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Inge Colson of Presshere sent out an email to remind us that New York finest Harper Blynn, whose “Centrifugal Motion” was all over my fave tracks of 2009, are playing […]

So what I did was shuffle my February 2010 playlist and I am gonna try to keep to a one sentence review; Lions – Tune-Yards – Everybody who saw her

Last week, Killswitch Engage vocalist Howard Jones had to unexpectedly return home while the band is in the middle of a headlining tour. KSE released this statement: “It became overwhelmingly

Sade’s first album in eight years went GOLD in its first week!!!! Soldier Of Love is a terrific album and should have sold 500,000 copies. My friend john Witt -a

I hate festivals with a passion. At least over night ones. Warped isn’t bad if you get the right year and the long gone Guinness Fleadgh was a blast. And

Lady Gaga rocked the Brit Awards at Earl Court. What was once a very pro British Extravaganza got turned on its ear by the American singer, who was able to

I have seen Alexisonfire and they weren’t that good I actually was psyched to see them at Warped Tour last summer but only because I thought they were Asking Alexandria.

Free for the taking part 2 is Angels and Airwaves latest release ‘Love’ The third release from the Blink 182’er I adored I-Empire which had the most romantic yet cosmic

Bobby… Mary.. The wait is almost over April 13 is on the horizon with a brand new Glee season headed at you The opener is 100% Madonna! As ‘the cheerios’

I missed the concert because i was sick!!! This pic is from brooklynvegan who have a lot more as well.

There Goes My Baby – Usher – There is a song everybody is raving about, Usher and Nicki Minaj’s “Little Freak”, but I can’t find it anywhere so tell then

Lessee if I can make this interesting: 1. Oasis split up after Liam smashed Noel’s guitar last year. 2. Non stop posturing since then. 3. Liam shows up at Brit

1. Doomsday Device – Drop The Lime 2. Peace and Love – Juliana Hatfield 3. Set Me Free (Carnival Remix) – Drop The Lime 4. Stillness Is The Move – Solange

Solange -indie lover supremo, got on stage with her new best budies the Dirty Projectors to sing “Stllness Is The Move” – cover she released last year anda Groove Theory

As Itunes near their 10 billionth downloa, they have released their top 25 most popular downloads of all time: iTunes’ 25 Most-Downloaded Songs Of All Time: 1. “I Gotta Feeling,”

We had the pleasure of interviewing Bryce Avary of The Rocket Summer back in December At that time we were sworn to secrecy regarding the release date of the new

Nobody likes everything and when Elvis Costello is mentioned, you’re bound to get strong opinions either way. Lyrically, he can be a little “wordy“. Then there‘s his voice. A nasal

Feb 16: Heavy Bass Champions of the World Vol I : Drop The Lime – Doomsday Device March 2: Drop The Lime – Devils Eyes w/ Remixes by Diplo, Classixx,

1. Crest – The Kingsbury Manx 2. Eleven! – Solfege radio 3. Headaches – For Science 4. Little Wolf – Americans In France 5. New Jersey In Denial – Solfege

You Shook Me-Jeff Beck More bluesy than the Zeppelin version, and a more faithful rendering of the original. Rod on vox before he became Rod.   Dignity-Bob Dylan “Tell Tale

Yoko Ono – Betwen My Head And the Sky – Animal farm? Sheep, dogs, cows, and some other unidentifiable creatures. Along with speaking, and other unusual vocal sounds/lyrics ruin a

How can I enjoy a movie with zero redeeming points like “Valentine’s Day” while being eager to cause bodily harm to the soundtrack and if there was a book? I

1. Marina & The Diamonds – ‘Hollywood’ 2. Plan B – ‘Stay Too Long’ 3. Biffy Clyro – ‘Many Of Horror’ 4. Hot Chip – ‘One Life Stand’ 5. Massive

We don’t mock the recently departed… rule of thumb is give it a day or two. But Doug Fieger, the leader of the Knack who died on Sunday at the

By Sunday morning it was the No. 1 single on iTunes and had been viewed on YouTube four million times. reports new york times.

