Email AuthorMichael Alan Goldberg
The 20 Best Arena Rock Songs of All Time
March 22, 2013 in Sound of the City
Featured Entry
The Oral History of Kid Rock's The Polyfuze Method
March 15, 2013 in Sound of the City
Though it's practically needless to say by now, this Saturday -- March 16 -- is a date that most rock fans have long had circled on their calendar: The 20th...
The 11 Best Fictional Bands of All Time
March 11, 2013 in Sound of the City
Featured Entry
Take Our Andrew W.K. Party Tip Quiz!
March 07, 2013 in RFTmusic
Andrew W.K.: Rocker, composer, fashion plate, motivational guru, and most importantly -- via his primo Twitter feed -- longtime purveyor of party tips. From practical advice to profundity, inspiration to...
Featured Entry
Take Our Andrew W.K. Party Tip Quiz!
March 06, 2013 in Sound of the City
Andrew W.K.: Rocker, composer, fashion plate, motivational guru, and most importantly -- via his primo Twitter feed -- long-time purveyor of party tips. From practical advice to profundity, inspiration to...
Aw Man, Brother, It's Time Again For the Annual Allman Brothers Beacon Residency!
March 05, 2013 in Sound of the City
Man Man's Honus Honus Hopes He Lives Long Enough To See Their New Album Come Out
February 28, 2013 in Sound of the City
Featured Entry
Candles As Band Merch: An In-depth, Intensive Look with GG Allin, Mumford and Sons
February 26, 2013 in RFTmusic
Perhaps you have seen that in addition to the T-shirts, hoodies, posters, and brass boat necklaces (?) found in their online merch section, Sigur Ros has introduced their "Vardeldur candle"...
Candles As Band Merch: An In-depth Look
February 22, 2013 in Sound of the City
Featured Entry
Sequin-Wearing, Beyonc-Obsessed GANG Play Nice With Everyone
February 21, 2013 in Sound of the City
Photo by Eric SisonPicking up the phone at her South Philly home, GANG singer Amanda Damron says, sternly, that I've interrupted her while she was watching the Beyonc documentary on...
In Honor of Spring Training: The Best Baseball Songs!
February 14, 2013 in Sound of the City
Featured Entry
Does Michael Bolton Have Soul? An Illustrated Guide
February 04, 2013 in Sound of the City
All illustrations by Michael Alan GoldbergThat's singer Michael Bolton, above. Last week, Center Street (a division of Hachette Book Group) published his long-awaited memoir, The Soul of It All, which...
Featured Entry
You Guys Wanna See the World's Weirdest John Denver Concert?
February 01, 2013 in Sound of the City
John DenverJohn Denver is coming to town, and he's bringing his old bandmates with him. Together, they're kicking off the "Rocky Mountain High Concert" U.S. tour in Westbury on Friday...
Featured Entry
What's the Difference Between Tomahawk and Taylor Swift? Our Chat With Legendary Guitarist Duane Denison
January 29, 2013 in Sound of the City
TomahawkNearly six years after their last album, 2007's Anonymous, Tomahawk return this week with fourth offering Oddfellows: more phantasmagoric rock to weird you out and rev you up all at...
Featured Entry
Wild, Obsessive, Lustful Love: Inside Tegan and Sara's New Heartthrob
January 28, 2013 in Sound of the City
Photo by Lindsey Byrnes"I recognize that this album is different, even a 'departure,' as some journalists are calling it, but I think we've done it without compromising or undermining our...
Featured Entry
Sometimes You Just Say "Fuck It," Throw A Piano In the Back of A Truck, and Play Your Way Down To Panama
January 25, 2013 in Sound of the City
Dotan Negrin is a guy who plays piano out on the streets for money, but to say he's just another street performer is like saying Felix Baumgartner -- you know,...
Featured Entry
Jenny Lewis Transitions From Everyone's Fave Indie Sweetheart To Very Good Girl
January 24, 2013 in Sound of the City
Photo by Michael Alan GoldbergAbout a year and a half ago, singer-songwriter and former Rilo Kiley principal Jenny Lewis was in a difficult spot. Crippling writer's block had stopped her...
Featured Entry
You Don't Have To Feel Bad For Kristeen Young Anymore
January 11, 2013 in Sound of the City
"I know it makes no sense, but I know it's going to work out, that I shouldn't give up," says Kristeen Young, punctuating the serious thought with a bright, loud...
Featured Entry
Broadcast's First Album Since Frontwoman Trish Keenan's Death Is A Spooky Affair
January 08, 2013 in Sound of the City
By the time you get to "The Curfew After the Massacre"--the 27th of 39 tracks on Broadcast's 39-minute soundtrack to the lauded 2012 British psychological horror flick Berberian Sound Studio,...
Featured Entry
Ten Big Deal Albums We're Hella Excited For
January 04, 2013 in Sound of the City
A. BanksHey: Albums! In case people still care about these things, here's a batch of potentially interesting releases arriving in the coming weeks and months: A$AP ROCKY Long.Live.A$AP January 15 Pretty sure I've...
Featured Entry
Tracing "Hallelujah" From Obscurity To Ubiquity
January 02, 2013 in Sound of the City
Back in September of 2010, noted music journalist (and former editor-in-chief of SPIN and Vibe magazines) Alan Light was among 4,000 people sitting in the Jacob Javitz Center for Yom...
