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Todd Leibowitz was just a kid when I first met him -a baby faced assistant with a ready smile, that must be ten years ago and now Todd has a […]

“The One” is a great song and heading North on the hot one hundred and it is also the theme of Mary J. Blige’s new A.T. & T cell phone

According to the Jerusalem Post when Leonard Cohen plays the Ramat Gan Stadium on September 24th, 2009 all proceeds will go to the Fund for reconciliation, Tolerance and Peace. Cohen

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 incineration in the middle of the late 70s back when

It’s a little hard to remember now, feels like so long ago what with the model girlfriends and the houses in LA, cocaine and dayglo before punk washed him away

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 Jay-Z Big news? If you’re in Monterey maybe, if you’re

In the 40s Frank Sinatra would play five sets a day at sold out houses beginning at 11am. Today most concerts, not even nightclubs, but concert halls, have the main

We come to praise Ali Koehle. Last night, the final of four Friday evening concerts this July presented as part of pop conceptual artist Dan Graham’s retrospective “Beyond” at the

Where is David Bowie? He had a heart attack in 2004 and with the exception of playing a song last year with Arcade Fire has released no music nor played

Then (top) and now (bottom) Manic Street Preachers are one of the great English rock bands and they haven’t played the area in a decade. I saw em blow Oasis

Madonna has remained a constant presense at the highest echelon’s of the pop firmament for decades: a wild ride from catholic School Princess gone bad to riding crop Mistress of

I loved the “Everything, Everyday, Everywhere” single off Fabolous’ new album “Loso’s Way” but thought it might have had a lot to do with Keri Hilson but the word is

A coupla months ago Marie Lynn was fuming at itunes inability to accurately categorize the songs she downloaded. I thought nothing of it at the time but as time has

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

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 has occurred with my friend Chris Clarke. Chris has an

Many years ago I was sitting one row above New York Post Pop muic beat writer Dan Aquilante at the Lauryn Hill “Misadventures’ concert. The seats weren’t great but they

In 96 I saw Beck at the start of the Odelay Tour in the tiny “Supper Club”. He was a bolt of lightening like a surfer dude James Brown chasing

If I am in an elevator, if I am in a train or a plane, anyway stationary position, and I see somebody listening to their Ipod I will ask them

New Perspective – Panic At The DiscoNow Ryan Ross and Jon Walker have left the band I was expecting the worse. I Like Panic a whole lot and “Pretty Odd”

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

After getting home late from Green day last night I woke up late and rushed to work forgetting my Ipod. What’s a guy to do? I turn to http://www.slacker.com/ .

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 there were cover albums and many many outtakes. Under the

Before the encore Green Day leader Billie Joe Armstrong sings the last song off their new album “21st century Breakdown” and reaches a conclusion: “The moral isn’t to do the

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 integrity. The question of integerity is remorselessly subjective and so

From 1998 to 2001 Elvis Costello went on a tear, a lost and possibly final, rush of masterpieces that feel a long, long time ago now. In 1998 he released

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

The pic is from thursdays gig but two songs a set aint gonna get the job done. Zimmy, quit your low down ways and get yee behind your guitar for

Art for art’s sake, money for Gods sake”10cc Walmart insisted Green Day bleep any profane words on their album “21st Century Breakdown”. Green Day refused. Walmart refused to stock the

Let Your Love Flow – The Bellamy Brothers – Sure it’s bland but it is comforting and it’s a song sung blue -everybody can singalong. Complaining about the brothers Bellamy

The new movie, political procedural “In The Loop”, features a bravado performance by Scottish actor Peter Capaldi as a dirty motor mouthed Director Of Communication for the British Prime Minister.

Summerstage promised the sound of young Salsa -well, Jerry Rivera is thirty-six so not that young but the other three performers look twenty-something so maybe young though only Salsa Rapper

Young Adult Friction – The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – I remain unconvinced the album is the alt indie pop revelation its fans claim -but there is no

Yellow Fever and Woods have this is common: the bass players of both bands are multi instrumentalist. They also have this in common: at the Whitney last night as part

You can see it in these pictures of a young Louis Armstrong, the brash confidence of a gifted trumpeter raising a ruckus from New Orleans down the Mississippi to Chicago

In deciding when to see Steely Dan during their 8 night stand at the Beacon Theatre it all came down to money. They will be playing one of three albums

1979 of course… I mean when else would Michael Jackson’s greatest album have ben released? And so much seems lost in time here but first and foremost this is part

I will be in England the last week of August. Here are the concerts I’ll be missing: Taylor Swift Brittney Spears Paul Oakenfeld Pet Shop Boys Nine Inch Nails What

Writer Todd Lebowitz finds a big flaw in Itunes album covers…. It seems like iTunes is failing to upload the correct album artwork of songs that weredownloadedto your iPod via

This is the indie blog Hear Ya’s best albums of the year so far: Ben Nichols – The Last Pale Light In The West J. Tillman – Vacilando Territory BluesDan

It is 8pm at night and I’ve been nursing a toothache for a coupla weeks and I am up to my eyeballs in every painkiller I can find. I am

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 Berry has beaten you to it. John Lennon said if

Knock You Down – Keri HilsonSupernova – Mr. HudsonS.O.S. – Jordin SparksEnglish lads Mr. Hudson record for Kanye West’s label and their record is a very pleasant trifle and I

Speaking with my good buddy Cris Marchignoli he complained that my Beatles overview was confusing because all he knew was the American versions which I didn’t really review. He has