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Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros have recorded a new Session of six-songs on iTunes, featuring unique versions of some of their popular songs from their debut album ‘Up From […]

Borrowing a bit of Marilyn Manson camera angles and gimmick Craig Owens new band D.R.U.G.S., just scared the hell out of me with the new video for,  “If You Think

There is no worse rapper on Earth than Mike Skinner.  None.  My dog can rap better.  Hell I have heard Iman sing and that man can rap with more ‘hood.

Britney Spears Justin Timberlake Christina Aguilara what Disney has brought together let dance rock never put asunder…

 Those of us excitedly anticipating Usher’s big time MSG concert in a coupla weeks, read with interest the somewhat ambivalent review of the set in Toronto a coupla days

Sir Elton knows a lot about rock stardom. How to make it and how to keep it. So here is his impression on how Oasis, with every reason in the

Ahhh myspace. Where would music of today be without you? You gave kids ‘friends’, you made ‘myspace girls’ common household trash. You are fading out of favor as social media

Did I miss the meeting where Mark Ronson morphed into a dork? How did this happen? When did it happen? U dunno but Record collector sucked and tanked and now

1. Fakin’ It – Simon And Garfunkel – Just in case you wondered if Bookends was better than Bridge, this’ll remind you it wasn’t. 2. F.O.D. – Green Day –

So I am the last person on the planet earth to offer my two cents on the Nelly disses Universal controvery. OK, I think he is right and he is

As long as there has been a Usher, there has been an Usher imagining he can make a move on Michael Jackson’s King Of Pop crown and unable to complete

 1. Crazy Beautiful Life – Ke$ha – This is the goods. About the joys of romantic love, dumping the douchebags and, as she puts it very kinda sweetly, “oh

Yes, he is really 50! But not in this pix. The pix should perk Helen Bach’s interested, er, wickedly. Rollins is playing a 5 night run at what is probably

Escape The Fate are one of the most consistently great hardcore bands.  With personnel changes came fan base shifts but when the lights come up Craig Mabbit kicks ass and

Today, December 1st is World AIDS day, and last year, more than 33 million people were estimated to be HIV positive, some 2.6 million people became newly infected with the

What first caught my attention when sampling Robert Burns and Mike Ogletree’s “The Kilmarnock Edition” this past evening, was not the fact that Mr. Robert Burns has been long dead; he died in 1796.

Due to lame fire hazard concerns at the Palladium, the fire marshal will not allow Monotonix to play their usual set’ I’m not sure what fire hazard means exactly in

Want one of these? The Prince of Darkness has a nifty Ouija board! Hasbro, in partnership with Live Nation… I’ll give you a second to digest that pair up. Yup,

Maybe the best month of the year for recorded music, it still sucked live. Live, the highlight was a terrific Steve Earle set and a crap Kings Of Leon set

Joy Division fan?  If you are or were and can make it through this video with out a seconds worth of choking up your a fraud. There is a difference

Now you’re talking! Hello, Woe is Me!  See this is the sort of music I have no right listening to let alone promoting.  Shouldn’t I be PJ Harvy-ing? Nope. I would

Roger Waters and David Gilmore came together for a charity gig earlier this year. But the last remaining Pink Floyd, Nick Mason, wouldn’t join them. Why? Nick explained himself to

The money is is music publishing. record releasing is just one medium, publishing covers all of em. Chris Wright’s company, the former record label, current publishing company, just got sold

I haven’t written enough about Tom Jone’s superb Gospel album, Praise And Blame. It will absolutely make my best of the year with a bravado vocal performance by Jones, a

Here is Yoko Ono’s fave Lennon songs as told to Rolling Stone. Obviously, we are looking at post-Beatles stuff because if it was during Beatles she would do what I

If anyone is ever interested, tonight CBS airs its annual Grammy Nomination Concert at 10 pm, hosted by LL Cool J. and featuring performances by Train, Selena Gomez, David Grohl,

Sure, Beady Eyes UK tour was an instananeous sell out. Point being? Point being, that does not mean Liam shouldn’t throw in a clutch of Oasis songs to keep the

 1. Rock That Body – the Black Eyed Peas – After two misfires, this is exactly as advertised. 2. Don’t Rock The Jukebox – Alan Jackson – George Jones

god was here but he left early Funny how people can have a completely different take on the same event. Many newspapers, blogs and magazines have reported that, when launching

Finally, the return of Conor Oberst will be next year. there is a presale for a radio city music hall gig march 9th but if there is a code I’m

Since I had my early birthday party(Pokemon themed) and ended up with money in my iTunes account, I decided to be nostalgic and buy Pokemon Theme Song” by 2.BA Master.   No,

We have interviewed the extremely talented and charismatic Bryce Avary, front man of The Rocket Summer, twice over the past year. Our first interview done in December of last year

 Many longtime fans of Finnish metal legends Amorphis, those that favor their early death metal days, have lamented the twists and turns the band has taken over the years,

Ennio Morricone’s music is at the center of  ‘Rome’, a new project involving Danger Mouse, Italian composer Daniele Luppi, Jack White and Norah Jones. Danger Mouse (a.k.a. Brian Burton) and

Look what happens if you stop hangin out with Pete Wentz.  Whos that boy? Patrick Stump, what the hell? OK to bring you up to speed, Fall Out Boy is on

I’ve always loved funky remixes of classic video game songs, but “Kirby Dreamland 3- Canyon” by Entertainment System just takes the cake.  Making it completely instrumental, it has a great

“threatening man in gimp mask with sledge hammer”… Pretty much nowhere to go after a quote like that.  Nah, this isn’t about Pulp Fiction, though that is one of my

DeVotchka, the four-piece band which became famous after composing the score for the critically acclaimed movie ‘Little Miss Sunshine’ in 2006, mixes many different styles from American folk to Slavic

Limited edition box set fancy linen clam shelled Polaroid pictured  “The King Is Dead”. The new release by The Decemberists,  Ive been drooling over forever is now available as the

Oh but it’s not really rap! I thought Kanye West was a rapper, he is actually singing on his hip-hop-turned-into-pop song, and the melody sounds almost familiar although it’s pretty

So here ya go ‘Blackheart Records’ Holiday offering and know what. I freakin like it!  Girl in A Coma’s,  ‘Blue Christmas’ is slick, and trust me when I say I ain’t

Mandy Moore as the voice of a Rapunzel -a Disney princess. Sure, why not. And she is pretty good as well, as the young Princess whose magical hair has the

1. Sur La Pleche – La Femme – There are two things le Francais are not supposed to be able to do. 1) Fight the Germans and 2) rock. La

There is always a pecking order. Even among hens there is a pecking order. Even in punks infancy there was a pecking order. But, not the pecking orders we have

As long as it keeps him from singing I’m all for the weasel faced jerk doing whatever this is… a King Cnut… save the world… hug a tree… something like

Are Primal Scream the greatest rock band in the UK today? If not, who is better? Manic Street Preachers maybe. Both are coming off fairly crappy albums but, and this

Now what rhymes with Jake? As Taylor continues to saddle the huge rift between who she says she is and who she really is, here comes the thirty year old

Alicia Keys, Usher, Gaga, Beyonce and Justin Timberlake are so confident that you cant live without their Tweets and Facebook statuses that they’re signing off. On Wednesday Dec 1st, World

 Blaqk Audio, consisting of Davey Havok and Jade Puget from the band AFI, have released a new song.  Titled “Down Here”, I was surprised to hear anything new from them. 

Amazon had a Black Friday sale. Albums, good albums, for a buck ninety-nine. I didn’t get Arcade Fire because I already own it and I didn’t get a Lennon compilation