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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 […]

Satellite Heart – Anya Marina – Suddenly I can’t throw a brick without hitting somebody from San Diego. Hot on the heels of the low budget horror flick Paranormal Activity

I fun at music critics all the time but there are some real good ones out there and Sasha Frere-Jones  of The NewYorker. I’m a subscriber and I eat up

The other day I bought a single ticket to Taylor Swift at the Prudential in May. Before Ticketmaster charges: $29.50. After Ticketmaster charges: $44.00. I am sure this is not

The Daily Telegraph are reporting that Morrissey collapsed on stage earlier tonight in Swindon, England. Apparently Morrissey said “Good evening… hopefully” before launching into “This Charming Man”. Half way through

Back in the day I took my nephew Jeff McColl to the Warped Tour at Randall’s Islland. A great night and I was very impressed by two bands, one was

Fresh Out The Oven – Lola (with Pitbull)“No touchy, touchy on the nookie nookie…” Nice to have J Lo back and nice to hear her ona very strong dance track.

The triumvirate of Rock NYC villains wouldn’t be complete without a knoct at U2…. so here it is. Unfortunately, over and above mentioning that I strongly recommend you pass on

Wrecking Ball – Bruce SpringsteenWhen I first heard this on youtube I gave it a half hearted “well at least it isn’t Working On A Dream“. But with the opportunity

Reading Dan Aquilante in full sycophant mode is like watching a dog hump its masters leg. This isn’t the complete humiliation for Dan Aquilante that his “This Is It” single 

On Itunes, the bestselling album of the moment is New Moon . This means either a) I jumped the gun in calling it dead and buried a coupla days ago or

I Forgot That Love Existed – Van Morrison – Timing is everything. If I had been writting this blog in February of this year you’d be sick of the name

Months after being disappointed by Leonard Cohen at Radio City Music Hall, I saw him again last night at Madison Square Garden. I’ve read the rave reviews by music critics, 

At the end of her 2008 memoir (reviewed here at some point or the other) How To Walk Away Miss Hatfield ended her devastating account of what it was like

Hot on the heels of his pretty good Southern Voices Tim McGraw comes no further East than two dates in New Jersey. Why would he? This is an arena tour

“Cousins”,  song three from the upcoming VE album Contra, is dropping this weekend on XL.com. It isn’t as immediately as immediately accessible as “White Sky” or “Horchata”, it does include

Rock stars get religion, country stars get politics. Steve Earle was the greatest country rocker of em all from 1986 to 1997 -right through Guitar Town and Copperhead Road thru

I was discussing the Brad Paisley concert with my friend and fellow country music enthisiast Lisa Fay -who has recently seen acts like Carrie Underwood, Rascal Flatts (twice), Urban (twice),

Maybe five months ago I wrote a post about people I don’t like but should like and top of my list was Aretha Franklin. I couldn’t “hear” her voice, I wasn’t

Ten years ago Bob Nevin (Happy birthday Bob if you’re reading) walked out of a Phish concert at MSG after half an hour of tedium. On Deecember 4th, 2009 both

The casual opera lover, some one like me, finds it exceedingly hard to flip in and out of the genre, I get lost in it. So I have found the

According to the Strokes lead singer Julian Casablanca the last great old school no hyphen rock band the Strokes are having a civil war over the new album. Half of

From Monster In A Box on Andrew Blauner, Michael Blauner and I went to every single Spalding Gray show and with the possible exception of  A Slippery Slope. The Blauner’s used

Regular readers of  Rock NYC will be used to my Conor Oberst fanaticism. If I hero worship anybody in the modern pop world it is Oberst. He is simply and

“I have to block out thoughts of you so I don’t lose my head, they crawl in like a cockroach leaving babies in my bed…” Cool huh, so these words

Bon Jovi will be the first act (actually, the first anything) to perform at the new Meadowlands stadium. If you buy the new album you can buy early tix… a

Lil Wayne plead guilty to gun possession rather than go to trial today. If he had lost at trial he’d have faced a minimum of three and a half years.

I went to see Woods back in July of this year at the Whitney and I had this to stay: “Woods start their set with “Rain On” and “Too Clean”

Further to Helen Bachs report from yesterday comes news from reader Kiev.The reader reports: “BLUE OCTOBER ANNOUNCES THE CANCELLATION OF THE PICK UP THE PHONE TOUR 2009 DUE TO LEAD

Lil Wayne in court yesterday on a weapons possession charge after a gun was found on his tour bus in 2007. The case is based upon a miniscule amout of

Regular readers of this blog will be aware of my deep affection for the late great song and dance man Danny Kaye. Sometimes a performers spirit seems to come somewhere

According to today’s New York Times Facebook is joing Google getting into the musiz biz. Google are making a special search engine to find music MP3s. Facebook are integrating the

In honor of a night of sensitive cowboys who “still have a pair” let me put Mr and Mrs Paisley front and center. Brad Paisley is the hugely popular country

You thought I was gonna choose Van Morrison or maybe even go to jazz with Miles Davis but no. The stories of John Fogerty’s nastiness are legion and  I was a

Yesterday I reviewed the soundtrack album to New Moon and alone among my many, many peers, said it was a dour compiliation that missed its target demo by a mile.

Here are the Taylor Swift presale info for tomorrow… it’ll be a thug story you know!!!May 12 & 13, 2010 Taylor Swift Fearless Tour 2010with special guests Kellie Pickler and

Tom Cruise former manager PaulaWagner, the brains behind the Mission Impossible movies is working with  Paula Wagner,  Joseph Simmons )and Darryl McDaniels as well as the estate of Jam Master Jay

OMG!!All the duets with Jay-Z, all the cover shoots in the rain, all the publicity in the world, won’t save you if you are releasing a song as bad as

My man Axl Rose -who managed to release the most underestimated album of last year Chinese Democracy,  is touring Canada later this year behind is cracked metal masterpiece. If I’d

Elephant Man, Buju Banton, Bounty Killer, Beanie Man: ignoring reggaeton those are the names of modern reggae -these are the Rastaman who follows in the footsteps of the Wailers thirty-five

In the new issue of Details Magazine Adam Lambert shockingly kisses a girl!! Adam “Just because I like kissing girls doesn’t mean I’m going to sleep with them” Lambert comes

Last night I was merrily watching the Yanks slaughter the Angels when I got a panicked email from helen bach: “sometime you guys know stuff that I cant find.. and

On the eve of LA based avant-pop, film school grad’s Saint Motel’s  CMJ sactioned NYC debut performance, the band got their van broken into in the wilds of Chicago. According to

“They’re creepy and they’re cookie, mysterious and spooky…” Click click. Brooklyn bornVic Mizzy once said “That’s why I’m living in Bel Aire. Two finger snaps and you’re living in Bel

I Didn’t Know It At The Time – Tim McGraw Dya know who Lee Thomas Miller is? He’s one of those craftsmen you get in the south, one of those

Who Taylor Hollingsworth you ask? He is the Mystic Valley Band’s lead guitarist and he wrote the fine “Air Mattress” and the crap “snake Hill” on the Outer South album.

In what should be a harbinger of a killer set next month in NYC, Monsters of Folk apparently performed their own version of my live dream set list. “At The

Errr… from todays Rolling Stone: “As album sales soften and the industry turns to alternate ways to get music to fans, the battle between the big music video games has

Billy Corgan is threatening to release all forty-four songs off the new Smashing Pumpkin album Teargarden by Kaleidyscope for free a song at a time on his website. I have

Who will watch the watchers? I won’t most of the time but every now and then I got to Metacritic and check out what my peers are up to and