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Phil Collins in Rolling Stone: “All my life I’ve put out music and people have criticised it. Why keep doing that? I don’t need the money. In the future I […]

Well now, this is not gonna make Kiss many friends. particularly after their last album tanked. But here is surgically enhanced blowing hard to canoemusic.com: “You don’t know how big

Watching the Simpsons opening credits last night i was thrilled to see the great Ke$ha’s “Tik Tok” being lip-synched by the denizens of Springfield. personal best? Groundskeeoer Willie, Edma Krabappel

Remember how back in the day, in the 70s and ’80s, folks like Public Enemy would release BIG ALBUMS, STATEMENT ALBUMS, STATE OF THE ALBUM ALBUMS. This is the opposite

So in 1968 on May third, the Beach Boys went on tour with Maharishi Mashesh Yogi co – headlining. A disasterous idea if there ever was one, The maharashi’s “set”

My Man Mike Nessing reviewed “The T.A.M.I.” show a coupla weeks back and I’ve been playing catch up on this terrific movie I had never watched before. Right now I

For some reason best known to himself Ben radcliff chose to review the new Hold Steady album # 5, Heaven Is Whatever, in the style of a Craig Finn lyric.

Chris Brown blew up at a DJ in Virginia. Brown said in part:  “All I’m saying is that you don’t play my shit. What number is it (my song) at?

Sure Miley Cyrus’s last hurrah before she destroys her career attemtping to become a serious actress, “Can’t Be Saved”, is a modern pop confection: all BPMs and multitracking to an

On B.o.B.’s first album is a song called “The Kids”. Sound familiar? It samples the entire chorus of  Vampire Weekend’s “The Kid Don’t Stand A Chance” and loops it between

Since I returned to work on Friday I have not had the time to transcribe anymore interviews from my trip to Odessa records, though I am looking forward to it.

Harmolodics: 2B ORNETTE 2B A little interior design today, folks, courtesy of Ornette Coleman. LET’S REARRANGE SOME FURNITURE. Here are just the fellas to help us do a little heavy

1.Tell ‘Em – Sleigh Bells 2. Try And Stop Love – 6th Street 3. Cannibal – Inspector 22 4. Airplane Pt. 2 – B.o.B. 5. No Surprises – Regina Spektor

I have a Twitter account, helenrocknyc actually, and I update it when something good is happening but I mostly use it to GET information. Tweets can be pretty useful to

Despite starting their career at the Cavern and despite being managed by a certain Brian Epstien, from day one, from “How Do You do It” on, it has been exceedingly

Well I site searched, but came up with nothing. The problem with writing so much you forget what you’ve said and well I may not have said this before.. or

1. Roll Deep – ‘Good Times’ 2. Usher (feat. Will.I.Am) – ‘OMG’ 3. Plan B – ‘She Said’ 4. Diana Vickers – ‘Once’ 5. Chipmunk (feat. Esmée Denters) – ‘Until

1. Plan B – ‘The Defamation Of Strickland Banks’ 2. Usher – ‘Raymond V Raymond’ 3. AC/DC – ‘Iron Man 2 OST’ 4. Glee Cast – Glee The Music: The

Its official.. Kid Rock will be hosting the CMT Awards this summer.  His song “All Summer Long” was a top 5 hit on the country singles chart in 2008 and

Asking Alexandria & Mary Magpie What I’m listening to this weekend Alesana- The Thespian Love um hate um cant dispute the fact that they take no prisoners. I honestly think

Mark E. Smith, the Fall mainstay,  has a reputation of being really difficult but the one time I interview him he was really nice. Maybe because I was a huge

As Brando put it in the Godfather: How did things ever get so far? I don’t know. It was so unfortunate, so unnecessary. Van Morrison records for an independent label.

