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Shoulda gone to summerstage Ghana 2 – USA 1

Fuzzy G has all the unfocussed energy of youth on his side. On his Mixtape It’s Our Time, he grabs you, throws you against the wall, and hits you and

This is schocking. Shocking. Sultry, lovely Los Angeles  chanteuse Nicole Simone is A GIGGLER. No, honestly. I’ve been listening to her debut EP Nicole Simone for months (and writing about it for

Yesterday was the one-year anniversary of Michael Jackson’s death, and there were several places fans could go to pay homage, the Neverland ranch, the Jackson family’s home in Encino, the

Hey now that we’ve all had the hugs from ten thousand lightning bugs its time for Owl City to cough up something new. Adam Young told MTV “At the moment,

Set to start in three days time and Lilith Fair is cancelling many, many dates due to low sales. I wouldn’t go if you paid me, but Sarah McClachlan’s new

AC/DC’s  Malcolm and Angus Young won best songwriters of the year at the APRA Awards in Australia two days ago. Apparently nobody ACTUALLY WRITES SONGS in Australia anymore. Temper Trap and

Happy Happy Birthday Mick Jones born today June 26 1955. The Clash man with the pipes of satin. Often blamed for the break up of the band, years later Joe

Michael Jackson Fans Pay Tribute Outside Forest Lawn Cemetery ‘He was like my brother, a family member,’ one fan says Drake Visits Grandmother In Exclusive ‘Better Than Good Enough’ Outtake.

This is the story of deuces wild. I’ve only written about Glastonbury and Vanilla Ice once before. About Vanilla? I wrote how he was playing at the opening of a

Writing todays fave tracks, I had stuff I wanted to say, not necessarily about the music, for a number of tracks so I will try this new way of doing

And what, you ask, is our excuse for this? Easy, it is Keith Richards kid, former James Jagger squeeze, Alexandra Richards. She posed naked for Playboy Europe. She also DJ’s

Here is cute as a button Cloud Nothing -so wonderful opening for Titus Andronicus earlier this year at Bowery Ballroom. And there is a song you can download and a

I am sorry but it just is. I got it off Chart Attack and they got it off complex. I will give you the link in a minute. Anyway, ready?

The best piece of writing about modern pop music is in this week’s New York magazine. I’ve written glowingly about Dr. Luke, the New York producer behind everything from “Since

Pete Quaife, one of the founding members and original bassist for British pop group , The Kinks has died. The cause of death is not certain, but Quaife had been

Holy ghost! the crowd was locked in on every syllable change that the 9 person ensemble had to give us. I started in the way back of Le Poisson Rouge,

Just like the creepy kid in elementary school that if you’d pretend to be their friend would give you the cake from their lunchbox, Fearless Records is gonna give you

A relatively new LA band, ‘Fitz and the Tantrums’ was playing yesterday night at Spaceland, and there was a giveaway on theradiofreesilverlake website. ‘Fitz and the Tantrums’ have benefited from

Teen r&B chanteuse, 15 year old Jessica Jarrel is Justin Bieber’s opening act on his “My World”. She’s not bad, sweet voice, by the numbers bubblegum song in “Almost Love

With the album “Off the Wall” Michael Jackson became “cool” to me. Sure, he had done solo albums before that one, but they were all “Jackson Five-ish”. But the guy

The frontman of the Eels (Mark Oliver Everett or E for short), was questioned by the London Police last Monday in Hyde Park, after he was mistaken for a suspicious

Off The Wall is to Thriller, what Revolver is to Sgt. Peppers Lovely Heartsclub Band. The latter two get all the accolades, but the former two are simply better. The

Those boring, arrogant, enervated, egotists at Pitchfork report that Ryan Adams and Rivers Cuomo have written a song together and thereby beg the answer to a question that has bothered

I got booze Babe, Cher’s Ex Greg Allman has been battling Hep C since 2007. Word comes today that the fair haired rocker has actually had a liver transplant yesterday

1. Dancing On My Own (Baraka Som Sisteema) – Robyn 2. Our Whole Lives – The Hold Steady 3. Crossfire – Brandon Flowers 4. More Keith Richards – Quitzow 5.

