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My next musical adventure is seeing the band Alesana. For the fourth time. This is one incredible band with a small but mighty following.  Years later still playing the same […]

Mikey Skinner and The Streets! YES! Finally the final release of “The Streets” is official, in the can and will be released February 11, 2011! Love him or hate him

Marcellus Hall performed a set of sturdy, high melody quotient, pro-love songs, at the Bowery Electric. Backed by a truly excellent bassist playing melody lines that reverberated with power, Marcellus

1. Like Rasputin – Amy Rigby – The opening piano is stolen off “Whole Wide World”!! Three years before she met Eric! Better live, she should re-record it. 2. Chain

My favorite living director, Jean Luc Godard, and one of my other fave directors, Claire Denis, have revivals screening in New York at the moment. A new 35mm copy of Godard’s

Win Butler and Régine Chassagne are the husband and wife leads of the band Arcade Fire. I was not to familiar with them, but did a bit of leg work

Band name nomenclature is a game, but a game that can be confusing, there are so many bands which simply change their names, so many bands which break up and

Hey remember when that huge oil spill was going on in the Gulf?  Remember all that gushing and fires and poor little shrimp? Yeah its totally out of your head

“Concert For Killing Cancer” Slated for January 13th in London. As someone who recently lost a beloved family member to cancer, there is no doubt at all that the disease

Man On The Moon 2 – Kid Cudi – Excepecting worst than the worst, I have been, maybe the word ain’t pleasantly but, I have been surprised by this excellence

Statelman are a reakl good alt rock pop band with hooks aplenty. In a line that is flirting around the Paramore/Hey Monday axis of chick singer, a hooklined verse, plus

Ever bail out of something you didn’t really want to do with a lame ass excuse?   Of course you have. So has Marina and The Diamonds who have cancelled their

We make fun of U2. we hate U2. we do. But only up to a point. Where it goes out of the realm of public mockery and into the world of

We all lie about music, especially new music. The especially is because we haven’t really had the time to assimilate what we are listening to so we are really guessing

If I was a movie reviewer, which I am not, I might claim that the runaway train action moview by the blandest director in the universe, Tony Scott, is all

Here is the quote, the chief Yeasayer talking about Kanye: “”Will you please stop apologizing for outbursts which concisely expressed what every sane person was thinking? Why are you apologizing

I send my co-editor, Helen Bach, songs all the time. Needless to add, she seldom sends me any way. But she suddenly send me a whole bunch and so, needless to

Ezra Pound was one of the great poets of his generation. He was also a fascist. Martin Heidegger was the 3rd Reich’s philosopher. Lennon was a woman beater. Jim Morrison an

1. Theme From Cheers – TitusAndronicus- Yup, that’s Dan McGee on the second verse. 2. I Am Not A Robot – I’d rather be hated then loved for what I’m

The old journalist quote, which I newly took off Andrea Peyser, defines the problem with the big boys, the Spins , Stones and Forks: “If you want to cover the

So I got on to UnderOath’s tour bus(which was nice and very warm, might I add), and met James Smith, the rhythm guitarist since 2003. We sat down and I

Lupos Heartbreak Hotel is located in lovely downtown Providence Rhode Island. Lupos is the most repulsive venue I have ever entered. I have been actively going to ‘rock’ clubs since

Phil Collins stung by recent criticisms, Threatens to take his ball and go home. From the “Please Let It Be True” file, Phil Collins is apparently so demoralized by recent

photo taken from the ultra filthy balcony of fury Lupo’s, the most disgusting club on the face of the planet, was sold-out, jam packed, and filled with excitement for UnderOath.

Johnny Franck of Attack Attack has abruptly left the band for God. What the hell is this? What I want to know is what exactly brought him to this point. There

Sharon Van Etten, currently touring with Junip, is attached to the folk tradition. Her songs are easy to like, with a lot of acoustic strumming guitar, some organ at times, a little

Well there ya go.. Theres the cover art for The Decemberists upcoming release “The King is Dead”…well then It does look rather naturish, no longer the more artsy obscure covers

There is a new Paul Simon song on Amazon UK, it’s a Christmas song, ‘Getting Ready For Christmas Day’ and it is on a new label for him, the Hear

Gang of Four are very very old and very very fragile.  Like a precious love letter you sort of want to touch it with thum and forefinger only.  Afraid to

Kanye (or is it Kayne?) is awesome. What an arrogant queen.  Its hilarious.  Lets break it down, Kanye called George Bush a racist regarding his handling of the Hurricane Katrina

I am not sure I will go, but next Monday, the groupie-musician-publicist-actress of the 60’s Cherry Vanilla will discuss her new book ‘Lick me: How I became Cherry Vanilla’ at

As reported a coupla weeks ago, Poly is back and has recorded a new album! Now here comes the first release. I signed up on her website for updates and

1. One Night – Bryan Ferry – When you write this much about music, your reader (s?) should have an idea of your taste. But my taste isn’t about sound,

Sometime Bryan Ferry sounds a little Roy Orbison, the voice jiggle sorta makes me distracted. But there is a gruff sort of desperation in his vocals that always makes whatever

I saw The White Stripes and was blown away.  Others say they sucked live.  I only know that what I saw that summer night was nothing short of spectacular.  I

1. A More Perfect Union – Titus Andronicus – The first song on the album of the year. 2. I Can Change – LCD Soundsystem – 808 and heartbreak 3.

Who the heck is The Century?  I am not familar with them at all but they have the honor of covering M.I.A.’s “Paper Planes” for Fearless Records latest offer- Punk

Social Distortion, are grown men with morgages and bet they have kids they have to put through college. Punk rock isnt the most lucrative career choice so I hope they

the devolution of youngster Laura Marling has been nothing short of terrifying. She isn’t yet 21 and she has gone from 1. member of great neo-folkie band Noah and the

Theophilus is a Brooklyn based rapper we have written about a number of times here. he is so good and writing songs, it feels like he should be working for Motown

Keith Richards hit a music critic in the head because said critic had called the Stones amateurs and gave them a two out of five star review when they played

So I am merrily minding my own biz, stalking Amanda Palmer on twitter and looking for stories to fill you with shock and awe and my good buddy Joan Jett twits,

This wonderful Lennon Box Set could be yours FOR FREE if you were on stereogum instead of here. Apparently, on stereogum they have that green paper stuff by the truckloads

Everywhere I go on the web, there is something related to Kanye West. Best Coast thinks he is god and retweets his rants on Twitter all the time, like this

And so Justin continues to do what he has done for over a year: mine 2.0 for every fucking penny he can get with an acoustic album though everybody knows

1. Mojo So Dope – Kid Cudi – Sounds like trip meets hip hop -the rap is just stunning , Cudi so strange and the mood manic depressive, dark, druggy.

Bring The Light – Beady Eye – The Stones? The Beatles? Nah, more like pub rock. The Darts, MAYBE, Dr. Feelgood. Blue Suede Shoes – Elvis Presley – Soundtrack of

 Maria Trapp once valiantly noted that when God closes a door, he always opens a window. Unless you live in Haiti, in which case he just drops the house on