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People don’t really like to know the truth but here it is: The Blueprint 3 was terrible, the live set at MSG was OK but nowhere near as good as […]

After disappearing to her boyfriend’s house all Christmas I received a flurry of texts and after deciphering em I realized they were a directive to buy some songs. So I

The Book Stripped Bare

As promised I went to songmeanings.com for the lyric to Modest Mouse’s “History Sticks To Your Shoes”. First the lyric, than an ecplanation At the movies, eyes iced over Walking

I’ve had this problem since I got Ella Fitzgearld’s 12 Nights In Hollywood and I can’t find the answer. Because it is undoubtedly is the best music I’ve heard this

Working On A Dream – Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band It takes a lot to make an album this bad. You have to deeply believe in it, you

On line at Itunes yesterday Kesha’s “Tik Tok” beat Jay-z’s terrible “Empire State Of Mind” as most downloaded single of the day. So let’s call it a moral vicory. Well

“I got nothing against the young country stars but I could use more fiddles and steel guitars” -Larry Gatlin on “Johnny Cash Is Dead (And His House Burnt Down)”

Gonna keep the review down to a coupla words if I can Young Adult Friction – The Pains Of Being Young At Heart – Pun of the year. Higher Than

I wrote about the ticket merger earlier this week. What follows is an email I received from ticketdisaster.org There’s a train wreck about to happen and consumer groups say YOU

Christmas is over and Bono and is smug merry band og meglamaniac mates have released the track list of their much dreaded remix album of No Hope Under The Horizon.

Vic Chestnutt, the Athens, Ga singer-songwriter, killed himself today. The man, who has been paralyzed since he was 18 years old after a car accident, is well known and greatly

It’s a family affair

I read about Kelly Hall-Tomkins in the New York Times around a week ago. She is the professional violinists who has been playing at homeless shelters for the past five years. Ms.

When it comes to greatest Chrismas albums of all times I’ll buy Phil Spector’s A Christmas Gift For You but as much as I love it the album I prefer

On the first day of Christmas Rock NYC gave to us,An amazing blog on the internetOn the second day of Christmas Rock NYC gave to us2 Bands from Berk leeOn the third day

Maybe “The Climb” woulda been an improvement 1945 Issy Bonn I’m In Love With Two Sweethearts 1946 Frank Sinatra Five Minutes More 1947 Lou Preager • Jimmy Leach An Apple

“If you wanna be happy in a million ways…” Back in the day Marie Lynn would sing “There’s No Place Like Home For The Holidays” for me every Christmas. The first

Tis the season right? These guys changed the word The Sex Pistols – It’s hard to remember today. In the middle of a recession forcing retail to close two days

Merry Zemas

You needn’t worry about us We can look after ourselves We’ve learnt not to rely On You or anyone else

As I write, Emusic is is negotitations to be sold to Best Buy or Rhapsody. EMusic is a major distributor of alterntaive MPs. Emusic, a coupla times larger than LaLa,

So many right? Fucking Ryan Adams had to get happy, didn’t he? But his five solo albums from 2000 to 2005 were some of the most relentlessly, heartbreaking, wrecked, destroyed,

It is available on strummerville.com and it is pretty, isn’t it?

Ella Fitzgerald’s “I’m Glad There is You”, Love Via Dance Machine’s “Chapter Two”, and T.Pains (I just reached the T’s in the never ending best of the decade list) “Change”

Saint Motel – Forplay EP(2009) – Sorta anti-LA art glam rock with great visuals. Santogold – Santogold (2008) – An America M.I.A. but I don’t know why.Scissor Sisters – Ta-Dah

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My only problem with the New York Post’s music editor Mary huhn is she doesn’t write often enough any more. Whenever I see her byline I read what she has

My fave indie label is Odessa Records out of Durham, North Carolina. This is real indie. It is inevitable that college kids making a record label who choose a clutch

I was invited to view the show Grease at the Oakdale Theatre in Wallingford CT last Friday night, and you could say I was excited as I ran down the

Alex Badanes visiting from the future Social media can be so cozy sometime. Alex Badanes the upbeat guitarist of Love Via Dance Machine was able to stop dancing long enough

just for the heck of it ‘Magical Mystery Tour’ ‘Drive My Car’ ‘Jet’ ‘Only Mama Knows’ ‘Flaming Pie’ ‘Got To Get You Into My Life’ ‘Let Me Roll It’/’Foxy Lady’

Wow, has it been six years since Johnny Cash died? Depressing shit, right? And, as I like to add at moments like this, Donald Trump is still alive. Go figure. Cash died

According to U2’s brain The Edge: “There aren’t going to be any record labels in a few years if things carry on the way they are, because CDs – that

R. Kelly – Chocolate Factory (2003) – On his very next album R. Kelly would make a profound ass of himself pretending to be the next Stevie Wonder but Chocolate

The death of the album is a pretty tricky issue. Are you suggesting a world of only” hits”? I have alot of weird theories and a very strict law on

Ought To be More Songs About That – Montgomery GentryThese creepy Kentucky country shitkickers deserve having the shit kicked out of em. At least Troy Gentry is. Troy is the

“There aren’t going to be any record labels in a few years if things carry on the way they are, because CDs – that industry is pretty much all over,”

Speaking of not buying albums, I am four tracks deep into Screaming Females April 2009 album Power Move and pretty impressed. The sound changes from track to track but on

It’s official. I no longer buy albums. It’s over man. Now I buy tracks off albums and if I am wowed enough will gadate to a full length album. And

Adam’s Songs Of the YearBoom Boom PowTik TokUse SomebodyBad RomanceSoberWhat I think: Yuck to “Sober” and “Use Somebody” Otherwise the kid is on to something Adam’s Album Of The YearThe

We scooped  AP on the Pete Doherty drug charge story… AP had the story at 325pRock NYC had it at 1256p. Wow, imagine how we’d do if we had any

Born in Ankara Turkey in 1952…. John Mellor was  just a little rich boy and a chance to go to art school. He moved around a lot. He wrote songs,

1. I Dreamed A Dream – Susan Boyle2. My Christmas – Andrea Bocelli3. Glee Season One: The Music4. Fearless – Taylor Swift5. Play On – Carrie Underwood6. The Fame –

My fellow Rock NYCers have been raving about Love Via Dance Machine for long enough for me to give them a listen with the clear understand I am not, how

Following in the footsteps of Norway and Turkey and heading straight to the US, the UK Competition Commission have approved the merger of Ticketmaster and Live Nation. I guess the

The news of Brittany Murphy -Eminem’s love interest in 8 Miles, death due to a drug overdose, follows on the most shocking death of the year. The untimely and drug

In writing for Rock NYC this year, I’ve picked on some easy targets in my columns. The Black Eyed Peas, Britney Spears, Rage Against the Machine… All of these groups

1. Empire State Of Mind – Jay-Z and Alicia Keys2. Tik Tok – Kesha3. Bad Romance – Lady Gaga4. Replay – Iyaz5. Fireflies – Owl City6. Sexy Chick – David

My fave rock critic of the year who doesn’t write for Rock NYC is Chris Weingarten. He is the guy who listened to and reviewed under Twitter word count 1000 albums