Soho Johnny

Finch was called ‘post hardcore’ as genre.   I’m so sad to say ‘was’.   Finch has called it quits. I didn’t even realize they were together since 1999.  A band […]

1. Marrow of the Spirit – Agalloch Easily my pick for best of 2010. Epic, arcing ten-minute plus tracks, Agalloch’s most heavy material to date. Dear Agalloch, please play a

“No ideas originals, there’s nothin’ new under the sun. It’s never whatyou do, but how it’s done..” –Nas Thanks to music connoisseur DJ Teddy King and the handful of producersand

People love autographs.   Meet and Greets are big signing opportunities.   I have never had interest in them though I do have some ‘rare’ signatures by some pretty cool people,

Thurston Moore may be doing an album with Beck, but Sonic Youth’s fans will soon have something new to listen to, the soundtrack of a French thriller by Fabrice Gobert,

‘It never rains in California/But girls don’t they warn ya/It pours, man it pours’ It is so true as Californians have experienced it for a few days, and it is

If she told me to jump off a bridge I might. I write of her so often I just adore her and Amanda Palmer has tweeted to let NYC know

Rapper Trevell Michael Coleman, aka G. Dep or Ghetto Dependent, who was signed by P. Diddy to the Bad Boy label in1999, has just confessed to the murder of John

1. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy – Kanye West 2. Sir Luscious Leftfoot – Big Boi 3. Recovery – Eminem 4. Man On the Moon II – Kid Cudi 5.

Why is Wim Butler such a fat head? Every time he opens his big mouth he trips over his tongue and comes off like a member of Kings Of Leon.

Congrats to Nathan wassisname of Wavves for winning the award for the best tweet by anybody ever ever ever: “why is twitter suggesting i follow NME magazine? i’d rather follow

well, I feel sick as a parrot (a sick parrot) I have tix to see LG at the Prudential Center and guess what? Gwan guess. Scissor Sisters are opening for

1. Wavves – Bowery Ballroom – August 2nd – Yeah, the they were drunk, tripped up by tech glitches, smartasses/ BUT. none of it got in the way of an

And all I have some terrible, terrible, just plain wrong jokes i can’t share. Meh. OK: Imagine the worst jokes you can imagine about Germany and then nth em, that’s

1. Breakaway – Ramona – A Karen and Johnny special. A spiked  punch new wave with its eye on the fifties pop confection. 2. The Oh So Protective Ones – Girls

This is from an email Sandy debellis about how things are gonna change. No newspapers and books (both will be digital), stuff like that. They get some of it right,

Sinbad said we would be talking about the night we saw Prince at Madison Square Garden when we are in our rocking chairs. Sinbad is right. But we won’t be talking about

In May 1968, Sly And The Family Stone played Madison Square Garden, to “only white faces” as the former Family Stone, current Graham Central Station bassist Larry Graham noted at

 It’ s time for a field trip, time for a field trip. Wanna go to the Zoooo? I doooo. Festival season is almost upon us.. well not really.. but

More names added to the bamboozle line up: Lil  Wayne, Motley  Crüe, Taking Back Sunday, the Gaslight Anthem, Wiz Khalifa, Bruno Mars and Chiddy Bang. Wooot!!!! All a little

The last few months, I have heard about this new rap/hip-hop teenager LA band whom critics have been raving about, as even the New Yorker and Wire magazine wrote long

Are the 80’s back? You’d swear they are when you are listening to the San Diego band Lesands, who played a set of pop-synth inspired tunes, just after The Belle

rock nyc  fave Christopher Paul Stelling ends his excellent year, which reached an apex with a performance at Rockwood Music Hall nobody who saw it will forget soon, with a visit to

Ever get the feeling you’re in the wrong profession? Here is what the PR giveaway had to say about the popalicious magnificence that is “Trust” -the title track of Ted Joyner

50. Wavves- King of the Beach49. Wild Nothing – Gemini48. Forest Swords – Dagger Paths47. Women – Public Strain46. Matthew Dear – Black City45. Gil Scott-Heron – I’m New Here44.

Since the LA Weekly reported it on Thursday, every music blog has been talking about ‘Badly Drawn Boy’s meltdown’ at the Troubadour last Thursday night in LA. I have watched

The whole thing about being an eccentric genius artiust is that MOST PEOPLE DON’T GET IT. I mean, it ain’t mainstream at all. It took Doc At The radar Station

1. Baby, I Love You – The Ronettes – I can’t imagine a better vocal than Ronnie Spectors here, or a better production than Phil Spectors towering wall of drums

Hel is sick!! Swollen glands, stuffy nose, coughing, and sleeping non stop. Right through SNL for one one thing. So poor wee iman rushed from Prince at MSG to Lil

Apparently, heartbroken over the less than favorable review rock nyc gave Paramore’s Jingle Ball performance, drummer and guitarist Josh and Zac Farro have left the band. here is the statement

I went to interview Aaron Stern of D.R.U.G.S. and I walked into the green room, greeted by the band.  Kicked back and chilling each with a different electronic in hand.  Cell

The foundation of our actions is our instincts; Our personalities then layer our foundation with the way we are raised, and, to top it off, our swagger and emotions that

Lord Huron is insanely brilliant and mind-exhaling live,… just take a song like ‘Mighty’, with its fast Africanized guitar riffs, its obsessive Caribbean steel drum beats, its long breathing moments

 Chris Drew is.. Chris Drew.  I love him I hate him, he makes my ears bleed then I whistle his songs while doing dishes. I get excited hes touring and

.FREE cool music.  Not crap not some reject leak but 10 kick ass songs by 10 kick ass bands and it wont cost you a penny. You will need to

Adison Skye, Adison Skye, what to say about this up coming singer/songwriter from Massachusetts.  I’ll be brief and get to the point. She plays the guitar, acoustic. She can sing,

For Barbara and Ethan Gruska, sibling rivalry has definitively become sibling harmonies and the result is stunning, joyful Americana music, not excessively country though, but which was keeping me dreaming

Rural Advantage are at Bowery ballroom March 10th. Simone flipped out when the Mercury Lounge gig in February sold out before she heard of it but she should be safe

What can you say about 40 years ago today? That Ali MacGraw played a co-ed in love with Ryan O’Neal, and  said co-ed, well, “What can you say about a

Yes, Macca played the 100 Club yesterday. Yes, there were only 300 people there. And ye, the keoper woulda been “Don’t Let The Sun Catch You crying”. here is the

1. Surfin’ USA (demo) – the Beach Boys – Thoughts of Camp Bisco have been imagining a warmer gentler climate. This is just a thumping piano and a lone vocal

 Captain Beefheart, the eccentric genius amd great avant guarde musician, has died. To to quote All Music: “he employed idiosyncratic rhythms, absurdist lyrics and an unholy alliance of free jazz,