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Bono emailed Jon Parales this blurb for his godawful interview Arcade Fire in yesterdays New York times: “As quiet a storm as they would like this album to appear, it […]

So, blown out of Hot Chip at Summerstage me, being a glass half full type bloke, figure, hey it’ll give me the chance to see dance hall queen Robyn play

1. The Wanted – ‘All Time Low’ 2. Yolanda Be Cool & DCUP – ‘We No Speak Americano’ 3. Travie McCoy – ‘Billionaire’ (feat. Bruno Mars) 4. Eminem – ‘Love

. 1. Eminem – ‘Recovery’ 2. Tom Jones – ‘Praise & Blame’ 3. Plan B – ‘The Defamation of Strickland Banks’ 4. Eliza Doolittle – ‘Eliza Doolittle’ 5. Avenged Sevenfold

Rumour has it that this pleasant looking young lady, Shay The UK Bombshell, has an emotional relationship with Mr. West who has, probably wisely, decided to rename Good Ass Music.

And what was I doing? I was watching the Rays beat the Yankees… Oh well, here is a pic of the great musical sequencer nicked off Brooklyn Vegan… If you

Nightmare – Avenged Sevenfold – Well, it is better than the title track suggests, as metal goes, I can take em when they’re not screaming. But unless you’re gonna put

1. Thug Story – Taylor Swift and T-Pain – Where is T-Pain, a quiet year so far. 2. My Life – Iris Dement – From that terrific movie about a

Last year Mary and Helen interviewed the Rocket Summer and he let slip the date of his next albums release and then asked us not to use it. So we

Congratulations Mark Wahlberg! Alyson just wrote of ‘Steel Dragon” the band from The Rock Star, and he rapped and he looked AMAZING in underwear..and now he has a star on

The former first daughter is all over the news and to be honest with you I could care less. Congratulations on your nuptials but I think I’m the only one

Bret Michaels is like a human video game. Shoot him, up he rises 4 min later, cut off his arm, it regenerates, brain hemorrhage, just a flesh wound. The guy

At yesterday’s  6pm screening of the 1970 Tchaikovsky bio movie “The Music Lovers” , part of a 9 movie retrospective  the legendary British director Ken Russell, sitting mid-theatre, announces that

Some of the elders do not always appreciate the young acting bold. Bajah + The Dry Eye Crew are standing up for all who are BOLD. “Bold” in their sense

Today would have been Jerry Garcia’s 68th birthday. The legendary Grateful Dead guitarist influences hippy wanna be’s to this day. Every wish I were there pot head calls him God.

There are many movies which need to invent fake bands for the sake of the story, and if many of them actually don’t need to be even noticed, others are

1. Green Shirt Demo – Elvis Costello And The Attractions – Know where he got “Quisling clinic” from? He was sitting in his bus on the firsttour of the States

Venzuelan dance fusion band Los Amigos Invisibles performed the best opening 20 minutes of music I’ve heard this year and if that sounds like faint praise it ain’t: remember it’s

How good is this new song from veteran indie rocker Paleo. Well, first ask yourself how many songwriters use the second line of every verse as an additional hook? Paleo.

Some of the songs written by Beck for the upcoming movie ‘Scott Pilgrim vs the world’ are performed by Sex Bob-Omb!, the fictional band with bassist Michael Cera. The song

Anybody who heard Jack Phillips superb song off his September 10th dropping album To Whom It May Concern, probably had the same reaction rock nyc did: this is something real

Real soon we are gonna tell you about the bag to beat all bags… the Vinyl in a Bag bag. Only on rock nyc

Maybe its not high ticket prices after all. Maybe its cuz you’re a lazy asses would rather sit in your homes and read blogs? YES! Lets hope so. Actually its

Most shows I got to I am at floor level. I’m not complaining on the contrary I truly enjoy being kicked in the head and have some guys enormous armpit

I went to see Tm Jones in 2006 and the size of some of those underwears were kinda scray. So I have a touch of sympathy for TJ -particularly because

Last night I got an email from Holy Ghost’s PR company telling me I had been dropped off the guestlist at Summerstage on Wednesday due to a cutback on tix

Bob Dylan Otis Redding Al Green Bruce Cockburn These  are artists Frazey Ford covered in her hour plus set last night. Cockburn is a nod to her home town, but

What I hate about rock is the cycle: album/review/interview if you’re lucky/live show/review and inbetween nothing very much. Not a blog. We will use any excuse to write about are faves

Ozzy said this about the record business the other day discussing 360 degree contracts: “Nowadays? Fucking hell! The other day, I was informed that new bands who’ve just signed with

Happy Birthday to one of rocks sexiest beasts of epic proportion Daniel Ash, of Bauhaus. Bauhaus? I would say they would be known most for the sassy “Bela Lugosi’s Dead”,

1. Good Morning Startshone – Annabel Lewinton – Hippie daydream for Broadway. 2. Orgasm Addict – The Buzzcocks – Punk daydream for closeted punks. 3. When The Saints Go Marching

/J Jackson from the garage-glam-rock band Saint Motel was nice enough to let me ask him a few questions yesterday. Me: What are your influences, and what kind of music

Seeing so many club shows a year its easy to forget what a rock show really is. You can stand before a stage and watch the greatest of talent through

1. California Gurls – Kidz Bop Kid – Here is Dr. Lukes problem: he doesn’t trust himself. He has never found a song he won’t over do, over cook, over

Some idea are better than others and in the world of pop culture “”Amanda Palmer Performs the Popular Hits of Radiohead on her Magical Ukulele” via Bandcamp is about as

Tuesday night, Billy Corgan and Smashing Pumpjins played a benefit to help pay Madina Lake’s Matthew Leone. The concert was a huge success, raising a mind bending $800,00. Corgan spoke to

There are voices that come from the throat. Elvis Costello has that. Almost swallow with really precise enunciation. You can hear the space in his teeth. Today the boss was

You can find something related to Arcade Fire every day in the news these days, and this one was a little unexpected: Win Butler has praised Bono for engaging with

drummer boys rat scabies and keith moon I’m such a geek that I get all excited when I can birthday trib someone I forgot I loved! Rat Scabies! (Chris Millar)

Brian Wilson Re-imagines Gershwin to be released on 8/17 Mike Nessing re-hashes his solo career today, 7/30. Thirty second sound samples of the new Brian Wilson record hit Amazon.com late

Here is the artwork for Britney Spears new fragrance. Why are we showing you this? Well… it looks good (plus, anti-Spearsy, I kinda missed the bald train wreck of a

Ellen Quits. Apparently she has had enough of the plastic egos that surrounded her inferior abilities. Not exactly the top of the heap but someone who stuck out like a

That’s what Paul McCartney said about Lennon and Ono way back when and with little to no reason I am applying it to me -aging editor, and Woody -writer about

We’ve had a collection of many songs for about a year and a half, but have actually been recording our third album for only six months. We feel it sounds

Dunno about you but the two albums I’ve been gagging for all year are follow-ups to wonderful works and still not here. Everybody says Kanya West’s, debatably speaking, best album

Imagine a symphonic buzzed out guitar ambient sound behine a sweet montone vocal, like the indie bands Frankie Rose used to play drums for, only more put together and more

1. Ya Hear Me – T.I. – This took awhile to kick in but this is T.I. so awhile is just about the same as never. 2. If You Gonna

JP, Chrissie and the Fairground Boys are on a mini tour including two local dates one of which is OMG FREE. I haven’t heard a sound from this band but

rock nyc has been heaping lavish praise for Indiana rapper Freddie Gibbs for about a year now so it is about time the rest of the world paid attention. If you