GREATEST CONCERTS EVER EVER EVER (I've Seen)
The Everly Brothers -In the middle of a Simon and Garfunkle gig -but THE EVERLY BROTHERS!!!! David Bowie – At Roseland, front of stage. Bob Dylan – Fourth row, aisle, […]
The Everly Brothers -In the middle of a Simon and Garfunkle gig -but THE EVERLY BROTHERS!!!! David Bowie – At Roseland, front of stage. Bob Dylan – Fourth row, aisle, […]
1. Bruno Mars – ‘Grenade’2. Jessie J – ‘Do It Like A Dude’3. Rihanna – ‘What’s My Name?’4. Katy B – Lights On5. Matt Cardle – ‘When We Collide’6. David
Off canoe.com: “The rocker purchased 1.5 per cent of the company for $195 million last year as the managing director of Elevation Partners, the investment firm he co-founded in 2001.
Watching a little bit of the Golden Globes last night, I was wondering how many actors have tried to rock? You know how some actors can turn indie rockers overnight,
1. Coffee Spoon – Cold War Kids – If they write another song this good.. 2. Digging For Something – Superchunk – If Wheels can’t hear this… 3. Mutants – Wavves
Disney movies have the best songs, Disney theme parks have the best attractions. Simply said, Disney is more than just magic
OK, so this is a sad motherfucker of a post… but no less true for all that. Despite all my clever words I’m a daydreamer and sometimes I daydream about
Woot I feel validated. As someone who is not the most savvy with an mp3 I often get my first listens from youtube. When researching something I’m unfamiliar with I
The next two weeks, the Cold War Kids will be all over the place in LA, the 24th they are playing with Grouplove at the Bootleg, the 25th they have
This This was written with a sole purpose: to make you crazy with envy. In a life of concerts beginning when I was SIX YEARS OLD (documented in a
James Bond is one of the longest running franchises in film history, … how many Bond movies are there? 22! And Daniel Craig is now playing the role of the
Andre 3000 has a very distinct voice. I absolutely love Outkast stuff and well really anything he does. I read hes somewhat reclusive which may explain why I dropped everything
I am the minority. These days the band Superchunk is getting more face time than peanut butter. Theyre the darlings in so many circles. I have no circle, on the
Spotify and Sony are thisclose to signing a contract. This would be HUGE. It should finally get Spotify into the US. Spotify is a pay to stream music service and
Sure I sound like an LCD Soundsystem song, “I was there, I was there…” . The difference is, how cool dya consider this? I was at Town Hall (in the
Pretty Reckless lead singer quote: “ “I love my mom and dad. Maybe I didn’t have the childhood people think you should have, but I still went through the ages.
Mountain? Bad Company?? 3 DOORS DOWN???? Sounds like Ringo Starr’s All Stars to Me!!! Monday at 7pm at bb king’s. I’ll tell you more on Tuesday! Also?
1. I Can’t Love – Leal Neale – Country twang lightness into snark. 2. There She Goes Again – Marshall Crenshaw – The standard bearer for everything pop music can
You know how some people are particularly unlucky, they got all sorts of problems all the time, can’t keep a job, and simply goes from bad luck to bad luck.
