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To Daft or not to Daft?  That was the question posed to me as I stood in front of a rack of records contemplating which album I should buy next.  […]

Remember about the Foo Fighters secret show in LA? It turned out to be at the famous Roxy, the same club where Woody’s band, Shinobi Ninja, is going to play

The NYP has begun to digital archive with 300,000 pages from the Leonard Bernstein years, from 1943 to 1970 added just this Thursday. Soon to include more than 1,000 conducting scores.

Luke Jenner from the Rapture, Chris Glover from Penguin Prison, and Michael McDonald!!! Those re the guests on the eagerly, like gagging for it, debut album by Holy Ghost!. One

1. “JejuneStars” is all that. No, it isn’t “June On The West Coast” but that’s the worst thing you can say about it. Song of the year (so far) 2.

Bayside released one of the songs off their new album, “Mona Lisa”, and it seems that name is showing up everywhere- Panic! At The Disco released a clip of “The

Have you ever noticed that Madonna is always masturbating during her videos?” “Heh, hem, yeah, so am I.”” “I hate when mimes get in your face and don’t say anything.”

If you visit Red Cortez website (http://www.redcortez.com) in February, you will be able to download a different free EP each week! And there are 4 of them! Red Cortez is

No Mike Brown, but  bassist Tom Finn, of rock nyc faves from the 1960’s, the Left Banke, has been winking about a reunion since last year . Well it is

You may know the name John Carpenter from these Halloween horror movies, but it’s also the name of a multi-instrumentalist guy who is fronting a band playing a haunting and

Hit The Lights – Jay Sean Take Me Over – Cut Copy Just Tonight – The Pretty Wreckless Roll Up – Wiz Khalifa Born To Lose – Motorhead Blue Skies

 Singles released today: Chipmunk featuring Chris Brown – Champion Duke Spirit – ‘Kusama E.P’ Eric Prydz – ‘Niton’ Fenech Soler – ‘Demons’ Gruff Rhys – ‘Senasations In The Dark’

1. Jejune Stars – Bright Eyes – This song is so good it singlehandedly changed my mind about the album. I can’t express my appreciation of this song in high

The problem with Black Eye Peas at the Super Bowl is the same as they had when they played at MSG last year. They kinda suck live. They are the

 It happened all so fast. A quick email to Henry Rollins contact and within 3 days I was hooked up and ready to speak with him. That fast, that

 Far from Moscow, a website created by David MacFadyen, professor of Slavic languages and literatures at the University of California, Los Angeles, is dedicated to new music from Russia,

YAY Mayday Parade announced the title of their upcoming EP and artwork. The EP, titled Valdosta, will be released on March 8th.  I’m beyond excited to hear something new from

Canadian-born singer songwriter Todd Koal recently released his new EP “The Spirit is Flow,” a self-described work of “transcendent acoustic pop,” that features smooth vocals and is permeated with an

Before Tennis, two bands performed at the Echo on Friday, Lord Huron whom I was seeing for the third time with the same great pleasure. Having already written two times

 Breathe Carolina are two really fun boys. We interviewed them in and were captivated by their quiet cool but almost bashful demeanor. Great contrast to the public and stage persona

I was offered a free ticket to check out Dustbowl revival, a band from Venice California, which was playing at the Mint on Saturday night. In a day and age when

Charlene Kaye was in Brooklyn Friday night, playing a bowling alley called “Gutter”. And though informed a week ago by, I didn’t get to the email till Saturday morning, and

1. Jessie J – ‘Price Tag’ 2. Bruno Mars – ‘Grenade’ 3. Ke$ha – ‘We R Who We R’ 4. Adele – ‘Rolling In The Deep’ 5. Enrique Iglesias feat.

The first act at the Echo on Friday night was Air Waves, a band from Brooklyn New York, who was playing for the first time in Los Angeles. Frontwoman Nicole

1. Adele – ’21’ 2. Chase & Status – ‘No More Idols’ 3. Bruno Mars – ‘Doo Wops & Hooligans’ 4. Adele – ’19’ 5. Rihanna – ‘Loud’ 6. Eva

Irish rocker and former Thin Lizzy guitarist Gary Moore, has died in his sleep yesterday at the age of 58, while he was on holiday in Spain. He joined Thin

1. Hang With Me – Robyn – Not for nothing, but my review was terrible. Oh well, next. 2. Dancing Queen – ABBA – No, “Hang With Me” was the

c’mon everyone move on up.. come up.  Get out of your seats come closer all of you in front take 2 steps forward.  What?  Wait the lady with the Bud

And I haven’t seen em live ONCE!! But I will be at MSG April 11th (a Monday, but I would go if it was a Sunday). Cmon Murphy, maybe we

  In 1979 I worked the night shift  at a bar on 39th and 3rd and we were friends with the gay bar across the street. We’d share ice (back

Do I have a problem with My Michelle, the Moscow band who started their career from their hometown on the Chinese border?   I have a few. 1. I don’t

I swear to God this past week was brutal.  More fighting and flailing then I care to chronicle.  Snow that wont stop crashing down parts of my house and the

    The White Stripes may have definitively broken up but another couple seems to have captured a lot of interest lately, and judging from the crowd at the Echo

Turn To Dust – Boy George – Though the rhythm isn’t slippery (and doesn’t connect hard enough), this ain’t bad. Missing Teeth – Vanity Theft – This one misses, a

1. California – My Michelle – A “lovefool” redux with Tania’s radientce a more positive glow than anything either Nina or Cali can muster right now. 2. Be Mine (Wasted

There are some bands in life, you hate on principle. I mean, we may well be a blog, and therefore have no standards of morals, but … cmon. Linkin Park???

Henry Rollins and I were discussing the Mid-West scene when I brought up New Jersey’s basement concerts.  My friend Joe Steinhardt’s Don Giovanni Records. “Ah yeah, I know them,” he

  If my life has no value now and no value after, when does my life have value? If everything you do doesn’t matter, at what point does it matter

Being a lowly paid writer at the time, I could barely afford to pay for one night of Costello’s five nights on Broadway in 1987, and I couldn’t get his

I must be feeling extra hip this February, because again I find myself in Willyburg at The Music Hall for yet another show, after managing last weeks SOLD OUT Blockhead

Sitting on my buddy’s couch, jaw dropped to the floor with a grin stretching ear to ear, I could hardly comprehend the spectacle coming from the iPad in front of

You know how we say that a song has grown on us, the first impression was not the best, but after listening to it several times we finally like or

“I come from a rock mentality, so I like a bit of chaos. It’s a gig, y’know? If someone asks me to sing or play, that’s what I do. It’s

What is this epidemic of secret shows in LA? Yesterday there was an Arcade Fire secret gig in the work, and it is now happening next week in a LA

    1. Take your Shirt Off – MEN – This is Le Tigre’s foray into hybrid dance rock band and every single song I’ve heard has been awesome. Very

I wrote about the best PR people a couple of years ago. When you run a very, very content heavy music blog like rock nyc, a good PR person makes

“Not no Parkay, not no margarine, strictly butter baby, strictly butter,” raps A Tribe Called Quest’s Q-Tip on the fourth track “Butter” of their second album The Low End Theory