rock nyc

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

The print boys NYC decided yesterday was opening day for the terrible, except for ten minutes here and there, Spiderman: Turn Off The Dark (what the hell does that mean…

The New Yorker has a pretty damaging article about Scientology, ‘The Apostate, Paul Haggis vs. the Church of Scientology’, by Lawrence Wright, which at last, denunciates the weird homophobia obsession

Yeeeeesss… one of the greatest bands on the Planet, TV On The Radio, are back after two years. The follow up to one of the great albums, Dear Science, will

To Daft or not to Daft?  That was the question posed to me as I stood in front of a rack of records contemplating which album I should buy next. 

Remember about the Foo Fighters secret show in LA? It turned out to be at the famous Roxy, the same club where Woody’s band, Shinobi Ninja, is going to play

The NYP has begun to digital archive with 300,000 pages from the Leonard Bernstein years, from 1943 to 1970 added just this Thursday. Soon to include more than 1,000 conducting scores.

Luke Jenner from the Rapture, Chris Glover from Penguin Prison, and Michael McDonald!!! Those re the guests on the eagerly, like gagging for it, debut album by Holy Ghost!. One

1. “JejuneStars” is all that. No, it isn’t “June On The West Coast” but that’s the worst thing you can say about it. Song of the year (so far) 2.

Bayside released one of the songs off their new album, “Mona Lisa”, and it seems that name is showing up everywhere- Panic! At The Disco released a clip of “The

Have you ever noticed that Madonna is always masturbating during her videos?” “Heh, hem, yeah, so am I.”” “I hate when mimes get in your face and don’t say anything.”

If you visit Red Cortez website (http://www.redcortez.com) in February, you will be able to download a different free EP each week! And there are 4 of them! Red Cortez is

No Mike Brown, but  bassist Tom Finn, of rock nyc faves from the 1960’s, the Left Banke, has been winking about a reunion since last year . Well it is

You may know the name John Carpenter from these Halloween horror movies, but it’s also the name of a multi-instrumentalist guy who is fronting a band playing a haunting and

Hit The Lights – Jay Sean Take Me Over – Cut Copy Just Tonight – The Pretty Wreckless Roll Up – Wiz Khalifa Born To Lose – Motorhead Blue Skies

 Singles released today: Chipmunk featuring Chris Brown – Champion Duke Spirit – ‘Kusama E.P’ Eric Prydz – ‘Niton’ Fenech Soler – ‘Demons’ Gruff Rhys – ‘Senasations In The Dark’

1. Jejune Stars – Bright Eyes – This song is so good it singlehandedly changed my mind about the album. I can’t express my appreciation of this song in high

The problem with Black Eye Peas at the Super Bowl is the same as they had when they played at MSG last year. They kinda suck live. They are the

 It happened all so fast. A quick email to Henry Rollins contact and within 3 days I was hooked up and ready to speak with him. That fast, that

 Far from Moscow, a website created by David MacFadyen, professor of Slavic languages and literatures at the University of California, Los Angeles, is dedicated to new music from Russia,

YAY Mayday Parade announced the title of their upcoming EP and artwork. The EP, titled Valdosta, will be released on March 8th.  I’m beyond excited to hear something new from

Canadian-born singer songwriter Todd Koal recently released his new EP “The Spirit is Flow,” a self-described work of “transcendent acoustic pop,” that features smooth vocals and is permeated with an

Before Tennis, two bands performed at the Echo on Friday, Lord Huron whom I was seeing for the third time with the same great pleasure. Having already written two times

 Breathe Carolina are two really fun boys. We interviewed them in and were captivated by their quiet cool but almost bashful demeanor. Great contrast to the public and stage persona

I was offered a free ticket to check out Dustbowl revival, a band from Venice California, which was playing at the Mint on Saturday night. In a day and age when

Charlene Kaye was in Brooklyn Friday night, playing a bowling alley called “Gutter”. And though informed a week ago by, I didn’t get to the email till Saturday morning, and

1. Jessie J – ‘Price Tag’ 2. Bruno Mars – ‘Grenade’ 3. Ke$ha – ‘We R Who We R’ 4. Adele – ‘Rolling In The Deep’ 5. Enrique Iglesias feat.

The first act at the Echo on Friday night was Air Waves, a band from Brooklyn New York, who was playing for the first time in Los Angeles. Frontwoman Nicole

1. Adele – ’21’ 2. Chase & Status – ‘No More Idols’ 3. Bruno Mars – ‘Doo Wops & Hooligans’ 4. Adele – ’19’ 5. Rihanna – ‘Loud’ 6. Eva

Irish rocker and former Thin Lizzy guitarist Gary Moore, has died in his sleep yesterday at the age of 58, while he was on holiday in Spain. He joined Thin

1. Hang With Me – Robyn – Not for nothing, but my review was terrible. Oh well, next. 2. Dancing Queen – ABBA – No, “Hang With Me” was the

c’mon everyone move on up.. come up.  Get out of your seats come closer all of you in front take 2 steps forward.  What?  Wait the lady with the Bud

And I haven’t seen em live ONCE!! But I will be at MSG April 11th (a Monday, but I would go if it was a Sunday). Cmon Murphy, maybe we