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Killing Joke. The 80’s ruled if you ask me and KJ were an amazing part of it.  Songs like “Love Like Blood” and “80’s” were fantasticly played as part of […]

Didn’t Eno look like Riff Raff from the rocky horror show…?  I’m just saying. Roxy Music are going back on tour without Eno and… Whatever. I saw em at theatre

Heads up. American Idol auditions have just begun.  Yup Nashville, TN is the place to be to saunter up to the mike and belt it out for all to see! 

Many, many, well three years ago, I was dating Marie Lynn and I introduced her to Bright Eyes who I liked but didn’t love and she flipped out. Suddenly all

Can I continue the instant daytrotter backlash? 1. I spoke to a friend of mine who plays for a band who recorded for daytrotter and he said they were arrogant

If it werent for Weezer, you wouldnt be reading this. For without Weezer, I wouldnt be writing for rocknyc and how sad would you be?  Very. My first post was

I’ll admit part of this is an age thaaang. If you aint 53 years old, the chances are excellent you haven’t heard Velvet Underground’s “Pale Blue Eyes” about  70 million

Fitz and the Tantrums were sharing the bill with the Heavy on Thursday night at the Hammer museum, and it was probably the most successful show of the ‘Also I

Shes beautiful.  Her voice is beautiful.   She is a hot horrible mess.  The tabloids slaughter her, her relationships are public jokes and its sad.  So, surprising is word that we

Joe Perry was in a minor accident Thursday in Marlboro MA.  The collision with a ‘large sedan’ occured on Thursday. Perry was treated and relased from Morton Hospital in Taunton. 

Happy Birthday Geezer Butler! Although not a major Black Sabbath fan, I do enjoy a fun shock rock and a nice retro 70’s dose is always fun! When youre in

1. I Don’t Mind It – Screaming Females – Awesome hard rock ending is just, well, the end. 2. Thieves In The Night – Hot Chip – Still no hard

I was at the Hammer museum to see Fitz and the Tantrums and I had only a vague idea of what to expect of The Heavy, the second band of

Fresh off being opened for by Holy Ghost at Summerstage this  August 4th -Camp Bisco Boy Woody Fuller and I are covering it, Hot Chip are doing an arena tour with

Direct Current is a strange hybrid, tip sheet, advertisment, and website all rolled into one which I kinda like when I’m in the mood. So they emailed me their current

Billboard made a biggest summer hits in the past 25 years list, including sales, impact, etc. Me? With Helen away I’m just filling posts… 1985 – Shout – Tears For

I like Wavves a lot but not as much as I did a coupla weeks ago and I’ll tell you why: 1. familiarity breeds contempt -we got the trick, we

I am guessing if you are reading this blog you don’t need me to retell how the model on the cover of Vampire Weekend’s first rate current album Contra is

The world can’t afford to lose the Hank Cochran’s of the world. The country great behind # 1 hit singles, Patsy Cline’s “I Fall to Pieces”; George Strait’s “Ocean Front

I didn’t love Wake Up The Nation, didn’t hate it either, but if you have never seen Weller live this is worth the price of admission. Will it sell out?

Let’s see how few words I can write this in. 1.  David Gilmour wanted Roger Water’s to play “To Know Him Is To Love Him” (the Phil Spector classic) at

So what does FYF stand for? For Your Fun? Face Your Fear? Facing Your Future? Nah, here in LA it stands for Fuck Yeah Fest, a music festival, which will

rock nyc faves Screaming Females, have a new song and nouns (Marissa’s other band) have one old, one new song available for downloading. The old Nouns song “Holy Hell” was

A Rochester, NY Toyota delaership are giving away 250 pairs of tickets to the local Cheap Trick/Squeeze You would have to be a used car salesman to sell me on the

What is surf guitar exactly? I just know that the name Dick Dale is associated with it, since he invented the style in the 50’s, a style linked to the

“Can I play you, um, some of the new things I’ve been doing which I think could be…commercial?” I first heard “In The Court Of The Crimson King” when I

Sure I wrote about the rerelease of Station To Station weeks ago. And of course I said that with no new material it is a bit whatever. But I didn’t

As we are all waiting for the release of the upcoming Arcade Fire album, the 8 different covers have been revealed for ‘The Suburbs’. Each one is supposed to reflect

1. Like A Fading Rainbow – Jenny Wilson – A highlight of her set at Piano, a touch less effective on record, maybe because her singing has improved over the

You think you’ve seen Shit Horse, rock nyc has told you about Shit Horse, but you ain’t seen Shit Horse till you seen em. And this is your chance. Shit

One of the pics above was taken by me  and one wasn’t, and I mention this only  because last night Piano was so packed out for the premiere East Coast

Jenny Wilson sweeps to the stage in a glimmering red shawl with a hood and the packed out club Pianos on Ludlow Street keens eagerly. First she offers her name

Nevershoutnever took the stage mid day at Warped Hartford to a screaming shrill of teenage girls. I mean shrill I have neverbeenafannever, but know what.. I could be. I absolutely

In the beginning…sound. Reeds bend and reveal the modal Moses come to take the chillun to the Promised Land — the C’s part — 2-5-1. BC. Before Coltrane. You say

Another setting, another set list, Admiral Radley was playing Tuesday night at Amoeba music another free show for the release of their self-titled album. On Wednesday morning, they also were

One of us came rushing from all day meetings at an ad agency. The other one fell off a bus with her friends from the Summer Youth Theatre Group she

So here we are, winding down my Warped Adventure.  I’m sad, so sad in fact that I’m actually using some apostrophe’s… I don’t know where they go.. How am I

Seriously, Simple Plan has been around for what 40 years now? I remember taking an 8 year old Magpie to go see them.  So imagine my surprise to find they

Turn It Around – Crowded House – I have never much like Crowded House and since i love heavily arranged pop music, I am not sure why. This shit is

I get on these kicks, where I just fall like Alice down the rabbit hole back a couple decades.  I always end up in Bowies lap.  When the house is

Over the pat year I have written up and interviewed and mentioned Mayday numerous times.  We have traveled hours to see them a few months ago and tripped over Derek

Still high off the live performance of The Summer Set at Warped, comes news that they have an exclusive at Walmart. Wow, and to drop the cool factor just a

This Sunday July 18 marks the 2 month aniverasary of Ronnie James Dio’s death. So his peeps in LI are throwing a fundraiser, with all procedes going to the Ronnie

David Lynch and Danger Mouse were interviewed by Jason Bentley on KCRW Tuesday morning, to discuss the Sparklehorse album ‘Dark Night of the Soul’. As Iman has already mentioned two

If you read us often enough, you know by now I dont do death well.  I dont like it at all and I have lost too many people.  I avoid

The protest against Arizona immigration law will never stop, after boycotting the state, Sound Strike, Zack de la Rocha’s organization, has announced a benefit show at the Palladium on July

So rocknyc is on and on about music festivals this summer.   But you dont see Public Image at any of them, now do ya?  So, whats Johnny have to say

Well my first Iron Maiden concert was great. I can’t believe that it took me about 25 years to first see these guys. The amount of energy these guys put

I got the opportunity to interview the bassist for one of my favourite bands, Motion City Soundtrack, Matt Taylor. Excitedly I started out with asking him the main inspiration behind