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I’ve done nothing but run into Elvis Costello all year long and with the exception of a great opening song at Beacon cover of “My Resistance Is Low” and a […]

Bob Jovi,  “The Circle” (Island)Tori Amos, Midwinter Graces (Universal)AC/DC, Backtrack (Sony)Switchfoot, “Hello Hurricane” (Atlantic)The Killers, “Live At The Albert Hall” (Island)Anthrax, “Among the Living” (Island)Brian Culbertson, “Live from the Inside”

As reported in Rock NYC November 6th and ending any speculation, Steve Tyler has quit Aerosmith after forty years. Guitarist Joe Perry claims Tyler just got up and left. “He

Jerry Fuchs, just back from playing drums with psychedelic indie band Masarati, died Sunday morning, trying to jump out of a stalled elevator in downtown Brooklyn. He was thirty-four years

When not helping Lil Wayne record the worst rap of his career, Rivers Cuomo is hawking Wuggies, which are snuggies with the Weezer logo, those blankets with holes for your

I finally got around to downloading Charlotte Gainsbourg ‘s mp3 single off her January release with Beck.Tribal drums meets disconnected Gainsbourg vocals and a ringing telephone. This is what they

Albums released this week:Biffy Clyro – ‘Only Revolutions’Githead – ‘Landing’Lupe Fiasco – ‘Super Fiasco Bros’Robbie Williams – ‘Reality Killed The Video Star’Shirley Bassey – ‘Performance’Snow Patrol – ‘Up To Now’Singles

Jon Bon Jovi to appear on the the season Premiere of James Liptons popular interview show Inside The Actors Show, November 16th, 2009. Jon Bon Jovi is yo action what

Between canxd shows, fainting episodes, and stints in hospital, Morrissey’s 2009 UK has been hardly the adventure of a lifetime and on Saturday night in Liverpool it reached a quick

Rock NYC writer discusses Minus The Bear whose “Into The Mirror” currently holds the # 1 spot in Canada’s Hot 100.Seattle quartet Minus the Bear is one of those bands

Bodies – Robbie Williams – Robbie is having some year between fighting with various members of Oasis, reforming Take That, his first new music in three years and on the

World – I  Got The Feeling – Black eyed Peas USA – Wadya Say – Jason DeRulo Canada – Into Thr Mirror – Minus The Bear Europe – Sexy Chick

Australian politicians, apparently tired of explaining why their soldiers are in Afghanistan, are going after Britney Spears on tour down under. Apparently they are shocked, shocked, to discover Spears lipsynching

After the Monsters Of Rock concert Marie Lynn and I did the same thing. We went back to check out what we owned of Matt Ward in the fear we

So I get home from the Bruce concert around 1245am so I’m too late to catch young Taylor Swift on SNl, right? Wrong. I just hit restart and the program

During the encore last night, the bit where they all link hands at the edge of the stage, Bruce Springsteen’s wife, Patti Scialfa, whisper to her husband “That was a

I had a really hard time remembering my first real arena style concert. I had to call my sister to fact check.I know I saw Elton John in the giant

As a wee tween with the brain size around a hundredth of Mary Magpie’s at the same age,  I loved comic books and loved Spiderman more than all the others. Kinda

Son beating MJ papa who will be soon in the running for the most reviled man in show biz since Ike Turner croaked has requested 20K a week from his

Now I am far from a Kanye West hater… indeed, I’ve loved everything he has ever recorded. BUT writer Dave Cowen has every right to have outrageous fun in the current

One of the pleasures in waiting for Bruce Springsteen’s concert tonight in which is he playing his  almost nothing but fun The Wild, The Innocent, And th E Street Shuffle

I got this from today’s Page Six. Counting Crow’s bafflingly succesful ladies man and Counting Crows lead singer Adam Duritz and bafflingly attracted to Duritz lovely young actress Emma Russum

Our youngest and sharpest contributor Mary Magpie (or Bach Junior to all you Helen Bach fans -Mary is Helen’s daughter ) shares her take on the Mayday Parade concert reviewed

The warning was on the wall. “MOF request no picture or video recording or using of cell phones”. And they meant it too. Throughout the overlong set the poor employees

