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One difference between men and women is that women like to like the people they fuck and men don’t give a fuck. I was surprised when Elizabeth Wight called herself […]

Buying a Kindle changed my life in at least one way: I can’t seem to finish a book anymore. I currently have a few running at the same time and

Tom Joad is like Joe Hill. Both have songs written about em and both are immortal, Joad living among the oppressed, Hill among the organizers. Both were Union supporters. But

1 Fight For This Love – Cheryl Cole 2 Bad Boys – Alexandra Burke featuring Flo Rida 3 Oopsy Daisy – Chipmunk 4 Bodies – Robbie Williams 5 Million Dollar

Adam Lambert’s “Time For A Miracle” is front, back and center in the trailer for the upcoming disaster flick 2012 and Lambert’s low cult how operatic soap song via Freddie

Juliet – LMNT – Taylor Swift namechecked these runn-ups from Making the Band earlier this week. If you’re gonna manufacture yourself a band (LMNT got their name from a contest in

The world at large is getting a big sick of Kid Cudi’s egocentric behavior. Calling out Ghostface Killah was the last straw. But nobody is so sick that the news of

At the conclusion of a rehearsal duet on “I Can’t Stop Loving You”, MJ loses it and begins to really sing his heart out hitting  every note and singing  directly from the heart.

A day after Mick Jagger shared the mick (sic) with Fergie on the East Coast, Phish played their traditionally inclined Halloween complete album, Exile On Main Street,  from one end to

Fresh from England comes news that former Clash guitarist Mick Jones and former Clash drummer Topper Headon and uniting to re-record “Jail Guitar Doors”. Quite why they are doing this

Last night Bret Jensen went to a Halloween party at Danger in Brooklyn to watch Love Grenades. Me? I stayed home and watched the Yanks beat the Phillies. But something

A coupla months ago I laughed at Time Out in this very blog. I was sneering at their overestimation of Dirty Projector’s Bitte Orca and I’ve been eating my words

Conducting an interview with a musician for the first time in decades had me thinking about the symbiotic nature of the conduct between rock critics and musicians. It is one of

Taylor Swift put her playlist on Itunes this week and here it is!!! Apparently all her taste is in her mouth because this is as lame a playlist as I’ve ever

Vampire Weekend are playing a show so tiny tonight in LA, they coulda played it in their parents living room!! But youre not going because it’s too late… sorry Rock

Hell hath no fury like Helen Bach thwarted in her ongoing quest for a great underground rock band… I am a big fan of the ‘underground’ I take great pride

Joe Firstman seems like he’s been around a while , with several releases to his credit. He also did some late night TV work. So he certainly must have some

Elizabeth Wight’s secret takes a while to become clear -it would’ve helped if she was blonde. Wight’s secret is she is the epitome of a Californian girl. It’s been a

Chrissie Hynde is a Goddess. Lets start there. Everything else is just filler.Chrissie Hynde lead singer front woman head engineer visionary songstress activist HERO was born in 1951. Shes old.

Suede were the birthers of the entire Brit Pop movement -a glam pop quartet with a lead singer who looked hotter than Bryan Ferry and sounded like Bovie circa Station

Helen Bach  dragged herself away from writing her eagerly anticipated Chrissie Hynde postt (Chrissie and Helen are Vegans so I’m hoping she’ll allow herself to be distracted from music long

I remember reading a coupla years ago about 80s tween phenom Tiffany on a shoppong mall tour. At the time I thought it was first rate idea and wondered why

In an earlier post I mentioned Graham Nash dubbing the Hall of Fame 25th Fame Anniversary concer Woddstock. Not Woodstock. Maybe Live Aid. I couldn’t get a tix to yesterday’s

In anticipation of the first Rock NYC interview ever, Bret Jensen and my  conversation with the Love Grenades later today, I went in search of more info about the band

