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What Real Italians Listen To

Back from Haiti and in tears as gossips swirls around his Friends Of Yele charity. I read this on line: “The Haiti earthquake has already triggered hundreds of thousands of

Todd Leibowitz reports that Blabbermouth reports that NME reports… This is off blabbermouth.com: According to NME.com, Paul McCartney wanted a place in Dave Grohl’s supergroup THEM CROOKED VULTURES, but was

What was I thinking of? How did I believe fifteen years of wretchedness could be wiped away? I had been sick of it days before but  packed to the gills 

That’s what Marie Lynn asked when she heard Titus Andronicus awesome “Theme From Cheers”.. . No it aint but I can dig the mistake. For one thing, Patrick aint taken

Three songs off Dreams Come True by Judee Sill reviewed Apocalypse Express – It’s a miracle that we even get to hear this. How many years have these tapes been

How much do I love Freedy? Assume I’m a pay check to pay check guy to start with so now lemme tell you I paid $56  to see Sheryl Crow at the

OK, I’ll give you Iyaz but changes on the charts have been glacial this year…Top 10 Singles:1/ Iyaz – Replay2/ Owl Cities – Fireflies3/ Sidney Samson – Riverside (Let’s Go)4/

Former Hole bassist  Melissa Auf Der Maur is pissed at Courtney Love’s using the Hole name to tour with a band reflecting none of the original musicians except Love. Saud

Following in the footsteps of the elusive Lady Gaga (who, as Steve Diamond noted, has cancelled on us twice now) add Destiny Child Kelly Rowland to the long list of

Justin Timberlake and Christine are confirmed for the Haiti telethon January 22nd. The one being MCd by George Clooney and Wycliffe Jean. As are Bono, Sting and Alicia Keys thereby

So today we celebrate the legendary civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday and what do we do? We write music posts and drink beer. What else? But it

At a Ringo Starr concert a coupla years ago the Beatle drummer tells the audience “I’m not gonna leave the stage just to come back on for an encore. Pretend

I never thought this would happen.During “Blake’s Got A new Face” the ground is actually moving from the pounding drums.For Vampire weekend???Yep, this is VE Act II. With a superb

Take Good Care Of My Baby

Mary Magpie Helen Bach Meet The Best Unsigned Band In The Country

vampire weekend’s best performance ever

As gigwise mentioned, Florence and the machine, ubiquitous on TV and radio in the UK beat VE who came in third. Not bad without a hit song, which they’ll need

Interviewing Paul Simonon many years ago I took him to task for “the only band that matters” tag that was appearing on all their advertising at the time. “Don’t look

Sometimes a post follows you around until you write itYesterday I went to see The Lovely Bones -Peter Jackson’s film adaption of Alice Sebolt’s novel about a fourteen year old girl

Did you ever listen to the “End of the World as We Know It”that the REM song with the fun fast lyrics;“The other night I tripped a nice continental drift

I quote Dylan all the time. Can’t help myself, he is just imminently quotable. And not the obvious stuff (or at least not just the obvious ones though the obious

The next three sets I will be seeing  (unless I can find a ticket around the buck fifty range for Ladty Gaga at Radio City since she canxd the Connecticut

Cypress Hill have signed to Snoop Dogg’s Priority Records -hardly a shocker there, and has recorded a single off their upcoming album, same title Rise Up with a man I’m

I am gagging for the release of Massive Attacks first album in  six years Heligoland so am happy to post my second non story of the day wherein the band

I know thiss seems like a non-story but it means something to be because my dad was fifty four when I was born and dead by the time I was

I started off thinking I’d write a parody of Middle East Clubs silly how to get booked advise on their web page Helen posted yesterday. But it is tough to

so Im checking out the club were going to tomorrow and under ‘booking’ this is what it states not  sure why I find this so amusing but I do (Iman

When the kid and I are at the gym we always hit the treadmills and give a mad shout out to OK GO. They’re the band that stole the vid

Believe (feat D’Angelo) – Q-Tip – Gets as close as anybody has to a hip hop/jazz meeting of sounds, sure closer than Branford Marsalis ever did, and Q-Tip has always

Crunkcore, a blend of hiphop, screamo, and experimental, is  a smaller genre with great potential. A questionable experiment started by BrokeNCYDE. Dot Dot Curve, who also took on the title of

I’ve been listening to Teddy Pendergrass since he died… the way you do, you know, and I’m deep into his “IT Should Have Been You when I think, I’ve heard

Ipod shuffle play list at random 3 day weekend extra bullshit edition.1) Piss Aaron-Todd Rundgren. an odd choice for the weekend kicker-offer, but this is at random. If I had

Mercury (Poisoning as Graham Parker once dubbed em) have signed Glee’s Matthew Morrison to a recording contract. I know I play pop fan to Helen’s Indie cred but some days it’s

the boys emote I’m no fan of Simple Minds (though Jim Kerr was married to Chrissie Hynde and that’s GOTTA count for something) but lest we forget: by the mid-point

London band Scanners feature Sarah Daley on bass and vocals just like me! And  what a beautiful and haunting melody on their song ‘Salvation’. Its almost Patti Smith with class.I

One of my favorite (and mysteriously un googleable here) sites is Pollstar.comI have been known to sit in front of that screen and go band by band checking on tours.My

I got an email from Mario Criscuolo from “very forward-thinking and innovative buzz marketing team called BuzzParadise” who are trying to create buzz for Carrera Sunglasses. Essentially Mario is contacting

Although not a huge Blink fan I AM a huge fan of helping others and cute clothes…….buy it ———- Forwarded message ———-From: Mike Date: Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 5:25

Death Cab For Cuties will be covering Simple Minds’ “Don’t You Forget About Me” from The Breakfast Club at part of VH-1’s The Critic’s Choice Movie Awards today at 9pm.

That’s a great article – thanks for sending me the link. I was the unofficial other sibling in the Fantina family. I am the same age/grade as Richard’s younger sister

cover bands? Contact.com reports: “IDOL SLIPS — BUT NO RIVAL COMES CLOSE After roaring back with sky-high ratings for its season debut on Tuesday, American Idol saw its numbers slump

As it happens, Lady Gaga cancelling isn’t all bad because i’d already gotten a tix to see Titus Andronicus opening for Vampire Weekend at United Palace on Sunday. I love

Now it’s official: Citing exhaustion, Lady Gaga has canceled her show Sunday night at Toyota Presents Oakdale Theatre in Wallingford, and postponed her performance Monday at Mohegan Sun. Gaga bailed

One of the greatest bands you don’t know the blue nile

Semi-Precious Metals  are opening for Lady Gaga in Connecticut and I am going to be able to review em for you, you lucky reader(s?) you…

I think I’ve got this twitter and celebrities worked out. Most celebrities can’t write more than four words in a complete sentence so twitter size sound bites is the shiz

Betraying the Martyrs, a Christian/hardcore screamo band hailing from the home of the croissant, Paris, France are without a doubt insane. “The Hurt The Divine The Light” is a catchy,

sorry about the small picture This is one not to be missed under any circumstances… by me at least!! Even though I’m gonna end up behind the stage, I just

Helen Bach SEZ: Music is a business. Yeah it may look like booze and broads but simply said.. How much bad behavior do you hear about these days? Not as