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Breaker Breaker this is Rubber Ducky wishing CW McCall (real name William Fries, I wonder why he used a lame pseudonym…..wait…….skip that..) a happy mother truckin birthday!  Born today in 1928. 1976 […]

A long time ago, circa 1987, Iman Lababedi did a phone interview with Squeeze. He asked Chris Difford about the 45s and Under, a best of put out by their

It doesn’t happen much but when it does I want to scream Finally, Finally I have found the best band you haven’t heard of .. yet.  But if you have

Very few people are able to separate the art from the artist, since most people (I said most, not all) confuse artistic greatness and greatness in morality. Great entertainers are very

When I started in the TV biz, you could buy a 6, 7, household rating in daytime without blinking. Today? Try and buy a 2. I dare you? I double

1. Endless Wire – The Who – This is what happens when you ignore a once great band who are past it. You miss it when they manage to write

Malcolm Gladwell claimed it takes 10,000 hours of working at something to become an expert. Let’s say I didn’t listen to a song for my first 22 years and have

Like more than 26,000 people, I follow Wayne Coyne on Twitter, and the Coynes seem to have a very interesting life, touring all over the world, sleeping in luxury hotels,

You really cant expect more from self proclaimed ‘maggots’ but grave robbing is pretty gross. Deceased Slipknot bassit Paul Greys final resting placed was violated and the band are making a plea

According to the New York Times, Kanye West was coached on his Today Show reply to President Bush saying West calling him out as a racist was the worst moment

My Pet Dragon’s problem has been it has had the sound but not the songs to back it. A power rock band with an immense sound, tit nails you with

Eclectic doesn’t begin to describe the Cape Town, South Africa based The Curious incident. Maybe, prog indie rockers does. Not a put down at all though because if anything is gonna

1. Untitled – Weekend – Rhythmic experimentation leading back into the guitars. the drum pattern is a gift from the gods. off daytrotter so get it for free. 2. Amber

Denver is becoming a hotbed of activity recelently. here comes another band with a Colorado high though this oddly mainstreamly weird two piece seem a lot more urban to me.

Karen Anne is such a sweet girl, watching her lead her band Ramona on the videos on youtube is a little disconcerting. A dynamite acoustic cover Pulp’s “Common People” finds her

The self-deprecating Live Stiff Wreckless Eric and his Mod housewife lady love Amy Rigby have running jokes from one end of their 90 minute set at Bowery Electric on Friday,

See you had to go and  push him. You couldn’t get those people to just shush when he was talking, you just had to go and scold him for not

Mike Nessing writes: The Comment That Ended Up As A Post:  Hey Iman, you should really check out Neil’s “Sleeps With Angels” LP, from the ’90’s. very good.  Costello,

I adore Johnny Lydon.  He’s so fucking smart.  A real shrewdie. We have reported that he has published a ‘coffee table scrapbook’ of memoirs and gobs of phlegm (kidding on

Do you want flowers in your hair and feel happy? Because you may be done with all the depressive music that you have listened to lately, and you want these

Oh Wombats what the heck are you doing?  I was so psyched to hear they weren’t done.   New music YAY! I throw out “Lets Dance To Joy Division” lyrics

It isn’t me who called Gil Reyes documentary ‘Searching for Elliott Smith’ movie a vehicle for Jennifer Chiba to prove her innocence. Check out these 2 reviews: ‘Searching for Elliott Smith

The debut of My Chemical Romance’s, “Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys”, will be streaming beginning at 12 p.m. PST on Nov. 16. This will be hosted

Did his parents do it on purpose? They had to, since the homonym German composer is too well known for the name Kurt Vile being just a coincidence. But the

My next musical adventure is seeing the band Alesana. For the fourth time. This is one incredible band with a small but mighty following.  Years later still playing the same

Mikey Skinner and The Streets! YES! Finally the final release of “The Streets” is official, in the can and will be released February 11, 2011! Love him or hate him

Marcellus Hall performed a set of sturdy, high melody quotient, pro-love songs, at the Bowery Electric. Backed by a truly excellent bassist playing melody lines that reverberated with power, Marcellus

1. Like Rasputin – Amy Rigby – The opening piano is stolen off “Whole Wide World”!! Three years before she met Eric! Better live, she should re-record it. 2. Chain

My favorite living director, Jean Luc Godard, and one of my other fave directors, Claire Denis, have revivals screening in New York at the moment. A new 35mm copy of Godard’s

Win Butler and Régine Chassagne are the husband and wife leads of the band Arcade Fire. I was not to familiar with them, but did a bit of leg work

Band name nomenclature is a game, but a game that can be confusing, there are so many bands which simply change their names, so many bands which break up and

Hey remember when that huge oil spill was going on in the Gulf?  Remember all that gushing and fires and poor little shrimp? Yeah its totally out of your head

“Concert For Killing Cancer” Slated for January 13th in London. As someone who recently lost a beloved family member to cancer, there is no doubt at all that the disease

Man On The Moon 2 – Kid Cudi – Excepecting worst than the worst, I have been, maybe the word ain’t pleasantly but, I have been surprised by this excellence

Statelman are a reakl good alt rock pop band with hooks aplenty. In a line that is flirting around the Paramore/Hey Monday axis of chick singer, a hooklined verse, plus

Ever bail out of something you didn’t really want to do with a lame ass excuse?   Of course you have. So has Marina and The Diamonds who have cancelled their

We all lie about music, especially new music. The especially is because we haven’t really had the time to assimilate what we are listening to so we are really guessing

We make fun of U2. we hate U2. we do. But only up to a point. Where it goes out of the realm of public mockery and into the world of

If I was a movie reviewer, which I am not, I might claim that the runaway train action moview by the blandest director in the universe, Tony Scott, is all

Here is the quote, the chief Yeasayer talking about Kanye: “”Will you please stop apologizing for outbursts which concisely expressed what every sane person was thinking? Why are you apologizing

I send my co-editor, Helen Bach, songs all the time. Needless to add, she seldom sends me any way. But she suddenly send me a whole bunch and so, needless to

Ezra Pound was one of the great poets of his generation. He was also a fascist. Martin Heidegger was the 3rd Reich’s philosopher. Lennon was a woman beater. Jim Morrison an

1. Theme From Cheers – TitusAndronicus- Yup, that’s Dan McGee on the second verse. 2. I Am Not A Robot – I’d rather be hated then loved for what I’m

The old journalist quote, which I newly took off Andrea Peyser, defines the problem with the big boys, the Spins , Stones and Forks: “If you want to cover the