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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 […]

Pitchfork report Gorillaz played in Damascus, Syria on Sunday night: “1,000-year-old Damascus Citadel for a special performance. The list of guest appearances is staggering: Bobby Womack, De La Soul, the

Laura Marling was playing at the El Rey theater on Wednesday night in LA, and  I had to go checking the British woman who made Ryan Adams feel rather insignificant

Justin Timberlake may be bringing sexy back but you can bring Justin Timberlake back within 30 days if you have a receipt. The mastermind behind the “Dick in The Box”

1. Love The Way You Lie – Eminem 2. California Gurl – Katy Perry 3. Dynamite – Taoi Cruz 4. Airplane – Bob 5. Billionaire – Travis McCoy 6. I

In Alyson Camus’ review of Laura Marling at El Rey, Aly opines Laura is wrong not perform an encore. My sentiments are ENTIRELY with Laura in this case. The encore

You don’t know Ken Russel? Of course you do, he directed “Tommy” and a slew on other’s you would have seen -wild visual explosions of sound and vision like “LIztomania”

We have been lied to for more than 30 years and it’s a shame! Plastic Bertrand, the Belgian pop star who is known for ‘Ça Plane pour Moi’, or in

More shit to report about the Pigeons, this story will never die… Apparently this is getting global attention, which hmm could be perfect timing if the Kings of Leon are

Alyson Camus wrote about Conor Oberst being booed at the Rage Against the Machine benefit Against The Immigration bill in Arizona. Reader “Craig” partially commented as follows (you can read the entire quote under

Too Young To Burn – Sonny And The Sunsets – I think I got the metaphor right (finally) for these surf pop bands from the West Coast. They are like

I am currently listening to 9-song debut album from the Atlanta-based band The Villains. The album is titled “Just Another Saturday Night”. Band Members: Magno- keys, guitars, vocals Dan Call-bass,

Wow I totally picked the right concert to see this week. Although Limp Bizkit is headling its Avenged Sevenfold all over the news. On the heels of their “Nightmare” release,

The only popular musician whose position on politics has anything effect on mine is Elton John. If he is on the opposite of an issue with me I will give

I reacted to the news of a remastered Double Fantasy with an overwhelming year. It is a good, maybe great album but it has so much baggage, so many bad

Black Veil Brides may as well move in to my house. I hear them non stop and if I don’t here them I hear people (ahem) talking about them So

1. Too Young To Burn – Sonny And The Sunsets – OK, OK: all these surft pop bands are awesome and I was wrong. I disliked the cool quotient but

Mr. Mick Rhodes of Claremount, Cali, sent me his album ‘Til I Am Dust amd it is exhaustingly excellent. And I will review but before I do, two songs have

Iman Sez: OK a cut and paste job but I do have real problems with MIA because, in fact, and all my rock nyc comrades opinions not withstanding, I truly liked

Mike Nessing sez: Sony/Legacy to reissue the first 8 Bob Dylan albums in mono. Official word on this wont appear for at least a couple of weeks, but sometime before

So the figures are in and mp3 downloads are down and profits are up… so what does this mean? It means that by upping their prices 30% scumbag carpetbagging asshole

Cool, right? I would like to hand one to each and every reader but that would be impractical… Though perhaps not THAT impractical

Another example of how badly bands these days will milk a hit. Lets see the Yeah Yeah Yeahs got on the map with the song “Maps” which I loved and

Ke$ha told Paper she is thinking of going country. No, really. Here is the money quote: :”I’m really inspired by country music. My mom wrote country music and I love

Years ago all models wanted to be actresses. Now it seems to me all musicians want to be models, or artists, or designers, or .. well anything other than recording

Sure Sherry Davis and I went to to the Shea gig. Pretty fucking awesome as well. So sure we will be back to see the premiere screening of the filming

I couldn’t make it yesterday to Hall at Williamsburgh because, well, because it’s brooklun, and I am busy with Holy Ghost on the 4th and Arvade fire on the 5th

Before Louis Armstrong “Before there was  Louis Armstrong there was nothing.” –Iman Lababedi As one who, in my youth, had been fairly indifferent to the music of Louis Armstrong, I

Rolling Stone report that 2% of the money for rebuilding Haiti has actually reached there. God knows who has the tens of millions in charity raised. We warned you and

We just want to make sure we get our shit straight before we announce that The Kings of Leons new release will be dropping… After 2 years of riding tail

I recently got invited to see a friends band playing in Brooklyn; nothing turns me on like live, new music, so obviously I went, bringing a date along too, (hopefully

Found: Good Radio! While traveling this weekend I perused the FM radio wasteland and actually found something worth passing along. http://americanroutes.publicradio.org/upcoming/ American Public Media, a nonprofit organization, is the second

NeverShoutNever! put out a new video for his song Cheatercheaterbestfriendeater so I watched it and frankly, it was boring. The video is basically just a shot of Chris’ hands strumming

Since the moment I heard some of his songs, I have always wanted to get more interested in José Gonzalez’ music but for some reasons never really took the time.

1. Stuck Like Glue – Sugarland – I swear I can’t wear these guys at any price, but this is an infectious piece of country cotton candy. 2. Rock N

How excited am I over the debut Shit Robot album From the Cradle to The Grave? After hearing just one song, possibly the top dance groove of the year “I

Serendipity never tasted so sweet. 45 minutes after rock nyc fave Justin Townes Earle had to cancel his appearance at Newport Folk Festival (needing NINETEEN STITCHES IN HIS HAND -a

This past weekend, I spent two days in Amagansett with family taking in some sun and chillaxin on the beach, great family bonding time to say the least. I was

 I’m sorry to report that the morticians goody bag auction of Elvis Presley implements has been pulled. I know I know alot of you were hoping to bag that rib

“Anyone in the mood for reunion by the Cars?” That was the cryptic message left on The Cars Facebook page. Shortly after the band posted up a photo of the

Gorillaz leader Damon Albarn was full of excuses for why he sucked at Glastonbury. “”We were yet to change the dynamic entirely from the cartoon band acting purely as a

M E T H OD MAAANNN!! Despite the overall theme of Camp Bisco being bass thumping electro funk and improv electro rock, WU Massacre, (Method Man, Raekwon, and Ghostface), might

I have neither written nor seen PBS series The Artists Den, now in its second season, because it hit me as being a touch too smug for its own good.

Darker My Love seems a heavy name to carry for a band, heavy and romantic at the same time, in fact it is just the title of a song of

1. Love The Way you Lie – Eminem 2. Waka Waka (This Time for Africa) – Shakira 3. California Gurls – Katy Perry 4. Dynamite – Taoi Cruz 5. Baby

Google Music are close to opening business and selling you mp3s. They are in the process of signing licensing deals with every music publishing firm in the world. All well

Word is leaking out on the internet that legendary pedal steel guitar session man Ben Keith has passed away at the age of 73. Keith’s work can be heard on

If you can only buy one thing today on new music Tuesday well it goes without saying you should drop your cash on Solfege Radio. Today’s the big day “Tell

Nightmare – Avenged Sevenfold Ya Hear Me – T.I. Our Deal – Best Coast Burning Hell – Tom Jones Stuck Like Glue – Sugarland Angel Dance – Robert Plant CheaterCheaterBestFriendEater