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Email from Robert Nevin to me: Iman, this is not formatted as a post, so I don’t expect you to use it. I just wanted you to see the kind […]

Mike Nessing reviews Australian Band Middle East’s EP, Recordings Of the Middle East: I don’t know much about this band and they certainly aren’t willing to tell us a lot.

Now bourbon I could understand.Fellow Srones fan Sherry Davis sent me this one… The Rolling Stones have gone into business with a disteller to produce a Stones wine. According to

Bjork has a new song, “The Comet Song” from the upcoming kiddie movie based upon the 80s kid program “The Moomins”. Apparently, and not even vaguely surprisingly, Bjork is a

Worst Enemy -Gucci Mane To put it mildly! As Mane readies himself for a year in the hoosegow he falls into his epitaph with a first rate sample -a sorta

As Promised, the NME top fifty albums of the decade. Me? I don’t really get it. Calling Is This It the album of the decade defies any logic I can

Member of Bright eyes and Commander Venus and co-owner of Saddle Creek Records, the blokes behind the aforementioned bands and Cursive, Maria Taylor, early Rilo on and on Robb Nansel,

The new decade is looming before us and so we arrive at the another turn of the screws, writers like me are left to access our memory banks. New Musical

If ever a band needed to prove it live on stage it is Vampire Weekend. No one doubts Contra isn’t gonna be a killer album, everything I’ve heard off it

CONTEST ALERT! Want to meet Joshua Radin? He’s playing Webster Hall on Thursday. All you have to do is purchase your ticket for the show ONLINE through Ticketmaster.com, and you’ll

Following in Mick Jones footsteps, Mike Nessing reports that former Strangler Hugh Cornwell is giving away his new album. Here is the link: http://www.hooverdamdownload.com/

“Troubadour Reunion”FRIDAY MAY 14 American Express® Cardmembers can get advance tickets to Carole King & James Taylor performing at the Hollywood Bowl. Advance tickets are available Sunday, November 15 at

Monday, January 25 Cheap TrickThe Fillmore New York at Irving PlazaPresale starts: Tue, Nov 17 at 10amPresale ends: Fri, Nov 20 at 10pm Use Password: record Public Onsale: Sat, Nov

I have a few things to add on the topic of Forever The Sickest Kids showat Boston’s House Of Bluess last night (see previous post).First off, I didn’t cause ‘traffic’

Mary Magpie, with Mom playing chaueffer but in the back seat, takes you with her to see Down With Webster, My Favorite Highway, My Favorite Highway, Sing It Loud,  The

Spinner quotes Miley Cyrus as saying: “I’ve never heard a Jay-Z song. I don’t listen to pop music, and it’s not even my style of music”. So is she a

Return to form for Lady Gaga after the average “Bad Romance”. “Telephone” starts off easy with a harpsicord and just Lady Gaga’s voice but the B&D soon breaks in with

This is a gorgeous cover and there are some more beauts on flavorpill.com. Ahhh, viny. I miss the art work so much. A dying art form…

I have seen Nick Lowe and Dave Edmunds perform together precisely once thirty years ago opening for Elvis Costello, 1978, maybe 1979 at the latest. The late great Willy deVille

How hot are the Cribs? Johnny Marr plays guitar for them when he can tear himself away from Modest Mouse. Once the new Libertines, now just about the collest band

After a coupla months self-imposed exile, including cancelling his tour with Lady Gaga, Kanye West showed up at the Beyonce Knowles gig at the London 02 Theatre. He rapped to

Finally!!! Alison Krauss, half of Sleigh Bells, this months it band, pictured… I’ve reviewed and loved Sleigh Bells songs but will quote Jon Caraminica who calls their sound “…it sounds

Really, I mean, really, can she be any worse than Melanie Griffith. Griffith could act but not for the stage and Ashlee Simpson prolly can’t act but she can sing

I saw Earle last year at Joe’s Pub and was more than impressed with the country rocker with the famous pa. Funny, charming, a best buddy in tow, and a

