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Gucci Mane is behind the new single “Spotlight” -something of a favorite of mine, as well as rapping on songs by Mariah Carey (that is Mariah $100 for seats behind […]

Offered a tix to see Dylan this Wednesday at the United  Palace? and my friend Steve Diamond offering me a tix to see Dirty Projectors on Saturday in Brooklyn. This despite

Everybody loved the Sugarhill Gang, right? “Rapper’s delight” might have been a novelty hit but it was a novelty hit that opened the floodgates for rap and hip hop. The

Sometimes famous siblings work against you. Destiny’s child was my impression of an also ran TLC without a true auteur to steer them the way Dallas Austin steered TLC. Not

Over months of writing rock nyc I have been surprised how much of my own life leaks into the reviews. Perhaps it’s inevitable that when you spend so much of

Around a year and a half ago I saw Chicago Hip Hop band band Kid Sister perform a truncated but still fun set at summerstage. Around this time wthere was

Mick Jones band, Carbon SIlicon, is giving away their new album The Carbon Bubble on their website. Or so they claim. I just wasted ten minutes of my life trying

Putting the lie to the Simpsons “the French can’t rock” is all girl Paris Quartet The Plastiscenes the girls formed during High School and played concerts as a way of

On Thursdays episode on Fast Forward the drama answered its critics complaining they were using naff cover versions when they bought popular songs for the soundtrack. They used the original

I must have misunderstand the Boss at MSG last week. The last date of the tour appears to be November 20th in Nashville… So Bobby, there’s still time….

Hot  and hip duo of the momen, CMJ breakout band  Sleigh Boys at Le Poisson Rouge this Thursday. But check the doors… I guess the other half don’t have jobs…

Wow, this sounds like a fun day at the beach. Currently on tour together in Europe: Wilco, Grizzly Bears, Feist. Just thank God it’s them instead of you.

Kathy With A K’s Song – Bright Eyes – From nearly nine years ago. Conor can’t write like this. In some ways he’s better and some way’s he’s worse but

Stories about what a nasty, arrogant bastard Art Garfunkle is are legion. But the most obvious one is related by Paul Simon on YES Networks Centerstage. “After Bridge Over Troubled

Top 10 Singles:1/ Black Eyed Peas – Meet Me Halfway2/ Leona Lewis – Happy3/ JLS – Everybody In Love4/ Cheryl Cole – Fight For This Love5/ N-Dubz – I Need

In a discussion with Love Grenades Elizabeth Wight a coupla weeks ago she mentioned she is not responsbile for the remizes released by her label. I guess it’s a decision

The Carnegie Hall Family Concert Series host, Charlotte Blake Alston, tells us to welcome the American-Indian singer with “Namasay Falu” -which is both hello and a term of respect. Falu

Remember Courtney Love when she looked like this. Fucked up, true, but way cool. Before there was Cobain there was Pretty On The Inside -an excellent punk rock album. After

Last night on Saturday Night Live, the band of the year, Black Eyed Peas, lined up like on stage like they were auditioning for a new Marvel Superhero comic, and

In 1993 I wrote a novel about a rock star who commiits suicide. It was called Gilliam Almost. Gilliam was the lead singer of an all girl punk rock band and

In the early 1990s I was dating a girl named Julie and during the break up Julie said “You don’t give enough of yourself”. And I replied “I give you

Following on comments by George Jones and Wynona Judd, Randy Travis things she’s too young for her success and Tim McGraw and Faith Hill disagree. “Taylor has a better head

In Spinner today the great Rufus Wainwright has annouced that he is working on a new album and after a full jazz orchestra for his Judy Garland AT Carnegie Hall

What was my first concert? Shouldn’t be that difficult a question, right? Well, I thought I remembered my first concert, but thanks to my mother, I’m not so sure. The

Thrre are three children and three adults sitting in a row at Radio City and five of them are having the time of their lives and one of them thinks

The country music establishment continues to be rocked by the huge success of nineteen year old Taylor Swift who has had the sort of year you can’t make up but

In the past two days I got shut out of tix to Lady Gaga, too slow for the pre-sale, too slow for the real sale. The reason was I usually

I have a job, a rather unglamorous job in a swanky euro company that’s pretty froofrrooo so when you’re scampering through the joint on a Friday and bang into a

Everything you have grown to hate about Rolling Stone is on view in their just plain terrible 25th Anniversary Issue: a self serving, self righteous piece of wank that sees

The Manhattan City Center’s Encore series is a live reading of a musical done in front of an audience for four performances only. I saw Patti Lupone kill in Pal

She’s So Unusual – Cyndi Lauper Pearl  Jam Here Come The Warm Jets – Brian Eno The Velvet Underground The Harder They come – Soundtrack Telepathe – Dance Mother One

I’ll admit to thinking that all of New York Post Chief Music Critic Dan Aquilante’s taste is in his mouth, that he is a complete suck up to anybody in

This sounds like a fun night out for the entire family. Fox News’ conservative hitman is going on tour this year on his eight annual Freedom Concert and Lynrd Sknyrd

Robert Johnson sold his soul at the crossroads to the devil to play the blue and seventy-one years later it is still paying dividends. I may not be a big

Always had a soft spot for bovva voys Slade -has anybody ever looked stupider in high heels and mascara than Noddy Holder? But they sure had their way with glam

Stillness In the Move Final – Solange Knowles – The Dirty Projectors single off Bitte Orca and New York magazine’s # 1 Brooklyn song isn’t though it is great. At

Itunes Europe have announced their best albums and singles of 2009. A read of these might convince you of two things a) this isn’t a most pooular list and 2)

“Does ought befall you, tis good. Tis part of life’s rich tapestry.” The stoic philospher and sometime Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius, back around 160 AD said that and while

So, in light of New York magazine’s the Brooklyn scene is the capital Of rock music cover today, here’s a question. What constitutes a scene? Let’s take a look at

What Janet Jackson have wrought, right? The Who are the half time band at this year’s Superbowl and here’s the good news. Eli Manning and Mark Sanchez are having an armchair

Former Face, former Small Face, sessionsmens sessionman. keyoard player’s keyboard player, member of  Billy Braggs band, the Blokes. Austin residenceand always affable Ian McClagan during his hour long set at

Lemme tell you everything that’s better on the West Coast than it is on the east coast: Warren Zevon. And he’s dead. Anything else? Nope… well, i really like Saint Motel’s

Here comes the real deal!! I’ve seen Taylor loads of time and he is always great and Carole King only once, on the Living Room Tour (with my ex whose

No Elvis, we won’t be meeting up again, but perhaps Helen will be representing Rock NYC

Thom Yorke and pals in the most highly overrated band of all time and ever Radiohead are still smart cookies. Smart enough to realize that the day of the album

Remember when the movie director Robert Zemeckis was good? No, really, before Forrest Gump during his I Wanna Help Your Hand period. I Wanna hold Your Hand takes place on

This just in from AOL Music: “The Red Hot Chili Peppers will make their first post-hiatus appearance early next year when the funky monks join a lineup of all-star acts

Got an email asking me to subscribe to a website called Flavorpill and so being the easy going fellow I am I did so. Prensented by the Bowery for some

What is this I have before me? Why it’s the Dirty Projectors TO DO LIST. Lessee how are they making out… 1. Duet with David Byrne -check2. Release best rock

My feeling about dance (techno, electronica, whatevera) today is nearly exactly the same as my feelings about jazz were twenty years ago. I love it but I don’t grasp it,