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Friday night Alesana took stage in shirt and ties and ripped the roof off of the Webster Theater.

I don’t know if her way with a tune will ever be duplicated

Skrillex kills it again

UGH UGH UGH

Yes, I could do these on a desert island

Shawn Rosenblatt performed complicated songs with heavily layered arrangements behind hyper-melodies full of hooks and soaring choruses

one is real and one is not

James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem just won my coolest dude of the year award for his humble yet rocker response to his fantatstic 2 second sell out of Madison Square

    I don’t think Chris sang He got caught up in the NY scene and felt like one of the Jets or Sharks or something. For the longest time

Dear Decemberists, What happened?  Why are you doing REM covers?  “Cuyahoga”?  Really? I wish I could explain to you how scared I am.  I don’t understand what you’re doing.  Are

When A Sunset Tragedy got onto the stage at The Space, I knew already that I was going to be impressed.  These guys have a raw and unique sound, and

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With lines like ‘Since my phone still ain’t ringing I’ll assume It still ain’t you’, sung on such a happy guitar, you would just think it is a humorous old-fashioned country song about uncomplicated things

this thing never stood a chance

The Vikings Are Coming!!

It’s still not you

rebel rebels…

If the girls are united

it helps to know that one of your biggest stars is gay and is not ashamed of something that must be so confusing for children who are gay.

　There is an insistence from slavery, to poverty, to gay rights: Don’t Disrespect Me.

“When they said it was John Lennon, I couldn’t believe it”

My feeling about the great guitarist, songwriter, and NON singer is that if he was a great singer his career would have lifted him even further. Oh and breaking up

strapping on the Life Alert

hahahahahahahaha

Look at it from the aliens point of view: Las Vegas? Salford? Las Vegas? Salford? Ahh, fuck legalized hookers and gambling, I’m going to Salford…

It costs $35 to copywrite a song

we’re all going on a summer holiday

Helen and I  got the great opportunity to interview Rocky Loves Emily’s keyboardist, Stephen Hull.  In the cozy upstairs room of Hamden, CT’s The Space, we were ready to get started.

Nick Lowe is a genius. Say what you will if you disagree you’re an idiot.  A brilliant writer and a talented performer and I have never seen him live. I

This morning on the way to work, my Ipod battery gave out. Seems the newer ones don’t charge automatically by simply being attached to the car radio like the older

Alyson Sez: There are so many artists scheduled to perform during next Sunday Grammy ceremony – if you can call Katy Perry and Justin Bieber artists – from Arcade Fire,

DJ Cobra’s newest album “illionaire” just was released in the end of January, and after being exposed to his debut “Iller”, which received a cool 1/4 million downloads, I was ready

Twitter is a strange thing! Now to be-up-to-date on anything, you may develop a page-refreshing-OCD, constantly checking your tweets to know the latest on the hottest news of the day!

Holy Jesus on a skateboard, what do I do? Acoustic Blue October at THE best venue in the world? Do I go? This is tough, Justin Furstenfeld is the ultimate

  Presenters for the 2011 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Awards have been announced. Can we take a minute to look at this trophy. Can we keep it G

Pete Wentz and Ashlee Simpson had gorgeous fairytale wedding. Three years later this very pretty couple have officially filed for divorce. Simpson is requesting primary physical custody of their son Bronx.

It’s almost Grammy times here in Los Angeles, the Super Bowl of the music business, and the mixing room inside the JW Marriott near by the Staples center where the

  I am almost delirious about seeing the wondrous Swedish dance star Robyn tonight at Radio City Music Hall. I am a huge fan and I coulda got suckered in

  Spinner has an awesome gift for you: What about 140 free songs of this year SXSW musical performers? I mean the list is too long to copy it here,

psyched for Fiona Apple…

From the opening strains “Don’t Stop Believing” nailed by Stephen Hull on the mighty keyboards, the night took off like a bullet of fun and energy. In the familiar and

A recently up and coming artist, Ellie Goulding, is hitting it hard right now. I found that her song, ‘No Guns and Horses’, combined with ‘Make Love’ by Daft Punk,

It was already damn dark inside the Bardot club, ‘Hello my name is Hanni El Khatib, and can we make it even more… dim?’ He wanted it darker and it

Former Beach Boy and frustrated dentist Al Jardine spilt the beans in a recent interview with The Examiner that Capitol Records plans to release the unfinished SMiLE tapes this summer

LCD Soundsystem presale tix available today at 10 am (via Pitchfork) on ticketmaster. Password? lastever. Also if you head down to Mercury Loung at the same time you can pick

One night after having dinner with the one of the creators of the famous Camp Bisco, an upstate music festival centered around the Disco Biscuits, here I am reviewing Marc

What the hell is the world coming to when Motorhead is hawking Shiraz? Shouldn’t they be upping their cool with guns or knives or even ale but…..Shiraz? Wine glasses? Why

We may need to buy Iman a round-trip ticket for either Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Vancouver or Portland in April, because that’s a bill he cannot miss! His two fav, Bright Eyes

A few weeks ago Iman mentioned Sham 69 and not lovingly.  More like please don’t reunite I knew this day was coming.. the birthday of the lead blokey Couldn’t wait

I do my best to hate the coffee shop scene.  That bare legged girl with no makeup and the thrift shop dress whining about a cantaloupe or some strain of