Soho Johnny

The difference between Bon Jovi and, say, U2, is U2 had moments in their career when they were really great. Bon Jovi have sucked since the get go and have […]

Here is Taylor Swift speaking to Chelsea Handler about living alone: “You can walk around and have conversations with yourself and, like, sing your thoughts . I think I’m the

Riddle me this pop pickers: why make a documentary when everything reported is a matter of public record and everything that has been rumoured is ignored. Why make a movie

Well, why are they smiling? Two of them are dead. One just fell off stage And the other is Ringo Seems to me that there is very, very few reasons

Toninght, I’m Fucking You (feat Kudacris)  – Enrique Iglesias – You know how everybody says Cee Lo’s  is how you use the “f” word in a song? This useless product is

Yup, rock nyc took a look at Jesus Christ’s Ipod last year. Not to mention President Bam. Mary Magpie forces the band’s she interviews to fess up to  their guilty ipod

Will I Am said this about Black Eyed Peas plans to headline a stadium tour: “We did all our homework…to try to figure out how we can do stadiums in

From the steady beat of a drum machine that opens the album to the dreary goth nightmare that airs it, Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures, like it’s Mancunian brother the Fall’s

1. Peggy Sue Got Married – Buddy Holly – the single version, ergo the acoustic version. It is a touch better -there is an aching longing to it, the album

It’s a sad state of affairs when a nation has to set aside a day to be grateful. By nature we should be grateful always We don’t say thank you

With Thanksgiving coming up, it’s a time for us to see what we’ve been taking for granted and realize what we truly are thankful for. Here are my top five.

Thanksgiving, it is a secular holiday, right? But there is the word thanks in it, and people have the custom to thank god for everything they have. I don’t as

I am in love, and have been for a long time. Let’s see, I have known her since I was a wee lad, entering the world full force, wearing nothing

On January 2nd, 2011 it will be 14 years since Randy Craig Wolfe drowned in the ocean off the coast of Molokai, Hawaii while successfully preventing his son from suffering

Congratulations on the engagement of Anthony Caleb Followill. He seemed pretty stoked too when Matt Lauer of the Today show offered congratulations. “So I hear congratulations are in order?” (silence)

This list would have probably been more appropriate around Halloween, but it is always appropriate to remember about the dead ones, and to be thankful to be alive. Rock stars

Clothing lines seem to be the latest thing for a musician to have. Jack Merrick, the bassist for All Time Low, is launching a line with Kill Brand called AMERRICKAN

YAY Free music “I’m so restless, I’m bored as a cat?” What exactly is a bored cat?  Cats generally look bored but  that’s a bizarre contradiction. The Gang of Four

Asking Alexandria is planning on releasing a limited edition EP that will be exclusively sold at Hot Topic stores. The EP, Life Gone Wild, will be chock full of fantasticness.

Brian (Thank You) – Brian Wilson – from obscure boot meant for the non existent follow up to his first solo album. It is pretty awesome stuff, takes up right

I give thanks for loads of stuff: KOL fans for keeping me in chuckles, cool writers for letting me post their stuff, a reader base who argue with us tooth

1. Bulletproof Heart – My Chemical Romance – Imagine Black Parade if Gerard had never heard of Queen. Got it? 2. Good Friday – Kanye West – Why was this

Kanye West played the Bowery Ballroom in Soho last night. A tiny club. Tix went on sale, and the entire 550 tix sold out instantaneously. I went on line at

I could write an entire post about these shoes.  Theyd be perfect if the heel was defined but its a platform.  Women do not walk properly in platforms they sorta

Alyson Camus writes: I don’t understand why music is so cheap these days, how can they still make money when they are selling an album to you for 99 cts!

Hot diggity its time for another Taylor Swift Nationwide Tour! I’m going to dub this the “I Got A Flat Iron!” Tour. I am obviously not a fan but so many

Want this?  Its up for bids. Its David Lee Roths guitar.  Here is the exact text from the auction site: This is not a guitar someone walked up to DLR

Yes this is rocknyc but Im in between and its easier to park in Boston So join the Boston Symphony Orchestra as they attempt to break the world record for

It may be confusing because there is another band from Los Angeles with Cortez in its name, but The Sea of Cortez does not seem to have anything else to

I know I’m mixing up my holidays but you get the basic concept. Here is the money shot off an NME interview: “…part-recorded in a church in Dorset. “I didn’t

At the heart and at the soul of Kanye West’s new album is the 9 minute extravaganza “Runaway”. Forget the video, who cares, right? Just as a piece of music

It is Amanda Palmer’s, it is from her AFP (guess, just guess)  and it is ” hangovers, wedding-dress-exorcisms & brave black little girls.” Good name, a straight drag of a

Rihanna opens up about her almost relatiosnhip with Dweezy: “I definitely was attracted to Drake, but I think it is what it is – it was what it was… We

John Lydon, still in mourning over the death of his step-daughter, the punk great Ari Upp has postponed the recording of Public Image. Ltd’s next album. Lydon said to the

Jeff Tweedy, another oversized ego in need of a shave, has started Wilco coffee according to Brooklynvegan. And I think it is a great idea. Indeed, anything that keeps him

A Michael Jackson impersonator, Italian Ricky Galliano, says it may be his voice on the upcoming Michael album. Apparently he was paid 2,000 Euros to sound as much like Michael

1. Here Comes The Singularity – Killing Joke – The difference between 1980 and 2010 KJ isn’t the drummer, he still sounds as if he has made the great escape

Season 1, Episode 5, Nicholas Holt joins the Catholic Girls School In a chorale version of “God Only Knows”. Very pretty as well, indeed it is so pretty I wonder

Justin Timberlake can’t multitask. here is some logic 101 for all you college kids. 1. Justin is a guy. 2. Guys can’t multitask 3. Acting is one task 4. Recording

With the release of Alan Jackson’s 34 Number Ones, we are faced with the old old question: who is the King of country? George Strait? He has the chops but

As you can see, my awesome son  likes all kinds of music. He still loves some of the “kids” tunes, but also knows how to rock out to Van Halen,

Dear My Chemical Romance,I have been a bitch to you for far too long.  I have mocked your pretty boy looks and you’re absurd ‘hiatus’, your ridiculous duration ‘recording’ and

Agalloch’s much anticipated Marrow of the Spirit releases today, the Portland, Oregon group’s fourth full-length and their first since 2006’s Ashes Against the Grain. This album has topped many metalheads’

  Black Friday is coming up, a day most people spent in overcrowded malls, buying stuff they will probably never use, just because they are on sale, But this