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I loved The Runaways and had a king size crush on Cherry “bomb” Currie for the longest time though the one time I saw em live at CBGB’s they kinda […]

Watching the Arthur Penn directed “Alice’s restaurant” starring Arlo Guthrie I was surprised I’d forgotten how dangerous it was to be a hippie in 1969. During one scene some not

The penultimate song of Iris Dement’s two hour concert at the Highline last night found the country singer-songwriter last night dedicating “My Life” to her daughter somewhere among the enraptured

It’s just the motion…

Is that a dulcimer I see before? Sure sounds like one and since the Roches best album Keep On Doing’s best song “On The ROad To Fairfax County” was written

Today in the New York Post Dan Aquilante had this to say about the Moody Blues Thursday at Radio City: “the rockers played a set that reminded the sold-out Music

This is what happened to the States: some foreign policy wonk came up with the domino theory: if one country falls to communism the next one will follow. instead of

Elvis Costello was making a mistake. It was years and years ago on “Late Night” with Letter man and he was pushing his album Spike and he was talking about

Erin Muir is a singer-songwriter who left the wilds of Minneapolis (and what appears to be a vibrant music scene) for the mundanity of L.A. but she is forgiven because

Fun, fun, fun at the Autobahn ‘till her daddy takes the T-bird away. Or how I finally discovered the passion behind Kraftwerk by Mike Nessing The music of Kraftwerk had

Four years since perpetual power punk Paramore emerged from Tennessee, two years since “Misery Business” broke em big ,one year since the darker “Decode” made it to the Twilight soundtrack

Take the Trans Europe Express

Going steady with the Maestra’s—

Art is life is life is art is love and all that stuff we’re so scared off. Richard and Linda Thompson released Shoot Out The Lights in 1982 and went

Remember the Drifters? Sure you do: tin pan alley, highly arranged first r&b and then pop vocal band. First with Clyde McPhatter leading the way they were covering stuff like

Loudon Wainwright III and his children Rufus and Martha Wainwright as well as the BRILLIANT AWESOME UNSPEAKABLY WONDERFUL folk trio Roches (get the Robert Fripp produced Keep On Doing if

The other week I wrote a post about Caroline Smith and the Good Night Sleeps -a Minneapolis band. Marie Lynn introduced them and where did she find them? daytrotter.com. It

I.D.G.A.F – Breathe CarolinaElectronica duo from Denver come up with the goods on this addictive pop crossover mover EXCEPT who is gonna play a song whose chorus goes: “I don’t

This is the most boring brush with greatness you WILL EVER READ!!! It came to mind because I was watching the Judee Sill youtube clip “The Kiss” and it came

In a somewhat scathing review of Miley Cyrus’ “The Climb” back in April, I snickered “How much reassurance do young girls need?” Well, there is young and then there is

Available on Itunes today: Elvis Costello’s singing talk show reviewed…

Suite: Judy Blue Eyes – Crosby Stills & Nash – It’s a shame Steve Stills is such an arrogant dick because some of the stuff he wrote with Buffalo Springfield

Elvis Costello, Richard and Linda Thompson and Bruce Springsteen wrote terrific albums about the end of their marriages. We’re gonna tell you about them soon…

Mike Nessing writes about the short, lustrously creative life of Judee Sill. Songs of faith, higher power, wisdom and love. Chord progressions and melodic structures that reach to the sky.

What confuses people about Marvin Gaye is that, despite “What’s Going On” and despite “Let’s Get It On” and despite “Midnight Love” and ABSOLUTE despite “Here My Dear” Gaye was

MILEY!!!!

There are too types of serious rock fans in this world: the progressives and the anti-progressives. Mike Nessing is the former, I am the latter. But he makes a damn

Blowing In the Wind – Sam Cooke – From the 64 Live at the Copa album, quite as good as the Harlem Square in 63 and it proves Cooke didn’t

Don’t know about the half million young, dirty, hungry, drugged bastards stuck in the Flanders Field of 1969 but I am getting pretty sick being stuck in Woodstuck myself. Feeling

I was emailing back and forth with Mike Nessing when he said “Too much music,man..not enough time. It’s a never ending struggle to hear it all..That’s one of the main

Work Me Lord – Janis Joplin – On this CD the difference between Janis Joplin and Jefferson Airplane is if you don’t know how great Joplin was you haven’t been

About a year ago I was at the Highline for a Martha Wainwright concert and up close she was like a shock of legs and a hip thrust against her

One of the Cavemen throws a strike and pumps his arm until the pin changer comes down with the legend “So Easy Even A Caveman Can Do It”. In the

Going Up the Country – Canned Heat – I don’t like blues boogie but I liked this on the original Woodstock album and I like it here because Alan Wilson

I loved Brett Jensen’s take on Jesus and Jesus’ Ipod in an earlier post. If you can’t laugh at religion what can you do with it? A good question and

Did you know Ray Price took over Hank William’s band after Hank died? Popular music sophisticate Michael Nessing did and we are going to be looking at his playlist… soon!

Les Paul, the inventor of the full bodied electric guitar, died today. I saw him at the Iridium when it was near Lincoln Center a coupla years ago and loved

And closing up the first, very folkie night of Friday 15th, 1969, Joan Baez and the CD doesn’t include Joanie discussing her husband David Harris, a jailed conscientious objector. She

I will be getting round to a somewhat more unctuous take on the Lord’s Ipod at some point soon using all of your suggestions. Till then please enjoy Brett Jensen

From Marie Lynn: check out roma di luna — these tears aint mine she did a cover of in an aeroplane over the sea i didnt download it off itunes

My friend Jane Patterson did a list of her top fifty concerts so I pulled out my ticket stubs I’ve been keeping since the mid-90s . I chose the letter

What is a young Jesus listening to today?The Teen Jesus Play list only on ROCK NYC… soon!

Last week I put Rolling Stone to task for giving a Sly Stone Anthology a four and a half star review after giving U2’s “No Line On The Horizon” a

Listen up, this is gonna be a lot more fun the just listening to the brick of a box set. I’m gonna review and grade every song of the 6

Party in The USA – Miley CyrusOn the cover of AM News this morning was the picture above with the musical question: “Is Miley Cyrus a bad influence?” Why would

Ok, we’re all patiently waiting for guitarist alumni Larry Carlton’s solo on “Kid Charlemagne” and since this is “The Royal Scam” night where Steely Dan are to play one of

I don’t know what’s left to be said about Spider bags except maybe “So Long a Rope” is one of the most magnificently depressing songs I’ve ever heard as well

During dinner last night with my nephew Samer Diab he asked a question that echoed one in the New Yorker this week. “The same rock stars who ruled the arena’s

The Woodstock 6 CD set went on sale today. It is not every show complete (that would be 30 days worth and worth day $250 as a cultural heirloom) and

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