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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.
X, the famous LA punk band has been around for 33 years and, tonight, they are performing a special show at the Anaheim House of Blues, ‘X-Mas with X’. After
Well now down at the trailer park when the boys get out of the plant they head on over to Lilly’s for a beer and a snort and then they
If you thought Jack Blacks animated Drummer Boy Peace On Earth sucked… you ain’t seen nothing yet. I love Will Ferrell and John C Reilly. I have been told I
Funniest article of the week. Judy Berman on Flavorwire’s “Stereotyping You By Your Favorite Album of 2010”. Not for nothing but my fave album of the year is the Monitor
I was watching ‘Wishful Drinking’ the one-woman show Carrie Fisher did for HBO, in which she exposed her whole life, starting from being Eddie Fisher’s daughter to Star Wars princess,
Why does Dan Aquilante have a job? In a typically godawful review of Michael, Aquilante shamed himself yet again. “…But it is Michael Jackson’s best album in years” Danny boy
Jon Parales had this to say about the nervously anticiaped first post-humous MJ album: “his posthumous career will not be a matter of simply revealing what was in his archives,
Remember these guys? Remember when Stipe looked healthy if not cute? And remember the ‘unibrow’…. sorta sets me back longing for the days of pop stars past… How times have
With all the joy of a naval exercise in the Pacific, the precise, fast moving, snapshot of the Hot 100 came to MSG one more time. And what a drag
1. Hey Soul Sister – Train 2. California Gurl – Katy Perry 3. Love The Way You Lie – Eminem 4. Airplanes – B.o.B 5. Dynamite – Taoi Cruz 6.
Pitchfork has an interview of Circle Jerks’ Keith Morris and Burning Brides’ Dimitri Coats who are now in the new punk band OFF!, and some of Morris’ prose is so
Los Campesinos. Now theres a band name I never thought I would type. Artsy hipster time. But I found some neat stuff. Apparently they DIY a quarterly fanzine called “Heat
