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English Movie Director Edgar Wright is a thing of great beauty, his two previous movies, “Shawn Of The Dead” and “Hot Fuzz” take a movie convention and put real people […]

I’ve lived with Castle Talk for about a month now and, listened to in tandem with Noun’s Holy Hell also featuring vocalist, guitarist Marissa Patermoster, it makes for a wide

I don’t get this one at all. In a Press Conference to promote a John Lennon documentary, Yoko Ono, a woman who has gone out of her way to secure

I arrived at the Bloomfest in LA just in time to catch Killsonic’s live performance, a large fanfare-band made of (at least) 6 saxophone players, a trombone player, a tuba

Rihanna’s brittle and somewhat disappointing concert at MSG on Thursday had the two big time tabs music critics in disagreement (as an aside, I forgot to mention an excellent “Don’t

1. See Me Now – Kanye West – “Imma let you finish but first I’m gonna let Beyonce on the track…” Cheeky. 2. I Need You Tonight – Professor Green

Be it far from me to be closed minded about music. OK, I am but I am also very emotionally attached to music. As some may find a comforting blanket

“Fresh, restless bite of lemon, sharpened and intensified by deiant black pepper. It’s the unruly turbulence of a prune and an in-your-face ambrette. Electrified by aldehydes, you can feel the

In honor of Friday 13th, NME got Morrissey to choose his Top 13 albums. And rock nyc, being your full service music blog, stole it and here it is. The

I doubt this is the kind of music you listen to!”, fellow rocknycer Alyson said to me via email, after she sent me a few Edward Sharpe and Magnetic Zeros

So who is this lovely lady? And why the obscure U2 reference? Glad you asked That would be Eve Hewson, Bono’s daughter, who is appearing in a new movie starring

Following the 30th anniversary of the release of Unknown Pleasures and dates in the UK to celebrate, Joy Division bass player Peter Hook has announced US dates. This is instantaneously

Opening for Titus Andronicus at Glasslands August 18th, Bottle Up And Go are ridiculously good. Their cover of “That’s How Strong My Love Is”, the former duet of Keenan Mitchell

Friday the 13th indeed… With three concerts to choose from, Bajah at Highline, Screaming Females at Maxwells and Miniature Trees at Mercury Lounge, I had my sights set on SF

Signature 70’z funk ‘n’ jazz-roc iz fallin’ from the skyez! DUCK OR GET OUTTA DA WAY before you’re wacked upzide d’head wit REverbed HEAVY SHEET metal thunder! BITCHEZ BREW EXplodez.

It’s sad. I enjoy my bathroom breaks at work so much. Only time I get to see outside, see the sky, see 3-7 “trees” on surrounding NYC rooftops. But even

The last time we saw The Sleeping we were able to get lead singer, Douglas Robinson to record a video saying hi to our friend Alex. By the nights end

Give my regards to Broadway -Cuz its coming and its official. The Spider-Man Broadway musical, with songs from Bono and The Edge, has been given an official opening night. The

Some bands are hard to figure out, and although I hate to pigeonhole music, a show review should do a little bit of that. On Thursday, late in the night,

“Combination Pizza Hut And Taco Bell” is the most brilliantlly annoying song of the year. It irritates but not so much that you don’t fo back for more. “Brooown” is

The Jets are my second favorite team. Patriots are #1, but I have loved the Jets since I got whooped for wearing a Jets jacket in 1982.. freaks. So more news

rocknyc perpetual hero and my personal reason for scaling security guards, Elvis Costello, is doing it. Yet not with me… my darling will release a new album, National Ransom, on

1. Rhapsody In Blue (Intro) – Brian Wilson 2. Right Hand On My Heart – The Whigs – Another band I had peged as rock ordinaire, but they were great

The Bad Brains, one of the most influential hardcore punk band, is headlining the Sanborn Stage of the Sunset Junction Fair. Regarded as the quintessence of the genre, they have

31 Minutes To Takeoff – Mike Posner – The hit was a little annoying and the album can irritate but over all it is much better electronic rock pop than,

This is 100% true or fabricated by I heard Kanye West was reading my review of Rihanna hours before I wrote it and went dashing off to her afterparty at

An hour between sets is enough time to check out the demographics. And I am a little surprised. A touch older than Z-100 but uniformly young, white and female. They

Is this all rock stars do? Give each other awards? Particularly in the UK but really EVERYWHERE… all people seem to do is tell each other how fucking wonderful they

I haven’t been on daytrotter, the website where they take bands into their analogue studio, have their way with em, and post the results for free, since I moved apartments

In a sparkling silver jumpsuit and fronting a faux rock band, wild girl of sophomoric dance Ke$ha came out to the strains of Flo Rida’s “Right Round” -where Ke$ha was

Florence and The Machine Who have been mentioned numerous times here and are a great hurrah in Jolly London. Theyre crossing the pond for a very limited tour that just

It was inevitable but you almost wish that they didn’t make an announcement Check this out “LAMB OF GOD would like to officially denounce any buzz of a show that

In the current New Yorker  Sasha-Frere Jones extolls the virtues of the Independent labels like Merge, the folks who released the new Arcade Fire and are celebrating 20 years of

Say what you will about Slipknot they (were) a bit too fake showy for me but one thing that couldn’t be denied was Corey Taylor’s voice. Greatly talented and for

Tom Finn, an original member of The Left Banke, maintains an official page on Facebook that can be accessed here-http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/LeftBanke Recently, there have been some mysterious posts that seem to

Nothing beats scoring free Green Day concert tickets 2 days before the show. Even better is scoring pit passes when you least expect it. This would be the second time

Lady Gaga’s Monster Ball was at the Staples Center for two nights in LA Wednesday and Thursday, and I have found this funny thing in the LATimes ‘Lady Gaga by

Outstanding news! Matthew Leone of Madina Lake is finally in the clear. A new post on his Tumblr proves this, and I’ll say that it almost brought me to tears.

1.We Are All Accelerated – Los Campesinos – I think when it comes to love we enter every relationship like an absolute beginner and end on out knees begginf for

As Iman said recently, there are tons of white bands with the adjective black in their name. Stuck in the ‘B’ aisle at Amoeba last week, I was precisely noticing

I liked “Power” fine -no it didn’t have staying power and yes the “ass/hole” rhyme was horrible but it was an invigorating up yours to the world in general. Better

My undisputed favorite little known (if not my undisputed fave period band in the world is For Science. With only two albums and one EP to their name For Science  have taught

1. Rhapsody In Blue – Brian Wilson – A revelation, a rethinking. 2. Group Four – Massive Attack – They never improved on Mezzanine but they never got much worse

Saosin will never ever get another dime from me. I will no longer even write their names- so enjoy this one last and final Saosin post. To follow is their

Wednesday night saw the return of the Faces at the Millennium Dome in London, a 400 SRO. But how can you have the faces without Ronnie Lane and Rod Stewart?

KCRW is a public radio station here in Los Angeles, broadcasting from SMC (Santa Monica College), and between the NPR news and other shows, they offer many music programs like

Massive Attack we know and if their latest album doesn’t quite happen, this hard dub, Bristol sound band, are always worth seeing. Thievery Corporation remind me of my friend Bari

Flipping through old issues of Alternative Press Magazine, the boy and I found a band that would probably be worth a listen. As The Sky Burns “looked hardcore” so I

One of the finest guitarists to ever plug in, Bill Nelson is also one of the most reluctant axe heroes of his era. From 1974 to 1978, Bill wrote all