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Woot I feel validated. As someone who is not the most savvy with an mp3 I often get my first listens from youtube. When researching something I’m unfamiliar with I […]

The next two weeks, the Cold War Kids will be all over the place in LA, the 24th they are playing with Grouplove at the Bootleg, the 25th they have

This  This was written with a sole purpose: to make you crazy with envy. In a life of concerts beginning when I was SIX YEARS OLD (documented in a

James Bond is one of the longest running franchises in film history, … how many Bond movies are there? 22! And Daniel Craig is now playing the role of the

Andre 3000 has a very distinct voice.   I absolutely love Outkast stuff and well really anything he does.  I read hes somewhat reclusive which may explain why I dropped everything

I am the minority. These days the band Superchunk is getting more face time than peanut butter. Theyre the darlings in so many circles. I have no circle, on the

Pretty Reckless lead singer quote: “ “I love my mom and dad. Maybe I didn’t have the childhood people think you should have, but I still went through the ages.

Mountain? Bad Company?? 3 DOORS DOWN???? Sounds like Ringo Starr’s All Stars to Me!!! Monday at 7pm at bb king’s. I’ll tell you more on Tuesday! Also?

1. I Can’t Love – Leal Neale – Country twang lightness into snark. 2. There She Goes Again – Marshall Crenshaw – The standard bearer for everything pop music can

You know how some people are particularly unlucky, they got all sorts of problems all the time, can’t keep a job, and simply goes from bad luck to bad luck.

Helen  sez:Thomas DeCarlo Callaway , yup another pop hit maker on Saturday Night Live.  Of course, August was his time of fame but with Gweneth Paltrow (who did the highly puke

Here is my pledge: when it comes to pop listen to the back beat……. and some back beats come across like heavy perfumed porn movies. Groove Allegiance to me is

There is a reason Helen and I are bloggers and not rock critics and that’s because we live in music in real time. This is a diary about writing about

I guess film school can lead to many different things, and music is one of them, but what kind of music? Music as different as Saint Motel’s explosive glam and

 I’ve done it!  I’ve found the answer about how to make any situation punk rock.  It’s a simple solution, really.  Put on The Clash’s iconic album London Calling and

 http://amyandronicus.tumblr.com/ Amy Klein, guitarist and violin player of Titus Andronicus, as well as half of one of my fave bands of 2010, Hilly Eyes, has her first solo album,

I have made no qualms about my girl crush on Gwen. Ms No Doubt is girl perfection in my eyes and as a girl I have the right to judge

hiatus [haɪˈeɪtəs] n pl -tuses, -tus 1. (esp in manuscripts) a break or gap where something is missing 2. a break or interruption in continuity 3. (Linguistics / Phonetics &

A country singer songwriter song “I Can’t Love” twangs and soothes but digs its fingers in your arms and punishes as it seduces. The Virginia native in question is Lael

Here’s is something you may have forgotten. Jimmy Fallon is a comedian.  What frightens me is that Jimmy wants  to be a rock star. When little Jimmy was a lad

What did I know about Lemmy Kilmister before seeing Greg Olliver and Wes Orshoski’s documentary ‘Lemmy, 49 percent Motherfucker, 51 Percent Son of a Bitch’? Not much, I didn’t even

FINALLY… The M.I.A. mixtape is wearing off. So, along with everything else I am listening to? The acoustic Superchunk, the new Holy Ghost, and the entire Body Talk are in

Look at it this way: Stevie Nicks as a beautiful coke addled sprite in the 70s was one thing. I wasn’t crazy about her (Vastly preferred Christine McVie) but you

1. Digging For Something (Acoustic) – Superchunk – Opening for Bright Eyes (along with 2/3 of Sleater Kinney) at Radio City in March and I can’t wait. Any band that

Ok friends.  I am starting a new segment on Rock NYC….  Glam Fridays! Each Friday, I will post a small bio of a band from the glam/hair era.  That way,

At the beginning of this week, I had seen that the Vista theater located in my neighborhood was organizing the premiere of ‘Lemmy, 49% Motherfucker, 51% son of a bitch’,

Wyatt Marshall is a great writer, and he listens to spooky shit.   If Rush were accurate, Wyatt would have killed us all and buried us in the middle of Wrigley

Who the hell are Hypebot.com ? I have no idea, a helen find,  but I love the website to bits. This is the second i’ve pilferred and it sucks, 300

Nah screw that.. The Grammys are a bag of ass.  So instead here are the bands that SHOULD win Grammys, fat paychecks and accolades (instead of the skanky Saran wrapped

I am often in awe of the ‘can do’ attitude of some. I don’t have that. I worry, I’m a Negative Nancy.. I worse case scenario my entire life But

I have already written about “Schroedinger’s Cat’, a song by Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger, the moniker of the Sean Lennon-Charlotte Kemp Muhl’s duet, and may be that’s the

Stevie Wonder, Elton John, Gladys Knight and Dionne Warwick, the friends behind the godawful but still hugely profitable  amfar (the American Foundation for AIDS research) benefit single “Thats What Friends

Etta James is to Beyonce what Diana Ross is to Billie Holiday. 　 So the news that the former Chess singr has Alzheimers and Leukemia is very, very sad for

1. Speak Now – Taylor Swift 2. Pink Friday – Nicki Minaj 3. Doo-ops And Hooligans – Bruno Mars 4. Tron: Legacy – Daft Punk 5. Recovery – Eminem 6.

Amy Winehouse is on her way back with a five date tour of Brazil. The fear?  She is the Whitney Houston of 2011.  I don’t know how she sounded but

We got this off brooklynvegan : Join us in deflowering MTV’s new series SKINS on January 14th for a major rager at a secret location. Click attending, and go to

1. Grenade – Bruno Mars 2. Firework – Katy Perry 3. What’s My Name – Rihanna 4. We R Who We R – Ke$ha 5. Raise Your Glass – Pink

Congratulations to Muse on the stupidest quote of the year, perhaps any year, Muses drummer said: “We got some big white balloons, threw them into the audience and decided to

Imagine for a moment for the States could import anything they want from China and never pay for any of it. this the US would be losing the industrial revolution

I am not a Dead fan. I’m too much a child of punk: loud fast rules, the Ramones could play an album in the time it takes the Dead to

Arcade Fire to play the Grammys? Second non story of the year? musicislifeismusic

1. Digging For Something (Acoustic) – Superchunk – Great on the album, just at good acoustic. The oh oh ohs are pure sprites… The acoustic take digging deeper　2. Do It

Hey Guy…..is a band. They classify their genre as “textured”.  I’m pretty glad they came up with that cuz I’m really not quite sure what I would have used. I

The exuberant sound of the Monolators headlined January 11th, after all it was their night, as it is the case every Tuesday night at LaBrie, the small night club on

Kent Garrison, the keyboardist for the ever-talented Forever The Sickest Kids, has left the band.  A sad day for music is what it is.  FTSK’s addictive beats and electronic embellishments

Well its raining Green Day again.  Yesterday I mention the glory of the live release and today I get to announce that American Idiot will soon be made into a

Oh if I had only HEARD them before seeing this lame ass video this post would have a whole different spin.  This will go down as my most hated video

Kissing Cousins, an all female-band was the middle act at LaBrie on Tuesday. Their dark psychedelic soul-blues-rock is populated by violent guitars and lamenting or even crying screams, like tears shouted out