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Here are the musical trends that eat the cymbals that eat the drums according to pitchfork. If you wanna work on the most annoying hi thee to pitchfork.com. I don’t […]

In the mid-90s a tidal wave occurred in hip hop sound with Jay-Z’s Vol 2 or one side and Lauryn Hill’s Miseducation on the other leading New York and the

RIDE ON

I’ve seen Tori Amos several times on stage, loved her sometimes and didn’t love her other. This is off the NME website: “Tori Amos played an intimate solo show tonight

Early next year there will be a single and then in May 2010 Arcade fire will release their eagerly anticipated follow up to 2007’s Neon Fire. Production chores to be

Richard Nader, the rock and roll revival producer, who brought legions of great late fifties, early sixties popular performers a second career, died Tuesday at the age of sixty-one after

Here are the main categories… Pretty good right? The Grammy’s have come a long way since they were dissing the Beatles in the sixties. The one time I went (the

Pop maestro Sondre Lerche, whose Heartbeat Radio  is one of the best songs and albums of  the year, is on tour next year. Lerche almost lurches into the English, he

With the end of the disposable income as we know it, the record industry is reeling, Albun sales are down 17% since 2008. If MJ hadn’t croaked it woulda been

Every year I think hey,  Bamboozle, pretty good lineup (No Doubt headlined last year), first outdoor show of the year, why not, right? And every year it rains or storms

I have been listening with enormous pleasure to the Alan Gilbert Era Begins -an album of music by the New york Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by their new Musical director, Alan

So Jay -Z thinks his 2001 the Blueprint was the album of the decade. So I went back for a listen and guess what… it’s a really good album. Great?

Not much of a week, you know, the Lambert was a bit eeewww, not terrible mind, the Rihanna was very eh, the Bocelli is to opera singers what Lloyd Webber

Lily Allen has announced she is taking a two year hiatus from the exciting world of entertainment to set up a record label and open a retail rental fashion outlet…

On the first night of Lady Gaga’s tour in Montreal Stephanie tubled and fell off her dangerously high heels during “Teeth” squashing three centipede visitors from another planet. Everybody is

Am I missing something here? Susan Boyle’s I Dreamed A Dream entered the US Album charts at number one with an outrageous 700,000 sales, beating out Rihanna’s Rated R in

And now for the landmine of Posting: the question of racism and popular music. I lived in England till I was eleven and I don’t believe I met a single

What the fuck is an Oxford comma?

Speck and Hud need your help Speck is trying to get one million people to sign his petition urging bid daddy John Mellencamp to stop smoking. If he does John

Jay-Z claims The Blueprint was the best album of the decade. Perhaps the stratospheric egoist meant HIS BEST ALBUM OF THE DECADE. And I agree with that. Jay-Z’s Number two

Actually we read MTV News who read  the Complex Interview so you don’t have to Here are the highlights of the Eminem Interview: Please take notes THERE WILL BE A

Alicia Keys is reported as saying her new album The Elements Of Freedom is about fighting depression: She told the Daily Star: “”With the last album, I was really trying

Yesterday Deecember 1st, 2009 was World Aids Day and tix czars helped the charity by donating a portion of every ticket sold. Said a spokesperson: “After spending the past year

Bryce Avary is a humble man, too humble for a person with this amount of talent and perseverance. The force behind The Rocket Summer took a moment post sound check

Hellaphone Operator….On this particular night I have to make an urgent call to a colleague. ‘Please enjoy the music while…”Remember rings? Tonight I got some Jackson Brown! Call the Magpie

I guess when you hve the best looks and dump the cutest girlfriend you get to go on the solo tour!! Here are Nick Jonas tour dates behind Nick Jonas

Don’t miss Kid Cudi: Friday, January 22The Fillmore New York at Irving PlazaOn Sale Friday, Dec 4 at 12:00

Beyonce and kid sister the great Solange Knowles talk music all the time and it might result in some very cool music. English paper the Guardian dubbed beyonce the artist

An M. Ward album we can all get behind which doesn’t include the form of formal address Fraulein is on its way. Zooey Deschanel annouced to MTV that the sophomore

Gigwise came up with their top ten bands to replace Oasis at the top of the rock and roll scrap heap. Over here it is Radiohead versus Coldplay. Arctic Monkeys

Yuck, not much going on this week, and most of what is is a little iffy…Written In Reverse – Spoon“I’m writing this to you in reverse, someone better call a

I entirely disagree with nearly everything Helen said.  I am a 24 year old guy  who grew up in Manhattan and was a member of the soccer, baseball and swim teams

Matt Groenigs dance card for his curating activities with All Tomorrow’s Parties is filling in nicely. Booked to appear is: Panda Bear, The Residents, Deerhunter, Broadcast, Daniel Johnston, Amadou &

Holy Shit!!! Former Yardbyrds Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck are going on a mini tour together!!! Beck replaced Clapton in the Yardbyrds in 1965 and played together in Tokyo last

Helen Bach wrote: Sorry used to be the hardest word, ask Elton John Now? Well now were so sorry we’ve lost our coolThe latest news that Pete Dougherty is oh

I know I owe you a review of Big L’s # 5 album of the decade but I am still mulling it over (and you thought it was easy, right?).

From Paul Morley’s interview in the NME: 1. New Gorillaz album called “Plastic Beach”2. Blur reunion movie No Distance Left To Run out soon. It’ll be very pop.3. As reported

Despite loving Limp Bizkits first album, Significant Other, Fred Durts always hit me as a poor man’s Adam Durwitz: sold a pack of goods about fame and fortune, Fred couldn’t follow up

The 29th annual John Lennon Tribute produced by Joe Raiolo and Theatre Within will be performed Friday December December 4th, 2009 at Symphony Space. This years guests includes David Bromberg,

Pete Doherty apologized for singing an anthem associated with Nazi germany Sunday night in Berlin.According to gigwise his spokeswoman said to Skynews. “Pete wanted to celebrate his appearance in Munich

Fearless reviewed

Helen Bach and Mary Magpie meet the Rocket Summer… soon

Since nobody with half a brain believes former Libertine, current babyshambles Pete Doherty supports Nazi policy, his singing of the first verse “Song Of German”, considered a Hitler anthem, was

Just a note on Ronnie James Dio, one of the pioneers of heavy metal. He cancelled his UK tour after beingas diagnosed with stomach cancer and is currently in treatment.  I

This CD/DVD set is from this past summer’s shows at Citi Field. I believe this set shows the opening night performance. If you buy it at Best Buy, it comes

1.Loved Metallica’s set. Thought Ozzy and Ray Davies was great. Lou Reed looked a bit out of it. Looked frail. 2.The U2 set was also great. Bono sounded amazing, never

can the nick drake re-revival be far behind? If you’re dead , I wanna hear your stuff. I’ve been looking at some of my aural preferences in the pop genre,

Hey college girls up the ying yang, lovely parks and hotels with swimming pools. And Jonathan Richman. And Passion Pit who I bet win Best Act in the Boston Music

I’ve known Darcee Nevin since she was a preteen visiting me with her father and her older  brother in the early nineties. She was a little angel than and she is

Paulie’s kid, designer Stella McCartney and nobodies baby Morrissey, both vegans as humorless as our Helen Bach, are developing a leather free shoe line together. There must be a thousand