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In 2008 I though Justin Townes Earle had everything his daddy Steve Earle had lost over the years. On Justin’s first album The Good Life, songs to die for, humor […]

Iman writes:Was it me who said Lady Gaga was great because her songs were so good they could withstand anything. Well, they are great songs but they can’t withstand Courtney

Music and College are almost synonymous in my mind. Freshmen year, every 18 year old plasters the band or rapper, that “most represents them,” all over their dorm room wall. Sophomore

The art gallery, La Luz de Jesus was celebrating Dee Dee Ramones’ birthday yesterday, and has assembled for the occasion an exhibition of over thirty original paintings, many of which

Why would My Chemical Romance want to contaminate Europe before the US? Announced today (Sunday? huh?) the cuties will be performing at the Edinburgh Corn Exchange on Monday, October 25th

Lisbon – The Walkmen – The New york natives are killing on this indie rocker of the first order. Oddly enough, they’re proble is a generic band name. Hurley –

Little Willow Smith can ride on her parents names.  Sure thing. Daddy got the contacts, Uncle J can make it real.  Good or bad Princess got it in the bag. 

A couple months ago, Late Night With Jimmy Fallon announced a contest. The Prize? To play guitar with Pavement – an opportunity for a regular fan to jam with them.

I tend to claim 1981’s  Get Happy!! is my fave Elvis Costello album but that isn’t quite true. I see Get Happy!! and the follow up Imperial Bedroom as one

I had a somewhat fortuitous night this past Friday evening. Got on the guest list for the Onward, Soldiers show at The Soap Box, one of my friends recently started

Amy Winehouse went on twitter to blast Mark ronson after Ronson went on Late Night… With Jools Holland to explain how he turned Amy’s demos into the tracks on her

1. Waterfalls – Fresh And Onlys – San Fran band with a sorta modern ambient sound only heavier than the Bridgettown cats. Really good and echoey and strong: each instrument

Drums guitarist  Adam Kessler has suddenly quit leaving the band and their tour is in complete chaos. They have their problems and I have mine. After a year of completely

I have written about Bassnectar a few times over the summer, as I saw him and his bass THUMPIN’ DJ mixes for the first time at AllGood, caught him again

The day before Alyson Camus ran into Russell Brand at the De Dee Ramone exhibition, Russel Brand punch a Papparazzi for trying to take a snap up Katy Perry’s skirt.

Has there ever been a teen phenom like Justin Bieber? I mean there are phenoms and then there are phenoms and then there is Justin. It’s like the entire world

This is not a movie review. Actually, it is barely a music post. But as long as I am here: “Easy A” is a tribute to John Hughs mixed with

Ramona’s manager Johnny Mcelhone knows the music business. Altered Images recorded for Columbia Records, Texas for Universal, and Johnny was central for both bands. So when it came time to

God is clearly not a fan of the band Cake. Just as people started arriving at Summer Stage in Central Park for the band’s outdoor show, the sky opened up

HAVE YOU EVER BEEN SO EXCITED THAT YOU TYPE EVERYTHING IN CAPS LOCK? Yeah, I have a bit of that now. My Chemical Romance released a video called “Art Is

Immigraniada (we comin’ rougher), the new video of Gogol Bordello, directed by Isaiah Seret and shot in Los Angeles, is definitively more than just this, a music video. It starts

She’s a very pretty girl.   At Warped Tour I had the horror of watching her atttempt to discreetly dislodge a killer wedgie while in this dress.  She looke trashy and

The battle for control over female sexuality carries on unabated decades after the pill and paternity tests made the question moot. And in the supposed front line of sexual promiscuity

Brighter Than a Thousand Suns, named after the old Iron Maiden’s song,are a hardcore metal sound with an alt edge and this band is just, bad. The song that I 

Mary Sez: Peter Wentz’s new band Black Cards revealed their first song on their website and I must say, that even though it’s a girl singer, I like it. I don’t

I have been listening to Miniature Tigers album FORTRESS for months now. Missed them at Mercury Lounge (a ridiculous midnight set… midnight???) but I still have te album on my

1. The Turn – MIA – What I wanna know is how can anybody listen to weird chanteralongasynthbop of Kala and not get that MIA is not a mainstream performance.

