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1. Riley – Corin Tucker – I prefer it to crap Sleater albums like the Woods 2. City Of Children – Arcade Fire – Considered the weakest link on the […]

Lessee, at the Omaha benefit Concert For Equality the following happened: 1) Conor grew a beard 2) He took rock nyc’s advise from last week and reunited Desaparecidos. Andmay I

Wow, “Riley” is the bomb. I forgot how much I missed Sleater Kinney. This suckers starts hot, smacks right into one of the hotter guitar solos known to man, stops

Jimmy Eat World are back. You’ll remember them as one of the first ‘pop punk’ bands with the hit “The Middle” and “Sweetness” They have actually recorded new material, and

Ex-Sleater-Kinney, Corin Tucker is releasing her first solo album, ‘1,000 Years’, on Kill Rock Stars and Pitchfork has a free track to download, ‘Riley’: http://pitchfork.com/news/39605-new-corin-tucker-riley/ Although I have never been

In general I will steer clear of obituary’s but in honor of one of musics finest beards, I will make exception. World renowned band leader Mitch Miller passed away at

This should do it, right? I mean, can you really see Mary Magpie reviewing every episode of American Idol next season if Steve Tyler is gonna be on it. Steve

Justin Beibers memoirs will be published by Harper Collins and released this October. Beiber is 16. Alot happens to the average 16 year old they get adult teeth, maybe a

Todd: “Don’t touch me”. Iman: “That’s not what you said last night”. Todd, our heavy metal guru, stopped by my office for a little hastle and a little hustle, and

Certain members of the rock nyc family believe it is way too soon for various Ninja’s to release side projects!! Perhaps. Woody Fuller will tell us when he returns from

In the current issue of Vanity Fair, Stefani sheds what few inhibitions she has and goes on the record as, really, a lot tastier than we gave her credit for.

On Saturday night, the duplex club in LA (the Echo and the Echoplex) had organized the Roots Roadhouse festival, which was featuring a lot of country-folk performers. With my pair

Besides being proud owner of one of the coolest band names in recent history, the Shinobi Ninja’s also possess a unique fusion of quite the wide array of sounds that

The World’s Smallest Violin” by Paleo is one of those songs I can’t tell if I like or not. Musically, it’s very catchy. The majority of the vocals are pretty

I have ranted and raved about Warped Tour. I have praised the organizations who participate in this musical event and today Kevin Lyman, Warped Founder extraordinaire just literally stopped my

Contact report that Lady Gaga played Phoenix, Arizona last night in the face of oitrageous pressure from the rock community. From the stage, Stefani said: “I got a call from

It took forever for the Arcade Fire songs to click and I don’t know how Alyson feels about this because she seemed, I dunno, a little disanced in her review.

So what do we know about perfume? How about perfume smells better the better looking the girl who is wearing it. Which means the new Shakira perfume must have the

Eagerly awaiting tonight’s Wavves gig at Bowery Ballroom, I just doubled up in the freaked olut realm when I noticed my faves ever since seeing em opening for Girls last

With 10 songs dating from Invincible 1980s outtakes all the way to a Will I am collboration in 2006, the first of a ten album project to be released in

Fresh off his outstanding performance at Camp Bisco, Pretty Lights has dropped yet another free EP,Spilling Over Every Side,  posted July 29th and available for free at www.PrettyLightsMusic.com, Pretty Lights

Yup, now it no longer matters, Katy Perry has joined Yoko Ono as one of those who loves all things Oasis. In India for her engagement to the highly promiscuous,

When you wake up on a Monday morning to one post from Helen, one post from Mary, one post from Alyson, one from Woody and 1+67 to go, you find

1. Don’t Break The Needle – J Roddy Walston  – You know how dudes says “This rocks”? Well, this pinding groover fucking rocks. 2. Round Are Way – Oasis –

Bono emailed Jon Parales this blurb for his godawful interview Arcade Fire in yesterdays New York times: “As quiet a storm as they would like this album to appear, it