I don’t know what anyone can add about a band, Kingsbury Manx,  whose third best song on their current Ascenseur Ouvert is “Crest” -absolutely gorgeous the song ebbs and flows

Not all of us hipsters have the honor of living in NYC proper and not all of us have the means to partake of Opera held at The Metropolitan Opera.

Mary Magpie Sez: “”Headaches” by For Science, sound like everyone else, with a scratchier voice. Boring, it just doesn’t catch your attention. Put on anything from the “School Of Rock”

Straight Off App Straight off the AP WOODLAND HILLS, Calif. – Doug Fieger, leader of the power pop band The Knack who sang on the 1979 hit “My Sharona,” died

Mary Sez: Going to The Space, you know you’re in for a good show. We got into the venue, with not a lot of people. and Find Vienna was on.

There is no better feeling in the world than going to a show to see a beloved band and walking out loving their opener more. Sorta what happened last night.

The horrendous help Haiti sucker song arranged by Simon Cowell sold 450,000 copies in its first week of release. Hey, Wheels, should we trash it again?

I can’t wait!!! But while we do wait pick up the current Time Out -there is an excellent interview with the woman!!!

1. Rudeboyz – MIA, Rihanna, Diplo 2. Grace – Bebe and Cece Winans 3. Headaches – For Science 4.Getting To The Money – Gudda Gudda5. Knockout – Little Wayne6. With

Who The Hell is this kid… and why should you care? You’ll find out soon enough. Helen Bach and Mary Magpie discovered the next big thing.

Love Will Tear Us Apart- Joy Division Love Will Keep Us Together- Captain and Tennile Love is the Drug- Roxy Music Love Hangover- Dianna Ross Love Stinks J Geils Love

I Second That Emotion – Smokey Robinson – Well, where would you begin if not with the poet laurate of love? Of all the myriad of things I love about this voice of

Modern metal is a bit like modern jazz, a bit too specialized and a bit too whatever but there are exceptions. My beloved Lamb Of God is one and a new

Chuck D. where are you to point the fist in the face of the corrupt and immoral exploitation of Haitian misery by music stars and celebrites too lazy, venal or

Wow. I didn’t think this piece of garbage could suck any more than I imagined it would. But god bless america, they managed it. “We Are The World 25” interspersed

Trey Anastasio- Wallingford CT Sucks. There really is nothing else to say. Bland as his fans. I was told ‘Shine’ would change my mind that Trey was “afuckingmazing”. uh no

Asking someone to give you their play list is this decades ‘hey baby can I have your number’ so personal it seems that out of the 5 people I asked

“Nobody should be homeless” Baby Girl of Shinobi Ninja’s was quoted while explaining her participation in the  multi-artist recording of Gudda Gudda’s “Getting To The Money”. in aid of Rock NYC’s

From contactmusic (more or less -we paraphrase), Gloria Estefan is putting together a Spanish language “We Are The World” with Ricky Martin, Paulina Rubio, Shakira, Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony and

I know everyone thinks when it comes to Ke$ha I’ve been listening with my dick but I haven’t. I love Ke$ha a) because I love the music and b) because

Some hearts are lucky and some not so much… if all my fave love songs seem a little, er, depressive, I’ve always lost in love by the end of the

I can’t express my love for this band loudly enough. If you think it is easy to write loud fast punk rock songs you are wrong, it is hard. For

1. Little Wolf  – Americans In France 2. Rudeboyz – Rihanna, MIA, Diplo 3. Grace – Bebe amd Cece Winans 4. Gettin To The Money – Gudda Gudda 5. Why

I  guess if you’re still reading you will have decided whether you trust my taste or not so if you do trust me, please trust me on this one: Bebe

Four on the floor, straight up no chaser rock and roll and here is the entire lyric: Titus Andronicus Forever And this band is so great IT MEANS MORE THAN