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Firmly in the running to win the award as best rock band of the year Titus Andronicus are playing a New Year’s Day at 130am at Mercury Lounge so if you […]

As reported earlier today, Bill Flanagan got the scoop of the year from Bob Dylan for NASN (see earlier post). In one of the most carefully conducted, supremely sagacious interviews

Earlier today I posted on the live performance at the White House’s first State Dinner for the Prime Minister of India. I also mentioned A. R. Rahman played. What i

Centrifugal Motion – Harper Blynn I got busy yesterday and decided to leave my new music releases round up a day. The result? Harper Blynn took Animal Collective’s place as

My comment was mainly about personal preference. I hate fake drums. For me, I need to hear a real snare drum, and a real floor tom. Otherwise it’s a turn

We wondered what President Obama had on his Ipod a coupla months ago but we left out Jennifer Hudson!! At his first State Dinner last night here were the musical

In their mission statement NASNA state: “NASNA exists to support and cultivate an effective, self-sustaining street newspaper network that promotes power and opportunity for people living in poverty”.I am sure

GMTV is the very popular syndicated morning show in the UK> Marian Carey is an out of control diva. GMTV Katey Garraway ratted the diva out to the daily  mirror -a

Here is Popeaters best songs of the decade and say what you will about it, it is a hear and now snapshot of a then and now song and though

OK are you sicker of hearing me rave about Tigercity or daytrotter.com more? Now, you don’t hasta choose, Brooklyns pride and joy and the best website in the Universe have

“yes iman you do measure up” Back in the UK, Susan Boyle, Britian’s Got Talent, 1st runner ups first album is about to be the best selling debut album of

50 cents is a clever fellow and talented. But G Unit sucks live and he isn’t in the same league as Jay-Z and every time, whether for fun or money,

Jerry Lee was looking a little tired when I saw him in the mid 90s thuught he could still do it and how (blew Chuck Berry away on a fabulous

A guitar is an instrumentA drum set is an instrument.A drum machine is an instrument. And while a good one may make you sound better even the best one will

Little Boots is the phenomenal myspace talent from england. Sorta Lily Allen without the bad ass ness and with a better drum machine. At noon today tix are going on

This out of England, Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Joe Perry and Brad Whitford of Aerosmith in the studio. This would be the supergroup to end all supergroups. Let’s hope they

Three years of touring in this is how Bruce and the E Street Band said goodbye in Buffalo, November 22nd, 2009.Wrecking BallThe Ties That BindHungry HeartWorking On A DreamGreetings From

Between the been there done that “Bad Romance” and the extended genius of “Telephone”, Lady Gaga’s The Fame Monster is, at forty minutes or so in length, much more than

yeah, small pics, but happy birthday, baby…

I’m floored.Pick U Up, a Lambert / Cuomo pairing? I had to blank out the fact that this song is being performed by a game show contestant. I think the

Before and after One of the most popular bands EVER, UK trip-hop .grounp Massive Attack are to release their eagerly anticipated follow up to 2003’s 100th Window, Heligoland. Massive Attack

Coldplay’s bassist Guy Berryman is readying the release of his first single with his side band Apparatjik “Electric Eye” November 30th, 2009. Apparatjik includes members of Ah-ha and Mew and

According to Nikolai Fraiture on Twitter, he and manager Ryan Gentles spent yesterday looking at studios for the Strokes to begin recording their eagerly anticipated fourth album.

Hot on the heels of Rock NYC’s shout out comes news Shirley Manson played a benefit gig in Holywood to help children with concert. Along with folks like Tom Merello,

Yes, it is but no romance is more boring. The deliriously wonderful Los Campesinos third song off their some time coming third album is due to be released february 15th,

ABC Network cut the Adam Lambert man kiss from its West Coast feed and when Lambert  calls it  discrimination he has more than a point. The world goes wink, wink, nudge

I love Amy Winehouse and the saddest thing in pop music in the past coupla years has been watching her crash and burn. So it was a great deal of

Not a bad little thanksgiving week starring Adam “I Kissed A Boy” Lambert and the she wolf her self, plus a Tom Petty compilation fo live performances over hours and

Spoon are ignoring NYC on a quick series of dates pre their new album Transference’s releaseJanuary 26th, 2010. though they are getting as close as Boston they have chosen to

Shinobi Ninja’s covert acts of war are against all types of musical mediocrity imaginable. A dance, hip hop, punk mash up band born at a recording session in Hell’s kitchen

Happy to take my lead from the great Ms. Bach, who correctly castigated Rock NYC for ignoring what may be the best New York band of all time and would

Sinead O’connor is such a controversial figure it is ridiculously easy to convince yourself she’s a joke and a mess; a rock and roll apostate who can’t keep herself together.

At MSG last month I couldn’t get a tix for love or money under $250 for the Kiss concert, on Kiss’ fall tour they are selling seats for $14.75. At

Last year we got Lady Gaga just before she hit big, this year everybody has already hit big so spend Owl City’s set searching for a men’s room. Taylor SwiftJohn

Jim Farber in the New York Daily News has given Adam Lambert’s debut album For Your Entertainment a four star review. Lambert “never offers just one hook where he can

Top 10 Albums:1/ Leona Lewis – Echo2/ JLS – JLS3/ Queen – Absolute Greatest4/ Robbie Williams – Reality Killed The Video Star5/ The Black Eyed Peas – The End6/ N-Dubz

After filling up some free space on my iTouch by deleting songs I never listen to anymore, I came across a measly $5.38 in change. Talking to my mom, I

thesecondbestalbumofthedecadereviewedsoon

Hey Mary Magpie – check out these lyrics by the best songwriter of your generation!!! And he’s a vegetarian… Love is realIt is notJust in novels or the moviesIt is

Manhattan – Bobby Short – The late great cabaret singer loved the Great American Songbook and for what felt like  sang the Great American Songbook at the Cafe Carlyle. There is an

So last night Steve Diamond and I are killing time between sets and we can’t think of any rock music jokes. I remember God only thinks he’s Clapton. but that’s

Dirty Projectors playing outdoors in fifty degree weather which feels like thirty five degrees, in a torrential rainstorm, to a mass of umbrellas, opening for an eagerly anticipated TV On

Helen Back gives thanks on the UnTurkey Day… As we enter the week of Thanksgiving some of you are planning menus, some are making travel plans, some are stocking up

Guilty Pleasures ok I have yet another confession to make… I like remakes. I know its stupid and I know its unhip but as you can see by my earlier

Thank you, Steve Jobs. You’re kind enough to tell me my most frequently played songs. So without further delay here ya go.. American Landslide- Eye Alaska. Goes without saying here,

I love and I hate The Ramones. I got to thinking about them when I came across my old t-shirt. There was a time that if it wasn’t The Ramones

I am not the target audience for the Twilight Saga’s  latest episode New Moon though I didn’t dislike the first movie and I dont dislike this tween romance retelling of

Fifteen year old Canadian Justin Biebers’ peeps said a mistaken sighting lead to a stampedeat the Roosevelt Field Maill in Garden City and Birber tweeted that he wasn’t gonna show and

The daytrotter.com session, four songs recorded at their studio and available for free, by Juliana Hatfield is a must own. Juliana lends herself to acoustic versions of a song and

The Brian Jonestown Massacre, the little band that couldn’t, are streaming their new album Who Killed Sgt. Pepper on brianjonestownmassacre.com before its January 1st, 2010 release and it sounds fucking