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The UK glam rock band who ushered in the Brit Pop movement and dissolved in 2003, got back this year for a charity and now plan to tour the UK. […]

I’ve written posts, reviews, school assignments, and interviewed Motion City Soundtrack.  But I honestly believe this band changed my life. When I was (even more) a youngin’, about ten or eleven,

Here is Elvis Costello speaking to vanity fair about his new album: “Who can say? I feel as if everything and nothing is possible. I’m very proud of this record.

This should shock you as much as it shocks me, but there is a real good interview on Billboard.com by Mark Hopper with Nathan Williams of the great, great,  great

brooklynvegan have announced that WBLS are giving free Prince tix away. To the Apollo? No, actually. To MSG. Here are the dates , tix go on sale Friday… DECEMBER 14th,

On my daily calls to my esteemed Master Editor the name Aretha Franklin comes up regularly. The Queen of Soul is an icon, an inspiration and in dire need of

1. Come On, Let’s Go – Girl In A Coma – Just bought their cover of “Transmission” as well. 2. Every Night’s A Saturday Night With You – Best moment?

Crocodiles and Dum Dum Girls cancel their respective tours due to a family emergency. Crocodiles are part of the West Coast Best Coast groove thang, Dum Dum girls, major indie

The Drifters were a pretty cool Doo Wop sounding band who became most famous for “Under The Boardwalk” and “Up On The Roof” before Ben E. King went solo and

Larry Harris was Neil Bogart’s # 2 guy at Casablanca Records. The guys behind Donna Summer, Kiss, Parliament, Cher and the Village People. Larry has written a tell all and

  Mr Nicholas Joseph, the man behind the ingenious Nickasaur! has a side project.  He released an EP under his real name, and like he said, it’s the total opposite

It’s almost Halloween, this time of the year when people get crazy with their outfits, and in LA, we have our dose of madness with a costume parade on Hollywood

 (above: what no brown m&ms? smokers club rider insists uponplenty of beef jerky)  The Smokers Club Tour came through Wilmington, NC, a very out of place, but much needed

Somebody somewhere has to organize the Bob Dylan catalogue because this bootleg series isn’t doing it. What is needed is an album by album box set reissue. Say $100 or

75 Rivers Cuomo (Weezer)74 Lewis Bowman (Chapel Club)73 Caitlin Rose72 James Blake71 Bradford Cox (Deerhunter)70 Soulja Boy69 Matt Bellamy (Muse)68 Nathan Williams (Wavves)67 Avi Zahner-Isenberg (Avi Buffalo)66 Cher Lloyd from

Want to meet the sassy editors of formerly cool music rag Spin Magazine? Well in a world of crap glossies at least Spin writes about music in between advertising unlike

Yesterday, the Broken Bells duo announced on twitter a new song, ‘Meyrin Fields’, and after some checking it seemed that this song was in fact not completely new, but an

1. I Second That Emotion – Smokey Robinson And The Miracles – I read recently where one day punning will be consdiered a reflex illness similar to Tourettes Syndrome. Bad

Great news, Black Veil Brides have made first round consideration for “Best New Artist” for the 2010 Grammys This is pretty amazing stuff tweeted last night by Andy Six, BVB

The 600 hundred capacity Brooklyn Bowl played host to Kanye West for a 2am set Friday night. West played a five song set: ”So Appalled”, “Monster”, “Devil in a New

So sorry to hear about the death of the great lover’s rocker Gregpry Isaacs. Night Nurse was a huge hit in the 80s and it ushered in a period where

1. Come On, Let’s Go – Girl In A Coma – A just about perfect cover of a Ritchie Valens classic which remains true to the original while sounding very

So Mrs Coldplay is going country in the upcoming movie ‘Country Strong’ in which she plays an alcoholic country music singer, married to Tim McGraw and working on her comeback

1. Eminem -I guess they mean best selling 2. Jay-Z – Yuck, he is the Bono of hip hop. 3. Kanye West – And he is working his way into

