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Standing around the watercooler yesterday discussing the CMA’s Lisa Fay, Crystal Kyler and I agreed upon these salient facts. 1. Lady Antebellum are Lisa and my band because we saw […]

1. Mansions Of Los Feliz – Eels 2. How A Resurrection Really Works – The Hold Steady 3. Antisocial (feat. Myah) – Gucci Mane 4.Massive Nights – The Hold Steady

Promoting her best album in a decade and as name checkable and just plain popular as she has ever been, Erykah badu is out on tour this Spring, and hey,

Fun Times for us Minus the Bear Fans Omni, the follow-up to 2007’s Planet of Ice, is set for release May 4 on Dangerbird Records. Streaming the first single “My

Los Campesinos!’s song “You’ll Need Those Fingers For Crossing” from their album We are Beautiful, We Are Doomed released in 2008 is an impetuous song that shakes you up till

I really like Silversun Pickups. For the longest time I thought the lead singer was a chick and felt pretty hip to be digging a femme singer … that was

Fool me once shame on you, shame me three times and you’re listening to the soundtrack to the third Twilight Saga movie Eclipse, out June 8th. Me, the great prognosticator,

Hey remember Creed used to be that Christian holier than though band til the lead singer got busted with drugs or cheating on his wife or some other oh so

When it comes to morals and music I am a complete agnostic. Last year I reviewed music by a racist hardcore label (stuff like “17 N—– Heads in My Refrigerator”)

“Antisocial (feat. Mylah)” by Gucci Mane is, in a simple word, horrific. I’ve never been a fan of plain rap or hip hop. Number one, it all sounds the same.

You Say Party! We Say Die! What a horrible band name to have such a horrific loss Drummer Devon Clifford collapsed mid show in Vancouver BC Friday night. Rushed to

So 3oh!3 unveils the cover art for the upcoming release Streets of Gold, after the mysterious ‘leak; of the first single then days later the ‘official release’ of the video.

I have heard two songs off Hole’s upcoming album Nobody’s Daughter album, “Skinny Little Bitch” and “Samantha” and just how anybody could take this yelping bitch in heat vocals on

The Hold Steady @ Bowery Ballroom on 4/17/10 set list courtesy Brooklynvegan: Positive Jam Same Kooks Hurricane J Cattle and the Creeping Things Magazines You Can Make Him Like You

Although I trashed the new Blur song “Fool’s Day” on this very blog the other day, the price for calling me a deaf twat is irresistable. Dowload it for free

Grace Jones said to the Guardian: “Well, you know, I’ve seen some things she’s worn that I’ve worn, and that does kind of piss me off. “Yes,Lady Gaga did (ask

I was sitting behind this guy at a Springsteen concert in Giant Stadium once and man was he stoked. Though way up in the cheap seats, he was surrounding by

Wow, those opera buffs are nasty bastards!!! The great Spanish Tenor, Placido Domingo, made his grand return to the stage after having cancer surgery on Friday. Performing at the cathedral

Madonna: ‘My Glee Episode Is Genius’ A real shocker their, Madge. Nothing like joining the zeitgeist a year late.

Absolute Classic Rock -the UK radio stations, have released their listeners fave UK singles of all time. They are wrong, of course, the greatest UK single of all time is

The Country Music Association sent Taylor Swift a message at their annual awards yesterday and the message was this: you can be pop just not that pop. Taylor Swift eas

It is not very often that songwriters release two albums 6 months apart, but Mark Oliver Everett (the Eels) managed to release Hombre Lobo on June 2, 2009 and End

1. Antisocial (fear Myah) – Gucci Mane – A Motown move with a hip hop production. 2. Massive Nights – The Hold Steady – Took the show for me to

Chesney Henry…Chet… Baker, the “voiceless epiglottal fricative” (H) poster boy of “west coast” jazz. Horn. Heroin. A halftone, tarnished silver stained angle of a man (thanks to Bill Claxton’s iconic

1. THE DEFAMATION OF STRICKLAND BANKS – PLAN B 2 – EVERYBODY WANTS TO BE ON TV – SCOUTING FOR GIRLS 3.THE FAME – LADY 4.  CONGRATULATIONS – MGMT 5.

