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I couldn’t make it yesterday to Hall at Williamsburgh because, well, because it’s brooklun, and I am busy with Holy Ghost on the 4th and Arvade fire on the 5th […]

Before Louis Armstrong “Before there was  Louis Armstrong there was nothing.” –Iman Lababedi As one who, in my youth, had been fairly indifferent to the music of Louis Armstrong, I

Rolling Stone report that 2% of the money for rebuilding Haiti has actually reached there. God knows who has the tens of millions in charity raised. We warned you and

We just want to make sure we get our shit straight before we announce that The Kings of Leons new release will be dropping… After 2 years of riding tail

I recently got invited to see a friends band playing in Brooklyn; nothing turns me on like live, new music, so obviously I went, bringing a date along too, (hopefully

Found: Good Radio! While traveling this weekend I perused the FM radio wasteland and actually found something worth passing along. http://americanroutes.publicradio.org/upcoming/ American Public Media, a nonprofit organization, is the second

NeverShoutNever! put out a new video for his song Cheatercheaterbestfriendeater so I watched it and frankly, it was boring. The video is basically just a shot of Chris’ hands strumming

Since the moment I heard some of his songs, I have always wanted to get more interested in José Gonzalez’ music but for some reasons never really took the time.

1. Stuck Like Glue – Sugarland – I swear I can’t wear these guys at any price, but this is an infectious piece of country cotton candy. 2. Rock N

How excited am I over the debut Shit Robot album From the Cradle to The Grave? After hearing just one song, possibly the top dance groove of the year “I

Serendipity never tasted so sweet. 45 minutes after rock nyc fave Justin Townes Earle had to cancel his appearance at Newport Folk Festival (needing NINETEEN STITCHES IN HIS HAND -a

This past weekend, I spent two days in Amagansett with family taking in some sun and chillaxin on the beach, great family bonding time to say the least. I was

 I’m sorry to report that the morticians goody bag auction of Elvis Presley implements has been pulled. I know I know alot of you were hoping to bag that rib

“Anyone in the mood for reunion by the Cars?” That was the cryptic message left on The Cars Facebook page. Shortly after the band posted up a photo of the

Gorillaz leader Damon Albarn was full of excuses for why he sucked at Glastonbury. “”We were yet to change the dynamic entirely from the cartoon band acting purely as a

I have neither written nor seen PBS series The Artists Den, now in its second season, because it hit me as being a touch too smug for its own good.

Darker My Love seems a heavy name to carry for a band, heavy and romantic at the same time, in fact it is just the title of a song of

M E T H OD MAAANNN!! Despite the overall theme of Camp Bisco being bass thumping electro funk and improv electro rock, WU Massacre, (Method Man, Raekwon, and Ghostface), might

1. Love The Way you Lie – Eminem 2. Waka Waka (This Time for Africa) – Shakira 3. California Gurls – Katy Perry 4. Dynamite – Taoi Cruz 5. Baby

Google Music are close to opening business and selling you mp3s. They are in the process of signing licensing deals with every music publishing firm in the world. All well

Word is leaking out on the internet that legendary pedal steel guitar session man Ben Keith has passed away at the age of 73. Keith’s work can be heard on

If you can only buy one thing today on new music Tuesday well it goes without saying you should drop your cash on Solfege Radio. Today’s the big day “Tell

Nightmare – Avenged Sevenfold Ya Hear Me – T.I. Our Deal – Best Coast Burning Hell – Tom Jones Stuck Like Glue – Sugarland Angel Dance – Robert Plant CheaterCheaterBestFriendEater

It seems that I am writing about Arcade Fire every day, but I may reconsider what I said about not watching their live webcast on August 5th after learning it’s

Steve Salazar friended me on Myspace and I knew I had to listen to him ASAP. The second I got to his Myspace page, I clicked on “She’s Got Style”,

After giving K. Drew’s leaked tracks a listen, I am convinced that this guy might fall in line as the next Justin Timberlake, (just cause he’s white) or at least

Lessee if I can make this story so simple even i can understand it… 1. American Idol has a contract with Sony Music to release Idol winners albums. 2. Sometimes

Great news for Matt Taylor of Motion City Soundtrack.. we interviewed him at Warped Tour and he stated how he actually preferred headlining gigs Well now he will be, well

This year’s mtvU VMA Tour has some pretty interesting artists. Headlining is none other than NeverShoutNever!, with supporting acts The Ready Set, 2AM Club, and Just Kait.  NSN! is a

because I know everything, it is never a big shocker for me to be proven right. Just not this quickly. A couple of days ago I responded to the claim

Here is the fucking pig MIA spitting at photographers while they take pix of her in concert at Governor’s Island, taken off brooklynvegan.com Why would she do that? I don’t understand

My friend Krystyn Wagoner sings with the Gospel Music Award nominated choir, The Christ Tabernacle Choir and on Wednesday and Thursday of this week, she, and the choir, will be

1. Blue Brain – Shadowbox 2. Autumn Trees – Erasers 3. Call Earth – Noun 4. Under The Blue Skys – Dafni – You know how I said her lyric

So eagle eyed readers might remember I took a dive two weeks ago, couldn’t write for nearly a week, and couldn’t go to work for a week. Net result? I

A scheduling conflict kept me from Bullet For My Valentine the last go round. The great thing about alt genre music these days is the bands are on constant tour.

Bands do not need fancy recording studios anymore, or it seems that way. This video shows how the pop rock LA band, The 88, has recorded one of their song

Upon listening to the band Gunslingers Anonymous, I thought one thing- they’re like a mix between Metro Station and Kill Paradise- two of my all time favourite bands. The verses

My friend and IT guy John Witt emailed me: “I am not sure if you watch the series Hung on HBO. Last night there was a song playing that got

new drummer mike portnoy replacing the late rev Avenged Sevenfold is on the edge of releasing their first LP since the passing of their drummer Jimmy ‘The Rev” Sullivan. The offering

I heard about the stampede after police blocked off the entrance to the Love Parade Festival in Duisburg leading to 19 people being trampled to death and 342 people being

I felt a little bit sad when reading the aftermath of the big sold-out concert against the Arizona immigration law: Rage against the machine had not played in LA for

Craig Owens, charismatic former front man of Chiodos tweeted he is moving to California to begin recording a new album Mr Owens, who we had the pleasure of seeing solo

 I got to Summerstage at 230p for a 3p start to modern African pop music. It was sunny…. By the time the first band of the afternoon went on stage,

Yesterday rock nyc editress (?) Helen Bach wrote a post about Kings Of Leon leaving the stage three songs into their set because a pigeon took a poop in their

rock nyc has been gagging for the new Portishead album ever since they released “Chase The Tear” to benefit Amnesty Internation. One of our fave songs of 2009, But no

Iris DeMent has some existentialist questions, and in her song ‘Let the mystery be’ from her ‘Infamous Angel’ debut album, she sings about the big one, ‘Everybody’s wonderin’ what and

“Don’t you think this is cute” Contributing Writer Alyson Camus inquired. Er, I guess. “Well except for Wim. He looks in a bad mood.”

The editor ccomments: I asked Alyson to qrite this after I received a Press Release. The thing is: content is already complete and it is much easier to get advertisers.

I contacted Bonnie Baxter of Shadowbox and asked her if she had any mp3s. I needed to hear the songs out off streaming context. And she provided one. Which I

While the rest of the world go on their business grays and trudge off to the subway, Crenshaw and his missus “do it do it do it now” in the