Soho Johnny

Remember last week when I was talking about Hard LA M.I.A., and how the sales were kind of slow? Well, it has been cancelled! No real reason was given, according […]

It’s a little over 24 hrs since i left my first music festival; and ALL GOOD was one of the best times i have ever had. I returned home, reeking

It’s times like this when I realize how non traditional my household is…. Happy Birthday To Mark ‘Barney’ Greenway, lead singer of the UK’s Napalm Death. Yeah Napalm Death, ever

Brian Dales, The Summer Set When preparing for Warped interviews, The Summer Set was not offered, but luckily day of show were available.  I grabbed the chance, and I’m glad

Sum 41 Warped tour is like a giant CD sampler only its live. Lets face it we have half hour sets of a zillion bands in the case of this

Pitchfork said this about the new MIA album: “…It’s as if everything that was great about M.I.A. has been stripped from this music, leaving behind only the most alienating aspects

The boys of rocknyc are out tonight.  Apparently feeling shown up but us girls gigging our sling back pumps off, Iman and Todd are blasting the Aqua Net and getting out

Elton John was so cool there was no one close. Musical genious with lyrics that ripped your heart out, made you scream along and showmanship up the wazoo.  He owned

The Pretty Reckless played Hartford Warped tour yesterday.   Anyone know what the criteria is to get on that tour?   I don’t know if it has anything to do

Eminem has been accused of miming at his big comeback concert, a 29 song retro, in Balaban, Scotland’s. According to gigwise some guy named Jack said: “His miming was awful,

It was one year ago today and this is what I was listening to.. 1. Oh My God – Kaiser Chiefs – Sure I prefer the Lily Allen/Mark Ronson cover…

Already starting the push for his eagerly awaited sophomore album Record Collection, Mark Ronson claims to have been drinking a bottle of Black Daniel’s a night before he stopped. “I’d

1. So We Love It – Sugar Minott – Swings so sweet it sounds like Lovers rock. 2. Post-Life – Kevin Greenspon – And this is the rough mix!! 3.

Lets Start Our Warped invasion with The Casualties shall we? My God they stepped on the stage and I was instantly in love. There is something amazing about giant Mohawks

It was with two songs, “Dancehall Stylee” and “Dancehall We Deh” , that Sugar Minott brought the Reggae based Dancehall Movement out in the open from where all the biggest

I got free tickets to see Swahili Blondes on Saturday night at the Echoplex in LA, and the person who told me I had won the tickets said to me

1. JLS – ‘The Club Is Alive’ 2. Katy Perry – ‘California Gurls’ (feat. Snoop Dogg) 3. B.o.B – ‘Airplanes’ (feat. Hayley Williams) 4. Eminem – ‘Love The Way You

1. Kylie Minogue – ‘Aphrodite’ 2. Eminem – ‘Recovery’ 3. Plan B – ‘The Defamation of Strickland Banks’ 4. Scissor Sisters – ‘Night Work’ 5. Alicia Keys – ‘The Element

Today Warped Tour hit CT. A festival we wait for in great anticipation. Its come to a point that we have seen so many of the bands on this tour,

Mary Magpie has spent the day listening to music and interviewing rock stars at Van Warped 2010. Above is her secret admirer and we will never shout never who it

As Matriach or, to be more forthcoming, our brat Helen Bach leads her brood, husband Max, kid Mary,  and newcomer  through the sundrenched, dehydrated, world of Warped Conneticut style, all

Bob Sheppard, the Yankees annoucee at Yankee Stadium from 1951 to 2007, died today at age 99. And if you don’t think this is a musicial story you never heard

Playing at  the Montreal International Jazz festival, July 2nd, Lou Reed, John Zorn, and Laurie Anderson nearly got themselves booed off stage and  with many requests for refunds and more

After an Island Records email about Tom Jones upcoming Praise And Blame was leaked all hell (harhar) broke loose. The email said in part: “”We did not invest a fortune

Streaming on Spinner as we speak.. The Ocean Likes To Party Too – Miss TK And The revenge – Better at dance than at punk, not bad sophomore effort from

In the annals of great rock criticism, I have a few faves. Greil Marcus’ “What is this shit?” review of Dylan’s Self Portrait, Lester Bangs on Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks,

Is this the start of act 2 for the flaying music biz? Sony Music is now operating a touring company whose main act is in Germany reading from a very

All record stores have disappeared one by one in my neighborhood, Virgin, Tower records, they are all gone except Amoeba music, the only one standing! So if this post looks

Here’s something Helen Bach hasn’t been doing in my absense -stealing stuff from Pitchfork. So let me rectify that situation right now… Punk poppers Wavves and the great gangsta rapper have

I live in LA, land of the movie stars and scandals that go with them. Right now the news are all over what could well be Mel Gibson’s end of

If I died I would one of two sentences written on tombstone (Actually, I wanna be cremated, but the thought burns me up) He Wrote Or He loved music. Here

I have a very very soft spot in my heart for Solfege Radio. I’m not sure what it is, if its the intelligence and circumstance of my first meeting with

So Helen and Mary are off at Warped  and I am back, more or less back, so let’s get back to some REAL MUSIC. First off, I got Scissor Sisters

Have you ever heard of the Mozart effect? The naive idea that if you make your baby listen to classical music he or she will turn into a little genius?

There For Tomorrow has come a long way from the 2008 Woodie Award Days. Newly released video for the new single “Deathbed” scared the hell out of me.   Lead singer,

Alternative Press is a great source of information when it comes to metal, hard rock and punk or any kind of music, and this awesome publication celebrates its 25th anniversary

Well my friends, looks like Glee will go on.  As much as I have fumed and puked, that kids at McKinley High stole Americas brain dead souls and rally on.

Before Admiral Radley on Thursday July 8th, the Happy Hollows opened the show at the Hammer Museum on Thursday night. The post-punk energy power trio seems to rely mostly on

1. Post-Life – Kevin Greenspon 2. On And Ever Onwards – Bjork and Dirty Projectors – A wonderful sound, I hope Christgau comes back and tells me how to hear

The second vocal track on Ella Fitzgerald’s Gershwin Songbook LP won the best vocal performance Grammy for a female singer in 1960 and after only a few listens it’s easy

Something that should excite his fans, a biopic about Serge Gainsbourg was released at the beginning of this year in Europe: ‘Gainsbourg (Vie Héroïque)’, Un conte de Joann Sfar or

I have to admit I adore her. Nope I hated her as another chick with a bra shirt but that was before I listened to her. She is smart, she

Sick all week, I gave up my seat to Lady Gaga and have now missed her THREE TIMES!!! But my loss is my friend Sherry Davis’s gain. Sherry covered my

Nevershoutnever’s, Christofer Drew Ingle just scored major cool points with me. I am not a huge fan, but suddenly the boy just earned some major props. Seems Warped Tour Sponsor

I’ve admired Kevin Greenspon’s work with his label Bridgetown since catching his labels band Cloud Nothings open for Titus Andronicus around the begining of Spring. I raved about Cloud Nothings

Admiral Radley is Aaron Espinoza, Ariana Murray from Earlimart and Jason Lytle, Aaron Burtch from Grandaddy, and they were playing a free show yesterday in the ‘Also I like to

Having gone nearly a week from either writing or reading rock nyc, and after nerly giving young Helen Bach a nervous breakdown with worry, I come back to find it