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I have decided to go back and find some defining musical moments of my life. Self Indulgent? Yes, but I have been to some really crappy shows lately and well […]

The song “Deadly Weapons” by Eyes Set To Kill ft. Craig Mabbitt is …unusual. I absolutely hate girl singers, but this song I don’t mind. The screaming and Craig Mabbitt’s

Sweet mother of has beens its Pat Benetar and REO Speedwagon heading out together this summer on the ‘ Love on The Run” tour Pat Benetar that spunky little vixen

Saw this pic on Brooklynvegan and thought dawes looked like a young Springsteen and bought a coupla songs and thought they sounded like a young CSN&Y without the harmonies. Oh,

this to my list of why women rockers I can tolerate is so low. Flipping through a magazine today I stumble across and add for Daisyrock.com what the hell is

We got a very nice comment from former Astro Puppies, current solo artist Kelley Ryan after I reviewed “About A Girl” and Nessing reviewed her new album Twist. I am

According to the New York Daily News, er no actually, the David Carly SImon mentions on the re-recording of “You’re So Vain” probably isn’t David Geffen since Geffen ran Asylum

After Solange Knowles Twitter account was hacked and an ad claiming Knowles endorsed a diet product, she went on her blog to declaim the hacking: “What in the fuggggg!!! I

1. Colorado – For Science 2. A More Perfect Union – Titus Andronicus 3. Jackson – Johnny and June Carter Cash 4. Apple Scruffs – George Harrison 5. Fear Of

After the Beatles split, George Harrison drew first blood by releasing “All Things Must Pass”. It’s single, “My Sweet Lord” was a worldwide #1 hit. The album was #1 in

If the thought of Dakota Fanning singing “Cherry Bomb” isn’t just too damn scary, the Runaways movie soundtrack sounds kinda interesting. Almost conceptual from glam to punk: 1. Nick Gilder

After biting our tongue the other day and complimenting U2 on choosing Interpol for their opening act at Giants Stadium, the other shoe dropped… The two other opening bands for

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers… except in the States

If you’ve been reading Rock NYC for the past two weeks you will be well aware of our love of punk rock group For Science and out attempts to track

I don’t dislike Harrison, I’ve listened extensively to his solo work, but I do have my problems with him.  I go along with the idea he was alright for two

Banned in stores all over the UK, here is the Lady Gaga “Q Magazine” cover. Kinda hard to see why, right?

Well, at least it wasn’t the loathsome Haiti 25. BEP’s “Imma Be” took over the # 1 spot from Ke$ha so Debby Boone’s 1977 “You Light Up My Life” remains,

I just love this story. Patti Page, the great fifties singer who had a smasherino in 1952 with “How Much Is That Doggie In The Window” -one of the earliest

That bad ass of rock told UK Radio that UK Music was “”tame, predicable and faceless” and as for rock in general: “we’re at a dead zone in music right

Some of my Connecticut peeps will be chillin wit big Snoop Dogg tonight or seeing Rent or Spring Awakening or watching the Olympics cuz they’re afraid to drive in ‘inclement

Little Green Bag – George Baker Selection-Oddly enough this was a moderate hit, but I don’t remember it. Kind of a calypso thing with call and response vocals. Living In

Mark Ronson’s follow up to version is being hyped to hell. Every other day there is a new guest star, a new collab, a new cutting edge ho fucking hum.

For decades rumors have abounded over to whom “You’re So Vain” referred. Warren Beatty? Jagger? James Taylor? Bill Clinton -well, maybe not Clinton Well, as reported by contactmusic.com, from an

My February Mix 2010, mix – Keep it Simple Iman!! Colorado – For Science – I don’t think she knows Jackson – Johnny and June Carter Cash – The ring

Brian Eno on the new Coldplay album said to BBC 6: “It’s quite different from anything they’ve done before I think, so far anyway. I don’t know how it will end

The unwitting face of Rock NYC, Becka Diamond.

I am the proud owner of “With His Hot And blue Guitar” Johnny Cash’s first album. And I have it on vinyl! Once in a while the performance of a

Look at it this way. what’s the point of running your own music blog if you can’t write obsessively about the music you love and I LOVE FOR SCIENCE. The

1. Colorado – For Science 2. SDP – The Kissaway Trail 3. Jackson – Johnny and June Carter Cash 4. Tragedy – Peter Wolf and Shelby Lynn 5. Put Em

One Of Us – Wire – This doesn’t sound like the arty Wire from back in the late seventies and more like alt rock than pretty catchy art rock as

If youve had ever spent time talking music with Joe Strummer one name was sure to come up. Every time. Johnny Cash was a huge influecne on Strummer and for

As the Billy Joel – Elton John Face 2 Face tour finally began to wind its way to New York City -a concert in Albany, New York was annouced yesterday,

I love Amanda Palmer. Shes is beautiful, intelligent, sexy, smart creative, tough and well just plain cool. As Iman mentioned a bit ago she is supporting EvelynEvelyn promoting them and

We all know 1 person who can suggest a song and 99.9999999% of the time nail it like Jesus. I swear to God I know that guy. So here I

Louie Sulcer, 71 years old,  of Woodstock, Ga donwloaded Johnny Cash’s “Guess Things Just Happen That Way” and became an instant celebrity. It was the 10 Billionth Itunes download and

Folsom Prison Blues – This is the one where he shot a man in Reno just to watch him die and the version I am listening to is the one

What the heck is Section 7 and why did i join? Section 7 is a Live Nation and Windows 7 mishmash Here’s the pitch “Register now and rally your friends

No less than three seperate projects are emerging on the horizon for perennial Rock NYC fave Ray Davies. First , ANOTHER record of re-recorded Kinks songs, but with an all

WTF is it with Terminal 5? Massive Attack are set to play their May 11th and 12th -a Tuesday, Wednesday axis. And I love the band. But enough to go

Thom Yorke’s Flea lead alternative to radiohead, Atoms for Peaces, will finally make their New York appearance in Spring and, even more excitingly in my book, Flying Lotus will be

Fourteen years after Bradley Nowell’s death, the remaining members of Sublime have come to terms with Bradley’s estate and reformed and renamed as Sublime With Rome. The band consists of

Here is how it goes, everything the Stones recorded with the possible exception of Satanic Majesties and up to and including Exile On Main Street is integral to the rock

Before the last song last night at MSG. Will I Am was on the edge of the extended proscinium and he was telling a story about being at the New

Further to Brett Jensen’s post yesterday about the state of Whitney Houston’s Australian tour comes a report from contactmusic.com that after a steady fifty minutes Whitney took a fifteen break,

Rostam Batmanglij, keyboard player for Vampire Weekend, has come out as a homosexual to “Out Magazine” and written what he hopes will be a new gay anthem for his side

1. Big Girls Don’t Cry – Fergie 2. Shut Up Cindy – For Science 3. Tragedy – Peter Wolf and Shelby Lynn 4. Can’t Help But Wondering Where I’m Going

American Idol’s boys were not disappointing. But that’s about all I can say. With a new view on the judges, I realized that not only were a few of the

I was not only forwarded an email, but a new perspective.  Patti LaBelle said of American Idol that “Some of the judges, I don’t think they’re qualified to judge.” I

To follow up on the Bamboozle Road Show its finally been announced. Less talk more action please Heres our East Coast Dates June 20 – Philadelphia, PA – Festival Pier