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There is a positive review of a Costello song somewhere around today but till you read it, let’s all laugh uproarously at this quote from the newly minted “B Lister” […]

Courtney Love’s problem is that she is a talentless trashcan famous for being a lou mouth saying lousy stuff like how she is sick of being the keeper of her

“This is the most offended I’ve ever been…this is the maddest I ever will be. I’m typing so fucking hard I might break my fucking Mac book Air!!!!!!!!” “I don’t

Sorry it’s a crap picture… all apologies, etc. It is off NYP who took it from Harper’s Bazaar and it is Barbra Streisand, one of our greatest vocalists, at her

A million years ago when I was cool this is what shows looked like.  Got some mullets amongst those skins ay? Well great news for old timers is the news

What’re you doing November 18th? Watching My Chemical Romance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!? That’s what I thought. Don’t miss these boys as they come back into our worlds once more

Queen signs with Universal Records, Re-Re-Masters imminent. After 40 years with EMI, Queen (what’s left of them) have signed on with Universal Records and will begin the partnership by re-releasing

My ears stopped ringing around noon on Tuesday, easily the quickest recovery time I’ve had after a Dimmu Borgir concert. Dimmu brought some Norwegian friends (Enslaved and Blood Red Throne,

On Monday, Oprah got the big interview, no surprise there, and Michael Jackson’s parents and his three kids, fully unveiled, sit around a table in their backyard, to discuss about

Today, it was announced that the long-time running night club Spaceland located on Silver Lake Blvd, a place that has booked so many bands over the years, is no longer.

Bill Wyman (not the bassist, the writer) imagined Mick Jaggers reply to Keith Richard’s bio on Slate and it is some of the best writing I’ve read about the glimmer

The first release from Oasis Liam’s new band Beady Eye is available FOR FREE!!! “Bring On The Light” is there for you at http://www.beadyeyemusic.com. Based on a pounding piano riff

To say that you can smell danger and blood when you are listening to ‘You Rascal You’ by Hanni El Khatib is a euphemism. His guitar roars like a large

Last time I saw Bon Jovi, I took my niece Louba and an ex Backstabbingbitch and I sat on my hands while they stood for two hours with their mouths open.

At first glance you are going, waaaah?, right? But canoe make a damn good case for a collabaration from the current and former heartthrob. 1. Anka knows what it is

1. Drunk Girls (London Sessions) – LCD Soundsystem – I would be happy if everybody in the world remixed this song at least once. Not that this is a remix,

Married life with Mandy Moore might well make Ryan Adams very happy, but it sure don’t make him prolific. His latest album is a double recorded with the Cardinals in

Neil Gaiman is the bloke who wrote and drew Coraline. Amanda is the chick with dresden dolls. Got another obscure from helen suggesting I read the Dresden Dolls review on

Oh YAY! its the Kesha (if there is a dollar sign in her name I did not put it there, its dumb, I refuse)  is headlining a tour! Hurray Hurray!

Iwrestledabearonce, one of the worst bands to grace our planet with what they call “music”, are releasing a free remix EP.  Thinking about getting it?  Don’t.  It’ll be beyond disappointment,

I’m like the White Rabbit.I’m late. So perhaps you hip bastards (ahem Iman) were years and years ahead of me in this discovery.    It is new to me  Hello

News that Best Coast and Wavves are touring together is pretty damn thrilling even if you don’t like one of the bands because, cmon folks, Nathan Williams in a rock

Both bands that were performing at the Gibson Amphitheater last Sunday night shared this blend of multiple nationalities and vocalists, this idea of not settling for one genre, but rather

Anarbor has put out a free download for their new song “Mr. Big Shot” and God am I happy that I took the opportunity. The song is catchy, still the

There was a time when I thought Fearless Records was Utopia.  Loved everything they churned out, became a fan ‘liked’ them, promoted them. Now? Things arent so good.  I have

Well here it is, after much tweeting and posturing, self praise and folksy thank you’s…. DRUGS begins its maiden voyage. Yup we will be there.  I’m not saying I’m thrilled.

God, my 14th post of the day. This is just a cut and paste job off Rolling Stone about Taylor Swift on Twitter. She has 4.5M followers including me. I

I arrived too late for the band Voxhaul who played at 3pm on the Citywalk stage, but the perspective to spend the whole afternoon and evening watching shows was already

My dance card in November is all but empty as we speak!! So I spent this morning in search of at least one concert for next week and turned up

So how does a 30 something punk rocker rebel? Is there anything for the contented middle class husband and father to do when there is no enemy left? This is

Watching Ricky Gervais pretty good but somewhat sacharine movie 2009’s “The Invention Of Lying”, I noticed Elvis Costello singing Cat Stevens “Sitting”. “Sitting” is a pretty good, Stevens by number,

Here is Miley Cyrus discussing her 18th birthday on November 23rd, with MTV. A coupla hours later she would be photographed drinking and driving. “I’m not going to go crazy;

I have no idea why I find this story so funny… Pink was almost thrown out of a camping sight on her birthday for paddling through the drinking water. Hmmmm… not

1. Sitting – Cat Stevens – Catch Bull At Four was the beginning of the end for Cat, but here he manages to sell you on naff lines like “I

1. One More Night – What survives first and foremost is a vocal tour de force by a singer who can’t sing. 2. Too Much Love – LCD Soundsystem – A

Katherine jackson, in memory of her son, has started a a website called Michael Jackson’s Secret vault. Wiser minds might have suggested a different name but that is not for

Here are the various covers for the new Kanye West album. Apparently there is a window on the cover and you can switch the cover as you choose which should

Well, well, well Kanye. Why do it when you can over do it, right? Isn’t it enough with all these fucking stars? Alicia Keys AND Rihanna and Elton john and

Currently streaming on michaeljackson.com, the first song, “Breaking News”, and despite its naff opening, talking heads about how the press was eating him alive, and despite the chorus, “everybody wants

New Releases: November 2 – November 23 November 2: Elliott Smith, Brian Eno, Huey Lewis and the News, Black Dub, Brad Paisley (Live), Elvis Costello, Edie Carey, Jason Aldean, Neil

After acting like the biggest asshole on earth to Susan Boyle -maybe the most troubled pop star since Kurt Cobain, and refusing to aloow her to cover “Perfect Day”, Looouuuueeee

The irrepressible Ms. Bach provides her annotated playlist before I get my shot at it in a couple of days! I need to take a sec to review my playlist.

Singer/songwriter/guitarist/rapper Fasil “Fuzzy G” recorded a new video yesterday in The Public School System studio in Brooklyn. The song is called “Find My Way” and, although still unfinished, the song

Pehrspace is a weird little place hidden at the end of a parking lot in Echo Park, stuck between a thai restaurant and a chicken place, and quite difficult to

Madonna is opening up an international chain of health clubs called “Hard Candy Fitness” Madonna is no spring chicken, she is fit I suppose but she looks like hell. There

The Wonder Years is a pop punk band from Philadelphia with so much ambition they could blow the roof off of any venue in no time. Getting their start in

“Hey Superstar” the first single off the soon to be released “Dresden Codex” by Madina Lake caused a jaw drop reaction. Why on Earth are these guys not at the

Bands like the Doobie Brothers totally got ignored by me back in the day.  They were for the keg party bonfire pot smoking burnouts. I was too cool. I was

Howdya like them Apples?  (get it?!) Basically iTunes is telling the label we’re gonna give our customers 90 second previews instead of 30 and if you dont like it piss

Well now, this is very good news. The greatest of all Brit pop bands, Pulp, are reforming for a Spring tour in 2011, begging the question, can a  coupla NYC