After Everest, Minus The Bear came on we noticed one thing at the same time– their beards. Beardcore seems to be the new thing in all music genres. I’ve heard

The intro of Mychildren Mybride’s first song on their second album is a promise and a fakeout and they deliver both: “Faithless” starts like prog-rock , like ELP keyboards transposed

The New-York band Interpol has posted on their website a new song, ‘Lights,’ to announce their upcoming fourth album. The mp3 is free and according to the band, the song

1. Airplanes Part II – B.o.B. 2. The Underdogs – Empire Falls 3.Long Walk Home – Transportation 4. No Surprises – Regina Spektor 5. Waves Of Depression – Mychildren Mybride

A girl in a short sparkly black dress and a cocktail sings along to every song 6th Street play except for the new one, swinging her hips She is a

Mary Magpie Writes: Vampire Weekend’s drummer is the happiest drummer alive. Dancing, smiling, and so incredibly ecstatic. His face throughout the entire time resembled 😀 greatly. They were infectious, with

We arrived at the Webster Theater, after being helped out by the nicest parking guys on EARTH, we went inside the unusually unpacked room. The band Everest came on and

I’m a bit of a trivia fan. You want me on your team for Trivial Pursuit cuz I absorb worthless information like a sponge. I can shout out the answer

Happy Birthday to Joe Strummers God daughter, Miss Lily Allen. I love her. Shes just a silly bird singing some of the coolest girl power songs ever.   Any chick

Remember a few years back when Adam Ant flipped out and ended up in an institution? Yeah maybe he’s headed back. He’s looking to scrap with Liam Gallagher, former Oasis

Im gonna straight up say it This Bret Michaels thing is fishy and its not adding up. Some reports have him as fine, hell he’ll be touring this month.. others

Summer is so close we can feel it, not cuz of the heat but cuz OzzFest is announced! Did you know that Ozzfest was started cuz those organizing Lallapalooza thought

Streaming mp3 website, bought by Apple last year, is closing down effective May 31st. I am very surprised. I agree with the industry wide opinion that streaming pay to play

If you are friends with Helen Bach, Helen will bite the bullet and send you comps to catch the Yanks!! So I took my nephew, niece, niece boyfriend, last night

A cynic might claim that being Norway’s best live rock band is a step ahead of being France’s best rapper. But I have heard a lotta good stuff coming outta

After putting the Fratelli’s on indefinite hiatus, Jon Lawler, in an attempt to bring joy and happiness to the world of music has quit his side band Codeine Dance Club.

1. I’m Forever Chasing Soundtracks – Judy Garland – Sad singer about happy things singing a song of longing. 2. Rush Apart – The Rural Alberta Advantage – Marie Lynn’s Saddle

Wow. How many unsigned bands have Robyn take over as lead singer for a song and Diplo producing the remix? As many as have Sting’s daughter, Coco Sumner, playing for

Long time readers (OK it was October I think) remember how I got the virtual crap beaten out of me for disliking a performance by Haste The Day. My kid

Oli Sykes should be my son in law and if The Magpie didn’t already have a wonderful boyfriend I would absolutely hunt him down. Leader of the Brit (Hollah!)band Bring

I’m pretty sure its safe to say Iman and I are hopelessly addicted to live music. How many times we say to each other ‘omg its been 4 nights since

What amazes me sometime is the vibe of a room and last night was no different. We got to the Minus The Bear show later than usual to find the

1. God And Money – Ike Reilly Assasination 2. The Mingler – Americans In France 3. Alley Boy Speaks – Gucci Mane 4. Unbreakable – Lana Mir 5. Try And

A sort of sad tale – Bob Springer used to play w/Harry Chapin was a friend of my son and taught my son how to play the drums. Bob used

Another week, another buncha concerts!!! And I got two doozy’s next week. Readers may remember Lana Mir, I reviewed her EP of smooth jazz torch songs a month ago and

In honor of Bret, I put on my Poison songs on Shuffle. Here’s the first 20 – some hits, some obscure (but great tunes). Ride The Wind – Perhaps their