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I swear to God I didnt know.. I swear… HAPPY BIRTHDAY PETE SHELLEY! Born in 1955 this sexy freakin beast who had every damn right to be an “Orgasm Addict” […]

Hey, Iman and Alyson: GO GO GO! Wave those red flags and charge the LAPD fort! I just wanted to cheer you on. The truth is a lonely place. Years

Congratulations to rocknyc’s very own Mary Magpie for her dual roles in the Hartford Children’s Theater collaboration of The Hobbit. Aside from being an ace writer, bassist, pianist, Mary has

Jonah Weiner’s review of Insane Clown Posse’s new song “Miracles” is real good though the song is a a piece of crap. It seems the guy sucks only half the

Amy Winehouse seen visiting Mark Ronson at the Mayfair Hotel in London with a fistful of lyrics, and ninety minutes later coming back out after working on new material. I

Talking to MTV about Nicki Minaj dropping out of the tour: “I hadn’t heard that. Is that true? Oh, that’s a bummer.I have no idea why and I hadn’t even

Jay Z openin up a can of legal whoop ass on Big Papi. Seems Z is concerned that our beloved Red Sox slugger stole the name 40/40 Club, which is

Helen toldja Billy Idol was playing in Boston and New York this September. Now Rock NYC can EXCLUSIVELY (and by exclusively we mean everybody else had the story yesterday) reveal where

Omega is a merengue singer working in the  Reggaeton form. He’s from the Domincan Republic and hasn’t made it State Side though he is friend swith folks Pitbull and his DR

Most music fans know about the summer of love. 1967 was the year the rest of the world caught up with what was going on in California and elsewhere up

Forty three years at your fingertips? Oh brave new world.. I don’t believe there is a music blogger in the world who isn’t gonna do this: pony the $3.95 a

Bang Shang A Lang. That was the sound of the eruption of a 200 years dormant volcano in iceland nd does have one good thing going for it. It’ll settback global

Weller says he didn’t want US scuccess enough… yeah, repeat no. Weller said to Spin Magazine: “I’ve been waiting 30 years (to have a U.S. hit). When I first went

1. Goin’ Against Your Mind – Built to Spill ): Guitars, guitars, and drums and more guitars for more than 8 minutes, epic! 2. Yoshimi pt1 –  The Flaming Lips

That’s some day you got there, folks. In Chapel Hill it’s the second day of Odessa Records Fest. That means: Americans In France and Kingsbury Manx. At Maxwell’s in Hoboken,

We write about how we want to rule the world, Tears for Fears announces a tour. So fresh that the venues are still tbd accept for Boston, which will be

INDEPENDENT RECORD STORES WILL DIE WITHOUT A NEW PLAN OF ATTACK. You can have all the indie record stores in the world -you can have decades of em. As long

Gretchen Wilson mortgaged her ranch to record her new album (Freedy’s: “I sold the dirt for a song” one more time) I Got Your Country Right Here and the one song

Here’s the answer folks: Fuck A Mix Tape with DJ Drama and DJ MLK and a new album King Uncaged dropping August 24th. Should be, eh, dope…

The Coachella Festival which runs Friday to Sunday only sold three day passes and no single day passes this year. How nice, in the middle of a recession, they made

1. Somebody That I Used To Know – Elliott Smith 2. Knocking On Heaven’s Door – Warren Zevon 3. Better Things – Sharon Jones And The Dapkings 4. Richard II

Its time again for the annual “Idol Gives Back’ show. As far as I can tell the only thing they should be giving back is the brain cells that have

I love nothing more than good music writing and with that in mind I offer up the first line of Clayton Purdoms review of Freeway and Jake One’s The Stimulas

The Hold Steady ‘s Craig Finn has such a bellow horn of a voice everything he sings sounds like him. And he sounds like Hold Steady. Years, including the recent

“I spent all day yesterday with different mechanics working on my trailer. My hands were black and then I ended the long day with a rock show. I feel like

1. Slash: Slash 2. Justin Bieber: My World 2.0 3. Madonna: Sticky & Sweet 4. Lady Antebellum: Need You… 5. Lady Gaga: The Fame Comment: I blame Universal healthcare…

According To Brooklynvegan, The Specials will be playing Summerstage, Sunday August 22nd… Even without Jerry Dammers, free is a tempting price…

Bostons House of Blues is by far my favorite venue. This, my second trip, sealed the deal. An awesome clean club with some fantastic staff. Clear paths, great line of

After tweeting yesterday that he had scrapped Relapse Part II, Eminem announced today he is releasing a new album June 19th called Recovery. Dunno about that, those recovery albums tend

I sometimes wonder why sad music can also be so comforting. May be because it tells you are not alone to suffer in this world, may be because it shows you

Its 12:40 in the morning and I just got in. I have 10 thousand things I need to do then I have 15 min to sleep and start a new

If you thought “Northern Soul” DJing was a figment of Nick Hornsby’s imagination, or a UK scene so far gone it was the progenitor for MOD IN THE UK, you’re

1 Drunken Girls – LCD Soundsystem 2. Congratulations – MGMT 3. Girls Like Status – The Hold Steady 4. Blue Skies – Blue october 5. Sleepy Nights (Forever) – Let

First the broke ass Chamber Of Commerce in Long Island won’t open the Jone’s Beach pool this year and now the Nikon have come up with one of the LAMEST

Havent done a TV party in awhile here ya go Thursday Joan Jett & The Blackhearts – “Late Show with David Letterman” – rerun Spoon – “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Sade

Boredom, tedium, nothingness: the void that is our lives or, if you prefer, Rolling Stones 40 Reasons To Be Excited About Music -giving hope to highs chool seniors everywhere that

This is the the annual summer concert series Toyota presents. Some pretty snazzy nmes here. But the three Iwanna see (Carole King, Gaga and Baby Gaga) I already have tix

Justin Bieber Doesn’t ‘Limit’ Himself When It Comes To Love As long as she is soft and uses lots of handcream…

Eminem twittered that he will not being releasing the eagerly awaited follow up to Relapse”. “There is no Relapse 2.” I believe I was the only person in the world to

Welcome 1980’s summer! Cheap Trick co headlines with Squeeze at NYC’s Radio City Music Hall July 13, but there’s a second leg of tour that has Cheap Trick co-headling with

When Rock NYC rules the world, concert going will be obligatory (kinda like Healthcare) and unless you go to a concert a week every week the IRS will come after

PiL played their first US gig a coupla days ago and here’s the set list. Not enough Second Edition for me, but otherwise it seems OK. It’ll be cool to

Here is the track list: 1. Just Dance – Richard Vission Remix 2. Pokerface – LLG vs GLG Radio Mix Remix 3. Love Game – Chew Fu Remix ft. Marilyn

We took the pic off Brooklynvegan Opening night for the Coco tour, Spoon played and Conan covered “I Will Survive”. Kinda hard to feel bad for him, right?

Happy Birthday Dave Edmunds Part of the Nick Lowe, Elvis Costello trillogy. From 1970’s “I Hear You Knocking” to 1979’s “Girls Talk”, Edmunds had some nift career. Wearing many hats

Rufus claimed 50 Cents is gay to Details magazine. Rufus said: “”I love, love 50 Cent. I think he’s just the sexiest (guy), and a brilliant writer. And I know

Levon – Jon Bon Jovi. This classic Elton John classic is one of my all time favs, and JBJ does an outstanding job. This song was recorded when he went