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Getting ready for Tuesday’s Plastic Ono Band gig I went in search of Season Of Glass. I’vel stened to Life With The Lions more over the past coupla years and […]

 Half asleep I completely missed the release of Gudda Gudda’s Guddaville on Itunes till today while writing the Cash Money post.I love it ofcourse, I had heard a lot of

BBC America’s “The Inbetweeners” is officially the best show on TV. Tangentally only about music (how can you make a sitcom about teens without a soundtrack), it follows the story

From Drake to Lil Wayne and back to (personal fave) Gudda Gudda the brothers and owners of Cash Money Bryan  and Ronald Williams have founded an oil  and gas company. Do

But if you cared to know the info, you prolly already did. So let me just mention Axl showed up three hours late to Vartosa and took the stage at

So sometimes we rockcrits get tired of howling at the moon and want tp back to Broadway. Here we go then… Comedy Tonight – Ken Thorne – From  A Funny

Helen got a PR email informing all of us with NO CONNECTS that Ke$ha is performing tonight at Webster Hall!!! I saw her Jingle Ball and though she only sanf

Preservation act 2 stands out as a much more muscular affair than it’s predecessor. Dave Davies’s lead guitar takes a front seat more often making these tracks a tad edgier,

1. Little Wolf – Americans In France 2. Rudeboyz – Rihanna, Diplo, MIA 3. Knockout – Lil Wayne 4. True Love – Bing Crosby 5. Route 66 – Nat King

I’ve been wanting to write about this album for awhile now but  haven’t  given it the fullblown review it deserves. The reason is one of the ones I expressed earlier today:

We who read and write here have at least one thing in common, a love of music ‘live and recorded’ (* quote source masthead of www.rocknycliveandrecorded.com, all rights reserved. Chief

Is this a Rock NYC post or this a cut and paste job? I got it off NME who obviously got it off a Press Release. If it wasn’t off a

At some point you gotta say, OK I get it, John Mayer is a scuzz but he is a fucked up, rock star, great guitarist publicly scorned fucked up and

I have found it exceedingly difficult to write full length album reviews -much more difficult than not just my youth (which figures) but even than six months ago. I have

True Love – Bing Crosby – With Grace Kelly on their honeymoon in a boat and a dream of a perfect happy ending (though they’ll have to wait another hour

Hel Sez Me having to watch a Nickelodeon program? Blame it on the flu, but I didn’t send her out of the room to cover this show. Funny how similar

I got this off Pitchfork.com -a mash up of MIA’s “Boyz” and Rihanna’s “Rude boy” by Diplo and all the dourness and dodginess of R Rated seems finally faded into nothingness.

You’ve heard from Brett and Mike and me about this yesterday. Google taking down blogs which give away free MP3s. Brett raised the interesting complaint which stated that even if there was

Both Dylan and Baez -guiding voices of the early sixties, sang on February 9th as part of  PBS’ “In Performance at the White House: A Celebration of Music from the

1. Ambling Alp – Yeasayers 2. 3000 Miles Away – Star Fucking hipsters 3. Watch Me Make You Hate Me – Call The Cops 4. O.N.E. – Yeasayers 5. Halo

DAVE HOLLAND OCTET DEBUT RECORDING PATHWAYS AVAILABLE MARCH 23 Dave Holland A master of tone and rhythm; bassist, composer, and band leader Dave Holland is now in his fifth decade

Long time Rock NYC may remember Brett Jensen’s interview with LA dance band Love Grenades last year. Love Grenades were discovered by Aussie  Sam Sparro. Sparro had a hit a

I hate a mob scene. It is all so common denomator. People get an idea in their heads and won’t let it go. A good example is the uniformly terrible

nothing wrong in my eyes with cutting and pasting as long as we credit the source. You could even post the link to the actual story which they might even

Google deletes music blogs over copyright infringement. The blog-I-sphere is a fruitful place on Google. Or at least it used to be. You could simply go to Google. Click blogs,

Where would I be without the English website contactmusic.com. They search the UK tabs in a way we can’t even begin to have post all the best gossip. Then we

Having not seen the movie yet, I can only imagine why the soundtrack is so horrendous. Sure, “Today Was A Fairytale” , the new Taylor Swift song on here, worked

1. The chick singer in Massive Attack, sometimes the Mazzy Star and sometimes Martina Topley-Bird, are the stars of Heligoland 2. And, why is the Tricky Kid not on here? 3.

