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Now I am far from a Kanye West hater… indeed, I’ve loved everything he has ever recorded. BUT writer Dave Cowen has every right to have outrageous fun in the current […]

One of the pleasures in waiting for Bruce Springsteen’s concert tonight in which is he playing his  almost nothing but fun The Wild, The Innocent, And th E Street Shuffle

I got this from today’s Page Six. Counting Crow’s bafflingly succesful ladies man and Counting Crows lead singer Adam Duritz and bafflingly attracted to Duritz lovely young actress Emma Russum

Our youngest and sharpest contributor Mary Magpie (or Bach Junior to all you Helen Bach fans -Mary is Helen’s daughter ) shares her take on the Mayday Parade concert reviewed

The warning was on the wall. “MOF request no picture or video recording or using of cell phones”. And they meant it too. Throughout the overlong set the poor employees

OMG, is that really you Helen? I wore a suit just for the interview… A Message from Helen Bach YAY ROBERT! I freakin totally forgot aboug Sparks!! Thank you for

Iman Lababedi Says:Once a proponent of No New York back in the day I retain a taste for the quirky, the off-beat, and the bent. Longtime readers may remember my

Led Zeppelin August 17th, 1969 Oakdale Theater, Wallingford, CT. Mustard Family opened, I was seven! Page was dressed in pink velvet. Plant improvised some lyric about “tying her up” during

AP Fall Ball Toads Place New HavenYou Me at SixSecret HandshakeSet Your GoalsMayday ParadeThe Academy Is…I love Alternative Press (AP) Magazine. We actually have a mailbox fight once a month to

I first saw Sparks on one of those concert programs. I don’t think it was Don Kirchner’s Rock Concert, but something like it. I had never heard of them before

After you’ve opened all your gifts and eaten all your food and even gone to church, gather the family around the PC and read ROCK NYC’s review of  the Metroplitan

“I’d like to be recognized a little bit i guess, i guess everybody would you know’. – Curt Boettcher As the saying goes, “There’s a broken heart for every light

The story I’m hearing out the Aerosmith camp is a) they are continuing the tour without Steve Tyler, b) they are splitting up, c) they are going on indefinite hiatus,

Here is my explanation of life: somedays you’re the ice on the vanilla and sometimes you’re the vanilla on the ice. Twenty years after “Ice Ice Baby” Robert Van Winkle

Fucked Up’s Damian Abraham is taking the money he won from the Polaris Music Prize (given to the best Canadian album based solely upon merit) to re-record the godawful charity

Here are some Metacritics ratings to help you dawdle your way through Friday afternoon. Hardly a shocker but neither Spider Bags albums are here, let alone Americans In France… I’ll only comment when

Helen Bach says:“k what the heck is this Owl City lighting bug crap everyone is woo’ing about its freakin sub par rip off Death Cab for Cutie, right down to

Watching Jeter on Letterman and it was driving me crazy. Who does this guy remind me of? I’m thinking and thinking and than Jeet makes a smart ass comment and

I have been saying  Elvis Costello is the least funny person in the world since sufferring though his “God’s Comic” give the world to the monkees monologue  time after time circa

One of the great songs of the year was Fabolous’s supremely ecstatic “Imma Do It” with Kobe off his severely underrated Loso’s Way. Though for some obsure reason it isn’t

Here is Amazons somewhat early best albums of 2009. I can see this being one persons personal list but I can’t see it being an overview by any stretch of

A different kinda nightcrawler… Gangsta Gangsta – Mike Beck – Off his Corner Da Market album from 2007. It is a sad fact of life that the best think a

If you’re a fan of the 80s/early 90s (the music, the look, etc…) you will love the show Rock of Ages. This show stars Constantine Maroulis, who does a absolutely

Linkin Park Best Live Act. Really? I saw em at an Anger Management tour a coupla years and apparently they have improved by leaps and bounds as their music has

You had your chance and at 25 cents a song it was the chance of a life time. But a judge in the UK didn’t buy bluebeat.com’s claim they were

