Soho Johnny

Emailing with Renaissance Man Joe Steinhardt over the weekend, the former For Science, current Modern Hut, and always Don Giovanni Records co-owner tells me Modern Hut are finally ready to […]

1. B.o.B feat. Hayley Williams – ‘Airplanes’ 2. Yolanda Be Cool & DCUP – ‘We No Speak Americano’ 3. Eminem feat. Rihanna – ‘Love The Way You Lie’ 4. Katy

Liam Gallagher thinks that his new band Beady Eye will be bigger than Oasis! He said that it sounds similar to Oasis, but also like T-Rex and Jerry Lee Lewis,

So if you’ve ever seen School of Rock, (and if you haven’t you should) you’ll remember how Jack Black spoke of ‘face melters’. Guitar solos that literally melt the face

1. Step Inside Love – Cilla Black – Listening to the Beatles demo sent me back to the Black version and my feeling is, she really wasn’t a great singer,

The song “Wonderful Time” by Baja and the Dry Eye Crew is pretty interesting.  The singer’s voice is obviously tinted by some odd, foreign accent that I can’t quite put

he Sierre Leone based crew sound like reggae with some African rhythms thrown in and on “Wonderful” they are a dream pop group singing over a finger picked bass lick

Forget about Bono reciting Bukowski, in the ‘Born into this’ documentary, how did this happen anyway? I know Bono is a fan but you cannot imagine a worst association. When

COMING SOON

I feel bad for Bean. I even feel bad for writing this. Alyson covered Francis Bean Cobain’s paintings a coupla dozen post back and I have nothing to add but…

And now, two Johnny Rotten stories for the price of one!! Both of which make him sound like a plank. 1. Lydon twtitted that he always hated the Sex Pistol’s

If you saw the Joe Strummer biography “The Future Is Not Yet Written”, you may remember that towards the end of the movie, Joe’s Campfire get togethers where friends and

Many filmmakers have a strong connection with music, but some go much further, and their use of music becomes a big element of their movie atmosphere, and can even become

Amy Correia is an Los Angeles based, New York raised, singer -songwriter, who, at her best, like right here,  sounds like Rickie Lee Jones without the jazz but with wonderefully

1. Running Out – Scissor Sisters – The panting at the begining is a little lieterate and that’s the only complaint on this wonderful disco beat (the bass lick is

Red Jumpsuit Apparatus had one great song. But that’s it. I saw them open for Blue October- and nearly offed myself. Terrible live. Worse than a bar band 2 albums

Nothing scientific about this -my most played songs released in 2010 I heard at home -more or less because, more or less, some of the obscurer stuff don’t have dates

Even if I liked Tweedy’s songs, which, with exceptions, I don’t, I’d still think he suxd for firing his band after they stood by him during the Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

As the controversy regarding hot-chick-model Kirsten Kennis on the cover of Vampire Weekend’s last album ‘Contra’ is all over the blogs (she is suing the band for $2 million claiming

There are alot of musical birthdays today. Gets sorta hard to chose. We have Terry Chambers, XTC’s drummer, we have ‘Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, I think even Dion. Cupcakes to them

Woody Fuller is somewhere in the wilds of Camp Bisco rocking his face off so while we wait for his return to the city and subsequent reviews of his days

I am a bigger fan of Diplo than of his band Major Lazer. And a bigger fan of MIA than her producer Diplo. So my take is that there is

Neverland ranch, the 2,500-acre Michael Jackson estate, may become a state park! At least this is what the California NAACP is proposing and the Los Angeles legislator thinks the idea

I saw Pink opening for Justin Tmberlake a coupla years back (speaking of which: he better get back to recording again) and while I am not a huge fan, I

I reviewed the concert on rock nyc when they appeared here and was more impressed then, say, no nothing New Post’s Dan Aquilante. At The time I wrote: “From Taylor

Centerstage, red cowboy hat, red shirt, green pants, red socks, Danny Mason is shimmying like James Brown, strutting like Mick Jagger, it’s four songs into Shit Horses debut New York performance,

“When they pulled me out of the oxygen tent…” Why do we steal so much from brooklynvegan? Simple. Because the letter “B” arrives early when I am searching for stories.

Killing Joke. The 80’s ruled if you ask me and KJ were an amazing part of it.  Songs like “Love Like Blood” and “80’s” were fantasticly played as part of

Didn’t Eno look like Riff Raff from the rocky horror show…?  I’m just saying. Roxy Music are going back on tour without Eno and… Whatever. I saw em at theatre

Heads up. American Idol auditions have just begun.  Yup Nashville, TN is the place to be to saunter up to the mike and belt it out for all to see! 

Many, many, well three years ago, I was dating Marie Lynn and I introduced her to Bright Eyes who I liked but didn’t love and she flipped out. Suddenly all

Can I continue the instant daytrotter backlash? 1. I spoke to a friend of mine who plays for a band who recorded for daytrotter and he said they were arrogant

If it werent for Weezer, you wouldnt be reading this. For without Weezer, I wouldnt be writing for rocknyc and how sad would you be?  Very. My first post was

I’ll admit part of this is an age thaaang. If you aint 53 years old, the chances are excellent you haven’t heard Velvet Underground’s “Pale Blue Eyes” about  70 million

Fitz and the Tantrums were sharing the bill with the Heavy on Thursday night at the Hammer museum, and it was probably the most successful show of the ‘Also I

Shes beautiful.  Her voice is beautiful.   She is a hot horrible mess.  The tabloids slaughter her, her relationships are public jokes and its sad.  So, surprising is word that we

Joe Perry was in a minor accident Thursday in Marlboro MA.  The collision with a ‘large sedan’ occured on Thursday. Perry was treated and relased from Morton Hospital in Taunton. 

Happy Birthday Geezer Butler! Although not a major Black Sabbath fan, I do enjoy a fun shock rock and a nice retro 70’s dose is always fun! When youre in

1. I Don’t Mind It – Screaming Females – Awesome hard rock ending is just, well, the end. 2. Thieves In The Night – Hot Chip – Still no hard

I was at the Hammer museum to see Fitz and the Tantrums and I had only a vague idea of what to expect of The Heavy, the second band of

Fresh off being opened for by Holy Ghost at Summerstage this  August 4th -Camp Bisco Boy Woody Fuller and I are covering it, Hot Chip are doing an arena tour with

Direct Current is a strange hybrid, tip sheet, advertisment, and website all rolled into one which I kinda like when I’m in the mood. So they emailed me their current

Billboard made a biggest summer hits in the past 25 years list, including sales, impact, etc. Me? With Helen away I’m just filling posts… 1985 – Shout – Tears For

I like Wavves a lot but not as much as I did a coupla weeks ago and I’ll tell you why: 1. familiarity breeds contempt -we got the trick, we

I am guessing if you are reading this blog you don’t need me to retell how the model on the cover of Vampire Weekend’s first rate current album Contra is

The world can’t afford to lose the Hank Cochran’s of the world. The country great behind # 1 hit singles, Patsy Cline’s “I Fall to Pieces”; George Strait’s “Ocean Front

I didn’t love Wake Up The Nation, didn’t hate it either, but if you have never seen Weller live this is worth the price of admission. Will it sell out?

Let’s see how few words I can write this in. 1.  David Gilmour wanted Roger Water’s to play “To Know Him Is To Love Him” (the Phil Spector classic) at

So what does FYF stand for? For Your Fun? Face Your Fear? Facing Your Future? Nah, here in LA it stands for Fuck Yeah Fest, a music festival, which will