Bob Dylan Revisited is a book in which some of the top artists  in the world illustrate Dylan songs comic book style. here a couple of examples off Flavorpill Here are the songs

This LP works on a couple of levels. For one, I read at least one blog review online where the writer always wanted to sample Ray’s material, but found the

Here’s a little cheesecake for all you girls, gays, and folks with no taste in human beauty whatsoever. And here is this weeks releases for all you girls, gays and

Gucci Mane is behind the new single “Spotlight” -something of a favorite of mine, as well as rapping on songs by Mariah Carey (that is Mariah $100 for seats behind

Offered a tix to see Dylan this Wednesday at the United  Palace? and my friend Steve Diamond offering me a tix to see Dirty Projectors on Saturday in Brooklyn. This despite

Everybody loved the Sugarhill Gang, right? “Rapper’s delight” might have been a novelty hit but it was a novelty hit that opened the floodgates for rap and hip hop. The

Sometimes famous siblings work against you. Destiny’s child was my impression of an also ran TLC without a true auteur to steer them the way Dallas Austin steered TLC. Not

Over months of writing rock nyc I have been surprised how much of my own life leaks into the reviews. Perhaps it’s inevitable that when you spend so much of

Around a year and a half ago I saw Chicago Hip Hop band band Kid Sister perform a truncated but still fun set at summerstage. Around this time wthere was

Mick Jones band, Carbon SIlicon, is giving away their new album The Carbon Bubble on their website. Or so they claim. I just wasted ten minutes of my life trying

Putting the lie to the Simpsons “the French can’t rock” is all girl Paris Quartet The Plastiscenes the girls formed during High School and played concerts as a way of

On Thursdays episode on Fast Forward the drama answered its critics complaining they were using naff cover versions when they bought popular songs for the soundtrack. They used the original

I must have misunderstand the Boss at MSG last week. The last date of the tour appears to be November 20th in Nashville… So Bobby, there’s still time….

Hot  and hip duo of the momen, CMJ breakout band  Sleigh Boys at Le Poisson Rouge this Thursday. But check the doors… I guess the other half don’t have jobs…

Wow, this sounds like a fun day at the beach. Currently on tour together in Europe: Wilco, Grizzly Bears, Feist. Just thank God it’s them instead of you.

Kathy With A K’s Song – Bright Eyes – From nearly nine years ago. Conor can’t write like this. In some ways he’s better and some way’s he’s worse but

Stories about what a nasty, arrogant bastard Art Garfunkle is are legion. But the most obvious one is related by Paul Simon on YES Networks Centerstage. “After Bridge Over Troubled

Top 10 Singles:1/ Black Eyed Peas – Meet Me Halfway2/ Leona Lewis – Happy3/ JLS – Everybody In Love4/ Cheryl Cole – Fight For This Love5/ N-Dubz – I Need

In a discussion with Love Grenades Elizabeth Wight a coupla weeks ago she mentioned she is not responsbile for the remizes released by her label. I guess it’s a decision

The Carnegie Hall Family Concert Series host, Charlotte Blake Alston, tells us to welcome the American-Indian singer with “Namasay Falu” -which is both hello and a term of respect. Falu

Remember Courtney Love when she looked like this. Fucked up, true, but way cool. Before there was Cobain there was Pretty On The Inside -an excellent punk rock album. After

Last night on Saturday Night Live, the band of the year, Black Eyed Peas, lined up like on stage like they were auditioning for a new Marvel Superhero comic, and

In 1993 I wrote a novel about a rock star who commiits suicide. It was called Gilliam Almost. Gilliam was the lead singer of an all girl punk rock band and

In the early 1990s I was dating a girl named Julie and during the break up Julie said “You don’t give enough of yourself”. And I replied “I give you

Following on comments by George Jones and Wynona Judd, Randy Travis things she’s too young for her success and Tim McGraw and Faith Hill disagree. “Taylor has a better head

In Spinner today the great Rufus Wainwright has annouced that he is working on a new album and after a full jazz orchestra for his Judy Garland AT Carnegie Hall