Tomorrow night I have 4th row seats for Monsters Of Folk at the United Palace and about this time will be waivering between the A and the 2 train. So in […]
Because philanthropy is problematic. It’s a no one situation and of all the things sucees can fuck with a rock star with giving back is a son of a bitch
Phoenix, Passion Pitt, Jack’s Mannequin and Manchester Orchestra is the line up for 101.9 WRXP Presents Matt Pinfield’s Holiday Extravaganza on December 2nd, 2009 at the Hammerstein Ballroom 730p.
Without a shadow of a doubt this is the news of the day!! From one of my fave websites, Live4Ever.UK.com who got it from the Indian Mail arrives this story: “4
I interview Ray Davies decades ago and he wasn’t very nice about much but he was especially emphatic on not discussing Chrissie Hynde. He wouldn’t temm me and wouldn’t tell
We haven’t seen Pete Doherty Stateside since he played for the late and very very great Libertines. His new (ha, new, six years into their career) band Babyshambles. The Libertines
Dan McGee’s the Spider Bags is the greatest band who have ever existed ever anywhere at any time or ever will. They play country rock with a swagger and a
Whitney Houston’s I Look To You may have disappointed some fans -myself included, but it didn’t devastate us: good, very good, but not Whitney. And I am sure I am
Top Ten Singles1 Watcha Say – Jason DeRulo 2 Fireflies – Owl City 3 Empire State Of Mind – Jay-Z and Alicia Keys 4 Down – Jay Sean feat Lil
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
