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Did you know Ray Price took over Hank William’s band after Hank died? Popular music sophisticate Michael Nessing did and we are going to be looking at his playlist… soon!

Les Paul, the inventor of the full bodied electric guitar, died today. I saw him at the Iridium when it was near Lincoln Center a coupla years ago and loved

And closing up the first, very folkie night of Friday 15th, 1969, Joan Baez and the CD doesn’t include Joanie discussing her husband David Harris, a jailed conscientious objector. She

I will be getting round to a somewhat more unctuous take on the Lord’s Ipod at some point soon using all of your suggestions. Till then please enjoy Brett Jensen

From Marie Lynn: check out roma di luna — these tears aint mine she did a cover of in an aeroplane over the sea i didnt download it off itunes

My friend Jane Patterson did a list of her top fifty concerts so I pulled out my ticket stubs I’ve been keeping since the mid-90s . I chose the letter

What is a young Jesus listening to today?The Teen Jesus Play list only on ROCK NYC… soon!

Last week I put Rolling Stone to task for giving a Sly Stone Anthology a four and a half star review after giving U2’s “No Line On The Horizon” a

Listen up, this is gonna be a lot more fun the just listening to the brick of a box set. I’m gonna review and grade every song of the 6

Party in The USA – Miley CyrusOn the cover of AM News this morning was the picture above with the musical question: “Is Miley Cyrus a bad influence?” Why would

Ok, we’re all patiently waiting for guitarist alumni Larry Carlton’s solo on “Kid Charlemagne” and since this is “The Royal Scam” night where Steely Dan are to play one of

I don’t know what’s left to be said about Spider bags except maybe “So Long a Rope” is one of the most magnificently depressing songs I’ve ever heard as well

During dinner last night with my nephew Samer Diab he asked a question that echoed one in the New Yorker this week. “The same rock stars who ruled the arena’s

The Woodstock 6 CD set went on sale today. It is not every show complete (that would be 30 days worth and worth day $250 as a cultural heirloom) and

LEONARD COHENVSMEPART II

Why spend your life obsessed with music? July 8th, 2003 at Madison Square Garden and Pearl Jam are playing one of those concerts that are just rumors unless you’re there

Sometimes when you read a politician you are reading a politician and sometimes when you are reading a politician you are reading a person and in president Obama’s interview with

Barack Obama’s Ipod will Be reviewed and analyzed and we will tell what it reveals about his true character (hint: he might be a LIBERAL)

The nihilist’s nihilist wrote this many, many years ago… by the way I ran into him all the time and he was a perpetual dick…I saw what I had soI

Long, long, long – Yim Yames – Yim Yames wasn’t Yim Yames yet, he was barely Jim James when he recorded this warm and loving cover of Harrison’s “The White

Bass player to the star Harvey Brooks played on Dylan’s “Highway 61 Revisited,” the Doors “The Soft Parade” and Simon and Garfunkels’ “The Sound Of Silence,” among many, many others.

Denizen of new wave Willy Deville died yesterday. He was the man in front of Mink DeVille and had two big hits in the UK with “Spanish Stroll” and “Cadillac

The best looking audience at a Summerstage are smoking cigs, smoking pot, doing spastic dances and transforming Summerstage into the earliest rave known to man. They are mostly mid-teens to

PEARL JAMREGINA SPEKTOR WOODSTOCKLIVE ALBUM REVIEWS

Sweet Caroline – Neil Diamond Caroline No – The Beach Boys Caroline Says 1 – Lou Reed Caroline – Rhett Miller Lack Of Height – Caroline Smith and the Good

DARK DISCO LIVE

This was left as a comment by my old pal anonymous… The person is commenting on a negative comment about my post on Los Campesinos at Webster Hall August 4th,

Siblings Richard and Karen Carpenter perfected easy listening, I was mentioning ambient when writing about Bowie’s album “Low” and often Richard producer seemed to be perfecting the old background/foreground question.

John Seabrook says in the New Yorker this week that “…according to some surveys 95% of all downloads are illegal”. Let’s do the math. Itunes reached the billion sales last

Caroline Smith and the Goodnight Sleeps from Minneapolis, Minnesota sound like Regina Spektor with a banjo instead of a piano. Caroline has one of those voice that seems to be

I asked Marie Lynn, as big a Conor Oberst fanatic as I am, what her favorite Bright Eyes songs were. She went with “Easy, Lucky, Free”, “Something Vague” and “Let’s

I got past the 1000 visitors mark last night. Not much, true but 47% are repeat visitors and for a blog my minutes per visitor is pretty high. I initially

In the world of greatest rock bands of all times may I add X-Ray Specs? Poly Styrene’s punk band initially thought of as a novelty because “Oh Bondage, Up Yours”

SLY STONE ANTHOLOGY: FOUR AND A HALF STARS NO LINE ON THE HORIZON: FIVE STARS IMBECILITY OR SENILITY: YOU DECIDE

ON THE TOP OF THE WORLD LOOKING DOWN ON CREATION the carpenters uneasy listening coming soon

Whether it was Ferris Bueller on a float in Chicago singing along to the Beatles version of “Twist And Shout” thereby begining Part II of the neverending Beatle revival or

It seems to be my day for doubles and so today I am going to write about Elvis Presley’s two best musical – 1960’s “G.I. Blues” and 1961’s “Blue Hawaii”.

Here’s Z105.9 at 9 a.m. yesterday morning under PD/midday host Carl T.:Lil Fallay, “My Love Under Arrest”Midnight Star, “Feels So Good”R. Kelly, “Love Signals”Tyrese, “She Lets Me Be A Man”Whitney

People keep on telling me I have to hear New Boyz “You’re A Jerk” while warning that it is terrible. Yes it is. And it is also an addictive and

These aren’t even my two favorite David Bowie albums. I love em both, mind, but I love other’s more, they are still two enormously good and different albums. “Aladdin Sane”

YOU AND ME AND BLUE HAWAII

Webster Hall is the best managed room in NYC if only foe the client respecting decision to post what time the acts will be performing. This alone creates so much

The best moment during a concert this year was Los Campesinos last song “You’ll Need Those Fingers For Crossing”. It had been a great night any way and on the

Los Campesinos at Webster Hall tonight… if you do just one thing in your entire life please, please, please see this rock group!!!!

Formed just after the Czech Spring, avant garde, rebellious, the embodiment of the spirit of rock music, the Plastic People Of The Universe were imprisoned for their beliefs. Today Czechoslovakia

Taylor Swift – Tyler Dean Thug Story – Taylor Swift and T. Pain Hard on the heels of my posting that taking MP3s without paying for them is theft Alix

New York frame of minder, Nashville resident Robert Nevin had a brush with greatness: “Nancy, Tom, Jessica and I were in an antique store in Franklin, TN (next town over

That’s me taking the pic with his cell, my niece Louba is to my left… from Brooklyn Vegan… the chick on bass below is Kickball Katy!!

I have this image in my head and it won’t let me be. The year is 1984 and it is meeting room in the Woolworth Building -something like the Woolworth

If anybody asks you how to write a rock opera point them to the Brian DePalma written and directed, Paul Williams scored, gorgeous girl next door featuring Jessica Harper “Phantom