Soho Johnny

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

Most of us look back fondly on our first jobs.  I certainly do, and although I shouldn’t mention what it was I will say it was an adorable shop in

The problem with communism is not that it promotes a level playing to start with, at least theoretically not a terrible idea, but it insists upon maintaining that level playing

Well before the loving Kings of Leon family took over rocknyc, those silly Christian core kids had a breakdown over a review I did on a church performance by Haste

Amanda Palmer is a tweeting maniac and I love her so very much for it.  Seems my darling Dresden Dolls have recorded for Daytrotter. The wait begins for when I can

Wow -Justin in 3D!! Worked for Miley, didn’t do much for the Jonas Brothers (remember them?) and now Justin Bieber in 3D!!! I want Helen to review it because she

1. Wouldn’t It Be Nice – The Beach Boys – The joys of co-habitation in the California sun. 2. Govermentalists (feat Nas) – Joss Stone – Bluesy Janis Joplin wannabee

Konk Recording Studios in London, the place where the Kinks recorded everything from Arthur to Muswell Hillbillies and Everybody’s In Showbiz, is gonna have to close down after a  rent hike

Junip and Sharon Van Etten are touring together and they did something strange and totally unexpected lately: they covered a U2 song together. I mean I just saw them and

Not really much to add here now than is there? A Courtney Love post we can all support? Maybe? Oh yeah, and girlfriend, if you’re gonna go gay how about

After a year Uptown, the Allman Brothers are back at the Beacon for next March Madness, restarting a twenty year tradition. I went one year and left in the middle

Ray Davies has had to cancel his US tour just days before it was set to begin in New York City “Ray personally did not want to cancel this tour

1. Here Comes The Singularity – Killing Joke – Usually with KJ the rhythm descends ever downwards; a vat of despondency knocking on hells door. On this heavy melodic rocker

This should be a record: how many times can i use Kisses in a paragraph not a mash note: I loved “Kisses” by Kisses and wrote about “Kisses” by “Kisses”

Hey kids, let me make this writing about music stuff really easy. You only have to know TWO BANDS THE SMITHS BELLE AND SEBASTIAN Because, every band from best Coast

When distractingly watching TV, I saw a Honda commercial for their new Accord, and, to my surprised ears, I recognized ‘The only living boy in New York’, by Simon and

Lord Huron makes luminous music, full of exotic tonalities and serene jubilations. This new band from LA (that many have qualified of mysterious) was playing at Origami Vinyl Sunday evening,

The Klaxons are a pretty hipster cool band. I really don’t have anything to say about them either way they’re “a band” that’s bout it. I don’t love or hate

It has been fifteen years since Bay Area death metal legends Autopsy put out their last album, Shitfun, so I think I’ll be forgiven for being a little late with

Flava Flav cracks me up.  He looks a mess but he is so funny, such a caricature that you cant help but love him.  Well well past his prime musically he

Inducted in the Vocal Group hall of Fame in 2002, Jay And the Americans were an early 60s hit machine, with three Jay’s, three or four hit singles, and a

I wish I had known about this on Saturday, because I would have gone! I did not even know Willie Nelson had a 21 year-old son who is apparently following

I’ve always gone along with the Lennon lead the Beatles and that is that school of thought. But watching the Beatles mediocre performance in DC in 1964 (you know: Nessing

Why is Kevin Greenspon not tearing up the indie charts? You got me. Not only did Kevin’s Bridgetown Records give us Cloud Nothings, Vehicle Blues and Kevin’s own, excellent, lo

This is usually Helen’s area of expertise (I watch Jeopardy and sports on TV mostly) but since she is busy viewing “Diary Of A Wimpy Kid” with her kid, Mary

Iman and I are often on other sides of the spectrum.  We share very little interest in the same music.  What he raves over often makes me head for the

With the Kings Of Leon controversy, rock nyc has seen yet another spurt of growth. The blog has had a steady build of readership since we started posting in  April,

The Pogues will be ending their career at Terminal 5 on St. Patricks. the final of a three night stand and surely an experience not to be missed though, T5

1. Talula – Tori Amos – Her greatest moment wrapped in a papoose in search of a tornado. 2. Rano Pano – Mogwai – Obstreperous, absolutely but melody doesn’t merely

“So who is Metronomy?” you ask. I have no idea  but this is what they had to say to NME about their new album: “Some of it is like Daft Punk

I know there were the American awards of something at the Nokia, and I live not very far, but I only watched the end of it on TV and it

Mary sez: Our Last Night was the band right before Alesana, and I was basically just counting down till Alesana came on. I’d never heard of Our Last Night, but

If you are into that kind of thing and in England next week, Thom Yorke wants you to build a human King Cnut visible from space as part of Earth

Look at the poster above. Pretty awesome, right? The headliners would do 20 minutes, Kim Weston and Mary Wells only one or two songs. Alyson wrote yesterday how she thought

I wish there was some way I could take some, any, credit for this but all I did was stumble across it on Stereo Gum. Here is the samples Kanye

Here are the reasons you must buy Mogwai’s new album when it is released on February 15th, 2011: 1. It is called Hardcore Will Never Die But You Will is

The King of the beach got some jail time? As Iman wrote yesterday, it sure seems so! Nathan William from Wavves was arrested yesterday in Germany after the police discovered a

The band “A Sunny Day in Glasgow” is referred to by some as ‘swirl pop’. This proves to me that no matter what, people can find a label for a

Antonio Lucio Vivaldi “The Red Priest”was an Italian Baroque composer, priest, and violinist, born in Venice in 1678.  As far as violin virtuosos go, he was quite the legend.  Most

I may unleash the fury of Kings of Leon’s fans once again with another post about the band, but I stumbled on this story lately: the band had posted an