God, what a piece of work Courtney Love is. And no, not because she left fans waiting for three hours to watch her perform an acoustic set. If you’re gonna

Taking a break from listening to a somewhat disappointing fistful of new tracks, I’ve had two songs in heavy rotation. The most recent one released Tuesday, the earlier one a

Happy Birthday George Michaels Born today June 25 1963 Georgios Panayiotou was destined to pop stardom with WHAM, and absolute repulsion in a rest room EVERYONE wash your hands. Cake

Harper Simon knows how to surround himself with accomplished people: Actor Joshua Leonard (The Blair Witch Project, HBO’s Hung) has directed his new video for ‘Wishes and Stars’, a song

So the Big 4 of thrash metal came together on the big screen. The long awaited mini-tour featuring Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax was showen in movie theaters around the

I have a story to go along with the pic: Brandon Flowers solo album is dropping September 7th. But really, I am just posting the pic because Helen will love

Remember back last May when I was raving about the Bjork/Dirty Projectors mash up at some bookstore. I was streaming it non stop on youtube and behgging em to release.

1. California Gurls (feat Snoop Dogg) – Katy Perry 2. OMG (feat Will. I. Am) – Usher 3. Airplanes (feat Hayley Williams) – B.o.B. 4. Billionaire – Travis McCoy 5.

What I think is one of the best songs, Michael Jackson has ever done. The short film starts with a disclaimer, which reads: “Due to my strong personal convictions, I

The good thing about a lame week is it gives you the chance to listen to an album you hadn’t heard in months. I went back to vampire Weekend’s Contra

you go to a Gogol Bordello concert and decide to be in the front rows, skip the gym in the morning, come in sweat pants and just wish you have

Cristofer Drew has been morphing before our eyes like a shape shifter. From Podunk wheat fed lovey boy to heavy lidded tattooed pot head. Yet his voice hasn’t changed yet.

rock nyc faves Quitzow are back in New York, with mates Setting Sons, this August and I can’t wait. I flipped over Cherry Blossom, Quitzows new album, a coupla weeks

HOLY GOD WITH A BOWLING BALL ITS MY DREAM COME FREAKIN TRUUUUUUUUUUE!! Guess who’s touring.. no really, guess Ill wait…. Me First and the Gimme Gimmes!! Not in all my

Weird Al Yankovic’s released “Craiglist” from last year -a completely wonderful Doors parody (not satire, folks) with a real live Door playing the keyboards and, and here’s the kicker, it

Between touring non stop and refilling his depleted coffers in what he said would be his last concert ever at MSG, living legend Leonard cohen has found the time to

Passion Pit recently did a cover to The Smashing Pumpkins song, “Tonight, Tonight” as part of some Levi’s promo Pioneer something or other. If you have read anything I have

Here is part II of the Titus Andronicus tour of the US on behalf of their album of the year The Monitor. See something missing? No? Where the hell is

Holy CRAP Peter Murphy is cameo’ing in Eclipse What the heck!! Front man of Bauhaus has always dipped into acting with bit spots in The Hunger and other ‘dark’ films

Love the Way You Live (feat. Rihanna) – Eminem – No, no, no, no, no. I did not say every song on the album, I said some of it sucked

A day after I tell the world I am sick of Lady Gaga, Idolator stream a new Gagaism “Changing Skies”, and it is awesome and I love her again. A

What you get if you sound like Hall And Oates on the verses, and Maroon 5 on the chorusses… er, Maroon 5’s really good new single “Misery now streaming on

As if KISS weren’t whores enough.. now you can scratch them for money. Their silly mugs are on the latest instant ‘scratcher’ tickets for the New Mexico lottery. So of

Two presales for Jay-Z and Eminem at Yankee STadium September 13th. First from yankees.com presale code: NYYJAYZ Second from Livenation, presale code: tickets