rock nyc

If I had any bucks I’d seriously consider this one: Squeeze and Cheap Trick -wooo hooo!! They are playing Radio City Music Hall on July 13th (a Tuesday, pop pickers). […]

I saw Teddy Reilly with Blackstreet in 1997 between Dru Hill and the New Edition (the reunion tour with Bobby Brown) at MSG and I was impressed indeed but hardly

I remember getting a Toots greatest hits twenty years ago but these reggae giants just keep going and this spiritual off their new album Flip And Twist that the first

So Ive seen Hot Hot Heat live, with We Are Scientists. It was a few years ago and I was outside the club smoking (yup I was and almost got

American Idol’s “Idol Gives Back” is a great cause with a great purpose, but the show was depressing. A few parts were even graphic.  Looking forward to the more positive

My girl Amanda Blank is earning a buck for the boobs. Gotta love the girl, she will be headlining at Brooklyns Bell House for the “Keep A Breast Foundation’ fundraiser

Does this woman have no decency? Courtney Love doesn’t want to answer questions about Kurt Cobain any more. Are you kidding me? Can you imagine Yoko Ono saying that about

Conan O’Brien’s  tour stopped in Seattle on Monday, just in time for his 47th birthday. Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam serenaded the man with a Lennon cover. The song, a

Eugene Hütz, the front man of the gypsy-punk band Gogol Bordello, is a great entertainer but not the superficial kind, a true one with passionate and profane songs that leave

Five years before I started rock nyc, and about a year before my disastrous krakerjaxx, I tried to launch a knock off of metacritic only putting together all the theatre

1.Little Wolf – Americans In France 2. Plundered My Soul – The Rolling Stones 3. Time – Modern Hut 4. Holy Hell – Nouns 5. If You’re On The Mend,

So what is Jerry Dammers up to? Recent blog posts here documenting The Specials recent reunion tour without their main songwriter and resident genius got me wondering. Turns out Dammers

So who do I hate? Shall I hate Fall Out Boy or Artist Arena? As we all know Pete Wentz is saving water, Patrick is off solo, Joe is on

The Black Crowes will be releasing a double album of all acoustic material on 8/3/10. The album will be called “Croweology”. Definitely going to pick this one up. It is

Grab your can of Deet, your flannel plaid and for the love of all that’s good don’t forget your beard for its time for the 6th Annual Mountain Jam. 3

1. My World 2.0 – Justin Bieber 2. Congratulations -MGMT 3. Need You Now – Lady Antebellum 4. Raymond Vs Raymond – Usher 5. Year Of The Black Rainbow –

Im not sure everyone would call it “cool” but The Cool Tour is official. As I Lay Dying, Underoath, Bless The Fall, Acacia Strain, Cancer Bats and War of Ages

Gizmodo, the high tech blog arm of Gawker.com, bought the missing “next generation” Iphone  4.0G protype left in a bar for 5K.  Got to posts about it, plus a post about returning

Happy Belated Birthday to Mr Raw Power Iggy Pop. I missed it yesterday but really now- big deal right? Iggy is a pretty interesting boy A staple in the whole

Evelyn Evelyn is touring doing 5 days at the Lucille Lortell theater in NY June 8-13), and a 1 night stay in Boston at the House of Blues. What is

What It Feels Like For A Girl – Glee Cast – For all my problems with Glee, and I do have plenty of em, occasionally they will get it right

Let’s see if I can explain this one. In 1997 Biggie was shot to death. The name on the tip of everybody’s tongue was Suge Knight getting revenge for 2Pac.

And speaking of divas -is this the most unrock thing you’ve ever heard of? Metallica drummer has assistants choose his shoe lace colors and PUT ON HIS SOCKS FOR HIM.

Adan Ant is releasing his first album in fifteen somewhat adventurous years!!! Apparently some members of Oasis (the second tier ones) are playing on it and there is a tribute

On his current tour Rufus has requested people don’t clap during the first half of the set. It says this on the website per contactmusic.com: “The first part of the

New York Daily News Joe Dziemianowicz got closer to the truth about American Idiot on Broadway  though his three star review was still an overestimate Here is what he wrote: “But,

A ridiculous rave for American Idiot in the New York times begging the question where is Ben Brantley when you need him. Here is Charles Isherwood’s first paragaph: “Rage and

We’ve argued the question of finite talent over and over again and when it comes to big starts. Guys like the Stones who haven’t written a dedcent song in decades,

On Sale Now 5/27 – DYLAN FEST 2010 – A NIGHT TO GET DRUNK AND CELEBRATE THE SONGS OF BOB DYLAN – The Bowery Ballroom On Sale Wednesday, April 21

Travis Barker, the bad ass Blink 182, Sum 41, plane crash surviving maniac is releasing a solo album. Quoting the tattooed love boy “There’s some stuff on my record that’s

Cirque de Soleil and Michael Jackson’s estate have reached a far reaching agreement to terify kids for years to come by putting men in skin tight speedos on trapezes while

This week on American Idol, they had to choose “inspirational songs”. The judges couldn’t have said it any better– you need to be great, not just good. Casey was only

1. Plundered My Soul – The Rolling Stones 2. Bet I (feat T.I. and Playboy Tre) – B.o.B. 3. Paris – Kate Nash 4. How A Resurrection Really Feels –

Well, now, this really sucks. At least till Eminem carries this highly emotional clap trap through to its ntural conclusion a million miles from Hayley’s bathed in pathos singing such

Apparently no longer to “Hard To Handle”, now yessir am.. the Black Crowes have finally called it quits.. well sorta Before embarking on an indefinite but “lengthy” hiatus, the blues-rock

Happy Birthday Robert Smith! Born in 1957 this original emo taught us that “Boys Don’t Cry” and that its a wonderful sight to see someone eat in the middle of

In yesterday’s New York Post, brain addled rock journalist Dan Aquilante gave Rufus Wainwright’s new album a one star review. I’ve heard three songs and All Days Are Nights: Songs

All the news that fits to pay for at Rolling Stone. Since they’ve gone pay to play they’ve stopped making much of anything available to we cheap bastards who feel

A friend of mine called me yesterday after spending a long weekend clubbing it in Atlantic City and she tells me that the one song that had everybody rushing to

This song completely passed me by until I heard em play it live and it is one of their great ones. Not the horns, not the “Walk on by” back

What do the musicians have in common?They are all opening for Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers in 2010

Coldplay put the names of the 50 songs they have in various stages of recording on cards and according to a roadie: “The cards are first arranged on the wall

Ruugh Trade is quoted as saying: “Record Store Day was a total success. Some of the stores are already telling me that they doubled last year’s total. Some stores say

Know Your Enemy – American Idiot Cast The Dream – Rufus Wainwright Nobody’s Fault But Mine – Willie Nelson Plundered My Soul – Rolling Stone Bet I (feat T.I.)  –

Music on the idiot box Tuesday, April 20 B.o.B. w/Bruno Mars – “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” Smashing Pumpkins – “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” Devo – “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”

I can be shallow if I want too and I am. Ive earned the right in my rants to be shallow now and then so here goes. Tonight stretched out