So, blown out of Hot Chip at Summerstage me, being a glass half full type bloke, figure, hey it’ll give me the chance to see dance hall queen Robyn play

1. The Wanted – ‘All Time Low’ 2. Yolanda Be Cool & DCUP – ‘We No Speak Americano’ 3. Travie McCoy – ‘Billionaire’ (feat. Bruno Mars) 4. Eminem – ‘Love

. 1. Eminem – ‘Recovery’ 2. Tom Jones – ‘Praise & Blame’ 3. Plan B – ‘The Defamation of Strickland Banks’ 4. Eliza Doolittle – ‘Eliza Doolittle’ 5. Avenged Sevenfold

Rumour has it that this pleasant looking young lady, Shay The UK Bombshell, has an emotional relationship with Mr. West who has, probably wisely, decided to rename Good Ass Music.

And what was I doing? I was watching the Rays beat the Yankees… Oh well, here is a pic of the great musical sequencer nicked off Brooklyn Vegan… If you

Nightmare – Avenged Sevenfold – Well, it is better than the title track suggests, as metal goes, I can take em when they’re not screaming. But unless you’re gonna put

1. Thug Story – Taylor Swift and T-Pain – Where is T-Pain, a quiet year so far. 2. My Life – Iris Dement – From that terrific movie about a

Last year Mary and Helen interviewed the Rocket Summer and he let slip the date of his next albums release and then asked us not to use it. So we

Congratulations Mark Wahlberg! Alyson just wrote of ‘Steel Dragon” the band from The Rock Star, and he rapped and he looked AMAZING in underwear..and now he has a star on

The former first daughter is all over the news and to be honest with you I could care less. Congratulations on your nuptials but I think I’m the only one

Bret Michaels is like a human video game. Shoot him, up he rises 4 min later, cut off his arm, it regenerates, brain hemorrhage, just a flesh wound. The guy

At yesterday’s  6pm screening of the 1970 Tchaikovsky bio movie “The Music Lovers” , part of a 9 movie retrospective  the legendary British director Ken Russell, sitting mid-theatre, announces that

Some of the elders do not always appreciate the young acting bold. Bajah + The Dry Eye Crew are standing up for all who are BOLD. “Bold” in their sense

Today would have been Jerry Garcia’s 68th birthday. The legendary Grateful Dead guitarist influences hippy wanna be’s to this day. Every wish I were there pot head calls him God.

There are many movies which need to invent fake bands for the sake of the story, and if many of them actually don’t need to be even noticed, others are

1. Green Shirt Demo – Elvis Costello And The Attractions – Know where he got “Quisling clinic” from? He was sitting in his bus on the firsttour of the States

Venzuelan dance fusion band Los Amigos Invisibles performed the best opening 20 minutes of music I’ve heard this year and if that sounds like faint praise it ain’t: remember it’s

How good is this new song from veteran indie rocker Paleo. Well, first ask yourself how many songwriters use the second line of every verse as an additional hook? Paleo.

Some of the songs written by Beck for the upcoming movie ‘Scott Pilgrim vs the world’ are performed by Sex Bob-Omb!, the fictional band with bassist Michael Cera. The song

Anybody who heard Jack Phillips superb song off his September 10th dropping album To Whom It May Concern, probably had the same reaction rock nyc did: this is something real

Real soon we are gonna tell you about the bag to beat all bags… the Vinyl in a Bag bag. Only on rock nyc

Maybe its not high ticket prices after all. Maybe its cuz you’re a lazy asses would rather sit in your homes and read blogs? YES! Lets hope so. Actually its

Most shows I got to I am at floor level. I’m not complaining on the contrary I truly enjoy being kicked in the head and have some guys enormous armpit

I went to see Tm Jones in 2006 and the size of some of those underwears were kinda scray. So I have a touch of sympathy for TJ -particularly because

Last night I got an email from Holy Ghost’s PR company telling me I had been dropped off the guestlist at Summerstage on Wednesday due to a cutback on tix