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Slap this mother on your coffee table  “Mr Rottens Scrapbook.”  With a very small run of 750 copies there is some justification to the $550.00 price tag……not.   The book comes […]

I caught the Bee Gees back in the mid-90s, playing a one off Saturday Night Fever concert with folks like Tavares. It was a pleasure even though the Bee Gees

When he wasn’t famous. the Streets was one of the great white rappers. But by the last album, 2008’s Everything Is Borrowed, with paeanes to his late dad and feeling

Johnny Rice sneers: “This is the story of the unknown blogger, he blogs and he blogs and he blogs but no one reads him.” Funny line and he has a

Have you ever noticed that there are fantastic bands that are terribly underrated, but great bands that really suck?  Here’s my list of the top 5 underrated bands. 1.  The

Ok what the freakin heck… My Chemical Romance is getting nutty and have introduced this nifty little interactive video ‘from 2019’, which pretty much is the length of time it

Loosely based on the ultimate rock and roll soundtrack movie, “American Graffiti”, “Happy Days” was one of the greatest sitcoms of all time. The story of teens in 1950s white

Sade, the soul chanteuse, recently confessed several daunting facts about herself in the Los Angeles Times. The first one being her renunciation of vegetarianism! Apparently, the vision of little lambs in

we have come for your daughters Could there be a more perfect way to honor Bob Moog, creator of the synthesizer, then to hold a music festival Halloween weekend in

  work anywhere near the ‘ace hotel’? 20 W29th Street between 6th And 5th Avenue    Catch decemberists Collin Meloy Friday at 1:30pm ET. Colin’s set, which will include several songs

When Love Is Dying – Leon Russell And Elton John – Painful, overwrought piece of piano twaddle. RS gave this 5 stars. Farewell – The Leaving/Grieving rhyme just a marker

Wow, this is something of a disappointment. It is like watching lesbian porn and the girls don’t french kiss -not quite real. I was expecting a teenage pre-Dylanish Dylan in

Gucci Mane as checked himself into rehab after an intervention by his manager and friends. Mane, fresh out of jail, is simply one of the best rappers around but drugs

OK, I thought I was pretty cool, listen to mountains of music from all over the place. Wannna tell me Freddie Gibbs, wanna tell me Kavinsky or Holy Ghost -whatever?

Serenity now. Rolling Stone giving KoL a favorable review i can live with… after all, they are tainted goods anyway. And NYP -well, Aquilante is an idiot so that is

Mary Magpie wrote about how well Madina Lake, the victim of a senseless beating earlier this year, was doing. And he is doing well but it is still a long

Ray Davies: ”The interesting thing is I’ve had emails both from Mick and Dave about various other subject matters, but I think it will be down to Dave at the

I’ve had a big time crush on Betty Buckley since you played the step-mom of your dreams on Eight Is Enough. Saw her loads of times at the Bottom Line

Last time I heard something from Gruff Rhys, it was for the Sparklehorse project, ‘Dark Night Of The Soul’.Directly from the beach, he has just released a new solo track,

Saint Motel is having a contest! The band, who has released a video for each of the songs featured on the ForPlay EP, wants to see what fans can do.

rock nyc interviewee and pal Karen of Brighton pop band Ramona has started a second blog -this one to cover her life, mostly on the road. Titled the Only Girl In

1. Farewell – Bob Dylan – I could swear I know this song from somewhere… never mind, it is absolutely wonderful, another long good. 2. Mean – Taylor Swift –

Worcester MA’s “Rock and Shock” event had one element of interest.  The only New England stop for California’s Black Veil Brides.  A band with more hype and more swoons than

As rock nyc reported last week , Guns n Roses played the O2 Arena in London!   I wish I had been there because original bassist Duff McKagan showed up and

A  chill is in the air and leaves are beginning to fall, which means my favorite time of year is fast approaching…heavy metal season! Finally, listening to metal and

 I have been wanting  to write about her for a week now, but hadn’t done it yet. Jesca Hoop has a name just as unusual as the music she writes.

Every year the British legion has people observe two minutes of silence to honor those who have died in service to their country. Like a week after bonfire night (somebodies

Lighthouse Beer Festival, an annual festival in Wilmington, NC, was a blast this past Saturday. Perfect, gorgeous, North Carolina weather, over 70 international breweries, featuring their finest, lagers,IPAs, and Oktoberfest

It’s a sign.      Matthew Leone of Madina Lake is out of the hospital and well.  He did an interview and it’s nothing short of a wonder that he’s well. 

I swear when I first heard this I thought the back vocal was ‘flippin burgers now’, but then again I was hungry when i heard it Jamie Fox, what is

What the hell is this crap? Saw is supposed to be one of the most terrifying modern horror films to date.  I haven’t seen any of them, nor do I

I got this off brooklynvegan, who got it off, I guess, the Los Campesinos website. Ellen Campesinos (a blonde above!) wrote this: “We performed in Johnny Brenda’s (Philadelphia on 10/12)

I didn’t lnow this… It is ancient history but I STILL DIDN’T KNOW IT… Searching for a pix for a Bach Post I came acroos this on People.com: “Gerard and

Sir Cliff richard is absolutely free to do whatever he wants (including not play NYC) but of all the things he could do, another collobartion with Van Morrison for instance,

I don’t get the point of the new Best Coast video, ‘Boyfriend’ they have just premiered on MTV. It’s just boring,… sorry Bethany’s fans, it is. But wait, why would

 rock nyc’s second fave English TV show (Helen prefers Skins, I prefer Dr. Who) visited the new Musical express offices and so, in our continuing attempts to get sued for

1. Hard Times In New York Town – Bob Dylan 2. Big Wave – Jenny And Johnny 3. Old Fashioned – Cee Lo Green 4. Mean – Taylor Swift 5.

Kanye’s new album cover, see above, is now officially banned… don’t know by whom. I cann’t see borders refusing to post it. West twittered as follows: “So NIRVANA can have

If there has been anything more hypocritical then the tutting over Miley Cyrus expressing her sexuality in song , you’d have to go back to Brittney Spears to find it.

Helen Bach found this list of gay women in music here: http://www.afterellen.com/music/2010/10/the-50-most-important-queer-women-in-music?page=0%2C9 A lesbian cuture website. I am going post some names of the most imprtant gay women in music. Incidentally,

One man, one mountain man, is three women with three beautiful, ethereal voices that harmonize over harmonies, with their only voices, at least this is how they performed yesterday night

I had no idea what the hell Daytrotter was.  Honestly, I still don’t really get it but I was sent some great stripped down versions of a few of my

There are some things in this world that should never ever happen.  I will start a list for you of these things. I do this as a public service announcement. 

The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) is currently organizing walks throughout the United States and invites people to participate and raise money for its research and education programs to

1. Electric Endicott – Gary Wilson – Somebody called this electronic weirdo a white Prince, this is soul with buzzy electronics. 2. Bullfighter Jacket – Miniature Tigers – Can these

rock nyc interviewed Emii during the summer. She was promoting her excellent “Magic” EP and we predicted big things. Well, big things are happening. Her new song, “Mr. Romeo” features

Pregnant?  Need Help? I’m kidding Pregnant is part of that crazy New Brunswick scene we love chatting about over here.  Now you can check them out for free from Burn

1. Boogaloo69 Mixtape 1 – Rene Lopez – Nearly unbelievablely great nearly 40 minutes of latin soul. Google it, maybe you can get hold of it somewhere. It is unreal.

I  don’t really watch Boardwalk Empire, the new HBO star series, I have usually too many things to do on Sunday nights, but I have the weird habit to turn