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Mike Nessing had this to say: It’s an all too rare moment for me when one artist comes along and takes elements of everything you’ve ever dug and sculpts it […]

The Scandinavian-American dance rock band cum world beating producers first album  called, er, Miike Snow, has been a firm fave since Remy caplan introduced me to em a coupla months

Further to U2’s playing the Brandeburg Bridge in Berlin to celebrate the 20th Anniversay of (a move Rock NYC has already dubbed arrogant and ill judged) comes word the tone deaf

I am a huge Kristoferrson fan and getting bigger all the time but let me tell you guys if you think Im funning on you hi thee to daytrotter.com and

Jann Wenner is a great magazine publisher and, with the undisbutable brilliance of Lennon Remembers, a great rock critic at some points of his life. But he is a sycophant

Rock NYC’s most exciting writer.Rock and Rolls most exciting singer.The interview you’ve been waiting for.This should everclearly be the read of the year.Soon.

Who are the champions? Sure, the Yanks, who just won the world series. But what about Queen whom as Tex caught the toss at first, blasted on to the sound

Def Leppard – Hysteria (1987)1. Women 2. Rocket 3. Animal 4. Love Bites 5. Pour Some Sugar on Me 6. Armageddon It 7. Gods of War 8. Don’t Shoot Shotgun

I can’t bare John Mayer’s voice but “Who Says” is a fun single and the little girl’s really do understand and to be honest he plays a pretty and mean

Is there a better album in the known Universe than Abba’s Gold? A greatest hits album the way Bob Marley’s Legend is a greatest hits album; a greatest hits album

Below there is a clip I got off sinatra.com. It is from the DVD portion of the upcoming 4 CD/DVD Sinatra: New York. The four CD set is a compiliation

A coupla weeks ago I predicted the Stones would be touring in 2010 and my crystal ball must be really working because talking to BBC Radio yetserday Ronnie Wood had

We toldja yesterday Bluebeat.com were selling the remastered Beatles catalogue at 25 cents a pop as MP3s and toldja to hurry… didja listen? Hope so because today EMI sued Bluebeat

Drugs work. They have been the fuel of popular music since the gitgo and they remain the divining rod of sound. Hank Williams was a drunk who OD’d on pills

Ok, heres the deal. I will probably get some slack for this.I downloaded a free song off ITunes last night. The song is “Mind Eraser, No Chaser”. Good thing it

Can people hold two opposing viewpoints at the same time? If you don’t know the answer to that you’ve never been in love! Springsteen is a joke and (with the

Rivers Cuomo of Weezer collaborated with Adam Lambert on a song on Adam’s For Your Entertainment. ““He has the kind of voice I convince myself that I have,” Cuomo said..

P. Diddy gets a bad rap (sic) because he is such a clown now but back in the day he did white boys ahuge favor: he made samples recognisable. Take

The Town Hall on West 44th,  one of the best concert halls in the city, have announced their usual mix of pop, cabaret and ecletic weirdness. Friday March 5th the

A few lines of a song written and discarded by George Harrison at Abbey Road in the sixties has been made into a song. “Silence Is Its Own Reply” is apparently a

Readers may think our argument with the Rock And roll Hall Of Fame is based solely upon a difference in taste. It isn’t at all. Like Mike Nessing, I think

The Associated Press quoted Sting discussing President Obama as follows: “”In many ways, he’s sent from God,” he joked in an interview, “because the world’s a mess.”Sting found Obama to

My friend Sandy deBellis sent me this email from PBS Channel 13. Dear Sandy, It’s Election Day in NYC and New Jersey — we hope you get a chance to

Contributing editor Mike Nessing didn’t like the name Rock NYC Hall Of Fame so we’re calling it Bands Rock NYC really really likes. And the first band to win this

George Jones is the single greatest country singer and one of the top five pop singers of the 20th Century (I rank him second, after Sinatra). In an interview with

Do Better – Say AnythingThe crits pet emo band but not mine because I always liked emo. I mean, a thousand bands taking their lead from Weezer’s Pinkerton? What’s not

