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I have spent alot of time hating on She and Him.  I hate them, they annoy me.  I don’t like much really and Zoooooey, she just rubs me the wrong way.  […]

If melancholy or misery can be so bright and uplifting, I want some of it every day. Pat Dam Smyth’s The Great Divide is an album full of surprises and

1. Candy – Pat Dam Smyth – A wobbly, folkie,knockout quasi vaudeville staggerer that sounds like nothing else out there. Some Irish guy. And pretty Dam talented. Off his newbie

Oh great. Before Kings Of Leon we’re a drag on stage and party boy brawlers off stage. Now they’re a drag both places. Caleb (or is it Anthony? Whatever -the

The third in the Narnia series of blown up fairy tales based on CS Lewis’ Christian allegories is easily the worst of the lot, although “Voyage Of the Dawntreader” is

Congratulations to Us! This Springs AP Tour has a co headliner Black Veil Brides and D.R.U.G.S. So why congratulate us? Cuz after Wednesday, when the Magpie and I interview D.R.U.G.S,

If I was a Woody Fuller, or maybe a you, I would not miss this at all. And if anybody there and wants to write about it I would love

Panic! At The Disco are set to release their new lp very soon.  Brendon Urie, Spencer Smith finally ready to make it happen. Meanwhile Ryan Ross and Jon Smith… Have

Hanni El Khatib does not really use his guitar as others do, he uses it like a weapon, and, when he does covers, he brutally strips them down to the

Its rare but its happening more often.. great songs with pathetic videosgreat songs with pathetic band names great songs with pathetic band names that 8 google attempts couldnt cough up

After his concerts on the East Coast (he was in New York last week and Iman was there), Joy Division’s Peter Hook has a show today in Los Angeles at

The New York Dolls were the poster children to the Glam Rock scene. In the 70s The seventys were 30 years ago in case you didnt want to do the

A video of Miley Cyrus taking a hit on a bong of legal psychedelic herb called salvia has gone viral.  A video of Miley Cyrus taking a hit on

You know AOL’s logo, that yellow guy?  I call him Noodleman.  Cuz he reminds me of macaroni and cheese.  I just thought I would share that with you cuz really

Many many years ago Lennon mocked McCartney’s more melodramatic sentiments in a song introduction as “Now we’re gonna do hark the angels come”. Forty years later, Sir Paul mocks himself

The New Orleans hip hop band Galactic are cool enough to get Irma Thomas and Allen Toussaint to play on their last album, and hot enough to nail down the

I own just about everything  Hank Williams has released but I don’t own this. A 16 CD set of 15 minute shows from way back when. It is called the “Mother’s

1. Poses – Rufus Wainwright 2. There Goes – Alan Jackson 3. Innocent People Cry – Gregory Isaacs Sometimes, three songs (it’s always three songs bizarrely enough) hi-jack your Ipod.

I’m not even ashamed to admit it.  I wanted a picture and instead I got this, which is cool but I also got John Lennon’s naked wank which I guess

As if I didn’t have enough reasons to love Bryce Avary. Avary is auctioning some guitars, amps, and keyboards and all of the money raised above its low suggested price goes to

I don’t really like All Time Low.  I think they need to hurry up and ‘make it’ cuz they’re getting sort of old.  I last saw them in 2009, and

The French fashion designer Jean-Paul Gaultier has designed many outfits for rock stars. like Marilyn Manson or Kylie Minogue, but he is especially known for the skirts for men and

The Scottish band Mogwai has a new video, specially made for ‘30 Century Man’, a film about James Bowthorpe, the round-the-world champion cyclist.   The song ‘How to Be a

Tonight is Z-100’s Jingle Ball. Justin will be back but otherwise all new stars!!! here is my review from last year! What a trooper! Fifteen year old Canadian youtube cum

Helen writes: Yeah keep dreamin’ that was actually the ridiculous exit excuse for Prince Rogers Nelson.  Poor guy comes on The View, to face the cackling hags of ABC only to get

Forever The Sickest Kids put on a great show at the Boston House of Blues a couple years ago. I wasnt very familiar with their work when I saw them

What a dream team it’s gonna be! Sundance.org is reporting that Elijah Wood, Danny McBride, Seth Rogen, Will Ferrell, John C Reilly, and Jack Black will all star in a

One of the surprises of the year was the Scissor Sister’s excellent Night Work dogging. As major a work as disco or dance got all year, it detailed the drugs and clubs

“Come gather round people wherever you roam and admit that the waters around you have grown…” 　 Is there anything better than a great first line? 　 The Dylan one

http://rocknycnew0115.wpengine.com/2010/12/peter-hook-and-line-at-webster-hall.html). What does anybody do with their back catalogue? They flog it till it bleeds and dies. We call that a natural death in the rock and roll business. The

Lauryn Hill is playing Bowery Ballroom, January 1st 2011.  Tix go on sale at noon. Hmmm… reason to see her: 1. It is still  Lauryn Hill. 2. It isn’t rock

1. There Goes – Alan Jackson – That 34 #1’s is the album that keeps on giving. It is so full of riches it takes forever to reach the middle

It is very easy to get a bit prurient, a bit smirky, about the question of female masturbation. Johnson and Johnson reported that 70% of all women have masturbated. Several

The Devil may have gone down to Georgia but Woody and Iman went to New Brunswick. They came back with their souls and smiles and great stories of the basement

Iman always talks about ‘the Saint Motel rule of rock’, as if bands did not exist if they hadn’t play on the East Coast! Saint Motel does not need to

  Really isn’t much more to add to this one guys… but it brings a whole new vibrancy to  “Dr Feelgood”. Well done Tommy!!!

Saturday Night Live may suck but Jimmy Fallon does not. I love his sense of humor cuz its irreverent and old school SNL and he has a great deadpan expression.

People stop me on the street and they say, “Al,” they say. “How dya get these exclusives.” Me, I just smile knowingly. For instance here is the setlist to Bruce’s

After the ‘Runaway’ mini movie, the tease for the upcoming Kanye West video for ‘Monster’, looks like a vision of horror full of dead white models haunting the dreams of

Well now, this really sucks. Punk Dive Mars Bar on Bowery and 1st Street is closing up for two years while the building is being renovated. Owner sounded somewhat cavalier

A Little Respect (HMI Redux) – Erasure – A tweaky, tinkly, but unevasive pop move so old fashioned it would float backwards if the melody wasn’t so well anchored. TRACK

Electric Endicott – Gary Wilson – An eccentric? Absolutely. This is like harmolodics, everything seems inverted. You could imagine Wilson composing open chord harmolodics workouts,or collobarating with Glenn Branca, or

Ya gotta freakin love street video.  Big Brother is actually sorta fun. Thats Nick Cave, The Grinderman, The Bad Seed……the car crasher! Apparently Nick drove his car into a traffic camera

Luke Pritchard of the Kooks had this to say about their next album. : “Personally I’ve always had a real thing of keeping it really organic but this album we’re

Tinnitus is that ear damage where you hear a constant ringing. Pete Townsend suffers from it. It occurs from a constant or a sudden exposeur to loud noises. I have

Not for nothing but how is this RS quote from Jonathan Cott’s Rolling Stone Interview with Lennon a surprise: “What they want is dead heroes, like Sid Vicious and James

Reports are coming out of Detriot that Aretha Franklin has pancreatic cancer. Pancreatic cancer, even by the horrorshow of any cancer, is scary stuff. The survival rate after a year

1. Cherish – Madonna – You see, this is from Like A Prayer, which means four albums into her career she was still killing on pure pop songs. 　　 2.