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Les Paul, the inventor of the full bodied electric guitar, died today. I saw him at the Iridium when it […]

And closing up the first, very folkie night of Friday 15th, 1969, Joan Baez and the CD doesn’t include Joanie

I will be getting round to a somewhat more unctuous take on the Lord’s Ipod at some point soon using

From Marie Lynn: check out roma di luna — these tears aint mine she did a cover of in an

My friend Jane Patterson did a list of her top fifty concerts so I pulled out my ticket stubs I’ve

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

Listen up, this is gonna be a lot more fun the just listening to the brick of a box set.

Party in The USA – Miley CyrusOn the cover of AM News this morning was the picture above with the

Ok, we’re all patiently waiting for guitarist alumni Larry Carlton’s solo on “Kid Charlemagne” and since this is “The Royal

I don’t know what’s left to be said about Spider bags except maybe “So Long a Rope” is one of

During dinner last night with my nephew Samer Diab he asked a question that echoed one in the New Yorker

The Woodstock 6 CD set went on sale today. It is not every show complete (that would be 30 days

LEONARD COHENVSMEPART II

Why spend your life obsessed with music? July 8th, 2003 at Madison Square Garden and Pearl Jam are playing one

Sometimes when you read a politician you are reading a politician and sometimes when you are reading a politician you

Barack Obama’s Ipod will Be reviewed and analyzed and we will tell what it reveals about his true character (hint:

The nihilist’s nihilist wrote this many, many years ago… by the way I ran into him all the time and

Long, long, long – Yim Yames – Yim Yames wasn’t Yim Yames yet, he was barely Jim James when he

Bass player to the star Harvey Brooks played on Dylan’s “Highway 61 Revisited,” the Doors “The Soft Parade” and Simon

Denizen of new wave Willy Deville died yesterday. He was the man in front of Mink DeVille and had two

The best looking audience at a Summerstage are smoking cigs, smoking pot, doing spastic dances and transforming Summerstage into the

PEARL JAMREGINA SPEKTOR WOODSTOCKLIVE ALBUM REVIEWS

Sweet Caroline – Neil Diamond Caroline No – The Beach Boys Caroline Says 1 – Lou Reed Caroline – Rhett

DARK DISCO LIVE

This was left as a comment by my old pal anonymous… The person is commenting on a negative comment about

Siblings Richard and Karen Carpenter perfected easy listening, I was mentioning ambient when writing about Bowie’s album “Low” and often

John Seabrook says in the New Yorker this week that “…according to some surveys 95% of all downloads are illegal”.

Caroline Smith and the Goodnight Sleeps from Minneapolis, Minnesota sound like Regina Spektor with a banjo instead of a piano.

I asked Marie Lynn, as big a Conor Oberst fanatic as I am, what her favorite Bright Eyes songs were.

I got past the 1000 visitors mark last night. Not much, true but 47% are repeat visitors and for a

In the world of greatest rock bands of all times may I add X-Ray Specs? Poly Styrene’s punk band initially

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”

It seems to be my day for doubles and so today I am going to write about Elvis Presley’s two

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

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

These aren’t even my two favorite David Bowie albums. I love em both, mind, but I love other’s more, they

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 best moment during a concert this year was Los Campesinos last song “You’ll Need Those Fingers For Crossing”. It

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

Formed just after the Czech Spring, avant garde, rebellious, the embodiment of the spirit of rock music, the Plastic People

Taylor Swift – Tyler Dean Thug Story – Taylor Swift and T. Pain Hard on the heels of my posting

New York frame of minder, Nashville resident Robert Nevin had a brush with greatness: “Nancy, Tom, Jessica and I were

That’s me taking the pic with his cell, my niece Louba is to my left… from Brooklyn Vegan… the chick

I have this image in my head and it won’t let me be. The year is 1984 and it is

If anybody asks you how to write a rock opera point them to the Brian DePalma written and directed, Paul

Todd Leibowitz was just a kid when I first met him -a baby faced assistant with a ready smile, that