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Hey Wheels, love what you are doing here and i need your help. I am in love with my best friend’s girl. I feel so dirty when they start talking cute. […]

Scratch a glossy, big selling, cool, youthful business and what you get is the sort of thieving, carpetbagging monopolists I’ve been warning you about for a year. 1) Twenty-Six year

Writing for Broadway (whoops, the West End) is not the same as writing songs as Lily Allen, who has just signed on to write the score for a musical version

Days old gossip: you can’t start it like a car, you can’t stop it with a gun… and this gossip is so old Helen has already covered the hayley and

Rock NYC back at Summer Jam for the first time in years… Drake Trey Songz Ludacris Juelz Santana Nicki Minaj Fabolous Talib Kweli & Hi-Tek (NOT billed as Reflection Eternal)

I found these guys while reading a review of Lana Mir’s upcoming solo album. I am not sure sure if they are a play to pay site and the writing

I am sure I am not alone in gagging in anticipation of the new T.I. album. He has been on a roll since he got out of jail (he is

Have I got time to add these indie jerks on to my list of bands i am sick of? The Drums are the most over-rated band on earth, even Morrissey

So there I was grooving on some Decemberists on youtube. So I just left it working on another screen when the song another begins. Nothing Id heard before but I

I got this from contactmusic.com Here is Kanye West on the Arizona Immigration State Law: “”When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, they arrested her. As a result,

1. Open Book – Kevin Greenspon 2. Vivre Pari Te – Los Amigos Invisbles 3. Getting Over You (feat Fergie, LMFAO, Chris Willis) 4. Content – No Paws(No Lions) 5.

Madeleine Peyroux belongs to the special kinds, she does not follow any trend or style, she stays away from publicity, she does not want to be famous, her songs are

Mary sez: Kevin Greenspon’s song “Open Book” is not very pleasing to the ear. The music isn’t too bad, it’s the vocals. What’s with the two people singing in completely

June 5th, Saturday, 3p – Living Colour/EBony Bones/Pillow Theory/CX Kidtronic – Vernon Reid Hard rock conglom back for free. June 6th, Sunday 3pm – Los Van Van/Jose Conde –  Tribute to

June 4th – Nellie McKay at Feinstein’s June 5th – Living Color At Summerstage June 6th – Summer Jam at Meadowland June 8th – Kaiser Cartel at Joe’s Pub June

Kid Cudi rapping a gorgeous chorus  over LCD Soundsystem’s “Dance Yrself Clean” in the first minute and then it explodes.  And it srats Christian Bale byte where he is dissing

Last summer we went to Madame Tussauds in NYC. Dropped what was it $30 bucks a head to check it out- it was pretty cool. Rather creepy but regardless it

1- A Smile From The Trenches- “Bad Romance”. This is what Gaga wanted it to be but she doesn’t have any balls. Or does she 2-David Bowie- “Changes”. Wow! This

Hayley Wiliams Twitter account got hacked. Apparently the idiot had topless photos of herself stored there or something and the hacker decided to tweet it to her 600,000 followers. High

The Damned Things, (not to be confused with The Damned who RULED) are giving us a peak at what they’re up to. Who are they? Well its the stragglers.. former

Hey, Iman. Didn’t drop off the face of the earth yet. I’ve been workin’. Yes… back to the grind……..iiiiiiiiiiinnng of tooth and nail and brain cogs. Memorial Day Weekend. Hmmm…John

Here’s some stuff I could care less about but think that mentioning them is sort of funny Bon Jovi quit smoking to save money-perhaps to use saved funds for those

Helen Sez: You want tour cancellations we got tons of um, here’s another. This one though tugged at my heartstrings a bit and well doesn’t make sense so some details

And here is our first steal from Direct Current. You can stream a new song played on the Priarie Home Companion. It’s called “Jimmy Standing In The rain” and god

1. Getting Over You (feat. Fergie, Chris Willis and LMFAO) – David Guetta 2. Changer – Vehicle Blues 3. Next Girl – The Black Keys 4. Youth – Beach Fossils

