“Cousins”, song three from the upcoming VE album Contra, is dropping this weekend on XL.com. It isn’t as immediately as immediately accessible as “White Sky” or “Horchata”, it does include […]
Rock stars get religion, country stars get politics. Steve Earle was the greatest country rocker of em all from 1986 to 1997 -right through Guitar Town and Copperhead Road thru
I was discussing the Brad Paisley concert with my friend and fellow country music enthisiast Lisa Fay -who has recently seen acts like Carrie Underwood, Rascal Flatts (twice), Urban (twice),
Maybe five months ago I wrote a post about people I don’t like but should like and top of my list was Aretha Franklin. I couldn’t “hear” her voice, I wasn’t
Ten years ago Bob Nevin (Happy birthday Bob if you’re reading) walked out of a Phish concert at MSG after half an hour of tedium. On Deecember 4th, 2009 both
The casual opera lover, some one like me, finds it exceedingly hard to flip in and out of the genre, I get lost in it. So I have found the
According to the Strokes lead singer Julian Casablanca the last great old school no hyphen rock band the Strokes are having a civil war over the new album. Half of
From Monster In A Box on Andrew Blauner, Michael Blauner and I went to every single Spalding Gray show and with the possible exception of A Slippery Slope. The Blauner’s used
Regular readers of Rock NYC will be used to my Conor Oberst fanaticism. If I hero worship anybody in the modern pop world it is Oberst. He is simply and
“I have to block out thoughts of you so I don’t lose my head, they crawl in like a cockroach leaving babies in my bed…” Cool huh, so these words
Bon Jovi will be the first act (actually, the first anything) to perform at the new Meadowlands stadium. If you buy the new album you can buy early tix… a
Lil Wayne plead guilty to gun possession rather than go to trial today. If he had lost at trial he’d have faced a minimum of three and a half years.
I went to see Woods back in July of this year at the Whitney and I had this to stay: “Woods start their set with “Rain On” and “Too Clean”
Further to Helen Bachs report from yesterday comes news from reader Kiev.The reader reports: “BLUE OCTOBER ANNOUNCES THE CANCELLATION OF THE PICK UP THE PHONE TOUR 2009 DUE TO LEAD
Lil Wayne in court yesterday on a weapons possession charge after a gun was found on his tour bus in 2007. The case is based upon a miniscule amout of
Regular readers of this blog will be aware of my deep affection for the late great song and dance man Danny Kaye. Sometimes a performers spirit seems to come somewhere
According to today’s New York Times Facebook is joing Google getting into the musiz biz. Google are making a special search engine to find music MP3s. Facebook are integrating the
In honor of a night of sensitive cowboys who “still have a pair” let me put Mr and Mrs Paisley front and center. Brad Paisley is the hugely popular country
You thought I was gonna choose Van Morrison or maybe even go to jazz with Miles Davis but no. The stories of John Fogerty’s nastiness are legion and I was a
Yesterday I reviewed the soundtrack album to New Moon and alone among my many, many peers, said it was a dour compiliation that missed its target demo by a mile.
Here are the Taylor Swift presale info for tomorrow… it’ll be a thug story you know!!!May 12 & 13, 2010 Taylor Swift Fearless Tour 2010with special guests Kellie Pickler and
Tom Cruise former manager PaulaWagner, the brains behind the Mission Impossible movies is working with Paula Wagner, Joseph Simmons )and Darryl McDaniels as well as the estate of Jam Master Jay
OMG!!All the duets with Jay-Z, all the cover shoots in the rain, all the publicity in the world, won’t save you if you are releasing a song as bad as
My man Axl Rose -who managed to release the most underestimated album of last year Chinese Democracy, is touring Canada later this year behind is cracked metal masterpiece. If I’d
Elephant Man, Buju Banton, Bounty Killer, Beanie Man: ignoring reggaeton those are the names of modern reggae -these are the Rastaman who follows in the footsteps of the Wailers thirty-five
In the new issue of Details Magazine Adam Lambert shockingly kisses a girl!! Adam “Just because I like kissing girls doesn’t mean I’m going to sleep with them” Lambert comes
Last night I was merrily watching the Yanks slaughter the Angels when I got a panicked email from helen bach: “sometime you guys know stuff that I cant find.. and
On the eve of LA based avant-pop, film school grad’s Saint Motel’s CMJ sactioned NYC debut performance, the band got their van broken into in the wilds of Chicago. According to
“They’re creepy and they’re cookie, mysterious and spooky…” Click click. Brooklyn bornVic Mizzy once said “That’s why I’m living in Bel Aire. Two finger snaps and you’re living in Bel
I Didn’t Know It At The Time – Tim McGraw Dya know who Lee Thomas Miller is? He’s one of those craftsmen you get in the south, one of those
Who Taylor Hollingsworth you ask? He is the Mystic Valley Band’s lead guitarist and he wrote the fine “Air Mattress” and the crap “snake Hill” on the Outer South album.
