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My friend and fellow Dylan fanatic Michael Blauner (he is the guy who got in trouble with me at the Costello concert years ago) had this to say about my […]

So sad to hear that Gordon Waller (he is the guy above who doesn’t have red hair and whose sister Jane didn’t date Paul McCartney for years) of the 60s

VIVIAN GIRLS

HOW WEEZER INVENTED EMO

Bob Dylan’s early career seems fated now but in the 1960s it appeared to be veering off in million directions and reinventing itself at the speed of various amphetemines before

The difference between the songs used in the just released DVD of “Watchmen” and the the just released movie “(500) Days Of Summer” is not that one has a 100

Bob Dylan in the 1960sEvery Album reviewed

LOS CAMPESINOS WILL GET DRUNK AND CALL YOU AT FOUR IN THE MORNING

Money Won’t Change You – James BrownPromised Land – Chuck BerryMrs. Vanderbilt – Paul McCartneyThe Man Who Can’t Be Moved – The ScriptLennon said if rock and roll had another

The warm up act Irish lads the Script are doing their best, even pointing out Paul McCartney’s dressing room somewhere high to the left of us but nobody is wearing

MACCA AT CITIFIELD REVIEWED

Did you ever see that Twilight Zone where astronauts land in this place and everything looks like white picket fence normal 50s America but nobody is moving or anything and

FANSNAP IS DA BOMB… IT IS BRAND NEW, IT COMPARES ALL PRICES FOR SOLD OUT CONCERTS OUT THERE, IT TELLS YOU WHERE THE MARKET IS FOR THESE SHOWS AND WHAT

English journalist Julie Burchill once said to me that rock critics were frustrated rock stars with a lot of unused homosexual heroworship. My experience tells me that rock critics are

Many years ago I interviewed the Pretenders, wrote the story and mailed it to Creem. Upon publication I was shocked to discover my story was simply terrible. It was very,

George Best was the greatest English, er, Irish winger of all time. A legendary Man United soccer player and worldclass swordsman and “Slack Alice” was his night club in the

Whitney Houston was the best vocalist to come out of the 80s. Even the weakest of songs were saved by that stunning Mezzo-Soprano. Try “The Bodyguard” Sountrack or “My Love

Popular young Salsa singer Frankie Negron will be at Joe’s Pub on Astor Place, 730p, Tuesday August 11th, 2009. If you enjoy modern Latin American dance music it is unmissable

THE ROCK CRITIC AS ROCK STAR

GOD ONLY KNOWS

You and I, we have a bad hour, a bad day, we’re irritational, we say what we shouldn’t say or act how we shouldn’t act. Even the good of us

“now I live here and I’m fixing wheelchairs…”

Hot Girls in the Bathroom – Dallas AustinExasperated – Dallas AustinYellow Light – TwislaThe last time I saw Austin he was DJing for TLC at MSG on TLC’s mildly disappointing

MORE ABOUT RUFUS’ OPERA FROM NEW YORK MAGAZINE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMtab4n3q_k

The difference between London Punk 1977 and New York City Punk 1977 is the difference between a snarl and a sneer. LP was all attack, NYCP all irony, LP hyper-reality,

A great young rock singer, a Patrick Stickles or a Gareth Campesino, is like a street car racer: they roar at a hundred miles per hour with little regard for

POP SINGERS, KANT, AND THE MORAL IMPERATIVE

Thanks Brooklyn Vegan for using my review to help illustrate Leia Jospe’s pics Of Titus Andronicus at the Whitney Friday 10th, 2009. I’ve followed the site for years and the

All property is theft so I took what was already mine when I lifted this list of most popular summer hits from the New York Post. The comments are mine

IN MY EAR? BELLS ARE RINGING aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!

The Ugly Duckling – Danny Kaye – After a thirty year reign the musical was showing its age and never more so then in Sam Goldwyn’s biography of Hans Christian

I am standing behind a kid during the last song of Titus Andronicus’ fascinating set at the Whitney Museum of American Art. The concert is part of the pop conceptual

Just for the heck of it and because The Beatle post took so much out of me and I’m not in the mood to start in on Thin Lizzy so

So much has been said about the Beatles it is difficult not to tread where others have or even everyone has walked before . you will find no discussion of

Two newly minted West Coast bands for you. Hockey are from Portland, Oregon. Mi Ami from San Francisco. Hockey are everything Billy Bob On Poison are aiming for. I discovered

Obsessed – Mariah CareyYesterday afternoon at the MJ tribute MC over did the glissando’s as she does all too often, on this song about a stalker (or even Mariah herself!)

Marie Lynn took these photographs of Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band, July 3rd, 2009 at Toad’s Place, New Haven. thank you Marie Lynn.

Yeah Yeah Yeah’s “It’s Blitz”? Hasn’t stood the test of time. Dead Eyed Peas? Maybe. Franz Ferdinand? Maybe again. Eminen hasn’t sold enough for an album whose reason for being

American Saturday Night – Brad Paisley Her Diamonds – Rob Thomas – Fine version on NBC’s Macy’s Firworks last night Living Doll – Cliff Richards Physical Attraction – Madonna Science

Halfway into his first vocal on the jaunty “Sausilito” it is clearly apparent Conor’s voice is shot. He isn’t hoarse, he isn’t out of tune, he simply has no relationship

This the best… Taylor gets her thug on… You can find it on dailymotion.com (they took it off youtube for copyright infringement)

Here’s a syllogism for all you pop pickers. Demand for MTV lead to the demise of the Soviet Union. Demand for Michael Jackson lead to demand for MTV. Therfore demand

Novelist Martin Amis has always had a tiring air of priviledge about him. His father was the great English comic novelist Kingsley Amis and Martin was a public school, intellectual

May I be the last to say too much from “Horizon” and no “Stuck In Moment”??? Breathe No Line on the Horizon Get On Your Boots Magnificent Beautiful Day I

EVERY BEATLE US UK ALBUM REVIEWED AND GRADED

In 2001 I went to see Madonna on the Drowned Tour (her best of the decade, maybe ever) and in 1999 I went to see Janet Jackson on the Velvet

Novelist Vladimer Nabakov once noted that all fiction writing is an act of faith in God: as God gives life a pattern so the novelist gives his story a pattern.

Questions For the Angels – Paul SimonTennessee Jed – Levon HelmGrowing Trade – Levon HelmReal World 09 – Rob ThomasHer Diamonds – Rob ThomasBack when I was a whippersnapper we

This is an hysterical parody taking on the great Z, and besting him…Enjoy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nej4xJe4Tdg

I have no idea what I am talking about but I don’t like this at all. On a sunny Sunday afternoon made for Central Park a multi-ethnic hodge podge of