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Damn. damn. damn. August 4th – Robyn and Kelis at Webster Hall. Me? I’m at Sumerstage catching Holy Ghost! and Hot Chip. August 5th  Robyn and Kelis still at Webster Hall. […]

There is a short video made especially for the upcoming shows of Arcade Fire at Madison Square Garden on August 5th, with antlered clock, puppets making fireworks and growing flowers

1. Sound Of Siren – Major Lazer, MIA, Busy Signal – OK, this is the end of the MIA backlash. If the album is only really good, this is fucking

Camp Bisco 9 gave me and my co. a run for our freakin money. DOPE AS SHIT! Bottom Line. Lets get right into it. Bisco offered a great combination of

Ive been dragging on about fan clubs and VIP sales and such for awhile now. First Bowie selling me a $70.00 website then Fall Out Boy wanting me to renew

1. Lady Gaga – First Kanye West went bonkers and cancelled, then Lady Gaga had a meltdown and cancelled and finally I nearly died and couldn’t go. So I am

So, you ask, how do all the pitchforks and stereogums get these great exlusives everybody else has? Do the words PRESS RELEASE mean anything to you? All you need to do

Happy Birthday Billboard? OK well its Paul Cook, drummer of the Sex Pistols, Kim Carnes and Carlos Santana’s birthday but most importantly on this date July 20, 1940 Billboard was

Sound Of Siren – Major Lazer, MIA, Busy Signal Aston Martin Music – Rick Ross, Drake, Chrisette Michelle Just The Way You Are – Bruno Marx Disappear – 12 Stone

Matthew Leone, the bassist for Medina Lake, after undergoing an intense and brutal beating and spending a lot of time in the hospital, is being helped financially by an organization

I recently gave a youngish girl I know a copy of John Fowles’ “The Magus” -as strange and wonderful a literary journey as you may ever hope to read. And

Young the Giant is a band from Newport Beach CA formerly known as The Jakes. They illustrate their moniker brilliantly since they are all very young – the members are

The Idolator put Guetta second to Dr. Luke on the high prolific dance groove thang. Me? I’d flip that. For over a year now Guetta has been on fire and

So, you releaase an album, it goes to # 1, everybody loves you, and you fuck up a lousy release form. Now what? I don’t know. This is what Vampire

Former Big Star bassist Andy Hummel died yesterday in his home in Texas, after a two-year battle with cancer. The rock band from Memphis formed in 1971 and consisted of

So the Forbes biggest earners July 2009 to June 2010 is here and U2, despite cancelling all those concerts, are full of the stuff. The moral? Money is not the

I know I keep banging away at Pitchfork, and I realize it is a bit flea on the back of a rhino, and they have their uses though none seem

Lessee here: LCD Soundsystem played Camp Bisco on Friday, Pitchfork Fest on Saturday. Here are the total number of mentions of Camp Bisco on pitchfork (———-) I guess, but I

Beck and Devendra Banhart have recorded a song together for the new Todd Solondz’s movie ‘Life during Wartime’, which according to a few reviews is a funny and depressing film

1. Bang, Bang, Bang (feat Q-Tip and MNDR) – Mark Ronson – Much better than I thought it would be. 2.Running Out – Scissor Sisters – Exceptional band, I hope

At Warped Tour, my NeverShoutNever! interview was with a group, like a press conference. Cigarette in hand, he decided that he was going to do his interview early, causing me

Mousepads? You want mousepads? rock nyc contributing editor Robert Nevin has started his own blog, “The Mousepad Collector” and while baffling in its insularity, it is stunning in its beauty.

