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The Mighty Mighty Bosstones got some mighty mighty nerve to take on a remake of The Pretenders “2000 Miles”. I […]

Perhaps you recall the Silent Recording gimmick.  Where musicians are recording dead air and you can buy it with the

Taylor Swift’s World Domination Nearly Complete Funny right. I said funny not hysterical. Off Gawker (you can tell my ideas

Watching music writers trying to come to grips with Kanye West’s newbie has been a straight blast. The album brings

 Tis the season to be inundated with mostly breathtakingly crappy Christmas songs, original or covers, all awful, all useless,

The Tower Records on Broadway and West 4th was one of my fave hangouts in the city. Back in the

New york times has a pretty good list and review of box sets you might wanna give… me.!!! Here are

So hey speaking of Broadway…. Billie Joe Armstrong is back for 50. Fifty performances as St Jimmy, in the Broadway

The great jazz pianist Dave Brubeck, back from medical leave, played a three night stand at the Blue Note over

What were you doing at 5am yesterday?  I was out cold but Iman was running about in his boxers buying

Some readers (well,maybe one of you) will remember me raving over Bret Easton Ellis’s excellent sequel to “Less Than Zero”,

On last nights 60 Minutes, Lesley Stahl performed an extended infomercial for Bono, The Edge and Julie Taymor’s eagerly something

 Not only do I hate Pitchfork but I also think their 10/10 review of the new Kanye West is

Good news for all rock criticism lovers, the best living rock critic is back. You can read the former music

Is the cover of this piece of crap Holiday offering supposed to be quirky and funny?  Cuz its just as

So, now that Thanksgiving is out of the way, Christmas is up next. Here’s a playlist to get you into

New York Magazine’s deconstruction of the Spiderman On Broadway seems pretty ace on first glance (I’ve skimmed it but will

Did you know, and i didn’t know, that if you go on Spin.com you can download 13 songs directly from

Quincy Jones, the legendary composer producer, really tells what he thinks. It is not the first time he speaks out

Its a harsh reality of life that our idols are not those out curing disease or solving societies ills. We

Have you been to an Apple store lately? I went to one yesterday afternoon as I had a problem with

Patti Smith has received the U.S. National Book Award for non-fiction for her memoir, Just Kids.  Patti won this award

The Ray Charles Foundation sued Ray’s son Ray Charles Robinson, Jr for copyright infringement for using a picture of his

Elvis Costello’s ‘Imperial Bedroom’ was played inside the courtyard of the Hammer Museum on Tuesday night, and it was making

Dave Navarro, Slash and Gene Simmons are just three of the famed on this latest NOH8 campaign public service announcement.

This just in, as it were. Pamela “I’m With The Band” Desbarres, supergroupie uber alles, had this to say about

Any society that starts by putting itself in contradistinction to an aristocracy is about reinvention. It is about not being

A book that contains 200 photographs of any band, is certainly for a true fan of that band, and some

I went to see the Broadway musical”Rock Of Ages” again with my nephew, Samer. Samer is in his mid-30s and

Having just come back from seeing a local adaptation of this former Broadway Musical I just had to chime in

To me, Spiderman has been the most lame of all the Superheroes. Seriously the dude got bit by a spider…

Glam rock made bi-sexuality (you’ve heard of coming out: rock stars came half out) cool and its step brother homo was

Raz B is a busy boy. After taking back allegations that B2K’s manager Chris Stokely molested him, Raz B claimed

Channel surfing on Halloween, I stumbled upon the old black and white TV show the Addams Family starring John Astin

Being the involved theatre kid that I am(proudly a member of The International Thespian Society), I was listening to a

“Bill Carter had grown up working on the local political campaigns from when he was in college, so he knew

Ricky Martin has gone on Oprah to explain the coming out process a little: “When I realised, OK, I just

I was wrong.  the Drums are a great band and I didn’t know what I was writing about when I

I had essentially decided to pass on Keith Richard’s “Life:” here is why: 1. I spend all my spare time

One of the original rock ’n’ roll  45’s was almost never recorded. “Tutti Frutti” was cut by Little Richard and

The statistics regarding the amount of gays in the population fluctuate considerably but 10% is probably close to reality according

 So what’s this sudden obsession with gay rock stars?” Helen asked me after I’d requested a homosexual slant to

In 1975  a little film called The Rocky Horror Picture Show came out and coolz all over the world discovered

“People say ‘why don’t you give it up?’ I don’t think they quite understand. I’m not doing it just for

When exactly did jay-Z begin taking himself so seriously? I mean, wasn’t he a fun bad boy at some points

Music is going to Hell.  Freakin Metal Kings are making crepes for Gods sake. Hard rockers should be eating burgers

Besides killing off some of the most gifted artists in the world, the “gay disease” decimated the inroads gay society

I plan to write about homosexuals and pop music over the next couple of weeks.I mentioned it in passing a

A singalong about filial adoration from the New Wave London gay pride band from the 70s Tom Robinson. Violent, East

I have been relatively blegh over Nicki Minaj’s claim of bisexuality where she is apparently a homosexualist. If she was