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I know the times they are a changing but this one show caught my eye… despite it, you know, kinda making sense… Hot 97’s Summer Jam was my begining of […]

Renee is in a car accident, paralyzed and singing Dylan songs while waiting to uplift us all. That’s the story of  “My Own Love Song” and having watched the previews

Hole, Nobody’s Daughter: For girls who came of age in the mid-1990s, streaked their hair with Manic Panic, accessorized baby-doll dresses with combat boots and thrift-store cardigans, and crammed dog-eared

Since i hate Gorillaz so bad why am I posting about their opening night of the tour yesterday? Glad you asked. 1. It is 330p, I am up to my

Hey What are you Doing tonight? It’s an amazingly beautiful day in the North East and the start of the weekend. I know my darling Iman is off to see

1. Nothing On You (feat. Bruno Mars) – B.o.B 2. Rude Boy – Rihanna 3. Break Your Heart – Taoi Cruz 4. Need You Now – Lady Antebellum 5. Hey,

There is a cycle to a rock bands life: release the album, do press, tour, take a break, write songs, record songs, repeat. And the press portion has a life

Lady Gaga is a problem of America’s associative identity. She isn’t just silly or flamboyant. She, with every action, shows more strongly how much a problem we have with ourselves.

Back at work from a week travelling and changing apartments, I had an email from former For Science, current Modern Hut, songwriter Joe Steinhardt. Joe knows what a fan I

Speaking of Bono (the previous post folks), I had a dream about Bono last night… no, honestly. I dreamt I was with a friend of mine and my friend was

LCD Soundsystem will break up after a tour in support of their May 10th release This Is Happening because leader James Murphy doesn’t want to remain n the spotlight. Rock

Michael Jackson Having Gay Romance Justin Timberlake To Bring Fox’s Sexyback Rihanna Cruzing With Taio Christina Aguilera Will Always Be Hot  Badu Pleads Not Guilty To Disorderly Conduct Paul Weller

What would Greed (er, that’s Green but same concept)  Day be without the Ramones? Same as most US punk rock bands, covering Journey. Helen is close friends (er, as in

An absolutely beautiful find “Delirious Nights”, from the Disintegration series is leaked, or should I say available, here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3r5Q7i2v5A Guys this is from 1988, yet so freakin timely even now!

rock nyc writers gather round the radio for a singsong You cats miss the drama behind the blogging. To you its just bad grammar and cussin’ but to us writers

Sometimes, you really need some help to understand lyrics. Some songwriters write great songs, but frankly without a little research and a few words from the creator, I would never

Holy Bedazzles I got the story of the day in rock history this time!! In 1992 Madonnas bustier was stolen from Fredrick’s of Hollywood in LA during the rioting and

If you’re planning a trip to Washington DC there is a potentially amazing exhibit being put together at the Smithsonian “Up Where We Belong: Native Musicians in Popular Culture,” opens

1. Me Entere – Daddy Yankee 2. Tell ‘Em – Sleigh Bells 3. No Surprises 4. Blah Blah Blah (feat DJ Skeet Skeet) – Ke$ha 5. Lil Freak (feat Nicki

Sure, I’m an anti-social sociopath and would have vastly preferred Relapse Part II but if anybody can get away with a truly awful chorus like “Not Afraid”, it is Eminem.

Why do members of popular rock bands splinter off into side projects and dilute the product? Dunno, but lead singer Brandon Flowers of  the Killers is recording a solo album

Owl City! Owl City…? Ugh. I once spent the longest twenty minutes of my life watching the boring bloke play a long set off a short pier. So when the

Track #4, A Brand New Heartache is about a new kid that moved into town and stole the singer’s girl. Another Bryant/Bryant tune, with beautiful guitar strumming, particularly on the

Some days a coupla songs will take over your music collection… Alley Boy – Gucci Mane – The take on the newbie, some recorded before Gucci went to jail and

