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  In 1979 I worked the night shift  at a bar on 39th and 3rd and we were friends with the gay bar across the street. We’d share ice (back […]

Do I have a problem with My Michelle, the Moscow band who started their career from their hometown on the Chinese border?   I have a few. 1. I don’t

I swear to God this past week was brutal.  More fighting and flailing then I care to chronicle.  Snow that wont stop crashing down parts of my house and the

    The White Stripes may have definitively broken up but another couple seems to have captured a lot of interest lately, and judging from the crowd at the Echo

Turn To Dust – Boy George – Though the rhythm isn’t slippery (and doesn’t connect hard enough), this ain’t bad. Missing Teeth – Vanity Theft – This one misses, a

1. California – My Michelle – A “lovefool” redux with Tania’s radientce a more positive glow than anything either Nina or Cali can muster right now. 2. Be Mine (Wasted

There are some bands in life, you hate on principle. I mean, we may well be a blog, and therefore have no standards of morals, but … cmon. Linkin Park???

Henry Rollins and I were discussing the Mid-West scene when I brought up New Jersey’s basement concerts.  My friend Joe Steinhardt’s Don Giovanni Records. “Ah yeah, I know them,” he

  If my life has no value now and no value after, when does my life have value? If everything you do doesn’t matter, at what point does it matter

Being a lowly paid writer at the time, I could barely afford to pay for one night of Costello’s five nights on Broadway in 1987, and I couldn’t get his

I must be feeling extra hip this February, because again I find myself in Willyburg at The Music Hall for yet another show, after managing last weeks SOLD OUT Blockhead

Sitting on my buddy’s couch, jaw dropped to the floor with a grin stretching ear to ear, I could hardly comprehend the spectacle coming from the iPad in front of

You know how we say that a song has grown on us, the first impression was not the best, but after listening to it several times we finally like or

“I come from a rock mentality, so I like a bit of chaos. It’s a gig, y’know? If someone asks me to sing or play, that’s what I do. It’s

What is this epidemic of secret shows in LA? Yesterday there was an Arcade Fire secret gig in the work, and it is now happening next week in a LA

    1. Take your Shirt Off – MEN – This is Le Tigre’s foray into hybrid dance rock band and every single song I’ve heard has been awesome. Very

I wrote about the best PR people a couple of years ago. When you run a very, very content heavy music blog like rock nyc, a good PR person makes

“Not no Parkay, not no margarine, strictly butter baby, strictly butter,” raps A Tribe Called Quest’s Q-Tip on the fourth track “Butter” of their second album The Low End Theory

The New Music Seminar (NMS) is happening in Los Angeles on February 14-16 at the Sheraton Universal Hotel, and our own Woody Fuller is attending it! It is a seminar

  I  was happy to return to Under St Marks Theatre for another weekly dose of Penny’s open mic. This venue’s stick is rapidly rising on my favorite weekday chill

Here is the Screaming Females clip off Carson Daly from Tuesday. It is really cool seeing bands you love moving up, and cmon, Carson says here how when people ask

Mick Jagger. Today he sorta looks like a wrinkly old suede drape.  Its really sorta scary and I think I lost a quarter in the crevices of his face.  I

  hear Black Swan is good… Isnt WWF on? Fuck that I’m interviewing Henry Rollins

 love the new cover.  Vices and Virtues looks like old Panic! doesn’t it?  Cept the couch is sorta empty. Wait is that Ryan or Jon in the mask? hmmmm But that

  There was a twitter discussion going on this afternoon between Scott Rodger, Arcade Fire manager whom I’m following since the Vincent Moon story, and his followers. Early yesterday, Rodger

  Songs Of Ascent, the eagerly dreaded new U2 album, is threatening to be dropped on our head from a great distance May, 27th. begging a reply to th following

Frank would be singing “We’re Not Gonna Take It” if he were to hear Dee’s version of “Very Good Year”. I wanted to love it but it sucks so bad

  The problem here is simple enough. Britney says of her new album, cover And name above: “I’ve poured my heart and soul into this album over the last 2

1. Close To Me – The Cure – Helen thinks Robert sounds as if he is having lotsa, er, self appreciated fun. I disagreed till I watched the video helen

American Idol went to Texas and my lord was it torture.  Everyone thinks that just because they live in Texas they have to sing like they’re country stars.  And could

  It is a sad day. The White Stripes have officially called it quits.  No, not hiatus.. done. official: The White Stripes would like to announce that today, February 2nd,

This story is probably far from being over. Yesterday Iman was reporting that Vincent Moon, who made a documentary about Arcade Fire, had some beef with the leaders of the

I MISSED IT! Last year, between Screaming Females and Noun, Marissa  Paternoster, lead two of my fave bands and albums. This year, I have already heard her on a coupla

British extreme metal legends Cradle of Filth embarked on their Creatures from the Black Abyss Tour in support of their new album Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa last night in Houston,

  To be in nyc in 2011is to be the definition of battered brainless through one storm after another. And for music to not be its saving grace. I missed

Andrew Bagg, better known by his alias DJ Cobra, is one of Cali’s best Djs, and has somehow managed to stay under the radar for quite some time, until now.

Thats Lol on the far right. Mr Keyboard Man of The Cure. I will love this group so much til the day I drop dead and every time I hear

The hardcore police would come take my X away if I didn’t mention this.   The Agnostic Fronts latest album will drop on March 22.  This band was THE band back

Los Angeles blasphemous-provocateur rappers, Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All, aka OFWGKTA will do the Jimmy Fallon show on February 16th! I don’t know how they are going to

People thought it was Bowie. Well the untrained hipsters did. Bowie was recording under the name Edwyn Collins. Yeah that was crap Edwyn was a real person.  A nice Scottish

Cheap shot? Yeah. F.A.M.E. Browns new lp has an official release date of March 22. “No BS,” Brown’s most recent single is # 3 on the R&B/Hip-Hop chart He’s just graduated

1. Mission Bell – Amos Lee 2. Show Some Compassion – Cake 3. Kiss Each Other Clean – Iron And Wine 4. Pink Friday – Nicki Minaj 5. Doo Wopps

Mob mentality. Makes me hate mankind more than anything else.  You get one jerk off to ‘love’ something cuz its ‘so funny’ and then next thing you know… Saturday Night

1. I Heard You Say – Vivian Girls – It is ALWAYS about melody in pop music, whatever the form. 　 2. I Need A Doctor – Dr. Dre –

  So here is the lowdown on Citigrpup- Terra Firma – EMI 1. EMI have a strong publishing arm but the rest of their biz was going South for the

  In a world of egotistically monsters, anybody who hadn’t figured that Win Butler wasn’t a complete asshole has either 1. Not read rock nyc or 2. Hasn’t been paying

  The more digital technology that spawns from life, the less life we get to live. Life can be summed up by one word: Memory. We can’t see into the

Electronic music seems so foreign to me sometimes, I find it draining, the absence of musical instruments on stage and the whole knob turning business always give me the impression