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Anybody got the set list for Paul Weller’s 31 song career spanning concert at the Royal Albert Hall on Friday May 28th… I’d like to share it with our readers […]

Fitty said this the other day about his new material: “It’s still got a soulful vibe to it and that’s why I called it ‘Black Magic’. I had some Marvin

Echoing (if not down right stealing) from the bible according to rock nyc, Mick Jagger has warned that the days of making a fortune from music are over. Contactmusic quote

Here at rock nyc, we’ve ravished young John Mayer (a walking STD is about the nicing thing we’ve written about him) on more than one occassion BUT he cancelled his

Yeah Ya Know (Takers) – T.I. Miss Me (Feat Lil Wayne) – Drake You And Your Heart – Jack Johnson Invisible Light – Scissor Sister Lady Daydream – Twin Sister

Is it just me or is every new musician starting to sound exactly like another? If you go on Myspace, you’ll easily find over 20 people who wish they were

Holy Crap thanks Epitaph Records! Wooooot $2.99 “New Noise”. Compilations of Epitaph artists for under $3. The first instalment will be up June 15 This is brilliant. Digital releases include

Freakin hilarious Joe Walsh has filed a restraining order against his 70yr old neighbor. According to Los Angles court documents Welsh reportedly claims his neighbor Nassar Adhoot trespassed on the

Helen Bach sez: Suddenly I feel like rocknyc’s consumer reporter. Live Nations are suspending their service fees. Seriously? Iman can stop crying for all of June. Which makes me wonder

The new and timeless Nicole Simone -whose current EP has been thrilling rock nycers all year and who Alyson Camus raved about atNicole’s LA concert, is coming AT LAST to

I have written about Joe Steinhardt many times though I heard his music for the first time less than six months ago. Joe is one of a handful of songwriters

So apparently the loud/scary/metal-ly band Lamb Of God is offering 15th anniversary Hourglass collection special packages. In the package is an autographed photo of the band, a Lamb Of God

The cheap bastards at Itunes must have refused to pay overtime because like every day after a national day off, the new itune releases weren’t up by the time I

Why these guys are not playing a showcase at Mercury Lounge or  Bowery Electric I don’t know but if you have to traipse out to the Bell House to watch

Happy 30th birthday to Fabrizio Moreti, drummer, of rocknyc heroes The Strokes and sideproject Brazilian louche band Little Joy. Great to hear the boys will be playing Lallapalooza this year

Dear Wheels: I am dating this guy and HE IS THE LEAD SINGER FOR A SEMI-POPULAR rock band. And he is always touring. And I guess I trust him. But

Twin Sister are a duo from Brooklyn and Long Island and I have yet to hear a thing from them though  they have a new EP Color Your Life. It

Today only: How To Destroy An Angel’s debut EP -this is  Mr. and Mrs Reznor’s new band, is being given away free on their website. I will review it once

Didja ever call the Irving Plaza, the Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza? That isn’t a club name, it’s a run on sentence. So don’t bother remembering it now because effective June

Speaking with DJ Grace Of Spades Sunday at Bowery Electric, she bemoaned the State of New York Rock Clubs. Me? I thought the state of club life was fine -there

Further to rock nyc contributor Hala El-Djazairy’s post last week, Lady Gaga has testetd borderline positive for Lupas. Her Auntie died of the disease and though she does not have

Hey Mr. Drop the Lime, Mr. Trouble And Bass. Mr. Venezia. What the fuck??? rock nyc have been writing incessantly about you since the summerstage gig and we don’t expect

When rock stars are under the influence of drugs or alcohol, it really changes your opinion of them. Perfect example? Christofer Drew Ingle. He was growing up right with his

If ‘Yoshimi battles the pink robots’ was about the fight between the girl and the death, with all these ‘she’ in the lyrics, ‘Embryonic’ could be the fight between the

Last week did not only take Dennis Hopper and Slipknot bassit Paul Grey, but also Mr Gary Coleman. That lovable boy who turned into a freakin psycho kicking women’s asses