Helen sez:Thomas DeCarlo Callaway , yup another pop hit maker on Saturday Night Live. Of course, August was his time of fame but with Gweneth Paltrow (who did the highly puke
Here is my pledge: when it comes to pop listen to the back beat……. and some back beats come across like heavy perfumed porn movies. Groove Allegiance to me is
There is a reason Helen and I are bloggers and not rock critics and that’s because we live in music in real time. This is a diary about writing about
In 1912 the Picasso fashioned a guitar from cardboard, paper, string, and wire, materials he cut, folded, threaded, and glue. Nothing like it done before and although it wasn’t a
I guess film school can lead to many different things, and music is one of them, but what kind of music? Music as different as Saint Motel’s explosive glam and
I’ve done it! I’ve found the answer about how to make any situation punk rock. It’s a simple solution, really. Put on The Clash’s iconic album London Calling and
http://amyandronicus.tumblr.com/ Amy Klein, guitarist and violin player of Titus Andronicus, as well as half of one of my fave bands of 2010, Hilly Eyes, has her first solo album,
I have made no qualms about my girl crush on Gwen. Ms No Doubt is girl perfection in my eyes and as a girl I have the right to judge
hiatus [haɪˈeɪtəs] n pl -tuses, -tus 1. (esp in manuscripts) a break or gap where something is missing 2. a break or interruption in continuity 3. (Linguistics / Phonetics &
A country singer songwriter song “I Can’t Love” twangs and soothes but digs its fingers in your arms and punishes as it seduces. The Virginia native in question is Lael
Here’s is something you may have forgotten. Jimmy Fallon is a comedian. What frightens me is that Jimmy wants to be a rock star. When little Jimmy was a lad
What did I know about Lemmy Kilmister before seeing Greg Olliver and Wes Orshoski’s documentary ‘Lemmy, 49 percent Motherfucker, 51 Percent Son of a Bitch’? Not much, I didn’t even
FINALLY… The M.I.A. mixtape is wearing off. So, along with everything else I am listening to? The acoustic Superchunk, the new Holy Ghost, and the entire Body Talk are in
The opening of (can’t we first fix the name?) “Spiderman: Turn Off The Dark” , the Broadway musical I reviewed (in previews) last year, has been put off again
Look at it this way: Stevie Nicks as a beautiful coke addled sprite in the 70s was one thing. I wasn’t crazy about her (Vastly preferred Christine McVie) but you
1. Digging For Something (Acoustic) – Superchunk – Opening for Bright Eyes (along with 2/3 of Sleater Kinney) at Radio City in March and I can’t wait. Any band that
Ok friends. I am starting a new segment on Rock NYC…. Glam Fridays! Each Friday, I will post a small bio of a band from the glam/hair era. That way,
Lookit these yo-yo’s, thats the way you do it.. Unless youre in Canada. Cuz they banned the song “Money For Nothing”, the TWENTY FIVE YEAR OLD SONG, cuz of the
At the beginning of this week, I had seen that the Vista theater located in my neighborhood was organizing the premiere of ‘Lemmy, 49% Motherfucker, 51% son of a bitch’,
Wyatt Marshall is a great writer, and he listens to spooky shit. If Rush were accurate, Wyatt would have killed us all and buried us in the middle of Wrigley
Who the hell are Hypebot.com ? I have no idea, a helen find, but I love the website to bits. This is the second i’ve pilferred and it sucks, 300
Nah screw that.. The Grammys are a bag of ass. So instead here are the bands that SHOULD win Grammys, fat paychecks and accolades (instead of the skanky Saran wrapped
I am often in awe of the ‘can do’ attitude of some. I don’t have that. I worry, I’m a Negative Nancy.. I worse case scenario my entire life But
I have already written about “Schroedinger’s Cat’, a song by Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger, the moniker of the Sean Lennon-Charlotte Kemp Muhl’s duet, and may be that’s the
1. Speak Now – Taylor Swift 2. Pink Friday – Nicki Minaj 3. Doo-ops And Hooligans – Bruno Mars 4. Tron: Legacy – Daft Punk 5. Recovery – Eminem 6.
Stevie Wonder, Elton John, Gladys Knight and Dionne Warwick, the friends behind the godawful but still hugely profitable amfar (the American Foundation for AIDS research) benefit single “Thats What Friends
Etta James is to Beyonce what Diana Ross is to Billie Holiday. So the news that the former Chess singr has Alzheimers and Leukemia is very, very sad for
Amy Winehouse is on her way back with a five date tour of Brazil. The fear? She is the Whitney Houston of 2011. I don’t know how she sounded but
We got this off brooklynvegan : Join us in deflowering MTV’s new series SKINS on January 14th for a major rager at a secret location. Click attending, and go to