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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

Reading Todd Leibowitz’s review of Kiss’ Sonic Boom I got to thinking: If Gene and Paul can just replace their guitarist and drummer  and re-record their hits, why can’t they just

Fast Forward is the ABC Network sci-fi drama where everybody in the world passes out for two minutes and seventeen seconds. Those that don’t crash in planes, drown, die in car

Contributing writer Helen Bach meets her past halfway… Jethro Tull was a part of my childhood. My older brothers 10 and 11 years older than me were hardcore fans. I

From 1986 to 1990 It’s the Gary Shandling Show changed the face of the sitcom: its self-referential breaking of the fourth wall lead the way for Seinfeld and its writers

Hot on the heels of  sixteen year old tween sensational singer Miley Cyrus filming a cameo for the second Sex In The City movie  today, SITC star Kim Cattrall had

As Mike Nessing of Rock NYC readies himself for the defininitive post on the sixties LA sessionc players nicknamed the Wrecking  Crew, he find sus the ultimate website: “you need

Contributing Writer Todd Leibowtiz rocks out to Kiss’ Sonic Boom Ok, I finally received the new KISS cd from Walmat.com. For $12 you get the new cd titled Sonic Boom

I have been ragging the Beatles relentlessly for whoring their music to advertising when they don’t need to. If they needed the bread it would be a smart move but

Sure I’m three months early but here is my first thoughts on 2009. It’s all about how dance met indie and hip hop and began the evolution. Although Dirty Projector’s

During a commercial break while watching the brilliant game 2 of the ALCS from Yankee Stadium (Yanks won in 13), I flipped over to Saturday Night Live. Now, I’m a

Bear with me here. Me, and you, love Broadway Musical Theatre composer Richard Rodgers of Rodgers and Hammerstein fame. You know, wrote the music to South Pacific and the Sound

Ciontributing writer Helen Bach loves Weezer but what about the new album? Here she listens up to a comple of tracks… There is something humbling about being handed fresh made

Ya know its time for me to admit defeat on a venture I took. One dinner conversation began with…..Pete Wentz is a fat father. Who’s the new Fall out Boy?

A newly released clip from MJ’s early awaited This Is It  rehearsal documentary finds the very gifted and very alive MJ going through some dance steps as he sings “Human

The best Dylan news I’ve heard all year is that with the return of Dylan’s great former guitarist Charlie Sexton to his band, Dylan has chosen to get out from

Italian electronic wiz kid Benny Benassi has performed the world a service with this powerful remix of one of the great songs of the year Kid Cudi (featuring MGMT and

All Is Love – Karen  O and the Kids – Yeah, yeah, yeah it’s that Karen O on the soundtrack for Spike Jonz film of the children’s classic. I saw

When I caught Lennon at the Beacon in  a warm up for his John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band Across The Universe tour last year I was thrilled he had dusted off his rhythm

Phase 1 in which Johnny tears through the Live Peace In Toronto setlist with Clapton and The Wondermints entourage, on loan from BW.1) Blue Suede Shoes2) Money3) Dizzy Miss Lizzy4)

Supergroup of the moment is Them Crooked Vultures featurding Dave Grohl back behind the drums where he belongs, John Paul Jones back behind the bass where he belongs and lead

amour mama, not cheap display

Lennon alive: the dream set list and dream concert review… Imagine that…  Soon

Put this in the things we never wanted to live to see (or hear)… Bill Cosby is releasing a hip hop album November 24th, 2009. It’s called Bill Cosby Presents the

Any guesses?Cmon, give it a shot…Mick Jagger’s daughter May Jagger

Trans Siberian Orchestra are a rock orchestra who tour the country during the season of hoping playing, well, orchestrated versions of rock classics. It’s really not a bad idea. Lotsa

Black Eyed Pea’s The E.N.D is so good that the album dropped in early June and they just got around to releasing Fergie’s sure shot “Meet Me Halfway”. A great

Contributing editor Mike Nessing discusses the power of three in this Dream Jam Setlist Power trios hold a special place in my heart. There’s just something about a band that

After complaing about the lack of songs on the new depression I remembered “Get It In Ohio” from cam’ron’s damn close to hip hop album of the year (a coupla clunkers ruin it)

If we can’t worship the Shins may we all agree Noah and the Whale are the greatest folk band in the universe today and if there is a better this

As anticipation reaches if not fever pitch definitely kinda hot pitch for the new VE album, Contra, to be released nearly exactly two years after the debut, VE went to

Kanye West is in India finding his inner adult but back here on planet New York he has pulled the plug on Kanye’s eagerly awaited casual clothes line Pastelle. I

In the late twenties, early thirties, during the great depression, dustbowl oakies like Woody Guthrie were singing “if you aint got the do-re-me boys” and singing in the face of

Following the lay off of a friend of mine, and on the heels of the year from economic hell, I had been planning on writting a post about music for

Nothing can stand the pressure of contributing writer Helen Bach’s Dream Clash Set List Id never thought of a ‘dream set’ before but being the type of girl I am

And here is Jonah Weiner on Paramore’s new, pretty lousy,  album Brand New Eyes. “Her two front teeth are a smidge too big and gapped ever so slightly, giving her

Swingin’ London photographer Tony Frank took this of the etheral beauty Mariane Faithful in 1965 before drugs and Jagger got to her.

For the first time anywhere!!! A four CD retrospective covering Elvis’s entire career!! To  be released December 8th on what would have been his 75th birthday. It’s called Elvis 75: Good

I remember going to see the Raincoats at the Kitchen twenty or so years ago before going to a very femme centric after party. Lotsa fun not least the weird

Sure, we’d rather see her opening with Kanye West but even so… closing out the Fame Monster tour with two nights at Radio City is pretty damn cool!!! Here is

“Godfather, Godfather, what am I going to do?” Al Martino famously asked as the Sinatra like Johnny Fontaine in The Godfather Part 1. A horses head later Fontaine had the

“Winning games like it’s not fair/ The Yankees rule so we don’t care/ 26 World Series rings/ Time to pop some more champagne/ Victory’s within the mile/ Almost there, don’t

At Radio City Music Hall last night , Regina Spektor’s opening act avant -pop band Jupiter One were smart as hell. The lead singer K Ishibashi mentioned the bands name

When recorded music was on vinyl the consumers relationship with the music was very physical. The grooves of the album were influenced and the sound emitting were changed by the

Sure electric guitarist cum gigolo John Mayer is buff, but is he too buff? This pic seems to show he has sprouted those most hated and worrisome of things to the

UK rapper Chipmunk is a former member of the grime posse Circular Movements and now sole owner of the number one spot in the UK singles charts with “Oopsie Daisy”.

The Wailers 1973