As reported yesterday, U2 and Jay-Z played last night at the eastern side of the Brandeburg bridge. here is a pic I took from New Musical Express. I thought they’d

I was sorry to hear that jazz club the Village Gate owner Art D’Lugoff died on Wednesday at the age of eighty five. The Village Gate at the corner of

Rock NYC got an email from Paul Finn, the owner of Odessa records. He wrote: “You don’t know me but I just released the Spider Bags’ newest single “Teenage Eyed”

The Question of philantropy becomes why should rock stars give back? Think of it. Unless its a tax shelter its for more press, or guilt. Maybe one or two have a sense of

Cat Stevens folked his way onto the British music scene in appx 1966. Yes, years and years of work til he ‘made it’. Theres debate on what he cracked the

U2 just completed a mini-set on the side that was once East Berlin to commemorate  the 20th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. “Mayor Of New York” Jay-Z

Tomorrow night I have 4th row seats for Monsters Of Folk at the United Palace and about this time will be waivering  between the A and the 2 train. So in

Because philanthropy is problematic. It’s a no one situation and of all the things sucees can fuck with a rock star with giving back is a son of a bitch

Phoenix, Passion Pitt, Jack’s Mannequin and Manchester Orchestra is the line up for 101.9 WRXP Presents Matt Pinfield’s Holiday Extravaganza on December 2nd, 2009 at the Hammerstein Ballroom 730p.  

Without a shadow of a doubt this is the news of the day!! From one of my fave websites, Live4Ever.UK.com who got it from the Indian Mail arrives this story: “4

I interview Ray Davies decades ago and he wasn’t very nice about much but he was especially emphatic on not discussing Chrissie Hynde. He wouldn’t temm me and wouldn’t tell

We haven’t seen Pete Doherty Stateside since he played for the late and very very great Libertines. His new (ha, new, six years into their career) band Babyshambles. The Libertines

Dan McGee’s the Spider Bags is the greatest band who have ever existed ever anywhere at any time or ever will. They play country rock with a swagger and a

Whitney Houston’s I Look To You may have disappointed some fans -myself included, but it didn’t devastate us: good, very good, but not Whitney. And I am sure I am

Top Ten Singles1 Watcha Say – Jason DeRulo 2 Fireflies – Owl City 3 Empire State Of Mind – Jay-Z and Alicia Keys 4 Down – Jay Sean feat Lil

Mike Nessing had this to say: It’s an all too rare moment for me when one artist comes along and takes elements of everything you’ve ever dug and sculpts it

The Scandinavian-American dance rock band cum world beating producers first album  called, er, Miike Snow, has been a firm fave since Remy caplan introduced me to em a coupla months

Further to U2’s playing the Brandeburg Bridge in Berlin to celebrate the 20th Anniversay of (a move Rock NYC has already dubbed arrogant and ill judged) comes word the tone deaf

Rock NYC’s most exciting writer.Rock and Rolls most exciting singer.The interview you’ve been waiting for.This should everclearly be the read of the year.Soon.

I am a huge Kristoferrson fan and getting bigger all the time but let me tell you guys if you think Im funning on you hi thee to daytrotter.com and

Jann Wenner is a great magazine publisher and, with the undisbutable brilliance of Lennon Remembers, a great rock critic at some points of his life. But he is a sycophant

Who are the champions? Sure, the Yanks, who just won the world series. But what about Queen whom as Tex caught the toss at first, blasted on to the sound

Def Leppard – Hysteria (1987)1. Women 2. Rocket 3. Animal 4. Love Bites 5. Pour Some Sugar on Me 6. Armageddon It 7. Gods of War 8. Don’t Shoot Shotgun

I can’t bare John Mayer’s voice but “Who Says” is a fun single and the little girl’s really do understand and to be honest he plays a pretty and mean

Is there a better album in the known Universe than Abba’s Gold? A greatest hits album the way Bob Marley’s Legend is a greatest hits album; a greatest hits album