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Ok, heres the deal. I will probably get some slack for this.I downloaded a free song off ITunes last night. The song is “Mind Eraser, No Chaser”. Good thing it […]

Can people hold two opposing viewpoints at the same time? If you don’t know the answer to that you’ve never been in love! Springsteen is a joke and (with the

Rivers Cuomo of Weezer collaborated with Adam Lambert on a song on Adam’s For Your Entertainment. ““He has the kind of voice I convince myself that I have,” Cuomo said..

P. Diddy gets a bad rap (sic) because he is such a clown now but back in the day he did white boys ahuge favor: he made samples recognisable. Take

The Town Hall on West 44th,  one of the best concert halls in the city, have announced their usual mix of pop, cabaret and ecletic weirdness. Friday March 5th the

A few lines of a song written and discarded by George Harrison at Abbey Road in the sixties has been made into a song. “Silence Is Its Own Reply” is apparently a

Readers may think our argument with the Rock And roll Hall Of Fame is based solely upon a difference in taste. It isn’t at all. Like Mike Nessing, I think

The Associated Press quoted Sting discussing President Obama as follows: “”In many ways, he’s sent from God,” he joked in an interview, “because the world’s a mess.”Sting found Obama to

My friend Sandy deBellis sent me this email from PBS Channel 13. Dear Sandy, It’s Election Day in NYC and New Jersey — we hope you get a chance to

Contributing editor Mike Nessing didn’t like the name Rock NYC Hall Of Fame so we’re calling it Bands Rock NYC really really likes. And the first band to win this

George Jones is the single greatest country singer and one of the top five pop singers of the 20th Century (I rank him second, after Sinatra). In an interview with

Do Better – Say AnythingThe crits pet emo band but not mine because I always liked emo. I mean, a thousand bands taking their lead from Weezer’s Pinkerton? What’s not

Far be it for me to mock the sacharine critics at the Slate but they beg for it. Here is  Slate film critic Dana Stewart on the MJ movie  “Cut

Pretty cool, right? The cover of the upcoming Chris Brown album and at twenty years old I guess he deserves a second chance. In the States there is ONLY second

How cool is this? Stolen directly from the New York Times’ article about the Juillard School’s new secure archival storage space, this is “a manuscript of the “Kreutzer” Sonata for violin

I haven’t written it yet but I am going to be raving about Slayer’s  World Painted Blood  released today when news arrive that Slayer leader Tom Araya has cancelled their canadian

Further to my post a coupla days back about New Moon  artists playing at retail outlet Hot Topics comes word of an entire mini tour. No New York (the blood

Yesterday I nominated Serge Gainsborg, Charlotte Gainsborg’s late father, to the rock and roll hall of fame. today the Beck-Charlotte duet “Heaven Can Wait” droppedoff their January released collaboration. I

When’s the last time you purchased a new release and it made you want to call out of work so you could stay home to jump up and down on

ROCK NYC  interviews Love Grenades lead singer Elizabeth Wight at a coffee shop in the West Village. Bret Jensen orders tea for one… It’s Halloween night at the 3rd Ward

Up and coming rapper Mike Beck who has worked with Fat Joe and DJ Khaled was shot to death Friday night. Well known on the sceneBeck has worked with Raekwon,

For the first time anywhere the Beatles and AC?DC’s back catalogue is available for download. Digital music service bluebeat.com has made them available for 25 cents a song. How is

In 1975 Robert Altman was the King Of Hollywood who abdicated -the maverick improvisational director who’d shocked the world into submission with M.A.S.H. and then went his own way. But in

“It rains in your bedroom everything is wrong, it rains when you’re here and it rains when you’re gone”. Taylor’s breaking up song gets a piano workout and it’s gorgeous.

I have said more than enough nasty things about Rolling Stone Magazine in the past year to last a lifetime (except, like U2, you can’t hate em enough) so it

I know he doesn’t care because he is dead but why the hell is Tony Wilson not in the rock and roll hall of fame? Factory Records were the most

Damn. I guess I will get fooled again. Finally went on line to hear the eagerly anticipated new Dylan song that didn’t make it onto Bringin’ It All Back Home

Jonah Weiner isn’t the worst writer in the world by any stretch of the imagination. He wrote a review of the Chris Brown single last week that was simply wonderful.