Here are two quotes. One is Kanye West proving you can’t be a serious rock star without be deeply eccentric, the other by me to Cyn proving you can’t be

Bow Thayer And the Perfect Trainwreck are Vermont boys, and they got some gotta kick the grass right off my shoes, proto-suburban, hanging in Woodstock with the Band and Van

Since at least July of this year I’ve gone to two, three concerts a week, but… the run is over, and the end is nigh. Willingto pony up the dough

 Until One, by Swedish House Mafia, is due out this Tuesday, Oct 26th and  I definitely recommend you get it. “Miami 2 lbiza” has a great driving beat, moving the

I understand playing loud, I like loud music, I probably listen to my Ipod with the volume turned on too high, but there is a point when the intensity of

Today, having visited two record stores which sell exclusively vinyl, led me to think about the future of record stores. I thought they were all dead or dying, but suddenly

Everybody from Rolling Stone to New york times to Parade have their own little Taylor Swift review and man does she stay on topic.How can they all believe she is

1. Albert Camus – Library Of Congress – Was this between Seizing Elias and Titus Andronicus? Powerful version off the must own Feats Of Strength rarities album. 2. Guess I’m

I am truly a Dylan fanatic, i own everything. When The Bootleg Series Vol 1 – 3, I bought that and I also bought the Real Bootleg Series -a truly

There was an indescribable 80’s beat feeling during the first songs played by the Globes on Remote at Origami records, as their music was synth driven, kind of Gary Numan-Rick

First off lets clear this up right now.. this is not Abba. Its a erm quad of people called The Recues. They’re doing a cover of Teenage Dream and Katy

OK woe now.  First an apology. I am sorry I have never written up BlessTheFall before. To be honest with you there is no reason for it, and I’m disappointed

Why am I telling you this? No idea, this is my SIXTENTH POST of the day, my brain is on stall… Elton John called American Idol boring and Simon Cowell

Which one of these statements is true? 1.Mary Magpie flew to London to catch My Chemical Romance play the Hammersmith Odeon Saturday night. She notes that many members of the

Royal Trux Are Re-Releasing Their First Four Albums. There is only two reasons why a band re-releases their old material. 1. Because they have stopped selling. 2. Because they are

The fighting Davies brothers aren’t really fighting any more. Dave Davies simply refuses to have anything to do with his big brother. Ray Davies told Uncut Magazine: “””I don’t talk

I arrived late and left early for the excellent Thievery Corporation/Massive Attack concert at Beacon theatre on Friday. My loss, no doubt. Thievery Corporation had Power Tools and Mac next

KOL those elitist port o let hogs. Ain’t no one gonna secrete nothing they don’t approve of. Aside from looking awkward as hell and lead singer Caleb Followill too cool for words,

I  should have probably written  about them much earlier as they performed last week in LA, opening for Superchunk at the Henry Fonda Music Box. The Vaselines are one

Sam Taylor-Wood’s “Nowhere Boy”, about John Lennon’s teen years in late 1950’s Liverpool, is two movies in one. The first is a pop psychological pulp soap about the tug of

Ask anyone who knows me and you will learn I am not a prude. Not at all, on the contrary I an be a tad to bold in my opinions

1. Guess I’m Doing Fine – Bob Dylan – Another hidden gem on Bootleg 9: the slighter the intention, the stronger the song. 2. The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter

I do love cover songs.  What exactly is the difference between a cover song and  a ‘tribute album’? I do believe “From the Land of Ice And Snow” is a

Some things can’t be taught. How to seduce an audience in a bar where the sunlight streams through the windows somewhere in the West Village is one of them. But

I got this off the new yorkdaily news . Cherry Vanilla, David Bowies US PR woman, has a memoir out and in it she discusses bedding Bowie back in the

It turned out that Sigur Ros frontman Jónsi’s performance at Origami records in Los Angeles was his only in-store appearance. I didn’t go, but the little store in Echo park