GHOST OF ANDY KAUFMANHIS ALTEREGO TONY CLIFTON RESURFACES WITH LOUNGE ACT

By LARRY GETLEN
September 7, 2008 - The man on the phone is belligerent, rude and kinda gross; a racist, sexist old whoremonger who claims his mission in life is "nailing young p - - - y." Lucky for us all, he's also fictional. Tony Clifton, who "performs" at B.B. King's on Wednesday night in a benefit for musicians affected by Hurricane Katrina, was...

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• CYNDI LAUPER

  BACK HAVING FUN WITH 'NIGHTLIFE’

  By JOSEPH BARRACATO

  CYNDI Lauper loves shaking her shimmy - and just did, right past Rihanna, Ne-Yo and Madonna. The '80s icon earned her perch atop the...more >

• NO HEADBANGING ALLOWED AT THIS ROCK BENEFIT

  By JON SOBEL

  JUST six months ago, things looked good for Kelly Buchanan. The New York songwriter was finally supporting herself through music. Her...more >

• BACK ON THE BLOCK

  WILL THESE HOT RETRO ACTS HAVE THE "RIGHT STUFF" FOR A COMEBACK?

  By MAXINE SHEN

  September 5, 2008 -

  AFTER a summer filled with reunions of blast-from-the-past acts like the Yazoo Band (or "Yaz" as they're more popularly known), the Verve, Extreme and Soul Asylum, it looks like the...more >

• AUTUMN-ATIC MUST-SEE MUSIC

  By MAXINE SHEN and DAN AQUILANTE

  September 5, 2008 -

  FALL is back-to-school time for kids, but for music fans it's back-to-show time, with all the biggest and best bands making their way to Skyscraper Park to rock your socks off. Here are the...more >

• HIT BY 'RECESSION,' JEEZY FEELS YOUR PAIN

  By JOSEPH BARRACATO

  September 2, 2008 -

  BEN Bernanke has a twin working in the hip-hop world. OK, maybe Young Jeezy looks, acts and dresses completely unlike the Federal Reserve chairman, but he's relaying the same vital message on...more >

• RINGERS ARE ON

  THE LA BAND IS FIRING ON ALL CYLINDERS

  By MAXINE SHEN

  September 2, 2008 -

  THE Ringers are attempting to pull off the impossible: They want to be taken seriously even though their lead singer might be more recognized as the vocalist of White Gold, the California Milk...more >

• MPFREES

  By MAXINE SHEN

  September 2, 2008 -

  Download these free MP3s through Friday at nypost.com * The Ringers, "Holy Zipper" Inspired by seeing a priest and two nuns at a swap meet, the LA band gets down and dirty with this...more >

• THE GAME’S OVER

  AFTER JAIL, FEUDS, HE’S READY TO RETIRE

  By JOSEPH BARRACATO

  August 31, 2008 -

  The RAP game - and being The Game - has grown stale for the emcee born Jayceon Taylor. Despite platinum sales, he's been arrested several times in the past few years, including on a weapons and...more >

• WAR OF THE ROSES

  A LURID TELL-ALL AND THE PROMISE OF THE BAND'S FIRST NEW ALBUM IN 15 YEARS PUT LEGENDARY ROCKERS GNR BACK IN THE SPOTLIGHT

  By LARRY GETLEN

  August 31, 2008 -

  For Guns n' Roses, "Appetite for Destruction" was more than the title of a landmark album that sold 15 million copies in the US and turned the group into rock legends. It was also the...more >

• PAVEMENT PARTY

  BUFFETT'S FANS LAND ON THEIR ASPHALT

  By DAN AQUILANTE

  August 29, 2008 -

  NO shirt, no shoes, no ticket . . . no problem. The place to hear Jimmy Buffett spin his pirate yarn about letting the good times roll wasn't from the seats inside the Jones Beach amphitheater...more >

• VENERABLE ROCKER WORTHY OF IDOL WORSHIP

  By DAN AQUILANTE

  August 28, 2008 -

  WITH all his major hits written and recorded more than 20 years ago, Billy Idol might seem like more of a rocking-chair guy than a rocker. Wrong. Tuesday at the Hammerstein Ballroom, the...more >

• BILLY! BILLY! BILLY! BILLY!

  WE JUST CAN’T GET ENOUGH OF THIS HARD-ROCKIN’ IDOL

  By MAXINE SHEN

  August 26, 2008 -

  MORE than 20 years after a spiky-haired Brit named William Broad - a k a Billy Idol - bombarded these shores with his sexy snarl, the punk rocker is still every bit as cool as he was back then...more >