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Iman always talks about ‘the Saint Motel rule of rock’, as if bands did not exist if they hadn’t play on the East Coast! Saint Motel does not need to

  Really isn’t much more to add to this one guys… but it brings a whole new vibrancy to  “Dr Feelgood”. Well done Tommy!!!

Saturday Night Live may suck but Jimmy Fallon does not. I love his sense of humor cuz its irreverent and old school SNL and he has a great deadpan expression.

People stop me on the street and they say, “Al,” they say. “How dya get these exclusives.” Me, I just smile knowingly. For instance here is the setlist to Bruce’s

After the ‘Runaway’ mini movie, the tease for the upcoming Kanye West video for ‘Monster’, looks like a vision of horror full of dead white models haunting the dreams of

Well now, this really sucks. Punk Dive Mars Bar on Bowery and 1st Street is closing up for two years while the building is being renovated. Owner sounded somewhat cavalier

A Little Respect (HMI Redux) – Erasure – A tweaky, tinkly, but unevasive pop move so old fashioned it would float backwards if the melody wasn’t so well anchored. TRACK

Electric Endicott – Gary Wilson – An eccentric? Absolutely. This is like harmolodics, everything seems inverted. You could imagine Wilson composing open chord harmolodics workouts,or collobarating with Glenn Branca, or

Ya gotta freakin love street video.  Big Brother is actually sorta fun. Thats Nick Cave, The Grinderman, The Bad Seed……the car crasher! Apparently Nick drove his car into a traffic camera

Luke Pritchard of the Kooks had this to say about their next album. : “Personally I’ve always had a real thing of keeping it really organic but this album we’re

Tinnitus is that ear damage where you hear a constant ringing. Pete Townsend suffers from it. It occurs from a constant or a sudden exposeur to loud noises. I have

Not for nothing but how is this RS quote from Jonathan Cott’s Rolling Stone Interview with Lennon a surprise: “What they want is dead heroes, like Sid Vicious and James

Reports are coming out of Detriot that Aretha Franklin has pancreatic cancer. Pancreatic cancer, even by the horrorshow of any cancer, is scary stuff. The survival rate after a year

There is is my friends.  THE Punk Rock alter.   I’ve been on that, bet Iman has too.  But for very different reasons, I’m sure. The stage at CBGB’s anyone

1. Cherish – Madonna – You see, this is from Like A Prayer, which means four albums into her career she was still killing on pure pop songs. 　　 2.

Long time Alex Chilton disciple and dB’s guitarist  Chris Stamey has collaborated with other southern power pop greats to present live for the first time the groundbreaking and influential Big

D.R.U.G.S.(Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows) has released a new song titled “Mr. Owl Ate My Metal Worm”.  What an earworm it is.   At first, I was caught up in the

I have yet to venture to Bamboozle Fest a 3 day event that takes place in East Rutherford New Jersey in the early cold spring. I’m not sure why, bad

One of my favorite concert memories of all time was October 2008 when the Magpie and I met Panic! At The Disco at Harbor Yard in Bridgeport CT.  GREAT event

Saturday night, as I was driving home, I passed in front of the Palladium and saw a huge line in front of the venue. I was curious who was drawing

Henry Rollins knows about violence, come on, his early literary efforts were mainly stories about ‘blowing up his school and murdering all the teachers’, and then there was his Black

This holiday season I suggest we all punch Jack Black and Jason Segel in the head.  This “college humor’ animated rendition of “The Little Drummer Boy/Peace On Earth”, is a

John Lennon died 30 years ago today, killed by a deranged fan, on a cold December night. If Yoko Ono will perform at a charity concert ‘Dream Power John Lennon

To rehash Helen Bach’s post from yesterday, last week Johnny Marr was really mad at having current British Prime Minister David Cameron as a Smiths fan, and this weekend, Morrissey

It was 69 years ago today Pearl Harbor was attacked by those wily nips just because FDR was arming the Allied Forces, and barely 20 years after your humble correspondent, dressed in knickerbockers

At first Hel went “whatever” and then she went “Gerard ha Madonna arms”, before settling with “But, yeah, it’s a hot pix”.

Slash has twitted ”Fyi, VR is auditioning singers this week. Promises to be very interesting.” Oh, I sincerely doubt it. It promises to be some guy from Chrome. But in the

Here is the track list for Liam Gallgher’s new band Beady Eye’s first album Different Gear, Still Speeding. ‘Four Letter Word’‘Millionaire’‘The Roller’‘Beatles And Stones’‘Wind Up Dream’‘Bring The Light’‘For Anyone’‘Kill For

Congrats to Titus Andronicus. Titus Andronicus  were just named  the opening act for the Pogues about as high profile as you can possibly imagine “A Parting Glass” final final final March15th

I don’t want your love. I don’t want your admiration. I want your pity. After an hour of scourging my brain for something to write about -thisclose to a decade

 1. Poses – Rufus Wainwright 2. Winter Games – Superchunk – At some point in my life, maybe if I get a year end bonus, I gotta buy Majesty

We here at rock nyc have people at all levels of the rock biz, friends, acquaintances, so we can provide you up to date info before everybody except… well, except

Many years ago at Carnegie Hall, Rosanne Cash joined her father Johnny Cash for a duet on “I Still Miss Someone” during the encore. It was perhaps the single most

We haven’t said much nice about Pearl Jam.  Not as much as I think we should have.  In their day they were really quite fantastic.  Eddie was a fox, he

Stereo Skyline from Long Island surely know how to get their album Stuck On Repeat stuck in people’s heads.  The song “Heartbeat” has been the only song I’ve been singing

Madina Lake, after the tragic incident with bassist Matthew Leone who is still revocvering, has announced tour dates.  They’re playing at a Japanese music festival(Punkspring) in April.  They’re playing with

Mary Magpie and I are vegan. Alyson is a vegetarian. I think the boys here are omnivores. I consider myself the most militant.  Ive tattooed the word ‘Vegan’ on my

Edward Colver, is a self taught photographer born in Pomona CA, who has shot photos for dozens of labels (EMI, Capitol and Geffen Records). In 33 years, his punk pictures

Whats the deal with Pretty Lights?  From what I gather they’re a nice little techno dj thing with a healthy mediocre following.  The sound……generic as techno can be, no big

Helen Sez:Thats Mike Hucknall.  He was the dude from the 80s band Simply Red. The 80s were amazing.  If you got radio play you got  play.  Simple (no pun intended).

I was in Lebanon in 1979 and I remember reading an article about Johnny Rotten hanging in a club when two fans in the balcony noticed him and began singing