Soho Johnny

Christian rock, how such a thing can exist? How did this oxymoron happen?I have been wondering this for a while… I know that rock and roll has some of its […]

Jesse Eisenberg saying he doesn’t use social networking? The equivalent os say he doesn’t use the telephone 50 years ago. Nicki Minaj is the star of the SNL Jesse show

 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,

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

Errr, errrr some Van Morrison comment? I Am so ho happy

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

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

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

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,

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