Soho Johnny

Which ever part of nuture vs. nature is responsible for this shit storm of a brain I possess, for one reason or another loves to dance. It’s inconceivable to me […]

Have you ever been playing a video game, but the theme music was super annoying so you had to sit in silence?  Here’s a good playlist for when you’re up

Alphaville – Bryan Ferry - Sounds like Ferry singing Ferry… all atmospheric sexiness on a Jean Luc Godard set. Bright Light, Bigger City – Cee Lo Green – Not exactly

  First off how creepy is that man hand above? The fish is scared. Anyway,   Here’s another time when I share something in your best interest with no interest of my

Two of Buffalo Springfield are dead and the other three look as though they could keel over any second at this weekend bridge thingy watcha charity for kids thingy Neil

Speak Now is Taylor Swifts worst album to date but what does that mean? Its best is as good as it gets, its second best is mediocre and here and

I’ve written posts, reviews, school assignments, and interviewed Motion City Soundtrack.  But I honestly believe this band changed my life. When I was (even more) a youngin’, about ten or eleven,

The UK glam rock band who ushered in the Brit Pop movement and dissolved in 2003, got back this year for a charity and now plan to tour the UK.

Here is Elvis Costello speaking to vanity fair about his new album: “Who can say? I feel as if everything and nothing is possible. I’m very proud of this record.

This should shock you as much as it shocks me, but there is a real good interview on Billboard.com by Mark Hopper with Nathan Williams of the great, great,  great

brooklynvegan have announced that WBLS are giving free Prince tix away. To the Apollo? No, actually. To MSG. Here are the dates , tix go on sale Friday… DECEMBER 14th,

On my daily calls to my esteemed Master Editor the name Aretha Franklin comes up regularly. The Queen of Soul is an icon, an inspiration and in dire need of

1. Come On, Let’s Go – Girl In A Coma – Just bought their cover of “Transmission” as well. 2. Every Night’s A Saturday Night With You – Best moment?

Crocodiles and Dum Dum Girls cancel their respective tours due to a family emergency. Crocodiles are part of the West Coast Best Coast groove thang, Dum Dum girls, major indie

The Drifters were a pretty cool Doo Wop sounding band who became most famous for “Under The Boardwalk” and “Up On The Roof” before Ben E. King went solo and

Larry Harris was Neil Bogart’s # 2 guy at Casablanca Records. The guys behind Donna Summer, Kiss, Parliament, Cher and the Village People. Larry has written a tell all and

  Mr Nicholas Joseph, the man behind the ingenious Nickasaur! has a side project.  He released an EP under his real name, and like he said, it’s the total opposite

It’s almost Halloween, this time of the year when people get crazy with their outfits, and in LA, we have our dose of madness with a costume parade on Hollywood

 (above: what no brown m&ms? smokers club rider insists uponplenty of beef jerky)  The Smokers Club Tour came through Wilmington, NC, a very out of place, but much needed

Somebody somewhere has to organize the Bob Dylan catalogue because this bootleg series isn’t doing it. What is needed is an album by album box set reissue. Say $100 or

75 Rivers Cuomo (Weezer)74 Lewis Bowman (Chapel Club)73 Caitlin Rose72 James Blake71 Bradford Cox (Deerhunter)70 Soulja Boy69 Matt Bellamy (Muse)68 Nathan Williams (Wavves)67 Avi Zahner-Isenberg (Avi Buffalo)66 Cher Lloyd from

Want to meet the sassy editors of formerly cool music rag Spin Magazine? Well in a world of crap glossies at least Spin writes about music in between advertising unlike

Yesterday, the Broken Bells duo announced on twitter a new song, ‘Meyrin Fields’, and after some checking it seemed that this song was in fact not completely new, but an

1. I Second That Emotion – Smokey Robinson And The Miracles – I read recently where one day punning will be consdiered a reflex illness similar to Tourettes Syndrome. Bad

Great news, Black Veil Brides have made first round consideration for “Best New Artist” for the 2010 Grammys This is pretty amazing stuff tweeted last night by Andy Six, BVB

The 600 hundred capacity Brooklyn Bowl played host to Kanye West for a 2am set Friday night. West played a five song set: ”So Appalled”, “Monster”, “Devil in a New

So sorry to hear about the death of the great lover’s rocker Gregpry Isaacs. Night Nurse was a huge hit in the 80s and it ushered in a period where

1. Come On, Let’s Go – Girl In A Coma – A just about perfect cover of a Ritchie Valens classic which remains true to the original while sounding very

So Mrs Coldplay is going country in the upcoming movie ‘Country Strong’ in which she plays an alcoholic country music singer, married to Tim McGraw and working on her comeback

1. Eminem -I guess they mean best selling 2. Jay-Z – Yuck, he is the Bono of hip hop. 3. Kanye West – And he is working his way into

Here are two quotes. One is Kanye West proving you can’t be a serious rock star without be deeply eccentric, the other by me to Cyn proving you can’t be

Bow Thayer And the Perfect Trainwreck are Vermont boys, and they got some gotta kick the grass right off my shoes, proto-suburban, hanging in Woodstock with the Band and Van

Since at least July of this year I’ve gone to two, three concerts a week, but… the run is over, and the end is nigh. Willingto pony up the dough

 Until One, by Swedish House Mafia, is due out this Tuesday, Oct 26th and  I definitely recommend you get it. “Miami 2 lbiza” has a great driving beat, moving the

I understand playing loud, I like loud music, I probably listen to my Ipod with the volume turned on too high, but there is a point when the intensity of

Today, having visited two record stores which sell exclusively vinyl, led me to think about the future of record stores. I thought they were all dead or dying, but suddenly

Everybody from Rolling Stone to New york times to Parade have their own little Taylor Swift review and man does she stay on topic.How can they all believe she is

I am truly a Dylan fanatic, i own everything. When The Bootleg Series Vol 1 – 3, I bought that and I also bought the Real Bootleg Series -a truly

1. Albert Camus – Library Of Congress – Was this between Seizing Elias and Titus Andronicus? Powerful version off the must own Feats Of Strength rarities album. 2. Guess I’m

There was an indescribable 80’s beat feeling during the first songs played by the Globes on Remote at Origami records, as their music was synth driven, kind of Gary Numan-Rick

First off lets clear this up right now.. this is not Abba. Its a erm quad of people called The Recues. They’re doing a cover of Teenage Dream and Katy