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As eagerly awaited as anything this season is Sam Taylor Wood’s Nowhere Boy, a biopic about John Lennon’s childhood. No Beatle songs but the coming attractions looks like the best

In anticipation of the Rock Ridge Showcase on November 11th, 2009 at Sullivan Hall, Rock Ridge are giving free MP3s of their three artists:Still Sweet” by Benjy Davis Project “Today” by

When Helen Bach read the notice below her response was “I can only hope it tours! otherwise I have til 1/3 to get to Philly! Nifty!” PHILADELPHIA – In his

Lil Wayne  ended  2008 with a terrible mix tape, and 2009 has been worse -with a disappointing couple of guitar based rsongs, a ditched album and finally, and by far

Despite the jibs of some readers when I said I liked the Smith Westerns opening for Los Campesinos at Webster Hall awhile back, guess what? I did like em and

A couple of days I wrote a post about the Van Morrison song “I Forgot That Love Existed”.  A great song. I post so much that it took a while

I don’t hate Chris Brown simply because he beat the shit out of Rihanna. Hitting on women  sure don’t help his cause but there is no connection between great music and

Who didn’t love the late great Tiny Tim. Quiet possibly the sweetest  pop star of all time? Tiny Tim was viewed as Alice Cooper with a ukelele instead of a guillotine, but

Depending on who you ask, In The Wee Small Hours is the first successfully executed concept album. Meaning that one unified theme is a common thread throughout each and every

Things I Need Too Know – Echo And The Bunnymen Around their album Heaven Up Here I was a huge fan of Echo and the Bunnymen’s Doorsy psychedelia. I mean,

Rock Ridge Music are the cats behind bands like Cherry Poppin’ Daddies, Sister Hazel, Reel Big Fish, Steve Wynn, and, holy moley, Bernie Williams. You probably know all these guys, i

When I started this blog I promised myself to only write about music, to remain faithful, and in six months I have only posted about music. But promises are made

Sure I saw McCartney at Citifield earlier this year, quite liked it to. Wrote about it on this very blog. But if I had a problem with the concert it

I was very pleased to receive an email from The Bottom Line co-owner Allan Pepper in response to my “Best NYC Nightclub” ever post. Mr. Pepper”s email to me and

Alpha Dog – Fall Out BoyIts nice to hear Patrick Stump still got the pipes!Pete may be a dad, Joe may be buried in his own ‘fro and Andy may

This just in from Rock NYC writer Helen Bach: “Two confirmed dates for Blue October at the end of November! hurrrrrrrrray!k back to the real world…” With Helen you can

Ok, Ok, it’s essentially a lame excuse to post a picture of Marianne Faithfull in her underwear but it does have a kernel of truth to it! Both Marianne and

You know that old women are from venus, men are from mars stuff? Well Sarah McLaughlin is from Lifetime Movies. She gives feminism a bad name, actually she gives music

There is a simple rule of thumb that up and coming rock stars should keep too: don’t be a dick to Rolling Stone reporters or the Rolling Stone reporter will

The supergroup flavor of the moment is Them Crooked Vultures, Dave Grohl on drums, John Paul Jones on bass  and singer guitarist John Homme. Them Crooked Vultures concert at Roseland

Jarvis Cocker has announced that his quote was twisted and that the much beloved Brit Pop band Pulp will not be reforming any time soon. Cocker said: “I can categorically

Undisputably the greatest popular singer of the 20th century -and so far nobody has come close in the 21st century, Frank Sinatra’s legend grows as the years go by. My pal

Here are the words to MJ’s poem “Planet Earth”. This is the poem that New York Post pop music critic Dan Aquilante failed to laugh uproariously and instead actually thought

The Platinum Edition of Taylor Swift’s Fearless includes the great and eagerly awaited duet with T-Pain “Thug Story” on an extended track list that includes many videos and five new songs. That’s the

Released today is the Michael Jackson soundtrack album This Is It and as predicted it is a waste of money and you should keep your sheckles for the new Govt

A little ho hum this. Jay Z and Alicia Keys will open the World Series on Wednesday with “Empire State Of Mind” -the most highly overrated song of Jay-Z’s career.

When I was twenty-four the best club that ever existed was CBGB’s, twenty years later it was the Bottom Line. The differnce wasn’t the music, the difference was my age.

Put this under the tidings of great joy filing. Jarvis Cocker, lead singer of the greatest band to ever come out of Brit Pop Pulp, has announced the band may

Garth Brooks has sold out the first twenty dates in his Las vegas residency. This is what happens when you are the bestselling singer of all  time. He is playing

Tegan And Sara – Sainthood (Sire) R.E.M. – Live At the Olympia (Warner Bros.) The Swell Season – Strict Joy (Anti) Evolution Of A Man – Brian McKnight (Koch) Splendour

While going through my iPod for some fast, in your face music, I stopped at one of the most powerful albums ever made…Pantera’s 1992 Vulgar Display of Power. Every once in

Hot on the heels of the post earlier today annoucing a summer 2010 U2 tour of North America comes news that Bono is upset their new album, the godawful No

Everybody’s in Showbiz/Everybody’s A Star can and is typically dismissed as a stopgap release compiled of Muswell Hillbillies leftovers and a live bonus disc. You could certainly listen to the

When last heard from Los Campesinos were not having their best concert ever at Webster Hall and certainly not playing any new material. So a coupla months and two cracker

At the risk of having Yoko take me off her Twitter feed, here are some more “Rock and Roll bastard” moments involving John Lennon.Keep in mind these are “alleged”. 1)

Michael Jackson’s father beat MJ when he was a child -kinda screwed up there, eh Joe? and found himself cut out of the estate. So with that in mind his

Six months of Rock NYC finds readership on a steady rise though  minisculer in a world where a boy having a temper tantrum gets a million hits on youtube.com Still:August

I asked Mike Nessing to write this one but I guess he didn’t have the desire to take on such an unsavory subject! The truth is it hardly disrespects John

Just when you thought it was safe to go back tinto the amphi-theatre here come the Roman gladiators of rock U2 for the next lap of their world tour in

Checking out the weather on AOL I stumbled onto AOL Travel and found Mr. Jessie’s Girl himself Rick Springfield inviting me on a boat… well, on a cruise. This kinda

I’ll comment on the inductees at a later date… 2009 Performers Jeff Beck Little Anthony & the Imperials Metallica Run-D.M.C. Bobby Womack Wanda Jackson Bill Black DJ Fontana Spooner Oldham

Sorry to hear that Andrew Lloyd Webber has been diagnosed with prostrate cancer. It is reportedly in its early stages but I lost one of my closest friends to prostrate

After a fast start ABC Network’s Fast Forward has been treading water for the past month till a shoot out at the conclusion of episode 5 blasted it into the

On thursday you will find me at MSG for the first night of the 25th Year Celebration of the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame. Or Jann Wenner and buddies

Thirteen years after reggae, ska, harcore band Sublime’s Brad Nowell died of a drug overdose, the remaining band members have begun playing under the Sublime moniker. This has upset Nowell

We’ll thank Abba for the music… SOON

News out of England is Morrisey was released from hospital this morning and is feeling much better. Exhaustion? Morrissey completed a world tour and immediately started a new one so

My friend Jane Patterson posted this list of concerts she’s seen several months ago and I thought it was fabulous but not surprising since I’ve enjoyed long conversations about music

I saw TLC years ago on their Fanmail and felt about the live presentation what I felt about the album: started off great and fizzled out. Christina Aguilara opened and