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 Billboard’s artist of the year? Well done to the Gaggy one. 　 But may I please beging the backlash although to be honest I don’t think there is all […]

Ever see a new song and get all stoked cuz its one of your favorite performers and you weren’t expecting anything? Yeah me too, well sometime its just not meant

I love Stephen Holden, he is a great critic, and his review of Rufus Wainwright mentioned some things I didn’t and some things I couldn’t. But seemed to miss the

Christgau needs to cut the word count on his new Consumer Guide. And he also needs to rethink the entire “A” albums only concept. What we want is a mix

1. Kanye West, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy 2. The Black Keys, Brothers 3. Elton John and Leon Russell, The Union 4. Arcade Fire, The Suburbs 5. Jamey Johnson, The

01 Kanye West- My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy02 Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest03 Arcade Fire – The Suburbs04 LCD Soundsystem – This Is Happening05 Jamey Johnson – The Guitar Song06 Janelle

You gotta hand it to the bore boys of rock Pitchfor, their “Worst Album Covers Of 2010: is a who is who of what were they thinking of. The Elliott

The band Bayside have released a Christmas song that actually is fantastic.   Its hard to believe the sexy hardcore beasts from Queens can make a traditional holiday hymn not

”Next time you’re watching one of those stately period films — the kind where aristocrats in splendid, elaborate costumes parade through lavish palaces — you might consider that the characters

Early in the “Radio Happy Hour” Saturday afternoon, a live variety show not actually being produced for radio, I could feel the audience relax as one and roll with it.

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones got some mighty mighty nerve to take on a remake of The Pretenders “2000 Miles”. I do like MMB’s sound, vocalist, Dickey Barrett is unique and raspy

Perhaps you recall the Silent Recording gimmick.  Where musicians are recording dead air and you can buy it with the proceeds going to charity. Great idea, minimal investment… seriously videotape

Taylor Swift’s World Domination Nearly Complete Funny right. I said funny not hysterical. Off Gawker (you can tell my ideas are drying up when I start in on Gawker). Here

Watching music writers trying to come to grips with Kanye West’s newbie has been a straight blast. The album brings out the worst in everybody who goes near it and

 Tis the season to be inundated with mostly breathtakingly crappy Christmas songs, original or covers, all awful, all useless, all should be, as Scrooge once put it so wisely

The Tower Records on Broadway and West 4th was one of my fave hangouts in the city. Back in the day I would go on album buying marches from the

New york times has a pretty good list and review of box sets you might wanna give… me.!!! Here are some my local neighborhood Santa might think stuffing my stocking

So hey speaking of Broadway…. Billie Joe Armstrong is back for 50. Fifty performances as St Jimmy, in the Broadway production of American Idiot. You’ll recall Armstrong covered for Tony

The great jazz pianist Dave Brubeck, back from medical leave, played a three night stand at the Blue Note over the Thanksgiving weekend, ending each set with a rousing “Take

What were you doing at 5am yesterday?  I was out cold but Iman was running about in his boxers buying tickets to catch “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.”  . He got

Some readers (well,maybe one of you) will remember me raving over Bret Easton Ellis’s excellent sequel to “Less Than Zero”, “Imperial Bedrooms”. As unforgiving and unblinking a look at the

On last nights 60 Minutes, Lesley Stahl performed an extended infomercial for Bono, The Edge and Julie Taymor’s eagerly something or othered Spiderman: Turn Off The Dark. And it looks…

 Not only do I hate Pitchfork but I also think their 10/10 review of the new Kanye West is ridiculous. And that’s with me believing it to be the

Good news for all rock criticism lovers, the best living rock critic is back. You can read the former music editor of the Village Voice at his blog: http://social.entertainment.msn.com/music/blogs/expert-witness-blog.aspx As

Is the cover of this piece of crap Holiday offering supposed to be quirky and funny?  Cuz its just as lame as the songs it shrouds. Holiday music is important,

So, now that Thanksgiving is out of the way, Christmas is up next. Here’s a playlist to get you into a holiday spirit.   1. “30 Days”- NeverShoutNever! I hate

New York Magazine’s deconstruction of the Spiderman On Broadway seems pretty ace on first glance (I’ve skimmed it but will definitely read. Really, this is the story of two gargantuan

Did you know, and i didn’t know, that if you go on Spin.com you can download 13 songs directly from Itunes. For Free. Pretty good stuff as well: Killing Joke,

Quincy Jones, the legendary composer producer, really tells what he thinks. It is not the first time he speaks out his mind (he declared once to Details magazine he thought

Its a harsh reality of life that our idols are not those out curing disease or solving societies ills. We like glitzy hot rock stars covered in tattoos and attitude. 

Have you been to an Apple store lately? I went to one yesterday afternoon as I had a problem with my iPod, and it is Beatles, Beatles, Beatles everywhere. It

Patti Smith has received the U.S. National Book Award for non-fiction for her memoir, Just Kids.  Patti won this award of distinction as well as a check for $10,000.00.  Seems

The Ray Charles Foundation sued Ray’s son Ray Charles Robinson, Jr for copyright infringement for using a picture of his late father and quoting from his father’s songs for the

Elvis Costello’s ‘Imperial Bedroom’ was played inside the courtyard of the Hammer Museum on Tuesday night, and it was making completely sense for the very large crowd trying to get

Dave Navarro, Slash and Gene Simmons are just three of the famed on this latest NOH8 campaign public service announcement. The Lesbian Gay and Transgender outreach program basically saying things

This just in, as it were. Pamela “I’m With The Band” Desbarres, supergroupie uber alles, had this to say about the controversy surrounding Mick Jagger’s penis size: ” I beg to

Any society that starts by putting itself in contradistinction to an aristocracy is about reinvention. It is about not being what you were told you were. the embodiment of that

A book that contains 200 photographs of any band, is certainly for a true fan of that band, and some blogs, that will remain unnamed, were making a little bit

I went to see the Broadway musical”Rock Of Ages” again with my nephew, Samer. Samer is in his mid-30s and so of an age where the hair metal of the

Having just come back from seeing a local adaptation of this former Broadway Musical I just had to chime in on the soundtrack to this ‘age appropriate’ show. 13 has

To me, Spiderman has been the most lame of all the Superheroes. Seriously the dude got bit by a spider… big deal. To me, Spiderman the Broadway Musical will be

Glam rock made bi-sexuality (you’ve heard of coming out: rock stars came half out) cool and its step brother homo was waiting patiently in the wings before pub and  punk rock,

Raz B is a busy boy. After taking back allegations that B2K’s manager Chris Stokely molested him, Raz B claimed to have had a gay relationship with Bow Wow. The

Channel surfing on Halloween, I stumbled upon the old black and white TV show the Addams Family starring John Astin and Carolyn Jones. The episode in question is about Lurch

Being the involved theatre kid that I am(proudly a member of The International Thespian Society), I was listening to a few soundtracks over the weekend and truly saw how incredibly

Ricky Martin has gone on Oprah to explain the coming out process a little: “When I realised, OK, I just pressed send, whoo . I was alone. I was in

“Bill Carter had grown up working on the local political campaigns from when he was in college, so he knew almost everybody of importance in the state. And people he

I was wrong.  the Drums are a great band and I didn’t know what I was writing about when I dismissed them so cavalierly so often. During a swoony, exciting

I had essentially decided to pass on Keith Richard’s “Life:” here is why: 1. I spend all my spare time writing so I really have no time to read 2.

One of the original rock ’n’ roll  45’s was almost never recorded. “Tutti Frutti” was cut by Little Richard and produced by Robert “Bumps” Blackwell at Cosimo Matassa’s studio in