Kevin Greenspon has a magic touch. From his solo stuff through Cloud Passing, No Paws and beyond with Vehicle Blues, if it’s Kevin, or if it’s his label Bridgetown Records,

Kanye took a leak. Well not really. More like his new song was ‘leaked’. “Power” is the latest song from the king of interruption. I like him. He’s crass. Hes

I wasn’t too keen on “Shutterbug” for the longest time. The mix was too dense, I couldn’t hear it, the percussion to busy oand the rap was meh. Then I

I love Bon Jovi, always have, always will. I didn’t get tickets to the 4 shows at the new Meadowlands stadium, at first I wish I did. But now, looking

Well, on a personal level I could mention the super at the building I live in who is from somewhere behind the iron curtain and blasts this Ukrainian folk music

I tend to agree. I mean who else? Doesn’t Katy Perry’s “California Gurl” sound awful dowdy and old fashioned. How much longer can Timbaland wheel out them beats. Legendary six

They played a new one off Paul Weller’s current album and “Eton Rifles” and “The Butterfly Collector” from the Jam book of rock classics, and for the first time there

Not just mp3s for the two new Arcade Fire songs (plus dates for the tour but no New York yet) and not just the Regina at the White House which

After the annoying long tease, we can hear the new songs at last. It was all over the news and blogs yesterday, Arcade Fire has a new single out, two

I finally weakend and finished off the Black Key’s Brothers and i can hear why the Black Keys think they are genius, but I don’t think they are any better

If i like a band and then I find out New York Post’s Dan Aquilante, I reasses my emotions because if this blithering, lying typist likes a band , then

Fallen Angel-King Crimson-Within the first 15 seconds, a synthesizer becomes a bass synthesizer, adding ‘lectic guitar and violin drone. Then John Wetton sings. Are Asia fans hip to this shit?

1 OMG (feat Will I Am) – Usher 2. Airplane (feat. Hayley Williams) – B.o.B. 3. California Gurls (feat Snoop Dogg) – Katy Perry 4. Breaking Your Heart – Taio

New concert cancellations and postponements Mastodon-the group’s guitarist Bill Kelliher was diagnosed with pancreatitis. Sum 41- Stevo in a car crash

I found myself on the “Some Kind Of Awesome” website -which you gotta love if only for the the name, right?- and spent some quality time streaming their stuff. Elastic

Helen sez: M.I.A annoys me. I did like “Paper Planes” but it lost its appeal the moment I saw her. Yeah, just aint feelin it. So now armed with dislike

Lady Gaga has been tested for the disease Lupus, which killed her Aunt. The singer, who fainted on stage, and suffered many blackouts during her Monster Ball tour, has sustained

Happy Birthday Butcher Baby! A posthumous shout out to Miss Wendy O Williams. That chick was tough as nails and sledgehammered cars, then well…yeah she knew how to have fun.

1. I Really Taught Me To Watusi – Tune-Yards 2. Wherever You Go – Kaiser Cartel 3. Next Girl – The Black Keys 4. Never As Tired As When I’m

Today we are inaugurating a new column: “This Wheel’s On Fire”: an advise column where our very own Helen Bach will give heartfelt, compassionate and useful advise to those in

As part of a Jewish heritage event, Regina Spektor played the White House and given the, how you say, tense relationship between Bam and the righty Netanyahu, I can’t help

Two songs about suicide “Going Going Gone” by Bob Dylan and “Dumb” by Nirvana. They are flip sides of the same story. One the disquiet before the end and the

The somewhat-crazed five piece indie/rock/what the heck genre is this? band Motion City Soundtrack formed in 1997 in Minneapolis , Minnesota . The two original members, Justin Pierre(vocals and guitar)

In the UK Saint Sir Cliff is playing a string of concerts to celebrate his 70th birthday, including 5 nights at the Royal Albert Hall. And here in New York?