Archive for March, 2008
The Hold Steady raised a toast to the Saint Joe Strummer last night at the Hard Rock in Times Square. The boys brought new songs for the Rolling Stone sponsored event. Check out the video of the new album title track “Stay Positive” backed with ” Hot Soft Lights” in a special Schick Quattro […]
Drunks hitting pans with their dicks. PAUL FORD at The Morning News takes
one for the team. While I don’t know exactly how his habit of 6 word
‘twittering” (now a verb apparently) aides humanity, Mr. Ford has taken the
HUGE trouble of listening to 48 continuous hours of music from 763 of the
acts appearing this […]
New York City is filled with aspiring musicians with delusions of grandeur, all of whom have their backup gigs…for Ashley Dupré (a.k.a. the woman of Former Governor Spitzer’s dreams) it was the Emperor’s Club. Putting aside for a moment all the political and ethical hooplah surrounding her sudden fame, one begins to wonder if […]
The Myspace Music Tour featuring Justice, Chromeo and DJ Mhendi was purely awesome. At first when my friend, Carol and I walked into the event I was skeptical, because it was in the overpopulated Madison Square Garden, however the WaMu theater is a rather cute and quaint space.
If you wanted to know why, the headline says it all read all about it here. But that’s not what’s interesting. What is fascinating is how burnt out that song is. More specifically how spent and ineffective the 1994 Jeff Buckley version is ( Leonard Cohen wrote and recorded the original on the album Various […]
Congratulations Santogold is Brooklyn’s Bjork,( kinda like I am the black Brad Pitt). Santogold has decided she is going to be an artist and not just a charicature of an brooklyn indie princess. This video ( directed by who? ) clearly shows she is going to push the enevelop of what is acceptable for […]
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