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Bob Dylan Otis Redding Al Green Bruce Cockburn These  are artists Frazey Ford covered in her hour plus set last night. Cockburn is a nod to her home town, but […]

What I hate about rock is the cycle: album/review/interview if you’re lucky/live show/review and inbetween nothing very much. Not a blog. We will use any excuse to write about are faves

Ozzy said this about the record business the other day discussing 360 degree contracts: “Nowadays? Fucking hell! The other day, I was informed that new bands who’ve just signed with

Happy Birthday to one of rocks sexiest beasts of epic proportion Daniel Ash, of Bauhaus. Bauhaus? I would say they would be known most for the sassy “Bela Lugosi’s Dead”,

1. Good Morning Startshone – Annabel Lewinton – Hippie daydream for Broadway. 2. Orgasm Addict – The Buzzcocks – Punk daydream for closeted punks. 3. When The Saints Go Marching

/J Jackson from the garage-glam-rock band Saint Motel was nice enough to let me ask him a few questions yesterday. Me: What are your influences, and what kind of music

Seeing so many club shows a year its easy to forget what a rock show really is. You can stand before a stage and watch the greatest of talent through

1. California Gurls – Kidz Bop Kid – Here is Dr. Lukes problem: he doesn’t trust himself. He has never found a song he won’t over do, over cook, over

Some idea are better than others and in the world of pop culture “”Amanda Palmer Performs the Popular Hits of Radiohead on her Magical Ukulele” via Bandcamp is about as

Tuesday night, Billy Corgan and Smashing Pumpjins played a benefit to help pay Madina Lake’s Matthew Leone. The concert was a huge success, raising a mind bending $800,00. Corgan spoke to

There are voices that come from the throat. Elvis Costello has that. Almost swallow with really precise enunciation. You can hear the space in his teeth. Today the boss was

You can find something related to Arcade Fire every day in the news these days, and this one was a little unexpected: Win Butler has praised Bono for engaging with

drummer boys rat scabies and keith moon I’m such a geek that I get all excited when I can birthday trib someone I forgot I loved! Rat Scabies! (Chris Millar)

Brian Wilson Re-imagines Gershwin to be released on 8/17 Mike Nessing re-hashes his solo career today, 7/30. Thirty second sound samples of the new Brian Wilson record hit Amazon.com late

Here is the artwork for Britney Spears new fragrance. Why are we showing you this? Well… it looks good (plus, anti-Spearsy, I kinda missed the bald train wreck of a

Ellen Quits. Apparently she has had enough of the plastic egos that surrounded her inferior abilities. Not exactly the top of the heap but someone who stuck out like a

That’s what Paul McCartney said about Lennon and Ono way back when and with little to no reason I am applying it to me -aging editor, and Woody -writer about

We’ve had a collection of many songs for about a year and a half, but have actually been recording our third album for only six months. We feel it sounds

Dunno about you but the two albums I’ve been gagging for all year are follow-ups to wonderful works and still not here. Everybody says Kanya West’s, debatably speaking, best album

Imagine a symphonic buzzed out guitar ambient sound behine a sweet montone vocal, like the indie bands Frankie Rose used to play drums for, only more put together and more

1. Ya Hear Me – T.I. – This took awhile to kick in but this is T.I. so awhile is just about the same as never. 2. If You Gonna

Now this I understand: “Bright Eyes, Cursive and other Nebraska music acts will perform at a concert to raise money to fight a law that would ban the hiring of

JP, Chrissie and the Fairground Boys are on a mini tour including two local dates one of which is OMG FREE. I haven’t heard a sound from this band but

rock nyc has been heaping lavish praise for Indiana rapper Freddie Gibbs for about a year now so it is about time the rest of the world paid attention. If you

Pitchfork report Gorillaz played in Damascus, Syria on Sunday night: “1,000-year-old Damascus Citadel for a special performance. The list of guest appearances is staggering: Bobby Womack, De La Soul, the

Laura Marling was playing at the El Rey theater on Wednesday night in LA, and  I had to go checking the British woman who made Ryan Adams feel rather insignificant

Justin Timberlake may be bringing sexy back but you can bring Justin Timberlake back within 30 days if you have a receipt. The mastermind behind the “Dick in The Box”

1. Love The Way You Lie – Eminem 2. California Gurl – Katy Perry 3. Dynamite – Taoi Cruz 4. Airplane – Bob 5. Billionaire – Travis McCoy 6. I

In Alyson Camus’ review of Laura Marling at El Rey, Aly opines Laura is wrong not perform an encore. My sentiments are ENTIRELY with Laura in this case. The encore

You don’t know Ken Russel? Of course you do, he directed “Tommy” and a slew on other’s you would have seen -wild visual explosions of sound and vision like “LIztomania”

We have been lied to for more than 30 years and it’s a shame! Plastic Bertrand, the Belgian pop star who is known for ‘Ça Plane pour Moi’, or in

More shit to report about the Pigeons, this story will never die… Apparently this is getting global attention, which hmm could be perfect timing if the Kings of Leon are

Alyson Camus wrote about Conor Oberst being booed at the Rage Against the Machine benefit Against The Immigration bill in Arizona. Reader “Craig” partially commented as follows (you can read the entire quote under

Too Young To Burn – Sonny And The Sunsets – I think I got the metaphor right (finally) for these surf pop bands from the West Coast. They are like

I am currently listening to 9-song debut album from the Atlanta-based band The Villains. The album is titled “Just Another Saturday Night”. Band Members: Magno- keys, guitars, vocals Dan Call-bass,

Wow I totally picked the right concert to see this week. Although Limp Bizkit is headling its Avenged Sevenfold all over the news. On the heels of their “Nightmare” release,

The only popular musician whose position on politics has anything effect on mine is Elton John. If he is on the opposite of an issue with me I will give

I reacted to the news of a remastered Double Fantasy with an overwhelming year. It is a good, maybe great album but it has so much baggage, so many bad

Black Veil Brides may as well move in to my house. I hear them non stop and if I don’t here them I hear people (ahem) talking about them So

1. Too Young To Burn – Sonny And The Sunsets – OK, OK: all these surft pop bands are awesome and I was wrong. I disliked the cool quotient but

Mr. Mick Rhodes of Claremount, Cali, sent me his album ‘Til I Am Dust amd it is exhaustingly excellent. And I will review but before I do, two songs have

Iman Sez: OK a cut and paste job but I do have real problems with MIA because, in fact, and all my rock nyc comrades opinions not withstanding, I truly liked

Mike Nessing sez: Sony/Legacy to reissue the first 8 Bob Dylan albums in mono. Official word on this wont appear for at least a couple of weeks, but sometime before

So the figures are in and mp3 downloads are down and profits are up… so what does this mean? It means that by upping their prices 30% scumbag carpetbagging asshole

Cool, right? I would like to hand one to each and every reader but that would be impractical… Though perhaps not THAT impractical

Another example of how badly bands these days will milk a hit. Lets see the Yeah Yeah Yeahs got on the map with the song “Maps” which I loved and

Ke$ha told Paper she is thinking of going country. No, really. Here is the money quote: :”I’m really inspired by country music. My mom wrote country music and I love

Years ago all models wanted to be actresses. Now it seems to me all musicians want to be models, or artists, or designers, or .. well anything other than recording

Sure Sherry Davis and I went to to the Shea gig. Pretty fucking awesome as well. So sure we will be back to see the premiere screening of the filming