The teen pop sensation, Miley Cyrus has revealed that she doesn’t like the hit TV Show, Glee. She may like Madonna and Lady Gaga, but she just can’t stand the

As regular readers will probably have realized by now, Joe Steinhardt is one of my vaorite wrongers certainly of this decade and possibly ever.If all he had ever written was

If you can’t sit down and study for finals in silence, tapping your pencil against your desk and hoping that you ace it, you need a sufficient playlist that won’t

On May 15th new York State failed to renew the law allowing ticket brokers to resell tickets and any price they choose to putting online ticket brokers into chaos. Why?

Yep, read the title of this post. Kaiser Cartel’s second album, Secret Transit, to be released June 8th is all of that and more…The Brooklyn based duo, together since 2004,

1. Hater – Various Productions 2. All Talk (feat Chip The Ripper) – Kid Cudi 3. Brave Enough – Kaiser Cartel 4. Content – No Paws (No Lions) 5. Getting

Why would I do this? No idea, I just feel like it… let’s go: 1. Lover’s Day – TV On The Radio – Undeniable brooklyn fuse sex song 2. Red

Before becoming an embodiment of Gladwell’s Outliers as the US’ greatest living Soprano, Renee Fleming lowered her voice a little and sang in cabarets. Her version of the Nat King

After the set I ask the chick singer if Obamanation have anything recorded yet. they haven’t. Obamanation have just started out. They don’t have a webpage, they don’t have a Facebook

I went to the Bowery Ballroom at 8 on the dot to finally watch Don Giovanni Records (co-owned by friend to rock nyc Joe Steinhardt) after missing em a couple

It is very hard to be objective when you love a band for who they are. You can see past a slew of weak with an ounce of love. Shinobi

There are three great baseball songs a) Take Me Out To the Ballgame b) Brown Eyed Handsome Man c) Centerfield There is no seventh inning stretch without “Take Me Out

I got lucky. Twenty years after I stopped being a rock critic I got back into writing about music where 1) It is possibly the greatest era ever for popular

Hey Wheels: Please help me. I have two dates tonight! One girl wants to go to the Pregnant concert, the other to Bon Jovi. I prefer the Bon Jovi girl

MIA posted both the NYT interview (I listened for a minute but it is as boring as the interviews I have to listen to for rock nyc) and there is also

1. Pendulum – ‘Immersion’ 2. Michael Buble – ‘Crazy Love’ 3. Glee Cast – ‘Glee The Music Vol 3 Showstoppers 4. Katie Melua – ‘The House’ 5. The Rolling Stones

Journey’s is a store. Like, hmm a cool kids sneaker store. Catering to skaters and hipsters I suppose but basically theyre just 100 shoes So theyre smart enough to capitolize

When Helen Bach emailed me that Dennis Hopper died, my somewhat laconic question was “did he ever play in a rock band”. Well, he didn’t but he seemed to find

1. Dizzee Rascal – ‘Dirtee Disco’ 2. B.o.B – ‘Nothin’ On You’ (feat. Bruno Mars) 3. Iyaz – ‘Solo’ 4. Jason Derulo – ‘Ridin’ Solo’ 5. Eminem – ‘Not Afraid’

1. Content – No Paws (No Lions) 2. All Talk (Feat Chip The Ripper) – Kid Cudi 3. Gettin’ Over You (Feat Fergie and LMFAO) – David Guetta and Chris

“Jonathon Low”, Vampre Weekend’s new song off the eagerly dreaded “Eclipse” soundtrack, answers two question: 1) Yes, you can write a song for the “Twilight” series without automatically losing every

All I can do is stream this awesome Major Lazer remix tape featuring La Roux who I don’t write about often enough at all because I don’t like her hair

66 year old French singer superstar Johnny Halliday drank himself into a coma according to L.A. Cedars-Sinai Hospital. This comes after Halliday sued the hospital for botching an operation on