This just in: the New York Dolls are playing the Seaport Music Festival on August 18th. We can't imagine what it's like to see the Dolls in daylight, but we're sure looking forward to finding out. The above is the trailer for an early 70's documentary by rock photographer Bob Gruen and his wife Nadya, who in a period of three years shot over 40 hours of New York Dolls footage. Early performances in......

Get ready for more NYC Album Art posts, in the meantime, check out some non-digital photos at the Morrison Hotel Gallery. The gallery recently had an event at the Apple Store with rock photographer legend Joel Brodsky. He shot the Strange Days album cover we wrote about. At the event he shared his work and the stories behind it. Brodsky has recalled of the Morrison shoot, "The shot on the inner sleeve of the......

For the past 25 years fans have descended upon Central Park's Strawberry Fields to remember John Lennon on the anniversary of his death. By now, we all know the story...Lennon was gunned down by a deranged fan (Mark David Chapman) just near his home (the Dakota) on the night of December 8th, 1980. Chapman is now eligable for parole next year. Today, like every year, fans have already been visiting the site since the early......

Last month a book visually and textually depicting Lennon's New York City years came out, coinciding with the 25th anniversary of his death and the 65th anniversary of his birth. We've been meaning to mention this book, but we're still trying to watch the rest of Dylan's No Direction Home and got a little sidetracked. Most photographs in the book were never before published, and all of them were taken by the world's best rock......

Last night we were told that the Secret Machines were playing a (secret?) show at the Apple Store in Soho at 10pm. We didn't go, and haven't heard a thing about it. Did it happen, was anyone there? We need closure. Other not so secret events at the Apple Store are coming up that also have our interest piqued. Legendary Master of Music Photography: Bob Gruen. Gruen is one of the most well known and......