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American Saturday Night – Brad Paisley Her Diamonds – Rob Thomas – Fine version on NBC’s Macy’s Firworks last night […]

Halfway into his first vocal on the jaunty “Sausilito” it is clearly apparent Conor’s voice is shot. He isn’t hoarse,

This the best… Taylor gets her thug on… You can find it on dailymotion.com (they took it off youtube for

Here’s a syllogism for all you pop pickers. Demand for MTV lead to the demise of the Soviet Union. Demand

Novelist Martin Amis has always had a tiring air of priviledge about him. His father was the great English comic

May I be the last to say too much from “Horizon” and no “Stuck In Moment”??? Breathe No Line on

EVERY BEATLE US UK ALBUM REVIEWED AND GRADED

In 2001 I went to see Madonna on the Drowned Tour (her best of the decade, maybe ever) and in

Novelist Vladimer Nabakov once noted that all fiction writing is an act of faith in God: as God gives life

Questions For the Angels – Paul SimonTennessee Jed – Levon HelmGrowing Trade – Levon HelmReal World 09 – Rob ThomasHer

This is an hysterical parody taking on the great Z, and besting him…Enjoy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nej4xJe4Tdg

I have no idea what I am talking about but I don’t like this at all. On a sunny Sunday

As we mourn the passing of R&B crossover genius Michael Jackson let’s remember a genius English pop Princess Kirsty MacColl

PHIL LYNOTT AND THIN LIZZY VISIT THE QUALITY STREET GANG ON THE STREETS OF MANCHESTER

Unbreakable – Michael Jackson Round about here Jackson was morphing into and r&b guy to the exclusion of any halfway

Robert Nevin reviews 10ccs “pop masterpiece” “Deceptive Bends” I think most people stopped at “The Things We Do For Love”,

My friend Robert Nevin’s taste in music gives the term eclectic whole new vistas of meaning; he obsesses over the

The thrill of pop music is the thrill of the new: the instantly disposable built to last surprise of the

Michael Jackson died today at the age of fifty. An American tragedy as awful as that of Elvis Presley ends

Conor, my old friend, it’s me, Iman. How could you do this to me? Me, your faithful as a horse

Diana Krall: Jazz Superstar, long, blonde, luscious, intimidating, in a black skirt and heels, has turned away from her piano

From today’s New York Times Science section, the earliest known musical instrument dating back 35,000 years to the stone age.

Somewhere during the first act of the “Rock of Ages” at the Minskoff on Broadway I could feel my eyes

D.O.A. (Death Of Auto- Tune) – Jay-ZWhy did he do this? So he can say Justin Timberlake beat him to

WHAT WERE ONCE VICES ARE NOW HABITS

Craigslist – Weird “Al” Yankovic The problem with Weird “Al” is that there is never a natural connection between his

Louba Lababedi comments on her beloved Judy (and Liza). I was introduced to Judy Garland(besides Wizard of Oz) in 1999

I haven’t done much album reviewing on this blog and that isn’t solely because I am more likely to buy

Our intrepret young reporter Marie Lynn went to Nashville and posted this review of the Country Music Festival 2009 As

Kris Kristoffesson once said love is the last thing to go but having seen such greats as Mel Torme, Peggy

One of my favorite photographers is Bob Klein, a man who ridiculously shares this gift with friends and family only

What constitutes a performer whose life and art is so mingled it is impossible to think of what without the

Half an hour into her joyful set at the Beacon Theater last night regina Spektor has completely lost her place.

In anticipation of McCartney’s concert at Citifield this July, a look back at his recorded works. It is difficult (not

My friend Bari Wartell (we saw Conor at “Other Music” together last year) when asked for a couple of lines

Please let me help Juliana Hatfield a little and explain to her what her problem as a musician is: she

Poker Face – Lady GagaToo Tough – The Rolling StonesTomorrow – Paul McCartney Off Wing’s loudly maligned “Wild Life” in

Listening to songs off Mos Def’s pretty good new album “The Ecstatic” I wonder what he learnt playing Chuck Berry

It’s a good question and the answer is maybe. It is certainly accessible enough, by Bjork’s standards even more than

ANOTHER KIND OF HERO

Have you ever seen the Britcom “Goodnight Sweetheart”? A man finds a pothole between London in the 1990s and 1942

I mentioned yesterday I thought the New York Times music pages were the best in the business and not just

First Costello was awesome and then he was fair to middling for an hour and a half and then he

I loved the movie though i can understand why people may have had problems with it. And I think “The

It is one of gods’ great jokes that on the first song of the first side of his first album

Rock That Body – Black Eyed Peas I Gotta Feeling – Black Eyed Peas From “The Energy Never Dies” -their

In the letter from the editor for the Kings Of Leon Rolling Stone cover story, the editor Will Dana brags

Oh Yeah -ChickenfootSoap On A Rope – Chickenfoot“Got money, got fame, fast cars and everything”. Who do they think they

I wish I could get the picture from my cell on my blog so you could see as much as

I don’t suffer from social nostalgia. I don’t believe the past was better than today, I know it was worse.