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Jon Lawlor and Lou Hickey of The Fratelli’s have started a side project Codeine Velvet Club and are touring the […]

Heartaches By The Dozen – Rosanne CashSea Of Heartache – Rosanne CashBoth off her newbie The List based upon a

Alanis Morisette must be the most completely berserk girlfriend in the entire universe. After starting her career and sleeping with

The last time i wrote about Iggy Pop it was from England where Iggy was embroiled in controversy over shilling for

Anybody who claims their video is an homage to the Sainted New Wave director Jean Luc Godard is gonna go

The tallest and youngest superstar Taylor “I’m a country singer” Swift is coming back to the New York area. Here are

I’ve seen Vampire Weekend twice, once last year at Summerstage when they were glorious in the middle of a summer

David Bowie has been out of the public eye since releasing his Reality album in 2003 and touring behind it

Glenn Beck, FOX NEWS resident everyman/class clown has been raving about Muse on his radio show before saying on The

Jay-Z told English tabloid The Sun he would love to collaborate with Liam Gallagher in a situation to his nothing

Diana Ostro worked with me on another project in 2005. Here are her remembrances of all things Radiohead… Sitting at

Remy Caplan, UK editor, , writes: , “So who the Hell is Julian Plenti and why has his debut album

I never said I hated radiohead, I said I hated greatest UK album of all time OK Computer. I loved

As an anti Radioheard fan please allow me to eat crow…. I’ve spend all afternoon on line awestruck on youtube.

Contibuting  Editor Michael Nessing on he Kinks while signed to RCA records. Whenever you read just about anything online or

I am the last person in the world to write this post but a shout out on Facebook found some

Hey Baby – Falu – This could be the single of the year if the year was 2007. Her vocal

As a writer for Creem for years upon years I consider Bangs a patron saint but on the few times

the wind was blowing thru Giants Stadium like a rifle shot, and the audience was both testy and intense. We’re

II was meant to go to see Falu last night at Joe’s Pub but on hearing it was a “traditional”

here is the new Lady Gaga -I found it on Rolling Stone news and it is pretty damn good. All

In 1980 Pink Floyd had the number one album “The Wall” and the number one single “Another Brick in the

The Brit Awards 1996, during a typical dispicable MJ and kids are the world lifetime achievement segment, Jarvis Cocker ran

Thom Yorke has announced three solo concerts in Los Angeles… Wait, Los Angeles? What the fuck is there in Los

I have long considered Dan Aquilante of the New York Post the biggest putz in New York but his review

As a huge Robert Christgau fan, I’ve been dismayed to find myself disagreeing with him all year long. But, man,

Guy Peellaert was the late Belgian artist who made the paintings Nik Cohn wrote about in the 1973 book Rock

Of all the great bands of the sixties the Who are the worst but only up to a point. The

The Kanye West – Lady Gaga tour has been cancelled before start. Self-evidently the other shoe dropping after West’s Grammy

“.if you can’t hang with the big boys get the hell off the stage!” Contributing writer Helen Bach takes on

Whope I Die Before I Get Old

As the Yanks start their post season I went in search of players at bat songs. First I found this

When punk erupted in 76, 77, it washed away glamrockers like Steve Harley and his band Cockney Rebel. Harvey was

According to Rolling Stone, last night at Hiro Ballroom during a release party for Ghostdini: The Wizard Of Poetry, Kid

Writer Louba Lababedi considers the road to sobriety and the songs it inspires After reading my an earlier post on

Wrecking BallSeedsJohnny 99Atlantic CityOutlaw PeteHungry HeartWorking On A DreamThunder RoadTenth Avenue Freeze-OutNightBackstreetsBorn To RunShe’s The OneMeeting Across The RiverJunglelandWaiting On

Her performance at the Village Vanguard last Saturday must have been something very special but on the clips posted on

Cheap Trick started life, as so many bands have done before them, as Beatles fans par excellence though lead vocalist

Iman, I always enjoy reading your website. Most of the time I agree with you, sometimes I don’t even know

presale is available at 10am today till 10pm tomorrow. this is for the December 22nd concert at the Izod. Password

Oh, but it’s magic, it’s the best years of our lives… Cockney Rebel Soon…

All live performances from the King Of Sampling Mr. Mouse himself Brian Burton (on leave from Gnarls Barkley) is playing

Barbra Streisand Village Vanguard 2009 Reviewed

Writing about Tosca the other day got me thinking about Puccini which got me thinking about great Puccini singers which

11 CD live Genesis box set? Look at it this way: 1973 – 1975, must own. 1976 – 2007, must

Very popular Dutch DJ Tiesto has just completed a three date sold out run at Hammerstein which is interesting but

Diddy has left Warner Bros for Interscope and while he is taking his record label Bad Boy he is leaving

I first owned Elvis Costello and the Attraction’s Live At El Mocombo as a boot in 1978, it was a

Before the wrecking ball, the wrecking crew, Springsteen anounced at Izod last Spring, and tomorrow five nights of Bruce at