GARDEN ANGEL

BY LARRY GETLEN
October 21, 2007 - A 1986 concert turned Kelly Levin into a Bon Jovi fan. But it was cancer that made her a true disciple. Three years ago, the mother of two was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and she adopted the band's music as a mantra. "There's a line in 'Livin' on a Prayer' that says, 'You live for the fight when that'...

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• THE 'DEAD' MAN

  SYSTEM OF A DOWN SINGER SERJ TANKIAN ELECTS TO RELEASE HIS FIRST SOLO ALBUM

  By JOSEPH BARRACATO

  It's impossible to hear Serj Tankian's majestic pipes - which range from paint peeling screeches to melodic lullabies that could...more >

• J. HOLIDAY

  THE D.C. CROONER'S BEEN TOPPING CHARTS WITH "BED"

  BY LAURA VOGEL

  AFTER "Bed" spent five weeks atop the R&B singles chart, J. Holiday saw his debut album, "Back of my 'Lac" (as...more >

• JUST KIDDING

  MUSICAL GOOSE TAKES FLIGHT

  By BILLY HELLER

  October 20, 2007 -

  FAMILY-friendly music gets goosed this week, thanks to “It's a Bam Bam Diddly!," a bouncy new album from the Dan Zanes sideman known as Father Goose. With it, singer/rapper Goose - who...more >

• IN HIS MID-90S, HE'S STILL GOT LEGS

  By FRANK SCHECK

  October 19, 2007 -

  THEY'LL never accuse Feinstein's at the Regency of ageism. This glamorous venue has long spotlighted stars of a certain age, including the late Kitty Carlisle Hart, who performed there...more >

• BRUCE REGAINS 'MAGIC' TOUCH AT GARDEN

  By DAN AQUILANTE

  October 18, 2007 -

  WHILE the Bruce Springsteen tour featuring his recent CD "Magic" has been anything but, the Boss and his E Street sidekicks found their mojo last night at Madison Square Garden...more >

• MPFREE

  October 16, 2007 -

  Our highly subjective CMJ picks below are available for download at nypost.com/mpfree. TODAY U.K.'s Voxtrot plays shimmering bash and pop at Bowery Ballroom. TOMORROW...more >

• ROCK AROUND THE BLOCKS

  CMJ MUSIC FEST PUTS N.Y.C. IN TUNES

  By ANDY GENSLER

  October 16, 2007 -

  TODAY marks the start to the 27th CMJ music marathon, the annual confab in which a slew of up-and-coming bands and herds of wide-eyed college kids, desperate music industry professionals and music...more >

• FOREVER YOUNG

  By DAN AQUILANTE

  October 16, 2007 -

  AFTER all the albums that have fragmented Neil Young's audience between hawks 'n' doves or rockers 'n' strummers, cranky Grandpa Granola's latest, "Chrome Dreams II"...;more >

• KELLY'S GREEN BUT STILL GREAT

  By DAN AQUILANTE

  October 16, 2007 -

  KELLY Clarkson - the test-tube pop star who's managed to shed the stigma of "American Idol" and spit in the collective eye of her record-company handlers with the release of her latest...more >

• GRAND SITE FOR PIANIST

  By BARBARA HOFFMAN

  October 15, 2007 -

  HE'S played in concert halls around the world, but Yefim Bronfman has yet to tackle Vanderbilt Hall . . . in Grand Central Terminal. That will change Wednesday morning, when the...more >

• JIMMY EAT WORLD

  EMO BAND'S NEW ALBUM IS HOME-BREWED

  By JOSEPH BARRACATO

  October 14, 2007 -

  BACK when emo was still an underground buzzword, Jimmy Eat World was happy to be playing 1,000-seat theaters. Then in 2001, the Arizona-based group took the punk- inflected, heart-on-its-sleeve genre...more >

• CLASSICAL GAS

  RODRIGO Y GABRIELA INFUSE THE ACOUSTIC GUITAR WITH METAL MANIA METALHEAD

  By ISAAC GUZMÁN

  October 14, 2007 -

  The classical guitar has a bad reputation in the rock world. It's for folkies who want to sing like Peter, Paul and Mary. Or world music guys like Jorge Seu who use it to do Brazilian versions of...more >