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AP Report Condoleezza will be performing on piano to help provide funding for a private school. Tix are $500 a head…

Singles: 30 Seconds To Mars – ‘Happier’ Alphabeat – ‘Hole In My Heart’ Blood Red Shoes – ‘Light up’ Chiddy Bang – ‘The Opposite Of Adults’ Girls – ‘Morning Light’

Low? Low?? Oh, Ok Low. Nylon TV Host and full time model Becka Diamond is the epitome of cool rock and roll chick. All leather pants and eyeliner. Plus,  any one

John D., founder of the growing list of Bamboozle , wishes more people in the music industry would see the event as one that develops artists. “Bamboozle is never credited

I found this story on Idolator.com. In an interviewer last night on Brazilian TV, Chris Martin claimed Coldplay were trying to have a new album out before the end of

As reported by Brooklynwegan.com, Devo will have a new look and be playing new material at the Olympics tonight and following their set will be posting a new song FOR

Rock NYC faves dance groovy fuckers LMFAO and, well, not Rock NYC fave Ludacris… Should be a great night.

I Like What You’re Doing To Me – Carla Thomas-I’m woefully ignorant of the Stax/Atlantic soul stuff, this should provide me with the impetus to correct that. Loved it.  

It was twelve months ago and Rock NYC was just a twinkling of an inkling but I was still listening obessively to music… Lua – Conor Oberst and Gillian Welch

The ever-predictable All Time Low has become unpredictable. In “Painting Flowers”, a song for “Alice in Wonderland”, doesn’t sound like them at all. Alex’s voice is lower, the sound is

Green River – Creedence Clearwater Revival-see previous posts Hair – The Cowsills-There’s much better Cowsills stuff than this, but it’s still good. At it’s core, it’s still a broadway show

Look at it this way, I’ve seen Janet Jackson live on stage twice and she blew me away each time though it was something like ten years ago. One thing

Damn. You can’t win for losing. Three songs into Yeasayer’s Odd Blood and I’ve loved every thing. The emotional wreck of “O.N.E.”, “Ambling Alp”, “Mad Redder” and I figure, if

1-Better Is One Day- Elotheos- So excited for Fridays show. Their fans are fanatic 2- Blue Monday- New Order I play this every Monday but it alternates between Orgy and

What the “Listening Party”? I want to be the person going “SHHHHH shhhhhhhhhhhh listen shhhh” Dress up as your favorite character gather round the stereo at Hot Topic and listen?

I got these pics off Hifi Cartel’s website…

Lady Gaga and Jeremy Scott of tres cool fashion designers “Proper Attire” have come together to provide the world with high fashion condoms. “Everybody wrap it up with Jeremy Scott

1/ Helping Haiti – Everybody Hurts 2/ Florence & The Machine – You Got The Dirtee Love 3/ Owl City – Fireflies 4/ Timbaland – If We Ever Meet Again

Speaking to Rolling Stone, Pete Townsend said: “”If my hearing is going to be a problem, we’re not delaying shows. We’re finished. I can’t really see any way around the

1. Glee – The Music Season One Vol. 1 2. Lady Gaga – The Fame 3. Florence And The Machine – Lungs 4. Alicia Keys – The Element Of Freedom

Watching a soccer match on Fox Sports yesterday afternoon, I was surprised to see Katy Perry hawking acme cream Pro Active. Apparently, the two popsters are joing Alicia Keyes as

1.Put ‘Em Up – DMX 2. Ambling Alp – Yeasayer 3. On To The Next One – Jay-Z 4. One Way Trip – Lil Wayne 5. Fenway Lights – For

The Continental on St. Marks and 3rd Ave was once a great club… I saw the Rmones there twenty years ago. Now? Killing time before the Harper Blynn show they

“Roses”  a track off the new the Rocket Summer’s album Of Men And Angels, makes you stop dead in your tracks and listen. He’s one of the most talented music

