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We can all do with some hero worship, right? And while Armstrong may be my number one he never was the only one. In the early 70s it was Bowie, […]

My friend Anne Rosen camped out at Rockefeller center so her daughters Hayley and Emily could see Miley live!!! And she even took some pictures and shared them with ROCKNYC!!

I Look To You – Whitney HoustonMillion Dollar Bill – Whitney HoustonThere was a time round “My Love Is Your Love” when WH had gone from divahood to iconhood. Not

Writer Todd Leibowitz Journeys to Nassua Coliseum and checks out the new Black Crowe’s recording: Lets start off with Heart. Ann and Nancy Wilson were incredible. They played a solid

Writer Helen Bach and her friend Mary enjoy the gooey middle part in a night of boys rock. Bands playing:Chester FrenchTaking Back SundayWeezerBlink 182 Who doesnt love Weezer? Theyre like

This is such a wrong song to celebrate a return home!!! Written in 59 after Berry had spent two years in prison for breaking the Mann Act (taking a minor

When Julie Burchill was sixteen she was a little knockout in tight jeans, a leather jacket and a switch blade knife cutting up New Musical Express (“they thought teenagers were

Oasis broke up yesterday after Liam Gallagher busted Noel’s guitars moments before they were to go on stage. Noel said he couldn’t play with his brother one second longer. How

A quick scan of the charts finds French DJ David Guerta and collaborators nestled all over the damn place, the number one song in the nation is Guerta’s remix of

My friends Alix and Ali report from MSG: Dear Iman, Alix and Ali here. Taylor was simply fabulous. Once we got over the fact that we were dressed like all

Top Of the Pops is no more but we are still gonna take a look at whats hot on the UK charts… soon

In the UK three decades ago soul music returned to the dance clubs from whence they came and today it is easy to forget how hugely popular that which we

Watching TV in the UK I was not surprised to see Iggy Pop dancing with his shirt off but I am amused to note he was hawking life insurance for

The Miley Cyrus story is an American fable about reinvention. When the British first came to North America it was as a collection of skalliwags, thieves and lower class losers

A conversation with Hala (16), Kareema (12) and Miriam (8) tell me about music… IL: We had plans to see MJ together!!! How dya feel about his music? HED: still

I am leaving to the UK for ten days today and will have limited ability to maintain my blog till I return Sepbember 2nd, 2009 but I will do my

Why Can’t I Touch It? – The Buzzcocks – One of the greatest bands of all times, I have been blasting this after noticing Pearl Jams version on their live

Juliet warned me. Hala warned me. Haylee and Emily warned me to… love Miley or die a fool, old man, they said. I will be entering no man’s land very

In the shadow of Mike Nessing’s memento mori I have been listening to Judee Sill’s Heart Food and one thing immediately comes to mind: this is an inversion of Ray

“Depression” off Dirty Projector’s 2007 Rise Above album was given a bare bones recording on daytrotter.com completely at odds with the choppy wave seasickness of the original. Mike Longstreth complains

I loved The Runaways and had a king size crush on Cherry “bomb” Currie for the longest time though the one time I saw em live at CBGB’s they kinda

Watching the Arthur Penn directed “Alice’s restaurant” starring Arlo Guthrie I was surprised I’d forgotten how dangerous it was to be a hippie in 1969. During one scene some not

The penultimate song of Iris Dement’s two hour concert at the Highline last night found the country singer-songwriter last night dedicating “My Life” to her daughter somewhere among the enraptured

It’s just the motion…

Is that a dulcimer I see before? Sure sounds like one and since the Roches best album Keep On Doing’s best song “On The ROad To Fairfax County” was written

Today in the New York Post Dan Aquilante had this to say about the Moody Blues Thursday at Radio City: “the rockers played a set that reminded the sold-out Music

This is what happened to the States: some foreign policy wonk came up with the domino theory: if one country falls to communism the next one will follow. instead of

Elvis Costello was making a mistake. It was years and years ago on “Late Night” with Letter man and he was pushing his album Spike and he was talking about

Erin Muir is a singer-songwriter who left the wilds of Minneapolis (and what appears to be a vibrant music scene) for the mundanity of L.A. but she is forgiven because

Fun, fun, fun at the Autobahn ‘till her daddy takes the T-bird away. Or how I finally discovered the passion behind Kraftwerk by Mike Nessing The music of Kraftwerk had

Four years since perpetual power punk Paramore emerged from Tennessee, two years since “Misery Business” broke em big ,one year since the darker “Decode” made it to the Twilight soundtrack

Take the Trans Europe Express

Going steady with the Maestra’s—

Art is life is life is art is love and all that stuff we’re so scared off. Richard and Linda Thompson released Shoot Out The Lights in 1982 and went

Remember the Drifters? Sure you do: tin pan alley, highly arranged first r&b and then pop vocal band. First with Clyde McPhatter leading the way they were covering stuff like

Loudon Wainwright III and his children Rufus and Martha Wainwright as well as the BRILLIANT AWESOME UNSPEAKABLY WONDERFUL folk trio Roches (get the Robert Fripp produced Keep On Doing if

The other week I wrote a post about Caroline Smith and the Good Night Sleeps -a Minneapolis band. Marie Lynn introduced them and where did she find them? daytrotter.com. It

I.D.G.A.F – Breathe CarolinaElectronica duo from Denver come up with the goods on this addictive pop crossover mover EXCEPT who is gonna play a song whose chorus goes: “I don’t

This is the most boring brush with greatness you WILL EVER READ!!! It came to mind because I was watching the Judee Sill youtube clip “The Kiss” and it came

In a somewhat scathing review of Miley Cyrus’ “The Climb” back in April, I snickered “How much reassurance do young girls need?” Well, there is young and then there is

Available on Itunes today: Elvis Costello’s singing talk show reviewed…

Suite: Judy Blue Eyes – Crosby Stills & Nash – It’s a shame Steve Stills is such an arrogant dick because some of the stuff he wrote with Buffalo Springfield

Elvis Costello, Richard and Linda Thompson and Bruce Springsteen wrote terrific albums about the end of their marriages. We’re gonna tell you about them soon…

Mike Nessing writes about the short, lustrously creative life of Judee Sill. Songs of faith, higher power, wisdom and love. Chord progressions and melodic structures that reach to the sky.

What confuses people about Marvin Gaye is that, despite “What’s Going On” and despite “Let’s Get It On” and despite “Midnight Love” and ABSOLUTE despite “Here My Dear” Gaye was

MILEY!!!!

There are too types of serious rock fans in this world: the progressives and the anti-progressives. Mike Nessing is the former, I am the latter. But he makes a damn

Blowing In the Wind – Sam Cooke – From the 64 Live at the Copa album, quite as good as the Harlem Square in 63 and it proves Cooke didn’t

Don’t know about the half million young, dirty, hungry, drugged bastards stuck in the Flanders Field of 1969 but I am getting pretty sick being stuck in Woodstuck myself. Feeling

I was emailing back and forth with Mike Nessing when he said “Too much music,man..not enough time. It’s a never ending struggle to hear it all..That’s one of the main