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I know Mr. Iman Lababedi won’t approve much of these next couple sentences, but here goes nothing. I wasn’t too impressed with LCD Soundsystem at bisco this past weekend. This […]

1.  And He Slayed Her – Liz Phair – This is the one where she dumps the concept bollywood crap and nails an old time Liz Phair sound. 2. Post-Life

rock nyc’s posse at camp bisco -our contributing writer Woody Fuller is the guy in the basketball shirt, the guy with the muscles is fellow writer/photographer Chris Morgan, and the

Sometimes and for no apparent reason a club gets red hot. So folks, meet the red hot Highline. Start with the white hot Brandon Flowers -I’m thinking of going just

1.  I Found Love – Shit Robot – Maybe the best pure dance track of the year 2. Sound Of Siren – Arcade Fire 3. Bang Bang Bang (feat Q-Tip

Sex Tips From Rock stars is a brand new tell all book written with numerous B grade musicians offering tips. We all know the Supermodel love the rocker and here

1. Love the Way You Lie (feat Rihanna) – Eminem 2. California Gurls (feat Snoop Dogg) – Katy Perry 3. Airplane (feat Hayley Williams and Eminem) – B.o.B. 4. Dynamite

Mayer Hawthorne is another LA based songwriter from the young generation who draws his inspiration from the 60’s. But Andrew Mayer Cohen has actually two alter-egos, since Haircut is his

We could call this Grampa and Chick Licks but that would be too cool.  Sumner Redstone, the 87-year-old Viacom chairman is a hot one for the ladies.  Most notable the

Amanda Warner is an electronica freak who went from Cali to Bushwick and who is on Ronson’s excellent first first single “Bang Bang Bang”  off the upcoming for Record Collection.

We have been as mean to Billy Corgan as any one and more than most but here comes news that Billy’s Smashing Pumkins are playing a benefit to help pay for

Two years after the fact, Taylor Swift readies herself for the release of the Fearless follow-up Speak Now dropping october 25th. A single “Mine” will be here before the end

Wanna hear some rather .. interesting hardcore? Mary Magpie spoke to Christofer Drew of NeverShoutNever about his side project EatMeWhileImHot, again with the lack of space bar…anyway I must point

A front mans solo tour.. an interesting idea really. Think about it, as with any lead singer who really knows the band anyway? Its sad all that work very little

Teenage unemployment is at at earthquaking 29% this summer. Why am I telling you this? Because where teens go pop music goes: pop, rock, all this stuff we love, is

Dublin born Marcus Lambkin has been DJing Stateside since 1992… that would be 18 years if you are keeping track. He has worked at such seminal houses of dance as

Happy Birthday Cat Stevens. Yeah yeah and whatever other name you go by. First off, Thank you for making some of the most beautiful music I have ever heard. You

John Lydon stuck it right at the small brained bastard pop stars who embarrssed themselves, indeed, humiliated themselves, by boycotting Israel. Lydon, who, under pressure, refused to cancel his show

1. I wrote about Bonnie Baxter’s industrial size beats a little a coupla days ago after catching the top half of her band Shadowbox’s performance at Piano. And I am

I looove Pretty Lights. The band’s not that bad either. But for real, I have seen Pretty Lights live 3 times, this past weekend at Bisco included, and each and

Only a buncha music maniacs like our cousins across the sea would bother with TWO equivalents to the Grammy’s, The Brits and The Mercury Award. Only one award at the

After spending a career laughing myself sick over Jonah Weiner’s pristine prose, I have to admit occasionally he knocks it out of the ballpark. Like his current post on Wavves

So this is what it has come to: I ignored the new Sheryl Crow album when I was doing my Tuesday update because, well, because I can’t stick the woman

Damn. damn. damn. August 4th – Robyn and Kelis at Webster Hall. Me? I’m at Sumerstage catching Holy Ghost! and Hot Chip. August 5th  Robyn and Kelis still at Webster Hall.

