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A really nice Ray Davies pic… Maybe kindakinks.net can link it and we can get another thousand hits?

The godawful Gorillaz set to be be the number album of the week this Sunday in the UK

Farber posted his review in the daily News early this morning. Hours after I’d bought the sucker.:”So who should buy “Valleys”? Completists, obviously, and young’uns new to the fire in

1) I know the new album will be terrible 2) I’m guessing the show will be a train wreck 3) I hate terminal 5 4) So why did I just

So in my never ending pursuit to find music that doesn’t suck I embarked upon a journey to discover with ‘dubcore’ was. I like hardcore, I like dub…….gotta be a

October – Broken Bells – This band will not change your life. What happened to James Mercer? This bloke wrote some of the best songs of the past decade and

Broken Bells are at Brooklyn’s Music Hall tonight (shouldn’t they be at the Bell House). It would be sold out but if you are made of money and have no

OK Go have been OK Let Go by Capitol Records after Capitol Records (insanely) wouldn’t let youtube stream their video thereby singlehandedly killing the goose, etc. OK Go are overjoyed

I have been waiting all year for the follow-up to last years “Clear The Tear” by the great Portishead only to read that they are collobarting with Goldfrapp. Goldfrapp sux. WTF???

“God bless the working man…” I don’t work with my hands but I sure do work hard, what between one thing and another it never bloody ends. Plus, I’ve always

DMX has been arrested on 5 counts of probationviolation according to contactmusic.com. Readers of Rock NYC are probably aware I have been shouting out DMX’s new single “Put Em Up”

1 Almost Alice (Music Inspired By the M… 2 Smoke & Mirrors (Deluxe Version), Lif… 3 My Best Days, Danny Gokey 4 Jason Derülo, Jason Derülo 5 Need You Now,

The Monitor reminds me of Exile On Main Street and not just because I love both albums but always because both are concept albums where you hafta meet them half

1. The Battle Of Hampton Roads – Titus Andronicus 2. Under The Sheets – Ellie Goulding 3. Big Girls Don’t Cry – Fergie 4. Sorry Only Counts The First Time

IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry) chief executive John Kennedy states bands without record labels are: ‘Screaming into space” In a report, it said virtually no new artist had

Learning to just ignore the judges, I watched the singers and pretended there was no judges. Siobhan and Crystal were great and incredible and the most talented ones on the

Births: 1963 Jeff Ament (Pearl Jam) 1964 Neneh Cherry (Buffalo Stance) Deaths: 1988 Andy Gibb (Singer and younger brother of the Bee Gees) 1966 Beatles’ last EP hit, Yesterday, hits

Smile A Little Smile For Me – The Flying Machine- Another one hit wonder, this one has that wistful summer day quality that takes you back in time. Smiley –

Tom Morello, who scored part of Iron Man 1, will be back to score Iron Man 2 according to a recent twitter: “Is that really me in Iron Man? Of

PSYCH! Ok we mentioned a few weeks back Sting would be touring with the Royal Philharmonic.billed as “An Evening With Sting featuring The Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra Conducted By Steven

Debbie Harrys current favorite band is givin it away now.. I seem to have become the town crier of free downloads lately, but MGMT has leaked “Flash Delirium” from the

Pink Floyd has waged a war against EMI for royalties. Seems they’re not really happy with the unbundled purchase or individual track buying from their albums. Robert Howe, the attorney

If they had turned down the rhetoric a little, stopped promising, a new, unreleased, Henrix album, and then handed me “Fire” for the 50,000 time, I might be feeling a

Setlist: [Total Time 1:31:11] 01 [introduction] 02 A Pot In Which To Piss 03 Upon Viewing Bruegel’s “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus” 04 A More Perfect Union 05 Joset

Stolen off Spin Magazine (Brett Jensen WILL NOT BE HAPPY), the original other other Runaway Cherie Curry circa yesterday….

Along with an upcoming solo album, Debbie Harry has designed a Converse Sneaker… But really, it’s just another excuse to print a pic of the Debbie in her heyday…

1. Six hours was too long to wait for Titus Andronicus to get on stage. Marie Lynn, who was in the orchestra said the audience were young, sloppy, and drunk

“Till I Hear You Sing” -the presumed hit song from Love Never Dies,  the sequel to Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom Of The Paradise makes “Music Of The Night” sound

Laura Marling was eighteen when Charlie Fink of Noah And The Whales wrote his heartbroken album The First Days Of Spring and she wasn’t too amused about the press’ intrusion

In July Spin will be presenting a 25 hour mmarathon of the best groups they’ve covered over the past 25 years. My bet? Hole for one, maybe Beastie Boys if

1. Time – Modern Hut 2. The Battle Of Hampton Roads – Titus Andronicus 3. Lil Freak – Usher 4. Sunshine Of My Love – Jimi Hendrix 5. Sorry Only

TV PartyTonight! Heres whos cool on the tube this week: Tuesday, March 09 Broken Bells – “Late Show with David Letterman” Joan Jett & The Blackhearts – “The Tonight Show

You Don’t Love God (If You Don’t Love Your Neighbour) – Carl Story – I love the way the chick sings “if you don’t love the neighbour”. Patrick heard it

Simon and Garfunkel are touring. But coming nowhere near us as of now. Spending most time in Canada the duo is really focusing on the Great White North: Vancouver’s General

1957 Calypso makes its first mark on UK chart with entry of Banana Boat Song by Terriers. (hell yeah) 1958 Celebrates the birth of Martin Fry (ABC) Mr. Look of

We missed it yesterday so lets do it today Happy rocknyc Birthday to Micky Dolenz, former (or is he still hangin on) Monkee. Not the cute one (that was Davy)

Rogue Wave- Permalight Zach Rogue (the former Zach Schwartz) has the most unique accent I have ever heard. Clearly evident in every song as the enunciation is so adorable. But

So excited to announce that Bullet for My Valentine are touring! You either hate or love this Welsh metal band, me I love them Their fans, though rough, are so

For possession. Only eight months kid -good luck.

The new Radiohead album is NOT called ‘Tehrangeles’. Though it prolly should be because it’s a great name. Apparently somebody sent out a fake email that seemed to come from

At the Guggenheim!!!! Wow -high culture!!!!!

Happy Birthday to Gary Numan, who took solace in his car and made many a girls heart flutter.  He took alot of heat from the press claiming he was trying

I love Robert Smith. The original emo boy so fucking gorgeous and so easily forgotten. So here I am working like a good corporate girl when ‘Close to Me’ comes

I knew Lady Gaga was from another planet, but who knew the planet was Pandora??? Joe Mullins, an artist who makes his life drawing missing children how they might look a number

The great Babyface Edmonds, an R&B legend, is playing BB Kings in August. About as close to a must see as you can get though I said the same about

Illegally chain smoking on stage at a manchester concert last night, Lily Allen offered: “I’ve got a bout of bronchitis so sorry if my singing’s a bit shitty. Not that

Here’s a game we haven’t played before… New York Times Music Headlines!!! What does it mean… for one thing it means I’m about to be down $100 buying a tix

“The Beatles were laughed at in America, they sounded nothing like Elvis or the Four Seasons. Then, suddenly, seemingly overnight, people threw off their mental constructs and embraced the four

Our( unpayed for, unrequested, she sure don’t require us  and completely irritating to Helen Bach) model Becka Diamond, at home. It’s nearly Spring and I am almost in a good

you don’t hurt a thing when you wear fake fur From the UK Sunday Times: “So many people say, ‘So, what, are you a party girl?’ And I say, ‘I’m