By AJ

Published: May 1st, 2007

Ever hear of green rock? No, it's not some subgenre of indie alternative (whatever that means anymore). Green rock is part-recycling, part-headbanging, and all good for the environment. It's a new approach to the music tour - use reusable, biodegradeable and environmentally-sound products and donate part of the proceeds to environmental credits to pay for the (lessened) impact the tour had on the environment, like planting trees in third-world countries. But in the age of "An Inconvenient Truth," "greening" a tour means everything from recycling used guitar strings and half-spent 9V batteries to inflating tires to specifications to save gas (and by gas, I mean biodiesel - what else?). Some bands have even taken up arms, so to speak, for the cause: the Barenaked ...

By AJ

Published: September 23rd, 2006

Rock and roll in the Big Apple is dead. It's been said before, but in the densest county in the U.S. - Manhattan - it's really true. After months and months of legal wrangling, famed rock club CBGB's is on its way out (to Las Vegas, if you're wondering). It's Bowery cousin, The Continental, is hanging up its snotty past, as home to the Ramones in favor of a rebirth as an admittedly rock-less dive bar. Arlene's Grocery on the Lower East Side is still kicking, but with skyrocketing rents on the island, who knows how long. The Bitter End is still thriving, but it caters to the folk nostalgia of Greenwich Village. Oh, and Crash Mansion is still standing - ...