Uh-Oh Christina Aguilara’s five week old album Bionic has sold an anemic 200,000 copies. This follows on Christina cancelling her 2010 tour. In other words: the genii is out of

Jon Brion is all over the new Jerry Lee Lewis album I posted about. Although many people don’t know him very well, Brion is a fixture in the music world,

1. A Design For Life – Manic Street Preachers – At the height of Brit Pop, MSP released this whiny rock work and cleared the decks for awhile. 2. Pas

Emailing with Renaissance Man Joe Steinhardt over the weekend, the former For Science, current Modern Hut, and always Don Giovanni Records co-owner tells me Modern Hut are finally ready to

Jerry Lee Lewis will release a new album, ‘Mean Old Man’, in September, and the single, an old-fashioned country song written by Kris Kristofferson and sung with a Johnny Cash

1. B.o.B feat. Hayley Williams – ‘Airplanes’ 2. Yolanda Be Cool & DCUP – ‘We No Speak Americano’ 3. Eminem feat. Rihanna – ‘Love The Way You Lie’ 4. Katy

Liam Gallagher thinks that his new band Beady Eye will be bigger than Oasis! He said that it sounds similar to Oasis, but also like T-Rex and Jerry Lee Lewis,

So if you’ve ever seen School of Rock, (and if you haven’t you should) you’ll remember how Jack Black spoke of ‘face melters’. Guitar solos that literally melt the face

1. Step Inside Love – Cilla Black – Listening to the Beatles demo sent me back to the Black version and my feeling is, she really wasn’t a great singer,

The song “Wonderful Time” by Baja and the Dry Eye Crew is pretty interesting.  The singer’s voice is obviously tinted by some odd, foreign accent that I can’t quite put

he Sierre Leone based crew sound like reggae with some African rhythms thrown in and on “Wonderful” they are a dream pop group singing over a finger picked bass lick

Forget about Bono reciting Bukowski, in the ‘Born into this’ documentary, how did this happen anyway? I know Bono is a fan but you cannot imagine a worst association. When

COMING SOON

I feel bad for Bean. I even feel bad for writing this. Alyson covered Francis Bean Cobain’s paintings a coupla dozen post back and I have nothing to add but…

And now, two Johnny Rotten stories for the price of one!! Both of which make him sound like a plank. 1. Lydon twtitted that he always hated the Sex Pistol’s

If you saw the Joe Strummer biography “The Future Is Not Yet Written”, you may remember that towards the end of the movie, Joe’s Campfire get togethers where friends and

Many filmmakers have a strong connection with music, but some go much further, and their use of music becomes a big element of their movie atmosphere, and can even become

Amy Correia is an Los Angeles based, New York raised, singer -songwriter, who, at her best, like right here,  sounds like Rickie Lee Jones without the jazz but with wonderefully

1. Running Out – Scissor Sisters – The panting at the begining is a little lieterate and that’s the only complaint on this wonderful disco beat (the bass lick is

Red Jumpsuit Apparatus had one great song. But that’s it. I saw them open for Blue October- and nearly offed myself. Terrible live. Worse than a bar band 2 albums

Nothing scientific about this -my most played songs released in 2010 I heard at home -more or less because, more or less, some of the obscurer stuff don’t have dates

Even if I liked Tweedy’s songs, which, with exceptions, I don’t, I’d still think he suxd for firing his band after they stood by him during the Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

As the controversy regarding hot-chick-model Kirsten Kennis on the cover of Vampire Weekend’s last album ‘Contra’ is all over the blogs (she is suing the band for $2 million claiming

There are alot of musical birthdays today. Gets sorta hard to chose. We have Terry Chambers, XTC’s drummer, we have ‘Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, I think even Dion. Cupcakes to them

Woody Fuller is somewhere in the wilds of Camp Bisco rocking his face off so while we wait for his return to the city and subsequent reviews of his days

I am a bigger fan of Diplo than of his band Major Lazer. And a bigger fan of MIA than her producer Diplo. So my take is that there is

Neverland ranch, the 2,500-acre Michael Jackson estate, may become a state park! At least this is what the California NAACP is proposing and the Los Angeles legislator thinks the idea

I saw Pink opening for Justin Tmberlake a coupla years back (speaking of which: he better get back to recording again) and while I am not a huge fan, I