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Whoops, Woods not Vivian Girls at the Whitney Friday -kinda lo-fi alt psychedelic band. I love what i’ve heard. Vivian Girls is July 31st.

From savior to mercy, from on his knees to on his back, legend has it the 1980s were mean to Bob dylan but the truth is it was only his

I loved CeU music long before I saw her picture but now that I have seen her picture all I can say is CeU has the looks of a South

Last week the Met handed out free tickets days before the Summerstage concert and a pleasant time was had by all. Around 2pm on Sunday I walked by Central Park’s

This is a true story and it’s about how I met a girl I fell in love with. My cousin had been living with this girl for years and I

The One – Mary J. BligeHistory Sticks to Your Feet – Modest MouseHere Comes Your Man – Meghan SmithSay Please – Monsters Of FolkOf all the things pop music has

And into the 70s we go with Bobby’s first fully fledged disaster and lots of second guessing by the world at large culminating in Robert Christgau memorably dubbing him a

From today’s NYT -here is the link to music critic Nate Chinen’s live review of the purveyors of one of the great albums of the year, Dirty Projectors: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/21/arts/music/21dirty.html?_r=1&ref=music

“The One” is another terrific dance track by r&b giant Mary J. “I’m not saying that i’m the best but i’m the best” Blige. I love Mary J -almost take

In order to create the sound of punk the powers that be took the Velvet Underground, the Stooges and the New york Dolls and put them in a blender. In

How do we deal with God in rock, a youth culture?　 Of all the concerns a youth culture has life is primary because children are much closer to death than

Philanthropist and businessman Larry Miller saw U2 at the Olympiastadion in Berlin July 18th, 2009. This is the stadium that was opened by Adolph Hitler during the 1936 Summer Olympic

The Jim Jones, M. Ward, Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis supergroup Monsters Of Folk are giving away an MP3 from their first album dropping September 22nd. Just type please and download

My friend and fellow Dylan fanatic Michael Blauner (he is the guy who got in trouble with me at the Costello concert years ago) had this to say about my

So sad to hear that Gordon Waller (he is the guy above who doesn’t have red hair and whose sister Jane didn’t date Paul McCartney for years) of the 60s

VIVIAN GIRLS

HOW WEEZER INVENTED EMO

Bob Dylan’s early career seems fated now but in the 1960s it appeared to be veering off in million directions and reinventing itself at the speed of various amphetemines before

The difference between the songs used in the just released DVD of “Watchmen” and the the just released movie “(500) Days Of Summer” is not that one has a 100

Bob Dylan in the 1960sEvery Album reviewed

LOS CAMPESINOS WILL GET DRUNK AND CALL YOU AT FOUR IN THE MORNING

Money Won’t Change You – James BrownPromised Land – Chuck BerryMrs. Vanderbilt – Paul McCartneyThe Man Who Can’t Be Moved – The ScriptLennon said if rock and roll had another

The warm up act Irish lads the Script are doing their best, even pointing out Paul McCartney’s dressing room somewhere high to the left of us but nobody is wearing

MACCA AT CITIFIELD REVIEWED

Did you ever see that Twilight Zone where astronauts land in this place and everything looks like white picket fence normal 50s America but nobody is moving or anything and

FANSNAP IS DA BOMB… IT IS BRAND NEW, IT COMPARES ALL PRICES FOR SOLD OUT CONCERTS OUT THERE, IT TELLS YOU WHERE THE MARKET IS FOR THESE SHOWS AND WHAT

English journalist Julie Burchill once said to me that rock critics were frustrated rock stars with a lot of unused homosexual heroworship. My experience tells me that rock critics are

Many years ago I interviewed the Pretenders, wrote the story and mailed it to Creem. Upon publication I was shocked to discover my story was simply terrible. It was very,

George Best was the greatest English, er, Irish winger of all time. A legendary Man United soccer player and worldclass swordsman and “Slack Alice” was his night club in the

Whitney Houston was the best vocalist to come out of the 80s. Even the weakest of songs were saved by that stunning Mezzo-Soprano. Try “The Bodyguard” Sountrack or “My Love

Popular young Salsa singer Frankie Negron will be at Joe’s Pub on Astor Place, 730p, Tuesday August 11th, 2009. If you enjoy modern Latin American dance music it is unmissable

THE ROCK CRITIC AS ROCK STAR

GOD ONLY KNOWS

You and I, we have a bad hour, a bad day, we’re irritational, we say what we shouldn’t say or act how we shouldn’t act. Even the good of us

“now I live here and I’m fixing wheelchairs…”

Hot Girls in the Bathroom – Dallas AustinExasperated – Dallas AustinYellow Light – TwislaThe last time I saw Austin he was DJing for TLC at MSG on TLC’s mildly disappointing

MORE ABOUT RUFUS’ OPERA FROM NEW YORK MAGAZINE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMtab4n3q_k

The difference between London Punk 1977 and New York City Punk 1977 is the difference between a snarl and a sneer. LP was all attack, NYCP all irony, LP hyper-reality,

A great young rock singer, a Patrick Stickles or a Gareth Campesino, is like a street car racer: they roar at a hundred miles per hour with little regard for

POP SINGERS, KANT, AND THE MORAL IMPERATIVE

Thanks Brooklyn Vegan for using my review to help illustrate Leia Jospe’s pics Of Titus Andronicus at the Whitney Friday 10th, 2009. I’ve followed the site for years and the

All property is theft so I took what was already mine when I lifted this list of most popular summer hits from the New York Post. The comments are mine

IN MY EAR? BELLS ARE RINGING aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!

The Ugly Duckling – Danny Kaye – After a thirty year reign the musical was showing its age and never more so then in Sam Goldwyn’s biography of Hans Christian

I am standing behind a kid during the last song of Titus Andronicus’ fascinating set at the Whitney Museum of American Art. The concert is part of the pop conceptual

Just for the heck of it and because The Beatle post took so much out of me and I’m not in the mood to start in on Thin Lizzy so

So much has been said about the Beatles it is difficult not to tread where others have or even everyone has walked before . you will find no discussion of

Two newly minted West Coast bands for you. Hockey are from Portland, Oregon. Mi Ami from San Francisco. Hockey are everything Billy Bob On Poison are aiming for. I discovered

Obsessed – Mariah CareyYesterday afternoon at the MJ tribute MC over did the glissando’s as she does all too often, on this song about a stalker (or even Mariah herself!)

Marie Lynn took these photographs of Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band, July 3rd, 2009 at Toad’s Place, New Haven. thank you Marie Lynn.