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I admit to being a big hair fan and am happy to forward this info off the hair on broadway website… “Broadway audiences have been liberated by joining the Tribe […]

Why does everything VW sing sound like, er, VW. Here is a Rancid cover and it couldn’t sound more like VW if you paid it. The  Vamps cover “Ruby Soho”

This girl appears on a TV show I don’t watch called “Lost”. So why is she here. Because I obsess about the music other people listen to. Her name is

From the”This is Fucked Up” file… Paramores guitarist Josh Ferro will not be touring with the band.. Why? cuz he got engaged and wants to plan the wedding….. This is

I love Underoath, they’re a jazzy group of guys and if rockers could be ‘good’ and cool Aaron Gillespie would be their leader cuz thats exactly what he is. He

At Hall Of Williamsburg Saturday night. Me? I was at Bowery Ballroom …

But why are these guys getting ignored. If you don’t think teenage girls get pop music where dya think the Beatles came from?

Ive been intending to write a piece of fetish bands, but haven’t had the break in my pop punk scene long enough to give it proper attention. Plus its sorta

1. Your Love Is My Drug – Ke$ha 2. Drunk By Noon – The Measure 3. 3000 Miles Away – Star Fucking Hipsters 4. Watch Me Make You Hate Me

And i’m richer. The only way I could be happier is if one of our guys won it. Plus?  They are partying on Bourbon Street and I wish I was

Of course it wasn’t much. Unless you can raise Keith Moon (dead at thirty-two) and John Entwhistle from the dead it is not gonna be the same. But it didn’t 

Regular readers will know how much I love dance and regular readers will know I think Drop The Lime are one of the greatests bands on earth. So regular readers

Damn, damn, damn…shoulda bought a The Measure CD at the concert. So I’m stuck streaming this best band in the world, etc. from their myspace… “Revisionist” will change your life.

Why would I wanna write about music where Drake is the next coming. Drake???? Youre joking me? I love hip hop, will somebody please play it. At least drop something

Top 10 Albums: 1/ Alicia Keys – The Element Of Freedom 2/ Andre Rieu – Forever Vienna 3/ Paolo Nutini – Sunny Side Up 4/ Florence & The Machine –

Leonard Cohen is to me what Etta James is to the President: if either of them don’t get back up we’re over. So all I have to say about each

Me and John Witt are Sade fanatics. I met her in the early eighties when she was still a model and poked fun at my somewhat grubby appearance at a

Since the Saints are the Haiti of football teams, and since everybody from Drake to, er, Drake, want the Saints to win I’d support em honest. But I loath that

Do the words shut your fucking face mean anything? SHUT UP. From the President to Lady Gaga everybody talks and talks and talks. SHUT YOUR MOUTH. OK, here’s the latest

Off subject I realise but I was saddened to hear of the death of one of my fave comedic actors of all time yesterday. Ian Carmichael was so perfect as

I need no excuse to obsess about Marshall Crenshaw. I edit a music website for precisely the excuse to scream and shout about how perfect this fella is. I mean

So, if you’re keeping score folks, im very tired and old at bowery ballroom and im talking to a little knockout named Diane and she namechecks Star Fucking Hipsters. So

A night full of interviews, great music, and kind strangers made the Take Action Tour Connecticut date more than memorable. After our chaotic interviews, Mayday’s on their tour bus and

Pure brilliance -five bands of unparralled fun, energy, charisma… no, wait, let me start at the start. Sometime around the end of December I began to obsess over Screaming Females,

1. The Other End – The Groucho Marxist 2. Dear God, I Hate Myself – Xiu Xiu 3. Watch Me Make You Hate Me – Call The Cops 4. Give Blood

The last band  I saw, Screaning Females, was best. BUT the Groucho Marxist were breathtaking. I didn’t know one song (except the Carole King cover) but they played thirty minutes

Helen Bach says: I need to get this off my chest so sit back shut up and read. What the fuck is wrong with up and coming local ‘bands’ these

This is a Presley quote from the ’68 special: “I’d like to talk a little bit about music. A very little. There’s been a big change in the music field

So this is what I did… I typed in Elvis Presley on my itunes search and this is what came up Dirty, Dirty Feeling – Now you thought I was

Rumours are abounding: Howard Stern to replace Simon Cowell on American Idol next year. This makes perfect sense to me. Like, perfect perfect -Stern has become irrelevant since he went

Joys of blogging Part 490: first I call em Snoozefork and then I steal their content One of my very favorite bands in the world since watching em open for

So what do you do when you cant get through? I had been prepping to speak to Call The Cops, suggested to me by Earshot Media and loving their myspace.

Mayday Parade and our Mary Magpie Meeting with Mayday Parade was an event that consumed two weeks of my life. I wanted to do it, I heard so much about

So I noticed that when I was offered a freebie and cool mp3 from Pitchfork I tended to find myself on Stereogum so today I cut out the middleman and

Legendary New Order and Joy Division bassist Peter Hook opened the Hacienda Part II, a new club called Fac251, in Manchester last night with a performance by his band the Light

Hey Helen, don’t blame me. If you recommend a band to me I’m gonna listen to em and though I eagerly await your and Mary’s interview with Call The Cops

Sure I’d heard the buzz about beach House, so I bought a song and fell asleep in the middle of it. Hype, I said. Didn’t even mention it (if memory

At last nights Haiti telethon (yeah, I had heard about it but forgot it) , Sean Combs, the Courtney Love of hip hop, called on Wycliff Jean to run for President

Don Giovanni Records are the guys behind not just Screaming Females, which I guess you know, but Jeff the Brotherhood and Pregnant -two other faves of mine. Unfortunately Pregnant has

Guest list totally fucked No photopass makes 3k camera have to sit in my car. Mayday amazing guys tour manager cordial Sent from my BlackBerry Its always a good time

1. Get Close – Call The Cops 2. Morning Bird – Sade 3. Bruised And Scarred – Mayday Parade 4. Out Of Our Minds – Melissa Auf Der Maur 5.

Pavement added to snoozefork line up -congrats to all…

My friend Chickie Bucco -who I went to the Debbie Reynolds concert with, is up for this one. Betty isn’t just “Memories” or Eight Is Enought but, at least when

got this off titus blog… apparently they are too busy playing birthday party for millionaires to meet with us (they played the bloke who owns pitchfork.com’s birthday -a bit nauseauting)

I know there is a world of reasons to believe Lefsetz nonsense about how BEP can’t sell out presales because… wait I forgot why: oh because they are not LONG

There is an old Biblical saying about how when it comes to charity don’t let the right hand know what the left hand is doing. Nick Jonas: “”Just finished volunteering

How can nothing, I mean nothing, change between the ages of forty-three and fifty-one. I dunno but listening to a pre-release copy of Sade’s Soldier Of Love, all I can

About a month ago, we reported on Rock NYC that some children’s advocate groups were trying to get the NFL to reconsider their decision to have British rock legends The

I’ve spent much of today trying to figure out why I love Rebirth and everybody else I know doesn’t love it so much. Here’s a reason: people expect the jail

The cover of a limited edition 500 copies 45 of Yeah, Yeah, Yeah’s “Skeleton” art by guitarist Nick Zinner.