I have been haunting Brooklyn Vegan since Friday hoping to post my review in the comments section of their review of the 25th Anniversary Hall of fame review. Always good

On Halloween at  Philadelphia’s Wachovia Spectrum Sports Complex, across the street the Yanks were beating the Phillies, and on this side of the street Pearl Jam were playing the last concert ever

Yeah, I know it’s a lousy pic but the video should be here somewhere. from Louisville, Kentucky on Halloween. Awww, those kids today!!! Here is the url: http://www.mergerecords.com/blog/2009/11/monsters-of-folk-play-kiss/

McCartney has written a new song for the DeNiro movie Everybody’s Fine. The movie is about a man making peace with his children and meeting his grandchildren. The song, “(I

Photograher Mick Rock is auctioning off original pictures of the late Pink Floyd musician Syd Barret for charity.The pics date from a shoot for Barret’s 1969 solo album The Madcap

Hot dance band flavor of the day is New Zealander lads Bang bang Eche. Formed in 2008, the 2009 CMJ trip was their second time does the trick and the

Weezer, “Raditude” (Geffen)Carrie Underworld, “Play On” (Sony)Slayer, “World Tainted Blood” (Sony)Foo Fighter, “Greatest Hits” (RCA)Andrea Bocelli, “My Christmas” (Phillips)Bee Gees, “Ultimate Bee Gees” (Rhino)Julian Casablancas, “Phrazes for the Young” (RCA)Steven

The thing about Julian Casablancas isn’t just that he has a great voice but that he has a very distinctive -you know it’s him before the first line is completed

One difference between men and women is that women like to like the people they fuck and men don’t give a fuck. I was surprised when Elizabeth Wight called herself

Buying a Kindle changed my life in at least one way: I can’t seem to finish a book anymore. I currently have a few running at the same time and

Tom Joad is like Joe Hill. Both have songs written about em and both are immortal, Joad living among the oppressed, Hill among the organizers. Both were Union supporters. But

1 Fight For This Love – Cheryl Cole 2 Bad Boys – Alexandra Burke featuring Flo Rida 3 Oopsy Daisy – Chipmunk 4 Bodies – Robbie Williams 5 Million Dollar

Adam Lambert’s “Time For A Miracle” is front, back and center in the trailer for the upcoming disaster flick 2012 and Lambert’s low cult how operatic soap song via Freddie

Juliet – LMNT – Taylor Swift namechecked these runn-ups from Making the Band earlier this week. If you’re gonna manufacture yourself a band (LMNT got their name from a contest in

The world at large is getting a big sick of Kid Cudi’s egocentric behavior. Calling out Ghostface Killah was the last straw. But nobody is so sick that the news of

At the conclusion of a rehearsal duet on “I Can’t Stop Loving You”, MJ loses it and begins to really sing his heart out hitting  every note and singing  directly from the heart.

A day after Mick Jagger shared the mick (sic) with Fergie on the East Coast, Phish played their traditionally inclined Halloween complete album, Exile On Main Street,  from one end to

Fresh from England comes news that former Clash guitarist Mick Jones and former Clash drummer Topper Headon and uniting to re-record “Jail Guitar Doors”. Quite why they are doing this

Last night Bret Jensen went to a Halloween party at Danger in Brooklyn to watch Love Grenades. Me? I stayed home and watched the Yanks beat the Phillies. But something

A coupla months ago I laughed at Time Out in this very blog. I was sneering at their overestimation of Dirty Projector’s Bitte Orca and I’ve been eating my words

Conducting an interview with a musician for the first time in decades had me thinking about the symbiotic nature of the conduct between rock critics and musicians. It is one of

Taylor Swift put her playlist on Itunes this week and here it is!!! Apparently all her taste is in her mouth because this is as lame a playlist as I’ve ever