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Killing Joke are playing the Filmore at Irving Plaza on May 21st in support of their April release album Feast Of Fools. Worth catching pop pickers, I’m telling you.

James McCartney -Paulie’s only boy (with the lovely Linda of course), has formed a band named Light. They’ve played some secret gigs and have spent two years recording the album

The great. Folkie, rocker campfire fire girl Michelle Shocked (remember Short, Sharp, Shocked?) was considered the female billy Bragg back in the day and so I am very happy to

I text my nephew Chris Chappell to ask for some opinions on Buddy Holly. Here is his reply: Buddy Holly: looked like Gary Busey, died in a plane crash with

I hate this album already. The new Slash album features guest appearances by: Ian Astbury, Chris Cornell, Rocco DeLuca, Fergie, Dave Grohl, Myles Kennedy, Kid Rock, Lemmy Kilmister, Adam Levine

Tom Scholtz is warning a fake Boston featuring, well, nobody who had anything to do with the original mid seventies band are raking in bucks offerring an intimate evening with…

The greatest duo in the world, Sleigh Bells, are opening for Major Lazer (another fave) but not at Terminal 5 and to be honest -if Sleigh Bells were opening at

Who doesn’t love Buddy Holly? Who doesn’t love Weezer? How about both?!! A great song with laughable lyrics you cant help but feel the awkward feeling of being class dork.

“Raining In My Heart” is a snap shot of poodle skirts an finned cars. If you can listen to this and not picture Mayberry and Junes pie in the window

If you are in London this April you might want to go and see Billy Bragg appearing in a play about three generations of a working class family “Pressure drop”

I had the best intentions to cover last nights American Idol auditions in Texas. The show that is usually covered here by Mary Magpie. The assignment had to get the

Last night was a great night for music and philanthropy.. and I’m lying. Last night in LA and also in London musical genius flexed its muscle for Haiti. “We are

On this, the forty first year of his death, it is a sad pleasure to dip back again into the great sinbger-songwriters back catalogue. Though really, from both the Stones

1. I’m Gonna Put My Foot Down – Buddy Holly 2. Flume – Peter Gabriel 3. Knockout – Lil Wayne 4. Lost One – Lauryn Hill 5. Bleeding A Girl

I would call this a bad joke and note that nobody is Sondheim but Sondheim but that notwithstand a buncha people i don’t know plus Duncan Sheik are planning to

Beyonce is hawking her new perfume Heat at Macy’s on 34th street tomorrow at 5p. Apparently you can’t be rich or self-serving enough and I get it: it’ll go well

This inexcusably cynical piece of emotional claptrap goes on for around three days though the youtube time says only five minutes. When you are stuck with Jon Bon Jovi being

I killed the rock album. I did it this week with Romance Is Boring. Romance is Boring is a fifteen song cycle by Los Campesinos released January 26th. Is it

Desert Island Disc Series continued ********************************************************************** If The Beatles “Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band” changed music, then The Band’s “Music From Big Pink” changed it back. Nowhere is this

I know almost nothing about LA Indie label Stones throw records except they send me exceptionally entertaining emails and at some point I’ll concentrate on em. here is the blurb

Larry Schneiderman, an old time rock fan and expert on live performance who saw just about everybody from the mid to late 1960s, made it to the last day of this exhibit 

Brett Jensen says: “You probably already read this… but Lil Wayne went to the “We Are the World” re-do, and complained that the same thing wasn’t done for New Orleans.

Thanks to my friend Yannet Lopez for this scoop. Lauryn Hill performed as part of New Zealand Reggae festival January 23rd, 2010 with Sly and Robbie and numerous members of

jim morrison was here but mick jagger left early Steve Tyler has put down the pills long enough to threaten a law suite against Aerosmith for the attempt to replace

come here little boy Take me on.. Norwegian band a-ha is going to throw down some more tour dates to mark their 25 year anniversary. Anniversary of what? Why of

Sparks The Rescue the Fearless Records band we had the pleasure of interviewing in December is making some moves. Sparks are nominated for ‘The Freshman’ award by MTVU, for their

Patrick Stump- Solo Album Andy Hurley- new hardcore band Burning Empire Joe Trohman- Radio Host Pete Wentz- P-Whipped According to his blog: “I dont know the future of fall out

Remember Bad Religion? They’re celebrating THIRTY YEARS of madness with back to back shows at the House of Blues Founded in 1980 (yikes) in LA, 14 studio albums and 34

Just heard Peter Gabriel’s cover of Bon Iver’s “Flume” off Peter’s eagerly anticipated covers album Scratch My Back. I liked Iver’s For Emma album but I didn’t love it. It

Jack Johnson is to record his new album using nothing but the sun’s rays.

We reported last week how the R&B giant Etta James had been rushed to hospital. It gets worse. She has been battling Alzheimers for the past year, her son has

Almost There – Randy Newman – The Princess And The Frog Down In New Orleans – Randy Newman – The Princess And The Frog Loin de Paname – Wagner And

Alice – Avril Lavigne – Well now, this is pretty brutal isn’t it? Some wiseguy on itunes said she sounded like a bellowing elephant. Funny stuff but more like a

The reviews of Lil Wayne’s Rebirth have been so uniformly lousy I decided to track by track it at first, and this despite loving “Prom Queen” forever and the Eminem

I got this from Washington Post via Bob Lefetz. I still think it doesn’t much matter if Taylor relaxes and puts some elbow into her vocals. And if the next

For Sade’s third album, Soldier Of Love, we are getting apparently, more of the same with only a coupla songs shaking the great stars cool veneer according to Jim Farber.

Sir Elton and husband David Furnish are busy producing a new play for Broadway called Next Fall. This is Elton’s first foray since the hugely successful Billy Eliot though this

Reviewed and much approved of last year by Mike Nessing , the official release of Midlake’s new album is today…  A must buy.

Oh no… there’ll be nowhere to hide from this one!! Here is a list of perform,ers set to remake “We Are The World” to help Haiti: Celine Dion, Kanye West,

1. Bleeding A Girl – Keeley Ryan 2. If You’re On The Mend, I’m On The Move – The Kingsley Manx 3. A Hit Rash In The Shape – Los

Got an email from my friend Melissa Berlin of Rock Ridge Music  asking if I was gonna catch Kelley Ryan, former lead singer with astropuppees, when she plays the Living Room,

Was it me who said Taylor Swift had a great voice. Nope. It was me who said she had no voice and should go to clubs and learn to sing

Chiodos before the fall Too sad to paraphrase but Chiodos goes on WITHOUT Craig Owens and a part of me dies… They’re are set to enter the studio to begin

Got an email from my friend Michael Blauner asking me if I’d ever heard of a band called Harvey Danger. Nope, I say. So he makes me feel like a

this years grammy winners I didn’t watch the pop music poop parade complete with the exploitation of some random children that couldn’t possibly have Michael Jackson’s genes. Do you know

After a freezing cold weekend that found me scurrying undercovers for three days, it’s a pleasure to even think about this summer(stage)!!!  Black Keys are gonna make the night sky

Tweetheart Taylor Swift has this to say post Album of the year win. “Studio-ness with all the same boys who played on Fearless. Homemade cupcakes were brought. Awkward fist-pumps happened.

Just in case someone cares: The Grammy Went To: Album of the Year: Taylor Swift Fearless Song of the Year: Beyonce “Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)” Best New

Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp in Hollywood California is up and ready for applications for music fans looking to be rockstars for a week February 23-28! All day hanging out

Headbanging is back as the Slayer Megadeath ‘Carnage Tour’ gets up and running again after persistent back problems canned the first go round in January After a super successful Anterior