Blossom Dearie : Manhattan [ purchase ] There's just so much jazz either about or coming out of New York City that it seems like we S...

Cub: New York City [ Purchase ] A song about New York City and called New York City seems a bit obvious for this theme, but alas, I was ru...

The Ramones : Rockaway Beach [ purchase ] The first punk rock group. Two minutes. Three chords. Four guys "named" Ramone. Roc...

The Lounge Lizards : Harlem Nocturne [ purchase ] There are times when fringe musical genres suddenly burst into the mainstream, and hardcor...

Bobby Womack: Across 110th Street, Part II [purchase] Ol' Dirty Bastard: Brooklyn Zoo [purchase] Scott Walker: Manhattan [purchase] T...

Beck: High 5 (Rock the Catskills) [ purchase ] Assuming that the Catskill's reference in the parenthetical title is deliberate - Beck w...

Sting : Englishman in New York [ purchase ] I’ve always taken Englishman in New York as a humorous piece. Sting presents himself as the clic...

Bill Janovitz: Long Island [ purchase ] Driving in and out of Long Island has never been a pleasant experience for me. But Buffalo Tom fro...

Leonard Cohen: Chelsea Hotel [ purchase ] I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel You were taking so brave and so sweet Giving me head on...

U2 : Angel of Harlem [ purchase ] Harlem is a well-known Manhattan neighborhood, north of Central Park and Columbia University, tucked bet...

Black 47: Banks of the Hudson [ purchase Fire of Freedom ] There's something sinister lurking in this quintessentially pre-millennial C...

The Stolen Sweets : Shuffle Off to Buffalo [ purchase ] Buffalo is a city in what is now called “the rust belt”. The city’s economy was base...

Billy Joel: Summer, Highland Falls [ purchase ] Halfway between Yonkers and Poughkeepsie, just an hour from the bustling crowds of New York...

John Hartford: Long Hot Summer Days [ purchase ] It's been over 90 degrees in East Tennessee every day this week. We aren't exactly...

Amy Rigby: The Summer of My Wasted Youth [ purchase ] - Middlescence CD Joni Mitchell: The Hissing of Summer Lawns [ purchase ] It'...

hyde and the boys are sorry to say goodbye to our week-long summer tribute L'Arc~en~Ciel : Natsu no Yuutsu (Summer Melancholy) P...

Gorky's Zygotic Mynci: This Summer's Been Good from the Start Gorky's Zygotic Mynci: Face Like Summer [ purchase ] Gorky's...

Summertime is music festival season. It’s one of the first things I think of when I think of summer. So, the week must not go by without thi...

June Tabor and the Oysterband: Mississippi Summer [ purchase ] The original recording of this tune from American folksinger Si Khan drips w...

Eliane Elias : Summer Samba (So Nice) [ purchase ] Bossa nova, that Brazilian jazzy sound that swept the US in the 60's, always seem...