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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

What was my first concert? Shouldn’t be that difficult a question, right? Well, I thought I remembered my first concert, but thanks to my mother, I’m not so sure. The

Thrre are three children and three adults sitting in a row at Radio City and five of them are having the time of their lives and one of them thinks

The country music establishment continues to be rocked by the huge success of nineteen year old Taylor Swift who has had the sort of year you can’t make up but

In the past two days I got shut out of tix to Lady Gaga, too slow for the pre-sale, too slow for the real sale. The reason was I usually

I have a job, a rather unglamorous job in a swanky euro company that’s pretty froofrrooo so when you’re scampering through the joint on a Friday and bang into a

Everything you have grown to hate about Rolling Stone is on view in their just plain terrible 25th Anniversary Issue: a self serving, self righteous piece of wank that sees

The Manhattan City Center’s Encore series is a live reading of a musical done in front of an audience for four performances only. I saw Patti Lupone kill in Pal

She’s So Unusual – Cyndi Lauper Pearl  Jam Here Come The Warm Jets – Brian Eno The Velvet Underground The Harder They come – Soundtrack Telepathe – Dance Mother One

I’ll admit to thinking that all of New York Post Chief Music Critic Dan Aquilante’s taste is in his mouth, that he is a complete suck up to anybody in

This sounds like a fun night out for the entire family. Fox News’ conservative hitman is going on tour this year on his eight annual Freedom Concert and Lynrd Sknyrd

Robert Johnson sold his soul at the crossroads to the devil to play the blue and seventy-one years later it is still paying dividends. I may not be a big

Always had a soft spot for bovva voys Slade -has anybody ever looked stupider in high heels and mascara than Noddy Holder? But they sure had their way with glam

Stillness In the Move Final – Solange Knowles – The Dirty Projectors single off Bitte Orca and New York magazine’s # 1 Brooklyn song isn’t though it is great. At

Itunes Europe have announced their best albums and singles of 2009. A read of these might convince you of two things a) this isn’t a most pooular list and 2)

“Does ought befall you, tis good. Tis part of life’s rich tapestry.” The stoic philospher and sometime Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius, back around 160 AD said that and while

So, in light of New York magazine’s the Brooklyn scene is the capital Of rock music cover today, here’s a question. What constitutes a scene? Let’s take a look at

What Janet Jackson have wrought, right? The Who are the half time band at this year’s Superbowl and here’s the good news. Eli Manning and Mark Sanchez are having an armchair

Former Face, former Small Face, sessionsmens sessionman. keyoard player’s keyboard player, member of  Billy Braggs band, the Blokes. Austin residenceand always affable Ian McClagan during his hour long set at

Lemme tell you everything that’s better on the West Coast than it is on the east coast: Warren Zevon. And he’s dead. Anything else? Nope… well, i really like Saint Motel’s

Here comes the real deal!! I’ve seen Taylor loads of time and he is always great and Carole King only once, on the Living Room Tour (with my ex whose

No Elvis, we won’t be meeting up again, but perhaps Helen will be representing Rock NYC

Thom Yorke and pals in the most highly overrated band of all time and ever Radiohead are still smart cookies. Smart enough to realize that the day of the album

Remember when the movie director Robert Zemeckis was good? No, really, before Forrest Gump during his I Wanna Help Your Hand period. I Wanna hold Your Hand takes place on

This just in from AOL Music: “The Red Hot Chili Peppers will make their first post-hiatus appearance early next year when the funky monks join a lineup of all-star acts

Got an email asking me to subscribe to a website called Flavorpill and so being the easy going fellow I am I did so. Prensented by the Bowery for some

What is this I have before me? Why it’s the Dirty Projectors TO DO LIST. Lessee how are they making out… 1. Duet with David Byrne -check2. Release best rock

My feeling about dance (techno, electronica, whatevera) today is nearly exactly the same as my feelings about jazz were twenty years ago. I love it but I don’t grasp it,

The more I listen to M. Ward’s “One Life Away’ the more obsessed I become with it. Robert Nevin thought it was about life after death and sneered at the

Women are upset with Marilyn Manson’s video for his lugubrious and bad song “Running To The Edge Of The World”. I say women because men don’t give a shit. It

Earlier this year, The Zappa Family Trust released Lumpy Money, a comprehensive sonic document of two records Frank Zappa released in 1968. One was called We’re Only In It For

Elton John began his career playing covers of current hits for albums filled with covers of current hits. One stop shopping which were  the ancestors of Now That’s What I Call

1.”Play On” – Carrie Underwood 2. “This Is It” – Michael Jackson 3. “My Christmas” – Andrea Bocelli 4. “Glee: The Music, Volume 21” – various artists 5. “Now That’s

Effective next month the Billboard 200 Chart, that’s the main albums chart, will begin to include albums older than 18 months. What this mean is MJ and the Beatles are

Taylor Swift won Entertainer of the year along with Female Vocalist and Album of the Year to beg two questions. 1) what are the grammy’s gonna do with her and

Groovemetal band (whatever that means) Lambs Of God are an awesome noise whose “Set To Fall” single from earlier this year is so hard it could bleed your ears off!!

The presale code for the radio city Jan 20th, 21st is HEGAGA. They go on sale tomorrow 10am to 10pm at ticketmaster. Youre welcome.

Writing about pop music isn’t as hard as deciding whether to send troops to  Afghanistan but it isn’t quite as easy as it might look. I have been wondering how to

In anticipation of interviewing multi-media LA titans Saint Motel I went back to the videos. I didn’t have to go back to the songs because I’ve had them on my

By Monday Rock NYC will have reviewed the following concerts!! Ian McLagen – The legendary (Small) Faces keyboardist.Travis – Or at least two of themRadio City Christmas Spectacular – Through

Bon Jovi’s The Circle or if Amazon can rename albums, “The $3.99 Album” Well, I can honestly say that I wasn’t going to purchase this album just because I think

What gives at Brooklyn Vegan? Just a month ago they were the gold standard of music blogs. They knew everything, they knew everyone, they were a step ahead of the

This is a big one for Lady Gaga. Assuredly a sell out she needs to prove it all with this tour or Madonna comparisons will disappear faster than you can

After sucking up to every dead or dead tired mogul in the music business, Dan Aquilante finally found someone he doesn’t like, the very good Peter Bjorn and John. In

I have had a love hate relationship with radio for years. I recall creeping out of bed to listen to late night college radio as a kid and screaming when

Rolling Stone reported “Steven Tyler: I’m Not Leaving Aerosmith; Joins Joe Perry Project at New York Concert 11/11/09, 9:53 am EST Rock NYC reported the story 11/11/09. 7:01 am EST.

My Morning Jacket on the November 22nd episode of American Dad -they will be playing six songs which doesn’t seem to leave much room for anything else.I read about this

Alan Moore, the creator of the greatest comic book of all time, Watchmen, and Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett, the creators of the second greatest comic book rock  band of

New York Magazine cover boys and Rock NYC Top five album of the years (probably 2nd best after Black Eyed Peas) Dirty Projectors will be following up the previously reported