Soho Johnny

Mike Nessing and Iman Lababedi obsess over the Beach Boys Pet Sounds. Yes, it’ll be as wonky and inside baseball as you think it will be.

Michael Jackson started off as a pre-teen sensation sounding old beyond his years before morphing into the leader of the Jackson 5 as a disco swirl of Motown product and

Since I’ve begun this blog I’ve been listening and reporting on so much music I haven’t had time to listen to anything but whatever I was working on at any

GROUPIES

My niece Kristin Diab is somewhat deprecating in her remarks about the playlist she listens to while “cycling or cleaning the house…” before warning me to “be nice”. “I seem

My third Rhett Miller concert in less than two years is my first disappointment. Miller, the lead singer of alt-country band Old 97’s, has released three solo albums over the

Helen Bach tells of being a twelve year old girl at a Clash Concert in 1980 in this thrilling look back at the day Joe Strummer saved Janie’s life… In

The punk dream -everybody can do it, don’t sit there consuming music, make it yourself has apparently come true. There has never been more bands, better bands, more genres. It’s

Diablo Cody’s follow up to “Juno” is its inversion. “Juno” was a bout something inside a girls body going out, “Jennifer’s Body” the sotry of a devil possed teenage girl

The problem with these soul giants is that they think their presence alone is enough, that they can coast through 70 minutes sets joking with their sidemen, changing clothes off

Mike Nessing REALLY previews Bob Dylan’s upcoming seasonal album Christmas In the Heart It used to be that I would give my ‘60’s musical icons lots of leeway in regards

Earlier this year Yusuf Islam (aka Cat Stevens) was meant to play an invitation only concert at the Hammerstein Ballroom but had to cancel when there was a delay on

Below please see my purchase summary for a tix to Pavement. And note the date… A YEAR FROM NOW….!!!! Way to make interest on my bucks for 12 months… If

In a post earlier today I claimed Jim James was the George Harrison of Monsters Of Folk but i was shocked to read in New York Times that I am

What’s Cleveland ever done for you, right? I mean, Reggie Miller? Thanks for nothing… And Drew Carey? The price aint ever right for him. So thanks for Kid Cudi who

Offered a tix for the taping of Elvis Costello’s “Spectacle” at the same time I have tix for Yeah Yeah Yeah’s at Radio City Music Hall… what to do? Where

What excuse is there for not going to see Aretha Franklin at Radio City Music Hall? How about I’ve seen her a number of times before and she has been

Here was my problem: I already had a tix for october 3rd for the Giant’s stadium gig AND the two day MSG stint was a saturday, sunday. I had no

Monsters Of Folk isn’t released till Tuesday and I am no longer in the biz so I’ve been streaming the new album and nobody who follows this blog will be

Jarvis Cocker was the leader of Pulp -head and shoulders the best band to come out of Brit Pop. he went solo a couple of years ago and though I

When Mick and Keith were teenage buddies it was Chuck Berry they were talking at but by the time Mick was takin‘ his harmonica to Brian Jones’ blues bands on

Todd Leibowitz calls in with some new reviews…. I think I heard that Tom Petty has a Bob Seger cover on his new lived quadruple CD… Hey Iman, I downloaded

From the New York Times September 16th, 2009“According to preliminary numbers from Nielsen SoundScan the Beatles sold a combined 626,000 units in the United States last week, including albums that

Your trusty blogger wangled a tix to a taping of the second season of Elvis Costello’s “Spectacle” next week… I’ll tell you all bout it… soon!

Boston based Alison Miller is BFF with my friend Alix Wartel and her current faves are radio hip hop 2009 style and I couldn’t agree with her more. From English-

A contemporary of Carole King, a Jewish Brooklynite, a Brill Building graduate and one of the single most gifted songwriters of the early 60s, Ellie Greenwich died of a heart

Bob Dylan had an uncomforting voice back in the day, like sand and glue as David Bowie once put it, and the world didn’t want to hear so it took

Yeah Yeah Yeahs Live Kid Cudi The Alison Miller Playlist Ellen Rudzis on the Clash Mike Nessing Previews the new Dylan The Rolling Stones Talking Talking Heads Metallica The Boss

Walking to work I have been noticing posters for “34 songs That Changed the World”. Hmmm, 34? Well, I can think of one “Happy Birthday To You”. A completely perfect

Taylor Swift towers over her peers in the pop music world….

Thanks to Michael Blauner for introducing me to former Spin rock critic Chuck Klosterman’s uproarious take on the Beatles Box Set in “AV Club”. Chuck imagines the Beatles are an

The Pursuit Of Happiness – Kid Cudi – The best song in the best week of new music this year. It took till June for 2009 to settle itself (literally:

Lady Gaga and Kanye West at the Izod center December 22nd!!! How much do you hate Kanye now?????

Oh happy day!!! Brooklynvegan.com have announced Pavement, one of the greatest indie bands of all time, have reformed and are set to play Central Park’s Summerstage 2010, the exact date

Charley Poole was a very successful banjo player in the 20s who drunk himself to death by the age of thirty-eight. He had a string of pretty good bluegrass before

Before getting to work on his magnum opus on Muse writer Brett Jenssen plays connect the dots between bad sex and long, long, long remixes. “Now I don’t usually do

Bjork memorably dubbed Lars Von Triers SATAN after starring in his bizarrely moving movie “Dancer In The Dark” -a strangely resonating musical about blindness. The music was released as the

“By all indications, he’ll continue to make good but not great music, replicating the form of his finest records minus the electric charge.” -Jody Rosen on The Blueprint 3, September

The Rolling StonesAftermathand Out of Their Headsand Between the Buttons Soon….

Mike Nessing found the Odd Couple -one of the great sitcoms of all time, singing “You’re So Vain” on youtube. I have the first four seasons on DVD and at

“Sylvia, what do you call your lover boy?” “Come here lover boy…” “And if he doesn’t answer?” “Oh lover boy“ “And if he still doesn’t answer?” “I sing…” With the

I was speaking to the former Sales Manager of a New Orleans TV station during Hurricane Katrina. He got his family together and moved to a hotel a day before

Marilyn Monroe was the embodiment of Hollywood glamour in an age where Hollywood had glamour to burn. But she was something else as well: she was a song and dance

Here is a secret only known by me and all the other suckers who watch VMA: it’s a bit of a drag by now and it ha nothing to do

According to a comment on the Ellen playlist a younger version of Ms. Rudzis almost got herself croaked at a Clash concert back in the day! I am hoping Ellen

Kanye West interrupted Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech for best Female Vocalist VMA last night to say that Beyonce deserved to get it for “Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)”.

From spoken word poetry to his biography of hustling for drugs as a teenager “The Basketball Diarys” to his hit single “People Who Died” Jim Carroll was a King of

Shakira at the pre-show VMA’s: “Lady Gaga is a modern day Grace Jones…” Way to go Shakira, excellent call.

The film star as pop singer…

When Remy made me a mix tape (actually burn CD but you know what I mean) it was an act of friendship, a “i’ll let me in your dream if