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Lady Gaga finished taping her Oprah performance a couple of hours ago, she didn’t discuss the fainting episode and is apparently up and running!!

According to New Musical Express Jay Reatard’s sudden death at the age of twenty-nine is being investigated as a possible homicide. This is what NME posted: “According to My Fox

Brian Eno will be the subject of a new BBC FOUR documentary set to debut at the end of the month. One report online says that Eno will provide “unprecedented

At the premiere for the Blur documentary “No Place Left To Run”, Damon Albarn admitted the making of Blur -their usually successful brit breakthrough was a blur due to heavy

Rock NYC perennial fave Chrissie Hynde is reportedly in the studio as we type working on a new solo record.Hynde has very high praise for the project claiming it to

sorry, i can’t find a picture of singer-songwriter bobby charles Singer-Songwriter Bobby Charles, the man who wrote “See you Later, Alligator” as well as hits Fats Domino and Bill Haley

In the first class lounge of British Airways, on her way to the States for the Oprah Winfrey Show, Susan Boyle picked up a a mop and started belting out

River Cuomo, who has been LA rehabbing from his injury in a car accident twittered as follows: “Doctor says my lung is all healed – cleared to fly to Florida

Lady Gaga collapsed due to dehydration though exhaustion is probably more like it and cancelled her concert in Indiana. The docs say she needs bed rest for a coupla days.

is that a gun in your pocket Speaking of bands I kinda forgot about last year, Semi-Precious Metal’s are a glam hard rock band extravaganza sorta like New York Dolls

So after reading about my friend  Richard Fantina’s death I went to the hell hole known as Terminal 5 at 8pm and discovered Casablancas wasn’t going on till 1045pm. So

Killing time before the Julian Casablancas concert last night i went onto Facebook and I noticed one of those pics in the corner that said you haven’t contacted Richard Fantina

A smug Simon always annoys me, but lately he’s been getting on my nerves more and more. Sigh, a judge is a judge. And with the people who dress up

Lets face it MTV sucks- All of the programing under this umbrella is now just teen directed dram and real life crapBut have you spent any time with Fuse? OK

Wake Up PlaylistRemember Alarm clocks? Yeah that all to happy shrill of rise and shine. Well there was a time I didn’t need a clock I woke on my own,

I’m going to Boston Sunday.. to see Love Via Dance Machine a the Middle East Club.Crazy man its a 1pm show, if you’re in the area you should go. We

Helen Bach wrote:Driving home tonight the Magpie and I are less that upbeat feeling the drag of a tough week. Radio on softly we aren’t even listening just discussing if

From small things, baby. Wycliff jean has done with his success something worth doing with his success and since Tuesday his non profit organization Yele Haiti has raised one million

Left and Right In The Dark – Julian Casablancas – I’ve been reading the live reviews… uh oh!Love T.K.O. – Teddy Pendergrass – This R&B ballad is so destressed, “I

It’s been two months since Monsters Of folk ended their tour and except for a twitter later prover to be fake not a word from the rock hero. I’m guessing

This is what Axl sang last night in Winnipeg Set List: “Chinese Democracy” “Welcome to the Jungle” “It’s So Easy” “Mr. Brownstone” “Shackler’s Revenge” Richard Fortus Spotlight “Live and Let

Nothing I love more than good music criticism and here is Stephen Dalton of Timesonlin.co.uk writing about Julian Casablancas voice: “soothingly melodious, fuzzy-warm, honey-drenched growl”. Well put… 

I wrote a coupla weeks ago that Robin Thicke wished he was Will Downings. Will Downings wishes he was Teddy Pendergrass. Teddy Pendergrass died yesterday at the age of 59

The awesomeness that is Rhino Handmade will be releasing A limited edition box set of that under appreciated pop gem The Birds, The Bees And The Monkees Release date is

It isn’t that Julian Casablancas Phrazes For the Young is a bad album. Sure, the experiments are shit, and a lot of the songs are B listers, but here and

scared yet? We have been discussing cover songs lately but what about cover people? Tribute bands aren’t for the faint of heart that’s for sure. Beatlemania had a great run

The new M.I.A. “Space Odyssey” sounds like the remix rather than the original of whatever it is. I listened to it on pitchfork news and it is a very old

. “He created an undeniably classic album that contained so much pain transfered (sic) to tape in such an explosive way that it made you feel different after hearing it.

This post is reprinted from Gigwise “The artist behind the artwork on Ladyhawke’s eponymous debut album is auctioning off a painting to help victims of the Haitian earthquake. Artist Sarah

“Even after our first album went gold, I never got any good looking chicks. Black Sabbath was a blokes band … We used to joke that the only groupies that

seperated at birth: toby keith and trace adkins Toby Keith’s hugely successful Show Dog Nashville has merge with Universal Records and the first signing? Hugely succesful Trace Adkins. Adkins bailed

Here is Jay-Z on how he writes raps: “It comes from me trying to tell the story in the most clear, concise and truthful way — taking those everyday words

After telling People she thought her first album will be bigger than Thriller, the clearly wobbly reality star (Star?) had this to say. “I’ve spent over $1 million, almost $2

I was also at the Joes Pub concert. Falu is a New York based sing and song writer whose music blends ancent Indian melodies with contemporary western sounds.  She is

edgy… not British Broadcasting Corporation, a Goverment owned entity, have admitted their poathetic U2=BBC campaign to coincide with U2’s entirely forgettable fire No Line On The Horizon amounted to GOVERMENT

Teddy Pendergrast, one of the greatest soul singers of all time, has died of colon canvcer at the age of fifty-nine. The great man who came out of the Philadelphia

One of the funnest things about buying a tix for an upcoming concerts is going back to the musician in question and listening to their material again. Which is what

Regular readers must be pretty sick and tired of the constant arguing between the writers at Rock NYC as to the importance of sales in forms of popular music The

I was saddened to hear the wild garage rocker Jay Reatard died in his slip last night at the age of twenty-nine.I am frankly quite shocked -he reminded me of all

The second dumbest rock crit on the planet hit new levels of asinity on his preposterous Rap and Art piece in Slate. Jonah Weiner is first impressed that rappers like

The overnights are in and AI did a ridiculous 29.9 Million Viewers that while 2% lower than last year are unheard of for anything other than specials the Oscars (which it would

I take more shit for what I like than most. Everyone a critic and everyone has something to say.Everyone knows better and everyone is wiser and some dumb fucks even

American Idol? Not the show the majority of kids in my school watch, it’s more like House or Glee or Secret Life of the American Teenager. When asking why, the

stolen off rolling stone… Set list: “White Sky” “Holiday” “Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa” “I Stand Corrected” “M79″ “California English” “Cousins” “Run” “A-Punk” “One (Blake’s Got a New Face)” “Taxi Cab”

Why don’t you like me helen? im such a sweetie… US Top Five Albums1. Animal – Ke$ha2. I Dreamed A Dream – Susan Boyle3. The Fame – Lady Gaga4. The

US courts have allowed the revival of an old court case claiming price fixing by the major labels who, in case you forget, control the prices on 80% of the

W. Edwards Deming once said that a dream without courage is delusion.America –  Notoriously bad at math – reversed the equation last night and showed that their dream equaled courage

I am off to see Julian Casablancas at (UGH) Terminal 5.In the interim Julian is pissed at his record label, RCA: “”The people change all the time. They’re nice, they’re

A writer named Bob Claster has put together a website chock full of MP3 files of live performances by Judee Sill.They range from BBC radio to TV performances on the