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 Chris Drew is.. Chris Drew.  I love him I hate him, he makes my ears bleed then I whistle his songs while doing dishes. I get excited hes touring and […]

.FREE cool music.  Not crap not some reject leak but 10 kick ass songs by 10 kick ass bands and it wont cost you a penny. You will need to

Adison Skye, Adison Skye, what to say about this up coming singer/songwriter from Massachusetts.  I’ll be brief and get to the point. She plays the guitar, acoustic. She can sing,

For Barbara and Ethan Gruska, sibling rivalry has definitively become sibling harmonies and the result is stunning, joyful Americana music, not excessively country though, but which was keeping me dreaming

Rural Advantage are at Bowery ballroom March 10th. Simone flipped out when the Mercury Lounge gig in February sold out before she heard of it but she should be safe

What can you say about 40 years ago today? That Ali MacGraw played a co-ed in love with Ryan O’Neal, and  said co-ed, well, “What can you say about a

1. Surfin’ USA (demo) – the Beach Boys – Thoughts of Camp Bisco have been imagining a warmer gentler climate. This is just a thumping piano and a lone vocal

Yes, Macca played the 100 Club yesterday. Yes, there were only 300 people there. And ye, the keoper woulda been “Don’t Let The Sun Catch You crying”. here is the

 Captain Beefheart, the eccentric genius amd great avant guarde musician, has died. To to quote All Music: “he employed idiosyncratic rhythms, absurdist lyrics and an unholy alliance of free jazz,

woody’s latest girl is danding down her surfboard, she can’t wait for june It’s time for camp again!! Camp Bisco that is. I just received the great news that tickets

 His manic Xpression s’touchin’ my soul.  Jon Hendricks kids… the Poppity-Pop of scat and vocalese, really duz. (Well, Eddie Jefferson and King Pleasure may have started it, but…) What

I hate kids but I love the Muppets.  Elmopalooza is freaking amazing and I have added a video here as a shameless plug for a great find. The fuzzy beasts

 Ok so this says 2007 but get a load of this cattle heard.  I have braved this bull twice in my life.   Its disgusting and stupid but I can

Peter Doherty will be soon beginning his new career as an actor with Charlotte Gainsbourg, in an adaptation of 19th-century French author Alfred de Musset’s ‘La Confession d’un enfant du

Shes cute.  Little Zooey DesChanel. I liked that one song but God she is everywhere. Now comes word that she will be starring in and co-producing an HBO series about

Well its official after the teases leaks and dribbles (seriously how obscene is that) The complete Bamboozle Show line up is announced.  I’m pretty sure this is every band on

Aside from my obsession with music, sexy musicians and shoes is my fascination with cults and the human mind. Lookit Charlie up there.  All deranged Helter Skelter nazi weirdo death

The 80s are the new 50s.  Everyone USED to look back at the 50s and say how cool it was.  Shows like Happy Days and the whole fashion thing came

First off how cheesy to those light boxes and skull heads look in pure light?   Looks like my damn basement at Hallowee Party Time.  So imagine this, you have an

Sure, Idda LIKED to have seen McCartney at the Apollo, but really, whatever. i’ve seen him so ever. EXCEPT In honor of the venue he covered Marvin Gaye’s “Hitchhike” .

Derezzed – Daft Punk – AHA! This is the one. Heavy duty synth dance by the numbers but every number fits and the drum machine sounds like they need their

 Conor Oberst didn’t mention his marriage to Corina Figueroa Escamilla (if that’s who he married, we know he married someone but my flakey friend is missing in action so…)

I am eagerly anticipating Prince’s Saturday gig at MSG. Meanwhile, both the New York  Daily News and NYT gave it raves AND brooklynvegan gave it the old setlist turn. Take

1. Erotic City – Prince – This is what he can’t do now: hard melody, hard bottom. 2. Fuckin’ Perfect – Pink – Like if country and dance had a

OK bear with me because I’m going incognito on my contacts and how she knows this BUT… My friend’s friend is dating a very close friend of Conor Obersts and

Mary McCartney, Paul and Linda’s first born, is an accomplished photographer, and I am rweadying a post of some of her pictures. In the interim, here is an interview from

The last coupla times i’ve seen Elton it has been stupifyingly boring. The big time artist playing Captain Fantastic And The Dirtbrown Cowboy from one end to the other, or

Far be it for me to argue with Spin when it comes to Murphy of LCD Soundsytem being the Artist (and cover star) of 2010. These quotes come courtesy of

Yesterday, the LA Weekly has come up with his top 5 of hottest guys and girls from the hottest Indie bands in L.A. in 2010, and I must be a

I loved Teddy Reily’s band Blackstreet, I loved the album Teddy made with MJ Invincible, but Teddy is not Quincy Jones and to be perfectly frank, the Michael album is

I really love Cloud Nothings. their first album, 2009’s Turning On was just terrific and they’ve had a career making year so far. they are like a commercial Kevin Greenspon.

Beck is currently producing Sonic Youth Thurston Moore’s upcoming solo LP ‘Benediction’. With the help of Tortoise and others, both artists have spent part of the summer doing a Yanni

Isn’t this the little slice of socialist heaven with cradle to grave goverment sponsorship.. Call it Denmark for people who vacation in Miami. They think they’re all that because they

We’ve already shared film of Ron Wood and Mick Taylor banding together to save 100 Club -facing eviction due to a rent raise Following in the footsteps of  Liam

With “Discoverer”, off the upcoming Collapse Into Now, REM sound like REM circa “Crush With Eyeliner” with a touch of Life’s Rich Pageant thrown in. And it is time for

I can’t stand Coldplay at any price but here is a Chris Martin post where we do something more than call him a betwetter. But first the bedwetter portion. Chris

Wow, I feel like I need a shower posting this pix of Ke$ha off Unrated Perez. There are worst ones on the website. I feel like i’ve invaded the young

1. All That Glitters – Sweet Sourbrette – Open your checkbook, open your heart. 2. Derezzed – Daft Punk – Now you’re talking, a synthd out flashing lightning mercury of

If you thought you were at JFK and not Prince Street yesterday, there is a reason. Ditty paid to place an ad between the name of the station and the

There is artisitic integrity and then there is money. Pink Floyd won a case stopping E<I from single song sales for Floyds back catalogue. The current EMI was signed in

Jaden Smith and Justin Bieber dueting on “Never Say Never” from ‘The Karate Kids’ Gwyneth Paltrow’s two songs in “Country Strong” Carrie Underwood’s song off the Narnia flick No. No. No.

Take Amanda Palmer covering Radiohead and then take Phoebe Legere and drain out the jazz and replace it with Jenny Lewis circa The Execution Of All Things and then throw on

Good? yeah. At the same venue, Usher was better than BEP, Madonna, Rihanna, even MJ himself back in 2001. But… not great. At one point, Usher performs an MJ tribute

‘This is how music should be done’ I heard from someone in the crowd after OFF! ‘s performance at Vacation Vinyl yesterday evening… yeah, shows would all last half an

Late winter is a brutal time to tour the North East. If you dont have an aunt here with tire chains just dont bother BUT some do bother and Im

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is scheduled to announce inductees tomorrow morning at 10:30 a.m. Eastern Time. But this is 2010, and we don’t wait for ‘official’ anything.  Why

say buh-bye I will not really cry for this one but many will: Justin Timberlake is done with music and wants to be a full-time actor. This is the surprising

This my friends is the video of 2010. The woman in this video clip should get her own Fox TV show.  As Iman sits at Madison Square Garden for Ushers