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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 […]

Jon Lawlor and Lou Hickey of The Fratelli’s have started a side project Codeine Velvet Club and are touring the UK. the first single, “Vanity Kills”  is to be released

Heartaches By The Dozen – Rosanne CashSea Of Heartache – Rosanne CashBoth off her newbie The List based upon a list of 100 must own country songs papa Johnny, who

Alanis Morisette must be the most completely berserk girlfriend in the entire universe. After starting her career and sleeping with her manager as a tween pop star in Canada she

The last time i wrote about Iggy Pop it was from England where Iggy was embroiled in controversy over shilling for a car insurance company who discriminated against young people. It

Anybody who claims their video is an homage to the Sainted New Wave director Jean Luc Godard is gonna go a long way with me and though perhaps Vivre Sa Vire,

The tallest and youngest superstar Taylor “I’m a country singer” Swift is coming back to the New York area. Here are those dates:  May 12 – Newark, NJMay 13 – Newark,

I’ve seen Vampire Weekend twice, once last year at Summerstage when they were glorious in the middle of a summer storm and once a coupla months later when they stank

David Bowie has been out of the public eye since releasing his Reality album in 2003 and touring behind it in 2004 before a heart attack felled him. Since then

Glenn Beck, FOX NEWS resident everyman/class clown has been raving about Muse on his radio show before saying on The O’Reilly Factor that Muse’s management had asked Beck to cease

Jay-Z told English tabloid The Sun he would love to collaborate with Liam Gallagher in a situation to his nothing special collab with Linken Park. This follows Oasis break up

Diana Ostro worked with me on another project in 2005. Here are her remembrances of all things Radiohead… Sitting at the theater at MSG and watching my favorite band Radiohead,

Remy Caplan, UK editor, , writes: , “So who the Hell is Julian Plenti and why has his debut album skyscraper been meet with so much interest and excitement by

I never said I hated radiohead, I said I hated greatest UK album of all time OK Computer. I loved The Eraser and I loved Kid A. so forgive me

As an anti Radioheard fan please allow me to eat crow…. I’ve spend all afternoon on line awestruck on youtube. The name of his band is Echoplex and he is

Contibuting  Editor Michael Nessing on he Kinks while signed to RCA records. Whenever you read just about anything online or in print about the Kinks, all of the opinions dovetail

I am the last person in the world to write this post but a shout out on Facebook found some friends coming thru and some… well, not!. Nicole Masaka who

Hey Baby – Falu – This could be the single of the year if the year was 2007. Her vocal is so intensely sexy it makes you think of a

As a writer for Creem for years upon years I consider Bangs a patron saint but on the few times I met hit him I thought he wasn’t much fun.

the wind was blowing thru Giants Stadium like a rifle shot, and the audience was both testy and intense. We’re not sure, we’re not there, we’re not sold. The popular

II was meant to go to see Falu last night at Joe’s Pub but on hearing it was a “traditional” Hindi acoustic set decided to blow it off and go

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

In 1980 Pink Floyd had the number one album “The Wall” and the number one single “Another Brick in the Wall, According to the book Hit Men: “Pink Floyd opened

The Brit Awards 1996, during a typical dispicable MJ and kids are the world lifetime achievement segment, Jarvis Cocker ran on stage and wiggled his butt at the audience. MJ

Thom Yorke has announced three solo concerts in Los Angeles… Wait, Los Angeles? What the fuck is there in Los Angeles? How can anybody play LA and ignore the center

I have long considered Dan Aquilante of the New York Post the biggest putz in New York but his review of Springsteen in today’s paper is bang on the money.

As a huge Robert Christgau fan, I’ve been dismayed to find myself disagreeing with him all year long. But, man, did he nail it in his October Consumer on MSN.

Guy Peellaert was the late Belgian artist who made the paintings Nik Cohn wrote about in the 1973 book Rock Dreams. I know that anybody who saw it loved it

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

The Kanye West – Lady Gaga tour has been cancelled before start. Self-evidently the other shoe dropping after West’s Grammy Awards debacle, the National Enquirers “due to soft sales” concept

“.if you can’t hang with the big boys get the hell off the stage!” Contributing writer Helen Bach takes on girl rockers… Fancy writing something about girl singers? okedokey. That’s

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 2004 post on ESPN. SS Derek Jeter“Square Dance”EminemAfter breaking out

When punk erupted in 76, 77, it washed away glamrockers like Steve Harley and his band Cockney Rebel. Harvey was all high heels and eyeliner but when he was in

According to Rolling Stone, last night at Hiro Ballroom during a release party for Ghostdini: The Wizard Of Poetry, Kid Cudi challenged Ghostface Killah to a battle on Killah’s “Strawberry”

Writer Louba Lababedi considers the road to sobriety and the songs it inspires After reading my an earlier post on Mackenzie Philips, I began to think of the other side

Wrecking BallSeedsJohnny 99Atlantic CityOutlaw PeteHungry HeartWorking On A DreamThunder RoadTenth Avenue Freeze-OutNightBackstreetsBorn To RunShe’s The OneMeeting Across The RiverJunglelandWaiting On A Sunny DayThe Promised LandInto The FireLonesome DayThe RisingBadlandsNo SurrenderRaise

Her performance at the Village Vanguard last Saturday must have been something very special but on the clips posted on barbrastreisand.com it is a little hard to tell. I have

Cheap Trick started life, as so many bands have done before them, as Beatles fans par excellence though lead vocalist Robin Zander has always seemed mentored by McCartney as opposed

Iman, I always enjoy reading your website. Most of the time I agree with you, sometimes I don’t even know the artist you are talking about. But every time I

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

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 on and releasing an album from big time folkie James

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 got me thinking about Maria Callas -the great soprano and

11 CD live Genesis box set? Look at it this way: 1973 – 1975, must own. 1976 – 2007, must be shot at dawn… Dethklok – Dethalbum IIMariah Carey –

Very popular Dutch DJ Tiesto has just completed a three date sold out run at Hammerstein which is interesting but not the reason for this post. Here is the reason

Diddy has left Warner Bros for Interscope and while he is taking his record label Bad Boy he is leaving his stable of artists -why Warner Bros., would want em

I first owned Elvis Costello and the Attraction’s Live At El Mocombo as a boot in 1978, it was a great recording of a good set, but I owned better