Coming Soon: The Answer Will Be Here
Bob Dylan in the 1960sEvery Album reviewed
AUGUST 4TH 2009 AT WEBSTER HALL THE GREATEST BAND IN THE WORLD
LOS CAMPESINOS WILL GET DRUNK AND CALL YOU AT FOUR IN THE MORNING
The Mix July 19th, 2009: How live performances changes recorded performances
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 name it would be Chuck Berry. And he might have added if hip hop had another name it would be James Brown. From the very…
Paul McCartney July 17th, 2009 at Citi field reviewed: A Professional Hit Job
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 it so they buckle down again and get back to work. The Script are out of their league in the cavernous Citifield but they are…
COMING TOMORROW
MACCA AT CITIFIELD REVIEWED
The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Museum New York Annex: This Aint No Mudd Club no CBGB
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 finally they discover it’s a mausoleum and they die… well that’s what the rock and roll hall of fame museum is like. You poney up…
Sold Out Concert: Start and end your search here
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 THE BEST PRICES ARE. FOR INSTANCE, YOU CAN GO ON NOW AND GET TIX FOR McCARTNEY BELOW FACE. GREAT SEATS (IN THE 100s AT MSG…
I put my hand to write about you….
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 frustrated writers. If you want a career in media rock criticism is the place to start -it is even more inclusive than UK Punk -almost…
A WRONG REVERSED
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, very poorly written. I called my editor Dave DiMartino and apologized, “You write a lot for us,” he said, “You’re gonna miss it sometimes.” But…
Phill Lynott: Irish, Black, Cool…
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 heart of Manchester thirty odd years ago and in the dead of night with Barry White bassing and thumping and cute chicks behind the bar…
Whitney’s Back… New album dropping September 1st, 2009
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 Is Your Love” or “The Ultimate Collection” -a 2 CD greatest hits stunning in its consistence and revelatorary on the throw down CD!! With a…
DON’T MISS FRANKIE NEGRON
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 and it is only $15!!!
Coming Soon
THE ROCK CRITIC AS ROCK STAR
Coming Soon: Faith And Rock
GOD ONLY KNOWS
Michael Jackson, Pop Stars, And What Constitutes a Good Life
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 are not always very good or even a little good (and what does good mean? it means we lesson our rights as indivuals for someone…
Coming Soon: Spiderbag and DC Snipers: A celebration of heroine, country and delinquency
“now I live here and I’m fixing wheelchairs…”
New Music Week Of July 13th, 2009: Disappointments Abound
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 “Fanmail” tour (A young Christina Aguilara blew em off stage). But off the stage he has had a productive life producing and now he pulls…
More Prima Donna
MORE ABOUT RUFUS’ OPERA FROM NEW YORK MAGAZINE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMtab4n3q_k
1977: Plastic Blondes and Fictionheads
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, NYCP saturday morning cartoon, LP the Clash, NYCP the Ramones. And somewhere in NYCP along with the bops and the rockets, the marquee moons and…
The Met At Central Park Summerstage July 13th, 2009: Tomorrow’s Opera Stars Today; Rufus Wainwright’s Opera has its premier
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 the car or themselves, reckless, dangerous, veering into the crowds, as likely to crash and burn in a concert as to make it out alive.…
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