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I gave up on Weezer around the time of The Red Album, even though it included one of their few and far between goodies “Pork And Beans”. The album was […]

Re-Imagining Gershwin – Brian Wilson – Splits down the midle. A failure but a good one. God Willin’ & The Creek Don’t Rise –  Ray LaMontagne & the Pariah Dogs –

Awolnation sure puts a lot of efforts in the aesthetic surrounding the band. A new video, or rather a series of vignettes (some of them lasting one minute or less)

I have come to the conclusion that I simply love Katy Perry. Her fox of a husband aside she is just the epitome of cute sexy and smart. A true

Speaking with new rock nyc writer David Muehlenkemp before he goes on stage to DJ Fuzzy G’s set at another rock nycer, Woody Fullers’s 4Thelovemusic Fest, David expresses his joy

Fearless Friends is the latest cute name for he next never ending tour by the bands who never stop touringBut its ok cuz it seems that although Mayday Parade is

I’m in the process of overdosing on Cee Lo’s highly infectious new song ‘Fuck You’. Sometimes, and that would be great if we could say this of any song, music comes

1. Come And Get It – Eli “Paperboy” Reed – Yes, Alyson is right and there is a whiite soul revival going down and this get sounds so Motown it

All the noise on Thom Yorke sorta takes away from the fact that Radiohead is more than just him Way in back behind a kit is drummer Phillip Selway. A

We shut up and let them go years ago. The Ting Tings were high up on the shuffle log for a long time. “That Not My Name” became a party

Right in time for Back to School comes Asher Roth. Who’s that? Well hes the “I Love College” guy.. yeah remember that song? Yeah fleeting even when you share a

On A Saturday built for night baseball, my friend Sherry Davis and I went to Citifeld secure in the thought we wouldn’t have to sit through another disastrous performance by

I prefer Frankie Rose and the Outs to the namd she used to play drums with, the Dum Dum Girls, and the haunting “Little Brown Haired Girls” . She also

Sunset Junction Function Reviewed

I’ll admit this ain’t much of a post, if you’ll admit I just spent my Saturday morning trying to entertain you… Sir Paul McCartney telephoned President Clinton on his birthday

On Tuesday’s I raid itunes, on saturdays I go through my emails and raid the world of indie or alt or a bit of both and I am having a

Christopher Paul Stelling’s  first album is dropping Winter 2011 and if it is all as good as great as “Flawless Executioner”, he is about to spin new york’s folk scene

Formed in 1998 on the lower east side, Crazy Mary rail against the selling of the spirit of rock and roll, where St. Mark’s Place has become a world of

In honor of Joe Strummers Birthday, I present to you my Strummer play list. For the record this will be on heavy rotation today 1- Johnny Appleseed. A great Mescalero

The New Zealand band Crowded House had an in-store show at Amoeba on Thursday night in Hollywood to perform songs from their new album ‘Intriguer’, which is following ‘Time on

Though I said previously that I wasn’t fond of the Nevershoutnever! song “Cheatercheaterbestfriendeater”, I heard it again and fell insanely in love. Is there something wrong with me? The song’s

Joe is a legendary rock icon whose memory should probably shine brighter but a) because his death, though while only 50 years of age, was not romantic and b) the

Have you got a house that can safely have 50 or more people? How about tolerant neighbors? And a love for music? Well the band Hellogoodbye is looking for a

Happy Birthday John Graham Mellor. Born today in 1952. Joe Strummer has to be the biggest and most enduring of all of my rock and roll heroes. From 101’rs through

My ears are still buzzing. Seriously. I am sitting in silence right now and enjoying every minute of it because this weekend was so full of great live music I

Cee Lo’s new song “Fuck You” is so good it is in the process of going viral. An addictive, vivid, doo woppy, 60s soul masterpieces called… “Fuck You”. But it

With heavy use of a certain vintage organ, a prominent horn section, no guitars but some vocals on the aggressive side, Fitz and the Tantrums will release their first LP

1. Right Above It (feat Drake) – Lil Wayne – There is a volatile accelaration that pushes you to dge of Wayne’s world. 2. Big Wave – Jenny And Johnny

On Thursday we posted one of Miles Davis etchings, today we post a Bob Dylan painting from his upcoming exhibit in Denmark’s Statens Museum for Kunst. According to the senile

The Suburbs are what they used to be. As the economy tanks, the upcoming generation heads back home and everything begins to mirror Donna Gaines’s “Teenage Wasteland” -a netherland of

Right Above It – Lil Wayne And Drake – A diary snap shot from the continuing story and it takes forever to get it’s bearing and it really sucks at first and

Here is something you don’t know: VMA Awards? Nobody stays in their seats during the show. I’ve been to them a few times and really: ALL THE ACTION IS IN

In response to Rolling Stone Magazines Top 100 Beatles Tracks (insulted elsewhere) here are some of their less than great moments. I know I said that the Beatles never wrote

New Brunswick NJ, and 1 hr train ride later, “Iman, Where the fuck did you drag me to??” When we arrived to discreetly located house, one in which i can’t

I do not like going to shows to see my past idols. They’re old, they’re out of touch parodies. Shells of their former self’s. It makes me sad. More than

Woe, Is Me is a great seven-yeah, seven piece hardcore band from GA. With so many of them, you’d think they’d be a mess but they certainly aren’t. They did

I’ve been worryin’ on album reviews for awhile now and I have reached a coupla conclusions. 1. I have amnesia. When it comes to reviewing an album I forget the

Iman Sez: It is hard to read about Courtney Love’s only way to contact her 18 years old on Twitter. Love is a monster but this is a horrible and

First I want to say it is impossible to take a photograph of a ska band. Without a doubt someone will be blur. This is the best I could do

free weez and Spinner! K we don’t like to spread other site names but WOO HOO WEEZER! This band is so freakin fun. I actually accidental downloaded it, with my

1. I Found Love Edit – Shit Robit – I’ve been jammin the six minute mix forever but I kinda love this radio edit as well. First track on his

This one is so good… We nicked it off canoe.com Some proof success has gone to Bieber’s head… Here is explaining his effect on people: “”People write to me and

Wow, Mr. Ingle. Nevershoutnever’s new song “Sellout” is quite powerful. He talks about the industry and certainly holds nothing back. It’s admirable that he can just go out and say

Musicians tend to be good at one of two other art forms(?), sciences (?)… either painting or math. You’d think maybe writing but not really. I don’t quite see why

I remember Live Aid like it was, er, 25 years ago. Marvin Gaye had died the day before -murdered by his father and I was very upset. Bob Geldof said

Last time I saw Nellie McKay she was kicking me on my ass at Feinstein’s where a station invited me and the price came to something like 1K for 4

Elvis Costello, who you would expect, or not expect, to know better has written the foreword to RS latest rip off for people who should really know much better. 100

Hey looky here the Kings of Leon are too good for Glee? Looks like the crap eaters turned don’t the opportunity to be a part of the smash hit show.

NME has posted a list of the 50 most exciting new bands of 2010, and while going through it I realized a lot of new LA bands made the list.

Prior to the Shinobi Ninjas coming to the stage, there was an invisble semicircle force field in front of the stage, where no man, woman, or child would venture. As soon