In the world of blogging, indeed, in the world of websites, content is King. But what constitutes orgiinal content and what constitutes copywrite infringement. I’ve been doing this for awhile

HOLY CRAP! We gotta go to Vegas!!!!!! BYO RECORDS PRESENTS THE 12TH ANNUAL PUNK ROCK BOWLING TOURNAMENTMAY 6-9 AT SUNSET STATION HOTEL AND CASINO IN LAS VEGAS; TOURNAMENT REGISTRATION AND

John Meyer Tweeted Wednesday afternoon, apologizing for the racial crap and sexual insults he threw toward Jessica Simpson and Jennifer Aniston in his Playboy interview he said he his “trying

Pretenders frontwoman Chrissie Hynde a whirlwind of activity By Donald Mckenzie (CP) – 2 days ago MONTREAL — Chrissie Hynde is one busy woman these days. The lead singer of

Congrats To Keeessssshhhh -first time since debby Boone’s “You Light Up My Life” in 1977!!!

Internet fights and the people who start them are dumb. Whether it’s unemployable 19 year olds arguing on entertainment messaging boards, kids calling each other slurs over a game of

Wheels sent me an email an hour ago taking me from the world of advertising back to the world of, not music, blogging. Six of the most popular music blogs

“We Are The World” remake starring YOU!!!!!!!!. Check this out! “We Are The World – 25 For Haiti” will air during NBC television’s coverage of the opening of the Winter

Radaronline report Gaga/Lauper Duet? Lady Gaga and perennial rock NYC fave Cyndi Lauper were seen together during the amfAR annual AIDS research gala. The pair continued to fuel speculation that

“‘My Way’ deaths lead karaoke bars in Philippines to ban song Frank Sinatra’s “My Way” has been banned from many bars across the Philippines after at least six people were

If you think you can do it better then Weez give it a shot. Rivers Cuomo is offering fans a chance to remix their song “Love is The Answer’ from

The Reserves aren’t saying sorry to The White Stripes. Are you surprised “In response to the claims being made today regarding the Air Force Reserve regional ad that aired in

Group auditions are always my favourite part of the season, and this one was interesting to say the least. A few sang the same songs, more than a few had

Ask me what my favourite tv show is and it may be something you’ve never heard of: Silent Library. It’s on MTV and something nobody should miss. Almost like Jackass,

Please udont let me be misunnderstand I’m not insulting the Evelyn twins for being conjoined or anything else for that matter… rather, good for them….  but this is fucking weird.

Helen Bach sez: Taylor Swift has inked (no pun intended) a deal with American Greetings for her very own line of greeting cards. The “Taylor Swift Collection’ will include gift

And after going buy yourself a life…

finally a proper video has been released for Eye Alaskas song ” Walk Like A Gentleman” A GORGEOUS song by a great up and coming band who were kind enough

The Downtown Fiction, a 3 piece band from Virginia has talent that you can hear. “I Just Wanna Run” is a song that could easily be a mess vocal-wise, but

PR Company Sez: The Downtown Fiction To Release Best I Never Had – EP On Photo Finish Records March 23rd Pre-Order Launches Today Band To Play SXSW & Vans Warped

As follow up to her beautiful and moving Jackson Tribute at the Grammys, Celine Dion has set up residency in Las Vegas for a 2 year run at Ceasars Palace

I really loved Dylan’s born again period but sometimes I think I might be wrong. A children’s book maker is publishing a book based upon “God Gave Names To ll