rock nyc

If I was 30 years younger I would haunt this DFA Records (you knowL Shit Robot, LCD, Holy Ghost!…) residency every Wednesday at the Hudson Hotel just extended thru october, […]

Davy doesn’t look like this any more, but who does?? The great Monkee says a reunion tour is in the works… and I can’t wait. Are they too old to

It means I gotta buy two tracks by this completely unknown by me band and either a) Wintersleep (the name is atrocious) suck and I try to catch the new

John Lennon, Kanye West, Taylor Swift: What do these folks have in common? All three have sold millions upon millions of units, all three are great songwriters, all three have

Don Henley doesn’t feel well so The Eagles are postponing some shows Have you ever seen Henley?  Almost 20 years ago I had the distinct pleasure of joining him back

I was at 1755 Broadway about a year ago. A big meeting where the lowest person in the meeting made more in a month than I do in a year.

Forty years ago, in a planet far, far away known as the East Village, college kid Larry Schneiderman hung at the Filmore East…

Alain Johannes came on the small stage with his weird little square guitar and played this energetic set of songs, nervously, with his deep nasal voice. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoDa4aOd9Ns&feature=related Johannes, which has

The Damned Things have been mentioned here before.This band contains the Andy Hurley and Joe Trohman from Fall Out Boy, Scott  Ian and Rob Caggiano of Anthrax, Keith Buckley of Every Time I Die. 

Urge Overkill is credited for helping to create and develop thealternative rock scene that swept through and dominated the 90s. Now,after a 12 year hiatus, they are back in the

Oh No. I was thrilled to here weezer would be playing Blue Album one day, Pinkerton the next and seriously considering going to both dates. Until I read it is

D.R.U.G.S. are just a quintet of fun-loving boys and that shines through in their most recently released little video. They announced their bassist, who is going to be Adam Russel,

Hellogoodbye seems to be a Coldplay/ NSN hybrid and streamed a new song  “You Sleep Alone,” from their upcoming album, Would It Kill You.  The vocals are fun short and catchy.  The music

Hell has 3 names. One is Glee.  Worse show ever created.  Two and Three are American Idol, and its back too. So do you think you have what it takes? 

1. Runaway – Kanye West – I missed it on the VMAs and I didn’t recognize it with Helen on SNL. Just released on Itunes, it is a melodic mea

 Why do it when you can over do it? It is not that i don’t like Yoko Ono a lot because i do. 1. Loved her experimental stuff with

This is a must see concert if only for the first act. But #2 and #3 -I wanna be there this Christmas!! Here is where this spectacular is playing: Birmingham

Free will, it’s a seductive idea but do we really have it? If we are a product of our genes and environment, does free will still mean anything? We make

Yesterday in the US Bring Me The Horizon’s new album “There Is A Hell, Believe Me I’ve Seen It, There Is A Heaven, Let’s Keep It A Secret” was released and as soon as

Lil Wayne is spending the last month of his jail career in solitary confinement because he was listening to music on an mp3. MP3’s are considered contraband. And so his

I really did like Good Ass Fun, the working title of Kanye’s upcoming title, but it was no 808s And Heartbreaks and I might add that the title he has

 Busy Week For Concerts for me. Thursday, October 7th – The Hold Steady at Beacon Theatre and a crap seat BUT… they were great at Bowery ballroom earlier this

U2 sucks. Heres proof. Spiderman song is officially unveiled below. I can tell you that Bono has an old man ass. He looks like a roughed up hobo. You’d figure

The crunkcore jokes BrokeNcyde released their new song “Teach Me How To Scream” today and boy was it a waste of time.  Absolutely, horrifically bad.  The only real word for

Oh, where to begin? I have never liked Aerosmith. They always seemed to ride the coattails of the Rolling Stones and were a watered-down version of bands like Guns ‘N

Ok, I don’t get it. can’t you run a music website without booking the rock bands you are writing about? How did this happen? Listen, THERE IS A CONFLICT OF

