fire No Line On The Horizon amounted to GOVERMENT

Teddy Pendergrast, one of the greatest soul singers of all time, has died of colon canvcer at the age of fifty-nine. The great man who came out of the Philadelphia

One of the funnest things about buying a tix for an upcoming concerts is going back to the musician in question and listening to their material again. Which is what

Regular readers must be pretty sick and tired of the constant arguing between the writers at Rock NYC as to the importance of sales in forms of popular music The

I was saddened to hear the wild garage rocker Jay Reatard died in his slip last night at the age of twenty-nine.I am frankly quite shocked -he reminded me of all

The second dumbest rock crit on the planet hit new levels of asinity on his preposterous Rap and Art piece in Slate. Jonah Weiner is first impressed that rappers like

The overnights are in and AI did a ridiculous 29.9 Million Viewers that while 2% lower than last year are unheard of for anything other than specials the Oscars (which it would

I take more shit for what I like than most. Everyone a critic and everyone has something to say.Everyone knows better and everyone is wiser and some dumb fucks even

American Idol? Not the show the majority of kids in my school watch, it’s more like House or Glee or Secret Life of the American Teenager. When asking why, the

stolen off rolling stone… Set list: “White Sky” “Holiday” “Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa” “I Stand Corrected” “M79″ “California English” “Cousins” “Run” “A-Punk” “One (Blake’s Got a New Face)” “Taxi Cab”

Why don’t you like me helen? im such a sweetie… US Top Five Albums1. Animal – Ke$ha2. I Dreamed A Dream – Susan Boyle3. The Fame – Lady Gaga4. The

US courts have allowed the revival of an old court case claiming price fixing by the major labels who, in case you forget, control the prices on 80% of the

W. Edwards Deming once said that a dream without courage is delusion.America –  Notoriously bad at math – reversed the equation last night and showed that their dream equaled courage

I am off to see Julian Casablancas at (UGH) Terminal 5.In the interim Julian is pissed at his record label, RCA: “”The people change all the time. They’re nice, they’re

A writer named Bob Claster has put together a website chock full of MP3 files of live performances by Judee Sill.They range from BBC radio to TV performances on the

Yes, they could. This weekend in Berlin, Obama The Musical -with a cast of thirty, takes us on a twenty year trip down memory begining in Chicago and ending in the

In my other life as a senior buyer I have been busy placing media time for Save The Children today attempting to raise funds for the victims of the worst earthquake

I wish I was twenty-three years old again  and had the energy to hang out all night on a weekday drinking southern comfort and beer chasers and then rockin out to one

Here’s  the link to an incredible first person account of travelling cross country with Judee before she was a recording artist. The author, known only as “D” posts some personal

I missed Rock NYC faces Harper Blynn in December at Bowery Ball Room and having simply worshipped their power pop album The Loneliest Generation from late last year and referenced

In what well could be the percusor to another world tour -could depend on whether Art behaves himself of course, Simon And Garfunkel are joining Pearl Jam, Aretha Franklin, Van

Band of Horses is a band I got hip to via XM Radio back when I loved satellite radio Is “There a Ghost in My House”, a song with a

Im being told The Dear and Departed are the next best thing since sliced breadOK OK.. let see…“Matter of Time” seems to be the big one here but seriously they

As noted yesterday, the Spiderman/Bono Broadway musical is in deep trouble before it even starts. Actor Alan Cummings, who blew me away with Natasha Richardson on Broadway a decade ago

get on down Forgive me for what I’m about to say but here is proof that I too can have a change of heart. I have a habit now of

At a concert in London last night John Mayer annonced to the audience of screaming tweens: “I’m getting someone pregnant tonight.  I’m going to do a cover by another artist

Got home and watched a little of American Idol -I’ll leave the review proper for some of my other writers but geez, this is geting a little mouldy isn’t it?

Aging better than anybody 132 years old has any right to, the Gilbert and Sullivan Players took the old light opera H.M.S. Pinafore for a sea voyage at City Center.

Guitarist Justyn Brodsky friended me on Facebook ( feel free to do the same! Just started it up!) So of course as I stalk the request I notice Mr Brodsky