OF THEE (QUASI ) I SING So — at the Black Cat in DC, 14th Street corridor, last Saturday night — me. NEVER HAVING heard QUASI live before in my

Great moments in rock and roll interviewing? I tell Americans In France lead singer Josh Lajoie he sounds like Richard Hell and he jumps up and sings a couple of

In the annals of lost rock and roll movies, the greatest of all was the Joe Orton scripted Beatles movie Up Against It and the second greatest? Roger Ebert scripted,

1. The Power Of Madonna – Glee 2.Need You Now – Lady Antebellum 3. My World 2.0 – Justin Bieber 4. Iron Man 2 – AC/DC 5. Raymond Vs Raymond

The last day of my summer vacation and all I’ve done is write!!! So if you think being a music blogger is emails from rock stars and my name is

Nager has just got out of jail and wants to leave Iran in the worst way in the movie “No One Know’s About Persian Cats”. And Half an hour into

Oh dear. Rock NYC was here first but everybody seems to agree Hole were not very good at Terminal 5. Jon Parales in the New York Times wrote: “She spent

Word from Camp Poison is that while as the doctors still haven’t figured out what happened to Michaels , he is recuperating and hopes to be on tour by… May…

Since Trent is Nine Inch Nails and Nine Inch Nails is Trent, wuite why he couldn’t simply call his upcoming collaboration with his wife Mariqueen Maandig, in a band called

Via Contactmusic via Top Of The Pops Magazine, Taylor Swift is fine without a boyfriend: “There’s a lot to distract me from dating. I don’t really sit around and wallow

In an interview I conducted last week I got onto the subject of fans projecting their feelings onto the writers songs. I’ve long lived by the adage that rock music

So American Idol was absolutely surprising. When they dressed as vampires(cliche) and sang “Believe” by The Bravery, it was actually good. Rascal Flatts’ performance was not so good. If I

1. Tell Em – Sleigh Bells 2. Magic (feat. rivers Cuomo) – B.o.B. 3. Shit Horse (Is Gonna Ride) – Shit Horse 4.Blah Blah Blah (DJ Skeet Skeet) – ke$ha

Hmmm… tailor made for the production qualities of the daytrotter boys, the songs off the new JD album are alright with being in anysense revelatory… and you would think they

I am back to work Friday but as long as I am in the here and now here and now i figured I’d give Stereogum a visit and sometimes they

EXCITING NEWS… HELEN BACH IS INVITING EVERYBODY TO SEE HER FAVORITE SHOW LIVE ON STAGE!!! Yup, Aaron Kelly, Andrew Garcia, Casey James, Crystal Bowersox, Didi Benami, Katie Stevens, Lee DeWyze,

Paul Weller (speaking to Q, stolen fron Canoe) on Sting and Bono: “”I don’t like them because their music is rubbish. I don’t like how conceited they are and how

The second song on the first album  “Maybe Tomorrow” , is a haunting ballad that aches with teenage frustration. Those lonesome lamenting harmonies sung in thirds yielding two distinct melodies

Here’s something you’ve never read before. I will explain at the end of the paragraph. I am getting a lift back from the concert where he was the opening act

Here is a medical update off Bret Michaels Facebook. “Test results indicate a setback in Bret Michaels condition a side effect from the brain hemorrhage called hyponatremia a lack of

So I kept my promise to myself yesterday and went straight out to get the eponymous debut LP from Phil and Don, released in 1958. The opening cut “This Little

On a par with the great DJ Shadow, LA’s Flying Lotus is a king of sampling for ambient or at least moodscapes. Rock NYC’s Remy Caplan introduced me to him

I never much cared for Gavin Rossdale but Courtney claiming she had an affair with him after he was married to Gwen Stefani on the entirely irrelevant Howard Stern Satellite

Finance the recording sessions, name the album, meet and greet, publicize the album, be a part of the exciting world of pop music and get bearly a damn thing in