Remember the Drifters? Sure you do: tin pan alley, highly arranged first r&b and then pop vocal band. First with […]

Loudon Wainwright III and his children Rufus and Martha Wainwright as well as the BRILLIANT AWESOME UNSPEAKABLY WONDERFUL folk trio

The other week I wrote a post about Caroline Smith and the Good Night Sleeps -a Minneapolis band. Marie Lynn

I.D.G.A.F – Breathe CarolinaElectronica duo from Denver come up with the goods on this addictive pop crossover mover EXCEPT who

This is the most boring brush with greatness you WILL EVER READ!!! It came to mind because I was watching

In a somewhat scathing review of Miley Cyrus’ “The Climb” back in April, I snickered “How much reassurance do young

Available on Itunes today: Elvis Costello’s singing talk show reviewed…

Suite: Judy Blue Eyes – Crosby Stills & Nash – It’s a shame Steve Stills is such an arrogant dick

Elvis Costello, Richard and Linda Thompson and Bruce Springsteen wrote terrific albums about the end of their marriages. We’re gonna

Mike Nessing writes about the short, lustrously creative life of Judee Sill. Songs of faith, higher power, wisdom and love.

What confuses people about Marvin Gaye is that, despite “What’s Going On” and despite “Let’s Get It On” and despite

MILEY!!!!

There are too types of serious rock fans in this world: the progressives and the anti-progressives. Mike Nessing is the

Blowing In the Wind – Sam Cooke – From the 64 Live at the Copa album, quite as good as

Don’t know about the half million young, dirty, hungry, drugged bastards stuck in the Flanders Field of 1969 but I

I was emailing back and forth with Mike Nessing when he said “Too much music,man..not enough time. It’s a never

Work Me Lord – Janis Joplin – On this CD the difference between Janis Joplin and Jefferson Airplane is if

About a year ago I was at the Highline for a Martha Wainwright concert and up close she was like

One of the Cavemen throws a strike and pumps his arm until the pin changer comes down with the legend

Going Up the Country – Canned Heat – I don’t like blues boogie but I liked this on the original

I loved Brett Jensen’s take on Jesus and Jesus’ Ipod in an earlier post. If you can’t laugh at religion

Did you know Ray Price took over Hank William’s band after Hank died? Popular music sophisticate Michael Nessing did and

Les Paul, the inventor of the full bodied electric guitar, died today. I saw him at the Iridium when it

And closing up the first, very folkie night of Friday 15th, 1969, Joan Baez and the CD doesn’t include Joanie

I will be getting round to a somewhat more unctuous take on the Lord’s Ipod at some point soon using

From Marie Lynn: check out roma di luna — these tears aint mine she did a cover of in an

My friend Jane Patterson did a list of her top fifty concerts so I pulled out my ticket stubs I’ve

What is a young Jesus listening to today?The Teen Jesus Play list only on ROCK NYC… soon!

Last week I put Rolling Stone to task for giving a Sly Stone Anthology a four and a half star

Listen up, this is gonna be a lot more fun the just listening to the brick of a box set.

Party in The USA – Miley CyrusOn the cover of AM News this morning was the picture above with the

Ok, we’re all patiently waiting for guitarist alumni Larry Carlton’s solo on “Kid Charlemagne” and since this is “The Royal

I don’t know what’s left to be said about Spider bags except maybe “So Long a Rope” is one of

During dinner last night with my nephew Samer Diab he asked a question that echoed one in the New Yorker

The Woodstock 6 CD set went on sale today. It is not every show complete (that would be 30 days

LEONARD COHENVSMEPART II

Why spend your life obsessed with music? July 8th, 2003 at Madison Square Garden and Pearl Jam are playing one

Sometimes when you read a politician you are reading a politician and sometimes when you are reading a politician you

Barack Obama’s Ipod will Be reviewed and analyzed and we will tell what it reveals about his true character (hint:

The nihilist’s nihilist wrote this many, many years ago… by the way I ran into him all the time and

Long, long, long – Yim Yames – Yim Yames wasn’t Yim Yames yet, he was barely Jim James when he

Bass player to the star Harvey Brooks played on Dylan’s “Highway 61 Revisited,” the Doors “The Soft Parade” and Simon

Denizen of new wave Willy Deville died yesterday. He was the man in front of Mink DeVille and had two

The best looking audience at a Summerstage are smoking cigs, smoking pot, doing spastic dances and transforming Summerstage into the

PEARL JAMREGINA SPEKTOR WOODSTOCKLIVE ALBUM REVIEWS

Sweet Caroline – Neil Diamond Caroline No – The Beach Boys Caroline Says 1 – Lou Reed Caroline – Rhett

DARK DISCO LIVE

This was left as a comment by my old pal anonymous… The person is commenting on a negative comment about

Siblings Richard and Karen Carpenter perfected easy listening, I was mentioning ambient when writing about Bowie’s album “Low” and often

John Seabrook says in the New Yorker this week that “…according to some surveys 95% of all downloads are illegal”.