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So Mayday Parade, are currently in the studio(WOO!) because they’re recording a new acoustic EP.  It’s coming out on March 8th, and I’m beyond stoked.  Hopefully they go back to […]

  I intentionally chose this photograph not only for the football nod but cuz Eminems face makes me ill so its best I not have to see it and ruin

Hey remember Kesha!!! Yup about a year ago she was hotter than Georgia asphalt and we were pecking out a line or two on the two bit tart nearly daily.

  The Hangout Music Fest is working for a great cause, as last year it donated all its profit to the Gulf Coast Restoration efforts; it is back this year

Congratulations to Cee Lo Green who was just announced to open for Prince at Madison Square Garden on February 7th. After Cee Lo’s performance on Saturday Night Live there are

  There should be better child labor laws. It saddens me to watch the rise and fall of preteens and teens.  We thrust so much on them we demand so

I hate stupid titles.  They dumb down everything in their effort to be cute and memorable.  So I pretty much turned my back on Everyone Dies In Utah’s song “Bed

It is not often that I can say time has been kind to a rocker. As a matter of fact I cant recall the last time I did. But I

After Terra Firma (an equity company) got pissed at CITI for buying into the all but bankrupt EMI, and sued em,  the other shoe has dropped as CITI have bought

1. I Need A Doctor – Dr. Dre – This song cuts so deep, is so deeply felt, serious, personal and moving, it was an anomalie. Grey’s chorus is a

U2 do gooders apparently don’t care about the enviroment when it comes to their building on pristine land and ruining the sitelines and the enviroment in their Malibu community. We

  rockNYC wishes speedy recovery to Kings of Leon drummer Nathan Followill.  Poor dear had to cancel out on the Australian and South African tours to allow for healing after

This is not gonna be a review of the album, I haven’t had time to listen to a third of it! It is a listening party! Hardly a party though,

  Used to be the Monster Mayhem Festival but they changed up the drink But this is GREAT! A sweaty disgusting bloody spitting pit of burning stench and rotting humans

  Well heres a few places 2/3       Hamden, CT             The Space 2/5       Dover, NH                 Dover Brick House   2/9       New York, NY          Bowery Ballroom w/Nicole Atkins But what this is

  There is nothing worse than throwing your back out.   It instantly adds 30 years to your life you want to kill people but you cant move fast enough and

Can I get a WOOHOO!!!!!!? Some more bands were announced for this year’s Warped Tour.   Simple Plan is on it- when’s the last time anyone heard from them?   Family Force

Here we go! Welcome to trivial information that “doesn’t mean a thing but keeps us talking about them as we build momentum hype a doodle doo ski..”  Panic! At The

The Magpie is a huge Ace Enders fan. Could very well be the first band she ever interacted with from a purely fan standpoint. I think she even has a

  The Ballad Of Mona Lisa – Panic At The Disco I Need A Doctor – Dr. Dre The Creep – Nicki Minaj Nothing – Saliva End Scene – Vanity

  This new Fleet Foxes’ song ‘Helplessness Blues’ sounds like a hymn, which is not very surprising for them, but there is a sort of defiance all along this hymn.

Its easy to forget the amazingness of the bands we have met.   Meeting up with these cats may have been one of the few times I’ve felt jittery. But amazingly

  The eagerly anticipated latest and final Bright Eyes album, The People’s Key, is streaming on NPR two weeks before its release. I had heard four songs before today, and

1. Pinky Blue – Altered Images – I never got the Siouxie connect 　 2. Jejune Stars – Bright Eyes – This is the one we’ve been waiting for. A

Many years ago I interviewed John Barry for Creem magazine. It was around the time he worked with the Pretenders on the Bond movie, “The Living Daylights”. It was a

‘What the hell are they screaming about?’

The acoustic versions of his songs were drunk to the last drop by the Origami audience

Sleigh Bells has just released a video for ‘Rill Rill’, directed by Jon Watts, and I did not know they hadn’t a video yet, since the song is already several

Becoming a whining cynic is a right of age. Once you’ve cleared like 45 you should be able to bitch and moan about everything wrong with the world and the

Oh how I love Patrick Stump. Ever since he started his solo project, he’s been on an escalating trip. He did an a capella cover of “Green Light”, originally by

Bayside, easily one of the best bands in the entire universe, is expected to have their new album, Killing Time on February 22nd, and I’m beyond excited. They released a

watch?v=B5S-q1gRxvw&feature=player_embedded Today, January 31, 1956 Mr John Lydon was born. Now think what you will about him or the Pistols but Johnny was pretty incredible. I find it interesting how

watch?v=UY7snfJTgeE&feature=player_embedded I came across a great article that answered the ‘where are they now’ question of some of the most lame ass punk bands of the 80s/90s. As any self

1. The Waiting – Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers – A Byrdsy masterpiece unduplicated and unimaginable. 　 2. Every Thing About You Is New – Massive Attack – Like being

For fucks sake kid, give it a rest!! Now Old Man River’s is releasing his Pinkerton diaries. “a collection of all my journals, emails, letters, photos, school papers– everything from

I happen to be in the midst of a buncha straight out lies court case so reading this caught my arrention. For one reason? Why didn’t the judge toss it

New album out in March and it better be better than the meh single “Hold It Against Me” which flew up the charts before anyone actually heard it. The song

Jay-Z, Willow Smith… hell on earth. The thought pf this pair remaking “Annie” terrifies me but as bad as it is, add her parents in the mix… ugh! Maybe we

Far be it for me to tell anyone what to do but if I was to I’d suggest you read Janet Maslin on John Szwed on Alan Lomax. I, much

If record companies make their money by selling records and people will no longer pay for records… how do they make money. Distribution? How do you distribute mp3s? And, more

Is this any way for a grown man to spend his life? 1. Taylor Swift played on a ship over the weekend. 2. There is no # 2. 3. Here’s

I haven’t heard it but the Stones crap review compared it to last night and wrote stuff about interlocking guitars (are there any other type?) Gave it 4 stars which

Though I am loath to admit it, French black metal/shoegaze solo project Alcest somehow slipped by me over the years. The work of Neige (“Snow”), Alcest plays atmospheric black metal

My local record store, Vacation Vinyl had organized a cool event on Saturday afternoon, a panel discussion around the second edition of ‘American Hardcore, a tribal history’, written by Steven

One of the coolest things about being a ‘Blogger” is that I can say whatever I want and I really have no censor. As of late I have spent alot

My musician quote of the day? Has to be this one I stumbled upon from none other than Henry Rollins: “I’m mad at The Man. I’m mad at elitism. I’m

My musician quote of the day? Has to be this one I stumbled upon from none other than Henry Rollins: “I’m mad at The Man. I’m mad at elitism. I’m

So The Alarm celebrate their coming together every year. Like an birthday party for themselves every year. Hell why tour when people will make a pilgrimage to you? Sounds harsh

Before the Monotonix chaos, before the psychedelic wave of Ty Segall, two bands opened the long night at the Echoplex on Thursday night, two bands that had a sort of

Second on the Echoplex stage this last Thursday night was Devin Therriault, who looked like a 50s rocker of the future (I don’t know, he had cool lace-up boots) with