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‘Til I Am  Dust – Mick Rhodes – Since I’m on a new wave kick today, and since my Californian buddy Mick noted I hadn’t actually reviewed his album, I […]

Being out of town for most of the week, I could not attend the Sunset Strip Music Festival, which was happening from August 26th to 28th. This festival was taking

Happy Birthday Michael Jackson Americas “King of Pop” was born today in 1958 Thank you so much for the music, the dance, the showmanship. I’m so sorry for everything else-

Wandering around the fest grounds as a an hour morphs longer between sets,  I both admire and loath the entire enterprise. 1. Plenty of water. 2. Shaded areas. 3. Tons of

I love KRS ONE but I have heard this peace and love and Jesus loving stuff before. Same rap. Same God Same this is the real stuff. Fortunately… He deserves

real time Rakim… After a long, tedious and eventually expensive trip to Governor’s Island, the sort of local touristy hang only a PR offensive or a  hip hop concert could

If you are not out Rocking The Bells but ARE in New York City today check your watch cuz at 1pm Eli “Paperboy” Reed plays FREE show, at City Hall

Katy Perry should enter the charts at # 1 with a 170,000 recordings sold according to Rolling Stone? And? “The five singles from Perry’s Teenage Dream — “California Gurls,” “Teenage

I think it must be a miracle that the one time I saw GNR live, Axl came on stage promptly, played a great set, and then left without incident. Not

Taylor Swift’s perfect “Mine” is the story of a romantic love that works, that battles through the fights and the dangers of married life until the couple ends up together

  My brothers and I got our love of music from our mother. She introduced us to R&B and soul artists from Gloria Lynne to Roy Hamilton to Sam Cooke.

When I’m not listening to Marilyn Manson, The Ramones, Beardcore, Gothica or The English Beat, I’m listening to crooners. There is something about a strong old time lounge fly voice

Helen was up in arms about the STP singer lip syncing. Me? Not so much. Rock isn’t a purists art form and simply using back up tracks is a million

1. Psychedelic Warlord – The Fumes – A highlight of their love show (I think, it isn’t on their setlist but I could sware I heard em play it), wait

As horrific as it is, I’m happy to say Justin Pivic has been formally charged with attempted murder. Pivic is the animal who savagely beat Madina Lake bassist Mathew Leone.

L.A.’s finest, Alyson faves, and hot band of the moment, Young The Giant, have a great new song “I Got” -a little too arrangey but pretty damn good, as well

I can’t keep up with Kanye at all!!! Apparently his new album is gonna be a collaboration with Jay-Z and while it is true that I am not a Jay-Z

Happy Birthday Hugh Cornwall… who?! The Stranglers baby! What gorgeous punk rock. Serisous “Golden Brown’ is a beautiful song. Not exactly ‘Punk’ with the harpsichord action going on but The

For some reason my house smells like incense… what the hell its a hippy flop house So it may be why Im grooving on my new find, Heavy Young Heathens.

1.Penny Lane 2. I Want to Hold Your Hand 3. Taxman 4. Yellow Submarine 5. Cry For a Shadow 6. Here, There and Everywhere 7. I Don’t Want to Spoil

Girls… get a chair fix your hair, boys, get your glare. The rest of you start saving for bail money for me. Black Veil Brides are hitting the East Coast.

I can really love brass. There are times it hits a pitch that shouts PARTY, such is the case in the song “Sherry Darling”. Aside from the keg party backdrop

Playing at the Apollo on Monday is a movie based upon Louis Armstrong where the music is performed by Wynton Marsalis and an 11 piece orchestra. Directed by Dan Priitzker

The Promise in question would be the promised land and if you hi thee to stereogum you can hear Bruce Springsteen from some 30 years ago, sing an unreleased song

He’s a hustler baby, and, in anticipation of his mid-September Yankee stadium concerts with Eminem, that hustler baby, will be hawking Yankee memorobilia. I guess a mix of Jay Z

Here is the word from Broadway via Michael Reidel of the New York Post: Tommy Tunes in a new musical called” The Last Dance” based upon the Young At Heart

3. I Can Change – LCD Soundsystem 2. Our Whole Lives – The Hold Steady 1. The Battle Of Hamptons Road – Titus Andronicus Patrick Stickles, Craig Finn, James Murphy:

we here at rock nyc believe in turning real peoples trial and tribulations into entertainment… so let’s do it… 1. Miley Cyrus has broken up with her boyfriend and regrets

Oh for the love of God Scott what now? I have supported you I have praised you I have defended you and now youre well on your way to being

For me the alt-country scene began and ended with Old 97’s -I couldn’t wear Uncle Tupelo and all those other Gram Parson’s crowd of wannabes, but the serial ladies killer

I am not suggesting incest or anything BUT if Melanie Griffith was my Mommy and I could go back to the future and she was like 17 and came on

There was a time when Ani Franco, weird, self-releasing, presumed lesbian folk singer was on target to rule the world and the very height of her powers she released “Untouchable

Berkeley Girl, the new video of Harper Simon is filmed like a home video you would keep for yourself, with intimate scenes inside a house, bike rides, garden dinners with

Happy Birthday Glen Matlock. Born today in 1956 bassist to the Sex Pistols was canned for being too conservative. Hes often called the writer of Pistols music and Johnny Lydon

Metal darlings The Sword released their third studio album, Warp Riders, on Monday and the Austin, TX quartet do not disappoint. If you’re not familiar with The Sword, they are

1. Fuck You – Cee Lo – Once he rewrites the lyric this will be the song to beat 2. Flawless Executioner – Christopher Paul Shelling _the best constructed song

We got this info off brooklynvegan and since you are reading rock nyc it is a fair assumption you will be there and therefore we are sharing it WITH YOU…

There isn’t a serious rock band in the country who couldn’t learn something from the Fumes outstanding i set at Rockwoods Music Hall last night. The two member blues band traversed all the

Johnny Depp gives new meaning to the cliche about putting the cart before the horse. He is starting a new label and as sent some peons to London to find

As predicted by just about everyone on rock nyc, Cee Lo’s “Fuck You” has gone viral with over two million views. It took Cee Lo by surprise which is a

1. “A Day in the Life” 2. “I Want to Hold Your Hand” 3. “Strawberry Fields Forever” 4. “Yesterday” 5. “In My Life” 6. “Something” 7. “Hey Jude” 8. “Let

Editor Helen Bach gets sick of me posting pix of Frankie Rose and as long as she keeps her clothes on this may be the last one for days and

The difference between Los Campesinos 2010 and 2008 is the difference between yet another whatever release, EP All’s Well That End’s and 2008’s surprise album We Are Beautiful, We Are

Iron Maiden – The Final Frontier 4 Stars! That’s all I can say. Ok, fine, I will write a bit more. The new album is about 80 minutes long with

“Fam” is the bass player with the Wailers, and has been for the last 40 years. As well as playing on all of Bob Marley’s solo hits. His influence is

Two piece blues bands, two piece blues bands, from the Black Keys to Lonesome Mustangs, suddently I keep finding myself listening to two piece blues bands. And here is the

Apparently, Timbaland, upset after having a $2M (you heard me) watch (a $2M watch????) stolen, said he had had enough of the bullshit, bolted from his house and drove off

If you have an American Express Card ( I don’t!) Peter Hook’s performance of Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures is currently on sale. If not? Friday at noon. The gig is

At 8 pm Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros was scheduled to playat the Sunset Junction  Bates stage, I did not want to be late and especially did not want

The adorable trio The Downtown Fiction came out with a music video for their song “I Just Wanna Run” and it’s incredible.  Fighting off ninjas, playing chess, and being tackled