OMG, is that really you Helen? I wore a suit just for the interview… A Message from Helen Bach YAY ROBERT! I freakin totally forgot aboug Sparks!! Thank you for

Iman Lababedi Says:Once a proponent of No New York back in the day I retain a taste for the quirky, the off-beat, and the bent. Longtime readers may remember my

Led Zeppelin August 17th, 1969 Oakdale Theater, Wallingford, CT. Mustard Family opened, I was seven! Page was dressed in pink velvet. Plant improvised some lyric about “tying her up” during

AP Fall Ball Toads Place New HavenYou Me at SixSecret HandshakeSet Your GoalsMayday ParadeThe Academy Is…I love Alternative Press (AP) Magazine. We actually have a mailbox fight once a month to

I first saw Sparks on one of those concert programs. I don’t think it was Don Kirchner’s Rock Concert, but something like it. I had never heard of them before

After you’ve opened all your gifts and eaten all your food and even gone to church, gather the family around the PC and read ROCK NYC’s review of  the Metroplitan

“I’d like to be recognized a little bit i guess, i guess everybody would you know’. – Curt Boettcher As the saying goes, “There’s a broken heart for every light

The story I’m hearing out the Aerosmith camp is a) they are continuing the tour without Steve Tyler, b) they are splitting up, c) they are going on indefinite hiatus,

Here is my explanation of life: somedays you’re the ice on the vanilla and sometimes you’re the vanilla on the ice. Twenty years after “Ice Ice Baby” Robert Van Winkle

Fucked Up’s Damian Abraham is taking the money he won from the Polaris Music Prize (given to the best Canadian album based solely upon merit) to re-record the godawful charity

Here are some Metacritics ratings to help you dawdle your way through Friday afternoon. Hardly a shocker but neither Spider Bags albums are here, let alone Americans In France… I’ll only comment when

Helen Bach says:“k what the heck is this Owl City lighting bug crap everyone is woo’ing about its freakin sub par rip off Death Cab for Cutie, right down to

Watching Jeter on Letterman and it was driving me crazy. Who does this guy remind me of? I’m thinking and thinking and than Jeet makes a smart ass comment and

I have been saying  Elvis Costello is the least funny person in the world since sufferring though his “God’s Comic” give the world to the monkees monologue  time after time circa

One of the great songs of the year was Fabolous’s supremely ecstatic “Imma Do It” with Kobe off his severely underrated Loso’s Way. Though for some obsure reason it isn’t

Here is Amazons somewhat early best albums of 2009. I can see this being one persons personal list but I can’t see it being an overview by any stretch of

A different kinda nightcrawler… Gangsta Gangsta – Mike Beck – Off his Corner Da Market album from 2007. It is a sad fact of life that the best think a

If you’re a fan of the 80s/early 90s (the music, the look, etc…) you will love the show Rock of Ages. This show stars Constantine Maroulis, who does a absolutely

Linkin Park Best Live Act. Really? I saw em at an Anger Management tour a coupla years and apparently they have improved by leaps and bounds as their music has

You had your chance and at 25 cents a song it was the chance of a life time. But a judge in the UK didn’t buy bluebeat.com’s claim they were

As reported yesterday, U2 and Jay-Z played last night at the eastern side of the Brandeburg bridge. here is a pic I took from New Musical Express. I thought they’d

I was sorry to hear that jazz club the Village Gate owner Art D’Lugoff died on Wednesday at the age of eighty five. The Village Gate at the corner of

Rock NYC got an email from Paul Finn, the owner of Odessa records. He wrote: “You don’t know me but I just released the Spider Bags’ newest single “Teenage Eyed”

The Question of philantropy becomes why should rock stars give back? Think of it. Unless its a tax shelter its for more press, or guilt. Maybe one or two have a sense of

Cat Stevens folked his way onto the British music scene in appx 1966. Yes, years and years of work til he ‘made it’. Theres debate on what he cracked the

U2 just completed a mini-set on the side that was once East Berlin to commemorate  the 20th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. “Mayor Of New York” Jay-Z