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Phish covered Rock NYC’s purveyors of its third favorite album of the decade, TV On The Radio, on November 27th, 2009. Jamming out for ten minutes. They have hereby upped […]

I was meant to interview the vaudevillian Billericay (well, Northern London) charmer Ian dury back in the 80s but Jean Douminian lost her role as producer of SNL back to

After a humdinger of a week last week -cpped by two releases, the Ella and drop the Line, dating from November 10th, this weeks new releases sure feel like they’re

So… Helen Bach interviewed Brandon Wronski of Eye Alaska for Rock NYC on Saturday and we posted it on Sunday and lots of people picked up on it but neither

And todays big music story is GRUNGE!!! Yep, everything old is indeed new again and after Pearl Jam’s suces estime and after Nirvana’s Live DVD and remaster of Bleach and

I understand why everybody things The Marshall Mathers LP is THE ONE. It has “Stan” -his Dido sampled expression of the difference between rapping about and committing violence, “The Way

As I work my way thru my best albums of the decade I will be reaching Big L’s The Big Picture sooner rather than later. The late member of D.I.T.C.

Beaten out by a total of three albums for first week sales ever in the UK and the best selling first album of all time, I must admit I find

Elvis Costello’s scond season of his musical talk show “Spectacle” will also be his final. “This has turned into a full time occupation” Costello explained. “And I didn’t want to

Morrissey was on Radio Four’s Desert Island Discs yesterday. Besides mentioning that he had considered suicide in the past (hardly a shocker given he has recommended it in song), his

I sent my pal Mike Nessing “Set Me Free” yesterday, the electronic dance masterpiece by Drop The Lime, and got a “not my cup of tea” in return!! I forgive

Brandon and Mary Brandon Wronski of Eye Alaska is a nice guy, in more ways than a guy his age should be. A deeply set view of almost Buddhist beliefs

A great night began with a great road race. As we flew at over 100 miles per hour ( I swear it felt like 40) to get to New Haven,CT’s

Kiss With A Fist – Florence and the Machine – Over the past coupla years the UK has thrown up the charts any number of supersmart chicks taking on the

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Here is how 2009 is shaping up for singles of the year: 1. Ink Stains – Regina Spektor2. I Gotta Feeling (David Guetta FMIF Remix) – Black Eyed Peas3. Stillness

After he changed rap he came back and stuck rap down our throat…

Did you love the Specials? Sure and I know I did. The best two tone band whose Costello produced eponymous first album and plainly titled second album More Specials, were

I haven’t finished Nick Hornby’s Juliet, Naked yet and when he is not writing about music it isn’t the worst novel I’ve ever read but when Nick is writing about

Director Richard Curtis is a talented fellow. Love Actually is a Christmas perennial, Notting Hill a daydream of a movie, and, as the man who along with Rowan Atkinson invented

Silvio Berlusconi, the Prime Minister of Italy, is in a lot of trouble because an escort he has been frequenting has gone public. One story has the PM in bed with

Six years since his heart attack, six years since his last concert, David Bowie dismissed he’d be playing the UK Glastonbury Festival in 2010. OK, guy, back to work, right…?

When brooklynnvegan.com post their best of 2009 I won’t know know most of the bands, I know Q’s but I don’t like em? Springsteen? That godawful career worse Dream album??

I was reading brooklynvegan.com when I came acroos a band I didn’t know, Screaming Females (they are opening for Arctic Monkeys, best of 2009 and filled with bands I’d never

It’s become a tradition that each year, I create a playlist for my birthday party that represents me and my friends and all the times we’ve shared. The number of

Can we take a second here for me to express my utter disgust at the new Fox series ‘Glee’, here the premise, old glee club member returns to high school

Rock NYC’s Helen Bach on the subjective nature of music criticism Cross the line writing about a girlfriend’s  abortion in a music post about a Ryan Adam’s ?  No of

Can’t say I am very thrilled with John Mayer -he sounds like Dave Mathews and plays like a baby Clapton (ok -he is a great guitarist) and comes across like

Here are highlights of the South by SouthWest Music and Media Festival to be held between March 12th and March 21st, 2010 next year… Aa (Brooklyn NY) Arms (Brooklyn NY)The

The greatest singer of all time (after Sinatra). A live performance from 1961 has just been released by Verve. We’re gonna talk about it soon.

We can’t all be former Creem editor Lester Bangs but some of us are more like him than we are like, say, New York Times Jon Parales. What I mean

When Mike isn’t writing for Rock NYC about music he is writing mostly about cooking on his own blog Dancing About Architecture. Here, for the first time anywhere, he cooks

On December 14th, 2009 the Clash’s world proclaimed masterpiece London Calling. I had bought the 25th year anniversary but might plonk down the loot on this one as well though

In March of 2010 it’ll be three years since Arcade Fire released their last album, the excellent The Neon Bible. Since then the only new release I’ve heard has been

That didn’t take long. Hard on the heels of their dismemberment, Fall Out Boy’s  guitarist Joe Trohman and drummer Andy Hurley have teamed with Anthrax’s Scott Ian and Rob Caggiano,

Amy Winehouses s Goddaughter Dionne Bromfield. told UK tab the daily Star that Amy plans to tour in 2010. Amy’s “Cupid” is already in heavy rotation and looks poised to

Nearly thirty years ago I reviewed Buddy Holly: For the First Time Anywhere for the East Village Eye. At the time I wrote that I had listened to Holly all

Music Radar have announced their choices for the greatest riffs of all time. Let’s consider the riff a series of notes preceded by a chord progression and see if we

Ryan Adams – For being so miserable then and so happy now. David Guetta and Will I Am for inventing a different type of sample Brett’s interview with Love Grenades.

How the hell do you follow that post? Happy Thanksgiving. Heres hoping you were surrounded by people or things you love and that you were thankful for at least one

I have no great love for thanksgiving and the reason is I lost something around that date several years ago. I’ve mentioned that a girl named Julie haunts this blog

Sir Paul McCartney revealed in an interview recently that he almost quit the Beatles circa, probably 1965. A story which is the equivalent of Japanese almost won w=WWII but hey

The lead Vampire in the Twilight Saga Robert Pattinson has told the daily newspaper Paris Match that he is planning to a record a few of his songs once he has

empty chevy just saw the weirdest show in forever. We made sure to get their early to see Crime in Stereo a 5 pc band from Long Island NY. Something

Gene Clark was in the Byrds. No he’s not the dude with the funny glasses, that was Roger McGuinn. He’s not the guy in the suede fringe hunting jacket either,

who is that handsome teen in overalls and acne? The band above were called Flip City. Mr Costello won’t be interviewing Flip City on the second season of IFC’s Spectacle. Instead he’ll be

Spin Magazine invited themselves to Vampire Weekends’ Ezra Koenig’s living room in  Brooklyn. It looks awful tidy to these eyes!!! Anyway if you wanna read the details check out Spin.com.

An uproarous spoof of the Beatles, imagining how they’ll be remembered 1000 years from now is available on youtube.comYes, relive the glory days of John Paul, Greg and Scottie before

Beyonce announced at her last UK gig yesterday that she plans to be back in a year with a new album. It is to be called Two Hit Singles And

Ever since AP reported yesterday  that the Grammy’s had inducted twenty-five new songs to their hall of fame I have been in search of the names of the nineteen songs not