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Michael Jackson Examined Part III: Black Icon

Hi Iman, you sexy beast, it’s Lala Gaga can’t wait till the 17th, just you me and a coupla thousand other people This Week’s Top Ten U.K. Singles 1.. Lady Gaga

Girl bands? Not a fan. But regardless of gender, Care bears on Fire sound like a few teenage girls in their bedrooms writing songs, thrown together guitar riffs and weak

The three Rs should be Rock Roll and Racism or Rock Roll Regret? What a bore it has become to have everything so ultra censored so as not to offend.

One of my best friends called me to claim my Empire Falls post  was borderline racist. I dont see it. Ten years ago I went to see a Public Enemy concert

From Sharia Laws to white supremacy, what do you with bad politics. I’ve had the opportunity to listen to white supremacy hard core bands on occassion and have pretty impressed

Kominas“Sharia Law in the USA”I loved the start of this song with that spooky sorta Raiders of the Lost Arc sound going on and the segway into the hardcore sound

The Ron Sexsmith version of “Crayon Angel” has great acoustic guitar and nice incidental percussion. When the harmonies come in, it shows how “big” these little songs were. Multiple distinctive

During the Vampire Weekend profile in the current New Yorker, Lizzie Widdecombe raises the question of class wars. This is a hoary old cliche in rock terms and although the

Cold War Kid’s “Coffee Spoon” is lovely This hit my repeat button and won’t leave it alone. Just the “oooos” near the begining are enough to set me to singing.

The Kominas look like the guys most likely to be strip searched at American Airlines The Kominas sound like the Clash circa Sandinista The Kominas have songs with names like

The irascible greatest living vocalist George Jones had this to say at a concert earlier this year: “Have you noticed they stopped playing all those drinkin’ and cheatin’ songs on

I can’t even keep up with the stuff I know I’d love. I was checking out Spinners top tracks of 2009 and stunled on Clipse’s “Kinda Like A Big Deal”

Taylor Swift and Taylor Lautner have broken up according to USMagazine.com citing a lack of chemestry. Apparently Lautner liked Swift more than she liked him which is gonna make it

Lessee here. By the end of 2009 I had reviewed 46 albums I loved in the year (while managing to miss Cocoon Of Love), reviewed a coupla hundred albums of

This is part of my contuing attempt to come to terms with Michael Jackson’s confused legacy. In my first post I wrote about how MH had put a face on

I think that for 2010 Bobby S and Mary should do a weekly old school 60minute Point Counter Point on this seasons American Idol. I can laugh at both of themme-

Lady Gaga hit by flowers during dance routine

Not to be out done by any other Rock NYCer, this is what is on my Ipod while I work out 1. Coffee Spoon – Cold War Kids 2. Buried

In a comment recently from Helen Bach (if you don’t follow Helen’s comments you miss the best thing about Rock NYC) she claimed she didn’t watch Costello’s talk show “Spectacle”

Well, it sure aint Rock NYC. Between Brett and Todd I spend half my life posting how lousy my taste in music is!!! So if not we, who? daytrotter.com is

How did I miss Rock NYC’s best of the decade and Ashley make it? Pete Wenz Hot Mess – Cobra Starship The Blueprint 2 – Jay-Z Death Cab Brand new

Sid Vicious No One Is InnocentAlan Parker I didn’t realize this book came out in 2007 and received it as a gift from a very dear friend.I have a romanticized

Problem:How do different genres of music affect your heart rate? Hypothesis:If I listen to hardcore music, my heart rate will go up because it islouder, faster, and is not mellow

So who do we think have paid their dues? Who’s year is it to finally get some critical acclaim? I present 3 bands who after great consideration and review are

week Of Jan 5th looks deader than elvis (ps: we lifted this off pitchfork) January 01-05Joker: “City Hopper” b/w “Output 1-2” [Tectonic]Kanye West: Storytellers [CD/DVD]01-12Ben Kweller: “Sawdust Man” b/w “Send

Van the Man is not a papa again!!! Morrison has denied the story of his wife giving birth to a son explaining his website was hacked into. Kinda sad, right?

After twelve years in the wilderness (and Chris Cornell’s complete inability to forge a solo career) comes word one of the great Grunge Metal bands of all time are reforming.

Power Move – Screaming FemalesI knew it was just a matter of time before Power Move knocked me on my butt. “Skull” is Yes fronting Siouxie Sue. Cocoon Of Love

OK you sugar cookie eating roast beast snarfing fools welcome to 2010.So the ball dropped (ever notice it doesn’t really ‘drop’ per se but rather glides? And are we all

Get up, Stand Up 1. U2 – $123 Million 2. Bruce Springsteen – $94.5 million 3. Elton John/Billy Joel – $88 Million 4. Britney Spears – $82.5 Million 5. AC/DC

Shinobi NinjaThe kids haven’t had the chance to see em yet which is why they feel like a guarded secret. Once they do see em and once they get on

I cant very well write about Singing in the Rain without writing about West Side Story. A film released in 1961 to follow up the to the 1957 Broadway production.

First Surfer Blood tour with Art Brut, then Marie Lynn picks em for 2010 and now gigwise follows in Marie Lynn’s footsteps. Gigwise claim their 2009 predictions did well but,

if you wanna read what craveonline.com had to say about these best box sets here’s the links. If you wanna see the pretty pictures, we nicked em for you!! http://www.craveonline.com/entertainment/music/article/the-best-box-sets-of-2009-91673/3

Rock NYC was shocked to read about Ozzy Osbourne’s secret life. The Black Sabbath wild man of rock drug abusing, reality star and failed variety show star has finally admitted

Here I am, fifty-three and still a music obsessive. How about a quick trip through the decades?? 1950sI was four when the decade ended but what I remember of it

The Alternative HeroTim Thornton The plug for this debut novel by Thornton on the fictional website says it all:“By the time most people hit 30, they’ve managed to do one

StarfuckerAlbum- JupiterGirls Just Want to Have FunI love the band name- I don’t like the boys school choir on this song. So, its a stupid song anyway but in my

Kesha hit a new world record with 610,000 downloads of “Tik Tok” last week. Oh brave new world…

Once Was A Man – John Ritter and Janis Paige – Sometimes I wonder if I could write at all about anything if I had the vaguest idea what happiness

Three months ago Rock NYC predicted the John Lennon of the Jonas Brothers, Nick Jonas,  would go solo. Now the hot rumour from is… well, you know what it is.

Hi there readers whoever you are. The stats are in for December. 3,276 unique visitors. Eek!!! Down from 3980 in November. Phish review and Love Via Dance Machine were the

And i’ve still got some sand in my shoes. Underground on my way to a meeting, Acapella Soul wandered on to my train and, been there, done that, but they

There is no more important song than Regina Spektor’s “Ink Stain”. If it sucked it wouldn’t matter but it doesn’t suck. It is a hauntingly beautiful piano mori mortem and

The Judee Sill Revival Starts Here

It coulda be Lady Gaga and Kanye West but that tall glass of water Taylor Swift had to be whine about Kanye’s hi-jinx and instead I’m stuck watching Mariah on

Karen O the uh….hmm, lead uh, person of the group Yeah Yeah Yeahs, could have had it all. At first sound had a beautiful voice, was strong and true. The

Disclaimer: This post does not constitute an endorsement for a particular product. Because iTunes is pretty much the Mark of the Beast, virtually everyone has it. Yas, Yas, it holds

The High RoadBroken BellsWelcome 2010 the year I make some heavier choices and shrug off the weakness. The Broken Bells deebut release carries the back ground of R2D2.  Rock NYC reviewed