Soho Johnny

When it comes to pop music I am about as color neutral as you can be. Of all the things that are interesting about music music, that interests me least. […]

Nine years since “The Rising” -a fairly crappy song anyway, and that’s the most current Bruce Springsteen song, professional bootlicker Win Butler can come up with on his 14 faves

1. Where The Boys Go – The Rolling Stones – If Jagger’s vocal wasn’t so whiny, this could be a lower echelon classic. 　 2. Miss The Mississippi – Merle

It isn’t that Ditty is a hustler. Of course he is a hustler. It isn’t that he is an arrogant fuckhead giving away $250,000 to his spoiled rotten son or

 This is what Sean Lennon had to say:”I have a fear of fame, as my therapist would tell you. But I’m a musician first and foremost. I look like

Remember when all the US Troops got for information was Bob Hope and Playboy bunnies in gogo boots? Well, now they get, er, no Bob Hope and Katy Perry in

Of all the “greatest rock bands of all time” Led Zep are the worst. Well, maybe U2, but one or the other. However, unlike ANY OTHER BAND EXCEPT THE BEATLES,

1. Secret Girl – Gary Wilson – This song can’t be better. It would be great if only for the piano. 2. Wintergames – Superchunk – Aren’t these guys rock

Personally, and without wishing to be disrectful or anything, if the godawful Laura Marling dumped me, I would be throwing a confetti in the air and shouting hosannahs on high.

4TheLove brought The Dirty Names to the Ace of Clubs on Wednesday night, treating a crowd of well-dressed youngsters to a night of classic rock and roll, Dirty style. Hailing

Happy B-day, Dave Brubeck! Born December 6, 1920. Proving he’s still a high achiever, the most selling-est, winning-est, decorated-est jazz protagonist of the West Coast and beyond – and the man

Sunday’s Simpson’s Christmas Special? Er, not so much. Decades ago, the Christmas special was used to introduce Santa’s Little Helper. And more recently, in a superb Christmas special , the

“Click ‘like’ to hear song.” Hell no.  That’s what Facebook told me to do to hear the new Aaron Gillespie song.  Well I’m not going to say I like anything

Can you be more famous than Quincy Jones in the music world? Q has been a trumpeter, a music conductor, a record producer, a musical arranger, a film composer, a

I didn’t realize I was watching this video with my mouth wide open and glazed eyes until I tried to swallow. A bus load of has beens are lip syncing on

I  pretty much hate both of them, I mean, I dislike Maroon 5 and Taylor Swift’s music, but there was an interesting love fest between Adam Levine and Taylor

Amoral recording artists, Violens, sure feel on the verge of breaking really really big! They are concluding a tour opening for the Drums in Europe, they are getting buzz a

At the post-Primal Scream party a former Oasis and current Pulp party up motherfucker. Why are we telling you this? It’s Sunday (or it was when I wrote it) -gimme a

We are sorry to hear about the death of Andy Kotowicz of Sub Pop Records and his three year old daughter in a car accident,  October 24th, 2010. We  have been

 December 7 Charlie Wilson (Gap Band) – Just CharlieDaft Punk – Tron Legacy (Soundtrack)Duffy – Endlessly DCFeist- Look at What the Light Did Now (CD/DVD) DCJessica Simpson- HolidayLiz Janes-

When it comes to writing about music, nothing much intimidates me. Except, soul brother Gary Wilson does. The reason is I can hear it is soul, pre soul, but it

Sunday evening, a coupla hours after the Giants won, I decided to check on Bright Eyes tickets. Not entirely random. An ex, Simone, called to tell me she had forgeten

This is from a letter to New York Post by one Jack Kaufman  of Suffolk: “If only Assange had been downloading music illegally he’d be in jail by now”. Hard

1. Chu-Chi Face – Various Artists –  Off the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang soundtrack, it turns full gooey love sinister it its intensity. The entire movie is a scary

I love rock concert posters, some of them can be extremely original and creative. Emek Golan, who goes under the only name of Emek, has made a lot of them,

Althought the boss bitch slapped their MSG performance Gorillaz can still prove to be artsy fuckbag hipster extraordinaries. I like alot of Gorillaz stuff but its not the stuff I

Thursday night was the last date of the North American-European tour for Os Mutantes/Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, which started in September, and Os Mutantes let Ariel Pink headline in his

Yes its cold. Yes its the holidays. Yes it gets dark at noon. But so fucking what. Here’s concerts in NYC to get your ass moving. 12/6  New Pornographers, and

1.Foals – Spanish Sahara2.MIA – XXXO3.Janelle Monae – Tightrope4.Kanye West – Power5.Arcade Fire – We Used To Wait6.Gorillaz – Stylo7.Surfer Blood – Swim (To Reach The End)8.Grinderman – Heathen Child9.Zola

1. Best – Cheyenne Marie Mize – Alt folkie bliss out. 2. Fly – Nicki Minaj And Rihanna – I dismissed this outta hand, but that’s because Rihanna’s chorus is

I’ll be there so, yes, obviously, it is the most important concert of Rufus Wainwright career. The first half will be songs from his last album, the excellent, but depressing,

And Joy Orbison is a London based DJ who records for Doldrums records and makes what Wikipedia call “coalescence of Dubstep, UK Funky, UK Garage, House & Jungle. ” Ergo, er,

The pop song, is, undeniably, an art form. But it is also, undeniably, an art form based upon the ephemeral: it is here and gone, it hits and leaves. 　

Two of the biggest moneybags in Australia are AC/DC and Keith urban -though, cmon, don’t AC/DC have to split it four ways so maybe that isn’t quite right. AC/DC came

 Again a great thing about SNL is I come in to most of these acts without a clue.  No pre conceived notions no nothing cuz I’m pretty clueless to who

After an essentially useless documentary about bassist Peter Hook’s second band, New Order, we got an essentially useless run though the seminal album Unknown Pleasures originally released by Peter Hook’s

I have intentionally not used a photo of the band here.  I ask that you also not WATCH the video below but rather listen.  I’ll explain in a bit First

Ariel Pink looks like a fragile and falsely shy Kurt Cobain, with an odd presence on stage and a voice hardly audible, hiding behind his bass player at times, or

Maybe it’s because I approach this topic from the perspective of a musician, but it’s a plain and simple fact that anyone who ever tried to express themselves with tape

No! They would not dare doing this! But it seems serious, UK’s Daily Star is reporting it, other media sources are reporting it, the Beatles are reuniting thanks to technology