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Nearly thirty years ago I reviewed Buddy Holly: For the First Time Anywhere for the East Village Eye. At the time I wrote that I had listened to Holly all […]

Music Radar have announced their choices for the greatest riffs of all time. Let’s consider the riff a series of notes preceded by a chord progression and see if we

Ryan Adams – For being so miserable then and so happy now. David Guetta and Will I Am for inventing a different type of sample Brett’s interview with Love Grenades.

How the hell do you follow that post? Happy Thanksgiving. Heres hoping you were surrounded by people or things you love and that you were thankful for at least one

I have no great love for thanksgiving and the reason is I lost something around that date several years ago. I’ve mentioned that a girl named Julie haunts this blog

Sir Paul McCartney revealed in an interview recently that he almost quit the Beatles circa, probably 1965. A story which is the equivalent of Japanese almost won w=WWII but hey

The lead Vampire in the Twilight Saga Robert Pattinson has told the daily newspaper Paris Match that he is planning to a record a few of his songs once he has

empty chevy just saw the weirdest show in forever. We made sure to get their early to see Crime in Stereo a 5 pc band from Long Island NY. Something

Gene Clark was in the Byrds. No he’s not the dude with the funny glasses, that was Roger McGuinn. He’s not the guy in the suede fringe hunting jacket either,

who is that handsome teen in overalls and acne? The band above were called Flip City. Mr Costello won’t be interviewing Flip City on the second season of IFC’s Spectacle. Instead he’ll be

Spin Magazine invited themselves to Vampire Weekends’ Ezra Koenig’s living room in  Brooklyn. It looks awful tidy to these eyes!!! Anyway if you wanna read the details check out Spin.com.

An uproarous spoof of the Beatles, imagining how they’ll be remembered 1000 years from now is available on youtube.comYes, relive the glory days of John Paul, Greg and Scottie before

Beyonce announced at her last UK gig yesterday that she plans to be back in a year with a new album. It is to be called Two Hit Singles And

Ever since AP reported yesterday  that the Grammy’s had inducted twenty-five new songs to their hall of fame I have been in search of the names of the nineteen songs not

Firmly in the running to win the award as best rock band of the year Titus Andronicus are playing a New Year’s Day at 130am at Mercury Lounge so if you

As reported earlier today, Bill Flanagan got the scoop of the year from Bob Dylan for NASN (see earlier post). In one of the most carefully conducted, supremely sagacious interviews

Earlier today I posted on the live performance at the White House’s first State Dinner for the Prime Minister of India. I also mentioned A. R. Rahman played. What i

Centrifugal Motion – Harper Blynn I got busy yesterday and decided to leave my new music releases round up a day. The result? Harper Blynn took Animal Collective’s place as

My comment was mainly about personal preference. I hate fake drums. For me, I need to hear a real snare drum, and a real floor tom. Otherwise it’s a turn

We wondered what President Obama had on his Ipod a coupla months ago but we left out Jennifer Hudson!! At his first State Dinner last night here were the musical

In their mission statement NASNA state: “NASNA exists to support and cultivate an effective, self-sustaining street newspaper network that promotes power and opportunity for people living in poverty”.I am sure

GMTV is the very popular syndicated morning show in the UK> Marian Carey is an out of control diva. GMTV Katey Garraway ratted the diva out to the daily  mirror -a

Here is Popeaters best songs of the decade and say what you will about it, it is a hear and now snapshot of a then and now song and though

OK are you sicker of hearing me rave about Tigercity or daytrotter.com more? Now, you don’t hasta choose, Brooklyns pride and joy and the best website in the Universe have

“yes iman you do measure up” Back in the UK, Susan Boyle, Britian’s Got Talent, 1st runner ups first album is about to be the best selling debut album of

50 cents is a clever fellow and talented. But G Unit sucks live and he isn’t in the same league as Jay-Z and every time, whether for fun or money,

Jerry Lee was looking a little tired when I saw him in the mid 90s thuught he could still do it and how (blew Chuck Berry away on a fabulous

A guitar is an instrumentA drum set is an instrument.A drum machine is an instrument. And while a good one may make you sound better even the best one will

Little Boots is the phenomenal myspace talent from england. Sorta Lily Allen without the bad ass ness and with a better drum machine. At noon today tix are going on

This out of England, Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Joe Perry and Brad Whitford of Aerosmith in the studio. This would be the supergroup to end all supergroups. Let’s hope they

Three years of touring in this is how Bruce and the E Street Band said goodbye in Buffalo, November 22nd, 2009.Wrecking BallThe Ties That BindHungry HeartWorking On A DreamGreetings From

Between the been there done that “Bad Romance” and the extended genius of “Telephone”, Lady Gaga’s The Fame Monster is, at forty minutes or so in length, much more than

yeah, small pics, but happy birthday, baby…

I’m floored.Pick U Up, a Lambert / Cuomo pairing? I had to blank out the fact that this song is being performed by a game show contestant. I think the

Before and after One of the most popular bands EVER, UK trip-hop .grounp Massive Attack are to release their eagerly anticipated follow up to 2003’s 100th Window, Heligoland. Massive Attack

Coldplay’s bassist Guy Berryman is readying the release of his first single with his side band Apparatjik “Electric Eye” November 30th, 2009. Apparatjik includes members of Ah-ha and Mew and

According to Nikolai Fraiture on Twitter, he and manager Ryan Gentles spent yesterday looking at studios for the Strokes to begin recording their eagerly anticipated fourth album.

Hot on the heels of Rock NYC’s shout out comes news Shirley Manson played a benefit gig in Holywood to help children with concert. Along with folks like Tom Merello,

Yes, it is but no romance is more boring. The deliriously wonderful Los Campesinos third song off their some time coming third album is due to be released february 15th,

ABC Network cut the Adam Lambert man kiss from its West Coast feed and when Lambert  calls it  discrimination he has more than a point. The world goes wink, wink, nudge

I love Amy Winehouse and the saddest thing in pop music in the past coupla years has been watching her crash and burn. So it was a great deal of

Not a bad little thanksgiving week starring Adam “I Kissed A Boy” Lambert and the she wolf her self, plus a Tom Petty compilation fo live performances over hours and

Spoon are ignoring NYC on a quick series of dates pre their new album Transference’s releaseJanuary 26th, 2010. though they are getting as close as Boston they have chosen to

Shinobi Ninja’s covert acts of war are against all types of musical mediocrity imaginable. A dance, hip hop, punk mash up band born at a recording session in Hell’s kitchen

Happy to take my lead from the great Ms. Bach, who correctly castigated Rock NYC for ignoring what may be the best New York band of all time and would

Sinead O’connor is such a controversial figure it is ridiculously easy to convince yourself she’s a joke and a mess; a rock and roll apostate who can’t keep herself together.

At MSG last month I couldn’t get a tix for love or money under $250 for the Kiss concert, on Kiss’ fall tour they are selling seats for $14.75. At

Last year we got Lady Gaga just before she hit big, this year everybody has already hit big so spend Owl City’s set searching for a men’s room. Taylor SwiftJohn

Jim Farber in the New York Daily News has given Adam Lambert’s debut album For Your Entertainment a four star review. Lambert “never offers just one hook where he can

Top 10 Albums:1/ Leona Lewis – Echo2/ JLS – JLS3/ Queen – Absolute Greatest4/ Robbie Williams – Reality Killed The Video Star5/ The Black Eyed Peas – The End6/ N-Dubz