rock nyc

1. What The Hell – Avril Lavigne – Snuck up on me!!! It’s the lalalals 2. Gray Waves (Sam Ferigano Remix) – Twin Tgers – Like Joy Division being mugged […]

Before I go any further I want you to look at this picture and notice the deers chin.   That black mark (is it a fly?) makes him look like hes whistling.   Like

Music festivals, they make me think about summer and fun and heat and exhaustion and lack of sleep and annoying crowd and holding-my-pee-for-a-day, and starvation,… basically they are a pain.But

Today’s mission: Be at Rockwood Music Hall 21:00 sharp to catch Jim Bianco. Now I consider myself a somewhat intelligent dude, and most of the time it takes quite complex

Pittsburgh nativeWiz Khalifa will perform   “Black And Yellow”at this Sunday’s NFL AFC Championship Game.  Basically I think I’d be too busy reading him to listen and the guy needs food like

David Lynch had a birthday this week, on Thursday, and on the 31st he will release an expanded edition of his weird dance music single ‘Good Day Today’/’I know’, a

Before you get all excited, for some obscure reason he kept his clothes on!!! Still, all for a good cause, right?

Enough of this shit… God forbid we doubt Ono’s sincerity but what are you gonna sell next??? Yoko, your late husband doesn’t need your help in keeping his memory fresh.

 1. Love At The Pier – Blondie – A fave off a fave. 　 2. Carol – Chuck Berry – A rock song about dancing -or is that a

Perhaps after the Jenny and Johnny’s complete failure on any level whatsoever, especially artistic, Jenny Lewis has given up on Rice and is ready to take Taylor Swift’s left overs?

On Thursday night, I had the chance to attend a talk by Professor V.S. Ramachandran, a neurobiologist who has a unique approach to solve mysteries about certain brain disorders, most

Today would have been INXS front man Michale Hutchins 50th birthday. INXS was one of the few 80s bands that I could listen to with my ‘other’ friends.  They were

Todd has been my friend for years, longer than he has been married, and written for us, wow, longer than Helen has!!! Our congratulations to Todd and his wife Raina

rock nyc please meet singer, songwriter, and amazing friend of mine, Lael Neale, (cool looking name, huh?), who’s YouTube music was reviewed by Iman a few days ago and she has

 American Idol is barely about the singing anymore.  Bringing in Randy Jackson’s life story- and his old football coach?  Then going on and saying the state’s flower and animal? 

This song & band is part 2 of my weekly Friday hair/glam movement.  I picked this song for reason.  I felt is it very fitting since my wife is just

Morgan Neville’s Toubadours, presented in the 2011 Sundance US documentary competition, explores the emergence of the singer-songwriter in the 70s music scene of Los Angeles.I have seen only the trailer

The girl looked at Johnny (Thunders)! Marcia Reznick, the great photo-chronicler , has a new book out and we recommend you get it… as in now!!! It is called Bad

The Biography Chanel had a feature of Led Zeppelin the other night.   My first scream to Iman? ‘WHAT THE HELL IS IN ROBERT PLANTS PANTS?” Needless to say I’m not

So this is so the perfect example of love hate relationship. 3OH!3, there are times they make me gag.  They’re horrible frat kids with sophomoric humour and just bad white

Saint Motel has announced its ‘3rd annual Zombie Prom’ on Saturday February 12th.What is that thing?? A Prom?… I know it’s just in time for Valentine’s day… but with zombies?

I um…. I really don’t know what to say.  I hate Pink and I really really hate the shoes she is wearing in this picture. I stumbled upon the video for

‘Sensual, Provocative Multi-Media Jazz’ Eric Michael Gillette Directs Phoebe Legere, a composer, recording artist, Pulitzer Prize finalist, and singer with a four-octave range who’s also a powerhouse of keyboard virtuosity,

Been awhile since I did one of these. Seems my lists just get stranger all the time. “Cuts You Up”- Peter Murphy,   He sounds like morning sex and I like

Last year, a coupla months before it dropped, we were raving about Michele Shaprow’s “Purple Skies”. The other day we got this FB message: “In it’s first week in Japan,