In what should be a harbinger of a killer set next month in NYC, Monsters of Folk apparently performed their own version of my live dream set list. “At The
Errr… from todays Rolling Stone: “As album sales soften and the industry turns to alternate ways to get music to fans, the battle between the big music video games has
Billy Corgan is threatening to release all forty-four songs off the new Smashing Pumpkin album Teargarden by Kaleidyscope for free a song at a time on his website. I have
Who will watch the watchers? I won’t most of the time but every now and then I got to Metacritic and check out what my peers are up to and
From today’s New York Times: “…a video game featuring the music and the likenesses of the Beatles posted only moderate sales in its first month of release. The Beatles: Rock
The Kanye West – Spike Jonze short We Were Once A Fairy Tale featuring West getting drunk, throwing up and generally acting like himself in a nightclub is one of
Without wishing to seriously mix my metaphors… The Twilight Saga: New Moon soundtrack is the aural equivalent of yesterdays Yankees loss to the Angels: over managed though not by Giarardi,
In an op ed in new york times on Saturday the ever controversial Bono had this to say about President Obama winning the Nobel “I think the virtual Obama is
“You could never kiss a Tory boy without wanting to cut off your tongue again…” Ah, yeah, that’s our Garth alright on “The Sea Is A Good Place To Think
Adam Lanbert’s single from the upcoming movie 2012 “Time For A Miracle”. It sounds like Bon Jovi behind Freddie Mercury while Celine Dion’s back up band gets sodomized by Motley Cru. Er, plus
Contirbuting editors Mike Nessing and Iman Lababedi discuss Ray Davie’s masterpiece Something Else by the Kinks. MN: Listening now…Mick Avory is a beast. The songwriting is so incredible. If the
We’ve all seen Paul McCartney play “Something” on ukelele as tribute to the late George Harrison but this is something else again!!! The second annual Beatles complete on Ukelele festival
In the works, remixes of MJs Jackson 5’s hits by the creem of the hip hop DJs. The Remix Suite features Akon, Swizz Beatz, Q-Tip, Tricky Stewart, and DJ Cassidy.
Final dates for the eagerly awaited Dogg tour have been announced. He is playing the Nokia October 29th. A Thursday which totally sucks. Anyway, here are the rest of the
Top 10 Singles:1/ Alexandra Burke – Bad Boys2/ Robbie Williams – Bodies3/ Chipmunk – Oopsy Daisy4/ Taio Cruz – Break Your Heart5/ Jay-Z – Empire State Of Mind6/ Black Eyed
Brit metal band Def Leppard have cancelled the US leg of their 2009 world tour. due to “Personal reasons”. I can’t even imagine what could be so personal they’d jump
Jack White received an honorary degree from the Philosophical Society at Dublin’s Trinity College on Sunday (October 18) according to Uncut. Proving that White never misses a chance to make a
Requiem for Omm 2 – Of Montreal – I know the daytrotter.com recording from 2007 and what it proves is that in order to lead a band like Of Montreal
“And the seasons, they go round and round…”. Many years ago my friend Sandy deBellis used to sit in the office next to me and at 5pm we would play