Last week Mike Nessing and I were debating the use of cover songs on the ABC Network sci-fi procedural Fast Forward. I claimed the use of a cover as opposed

This is the downside of having the world so closely focussed upon you. On the heels of a very succesfull CMJ, deafening buzz surrounding them and the likes of Michael

I loved Public Image Ltd. with all my heart from  1st Edition to the Flowers Of Romance but despite an Afrika Bambata here and a rise there thought when John Lydon

Quite a year for young Taylor, right? A wolf of her own and a Platinum Edition of Fearless, what else can a girl ask for for. I’m a diehard Swifter

In 2007 Spoon released their very well received Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, an album I’ve spent two years on the fence over. In the interim there has been a

I got an email from my friend Chris Keidel today. It read: You guys will go nuts if you can go see this – it runs thru the end of

Here is the setlist from last night:Crosby, Stills and Nash – Woodstock /Marrakesh Express / Almost Cut My Hair Crosby, Stills, Nash and Bonnie Raitt – Love Has No Pride Crosby,

During Bruce Springsteen’s “The Ghost Of Tom Joad”at the 25th Year Anniversary of the Hall Of fame concert last night at Madison Square Garden, former Rage Against the Machine was

As any self respecting music lover knows the mixed tape is an amazing gift to receive as well as give. Its funny how many relationships began with a song or

Last nights concert began at 8pm, ended at 130am, and was, essentially, four one hour sets plus guests. The sets were by Crosby Stills and Nash, Paul SImon, Stevie Wonder

For this column, I was tasked with assembling thoughts on the music that was playing when I (and an anonymous group of others) first “got intimate”. This thought bothered the

Best Bootlegs? Around the time Dylan’s Bootleg series vol 1 – 3 was released I picked up something dubbed The Real Bootleg Series and it was pretty hot stuff. Like

Andrew Hoover is 21 years old. Looks like he’s from Fairfield County, CT and probably whips up quite a good meal. That’s because in addition to playin’ and singin’ he’s

U2 will be performing a free concert on November 5th during the MTV Europe Music Awards. It will occur on the Branderburg Bridge in Germany to help commemorate the 20th anniversary of

Look at this way, if Peter Gabriel  isn’t going to reform Genesis and perform The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, and if he isn’t going to release an album of new material,

I was never a big STP fan but I loved their Tiny Music… Songs From The Vatican Gift Shop and firmly believe “Pop Love’s Suicide” is one of the great

Richard Hawley is the former Pulp guitarist who has had a successful UK career though whom I find a bit histrionic for my liking. Lisa Marie Presley is Elvis’s little

The pic above is of Lil Wayne and his daughter. Wonder how much she’ll have grown by the time he gets out of jail? That’s personal I guess but on

I don’t know how I could love Falu more. The incomparable Hindi American singer songwriter’s self-titled album is one of  my favorite albums of all time. Released in 2007 it

Nick is the Jonas Brothers who has it all, not engaged, not ill with diabetes, able to give Taylor Swift a dissing Kanye West can only dream of (Nick dumped

There is a reason why I am writing a blog and not programing the music for tween movies. After my lambasting of the New Moon soundtrack as a tone deaf

On October 27th, 2009, Carly Simon and her son Ben Taylor were at daytrotter’s Illinois studios recording four songs for daytrotter.com. They are wonderful and imma gonna get back to

According to AFP “a group of Jackson devotees are protesting the film on their website “This-Is-Not-It”, claiming that the movie gives a misleading image of the singer, reported to have

Here is the cover of For Your Entertainment. Love the cover, love the guy…

This Saturday Bret Jensen and I are interviewing the LA electronic dance band Love Grenades before going to a loft in Brooklyn to catch em live.I haven’t interviewed a band

Lou Lemenick, New York Post, dropped a bomb on the anticipated (how eagerly is another question entirely) MJ rehearsal motion picture. In yesterday’s post Leminick wrote “i(“This Is It”) is