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Although they had some exposure in movies and series, I don’t know how famous the 88 are now, I have known them since 2003, and was immediately seduced by the […]

1. Winter Keep Us Warm – Jack Phillips – The strangest thing about running a music site is how often you run into phenomenal songwriters you’ve never hard of. This

When Iman asked me to review the song ‘The World’ by Brad Paisley, I thought, what? Brad Paisley, the country guy? I was vaguely remembering his name,… isn’t he really

Happy Independence Day. The day on which founding architects and rivals Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died was, coincidentally, the anniversary of the day America was birthed. Jump ahead:

Since the Arizona’s controversial immigration law was announced, many artists and bands have signed on Zack de la Rocha’s The Sound Strike to boycott the state, as Helen and Iman

The four-piece UK natives Boy Jumps Ship was suggested for those who like Twin Atlantic, and being a fan, I looked up their Myspace. “Backstays and Halyards” is unlike any

When I got my new AP Magazine, in the unsigned bands of the month section, the band The Girlfriend Season caught my attention. I decided to check them out on

After hearing tons and tons of good reviews of the band IWrestledABearOnce, I decided to check them out and instantly regretted it. “You Ain’t No Family” is the first song

Iman’s main man Connor Oberst wants to throw down his 99 cents on the whole Arizona boycott isssue- so here ya go, totally ripped off of punk news.. but its

Mathew and Mary Warped 2009 Nathan Leone, brother of Matthew Leone, updated his blog with interesting news. Matthew is making good progress and on July 16th, will have surgery so doctors can re-apply the

Sexy Beast Jerry Only lead scream of the infamous horror punk band The Misfits is quite the patriotic dude… sorta. Apparently it has been a dream of his to perform

John Waite, that shaggy haired front man of hit makers The Babys celebrates his…..get this..56th birthday today July 4. With the mega hit “Missing You”, I cant think this song

So how stoked are we that Warped Tour crashes in to Hartford CT one week from today?  Insanely.  What has become THE music event of our year has us seeing

and as soon as unpack my truckload of crap… I’ll bring cool back to rocknyc…stay tuned hipsters…

Alyson namechecked Kitten in her Saint Motel review yesterday, so I went in search. Not bad at all. “Don’t Kill The Light” – a demo is pop rock indieishness of

I took my ex, Marie Lynn’s, name off the masthead because she hadn’t written for us in over a year. I don’t think she noticed!! But she did call me and

1. Sink/Let It Sway – SSLYBY – Wait out for the handclaps at the end. 2. Stupid Grin – Dragonette – Electronic Heaven 3. Power – Kanye West – Backing

All American girl – Carrie Underworld – I really don’t like her too much but this song, it’s perfect. I know precisely what Carrie means, it’s a dream of a

Irene Diamond is a friend of a friend and before I tell you about her well produced dance rock, I’ll tell you two other things. 1) My former assisant Gillian

Lana Mir sounds rapturous. “Every song is very specific and has a very specific vibe and every song is different and individual. If you were to listen to a song

Comment: I was seconds away from not posting a my faves, because there was so little movement… but what the fuck… and when I put it together there was more

Saint Motel was playing at the Hammer Museum Thursday night in the ‘Also I like to Rock’ series sponsored by KCRW, a LA radio which has been playing their song

The Feelies are idiots. Who wants to go to fucking Maxwell’s. Why play three nights at Maxwells? Just give me one night at Mercury -that’s all I’m asking for. Anyway.

Three of the people in the picture above are dead. The past is so far away… no, you can’t touch it… sorry. Anyway, I took the boring bastards at Pitchfork’s

I took this off Idolator… except the comments of course… Susan Boyle, I Dreamed A Dream -I still have nightmares about that “Wild Horses’ cover. Ke$ha, Animal -Is there a

Now here is the best piece of gossip I’ve heard in awhile… Chris Brown used eyedrops to fake crying at the BET Awards. I wonder what is worse: Fake crying

This is Lady Gaga’s little rental pied a terre in L.A. Cost? 25K a month. And they say money can’t buy happiness Hmmm… back to the “delirious” story… Jake sleeps

You know how I was funning bruce for releasing Darkness On The Edge Of Town? Well, that doesn’t apply to David Bowie’s Station To Station, which will be reissued as

This is one of those posts where we are stealing so much, I feel a little bit uncomfortable. So I tell you what. I will give clashmusic half of the

I dunno why we bother covering Justin Bieber. Call it an eccentricity but I find it so much fun. It’s like the posts have their own internal irony. You don’t

If you follow Beck’s Record club, you already know that Beck meets with musician friends to record an album in a day, and ‘Kick’ of INXS, ‘The Velvet Underground &

Here are the Lilith cancels. 10 dates in all… PR said some crap about the toughest summer tour season ever. Usana Amphitheater in Salt Lake City (July 12); Bell Centre

Gossip headlines? It is better than writing… Dolly Parton Defends Saucy Cyrus Christina Aguilera has revealed she sings songs from Disney film ‘Mary Poppins’ to her son Max to send

Bill Aucoin, Kiss manger, died this week at the age of 66. I went to his offices once when Billy Idol was starting out, I was interviewing Billy for Creem.

This is a non story for me. Solange Knowles quit her sister beyonce Junior Miss fashion line Dereon. Solange said: “I initially was involved as the spokesperson, but the clothes

Helen sent me this which she got off roadrunner record’s website. This is an update on the condition of Madina Lake’s bassist Mathew Leone, brutally beaten trying to protect a

Whoops, it would be # 2 on my top ten albums of the year so far!!! I swear I consider it an equal of Marshall Crenshaw’s first album. It is

1. The Monitor – Titus Andronicus 2. This Is Happening – LCD Soundsystem 3. Raymond Vs Rayomnd – Usher 4. Animal – Ke$ha 5. Contra – Vampire Weekend 6. Heaven

Mike Nessing has had Lana Mir’s first album, to be released in August, on heavy rotation for us. I’ve been listening to it myself. I think it is not the

rock nyc writer Woody Fuller is an all round new world rocker and he was asking arund about cheap recording software. My friend, the great singer songwriter Wesley Wolfe,  had

So how did Eminem sell 740K the first week you ask? According to MTV.com: 1) Hit single. 2) Plenty of promotion 3) New producers Eminem is always gonna be big,

Wavves newbie is streaming at  http://www.fatpossum.com/promo_pages/wavves It is called King Of the Beach and it is so energetic , so melodic and fast and noisy and fun you gotta think

1. Sink/Let It Sway – Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin – OK, I worship this song. 2. Power – Kanye West – The asshole line is awful but a

Material or hypocritical girl? Madonna seems to want to raise her daughter strictly, so after dumping Lurdes father, a boy toy Madonna hooked up with, madonna hooked up with a

A BBC documentary, ‘The Agony and Ecstasy of Phil Spector’ will screen for a week in August at the Egyptian Theatre (American Cinematheque) in Hollywood, and I will try to

1. California Gurls – Kate Perry 2. Love The Way You Lie (feat Rihanna) – Eminem 3. OMG – Usher 4. Airplane – B.o.B. 5. Billionaire – Travis McCoy 6.

Wu Tang Clan ain’t nothing to fuck with. Before i had ever heard any Wu Tang songs, I heard this story.. Some NYC writer wrote an article about Wu Tang,

Here is the cover of the Kanye West single “Power” which I’ve streamed and which I do like a whole lot, really I do. But which seems to me to

This is what happens when you write non stop about music: Your brain begins to ooze out of your ears and you run out of things, not to say, because,