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ALBUM REVIEWS

An appreciation of the greatest vocal duo ever

In search of a list of every album released today, this one from DJ Willis website http://newmusicreviews.net/ is the best

You think you’d like to share a beer with your fave rock performer, guess what… you wouldn’t. You wouldn’t have

I’ve loved the cats at Trouble and Bass -a mix of party promoters, DJs and cutting edge new dance and

It took Disney the better part of sixty years to figure out they had the ability to be pop star

Connecticut’s finest alt rock, psychedelic DIY band Holiday Rain and two albums into their career and have posted a new

Mike Nessing and Iman Lababedi discuss the Beach Boys masterpiece Pet Sounds. IL: Is Pet Sounds Brian WIlsons greatest moment.

Forget Annette Funicello. Disney let Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake hang up their Mouse ears without a struggle and let

As a card carrying playa hata when it comes to Radiohead I have no excuse for loving Thom Yorke’s solo

Far be it for me to steal my ideas from other blogs or websites not called the New York Times

The Diablo Cody state of the union flick Jennifers Body bombed at the box office raking in a lousy 6.8m….

Chris O’Dell went from being an assistant to the Beatles to being an assistant to the Stones to being an

Mike Nessing and Iman Lababedi obsess over the Beach Boys Pet Sounds. Yes, it’ll be as wonky and inside baseball

Michael Jackson started off as a pre-teen sensation sounding old beyond his years before morphing into the leader of the

Since I’ve begun this blog I’ve been listening and reporting on so much music I haven’t had time to listen

GROUPIES

My niece Kristin Diab is somewhat deprecating in her remarks about the playlist she listens to while “cycling or cleaning

My third Rhett Miller concert in less than two years is my first disappointment. Miller, the lead singer of alt-country

Helen Bach tells of being a twelve year old girl at a Clash Concert in 1980 in this thrilling look

The punk dream -everybody can do it, don’t sit there consuming music, make it yourself has apparently come true. There

Diablo Cody’s follow up to “Juno” is its inversion. “Juno” was a bout something inside a girls body going out,

The problem with these soul giants is that they think their presence alone is enough, that they can coast through

Mike Nessing REALLY previews Bob Dylan’s upcoming seasonal album Christmas In the Heart It used to be that I would

Earlier this year Yusuf Islam (aka Cat Stevens) was meant to play an invitation only concert at the Hammerstein Ballroom

Below please see my purchase summary for a tix to Pavement. And note the date… A YEAR FROM NOW….!!!! Way

In a post earlier today I claimed Jim James was the George Harrison of Monsters Of Folk but i was

What’s Cleveland ever done for you, right? I mean, Reggie Miller? Thanks for nothing… And Drew Carey? The price aint

Offered a tix for the taping of Elvis Costello’s “Spectacle” at the same time I have tix for Yeah Yeah

What excuse is there for not going to see Aretha Franklin at Radio City Music Hall? How about I’ve seen

Here was my problem: I already had a tix for october 3rd for the Giant’s stadium gig AND the two

Monsters Of Folk isn’t released till Tuesday and I am no longer in the biz so I’ve been streaming the

Jarvis Cocker was the leader of Pulp -head and shoulders the best band to come out of Brit Pop. he

When Mick and Keith were teenage buddies it was Chuck Berry they were talking at but by the time Mick

Todd Leibowitz calls in with some new reviews…. I think I heard that Tom Petty has a Bob Seger cover

From the New York Times September 16th, 2009“According to preliminary numbers from Nielsen SoundScan the Beatles sold a combined 626,000

Your trusty blogger wangled a tix to a taping of the second season of Elvis Costello’s “Spectacle” next week… I’ll

Boston based Alison Miller is BFF with my friend Alix Wartel and her current faves are radio hip hop 2009

A contemporary of Carole King, a Jewish Brooklynite, a Brill Building graduate and one of the single most gifted songwriters

Bob Dylan had an uncomforting voice back in the day, like sand and glue as David Bowie once put it,

Yeah Yeah Yeahs Live Kid Cudi The Alison Miller Playlist Ellen Rudzis on the Clash Mike Nessing Previews the new

Walking to work I have been noticing posters for “34 songs That Changed the World”. Hmmm, 34? Well, I can

Taylor Swift towers over her peers in the pop music world….

Thanks to Michael Blauner for introducing me to former Spin rock critic Chuck Klosterman’s uproarious take on the Beatles Box

The Pursuit Of Happiness – Kid Cudi – The best song in the best week of new music this year.

Lady Gaga and Kanye West at the Izod center December 22nd!!! How much do you hate Kanye now?????

Oh happy day!!! Brooklynvegan.com have announced Pavement, one of the greatest indie bands of all time, have reformed and are

Charley Poole was a very successful banjo player in the 20s who drunk himself to death by the age of

Before getting to work on his magnum opus on Muse writer Brett Jenssen plays connect the dots between bad sex