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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 […]

Going to an OKGo concert, is like going to a sort of amusement park, there are rides and attractions, and it is a lot of fun, but, as singer guitarist

Primal Screams “Kill All  Hippies”, is a 60s sci fi mission to Mars trip without window seat. Disturbing in that its repetition gets you a bit nauseous.  Like literally.  Techno

Justin Bieber is 16 years old and half, and his voice is changing, something quite normal… According to several reports, he is working with a vocal coach to stop his

Iman sez:I  interviewed Annie Lennox many years at a diner in Manhattan and she was a complete fruit loop. Dave Stewart, a Scottish lad, was really nice. And actually, it

This Thanksgiving, if you were looking to read something fresh about rock music you had one choice in the States: US.. We are the blog that never sleeps. We post

Er, I think I kinda wrote the post on the title… Coldplay have narrowed the track choices to 15 songs (is that called narrowing or completing) amd threaten it will

If not the greatest of the punk rock groups that came out of the UK in the wake of the Sex Pistols in the late 70s, the Mekons are certainly

•01 Aphex Twin – TBA •02 Fiona Apple – TBA •03 The Avalanches – TBA (via Modular) •04 Beastie Boys – Hot Sauce Committee, Vol. 2 (via Capitol) •05 James

The “other half” of Panic! At The Disco, the half that retained the name, have announced the official release date for their long awaited lp. March 8, 2011 Thanks for

“The King’s Speech” is a terrific new movie about… well let me dumb it down. 1. King George V croaks 2. Replaced by his son King Edward who abdicates to

1. Whip My Hair – Willow Smith – Catchy fluff. 2. Chattahoochee – Alan Jackson – Honky tonkin’ 3. If I Give My Soul – Ton Jones – this is the

Hey  look at this super fun Toy Story-esque video by The Melvin’s. Cant call myself a fan of the band and honest if it weren’t for the eye appeal of

Axl Rose, from Guns N’Roses, is suing Activision, the Guitar Hero video game company for $20 million! JAnd the reason? Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock is featuring the Guns

A rock star as big as former the Band drummer Levon Helm? If he helms a crap concert I’m gonna nail him big time, and nearly two years after seeing

The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is such an American tradition that its usually just called the Macy’s Day Parade. That pisses me off, its for Thanksgiving. This year I was

According to The Independent, one of the most blogged artists this past week was Atlas Sound, the side project of Deerhunter lead singer and guitarist Bradford Cox. I must be

So is Hot Hot Heat wishing they were part of the New Brunswick scene in this video? Here it is what i mentioned before about the band, there are times

 When I was a teenager I had a friend who liked ‘rock’.  Traditional classic.  She liked Clapton.  I did not. Steve Earle to me fits that sorta sound.  That

1. Hello, I Must Be Going – Groucho Marx – “I am certainly grateful for this magnificent wash out… turn out” 2. Chase The Tear – Portishead – This is

For all her dismissals and, dare I say, dissembling, it isn’t My Chemical Romance who float editor Helen Bach’s boat. It is… Justin Bieber. She can’t fool me. And so,

So, so far for 2011 I have tix for Lady Gaga and now THE POGUES!!! And so would you if you lived in New York City and discovered the Pogues

Name checking Marc Bolan and David Bowie with a riff hijacked from Steve Nieve and rewritten for a guitar, and a lyric like an explosion of teen cult references for the

 Although I usually rave about songs that are at least 15 years old, even a boring old sod such as I can stumble across an occasional track I like.

Producer Nick Koenig’s found sounds plus Curtis Mayfield funk plus soul singer Baghdaddy “Fuckable” is really , really awesome and look at the video below and you will see how

1. Vampire Money – My Chemical Romance 2. Streams Of Whiskey -The Pogues – A timeless beauty 3. Dallas – Alan Jackson – Awww, it’s sad. 4. Tennessee Blues –

Poor Miley. 1. Her sexpot dance songs are stiffing 2. No more Hannah. 3. Her Australian bloke dissed her. 4. Her parents are getting divorced 5. She can’t kiss a

Willie Nelson was arrested for posesssing  6 ounces of pot in Texas on Friday, admitted it was his, and released on $2,500 bail. For fuck’s sake. Let’s just legalize pot

I could’ve written up a better set list for Steve Earle’s solo 45 minute opening set for Levon Helm at the Beacon last night. Yes, I could. But I could’ve written

In a dirty alley at of a filthy club, Mary Magpie and interviewed Joshua Moore of We Came As Romans. A wonderful guy, articulate and smart.  Tired but alive. The night

The San Francisco band Birds & Batteries did a very short set on Friday night at Origami Vinyl in Los Angeles, but they are excused as they had a show

Runaway, By Kanye West opens like My Chemical Romances “Black Parade” then launches itself into a totally different and articulate direction that makes a girl step back and say… ‘I

I don’t really know how to feel about The Atari’s.  The name is silly.   At times the vocals sound rather garbled almost marble mouthed. But they have that addictive pop

Can you be nostalgic about something you have never known? I believe so because with art and music, the past is not lost in the past. Bill Ricchini hasn’t known

Yesterday, Weezer was playing for their first night at the Gibson Amphitheater, during which they were supposed to perform the Blue album in its entirety. Best Coast was opening for

After an incredibly quiet concert going November because 1. I’m broke and 2. I couldn’t get on any press lists. I ended up going to THREE concerts in November and

So this is what I did. I took 1. Dark Fantasy and added TGIF stuff for a total of 21 songs. and then 2. I took Unknown Pleasures and Live

Remember those old cartoons where the happy bunnies are frolicking and playing then things go all dark and they’re really like ninja assassins? I don’t like being lured.   I don’t

I got this off Billboard and it is interesting and, to me at least, a little bewildering.  The name of the best selling song, followed by the amount of units sold,

In 1996, Pinkerton had just been released and I was at the height of my infatuation with Weezer and so I dragged my best buddy Robert Nevin to the front

1. The Story Of Us – Taylor Swift – Over arranged, over sung, over played. Which is a shame because it’s a good song. 2. Dallas – Alan Jackson –

Near the beginning of NBC’s Thanksgiving Prime Time counter-programing coup, Taylor Swift’s “Speak Now”, Taylor is in the studio playing “The Story Of Us” on an acoustic guitar for the

How many times have you heard someone saying ‘music saved my life’? How many musicians have declared ‘without music I would be dead’? It could be also true of any

Paul Weller isn’t a fan of social media.  He states that its an opiate in a sense shutting people down and reducing them to watching life on a screen.  

Thanksgiving… Food, family and Football.  Well the first two are great, the football game is so-so but the halftime show was awesome!!  What could be better than the all-American rocker

Music Saves Lives, a foundation that makes an effort to safely get blood and marrow to and from people, is having an auction on eBay. Tom DeLonge, Rise Against, Neon

In the middle of a review of Paul Simon’s okay nothing great Christmas song, I stopped typing “This is a return to form???” to ponder a return to form from

My ex called me to wish me a happy Thanksgiving and mentioned her parents had been at Terminal 5 on Wednesday to catch the last night of Bob Dylan’s 3

The difference between Bon Jovi and, say, U2, is U2 had moments in their career when they were really great. Bon Jovi have sucked since the get go and have