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Saint Motel was playing at the Hammer Museum Thursday night in the ‘Also I like to Rock’ series sponsored by KCRW, a LA radio which has been playing their song

The Feelies are idiots. Who wants to go to fucking Maxwell’s. Why play three nights at Maxwells? Just give me one night at Mercury -that’s all I’m asking for. Anyway.

Three of the people in the picture above are dead. The past is so far away… no, you can’t touch it… sorry. Anyway, I took the boring bastards at Pitchfork’s

I took this off Idolator… except the comments of course… Susan Boyle, I Dreamed A Dream -I still have nightmares about that “Wild Horses’ cover. Ke$ha, Animal -Is there a

Now here is the best piece of gossip I’ve heard in awhile… Chris Brown used eyedrops to fake crying at the BET Awards. I wonder what is worse: Fake crying

This is Lady Gaga’s little rental pied a terre in L.A. Cost? 25K a month. And they say money can’t buy happiness Hmmm… back to the “delirious” story… Jake sleeps

You know how I was funning bruce for releasing Darkness On The Edge Of Town? Well, that doesn’t apply to David Bowie’s Station To Station, which will be reissued as

This is one of those posts where we are stealing so much, I feel a little bit uncomfortable. So I tell you what. I will give clashmusic half of the

I dunno why we bother covering Justin Bieber. Call it an eccentricity but I find it so much fun. It’s like the posts have their own internal irony. You don’t

If you follow Beck’s Record club, you already know that Beck meets with musician friends to record an album in a day, and ‘Kick’ of INXS, ‘The Velvet Underground &

Here are the Lilith cancels. 10 dates in all… PR said some crap about the toughest summer tour season ever. Usana Amphitheater in Salt Lake City (July 12); Bell Centre

Gossip headlines? It is better than writing… Dolly Parton Defends Saucy Cyrus Christina Aguilera has revealed she sings songs from Disney film ‘Mary Poppins’ to her son Max to send

Bill Aucoin, Kiss manger, died this week at the age of 66. I went to his offices once when Billy Idol was starting out, I was interviewing Billy for Creem.

This is a non story for me. Solange Knowles quit her sister beyonce Junior Miss fashion line Dereon. Solange said: “I initially was involved as the spokesperson, but the clothes

Helen sent me this which she got off roadrunner record’s website. This is an update on the condition of Madina Lake’s bassist Mathew Leone, brutally beaten trying to protect a

Whoops, it would be # 2 on my top ten albums of the year so far!!! I swear I consider it an equal of Marshall Crenshaw’s first album. It is

1. The Monitor – Titus Andronicus 2. This Is Happening – LCD Soundsystem 3. Raymond Vs Rayomnd – Usher 4. Animal – Ke$ha 5. Contra – Vampire Weekend 6. Heaven

Mike Nessing has had Lana Mir’s first album, to be released in August, on heavy rotation for us. I’ve been listening to it myself. I think it is not the

rock nyc writer Woody Fuller is an all round new world rocker and he was asking arund about cheap recording software. My friend, the great singer songwriter Wesley Wolfe,  had

So how did Eminem sell 740K the first week you ask? According to MTV.com: 1) Hit single. 2) Plenty of promotion 3) New producers Eminem is always gonna be big,

Wavves newbie is streaming at  http://www.fatpossum.com/promo_pages/wavves It is called King Of the Beach and it is so energetic , so melodic and fast and noisy and fun you gotta think

1. Sink/Let It Sway – Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin – OK, I worship this song. 2. Power – Kanye West – The asshole line is awful but a

Material or hypocritical girl? Madonna seems to want to raise her daughter strictly, so after dumping Lurdes father, a boy toy Madonna hooked up with, madonna hooked up with a

A BBC documentary, ‘The Agony and Ecstasy of Phil Spector’ will screen for a week in August at the Egyptian Theatre (American Cinematheque) in Hollywood, and I will try to

1. California Gurls – Kate Perry 2. Love The Way You Lie (feat Rihanna) – Eminem 3. OMG – Usher 4. Airplane – B.o.B. 5. Billionaire – Travis McCoy 6.

Wu Tang Clan ain’t nothing to fuck with. Before i had ever heard any Wu Tang songs, I heard this story.. Some NYC writer wrote an article about Wu Tang,

Here is the cover of the Kanye West single “Power” which I’ve streamed and which I do like a whole lot, really I do. But which seems to me to

This is what happens when you write non stop about music: Your brain begins to ooze out of your ears and you run out of things, not to say, because,

The Hop Farm Family Park, near East Peckham in Kent, England, is known for its outdoor music festival and today and tomorrow, Van Morrison and Bob Dylan are the headliners.

New York Magazine sent this to me and here is a question… Who would you spend the night on the sidewalks of new york to see? 1) john lennon 2) Louis

OK, so what is happening in the world of love, peace, good vibes, fine sounds? “James Blunt is celebrating after smashing the world record for the highest-ever live gig, snatching

Too many cut and pastes today… Old news is like old pop, it looses its fresh appeal. It becomes like The-Dream where a day is way past its expiration date.

I am so not in the mood to write today. I feel like taking a day off and my writing totally sucks -I got very little sleep last night and

I got this email from Helen from the wilds of vacationland: “The bassist for madina lake was beaten unconscious while intervening in a domestic dispute to assist some woman- I

Grace is a rare gift, very few people have it, it’s something you notice right away when you see someone who has it, you cannot explain it, but you just

Kevin Hoskins, the booker for Boston rock club is moving to booking at the club Emo’s in Austin. Why am I telling you this? Because I haven’t been to Boston

OK, this is the must see show of the summer. At Central Park. Aufust 4th (a wednesday so you prolly hafta pay -i hafta check)… Holy Ghost and Hercules +

While  in Barcelona Spain, I went to my first rave at the largest club in all of Europe, Razzmatazz. Girl Talk was headlining that show, and it was in-fucking-credible! Could

Just as Thom York did his solo thing with ‘The Eraser’ and Jonny Greenwood his with movie soundtracks, Radiohead drummer Phil Selway will release his solo album ‘Familial’ on August

With Helen Bach on vacation, herre is a birthday shout out!! Angela Trimble, Debbie Harry, Blondie, ex-playboy bunny, punk icon of the 70’s and Andy Warhol’ s friend is 65

Another record I’m listening to this summer is “Odessa” by the Bee Gees. I’ve always meant to pick it up and give it a spin but for whatever reason, it

California is all about beach, surf and music, you know the Beach Boys and all this surf music,… what a perfect combination! Huntington beach will host the 2010 US Open

I hate Live nation with a passion. Bought a tix for Titus Andronicus’s September 25th gig at webster Hall. The tix was $16.00 and the cost after they put their

Eminem has sold nearly 800K copies of his latest album!! I can’t get hold of the bi;;board hot 100 (I should have it soonish) but to be perfectly honest I am

1. On And Ever Onwards – Bjork And Dirty Projectors – You think you’ve heard it but you haven’t heard it till you’ve heard it 2. One Of My Kind

In which Bob Lefsetz gets it half right in writing about Livenation and the falling apart of the rock concert tix, this is what he wrote: “Only investors who can

This is what Rufus Wainwright had to say about crystal myth: “Once ingested it totally works against who you are as a person. It takes every taboo and insecurity and

The eagerly awaited seven song EP collobaration between Dirty Projectors and bjork is finally available for a $7 contribution from Dominos Records and I for one think it is up