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There are pages and pages on the internet how famous bands got their names, and I am not going to go there, but usually bands have a few techniques to find a moniker

Titus and Taylor represent their new albums, if K’Naan has only two good songs at least they are REAL gone, three representatives from CMJ, and Cat Power salvages what she can from Hammerstein Ballroom.

Prince Jackson actually looks very much like Corey Feldman! I know that this could be totally subjective but still! I did some research on the web, it is wildly discussed on message boards of course, even the Black Lips agree with the idea as they posted a tweet about it a few weeks ago! And the Black Lips are cool.

t is apt that Hurricane Sandy is bearing down upon us ready to wash out two, maybe three nights of concerts in nyc -apt because Wednesday is Halloween and it blows away the unlucky prome Smashing Pumpkins from the Pick of the week. for their Halloween gig on Wednesday at Barclay center. With visuals by the guy behind the Wall. And two parts. One the newbie, which isn’t bad, and the other hits which s better.

I’ve been merrily streaming the new Calvin Harris all day and I quite like it, new Neil Young seems like a winner, I loved the Lulu Gainsbourg track earlier this year and always cool to hear from Tracey Thorne.

Sherry Darling – Bruce Springsteen – With Hurricane Sandy bearing down upon us, and we stranded like John Travolta at the drive in, perhaps it’s as good a time as ever to hark the words of the Boss: “Let there be sunlight, let there be rain…” and keep on writing till the break of day – Grade: A

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of Hurricane Sandy, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, this post must show… or if you prefer, I am writing this Monday morning and don’t know whether it will be a natural disaster or a fizzle. My bet is on the former.

The movie I would like to see are of the times I worked there, when the club wasn’t doing so well. It was like living in a hangover from the 1970s. There were some great musical moments, but more often than not CBGB was just a mill for low-talent acts.

Unlike when I was stopping strangers on the street and begging them to listen to “Tears On My Guitar”, I am winning no awards for prescience in celebrating Red. Number 1 in 31 countries with three of the first four songs going Top 10 in the UK and the fourth going top 20.

Labrinth is a Cowell find and this song, a modern ballad UK style, big, prefabricated, powerful, will break HUGE if it gets the right push. But really, this is a smart smart list, Especially Calvin Harris who just got a “C+” album review in EW! GASP!!!!

Paradise By The Dashboard Light – Meat Loaf – When Eddie said he didn’t like his teddy… if Smashing Pumpkins is rained out, I am going to Bowery Electric to catch X play three songs off his upcoming album Thursday, then rushing uptown to see Mr. Loaf – Grade: A

Satan was working overtime in ’73, loading the pop charts with demonic material by Tony Orlando and Down, the Carpenters, and Marie Osmond. However, during Beelzebub’s lunch breaks, the New York Dolls and Bruce Springsteen and Iggy Pop pushed some timeless goodies into the marketplace.

There were these big colorful, naïve, and plain weird things hanging on the white walls, either very simply representing a yellow surf board, or an orange Chelsea Hotel, or being extremely busy and intriguing, built like graffiti where there are a lot of things to read.

There has come a trend of endorsements from the entertainment industry, and I am terrified that this is what Joe Public is basing their choices on

TMZ caught Mark Foster arguing with a security guard for a few minutes, trying to explain himself with a few sentences such as, ‘I wasn’t taking pictures’, and ‘I’m a musician, I understand’, and ‘I am from Foster the People’, whereas the guard told him first to ‘go home’ and finally let him in again

I said, ‘No, I can’t be bothered. Those days are over.’ But we sat down, I started humming a melody and he took it away and sent it back and said, ‘Listen, this is pretty good,’

Lost In A Lover’s Dream – Georgie Fame – Half standards, half new stuff, the great English singer and piano player is in full jazz momentum with just bass and guitar to accompany him, this is actually a singers album and Fame has always been a fine one. The songs are calmly love sophisticates, “Wide Eyed And Legless” so more than “Blossom” – Grade: A-

Let’s Hang On – The Four Seasons – He skipped this masterpiece on Friday night, it’s a simple lyric but when it is sung write it sounds like poetry: “there isn’t anything I wouldn’t do, I’d pay any price to get in good with you, the repeat on “any” is a blast, it plays on the roof of your mouth – Grade: A+

the song kicks ass, the girls are beautiful and the atmosphere that of ghetto excess. This is perfect portrayal of the decadence of the nouveau riche’. Spot on actually.

rock nyc has thrown five questions into cyberspace and some of the coolest bands around got back and we will be posting their answers! Thereby, giving you the opportunity to get to know the brains behind todays vibrant music scene.

With the release of his major label debut, Blak And Blu, last week 28 year old guitar slinger makes it abundantly clear that he is sharp enough to not want to be Hendrix, a) because he can’t but also b) it isn’t enough to be the best in 2012, you have to be a wild, eclectic whirlwind thing. And Clark is just that, a good looking 28 year old heir to the Prez future passed black man who can really play, all deadly blues riffs and calm insouciance

As it was reported by the Guardian this year, she stepped down as manager of the company, and she ‘is not entitled to income from any new deals relating to Cobain’s image’. So how this could be possible?

The band will have to go by no name and no billing or ever fanatic Stonehead will be camped out at the neighborhood bar for a week.

If you have ever been to Boston you already know that there are more alleys and caverns than in the Harry Potter film.

Wide Eyed And Legless – Georgie Fame – When we last ran into Fame he was playing keyboards in Van Morrison’s band. Not that Fame is a rock journeyman, rather he is a pop eccentric with a taste for jazz, who played with Alan Price and his own Blue Flames back in the day and never bothered to top. Off his terrific new album, a terrific version of the Andy Fairweather-Low ode to alcoholism – Grade: A

“Everything is turned to love with her. New love, absent love, lost love – I never knew a heroine that makes such noodles of our sex”