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“The One” is a great song and heading North on the hot one hundred and it is also the theme […]

According to the Jerusalem Post when Leonard Cohen plays the Ramat Gan Stadium on September 24th, 2009 all proceeds will

if you can’t touch it how can you steal it? the music industry makes thieves of all of us… soon

Suspect Device – Stiff Little Fingers – The Dublin punk rockers biggest hit is an incendiary warning about a possible

It’s a little hard to remember now, feels like so long ago what with the model girlfriends and the houses

THE GREATEST ROCKOPERA EVER

Lessee here we’re all excited because although the Beastie Boys had to pull from being the maining attraction they got

In the 40s Frank Sinatra would play five sets a day at sold out houses beginning at 11am. Today most

We come to praise Ali Koehle. Last night, the final of four Friday evening concerts this July presented as part

Where is David Bowie? He had a heart attack in 2004 and with the exception of playing a song last

Then (top) and now (bottom) Manic Street Preachers are one of the great English rock bands and they haven’t played

Madonna has remained a constant presense at the highest echelon’s of the pop firmament for decades: a wild ride from

I loved the “Everything, Everyday, Everywhere” single off Fabolous’ new album “Loso’s Way” but thought it might have had a

A coupla months ago Marie Lynn was fuming at itunes inability to accurately categorize the songs she downloaded. I thought

Relator – Scarlett Johansson and Pete Yorn – I think this is the first Pete Yorn song I have consciously

This is Ricky Wilson’s patented microphone jump as described in my MSG review!!

When I thought of posting review’s of other people’s music mix’s I had hoped what would occur is precisely what

Many years ago I was sitting one row above New York Post Pop muic beat writer Dan Aquilante at the

In 96 I saw Beck at the start of the Odelay Tour in the tiny “Supper Club”. He was a

If I am in an elevator, if I am in a train or a plane, anyway stationary position, and I

New Perspective – Panic At The DiscoNow Ryan Ross and Jon Walker have left the band I was expecting the

From Alan Freed to The Wall and beyond either you’re selling or you’re buying in the corrupt world of rock

After getting home late from Green day last night I woke up late and rushed to work forgetting my Ipod.

Billie Joe losing his boyish good looks at a rockin’ MSG last night

The 90s began with an odd step, went through a blocked middle and ended with a major revival -in between

Before the encore Green Day leader Billie Joe Armstrong sings the last song off their new album “21st century Breakdown”

Cmon -you know youd have left!!!

Every caveat I have ever used about good and evil apply and are doubled when it becomes a question of

From 1998 to 2001 Elvis Costello went on a tear, a lost and possibly final, rush of masterpieces that feel

In a world with no intrinsic meaning what is integrity? Who has it? Does it matter? I’m gonna tell you

The pic is from thursdays gig but two songs a set aint gonna get the job done. Zimmy, quit your

Art for art’s sake, money for Gods sake”10cc Walmart insisted Green Day bleep any profane words on their album “21st

Let Your Love Flow – The Bellamy Brothers – Sure it’s bland but it is comforting and it’s a song

The new movie, political procedural “In The Loop”, features a bravado performance by Scottish actor Peter Capaldi as a dirty

Summerstage promised the sound of young Salsa -well, Jerry Rivera is thirty-six so not that young but the other three

Young Adult Friction – The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – I remain unconvinced the album is the alt

Yellow Fever and Woods have this is common: the bass players of both bands are multi instrumentalist. They also have

You can see it in these pictures of a young Louis Armstrong, the brash confidence of a gifted trumpeter raising

In deciding when to see Steely Dan during their 8 night stand at the Beacon Theatre it all came down

1979 of course… I mean when else would Michael Jackson’s greatest album have ben released? And so much seems lost

I will be in England the last week of August. Here are the concerts I’ll be missing: Taylor Swift Brittney

Writer Todd Lebowitz finds a big flaw in Itunes album covers…. It seems like iTunes is failing to upload the

This is the indie blog Hear Ya’s best albums of the year so far: Ben Nichols – The Last Pale

It is 8pm at night and I’ve been nursing a toothache for a coupla weeks and I am up to

After missing CeU live twice this week all I can do is listen to “Vagarosa” again and share these pics.

Miles Davis said wherever he went in jazz Louis Armstrong beat him to it. Wherever you go in rock Chuck

Knock You Down – Keri HilsonSupernova – Mr. HudsonS.O.S. – Jordin SparksEnglish lads Mr. Hudson record for Kanye West’s label

Speaking with my good buddy Cris Marchignoli he complained that my Beatles overview was confusing because all he knew was

Whoops, Woods not Vivian Girls at the Whitney Friday -kinda lo-fi alt psychedelic band. I love what i’ve heard. Vivian