Far be it for me to mock the sacharine critics at the Slate but they beg for it. Here is  Slate film critic Dana Stewart on the MJ movie  “Cut

Pretty cool, right? The cover of the upcoming Chris Brown album and at twenty years old I guess he deserves a second chance. In the States there is ONLY second

How cool is this? Stolen directly from the New York Times’ article about the Juillard School’s new secure archival storage space, this is “a manuscript of the “Kreutzer” Sonata for violin

I haven’t written it yet but I am going to be raving about Slayer’s  World Painted Blood  released today when news arrive that Slayer leader Tom Araya has cancelled their canadian

Further to my post a coupla days back about New Moon  artists playing at retail outlet Hot Topics comes word of an entire mini tour. No New York (the blood

Yesterday I nominated Serge Gainsborg, Charlotte Gainsborg’s late father, to the rock and roll hall of fame. today the Beck-Charlotte duet “Heaven Can Wait” droppedoff their January released collaboration. I

When’s the last time you purchased a new release and it made you want to call out of work so you could stay home to jump up and down on

ROCK NYC  interviews Love Grenades lead singer Elizabeth Wight at a coffee shop in the West Village. Bret Jensen orders tea for one… It’s Halloween night at the 3rd Ward

Up and coming rapper Mike Beck who has worked with Fat Joe and DJ Khaled was shot to death Friday night. Well known on the sceneBeck has worked with Raekwon,

For the first time anywhere the Beatles and AC?DC’s back catalogue is available for download. Digital music service bluebeat.com has made them available for 25 cents a song. How is

In 1975 Robert Altman was the King Of Hollywood who abdicated -the maverick improvisational director who’d shocked the world into submission with M.A.S.H. and then went his own way. But in

“It rains in your bedroom everything is wrong, it rains when you’re here and it rains when you’re gone”. Taylor’s breaking up song gets a piano workout and it’s gorgeous.

I have said more than enough nasty things about Rolling Stone Magazine in the past year to last a lifetime (except, like U2, you can’t hate em enough) so it

I know he doesn’t care because he is dead but why the hell is Tony Wilson not in the rock and roll hall of fame? Factory Records were the most

Damn. I guess I will get fooled again. Finally went on line to hear the eagerly anticipated new Dylan song that didn’t make it onto Bringin’ It All Back Home

Jonah Weiner isn’t the worst writer in the world by any stretch of the imagination. He wrote a review of the Chris Brown single last week that was simply wonderful.

I have been haunting Brooklyn Vegan since Friday hoping to post my review in the comments section of their review of the 25th Anniversary Hall of fame review. Always good

On Halloween at  Philadelphia’s Wachovia Spectrum Sports Complex, across the street the Yanks were beating the Phillies, and on this side of the street Pearl Jam were playing the last concert ever

Yeah, I know it’s a lousy pic but the video should be here somewhere. from Louisville, Kentucky on Halloween. Awww, those kids today!!! Here is the url: http://www.mergerecords.com/blog/2009/11/monsters-of-folk-play-kiss/

McCartney has written a new song for the DeNiro movie Everybody’s Fine. The movie is about a man making peace with his children and meeting his grandchildren. The song, “(I

Photograher Mick Rock is auctioning off original pictures of the late Pink Floyd musician Syd Barret for charity.The pics date from a shoot for Barret’s 1969 solo album The Madcap

Hot dance band flavor of the day is New Zealander lads Bang bang Eche. Formed in 2008, the 2009 CMJ trip was their second time does the trick and the

Weezer, “Raditude” (Geffen)Carrie Underworld, “Play On” (Sony)Slayer, “World Tainted Blood” (Sony)Foo Fighter, “Greatest Hits” (RCA)Andrea Bocelli, “My Christmas” (Phillips)Bee Gees, “Ultimate Bee Gees” (Rhino)Julian Casablancas, “Phrazes for the Young” (RCA)Steven

The thing about Julian Casablancas isn’t just that he has a great voice but that he has a very distinctive -you know it’s him before the first line is completed