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1. Cigarettes And Chocolate Milk – Rufus Wainwright – I have to stop beating myself up about this one. One of the best albums of the 00s. 2. Santa Bring […]

I told you about this local LA band, Vanaprasta, covering Kayne West‘s ‘Runaway’ at the Echo for their second anniversary a few weeks ago. This is what guitarist Cameron Dmytryk

 1. Kanye West | My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy 2. Arcade Fire | The Suburbs 3. Grinderman | Grinderman 2 4. The Gaslight Anthem | American Slang 5. Girl

So in our continuing efforts to pretend we’re a  music  website and not just a buncha jerks ranting about stuff we love, hate, or just feel like ranting about, here

Yep, Mr. Orange Juice is back, his latest album to drop stateside in March. I love the bloke and so do you of course and because I love you so

In the spirit of the season, Bono and rock nyc have declared a ceasefire. rock nyc won’t say anything snide about U2 and Bono will say to Australia’s Daily Telegraph: ”Australia

1. Summer Hits # 1 – The Queers – Can’t be better, Ramonesy zoom lens speed punk plus tunes you can sing. 2. Lost In Time – Eric Benet – Can’t be

1. The Monitor – Titus Andronicus 2. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy – Kanye West 3. Storage – Wesley Wolfe 4. This Is Happening – LCD Sound System 5. Contra

Dear Santa, We here at rock nyc come from may walks of life.  We are professionals, we are hipsters, we are metal heads and techno geeks we are very, very

Paper Jams.  A twenty dollar electronic toy that has pre recorded songs or the ability to freestyle that tiny electronic guitar.  You can pick one up a your local pharmacy. 

At the end of the year, every blog, every magazine finds the needs to give its top 10 albums, top 20 songs, best of the year,…. I don’t want to

Ya know, sometime you just gotta smile. Sometime you just have to say, “oh those crazy kids” Russell Brand and Katy Perry are about to start a charity to help

My Monday nights are gonna be busy in January! In LA, many clubs have a free Monday residency formula, and it’s a great way to see bands without spending any

Its sorta tough to google an image for Brighton UKs Amusement Parks On Fire, cuz you get the literal images and its rather ooky. The boys though are far from

A few years ago one of rocknyc writers was on the MTV New Years special.  Pretty cool really, but back then (and this was 2 years ago) MTV actually had

Mobile phone operator Cricket Communications Inc., from San Diego, is about to introduce a new plan, Muve Music, which will allow us to talk, surf the web, send text messages,

The trio Silver Phial was opening the night at the Bordello bar on Tuesday evening, and their music walks on this fine line between nostalgia and novelty, and delivers that

The 53rd Annual Grammy Awards will be presented on February 12. I have no interest in awards they’re all crap. But there is something to say about these silly boys

Well then, hello Mr. Smiths. There is some revamped excitement about bootlegs and instrumentals turning up in Moz land.  What I find curious is the material has been around for years

This is the set list of the secret Foo Fighters show at Paladino’s in LA, yes it happened at that obscure place in the valley. No cameras, recording devices or

On Tuesday night, Goldenboy was playing at the Bordello Bar in Downtown Los Angeles, an intriguing place with a retro look of an old bar-brothel embellished by the dark red

Remember how Nevershoutnever and The Maine requested canned food donations on their ‘Harmony Tour’ this autum? Then look it up cuz I wrote about it and youre not paying attention.

Today my rock and roll son turns…..23? What is there to say about a man who spreads so much positive energy and enthusiasm?   A brilliant writer a kind soul and

When I remember, I add Elvis Crespo at MSG as one of the best sets I’ve ever seen. He lived up to his name. He was a total rock star.

1. Punk Rock Girls – The Queers 2. Fuck The World – The Queers – After reforming with a nearly completely new line up in 2010, they rerecorded some of

There are many great things to wish for this holiday season.  On the top of mine are bands I wish would just go away. The Black Crowes are on that

’Shell Games’, the new Bright Eyes’ song, sounds like ‘Clairaudients (Kill Or Be Killed)’ (from Cassadaga) on steroids, so that says, it’s not a real musical surprise, it sounds like

Here is the ex-Paramore’s comments upon exiting the band. No shockers here except that Atlantic wanted to sign Hayley without the rest of the band. Here is the entire post:

　 I wonder why the deafening silence about it? 　 Incidentally, it seems to me that “Shell Game” with all the heavy love stuff could be about the Big M.

Yep, it’s been awhile but the hot story is Motorhead, undisputably the greatest speedmetal, harbinger of all things punk, and wild men of rock award winners, will be playing Best

“This really makes me mad. Miley is one of the most hard working respectful women I have ever worked with I am learning a lot from her! Miley and I

That’s not a spa.  That’s rapper 50 Cents house in Farmington CT.  I work just a stones throw from this place .  Ive never been invited over though.  Take a

I’m Going Down – Vampire Weekend – I think you could look at nearly any song ever recorded by any one and not find a worse match for VW.This painfully

In a white shirt and black pants, 6 inch heels on silver shoes, legs, splayed and chest out, the great cabaret artist Phoebe Legere (pronounced Leshay) is so strongly feminine she

Bostons Berklee College of Music has released salary ranges for the jobs we all would love to have. So whats a booking agent make? Top notch booking agents making up to $1

Why are so many bands playing African music now? I suppose it’s a trend but the result is not the same for everyone, and Fool’s Gold, the Los Angeles band

Yeah, I read the Interview interview. Seemed a little self-important to me. Look at religion this way: for many, many, many poor people it isn’t the one thing they have,

Gwar are a bunch of old fat dudes who dress up and scream.  They look even more stupid than Slipknot but they’re fans are the type you don’t really want

Ronnie Radke former Escape The Fate front man is out of the big house.  Its not easy to get sprung from the can and pick up a career.   Well at

 The free night at the echo (actually there was another band, Rumspringa, earlier, that I missed) began with the synth-loaded music of Evan Voytas, a young songwriter, who may

Motion City Soundtracks, Justin Pierre is too talented to stay still with MCS.  I’m really surprised they haven’t cracked the mainstream yet by the way.  Their sound is so cross

If you have ever seen 3oh!3 live you have seen first hand the most exhausting set in live music.  They wont stand still theyre bathed in sweat theyre like a

1. Hello World – Lady Antebellum 2. If I Die Young – The Band Perry 3. The House That Built Me – Miranda Lambert 4. Free – Zac Brown 5.

Dead is dead. And for the victims there is no moral equivalency. But Phil Spector is Charlie Manson and Charlie Manson is no Joey Stalin. Phil Spector, a rock and roll superhero,

The problem for me was proximity. I knew The Monitor was # 1 and  Dark Fantasy # 2, I knew Usher, Vampire Weekend, Wesley Wolfe and LCD were in there.

Somewhere from “Park Life” to “Country House” Blur were the greatest rock band in the world. And then they weren’t.. Last year they brought out a terrible song, “Fool’s Day”.

A label group? A group of labels under the same unbrella, in this case Downtown Music, Wichita Recordings, Bella Union, V2, Kitsune, Heavenly Recordings, DFA records, Lex Records, and Moshi

Dance was unlike anything other type of music back in the 80s. Except maybe ambient. Both were not based on song, not based upon melodic repetition. They were both there

I am not an inveterate ballet goer, but this is New York and the New York City Ballet is the New york city ballet. So when Natalie Portland, in the

So there is Prince and Sheila E rockin’ thru “A Love Bizarre” and calling out audience members… so who joined the twosome?We have exclusive information (from Page Six) as to who