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1. Summer Babe – Pavement – This song is so good, it broke an art band pop and caused years of confusion. 2. Sex Karma (feat Solange Knowles) – Of […]

So how were the Strokes at the Met for Tommy Hilger’s private gig. I saw em at radio city Music Hall, a comparable sight, and the blew the house down.

Days after arrogant hasbeen Lou Reed wouldn’t give permission to the working class, middle aged, female pop phenom Susan Boyle, who wanted to sing “Perfect Day” -leaving her in tears

So what happens to a young Runaway when she makes enough money from selling her story to the big screen to buy a cozy little flat in Soho. It was

Junip’s video for the song ‘Always’ directed by Andreas Nilsson (known for his work with The Knife, MGMT, Goldfrapp, Moby and Bright Eyes) is an unexpected little tale about air

If I haven’t convinced you that Weezer is the band of all bands perhaps this will sway you. Apparently work has begun on a new album. Yes, that right, Hurley

The secret life of rock groups is a hush hush inner bubble like a marriage that you look in from afar and think you grasp but that you don’t do

Before The Dark Star Orchestra show last night, I was getting ready with my friend Val, who admitted she “doesn’t know a single Grateful Dead song, but was in it

So two albums and I am working my way through em track by track. Weezer scare me… they are too unpredictable and I have been nailed their last two times.

Urge Overkill did an amazing remake of Neil Diamonds “Girl, (you’ll be a woman soon). Heard and remembered most from the insanely great film Pulp Fiction where Mrs Mia Wallace

It will cost you to pay tribute to the King of Pop. This could well be more disturbing than my Marilyn Manson video. News comes that Forest Lawn Cemetery memorial

Hold Up… Yes! Brandon Flowers solo tour! Just announced are dates to support the release of “Flamingo”, the solo debut of Killers front-babe, Brandon Flowers. But lets take a moment

Yesterday I invested $41 in a partial view tix to see Rufus Wainwright at Carnegie Hall. I’ve seen him before but only as part of a larger concert. As a

I tend to agree with Karen Anne -I can’t hear Katy Perry, recipient of New Magazine’s Song Of Summer for the godawful “California Gurl”, how can you look at her

1. The Wild Farewell – Gasoline Silver – Crazy eyed and laughing. 2. Give Me What I Want And Give It To Me Now – Rufus Wainwright – As though

What I have heard from Young The Giant I have liked a lot. Their eponymous debut album is produced by produced by Joe Chiccarelli (The White Stripes, The Shins, My

In 1979 The Special arrived on site with their amazing yes AMAZING song “Too Much Too Young” Thus ska became semi mainstream. Well enough for a suburban upper middle class

Various rock nycers are up in arms over rock celeb endorsements. Me? I don’t think it goes far enough. Weezer should call his next album, “Cablevision”, U2 “Citibank” and the

Usher has told the Daily Mirror: “ “Britney is great. We’ve actually talked about working together in the past, I’m hoping something will happen.” This will be for Britney’s next

I seem to have alot of opportunities to write about the bands of my youth.  The Specials, The Beat, The Ramones seems to be everything old is new again.  This

Weezer, you’re fooling nobody! I haven’t really listened to the new album that makes Helen instantaneously happy as she was saying yesterday, but it is not my point, I’m talking

OK -this pic is entirely gratuitous… or nearly completely gratuitous. She is Sharlene Speteri, formerly of the extremely popular pop group Texas and co-manager, along with Johnny Mcelhone, of rock

Breathe Carolina is on fire and as we prep ourselves for them to rock us on the Fearless Friends Tour,.. new song! Preview actually of Punk Goes Pop Vol 3,

For some people its the bright sun, others the smell of moms ham, or children laughing.. not me. Well cuz I hate all of those things, but anyway, there are

Marilyn Manson is a sick ass sexy beast. What happens is he shocks and he moves on. Talent? Yeah absolutely. His work is artistic and disturbing and it certainly gets

Upon getting my Blackberry Curve today(purpleberry as I like to call it), I found out I could reuse the old SD card from one of my first cell phones (with

Goddamn you Japanese girls! You’re so cute with your matching baby doll outfits, your pink and blue electric guitars, your large smiles and your polite ways to thank everyone. I

Dark Star Ochrstra is a Grateful Dead tribute band that was formed in the mid 90s in Chicago. What sets them apart from all other cover/tribute bands is one thing;

Deep in some remote Nordic dungeon, an evil death metal warlock has dreamt up something we all thought and hoped to be impossible: a heavy metal cruise from Miami to

Twitching  and declaiming center stage, a mass of tics and spits, emphatically hitting the rhymes, and the raps, Eminem was every bit the hugely successful rapper, recovering junkie proselytizer waking

When I heard Forever The Sickest Kids had released a new song, I was more than excited. “Keep On Bringing Me Down” is most certainly not the young, goofy, fantasic,

The Wild Farewell – Gasoline Silver – WHO ARE THESE GUYS? A new Bob Dylan for the electronic age. TRACK OF THE WEEK All My Friends Are Insects – Weezer

As the year ticks away…. John Lennon wouldda been 70 years old October 9th, has been dead 30 years December 8th, the world is pausing from the usual horror to

Seattle folkie who has been banging em out for years has another new album just released Swingin The Ax, and it is a beautiful and disquieting quiet  sound produced by

Far be it for me to question the wisdom of our British brothers in arm but the country that seems to have an award for everything under the son now

Robert Moog invented a synthesizer and in turn a created a movement and a shift in musical thought. Today, for the first time since the 80s, electronic music is ruling

1. Only Girl (In The World) – Rihanna – We got Rihanna back. Better then every song on Rated R combined, it’s like the crap sales of the crap album

The ever-so-yummy Bring Me The Horizon released the vulgar-titled song “Fuck” and wow it’s good. BMTH is crazy, loud, scary, etc. but this song is just…fantastic. The singing and the

Yeah this is a must see…. years after his Carnegie Hall gig, Rufus is back Monday, December 6th, 2010. Promoting his tremendous but tremendously difficult All Days Are Nights: Songs

Let’s be real clear about J Lo’s abilities. She can’t write music. She can’t dance. She can’t sing. Her husband has more pure talent in his little finger than she

Two of them are dead, one of them is a preacher, one of them is fat and his voice is shot, one of them is the most boring bastard you’ve

Weezer will be performing their new single,”Memories” live on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” on at 11:35PM est tonight. This in celebration of the release of Hurley, their soon

It is not that I desrespect my elders. For one thing, I am about the same age as a bloke like T Bone Burnett. It is that, as Costello’s immensely

May I please be admitted in as one of the loyal opposition. I have sen some really good hip hop shows, even some great ones, but if anything in this

The House that George built looked respendent on a cool but not cold Autumn night and BoB was obstreperous bass heavy but given the circumstances not terrible on the state

In what amounts to dangerous overkill, Yankee Stadium management put up metal detectors and closed down all but two Gates making it nearly impossible for anybody to get in. Apparently,

mary sez: How freakin’ long has it been since we heard any new music from My Chemical Romance? Too long. When they released a video on their YouTube that was

ELIS! Bossa Nova. Cool quiet… Astrud, Nara…and then, there’s Pimentinha! Elis Regina Carvalho da Costa. Little Pepper. Los Angeles, 1974. One of the most beautiful amalgamations of European “flavah” and