Jay Z about the Prez: “Barack loves hip-hop,. when I called him he was playing [The] Blueprint in the gym.” I realize it’s a new day, etc. But is there

Ohhh I sorta like the music shifting around. DRUMS! yay.. what concerns me here is that the lead singer is going all Husker Du. You can at times hear his

Readying myself for next weeks Hesta Prynn concert I listened to her first band Northern State’s Dying In Stereo which I adored at the same time and if it’s possible

When it comes to artsy stuff I’m really not your girl. I mean I can walk a gallery with you and pretend to oo and ahh but the fact is

Okay I am officially obessed with this band. “The Last Word” is fifty nine seconds of glory. It shifts speed, swifts dynamics and, because it is is For Science, has

Nearing a year of Rock NYC and I think the biggest surprise I’ve had is how great the Public Relations people are. As a rock journalist you don’t really know

Still on a Disney Mission to Mars adventure Angels and Airwaves unveil “Love”. Upon first listen I thought perhaps this is the type of music you have to be in

Hands down, no doubt, Mainstreet beats Guysville in the battle of the Exiles. Now I’ve said that, what next?  Mainstreet beats most albums, it is one of the greatest albums

Get Ready – Rare Earth-Too white for me. Find The Temptations version instead. Gimme Gimme Good Lovin’ – Crazy Elephant-They still play this on the oldies stations, and it has

Easy To Be Hard – Three Dog Night Eli’s Coming – Three Dog Night-Both these can be lumped together. These guys were almost as big a hit machine as Creedence.

You can shuffle the Ramones all day and never remember what songs you hear. Well unless your a lyric listener- which I am so what happens when you take SIXTY

1. How Low – Ludacris 2. The Last Word – For Science 3. 25 Years – Harper Blynn 4. Sliver – Nirvana 5. Fenway Lights – For Science 6. Seven

Standing at the front of the stage last night at Mercury Lounge I turned around and all I could see is a a sea of girls and this is what

I’ll get around to a full review at some point, but I wanted a few more words on Cobain on the anniversay of his birthday so half way through the

Why do more bands not cover Marshall Crenshaw songs? It would save em a lot of time and they know that whatever they do to a Crenshaw song they simply can’t

Finally Scanners gives us more to listen to! Got the news on Facebook that the new lp was available and tread lightly cuz you know how I am with girl

New to me this week is a 2 song release from Liars, Liars is a three-piece American band consisting of Aaron Hemphill (percussion, guitar, synth), Julian Gross (drums) and Philippine-born

Last night Lambert and Ke$ha hooked up at gay club Providence in the village where a spirited conversation lead directly to a heavy make out session!!! From contactmusic.com: He says, “She

“I like it, I’d buy it and I’ll give it five”. As we move further away from the innocence of the fifties and early sixties and find ourelves confronting as

the legendary for science Fenway Lights – For Science – They say Dusthead is an influence, I’ve got news: these guys leave everybody in their dust. The best first couplet

Iman speaks of Groundhog Day I think more like.. “uh..” See its funny what to write about I can think of stuff but just as easily talk myself out of

In celebration of Kurt Cobain’s birthday I downloaded the DVD Live At Reading and hope to watch it and review it before I go to Mercury Lounge for the Harper

Remember the old Bill Murray movie where he wakes up every day and it is the same day, Groundshog Day, over and over and over again. I live my own

Music journalist Tom Moon’s “1,000 Recordings To Hear Before You Die” is an essential guide to, not popular music, but to ALL MUSIC. He covers everything here. From Bach to

If he hadn’t offed himself, today would have been the legendary songwriter Kurt Cobain’s forty-third birthday. The voice of his generation and one of the greatest of all rock stars,

In an interview on Spinner picked up by contactmuic (everybody happy now?), Uber-producer Tony Visconti revealed how Marc Bolan played for David Bowie and was to join Bowie’s band in