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A year ago five posts in a day was a big number!!! This is what i was posting on: Adam Lambert – Raving about him Cliff Richards – he was […]

I have been writing these fave tracks for awhile now. It is one way to track how music, certain songs, enters and leaves our field of interest. How over a

Steve Hackett and his accomplished electric band will soon take to the road in North America to play select cities. Hackett and company will tour in support of Steve Hackett’s

Frank Zappa, legendary musician will have a bust statue of his likeness unveiled and dedicated in Highlandtown, MD near his home town of Baltimore on 9/18/10. It will be placed

Two new Jones Beach shows were added to the once very dismal line-up. Even though Foreigner, Chicago, Meatloaf, Santana, Sting and CSN has had their string of hits – one

Here is a new idea for a weekly post… the upcoming week in music. Yeah, I know it’s tuesday -whatever. So the week of March 24th… *The big release is

On May 21 at Mercy Lounge in Nashville, KY, musicians paid tribute to seminal ‘70’s power pop group Big Star and Alex Chilton, who passed away earlier this year. The

Since we can neither a) afford to go nor b) particularly want to go, here is the current set list for his 2010. Word of warning, apparently he is deconstructing

Glee is an American musical comedy-drama television series that airs on Fox in the United States. It focuses on the High School glee club called, “New Directions,” at the fictional

During a lull Sunday afternoon a friend of mine put on Best of Bowie (2003) DVD . For those who live under rocks like I do, Best of Bowie is

the following signed lithographs are available from http://www.bobdylanart.com/standard-2010.asp?artID=8 at around $1,700 a pop… backyard: bicycle: fisherman: sunflowers:

Streaming now on pitchfork the godawful dear god plus a crap rap plus a pretty good percussion track plus as good a reason to off yourself as any i can

Sick all of last week and finally turning the corner I am forced to reflect on missing (long breath) Band Of Horses, Holy Ghost!, LCD Soundsystem, Pearl Jam and PiL

1. If You’re On The Mend , I’m On The Move – The Kingsbury Manx – Pastoral, but not like Chapel Hill like the lake district 2. Now You Has

They say music is an attitude sometime. Stereotypes run amok really. From Ozzie biting the head off a bat to Kesha blowing b boys, everyone in the biz has an

So a look into my (crystal) ball and here is my predictions. Me: Death. rock nyc: if I had 5K I could afford to blow, I would blow it on

According to Spin Magazine Scott Weiland, despite being off heroin, is in very bad shape. He is unhunged on booze and pills and no one knows how he is gonna

Lil Cease told MTV News: “. It just seems like when it came to Biggie, it was, ‘Oh, another rapper, another hoodlum, another gangster is dead.” Yup, and with Elliott

1. Have diabetes 2. Have a brain hemorrhave 3. Set up a world tour 4. Have a heart attack 5. Show up at the live taping. Apparently, illness isn’t only

Happy Birthday to his royal Bobbiness and all the best to the poet laureate of the 20th century, the voice of his genreation, and a good son to his mother

I almost didn’t write this one. This post is to give you the track listing of the Oasis double CD singles fond farewell album and it hit me as an

Alyson Camus faves Eels plan to complete the trilogy of albums begun with Hombre Lobo and End Times. The new album is Tomorrow Morning and is due this summer. The

Out tomorrow the new Stone Temple Pilot and extended the Cure Disintegration albums. Me? I’m not a big fan of either band but who cares what I think This is

Sure, the US has its own but listening to the gung ho jogoism of the top ten single Leeds United anthem from the UK reminds how sdifficult it is to

Upon being myspace friended by metal band, I decided to give A Fate Painted Black a listen. I read a blog entry and learned that their bassist, Mark, had passed

1. B.o.B – ‘Nothin’ On You’ (feat. Bruno Mars) 2. Jason Derulo – ‘Ridin’ Solo’ 3. Roll Deep – ‘Good Times’ 4. Alexandra Burke – ‘All Night Long’ (feat. Pitbull)

1. The Rolling Stones – ‘Exile On Main St’ 2. Faithless – ‘The Dance’ 3. Plan B – ‘The Defamation Of Strickland Banks’ 4. The Baseballs – ‘Strike 5’ 5.