Bring Me The Horizon’s new album is being sold everywhere in the U.S. today.  So as soon as you’re on your lunch break, or out of school, or free, go

Corin Tucker Band – 1,000 Years YES Marnie Stern – s/t (Kill Rock Stars) NoAntony and the Johnsons – Swanlights (Secretly Canadian) Yes Belle & Sebastian – Write About Love (Matador)

Happy Birthday Sir Bob Geldof born today in 1951. Bob was one foxy mo’fo back in the day.  The video for the song”Up All Night” did just that, well err..woooot! As

1. Good Friday – Kanye West – Good time hip hop brings the party. 2. Good For You (I Would Be) – Nive Nielsen and Jan De Vroede – Sounds

Singles released yesterday:Badly Drawn Boy – ‘Too Many Miracles’Villagers – ‘That Day’The Bees – ‘I Really Need Love’British Sea Power – ‘Zeus’Cee Lo Green – ‘Fuck You’Frankie & The Heartstrings

Comedy and music go together like ham and cheese. No wait,wrong post. Comedy or parody music goes back way back for me anyway to “Hello Mother Hello Father”, thats about

Lady Gaga joined Yoko Ono on stage this weekend for her Plastic Ono band thing, at the Orpheum theater in LA… I was not there, but there are a few

Ah yes, 2007. You could insult the president with impunity, Wall Street hadn’t evolved into a Welfare recipient, rock nyc didn’t exist, and I had an assistant. Oh, and I

Oh no. I haven’t liked REM in a decade ago. But a decade ago I loved them. So what do the schmucks at Glee decide to destroy? One of their

How good a blues singer was Janis Joplin, who died 40 years ago yesterday?  Janis  was good enough to be mentioned in the same breadth as Billie Holiday. Janis transcended

If you can only read one post today read this one. But if you can read only read two, read Simon Doonan’s Liberace article posted on Slate this past Thursday.

The first pic are the shoes Animal Collective have designed and the profits are going to the second pix are where the profits to save the Socorro Island Conservation Fund,

The Echo Curio is this strange little shop/Art gallery in Echo Park selling paintings and curious objects of all kinds, promoting local and international artists. The place is also regularly

The Hole In The Wall camps were the brainchild of the late Paul Newman, The camps provider terminally ill children an opportunity  to spend a week at camp at no

Isn’t there something somewhere about how it is wrong to fun at others misfortunes? I think we can make an exception in the case of a band that would jump

Myspace may be dead, but the bands are still comin’.  In Her Own Words, suggested to me by my friend Finn, and I was blown away.  The more than incredible 5

I’ve always had a problem with authority’, this is how starts Greg Graffin’s new book ‘Anarchy Evolution’, and I should have asked him if it was the scientist or the

There are very few times in life when I feel hip.  This could potentially be one of them though the jury is still out. Japanese Popstars. Well first off do

President Obama spoke to Rolling Stone about his interaction with Bob Dylan when Dylan was invited to perform “The Times They Are A Changing” at the White House. “He wouldn’t

Two new albums there for one purpose only: to remind me not to buy albums. Mark Ronson acts like a real pro Tool -a busy, busy album of bleeps and

The first 51 seconds of “Titus Andronicus” are self-referential to the point of dairyish, inclusive over and above anthem, and a wonderful joke because it declaims what Stickles is actually

The Young Vein’s pretty pretty ballad “Nothing Matters But Would You” should come as a surprise to no one. Obviously from the same hand that brought  us Panic’s superior ”Foklin’

Or rather, the equivalent in Greenland, a country in Denmark (yeah, weird right?), 4400 copies in a country of 55,000 people,  of  Nive Nielsen’s debut EP Nive Sings. Or 16M if

Have you ever taken a walk during the fall and needed the perfect play list?  Look no further.   1.  “Therapy”- All Time Low.  It’s calm and for some reason