Love My Jams

Rihanna’s Umbrella in Spanish?

Perez thinks it's awful, but somehow it's still catchy!

New Music: Tom Baxter

These guys played at the Cutting Room a couple of weeks ago, and they were FABULOUS-- good looking, incredibly nice, and musically very talented. The first single off their Skybound album, "Better," (in the video above) sounds a lot like early Coldplay, but their overall style is more eclectic ...

Young at Heart

You MUST see this movie!

Read The Beatles

Although there are countless books on The Beatles, Read The Beatles is unique in that it is a collection of more than fifty articles, interviews, poems, book excerpts, and album and movie reviews written about the fab four. Rather than providing one perspective on the band and claiming to ...

Get some tissues ready

An oldie but a goodie.

New Music: Kaki King

Rolling Stone calls her the first and only female Guitar God. She also got a Golden Globe nomination for Best Original Score for her music on the Into the Wild soundtrack. Check out her mean guitar playing skills in the video below, and click here for NYC blog ...

The Bees- Who Cares What the Question Is

Fischerspooner - Never Win

New Music: Tokio Hotel

When my favorite critic for the New York Times, Kelefa Sanneh, recently wrote an article praising the German rock band Tokio Hotel, I decided to check them out. On YouTube I watched their videos for "Monsoon" and "Ready, Set, Go!" which are supposed to be their more popular songs ...

New Music: Jim Noir

You know that commercial for Target that aired during the holiday season with the huge advent calendar? I was WONDERING what the song playing during that commercial was, because it's awfully catchy, and it turns out it's this guy, Jim Noir. His music is described as "psychadelic pop ...