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Rally Round y’All Its time again to lend a voice for Shinobi Ninja Why? Cuz I said so, and cuz this is rockNYC and the NYC Afro Punk Festival needs […]

Lydon once told me McLaren sort of killed Sid Vicious. But it was a bit of an over-reaction though the hurt was still fresh at the time. Still the former

On Friday April 23rd I am jetting to Chapel Hill, NC (near Raleigh, geography fans) for day one of the two Odessa Fest. I woulda stayed for both only my

“Again, there’s Lady Gaga — people say we’re similar, that we both mix all these things in the pot and spit them out differently, but she spits it out exactly

So how much long? How much longer will ALyson and I keep on writing Elliott Smith’s death both we run out of leads? Dunno, but it won’t be today. I

Jakob Dylan is fucked. Jakob was handsome enough and talented enough to have made it with the Wallflowers without shit from daddy Zim. Instead he didn’t get shit from daddy

Four years after Sleater-Kinney went swimming with the fishes, guitarist/lead singer is working on a solo album for Kill Rock Stars. October release is the claim. Acoustic, not electic, guitar

1. Ready To Go – Kaiser Cartel 2. I Know You – Bright Eyes 3. I Wanna Be Adored – Lana Mir 4. Telephone – The Morning Papers 5. No Tears

FROM KNEBWORTH 1996 COOL, EH??

Rock NYC. I write, review, interview. Even have a column for reviews in my school newspaper and interviewed my hero. But what was I doing before it? I was a

This is what the late Sex Pistols manager didn’t do: McLaren didn’t invent punk rock. What he did was take the music he heard managing the New York Doll’s and

The rock world is reeling at news of the death of the former Sex Pistols, Bow Wow Wow, New York Dolls manager and agent provocateur. We’ll get to work on

I think Nessing is a Yes fan -he has a bit of that prog wonk in him. Me, I liked the Frampton Comes Alive album well enough. Yes and Pete

Last night Public Image Ltd played the Jimmy Kimmel Show. They performed “Rise” and “This Is Not A Love Song”. And I didn’t see it at all… I’ll go on

One year old. We are still in diapers. Still sucking on a pacifier. Still drinking from a bottle. Still dropping shit on the floor and not picking up after ourselves.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROCK NYC

Just wanted to chime in here to congratulate everybody on one year of awesome hi-jinks.   Not sure when I climbed on board here last year (Iman says: August 19th,

In Honor of the big ONE I present   The Anniversary Playlist Cake- The Distance Cake rules, the band and the food. I hear they get preachy live, but recorded… this

So like what the hell is a blog anyway. A friend of mine had to explain it. I thought it was pretty fucking lame really like an online diary? Dear

Nobody was voted off American Idol…? I don’t really understand this whole judges-choosing-the-person-to-stay thing, but still there are the same amount of contestants. I say that Aaron Kelly should be

Jeff Tweedy is the dick from Wilco who fired his entire band after Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (the only good thing he’s ever done including Uncle Tupelo, whom Old  97’s wipe the

I was saddened when CREEM magazine folded in 1989, not only because it was a truly vital voice in the pop/rock scene, but because the voice of my favorite rock

Lousy haircuts of our times Paul Weller says he “could never” vote Tory

1. Raymond vs Raymond – Usher 2. My World 2.0 – Justin Bieber 3. Now 33 – Various Artists 4. New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ahnk -Erykah badu

There is another reason to hate the rock critic establishment. They ignore last year’s magical Jaggedland by Marshall Crenshaw. What the fuck? Has anybody written more, better songs for as

With a new Doors documentary about to be released, When You’re Strange (narrated by the very weird Johnny Depp), AP writer Natalie Rotman came up with the best Doors statistic

1. Telephone – The Morning Pages 2. I Learned The Hard Way – Sharon Jones And The Dapkings 3. Suicide Machine – Elliott Smith 4. Outside These Walls – Leisure

It was a year ago today I responded to my old friend Robert Nevin’s constant requests that I get back into the world of music writing and started “Singles Going

Here are the numbers, read em and weep Simon:  “Dancing” 23M Idol Tu: 21.8M Idol Wed: 20.5 Surprising stuff though… what if dancing was on two nights a week?

The US Forces are blasting Metallica and Thin Lizzy at the “evil doers” Taliban in Afghanistan who not only hate music but also hate Metallica. If memory serves wasn’t Metallica

A beautiful thing about being human is how music naturally wells up inside us. Rhythm, melody, verse, progression… No matter how many machines we build to develop sound, the basics

Telephone – The Morning Pages – These are the Brooklyn based rockers behind the “My Name Is Lion” song last month and the song is the Lady Gaga one, and

The Rocket Summer will be playing Worcester MA tomorrow April 8 and NYC Friday April 9. Tomorrow night, Mary and I will have the pleasure of speaking with Bryce Avary,

I never read about this, but Cyndi once mentioned to me that her brother is homosexual and I am sure that is one reason she is so generous and caring

Kanye West’s new album, tentatively titled Good Ass Music is to be released this summer. unfortunately, apparently it is a return to Drop out after the breathtaking 808s And Heartaches.

Aug 15 Sun Rihanna Nikon at Jones Beach Theater Goes On Sale: Fri, 04/09/10 Also, first up? Nicki Minaj!!! If it was closer to home I’d go if only for

1.I Learned The Hard Way – Sharon Jones And The Dapkings 2. Better Things – Sharon Jones And the Dapkings 3. Suicide Machine – Elliott Smith 4. A More Perfect

rihanna promises to share her umbrella with jason I’ve ragged on Slate’s Jonah Weiner pretty unmercilessly and, really, if you’re gonna write such puke inducing crap as that Joanna Newsome

The 2010 Lollapalooza line-up is official, here is what we find interesting: Soundgarden Green Day Lady Gaga Arcade Fire The Strokes Phoenix Social Distortion MGMT Jimmy Cliff Hot Chip The Black

Illness forces Whitney Houston to postpone concert Houston’s European tour has indeed been postponed. Soebody better help this woman and fast.

I’m sorry I neglected to pay homage to a spunky old cow yesterday. Wendy O Williams, lead…um… woman of the shock punk band The Plasmatics passed away April 6, 1998 Wendy O

I fucking hate rock critics. I hate their self-satisified fact-checking, kiss ass editing, two articles a monthing, Pcing, lockstep walking, dance hating asses. Fuck em. Fuck em for not getting

UPCOMING GIGS! April 14th :: No Escape From NY w/ Roska, Tomb Crew, Boogaloo Crew @ The Studio, Webster Hall, NYC 18+ April 15 :: Trouble & Bass DC @

American Idol this week was …breathtaking. Highlight of the show? Crystal Bowersox’s “Come Together”. Her performance kept me replaying it in my head. Flawless, I couldn’t believe that the judges

“Beat Goes On Medley” by Madonna is destroying my life. Off the new Sticky And Sweet Tour 2008 live album and I was trying to figure out what to test

Gang of Four are giving away vials of their own blood with their latest release. Er, isn’t it a little soon for senility to have set in? If you get

“For the next 52 days don’t just listen to Gang Of Four’s new album – Be part of its launch Start Time: Friday, April 2, 2010 at 4:50pm End Time:

free Young Veins Download of ‘Change’ totally sounds like first lp Raconteurs… luuuuuv it.. http://theyoungveins.com/