Every caveat I have ever used about good and evil apply and are doubled when it becomes a question of […]

From 1998 to 2001 Elvis Costello went on a tear, a lost and possibly final, rush of masterpieces that feel

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

The pic is from thursdays gig but two songs a set aint gonna get the job done. Zimmy, quit your

Art for art’s sake, money for Gods sake”10cc Walmart insisted Green Day bleep any profane words on their album “21st

Let Your Love Flow – The Bellamy Brothers – Sure it’s bland but it is comforting and it’s a song

The new movie, political procedural “In The Loop”, features a bravado performance by Scottish actor Peter Capaldi as a dirty

Summerstage promised the sound of young Salsa -well, Jerry Rivera is thirty-six so not that young but the other three

Young Adult Friction – The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – I remain unconvinced the album is the alt

Yellow Fever and Woods have this is common: the bass players of both bands are multi instrumentalist. They also have

You can see it in these pictures of a young Louis Armstrong, the brash confidence of a gifted trumpeter raising

In deciding when to see Steely Dan during their 8 night stand at the Beacon Theatre it all came down

1979 of course… I mean when else would Michael Jackson’s greatest album have ben released? And so much seems lost

I will be in England the last week of August. Here are the concerts I’ll be missing: Taylor Swift Brittney

Writer Todd Lebowitz finds a big flaw in Itunes album covers…. It seems like iTunes is failing to upload the

This is the indie blog Hear Ya’s best albums of the year so far: Ben Nichols – The Last Pale

It is 8pm at night and I’ve been nursing a toothache for a coupla weeks and I am up to

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

Knock You Down – Keri HilsonSupernova – Mr. HudsonS.O.S. – Jordin SparksEnglish lads Mr. Hudson record for Kanye West’s label

Speaking with my good buddy Cris Marchignoli he complained that my Beatles overview was confusing because all he knew was

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

From savior to mercy, from on his knees to on his back, legend has it the 1980s were mean to

I loved CeU music long before I saw her picture but now that I have seen her picture all I

Last week the Met handed out free tickets days before the Summerstage concert and a pleasant time was had by

This is a true story and it’s about how I met a girl I fell in love with. My cousin

The One – Mary J. BligeHistory Sticks to Your Feet – Modest MouseHere Comes Your Man – Meghan SmithSay Please

And into the 70s we go with Bobby’s first fully fledged disaster and lots of second guessing by the world

From today’s NYT -here is the link to music critic Nate Chinen’s live review of the purveyors of one of

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

In order to create the sound of punk the powers that be took the Velvet Underground, the Stooges and the

How do we deal with God in rock, a youth culture?　 Of all the concerns a youth culture has life

Philanthropist and businessman Larry Miller saw U2 at the Olympiastadion in Berlin July 18th, 2009. This is the stadium that

The Jim Jones, M. Ward, Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis supergroup Monsters Of Folk are giving away an MP3 from their

My friend and fellow Dylan fanatic Michael Blauner (he is the guy who got in trouble with me at the

So sad to hear that Gordon Waller (he is the guy above who doesn’t have red hair and whose sister

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

The difference between the songs used in the just released DVD of “Watchmen” and the the just released movie “(500)

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 warm up act Irish lads the Script are doing their best, even pointing out Paul McCartney’s dressing room somewhere

MACCA AT CITIFIELD REVIEWED

Did you ever see that Twilight Zone where astronauts land in this place and everything looks like white picket fence

FANSNAP IS DA BOMB… IT IS BRAND NEW, IT COMPARES ALL PRICES FOR SOLD OUT CONCERTS OUT THERE, IT TELLS

English journalist Julie Burchill once said to me that rock critics were frustrated rock stars with a lot of unused

Many years ago I interviewed the Pretenders, wrote the story and mailed it to Creem. Upon publication I was shocked

George Best was the greatest English, er, Irish winger of all time. A legendary Man United soccer player and worldclass