There is a short video made especially for the upcoming shows of Arcade Fire at Madison Square Garden on August 5th, with antlered clock, puppets making fireworks and growing flowers

1. Sound Of Siren – Major Lazer, MIA, Busy Signal – OK, this is the end of the MIA backlash. If the album is only really good, this is fucking

Camp Bisco 9 gave me and my co. a run for our freakin money. DOPE AS SHIT! Bottom Line. Lets get right into it. Bisco offered a great combination of

Ive been dragging on about fan clubs and VIP sales and such for awhile now. First Bowie selling me a $70.00 website then Fall Out Boy wanting me to renew

1. Lady Gaga – First Kanye West went bonkers and cancelled, then Lady Gaga had a meltdown and cancelled and finally I nearly died and couldn’t go. So I am

So, you ask, how do all the pitchforks and stereogums get these great exlusives everybody else has? Do the words PRESS RELEASE mean anything to you? All you need to do

Happy Birthday Billboard? OK well its Paul Cook, drummer of the Sex Pistols, Kim Carnes and Carlos Santana’s birthday but most importantly on this date July 20, 1940 Billboard was

Sound Of Siren – Major Lazer, MIA, Busy Signal Aston Martin Music – Rick Ross, Drake, Chrisette Michelle Just The Way You Are – Bruno Marx Disappear – 12 Stone

Matthew Leone, the bassist for Medina Lake, after undergoing an intense and brutal beating and spending a lot of time in the hospital, is being helped financially by an organization

I recently gave a youngish girl I know a copy of John Fowles’ “The Magus” -as strange and wonderful a literary journey as you may ever hope to read. And

Young the Giant is a band from Newport Beach CA formerly known as The Jakes. They illustrate their moniker brilliantly since they are all very young – the members are

The Idolator put Guetta second to Dr. Luke on the high prolific dance groove thang. Me? I’d flip that. For over a year now Guetta has been on fire and

So, you releaase an album, it goes to # 1, everybody loves you, and you fuck up a lousy release form. Now what? I don’t know. This is what Vampire

Former Big Star bassist Andy Hummel died yesterday in his home in Texas, after a two-year battle with cancer. The rock band from Memphis formed in 1971 and consisted of

So the Forbes biggest earners July 2009 to June 2010 is here and U2, despite cancelling all those concerts, are full of the stuff. The moral? Money is not the

I know I keep banging away at Pitchfork, and I realize it is a bit flea on the back of a rhino, and they have their uses though none seem

Lessee here: LCD Soundsystem played Camp Bisco on Friday, Pitchfork Fest on Saturday. Here are the total number of mentions of Camp Bisco on pitchfork (———-) I guess, but I

Beck and Devendra Banhart have recorded a song together for the new Todd Solondz’s movie ‘Life during Wartime’, which according to a few reviews is a funny and depressing film

1. Bang, Bang, Bang (feat Q-Tip and MNDR) – Mark Ronson – Much better than I thought it would be. 2.Running Out – Scissor Sisters – Exceptional band, I hope

At Warped Tour, my NeverShoutNever! interview was with a group, like a press conference. Cigarette in hand, he decided that he was going to do his interview early, causing me

Mousepads? You want mousepads? rock nyc contributing editor Robert Nevin has started his own blog, “The Mousepad Collector” and while baffling in its insularity, it is stunning in its beauty.

Uh-Oh Christina Aguilara’s five week old album Bionic has sold an anemic 200,000 copies. This follows on Christina cancelling her 2010 tour. In other words: the genii is out of

Jon Brion is all over the new Jerry Lee Lewis album I posted about. Although many people don’t know him very well, Brion is a fixture in the music world,

1. A Design For Life – Manic Street Preachers – At the height of Brit Pop, MSP released this whiny rock work and cleared the decks for awhile. 2. Pas

Jerry Lee Lewis will release a new album, ‘Mean Old Man’, in September, and the single, an old-fashioned country song written by Kris Kristofferson and sung with a Johnny Cash