The quest for the party that never ends… sex and romance, infidelity, gossip, and gentrification in the city where anything can happen at any time. The song is “Where Are The Freaks,” and the band is Spanking Charlene, a New York City based group that recently won Steven Van…

Christina LaRocca calls herself a confused New Yorker, owing to the fact that she was born in Brooklyn, raised in Staten Island and now calls Astoria home. Confused though she may be, she has a definite handle on her musical career, with a new album called I Stand Tall…

Statistics just released showed that property taxes in New Jersey, already the highest in the United States, went up an average of 2.4 percent in 2011. The politicians in Trenton are congratulating each other for keeping it so low, while those in towns around the state are claiming the small…

“Our first drummer was from Spring Lake,” explains lead singer Tom Smeaton, when asked about the genesis of the name Mercer Avenue. “One day, we were just biking around the towns down there when Dan fell off his bike. He landed in front of the Mercer Avenue street sign,…

Garland Jeffreys is a true rock and roll survivor, having been a contemporary of Lou Reed before his Velvet Underground days, being a part of the legendary New York club scene in the ‘60s, achieving chart success in Europe and later in the U.S., and still touring to this…

If you follow politics at all, you’ve been inundated lately with all this coverage of what they call the “Iowa Caucus.” CNN actually treated it like a real election, with live coverage and maps of the various districts and percentage of precincts that had reported in. I suppose with 24-hour…

Little Feat has always been known as a “musician’s band.” And the seminal live album, Waiting For Columbus, which came out in the late ‘70s, is still considered one of the great live albums in the history of rock.

Surviving the passing of founding member and visionary Lowell George,…

MiG Ayesa has come a long way. Not just in his professional life, but in his travels as well. Born in Manila, Philippines, and raised in Australia, he caught Brian May’s attention in London and then ended up in New York, which is now his home base. In his…

It’s the start of a new year, and a good time to see where we stand in the political landscape of the country. Where are we as a nation, and where are we headed? Are we doing what’s necessary to move forward and lead the world into the future?

Anyone…

Gov’t Mule will be returning to The Beacon Theatre in New York for their annual New Year’s run with two shows, Friday, Dec. 30, and Saturday, Dec. 31. The band has played very few shows this year, and every year they have a special theme, so these two look…