“I Can Change” by LCD Soundsystem is one of those songs that’s good, but you can’t really truly get into it. Each time I listen to it, I pick up

1. I Can Change – LCD Soundsystem 2. Next Girl – The Black Keys 3. Leeds, Leeds, Leeds (Marching On Together) – Leeds United And Supporters 4. I Will Come Back (Drop

The Mint is a relatively small place with a Western saloon look, an old fashioned bar flanked of a painting of Johnny Cash in the corner, some dark green drapery

According to New York Daily News, Courtney Love has been offered $162M for the 75% of Cobain’s catalogue she still controls. For some odd reason I thought Francis Cobain owned

More MTV stuff but this actually about MTVu. That’s the college kids version of MTV a bit less commercial a bit more edgy indy hip. Well not really but it

Okay. So… drop the lime (in the haus). Wasn’t sure how to approach that “tune”. I listened to it through my laptop speakers and it pretty much came across like

Green Day isn’t just a joke, its a game! MTVgames/Harmonix is releasing Rock Band Green Day edition on June 8. The songs range from 1994s worthy lp Dookie all the

It is not on sale yet but Holy Ghost are playing Bowery Ballroom July 29th -a thursday so, I mean, cmon guys, thusday???  But a must see, really. Also, also,

Sometimes, just for the heck of it, we wanna see how our opinion measures up to the majority take in rock bore land and the place to do that is…

I keep on listening and thinking about James Murphy’s This Is Happenning and I’ve been sick since I bought it and I think being sick and stuck at home and

Slash belabors the state of rock and roll. Slash? You are fucking joing me? This pampered preening prat tells us about the good old day. Where?  Use Your Illussions I

Well tonight is the season finale of Celebrity Apprentice. I admit I have watched it but not religiously. But heck yeah Ill be watching tonight cuz Bret Michaels is confirmed

This is pretty impressive… a great way to hear some big albums for no dollars down!! Currently streaming on AOL: Brothers – The Black Keys Compass – Jamie Lidell Infinite

From the teen scream scene we have 2 completely useless stories to be used as filler cuz its Sunday and most of you are too hungover to give a crap

1. I Can Change – LCD Soundsystem 2. Riot Rhythm – Sleigh Bells 3. I WIll Come Back (Drop The Lime Remix) – Holy Ghost 4. Bola (Star Eyes Mix)

I SHALL RETURN…Douglas MacArthur in 1942 as he left the Phillippines during World War 2. Which one put more boots on the ground? Well… If you drop the lime everyone

For the most part a great length for an album is 25 minutes or, if you prefer, four songs by LCD Sounbdsystem. LCD’s new  album  isn’t bad but it isn’t

I am not a hippy swirling dread lock wearing Birkenstock wearer. I’m not at all what you would expect in a ‘vegan’ ‘animal rights activist’. I don’t fit the stereotype

Chris Pureka has learned to see in the dark, the dark as pain and sorrow you can be sure of that and learning this is a hard thing to do,

I hate Paramore. Ive seen them live twice- neither time willingly. Hayley is boring, screechy, and rips off Benetar dance moves so obviously that anyone over 30 would point it

1. I Can Change – LCD Soundsystem – Sincerely lost. 2. Riot Rhythm – Sleigh Bells – Pretty cool riff 3. Bola (Star Eyes Remix) – Hanuman – Spaced and

Holding firm to the faaith that I am the only person who tells the truth and therfore had to shake off being ill and catch Pil and Pearl Jam, I

From  German tab Bild, Justin is reported to have said: “A girl has to have a beautiful smile, beautiful eyes and she should have a good sense of humour. She