Email Author Christopher R. Weingarten

2009 Stories by Christopher R. Weingarten

• The Detroit Cobras+the A-Bones

  published December 29, 2009

  This New Year's garage-punk throwdown will be sloppier, swarthier, sweatier, and ballsier than anywhere you could watch a stupid ball drop. The... More >>

• Joseph Arthur

  published December 29, 2009

  Brooklyn's own mellow alt-folkie Joseph Arthur is for people too cool to listen to Jack Johnson but not cool enough to listen to Josè... More >>

• Beachniks

  published December 29, 2009

  Featuring members of post-punkers Crystal Stilts and punk-punkers German Measles, Beachniks are a comically sunny proposition, writing songs about... More >>

• Conspirator+M80+Dubstation

  published December 22, 2009

  If you can't handle a single Disco-Biscuits-free evening on this merciful Monday break between their five-night New Year's run, hop on over to the... More >>

• Daedelus

  published December 22, 2009

  This late night after-party for night three of the Disco Biscuits' five-night Nokia run is a great chance to see Los Angeles avant-rap beat... More >>

• The Decade in Music Genre Hype

  published December 22, 2009

  If Spin was right to name "Your Hard Drive" the best album of 2000, we'd like to formally nominate "The Internet" as Most Unforgiving... More >>

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  The 50 Worst Songs of the '00s, F2K No. 1: Counting Crows ft. Vanessa Carlton, "Big Yellow Taxi"

  published Dec 22, 2009

  F2K has been a countdown of the 50 worst songs of the decade. Relive the whole long journey here. Thank you, and we're sorry. As a concession to a vile, contemptible decade marked by commerce over ... More >>

• HOLIDAY RAPPING

  published December 15, 2009

  This affordable, Manhattan-for-the-holidays, rock-the-jingle-bells hip-hop event doubles as a label showcase for Talib Kweli's excellent... More >>

• 'Z100's Jingle Ball 2009'

  published December 8, 2009

  To raise money for the New York Food Bank, Z100 has gathered together a huge line-up of pop artists for their annual Jingle Ball, including three... More >>

• Gwar

  published December 8, 2009

  Currently on a befuddling blitz of press for their 25th anniversary (seriously, when was the last time Gwar was in SPIN?!), the original... More >>

• BRIGHT FUTURES

  published December 8, 2009

  Three Brooklyn bands slated to break nationally start by taking Manhattan. Even if The Antlers don’t break big, they still dream... More >>

• Cable+Liturgy+Goes Cube

  published December 1, 2009

  Tones Of Death, the metal ringtone company (no kidding!) and umpteen-thousandth "metal night" promoter to pop up in the last two years, presents a... More >>

• Bowerbirds

  published December 1, 2009

  North Carolina's Bowerbirds are the type of band that gives indie rock a good name: pretty but not boring, folky but not goofy, vulnerable but not... More >>

• Woosh League

  published December 1, 2009

  London duo The Big Pink is a lovely Loveless-core proposition that remembers that the fun of buying pedal chains is making yourselves sound... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  F2K: The 50 Worst Songs of the '00s

  published Nov 25, 2009

  Since this archive page mysteriously disappeared over at its original home, consider this your new bookmark/placeholder/friend on late, lonely nights. Confusedr More here. It's super-cute to peruse de... More >>

• Russian Circles+Young Widows

  published November 24, 2009

  Meandering chug monster Russian Circles lean closer to metal than Mogwai and closer to post-rock than Isis, resulting in a cinematic, explosive,... More >>

• Eyedea & Abilities+Themselves

  published November 24, 2009

  Eyedea & Abilities are the Dream Theater of hip-hop—a blaze of ridiculous chops obscuring an aesthetic that ain't always everyone's cup of... More >>

• GET UN-INNOCUOUS

  published November 24, 2009

  If New York art-dance stalwarts DFA are the cool kids, then Philadelphia's Free Energy are the furry hesher burnouts they let into the... More >>

• Devo

  published November 17, 2009

  New Wave legends and cultural anti-theorists Devo are celebrating their 35th anniversary with a pair of epic shows: Playing their taut landmark... More >>

• 'Until the Light Takes Us Launch Party'

  published November 17, 2009

  This launch party for the black metal documentary Until the Light Takes Us features approximately zero black metal, instead focusing on... More >>

• Blowfly+Anal Cunt

  published November 17, 2009

  Easily the most inspired booking of the week, the Knitting Factory brings together the twin totems of vulgarity, a double bill of swear-laden,... More >>

• HERE COMES YOUR BAND

  published November 17, 2009

  Indie dynamics standard-bearers Pixies have been reunited for five years now, playing wave after wave of ballroom-size mutilation, and have... More >>

• The Jesus Lizard

  published November 10, 2009

  Even after a solid nine years of inactivity, even with their lead kineto-spasmo screecher David Yow approaching 50, the mighty pigfuck... More >>

• Cave

  published November 10, 2009

  Chicago's Cave are a mathy, minimalist adventure that somehow balances the speediest art-metal grooves with tweaky, cheeky electro-kraut. Jammy,... More >>

• Eccentric Soul Revue, In Person

  published November 10, 2009

  "Man, if we can just get through this, there's no way we're ever gonna do it again," says Numero Group co-owner Ken Shipley about his ambitious... More >>