Congrats to Lily Allen, whom we always wish happy things for. She was terrific when I saw her at T5 a coupla years ago! And now her ”In The Name”

I got this off the Grammy’s website: “Current GRAMMY nominees Justin Bieber and Usher with Jaden Smith; nominees B.o.B, Bruno Mars, and Janelle Monáe; and nominated groups Lady Antebellum and Muse

This one looked cool when it was still in progress and now I’ve finally been in and took a look around Pete Doherty’s website  I am pleased to say it lives

 1. Written On The Forehead – PJ Harvey – Art rock will only take you so far but if this is as far as it takes you… no, it

When it comes to rebuilding a nation, rebuilding Haiti, there is no room for naivete. Last year, after an earthquake destroyed what remained of Haiti’s infrastructure, and sent the country

You know that feeling, when you are invited in a place you did not expect to go to, when you know that only a bunch of people will be there

Holy Ghost! just released the first single off their eagerly await debut album dropping in April. Alex Frankel and Nicholas Millhiser, the genius behind the Ghost, used vocals from Doobie

So, what’re you doing on March 29th?  Just a regular Tuesday for you?  NOPE. Panic! At The Disco is releasing their brand new debut album Vices & Virtues and I

American Idol just gets worse and worse every season.  Yesterdays two hour premiere, which was like the world’s best kept secret, found the  auditions getting worse, too.  I was watching and

Free music is not always good.  This compilation of NY metal bands is not too shabby.  Crossing hardcore deathmetal pop and techno, its quite a core buffett.  NYC Sucks is

Lookit little Saint Vitus hanging in there with the kids. SV has been around since back in my days. Great guys, cool band, they were called ‘doomcore’, silly huh?  

Who the hell is that guy?  Former Fall Out Boy lead Patrick Stump.  FOB goes on hiatus and not only lost a boatload of weight, gained some hair and took

The girls need a band.   Girls need rockers to look up to to air guitar with to pose like. See, if teenage girls only have boys to look at and

I have been to about 4 Linkin Park concerts. I have never seen the band.  Why?  Cuz I don’t like them.   I don’t like ‘rap rock’ its stupid and

I keep hearing this song on the radio, and I got suddenly intrigued! ‘Pumped up Kicks’ by Foster the People, with its fake MGMT feeling, is terribly catchy, with its

1. Hold It Against Me – Britney Spears 2. Grenade – Bruno Mars 3. Firework – Katy Perry 4. What’s My Name – Rihanna 5. Black And Yellow – Wiz

Here is Melissa’s ex Tammy Lynn Michael’s blogging about their break-up! “ “One never even said one was breaking up with me. One only says things in song and string.

1. Showroom Of Compassion – Cake 2. Thank You Happy Birthday – Cage The Elephant 3. Speak Now – Taylor Swift 4. Doo Wop And Hooligans – Bruno Mars 5.

 In the early 80s, The Feelies were my fave rock band on earth and I listened to Crazy Rhythms incessantly. And then they disbanded and we all moved on,

Kid Rock performed a fan friendly set at the Ford Field Stadium in Downtown Detriot, with pal Sheryl Crow joining him for “Photograph”. The 60,000 seater sold out in NINETEEN

Ke$ha told the London Times: “”My mom left me at home when I was 14 with a credit card and a box of condoms and the keys to the car

1. Right As Rain – Adele – Adele’s jazzy, Corrine, pop work out on the joys of manic depression, are a tongue in cheek reason to embrace your aloneness. 　

Billy Ocean, Kim Wilde, Howard Jones, Go West, Nik Kershaw, Imagination, T’Pau, Kid Creole and the Coconuts, The Real Thing, Toyah, Hazel O’Connor, China Crisis, Doctor & the Medics, Modern Romance and Cutting Crew, Heaven 17, Bananarama, Hue & Cry, The Beat, ABC, The Bluebells and Fiction Factory, Rick Astley, the Human League and Tony Hadley.What about them?

This time, this is the official one, directly coming from http://www.coachella.com/ But actually the previous fake one was not that off! Whoever did that fake poster had correctly predicted tons

 As music has firmly embraced digital formats, it is easy to imagine album covers and CD booklets to have gone the way of the dinosaur and to now exist