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System Of A Down front man Serj Tankian will release a new studio album, titled “Imperfect Harmonies”, on September 7th. Everyone loves Serj and he resembles Zappa. A track from […]

1. Eminem – ‘Recovery’ 2. Oasis – ‘Time Flies’ 3. Black Eyed Peas – ‘The End’ 4. Example – ‘Won’t Go Quietly’ 5. Lady Gaga – ‘The Fame’ 6. Alicia

When discussing the late Michael Jackson a coupla things are absolutely certain: 1) He was out of his fucking mind 2) The Tell-All Bio can not possibly live up to

Admiral Radley, a new band born from two old ones, Grandaddy (Jason Lytle, Aaron Burtch) and Earlimart (Aaron Espinoza and Ariana Murray), will release their first album ‘I heart California’

Congrats to Helen, Mary, Alyson , Woody and Todd. This is our 5000th post in little over a year. I appreciate all their great writing and I appreciate all the readers!!!

MIA and Interpol headlined an art/music conglom I didn’t even hear about till it was too late to score a tix, at the Milk Complex for something called (and I

You should check out the youtube where Wavvves (aka Nate Williams) (triple vv optional) drummer leaves the band mid concert never to return. I spent the weekend obsessing over the

How was your weekend? Mine fucking rocked! Had a ridiculously awesome time, ( minus the USA loss, which mimicked the the Mariana Trench on my fun meter), and received a

Meatloaf claims to have wanted to change his name since 1972, because he worried people wouldn’t take him seriously. Yeah, it’s the name that made people not take him seriously..

When I was sixteen I was burying my dad and in the Moslim religion they have these blind blokes singing the Koran by the grave. Really beautiful ululations, acapella, the

OK, why am I telling you this? I dunno, maybe just a reminded hat everybody starts somewhere, so when, one day, weeks and weeks from now, when we’re giving all

The great Stephen Holden (a fave writer of mine for decades) has an excellent overview of the next generation  purveyors of the American Songbook: “Kelli O’Hara, Maude Maggart, Nellie McKay,

Death suits the Kinks, a band both younger at first and older in the middle, than they were, very well. We’ve missed em for years and years and years anyway.

If you have a 7 hour car ride like me to wherever you’re vacationing, the only thing that’s gonna save you is a satisfying playlist. 1. Your English is Good-

Whenever anybody takes the time to follow rock nyc I check em out because i know one of two things: a) they are cool or 2) they are idiots who

Or I stole it off youtube… it is diabolical by the way but if you wanna see the Edge and the guy who is nailing Kate Hudson, please don’t let

Wavves song “No Hope Kids” is difficult to listen to but makes you a bit reflective at the same time. Almost representing that of a completely different era, a different

Lets face it, just be honest Gary Numan? Hot. Weird but hot. 30 years ago he wanted to stay in his car where he felt safest of all. He flies

The way we process the music, the melodies, the lyrics we remember is complex and involves the emotional part of the brain. When we hear them again, right away there

Beck has written songs for the upcoming movie ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’, an adaptation of the comic series by Bryan Lee O’Mailey, directed by Edgar Wright (Hot Fuzz, Shaun

1. Omar Souleyman – At Central Park, er, yesterday… Syrian dance man. As I write  (Saturday morning) I’m twistng in the wind… Omar or US bound to be beaten by

So I took this lock, stock, picture and quote off rolling stone written by Austin Scaggs (another bloke i have no time for, austin scaggs, ever since i read about him

And Eminem and Jay-Z… just follow here. 1. Cmon, I haven’t seen Eminem live since the Curtains tour plus the new album didn’t suck as bad as I thought it

In 1982, around the time Somewhere In the Stars was released, I did a phoner with Rosanne Cash for East Village Eye. And if you’ve heard the album I shouldn’t

1. Wedding Day In Funeralville – Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band – From yet another album where Conor is the best thing on it. 2. Tempo di Amor

The xx. Britains art answer to the altpop scene. Oh how the masses cheer them Personally, I dont get it but I have a low tolerance for the whole image

No, not that Shea Stadium -jerk. The nightclub in Corona,Queens, where after Wavves gig at the Knitting Factory, (with rock nyc faves cloud nothings opening), the after party at Shea

Scream – Ozzy Osbourne – Been there, done that Hung – Sountrack – Very nice, the Black Keys song is terrific, and Sharon Jones is here, “LOVE MY WAY”!! To

Back in the day, when men and women were persecuted for their sexual orientation, I supported gay pride in its every permutation. Today? Isn’t it all a little whatever? What’s

Shoulda gone to summerstage Ghana 2 – USA 1

Fuzzy G has all the unfocussed energy of youth on his side. On his Mixtape It’s Our Time, he grabs you, throws you against the wall, and hits you and

This is schocking. Shocking. Sultry, lovely Los Angeles  chanteuse Nicole Simone is A GIGGLER. No, honestly. I’ve been listening to her debut EP Nicole Simone for months (and writing about it for

Yesterday was the one-year anniversary of Michael Jackson’s death, and there were several places fans could go to pay homage, the Neverland ranch, the Jackson family’s home in Encino, the

Hey now that we’ve all had the hugs from ten thousand lightning bugs its time for Owl City to cough up something new. Adam Young told MTV “At the moment,

Set to start in three days time and Lilith Fair is cancelling many, many dates due to low sales. I wouldn’t go if you paid me, but Sarah McClachlan’s new

AC/DC’s  Malcolm and Angus Young won best songwriters of the year at the APRA Awards in Australia two days ago. Apparently nobody ACTUALLY WRITES SONGS in Australia anymore. Temper Trap and

Happy Happy Birthday Mick Jones born today June 26 1955. The Clash man with the pipes of satin. Often blamed for the break up of the band, years later Joe

Michael Jackson Fans Pay Tribute Outside Forest Lawn Cemetery ‘He was like my brother, a family member,’ one fan says Drake Visits Grandmother In Exclusive ‘Better Than Good Enough’ Outtake.

This is the story of deuces wild. I’ve only written about Glastonbury and Vanilla Ice once before. About Vanilla? I wrote how he was playing at the opening of a

Writing todays fave tracks, I had stuff I wanted to say, not necessarily about the music, for a number of tracks so I will try this new way of doing

And what, you ask, is our excuse for this? Easy, it is Keith Richards kid, former James Jagger squeeze, Alexandra Richards. She posed naked for Playboy Europe. She also DJ’s

Here is cute as a button Cloud Nothing -so wonderful opening for Titus Andronicus earlier this year at Bowery Ballroom. And there is a song you can download and a

I am sorry but it just is. I got it off Chart Attack and they got it off complex. I will give you the link in a minute. Anyway, ready?

The best piece of writing about modern pop music is in this week’s New York magazine. I’ve written glowingly about Dr. Luke, the New York producer behind everything from “Since

Pete Quaife, one of the founding members and original bassist for British pop group , The Kinks has died. The cause of death is not certain, but Quaife had been

Holy ghost! the crowd was locked in on every syllable change that the 9 person ensemble had to give us. I started in the way back of Le Poisson Rouge,

Just like the creepy kid in elementary school that if you’d pretend to be their friend would give you the cake from their lunchbox, Fearless Records is gonna give you

A relatively new LA band, ‘Fitz and the Tantrums’ was playing yesterday night at Spaceland, and there was a giveaway on theradiofreesilverlake website. ‘Fitz and the Tantrums’ have benefited from

Teen r&B chanteuse, 15 year old Jessica Jarrel is Justin Bieber’s opening act on his “My World”. She’s not bad, sweet voice, by the numbers bubblegum song in “Almost Love