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Oh, The Horrors!

Horrors bring me great joy. They look like The Cramps via Edward Scissorhands and have an incredible cool sound. I’m not the only one to think this either.

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Two Lights, Buying A Career

… posed for photo shoots, hung out with models, worked with Grammy-nominated producers and rocked some of the top clubs in New York (places like the Mercury Lounge and the Highline Ballroom), opening for some of our favorite bands.’

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Brian May And The Beagle Rescue

“Beagles, indisputably, are highly intelligent sentient creatures, friends of Man for centuries. It is completely morally unjustifiable for these animals to be made to suffer in the name of science,

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Hulk Hogan Almost Joined Metallica

presenting an award with Jerry Hall, Mick Jagger’s ex, and she told me the[Rolling] Stones were looking for a bass player. I sent her a ton of merchandise that she asked for and said ‘Tell Mick I’m a great bassplayer.’ I never heard a word back.’

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Deen Castronovo Busted

This seems like it was a pretty eventful day at their house. Domestic abuse is never cool- but even at minor celebrity status it pretty much makes you look like a tool.

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"Bon Joviver", by Miracles of Modern Reviewed

In a total Justin Vernon’s ambiance, wearing wool/fur hats,the five guys of Miracles of Modern Science are sitting around a table lightened with candles, as they are singing a song mixing Bon Jovi’s ‘You Give Love A Bad Name’ lyrics with Bon Iver’s falsetto

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John Belushi and The Ravens

I loved Belushi. He was fantastically funny and cool as hell. Hell, before Belushi who knew what an Armenian was? More than a comedian, he was always musically swayed. Wait, screw that the guy made cheeboigahs cool and was one badass Killer Bee.

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Sir Paul and Little Stevie

Stevie came along to the studio in LA and he listened to the track for about ten minutes and he totally got it. He just went to the mic and within 20 minutes had nailed this dynamite solo

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Sleigh Bells', 'Comeback Kid' Video Review

The video gives it some life, the scenery is sun-drenched 80s Florida with a lot of Alexis and her famous bangs, as she jumps on a bed in a red robe witha rifle or wears a black leather jacket,… sure she is sexy, but is that enough?

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Holy Hell, Die Antwoord!!

They consider themselves to be a rap crew/art project. Ahh, you can smell the hipster in the air! But I cant even pick on them too much cuz this thing creeped the bejeezuz out of me.

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The Brian Jonestown Massacre's upcoming album

their frontman has such an inflated ego that hehas basically spoiled everything for me. However, if we can pass on Anton Newcombe’s tempestuous character and plain insanity at times, and the factthat he basically has fired his band line-up every year, you still may be interested by the band’s psychedelic-shoegazing rock sound

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Faux Glitter

It was some blogger with an agenda calling it a ‘social experiment’ Silly. This is one of the ways Bloggers get a bad rap- some should just be stopped. There is a huge difference between creative writing and impersonation and if I were Glitter I’d be pissed.

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Whitney Houston On Hard Times

‘Whitney’s fortune is gone,’ the source told the site. ‘Music industry heavy hitters are supporting her and her label is fronting her cash against her next album, but no one knows when that will be released.”

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Gimme Gimme Garbage

There hasn’t been new Garbage since 2005, this is fantastic and its really happening! The new album will be released on their new indie label STUNVOLUME. This means nothing to me just hurry and let me hear it!

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Ice T, Knows It All

‘Music as a whole is delusional. If you listen to pop records right now, you’ll believe every body’s rollin’, poppin’ bottles, life is perfect. Life is f**ked up right now! …

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Minimum Wage VS Music Sales

I remember the old times, before the digital age, when buying an album cost about $18-20, these times are definitively over, there are more and more music available and it is almost free

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Bruno Mars Free At Last

An alert and really odd restroom attendant felt that Peter Hernandez was spending too much time in a stall back in September 2010. So they called security. Pause for a moment and ponder how odd that is to begin with.

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Publicist Asks That Lana Del Rey Satire Be Removed From Blog

‘Of all the bad press that she’s gotten in the wake of her‘performance’ on Saturday Night Live, I think it’s amusing that she (or her publicist, or both) chose to attack my article. It was a clear piece of satire.Is the real Lana Del Rey like the ‘Lana Del Rey’ I wrote about in my article? I don’t know. Probably not.’

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George Harrison? Yeah, There's An App For That…

The history of each guitar is shown with great intricacy; including the origin of the guitar, when and how it became part of Harrison’s collection, modifications he made to it and how each acheived a distinctive sound. Songs from his catalogue are organized by the guitars used on each track.

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Jay-Z and the B-word

Z gave up the use of the word ‘bitch’ because of the new addition to his family. I don’t remember where I read this first,but it was reported everywhere, even on TV, Jay-Z would have written a poem to prove his new resolution of dropping the bad word from his lyrics.
Well,it is not true

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Gaga The Creator

For those of you who were not totally convinced that Gaga lost her mind when she wore the meat dress, or the phone glued to her head- word comes now that she feels she has invented her own genre of music.

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Thomas Dolby Time Travel Tour

Dolby’s March through April road trip will feature an actual time capsule that looks like something HG Wells might have come up with if he had crossbred a time machine with a tear-duct travel trailer. The chrome and brass-plated vehicle seats three and features a high-tech video recording suite.

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Will You Marry Me, Kate Bush?

Luckily without weapons or chemicals. Unfortunately Miss Bush was not at home at the time. Wonder what her response would have been. I mean it was a Tiffany and well, shes not getting any younger.

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