Trent Reznor master of Nine Inch Nails never stops working. As mentioned months ago he is scorring the film “The Social Network”. Based on Facebook and the entire social network

It is not everyday that you can see Julian Lennon, Sean Lennon, Yoko Ono, Cynthia Lennon, and May Pang, Lennon’s girlfriend during his break-up with Yoko, in the same room.

The rough, tough, manly (even with makeup on) English metal band Cradle of Filth is the loud scary band to beat all loud scary bands. Explaining the idea behind their latest

1. Block Rockin’ Beats – The Chemical Brothers – Whenever I think of these guys nowadays all I can imagine is Lily Allen having an abortion. This song is a

Andy Hickman, the guy behind “Reefer Madness” threatens a Cher: The Musical for Broadway said to Popeater after Cher’s VMA appearance: ” We’ll be making announcements about that project coming together shortly.She’s

Yes, I am from the music video generation.  I don’t know what life was like without Youtube, or MTV or Fuse.  I was born too late to be cool enough

Fiona Apple…WHO? Five years ago she had a career in music and rode that whole heroin chic look into pop stardom, along the likes of Michelle Branch and Alanis Morissette.

The Birthday Massacre is a guilty pleasure—their New Wave/goth/metal sound can be very atmospheric and extraordinarily catchy, but their Hot-Topic-meets-Hello-Kitty look makes them the kind of band that you don’t

A few months ago, Junip was offering a free download of ‘Rope and Summit’, a sort of precursor of their new LP, ‘Fields’, that was just released a few days

I know I’ve been teasing out the Ramona story for weeks now and I know they won’t break till Columbia releases the album next year (though if you’ve downloaded “How

We mentioned earlier about the Lennon tribute, ‘ the 30th Annual John Lennon Tribute: A Benefit for Playing for Change. ” at the Beacon Theatre on  Friday, November 12th. The cheap seats

In something exceedingly rare, the signing of Sacha Baron Cohen to portray Freddie Mercury is a perfect match of actor and role. If you only know Cohen from Borat, you

I think everybody should take a lesson from Force Field PR -they couldn’t make it any easier to write about a new band if they held your hand walked you

I saw Pavement a coupla times in their heyday. Best time, I was talking to Robert Nevin telling how great they were before a show in  small club, and this

At least, something I can agree on with Rolling Stone magazine! They did their top 25 of the best record stores in the USA, and Amoeba got their number 1

The So So Gos have been around in one way or another all of the three brothers, Adam and Levine Levine and step brother Zach Staggers lives, forming ibands in their

 Happy Birthday Jonathan Jacob Walker! This one is cool, the amazingly talented bassist of Panic! at The Disco (who?) and now he’s using that talent with The Young Veins. This

I haven’t seen Casey Affleck’s documentary “I’m Still Here” about Joaquin Phoenix’s attempts to become a rapper but can’t wait to see it. It is, however, not a documentray. The

Alice in Chains has been around forever with a strong loyal following. Their latest release Black Gives Way To Blue is out and avaialble at your local disc peddler. The band

Kylie Minogue was an 80’s pop dish.  More famous in the UK she was a well loved sex symbol of what I would call marginal talent.  If she looked like

1. Summer Babe – Pavement – This song is so good, it broke an art band pop and caused years of confusion. 2. Sex Karma (feat Solange Knowles) – Of

So how were the Strokes at the Met for Tommy Hilger’s private gig. I saw em at radio city Music Hall, a comparable sight, and the blew the house down.

Days after arrogant hasbeen Lou Reed wouldn’t give permission to the working class, middle aged, female pop phenom Susan Boyle, who wanted to sing “Perfect Day” -leaving her in tears