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What the heck is Artist Arena and how come I keep banging in to them? Their website indicates they’re “ A leading Artist and Fan Services Company. Utilizing technology to […]

I’m a long term fan of  Evan f Dando and his band the Lemonheads and i’ve seen him live quite often and he has always been great. For a fuck

I am vigorously agnostic when it comes to this years model TV star come rapper Drake. Drake added nothing to Mary J’s “The One”  and he added little to Jay-Z’s

Them Crooked Vuktures have threatened to release a follow up to their terrible first album. “I don’t know when we’ll do it or where or how, but it’s not something

Gin Wigmore, the New Zealand sensation who sounds like Kelis after a shot of estrogen, supported by the Cardinals (Rya Adams backing band sans Adams) , is coming here in

Bon Jovi’s newbie is a dog and now they have invited Dashboard Confessional on tour with em to flog their new album, also a dog. I can think of nothing

Rock NYC’s Mike Nessing fave Fleet Foxes are in a studio recording  studio the follow up to their critically acclaimed first album and will not be getting out till it

If you have ever seen the Apples In Stereo leader Robert Schneider in concert  you will be aware not to take his somewhat middle aged nerds visage at face value,

How times change! When I was coming up thru the punk ranks in the seventies Julien Temple was the avant garde movie maker always willing to through height impaired people

The three r’s as Mark E. Smith of the fall once sang, repetition, repetition, repetition. Whenever I’ve thought I’m missing the point of a song or a band or a genre,

When I think about Nick Drake, I’m compelled to obsess over what might have been. I arrived late to the Nick Drake party but honestly, we all did. He only

Excited by the revelation of Bobby Nevin’s love for them, Sparks have released a new album, The Seduction Of Ingmar Bergman about Bergman in Hollywood (I guess they mean the

Just in from the UK, a new Buddy Holly release reported by Richard Williams of the Guardian: “…including three versions of Little Richard’s Slippin’ and Slidin’, two of Bo Diddley’s

This is one we’ve been waiting for for months now. Black Eyed Peas play Madison Square garden Wednesday, February 24th, 2009 and since the following concert is Boston on the

Here are the musical trends that eat the cymbals that eat the drums according to pitchfork. If you wanna work on the most annoying hi thee to pitchfork.com. I don’t

In the mid-90s a tidal wave occurred in hip hop sound with Jay-Z’s Vol 2 or one side and Lauryn Hill’s Miseducation on the other leading New York and the

RIDE ON

I’ve seen Tori Amos several times on stage, loved her sometimes and didn’t love her other. This is off the NME website: “Tori Amos played an intimate solo show tonight

Early next year there will be a single and then in May 2010 Arcade fire will release their eagerly anticipated follow up to 2007’s Neon Fire. Production chores to be

Richard Nader, the rock and roll revival producer, who brought legions of great late fifties, early sixties popular performers a second career, died Tuesday at the age of sixty-one after

Here are the main categories… Pretty good right? The Grammy’s have come a long way since they were dissing the Beatles in the sixties. The one time I went (the

Pop maestro Sondre Lerche, whose Heartbeat Radio  is one of the best songs and albums of  the year, is on tour next year. Lerche almost lurches into the English, he

With the end of the disposable income as we know it, the record industry is reeling, Albun sales are down 17% since 2008. If MJ hadn’t croaked it woulda been

Every year I think hey,  Bamboozle, pretty good lineup (No Doubt headlined last year), first outdoor show of the year, why not, right? And every year it rains or storms

I have been listening with enormous pleasure to the Alan Gilbert Era Begins -an album of music by the New york Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by their new Musical director, Alan

So Jay -Z thinks his 2001 the Blueprint was the album of the decade. So I went back for a listen and guess what… it’s a really good album. Great?

Not much of a week, you know, the Lambert was a bit eeewww, not terrible mind, the Rihanna was very eh, the Bocelli is to opera singers what Lloyd Webber

Lily Allen has announced she is taking a two year hiatus from the exciting world of entertainment to set up a record label and open a retail rental fashion outlet…

On the first night of Lady Gaga’s tour in Montreal Stephanie tubled and fell off her dangerously high heels during “Teeth” squashing three centipede visitors from another planet. Everybody is

Am I missing something here? Susan Boyle’s I Dreamed A Dream entered the US Album charts at number one with an outrageous 700,000 sales, beating out Rihanna’s Rated R in

And now for the landmine of Posting: the question of racism and popular music. I lived in England till I was eleven and I don’t believe I met a single

What the fuck is an Oxford comma?

Speck and Hud need your help Speck is trying to get one million people to sign his petition urging bid daddy John Mellencamp to stop smoking. If he does John

Jay-Z claims The Blueprint was the best album of the decade. Perhaps the stratospheric egoist meant HIS BEST ALBUM OF THE DECADE. And I agree with that. Jay-Z’s Number two

Actually we read MTV News who read  the Complex Interview so you don’t have to Here are the highlights of the Eminem Interview: Please take notes THERE WILL BE A

Alicia Keys is reported as saying her new album The Elements Of Freedom is about fighting depression: She told the Daily Star: “”With the last album, I was really trying

Yesterday Deecember 1st, 2009 was World Aids Day and tix czars helped the charity by donating a portion of every ticket sold. Said a spokesperson: “After spending the past year

Bryce Avary is a humble man, too humble for a person with this amount of talent and perseverance. The force behind The Rocket Summer took a moment post sound check

Hellaphone Operator….On this particular night I have to make an urgent call to a colleague. ‘Please enjoy the music while…”Remember rings? Tonight I got some Jackson Brown! Call the Magpie

I guess when you hve the best looks and dump the cutest girlfriend you get to go on the solo tour!! Here are Nick Jonas tour dates behind Nick Jonas

Don’t miss Kid Cudi: Friday, January 22The Fillmore New York at Irving PlazaOn Sale Friday, Dec 4 at 12:00

Beyonce and kid sister the great Solange Knowles talk music all the time and it might result in some very cool music. English paper the Guardian dubbed beyonce the artist

An M. Ward album we can all get behind which doesn’t include the form of formal address Fraulein is on its way. Zooey Deschanel annouced to MTV that the sophomore

Gigwise came up with their top ten bands to replace Oasis at the top of the rock and roll scrap heap. Over here it is Radiohead versus Coldplay. Arctic Monkeys

Yuck, not much going on this week, and most of what is is a little iffy…Written In Reverse – Spoon“I’m writing this to you in reverse, someone better call a

I entirely disagree with nearly everything Helen said.  I am a 24 year old guy  who grew up in Manhattan and was a member of the soccer, baseball and swim teams

Matt Groenigs dance card for his curating activities with All Tomorrow’s Parties is filling in nicely. Booked to appear is: Panda Bear, The Residents, Deerhunter, Broadcast, Daniel Johnston, Amadou &

Holy Shit!!! Former Yardbyrds Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck are going on a mini tour together!!! Beck replaced Clapton in the Yardbyrds in 1965 and played together in Tokyo last

Helen Bach wrote: Sorry used to be the hardest word, ask Elton John Now? Well now were so sorry we’ve lost our coolThe latest news that Pete Dougherty is oh

I know I owe you a review of Big L’s # 5 album of the decade but I am still mulling it over (and you thought it was easy, right?).