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For the first time anywhere!!! A four CD retrospective covering Elvis’s entire career!! To  be released December 8th on what would have been his 75th birthday. It’s called Elvis 75: Good […]

I remember going to see the Raincoats at the Kitchen twenty or so years ago before going to a very femme centric after party. Lotsa fun not least the weird

Sure, we’d rather see her opening with Kanye West but even so… closing out the Fame Monster tour with two nights at Radio City is pretty damn cool!!! Here is

“Godfather, Godfather, what am I going to do?” Al Martino famously asked as the Sinatra like Johnny Fontaine in The Godfather Part 1. A horses head later Fontaine had the

“Winning games like it’s not fair/ The Yankees rule so we don’t care/ 26 World Series rings/ Time to pop some more champagne/ Victory’s within the mile/ Almost there, don’t

At Radio City Music Hall last night , Regina Spektor’s opening act avant -pop band Jupiter One were smart as hell. The lead singer K Ishibashi mentioned the bands name

When recorded music was on vinyl the consumers relationship with the music was very physical. The grooves of the album were influenced and the sound emitting were changed by the

Sure electric guitarist cum gigolo John Mayer is buff, but is he too buff? This pic seems to show he has sprouted those most hated and worrisome of things to the

UK rapper Chipmunk is a former member of the grime posse Circular Movements and now sole owner of the number one spot in the UK singles charts with “Oopsie Daisy”.

The Wailers 1973

OH NO!!! U2 are busy in the studio working on a new album Songs Of Ascent. Even the title has me throwing up in my mouth. Ascent??? Yes, U2, WE2

News from Pitchfork finds River Cuomo and Katy Perry recording in the studio for some tracks on Perry’s upcoming album!! I like both Perry -whom I underestimated as an extra

XTC -new wave pro-psychedelic, Robyn Hitchcock kid brother like, ultimate fetish band from 72 till Andy Partridge and Collin Moulding called it quits in 2005. Still contributing Editor Mike nessing

The Five Man Electrical Band is coming to a theater near you, and me! Tesla is back and better than ever. Their new album Forever More is great. Tesla formed

Ray Daviesperforming with The Dessoff Chamber ChoirThursday, November 19Friday, November 20Town Hall Presale starts: Now!Presale ends: Thu, Oct 15 at 10pm Use Password: glitter Public Onsale: Fri, Oct 16 at

Spin Magazine came up with their own Pavement dream set list before the 2010 reunion tour… started me thinking as these things will…dream setlist, eh? Dream Elvis Presley Setlist:Hound DogAll

“Art does not look as good when it goes down in value” is a quote from an upcoming Adam Goldberg movie. It’s one of those witty quotes that when can

Hot on the heels of Mike Nessings seminal overview of The Kinks RCA years on this very site, comes news that Ray Davies collaboration with the Crouch End Festival Chorus

I own an album called Golden Throats which is a compiliation of actors singing famous songs like Sebastian Cabot speaking “It Ain’t Me babe” and William Shatner overacting mindboggling to

Last night saw the first concert in the eagerly anticipated Monsters Of Folk tour at the Commodore in Vancouver. A quick study of the set list finds precisely one Bright

“I am going, I am going where rivers of whiskey are flowing…” No NYC dates yet but there will be and of  course we get em every st. paddy day-

One of the perks of the advertising biz is I get invited to Jingle Ball every year and it is always fun and sometimes hysterical. Most hysterical? J Lo in

Contributing Editor Mike Nessing worries about Brian Wilson’s future in the recording industry. Dear Brian Wilson, I love you but please stop now. News from the left coast comes in

What – Rob Zombie – I’ve been listening to Zombie for a long, long time, but I am damned if I can hear any improvement in it. The good news

Yesterdays hysterical overstimation of Michael Jackson’s “This Is It” by both Jim Farber of the New York Daily News and Dan Aquilante of the New York Post is a clear

Three songs deep into English folkies Noah and the Whales and I am seriously loving them. “Blue Skies” was the first cut I got -a piece of extended melancholia, “this

MJ can’t do it his own way even when dead. According to NYT the big new song “This Is It”  is actually a song he co-wrote with Paul Anka for

The four members of Saint Motel met in film school and formed a… sorta modern day rock band with Brian Wilsony harmonies and quirky rock as if they learnt about music

Nearly fifteen years ago on a sunny  summer afternoon  you could have found me sitting on the stairs leading down to the Grassroots on St Marks Place smoking Marlboro Reds and

Hot on the heels of her WWF sponsored fight with Madonna on SNL comes word of a truly extended and deluxe version of  The Fame featuring eight new songs and called

Hot on the heels of the godawful AT&T “All You Need Is Love” campaign comes yet another wonder from mastercard priceless ongoing campaign. The “How Music Makes Us Feel” is

The political cabaret cut ups The Citizens Band are at it again next weekend  Thursday October 22nd, Friday October 23rd, and Saturday October 24th, 2009 at Abrons Arts Center on

I walked into work today to find an email from michaeljackson.com informing me the new MJ single “This Is It” is available for streaming and so I streamed. The song, an

In jail on Federal charges for arms possession for the next two years -more than a bit of butterflies being crushed on the wheels there, at least BET did the

I have no problem with the Beatles or rather the entity known as the Beatles: Yoko Ono, Paul McCartney, Olivia Harrison and Ringo Starr selling the rights to “All You

Our agent from MI5, Remy Caplan, takes a long look at Interpol’s Julian Plenti So who the Hell is Julian Plenti and why has his debut album Skyscraper been meet

One of my favourite LP’s is a buried treasure and it’s the self titled offering from Emitt Rhodes on the ABC Dunhill label..Here’s a guy who grew up in Hawthorne,

Near the begining of Carey Mulligan’s star making performance as journalist Lynn Barber when sixteen years old in 1961 London, Carey is lying on the floor smoking a cigarette and

 Close To You – Bebe & Cece Winans Forever – CeCe Winans Long Sermon – Brad Paisley Youth Of The Nation – P.O.D. Not the Donny and Marie of Gospel

In anticipation of going to see her at Radio City on Wednesday, after being blown away be her performance earlier this year at the Beacon, I watched Regina Spektor’s version

Helen Bach finds God -now will he please go away. What the hell is wrong with kids today? That’s my thought. Local underground music has been the litmus test of

Rock NYC Contributing writer Robert Nevin remembers a great concert by David… and then a less great one. I had moved to New York only weeks earlier. Iman got me

I went to see the new movie An Education today featuring a superb screenplay by English High Fideleity author and former The New Yorker popular music critic Nick Hornby. I am

No. Billie Holiday is the greatest pop vocalist of all time. And Ella Fitzgerald is the one I listen to most. But Patsy Cline os definitely the third greatest of

I’ve been thinking about singers because I just wasted an hour trying to explain why Patsy Cline was one of the three greatest female pop vocalists of all time before

I have no nostalgia for the Meadowlands BUT in 2000 I saw Springsteen perform a magical set right there and in the middle of the set he played “Two Hearts”

“GIRLSWILLBEGIRLSANDBOYSWILLBEBOYFRIENDS”

In a blistering half hour set at Irving Plaza in May 2008 punk rock band Be Your Own Pets blew headliners She Wants Revenge right off stage with a thrilling

Paid up member of the KISS army Todd Leibowitz take on the metal giants… SOOOOON!!

The last time I saw Phish at MSG, Robert Nevin and I walked out of it in half an hour. Well, we’re all a little cooler today and so I’ll