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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?).

From Paul Morley’s interview in the NME: 1. New Gorillaz album called “Plastic Beach”2. Blur reunion movie No Distance Left To Run out soon. It’ll be very pop.3. As reported

Despite loving Limp Bizkits first album, Significant Other, Fred Durts always hit me as a poor man’s Adam Durwitz: sold a pack of goods about fame and fortune, Fred couldn’t follow up

The 29th annual John Lennon Tribute produced by Joe Raiolo and Theatre Within will be performed Friday December December 4th, 2009 at Symphony Space. This years guests includes David Bromberg,

Pete Doherty apologized for singing an anthem associated with Nazi germany Sunday night in Berlin.According to gigwise his spokeswoman said to Skynews. “Pete wanted to celebrate his appearance in Munich

Fearless reviewed

Helen Bach and Mary Magpie meet the Rocket Summer… soon

Since nobody with half a brain believes former Libertine, current babyshambles Pete Doherty supports Nazi policy, his singing of the first verse “Song Of German”, considered a Hitler anthem, was

Just a note on Ronnie James Dio, one of the pioneers of heavy metal. He cancelled his UK tour after beingas diagnosed with stomach cancer and is currently in treatment.  I

This CD/DVD set is from this past summer’s shows at Citi Field. I believe this set shows the opening night performance. If you buy it at Best Buy, it comes

1.Loved Metallica’s set. Thought Ozzy and Ray Davies was great. Lou Reed looked a bit out of it. Looked frail. 2.The U2 set was also great. Bono sounded amazing, never

can the nick drake re-revival be far behind? If you’re dead , I wanna hear your stuff. I’ve been looking at some of my aural preferences in the pop genre,

Hey college girls up the ying yang, lovely parks and hotels with swimming pools. And Jonathan Richman. And Passion Pit who I bet win Best Act in the Boston Music

I’ve known Darcee Nevin since she was a preteen visiting me with her father and her older  brother in the early nineties. She was a little angel than and she is

Paulie’s kid, designer Stella McCartney and nobodies baby Morrissey, both vegans as humorless as our Helen Bach, are developing a leather free shoe line together. There must be a thousand

Phish covered Rock NYC’s purveyors of its third favorite album of the decade, TV On The Radio, on November 27th, 2009. Jamming out for ten minutes. They have hereby upped

I was meant to interview the vaudevillian Billericay (well, Northern London) charmer Ian dury back in the 80s but Jean Douminian lost her role as producer of SNL back to

After a humdinger of a week last week -cpped by two releases, the Ella and drop the Line, dating from November 10th, this weeks new releases sure feel like they’re

So… Helen Bach interviewed Brandon Wronski of Eye Alaska for Rock NYC on Saturday and we posted it on Sunday and lots of people picked up on it but neither

And todays big music story is GRUNGE!!! Yep, everything old is indeed new again and after Pearl Jam’s suces estime and after Nirvana’s Live DVD and remaster of Bleach and

I understand why everybody things The Marshall Mathers LP is THE ONE. It has “Stan” -his Dido sampled expression of the difference between rapping about and committing violence, “The Way

As I work my way thru my best albums of the decade I will be reaching Big L’s The Big Picture sooner rather than later. The late member of D.I.T.C.

Beaten out by a total of three albums for first week sales ever in the UK and the best selling first album of all time, I must admit I find

Elvis Costello’s scond season of his musical talk show “Spectacle” will also be his final. “This has turned into a full time occupation” Costello explained. “And I didn’t want to

Morrissey was on Radio Four’s Desert Island Discs yesterday. Besides mentioning that he had considered suicide in the past (hardly a shocker given he has recommended it in song), his

I sent my pal Mike Nessing “Set Me Free” yesterday, the electronic dance masterpiece by Drop The Lime, and got a “not my cup of tea” in return!! I forgive

Brandon and Mary Brandon Wronski of Eye Alaska is a nice guy, in more ways than a guy his age should be. A deeply set view of almost Buddhist beliefs

A great night began with a great road race. As we flew at over 100 miles per hour ( I swear it felt like 40) to get to New Haven,CT’s

Kiss With A Fist – Florence and the Machine – Over the past coupla years the UK has thrown up the charts any number of supersmart chicks taking on the

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Here is how 2009 is shaping up for singles of the year: 1. Ink Stains – Regina Spektor2. I Gotta Feeling (David Guetta FMIF Remix) – Black Eyed Peas3. Stillness

After he changed rap he came back and stuck rap down our throat…

Did you love the Specials? Sure and I know I did. The best two tone band whose Costello produced eponymous first album and plainly titled second album More Specials, were

I haven’t finished Nick Hornby’s Juliet, Naked yet and when he is not writing about music it isn’t the worst novel I’ve ever read but when Nick is writing about

Director Richard Curtis is a talented fellow. Love Actually is a Christmas perennial, Notting Hill a daydream of a movie, and, as the man who along with Rowan Atkinson invented

Silvio Berlusconi, the Prime Minister of Italy, is in a lot of trouble because an escort he has been frequenting has gone public. One story has the PM in bed with

Six years since his heart attack, six years since his last concert, David Bowie dismissed he’d be playing the UK Glastonbury Festival in 2010. OK, guy, back to work, right…?

When brooklynnvegan.com post their best of 2009 I won’t know know most of the bands, I know Q’s but I don’t like em? Springsteen? That godawful career worse Dream album??

I was reading brooklynvegan.com when I came acroos a band I didn’t know, Screaming Females (they are opening for Arctic Monkeys, best of 2009 and filled with bands I’d never

It’s become a tradition that each year, I create a playlist for my birthday party that represents me and my friends and all the times we’ve shared. The number of

Can we take a second here for me to express my utter disgust at the new Fox series ‘Glee’, here the premise, old glee club member returns to high school

Rock NYC’s Helen Bach on the subjective nature of music criticism Cross the line writing about a girlfriend’s  abortion in a music post about a Ryan Adam’s ?  No of

Can’t say I am very thrilled with John Mayer -he sounds like Dave Mathews and plays like a baby Clapton (ok -he is a great guitarist) and comes across like

Here are highlights of the South by SouthWest Music and Media Festival to be held between March 12th and March 21st, 2010 next year… Aa (Brooklyn NY) Arms (Brooklyn NY)The

The greatest singer of all time (after Sinatra). A live performance from 1961 has just been released by Verve. We’re gonna talk about it soon.

We can’t all be former Creem editor Lester Bangs but some of us are more like him than we are like, say, New York Times Jon Parales. What I mean

When Mike isn’t writing for Rock NYC about music he is writing mostly about cooking on his own blog Dancing About Architecture. Here, for the first time anywhere, he cooks

On December 14th, 2009 the Clash’s world proclaimed masterpiece London Calling. I had bought the 25th year anniversary but might plonk down the loot on this one as well though

In March of 2010 it’ll be three years since Arcade Fire released their last album, the excellent The Neon Bible. Since then the only new release I’ve heard has been