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The Hop Farm Family Park, near East Peckham in Kent, England, is known for its outdoor music festival and today and tomorrow, Van Morrison and Bob Dylan are the headliners. […]

New York Magazine sent this to me and here is a question… Who would you spend the night on the sidewalks of new york to see? 1) john lennon 2) Louis

OK, so what is happening in the world of love, peace, good vibes, fine sounds? “James Blunt is celebrating after smashing the world record for the highest-ever live gig, snatching

Too many cut and pastes today… Old news is like old pop, it looses its fresh appeal. It becomes like The-Dream where a day is way past its expiration date.

I am so not in the mood to write today. I feel like taking a day off and my writing totally sucks -I got very little sleep last night and

I got this email from Helen from the wilds of vacationland: “The bassist for madina lake was beaten unconscious while intervening in a domestic dispute to assist some woman- I

Grace is a rare gift, very few people have it, it’s something you notice right away when you see someone who has it, you cannot explain it, but you just

Kevin Hoskins, the booker for Boston rock club is moving to booking at the club Emo’s in Austin. Why am I telling you this? Because I haven’t been to Boston

OK, this is the must see show of the summer. At Central Park. Aufust 4th (a wednesday so you prolly hafta pay -i hafta check)… Holy Ghost and Hercules +

While  in Barcelona Spain, I went to my first rave at the largest club in all of Europe, Razzmatazz. Girl Talk was headlining that show, and it was in-fucking-credible! Could

Just as Thom York did his solo thing with ‘The Eraser’ and Jonny Greenwood his with movie soundtracks, Radiohead drummer Phil Selway will release his solo album ‘Familial’ on August

With Helen Bach on vacation, herre is a birthday shout out!! Angela Trimble, Debbie Harry, Blondie, ex-playboy bunny, punk icon of the 70’s and Andy Warhol’ s friend is 65

Another record I’m listening to this summer is “Odessa” by the Bee Gees. I’ve always meant to pick it up and give it a spin but for whatever reason, it

California is all about beach, surf and music, you know the Beach Boys and all this surf music,… what a perfect combination! Huntington beach will host the 2010 US Open

I hate Live nation with a passion. Bought a tix for Titus Andronicus’s September 25th gig at webster Hall. The tix was $16.00 and the cost after they put their

Eminem has sold nearly 800K copies of his latest album!! I can’t get hold of the bi;;board hot 100 (I should have it soonish) but to be perfectly honest I am

1. On And Ever Onwards – Bjork And Dirty Projectors – You think you’ve heard it but you haven’t heard it till you’ve heard it 2. One Of My Kind

In which Bob Lefsetz gets it half right in writing about Livenation and the falling apart of the rock concert tix, this is what he wrote: “Only investors who can

This is what Rufus Wainwright had to say about crystal myth: “Once ingested it totally works against who you are as a person. It takes every taboo and insecurity and

The eagerly awaited seven song EP collobaration between Dirty Projectors and bjork is finally available for a $7 contribution from Dominos Records and I for one think it is up

It’s now more official than Chris Brown crying like a little girl , I am going to Camp Bisco 9!! And I nearly pulled a Chris Brown when I reexamined

The British invasion inspired The Young Veins have released a video for their song ‘Change’ from their debut album ‘Take a vacation’, and they have pushed the Beatles mimicry to

There is a reason I am stealing this story from TMZ. 1) Will. I. Am is one of the gods of (last year he was the god of) modern pop.

Now here is some depressing news. We want be getting Nicki Minaj along with ke$ha at the Rihanna concert. No, instead we are getting Travis McCoy doing a solo turn

According to the New York Post, Aretha Franklin and former secretary of defense Condoleeza Rice are joining forces for a charity concert in Philadelphia. Rice is a classically trained musician.

Most people know Shepard Fairey because of the Obama campaign, and the retro look of his now famous red and blue Obama Hope posters, largely reminiscent of Russian propaganda. But

After complaining that Titus Andronicus were not playing a local date this summer thus forcing me to go to New Haven, Brooklynvegan report the bearded ones will be playing Webster

Jim Farber of the New York Daily News, the good one of the tabliod twins in NYC, gave Sciccor Sisters a 4 star review and compared it to pre-AIDS gay

I like Brooklynvegan (I steal from em all the time)  a lot and always have. Not mad keen on the rock writing but for news about the new york music

Prince is giving away his new album 20Ten in Europe. A giveaway with the Daily Mirror in the UK on July 10th, also a givaway with Rolling Stone Germany. Prince

Yes, here it is. The worst song ever written by any one, ever. I was gonna (and I’m still considering it) write a worst songs ever post but I started with

Flo Rida, more like No Rida (at least I can crack myself up) Currently listening to the new Flo Rida song, “Club Can’t Handle Me” (feat. David Guetta), on recommendation

1. Pick Up The Phone – Dragonettes – This is the first Itubes freebie that showed me something I didn’t already know. A first rate Canadian alt rock electron band

In which an old rocker does what so many old rockers do, combs his catalogue for new money. Due this Christmas is a rejiggered Darkness On The Edge of Town

How do you tell the truth? About anything. I don’t mean to get technical on you but… how dya do it??? It is a quantum problem, simply by writing about

I never thought the day would come when I was defending Rod Stewart from Tony Bennet, but Bennet’s smackdown seemed a little bizarre. Bennet said: “”It’s not as good as

Even after Miss Alyson Camus completely nailed Fitz and The Tantrums and what makes them so unique in a recent post, I feel compelled to share my two cents because

From Arcade Fire’s Twitter: ‘Exciting news – we’re playing The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on August 12th!!!’ Conan O’Brien is gone, so from all the late night talk shows,

Drummer Ollie Campesinos has left the popular Welsh band. A founding member of Los Campesinos who are more and more becoming the story of Gareth and a buncha sidemen and

I wish I had some more interest in Glastonbury but it is all a little A) precious B) dowdy And C) Over Not to mention D) Overthere and E) No

At Thursday’s “White Tie and Tiara Ball” Elton John blow out for at the 12th annual fundraiser for the Elton John AIDS Foundation, Lady Gaga gave em a new rock

I didn’t watch the BET awards but between remembering Gary Coleman and Lena Horne, Chris Brown rocked the house with a dance trbute to Michael Jackson -and then vroke down

No Hope Kids – Wavvees – Imagine if you took a ledge hammer and banged Brian Wilson on the heads and his brain blood leaked out all over his fuzzbox.

Here is a nice post… Susan Boyle appeared at a fete near her home in Scotland and crowned the Queen Of the Gala: 11-year-old Chloe McCondochie  (great name there Chloe)

Good Ass Job, the first Kanye West album since the seminal 808s And Heartbreaks drops September 14th, 2010. I recommend a national holiday so we can all stay home and

We Are Young – 3oh!3 Club Can’t Handle Me (feat David Guetta) – Flo Rida Fire With Fire – Scissor Sisters Make Up Bag – The Dream and T.i. Faith

Miley Cyrus is no doubt gaining gossip leverage on the internet for the past few weeks: with her new song “Can’t be tamed” and her raunchy performance on the Much

Smashing Pumpkins suck. Billy Corrigan is a jerk and not once has he done a thing but stroke his own ego and turn on college kids who want to be

While waiting for Brian Wilson to release his new collection of tunes composed by George and Ira Gershwin this coming August, it was brought to my attention that in 1959,