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In Rolling Stone,there is an interview with Bruno Mars where the writer is backstage at MSG when Katie Couric and her daughter meet and greet. After Couric leaves, he asks

There is an annoying trend going on in AltWorld. See bands are streaming songs or videos but to access them you’re going to need to do them a favor. “song

I remember when I a) not only participated in b) not only eagerly anticipated but c) considered it the state of the art in both rock criticism and rock music.

 Talk about how the other half live! Hypebot, my new go to website for the best tech stories imaginable, came up with this one. Paul Allen of Microsoft has

The surprise is not that the Beatles sold 5 million downloads in two months. The surprise is that so many people waited so long to buy a song by the

Sure I sound like an LCD Soundsystem song, “I was there, I was there…” . The difference is, how cool dya consider this? I was at Town Hall (in the

 The opening of (can’t we first fix the name?) “Spiderman: Turn Off The Dark” , the Broadway musical I reviewed (in previews) last year, has been put off again

Lookit these yo-yo’s, thats the way you do it.. Unless youre in Canada. Cuz they banned the song “Money For Nothing”, the TWENTY FIVE YEAR OLD SONG, cuz of the

 Hold It Against Me – Britney Spears – The auto-tune echoey vocals are cool, the beats slipping into dubstep are fabulous. But the song sucks in ways she hsn’t

A coupla days ago, Alyson Camus sent me the new Wavves song, which I like find though I’ll write about it some other time. What interested me was where it

On the heels of Trent reznor’s should be Academy Award nominated Soundtrack to “The Social Network”, arrives the news that he has been chosen to work on the film adaption

Hardline Entertainment, founded by Ken Seaton, is based in Hermosa Beach, CA and features some of the best up and coming bands in the West Coast alternative music scene, with

There is something both wonderful and heartbreaking about this pix, though I speak as a Gaga as opposed to daughter lover. In the world of reinvention, Gaga is up there

There are two things that excite me, going to a show of a band I really like, and going to a lecture by some scientist that I admire. I swear,

If you are waiting for the music connect? Tenuous true, but, here’s my excuse, the last play Tom Stoppard had produced on Broadway was “Rock And Roll” and, part of

I’ve held off doing my weekly round up of new releases because there hasn’t been too much out there and so I’ve kinda been dealing em all in my daily

Now that Fela has closed on Broadway, producer Jay-Z plans to move it to Nigeria. Er? Didn’t Nigeria birth it, what sorta cultural colonization is this meant to be??? Giving

According to Mike Riedel of the post, Bono and the Edge are in town to view the damage of their broadway disaster Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark. Here is  Mike’s suggestion

What a kick.  Myspace was THE social networking site.   Girls showed more boob guys showed more ab,  friends were made, smack was talked.   Then it got all rock

Damn I love this blog. Not only are they very smart and very right, Titus made their best of the year list and Kevin Greenspon wrote the best best of

Sean Yseult is the White Zombie bassist and she has released a book, “I’m in the Band: Backstage Notes From the Chick in White Zombie” -you know, Rob’s band. And

reviewing the new MIA mixtape, Spin wrote: “And on the banging “Illy Girl,” she gives shout outs to Michael Jackson’s “Billy Jean” and Bruce Springsteen.” And, and, and? Palestine (pronounced

1. LCD Soundsystem – This Is Happening 2. Peter Gabriel – Scratch My Back 3. Shelby Lynne – Tears, Lies And Alibis 4. V.V. Brown – Travelling Like The Light5.

What will become of Spiderman now his second lead acrtress, Natalie Mendoza who performs the role of Arcachne, has left the show.  I really don’t think it will effect it

Yes, I live such a huge cultural life I have actually seen (and own the soundtrack to) “By Jeeves”. So let me whinge, the ending sucked, and  let me commend,

No messing: the end of the first act, when Spiderman battles Green Lantern, every promise Julie Taymor has made as a savant  of the theatre is potentially answered. To say it

Merry X-mas to all!! (Even though I didn’t even realize it was Jesus/Santa’s birthday until about an hour ago.) Regardless, I am with my family, we are having a wonderful

It’s Christmas, and we need a Christmas song, what about the best one ever… what about ‘Fairytale of New York’ by the Pogues and Kirsty MacColl? It’s a powerful song,

Do you want a Christmas with Fitz and the Tantrums? They have released a song for this special day, and it’s called ‘Santa stole my Lady’. The song is pretty

Stuntman, Spiderman double, actor, 30 foot faller and the luckiest actor alive Chris Tierney isstill in hospital but is recuperating nicely and will be out today in time for Christmas.

Written in the 1500s and rewritten the 1850s before being translated into English, “Good King Wincelas” has always hit me as a beautiful piece of Christmas goddeledegoop. It is also

Arcade Fire – Naughty – Wim Butler is the Mr. Burns of rock. A creepy crawly who always ends up being naughty.Release the hounds. Bono – Naughty-  Over and above

“Merry Christmas Darling”, a 1970 tune, is one of a handful of “contemporary” Xmas melodies one can’t avoid hearing in the mall trawl from Thanksgiving till New Years Day. The

Sure, “Christmas In Harlem” is a great song. As good as “Christmas On Riverside Drive”? ” It’s A Big Country”? “Christmas Wrapping”? I dunno, i don’t thing so. That is

Of all the stories that give and give and give, the Spiderman On Broadway never stops giving. So as we post, Spiderman is back on Broadway and I will be

By 1988 I had quit writing rock criticism, was working at an advertising agency, and had completed two full length novels. The first, A Shadow Walks, I couldn’t sell and

1. Christmas On riverside Drive – August Darnell – It brings a calypso Christmas to Harlem and the spirit of the season, a style and sensibility. Now this is one

Folks. JINGLE A CHUNK ‘O CHANGE and contribute  to some worthy musical causes this holiday season. Here are a few last minute gift ideas — pass the hat and salve

There is something I kinda like about Chris Martin. Not the music of course. That’s just awful. But he seems to say the right thing: he is like the anti-Wim

Spiderman: Turned To Dark. The show has been cancelled by State officials till stringent new rules are put in effect. Essentially, as predicted earlier this week, that should do it.

Wow, this professor seems as mean as rock nyc is. In part of a rant on “n+1” Robert Nevin sent me, J.D. let the rock crits of the world take

Taking Back Sunday is looking for attention so lets do it. To release a holiday song the week of  Christmas is nothing more than a ‘HEY don’t forget US’, but

In Interview magazine there is a new interview of Conor Oberst, which allows us to know a little bit more about Bright Eyes’ upcoming album, The People’s Key. Although it

Here we go, troubled, dangerous, and, lest we forget, lousy music, Broadway musical “Spinderman: Turn Out The Dark” had another accident last night when a cable wire broke andan actor fell

Music magazines are like 5 bucks a pop.  They’re glossy they’re crusted with advertising for Axe and stuff.  Crap falls out of them and you subscribe and the next month

 HENDRICKS sez… “Vince is what you call a piano player.  That’s different from a pianist.  A pianist can play anything that you can put in front of him.  A

  It could change by tomorrow but for right now right this second here it is.   Christmas songs either hit you or they don’t.   These hit me. 1- Merry

So the side project of Story of The Year,   The Fuck Off and Die’s have a holiday offering.  I like it!  Its very short but its fun and this I think

The “troubled” “aerially impaired” “musically boring” and yet, cmon guys, it’s Julie Taymor, ‘Spiderman:Turn Off The Dark: Bono and Edge music written broadway musical has postponed opening day till mid-february.