1. OMG – USHER FT WILL I AM 2 . THIS AIN’T A LOVE SONG – SCOUTING FOR GIRLS 3. I NEED YOU TONIGHT- PROFESSOR GREEN FT ED DREWETT 4.

1. Gucci On The Rise – Gucci Mane 2. Massive Nights – The Hold Steady 3. Antisocial (feat Mylan) – Gucci Mane 4. Stop Rip And Roll -J Roddy Watson

Just two days after commenting that a nude Ricky Martin actually resembles Shakira, news released by Billboard.com that Shakira and African band Freshlyground will be be recording the anthem for

So last week we covered Brian Setzer, and Eddie Cochran and Gene Vincent. .and horror core… which (follow me now) landed me smack dab into The Cramps. Psychobilly? Hmm not

I just weakened and picked up the new Gucci Mane mix The Burrrrprint 2: HD only to realize every single best song in the world on it featured Memphis producer Drumma Boy.

Courtney Love’s Music Therapy Just How Russian Was Stravinsky? There’s a Theorbo in the Rock Bin From Natalie Merchant, a Literary Tour Europe’s Cloud of Ash Casts Pall Over World

It’s Sunday morning, I just spent an hour and  a half writing a Hold Steady live post, I’m wondering if I have the words left to nail a Ke$ha on SNL review, and it

Here is the Soundgarden opening day setlist taken off http://www.earcandybeat.com/ . The review by Travis Hay is really good and worth listening. Here is what they played… and while I

The BurrrPrint 2 HD – Gucci Mane and DJ Holida Jason Castro – Jason Castro Year Of The Black Rainbow – Coheed And Cambria Congratulations – MGMT Comment: Readers will

At the Bowery Ballroom last night star turner Craig Finn and opening leader J Ray Watson got on stage and sold you their songs and if you didn’t like it,

The Dear Hunter have announced a limited edition lifetime fan club package which will guarantee entry into any Dear Hunter show in the world. Along with the laminated “Dear Hunter

1. I Changed Address – The Jam 2. The Factory – Warren Zevon 3. I Know You – Bright Eyes 4. Homosapiens – Pete Shelley 5. Girls Like Status –

I was writing about great songwriters the other day and here are two of the very best. Hip hop up and comer Kid Cudi and pop queen Taylor Swift would

Blink 182 senior frat boy Mark Hoppus is joining forces and sucking the youth out of All Time Low for a new side project. Now before you start whimpering like

When he is not busy destroying his son’s life by spoiling him into a rotten savage refuge from a William Golding novel (not even  “Lord Of The Flies” -“The Innocents”)

In the early eighties King Sunny Ade -a player of the Nigerian Juju Music, heavier and more intricate drumming than African World music as we were used to it, was

An exercise in real  time as Albarn writes about his first day of April where he ends up recording “Fool’s Day”  with the rest of Blu at the end and released

VH1 Classic can be amusing sometime. Today Ive seen Bryan Adams and Loverboy. Pretty funny stuff but I also learned something else (aside from the fucked up non stop animal

Over dinner with my nephew Samer Diab the other night Samer noted that I was probably wrong in saying Ipod were jacking prices due to deaths in the musical world. Samer

If a great artist is gonna die of terminal cancer, let it be a Dennis Potter… or a Warren Zevon. The great English Telewriite Potter turned his brain into a

Ricky Martin is out and in his new video for the upcoming coming tour he looks great. Take a peek!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcLKqvr_K74

Tipping my hat to the fathers of rock and roll we pause to remember this days tragedy, In 1960 a car carrying Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochran blows a tire

1. Chambonea – Omega 2. I’ve Change My Address (Live At The BBC) – The Jam 3. I Know You – Bright Eyes 4. I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone