From New York to Japan to London and back, here’s a Rock & Roll update of what I’ve seen and heard this summer, Jesse Malin, Lily Allen, Billie Joe Armstrong, and many more!

At the Sundance Film Festival I saw ‘The Runaways’ starring Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning , and back in New York I saw a Patti Smith reading; a Yoko Ono show at the Brooklyn Academy of Music with Eric Clapton and Bette Midler; Jesse Malin’s new band, and more!

Green Day played at Madison Square Garden and everyone had a ball! They are the most fun live band around and they really involve the audience. The best part of the show is when they take fans from the crowd and bring them on stage and let them play a song! I first saw them do this a few years ago; Billie Joe would get a fan up and give him his guitar, but now they replace the whole band! It… read more →