Soho Johnny

Neil Gaiman is the bloke who wrote and drew Coraline. Amanda is the chick with dresden dolls. Got another obscure from helen suggesting I read the Dresden Dolls review on […]

Oh YAY! its the Kesha (if there is a dollar sign in her name I did not put it there, its dumb, I refuse)  is headlining a tour! Hurray Hurray!

Iwrestledabearonce, one of the worst bands to grace our planet with what they call “music”, are releasing a free remix EP.  Thinking about getting it?  Don’t.  It’ll be beyond disappointment,

I’m like the White Rabbit.I’m late. So perhaps you hip bastards (ahem Iman) were years and years ahead of me in this discovery.    It is new to me  Hello

News that Best Coast and Wavves are touring together is pretty damn thrilling even if you don’t like one of the bands because, cmon folks, Nathan Williams in a rock

Both bands that were performing at the Gibson Amphitheater last Sunday night shared this blend of multiple nationalities and vocalists, this idea of not settling for one genre, but rather

Anarbor has put out a free download for their new song “Mr. Big Shot” and God am I happy that I took the opportunity. The song is catchy, still the

There was a time when I thought Fearless Records was Utopia.  Loved everything they churned out, became a fan ‘liked’ them, promoted them. Now? Things arent so good.  I have

Well here it is, after much tweeting and posturing, self praise and folksy thank you’s…. DRUGS begins its maiden voyage. Yup we will be there.  I’m not saying I’m thrilled.

God, my 14th post of the day. This is just a cut and paste job off Rolling Stone about Taylor Swift on Twitter. She has 4.5M followers including me. I

I arrived too late for the band Voxhaul who played at 3pm on the Citywalk stage, but the perspective to spend the whole afternoon and evening watching shows was already

My dance card in November is all but empty as we speak!! So I spent this morning in search of at least one concert for next week and turned up

So how does a 30 something punk rocker rebel? Is there anything for the contented middle class husband and father to do when there is no enemy left? This is

Watching Ricky Gervais pretty good but somewhat sacharine movie 2009’s “The Invention Of Lying”, I noticed Elvis Costello singing Cat Stevens “Sitting”. “Sitting” is a pretty good, Stevens by number,

Here is Miley Cyrus discussing her 18th birthday on November 23rd, with MTV. A coupla hours later she would be photographed drinking and driving. “I’m not going to go crazy;

I have no idea why I find this story so funny… Pink was almost thrown out of a camping sight on her birthday for paddling through the drinking water. Hmmmm… not

1. Sitting – Cat Stevens – Catch Bull At Four was the beginning of the end for Cat, but here he manages to sell you on naff lines like “I

1. One More Night – What survives first and foremost is a vocal tour de force by a singer who can’t sing. 2. Too Much Love – LCD Soundsystem – A

Katherine jackson, in memory of her son, has started a a website called Michael Jackson’s Secret vault. Wiser minds might have suggested a different name but that is not for

Here are the various covers for the new Kanye West album. Apparently there is a window on the cover and you can switch the cover as you choose which should

Well, well, well Kanye. Why do it when you can over do it, right? Isn’t it enough with all these fucking stars? Alicia Keys AND Rihanna and Elton john and

Currently streaming on michaeljackson.com, the first song, “Breaking News”, and despite its naff opening, talking heads about how the press was eating him alive, and despite the chorus, “everybody wants

New Releases: November 2 – November 23 November 2: Elliott Smith, Brian Eno, Huey Lewis and the News, Black Dub, Brad Paisley (Live), Elvis Costello, Edie Carey, Jason Aldean, Neil

After acting like the biggest asshole on earth to Susan Boyle -maybe the most troubled pop star since Kurt Cobain, and refusing to aloow her to cover “Perfect Day”, Looouuuueeee

The irrepressible Ms. Bach provides her annotated playlist before I get my shot at it in a couple of days! I need to take a sec to review my playlist.

Singer/songwriter/guitarist/rapper Fasil “Fuzzy G” recorded a new video yesterday in The Public School System studio in Brooklyn. The song is called “Find My Way” and, although still unfinished, the song

Pehrspace is a weird little place hidden at the end of a parking lot in Echo Park, stuck between a thai restaurant and a chicken place, and quite difficult to

Madonna is opening up an international chain of health clubs called “Hard Candy Fitness” Madonna is no spring chicken, she is fit I suppose but she looks like hell. There

The Wonder Years is a pop punk band from Philadelphia with so much ambition they could blow the roof off of any venue in no time. Getting their start in

“Hey Superstar” the first single off the soon to be released “Dresden Codex” by Madina Lake caused a jaw drop reaction. Why on Earth are these guys not at the

Bands like the Doobie Brothers totally got ignored by me back in the day.  They were for the keg party bonfire pot smoking burnouts. I was too cool. I was

Howdya like them Apples?  (get it?!) Basically iTunes is telling the label we’re gonna give our customers 90 second previews instead of 30 and if you dont like it piss

Well now, this is very good news. The greatest of all Brit pop bands, Pulp, are reforming for a Spring tour in 2011, begging the question, can a  coupla NYC

I used to think romantic happiness was the kiss of death to creativity, but when like me you are writing at a ridiculous though hardly artistic pace, it doesn’t seem to

I search for stuff and sometime I come across a gem like this. I am not kidding when I tell you I thought it was one of those digital shorts

The Count & Sinden – ‘Addicted To You’ Foals – ‘Blue Blood’ I Am Kloot – ‘Fingerprints’ Kele – ‘On The Lam’ Oxford Hustlers & Katherine Ellis – ‘Love U

1. Diamond Way – Jeff The Brotherhood -Oh my! JTB have gone mellow on us, and it is a beaut as well, so no problem. 2. Don’t Like Me –

This post is purely self indulgent. I write enough about GaGa and other crap to warrant this now and then. 1- cuz Cat has a great face 2- cuz this

The over-sold Toads Place was getting increasingly louder with the chant “FOUR YEAR STRONG! FOUR YEAR STRONG!” The band came out and immediately jumped in to “Tonight We Feel Alive”

Friday night I went to the free Zo-Zo Afrobeat show at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). First of all, the venue, BAM’s opera house cafe, is so dope. The

Its gonna be a good week. Started off with the great show put on by The Wonder Years and Four Year Strong and leads right to Wednesday when we head

When Bethany awoke she was alone in bed and she remembered everything. Bethany was on line waiting to see Janis Joplin at the Fillmore West. It was nineish and the