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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

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

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?

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,

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

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”

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

Some achievement’s are more astounding than others, and this one by Cher? Is even more astounding than that. 　 For the past SIX DECADES, Cher has had at least one

Craigery Owens, who I’ve known, loved, and followed for quite some time now, has released a fake sex tape that turns into an intro to his new song “Sex Life”. 

Need to get my dub funk fix from somewhere, this week I have been re-visiting Savoy. Hailing from Brooklyn, NY, Savoy gives their listeners some unique electronica; enough bass for

No thats not Loraine Neuman from Saturday Night Live, thats Kate Bush.  In 1978 I was 12 years old and I knew more about music, the lifestyle, the world than

These two hotties brought tantric sex to the mainstream I try not to look at them. Their is a vulgar ego emission that seeps from their pores. Something tells me

Located at the top of what it seems to be an old Hollywood theater, the Bardot nightclub is a place with a baroque-gothic look with dark red cement walls, some

Taking the small stage just after the Pierces at Bardot on Monday night, was Great Northern, a LA band that I had already seen a few years ago. I hadn’t

When David Crosby isnt busy impregnatiting lesbian couples he is still playing music.   On March 25th hes going to fire up the love bus and head out on the road

About as flip flop rock as I get is Peter Bjorn and John.   I have been told about 2 million times to “SHUT THE HELL UP” while overwhistling their ‘hit’, “Young Folks”. 

At first read I thought it said TWO YEARS… harsh but fair was my conclusion!!! Nope, only two weeks but let’s hope he has learnt his lesson and never ever

You know, I’ve disliked Animal Collective a whole heck of a lot over the past two years, but all I own is 5 songs and to be perfectly frank, I

I didn’t know they were meant to be but they aren’t so that’s that. Aren’t? Daft Punk aren’t The Third Twin. It’s offcial, the James Murphy wanna be’s who never

The Black Keys, like many, many other bands, tour non stop. And exhaustion just hit em. They’ve cancelled all future gigs (well, a tour of New Zealand) The few times

 Don Kirshner, the legendary promoter behind the Archies, the monkees, and the TV show Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert is dead at 77. 　 Kirshner began his career in the

1. January Hymn – The Decemberists – Lovely Wintery folk music. 　 2. Did Ye Get Healed? – Van Morrison – From a Night In San Francisco -I saw him

Look, I didnt want to do it.  I had no intention of giving MTV’s version of BBC mega win Skins the time of day but I got the assignment so

A dramatic event occurred last Thursday, as Alex Kirst was found dead in Cathedral City near Palm Springs, victim of a hit and run accident.He was the former drummer for