Email Author Christopher R. Weingarten

2010 Stories by Christopher R. Weingarten

• The 20 Worst Songs of 2010, #1: Train, "Hey, Soul Sister"

  published Dec 22, 2010

  F2K10 has been a countdown of the 20 worst songs of 2010. Relieve the journey here. Here are some important things to know about Train's "Hey, Soul Sister." "Hey, Soul Sister" was the only rock son... More >>

• My Chemical Romance Go . . . Styx

  published December 1, 2010

  Four years after the ambitious Emily the Strange on Broadway opus The Black Parade, New Jersey's My Chemical Romance are still experts... More >>

• Our Countdown of the 20 Worst Songs of 2010 Starts Today

  published Nov 29, 2010

  Last December, our F2K series counted down the 50 lousiest songs from the morass of mediocrity that accumulated between 2000 and 2009--and it was no easy task. The 9/11 tie-ins, the mawkish charity si... More >>

• RAP PARTY

  published November 3, 2010

  The massive Yale Press Anthology Of Rap lyric collection is essentially a 920-page doorstop in the age of the search engine; but, hey,... More >>

• Blonde Redhead+Pantha Du Prince

  published October 27, 2010

  New York art-rock institution Blonde Redhead have fallen head-over-leather-boots down a murky wormhole of sultry dreamgoth, faux-Knife... More >>

• DJ Dog Dick

  published October 27, 2010

  Baltimore spazmo DJ Dog Dick is here to totally ruin the NY Art Book Fair with his unique blend of laptop scuzz, no-fi Nintendo crunk, and... More >>

• LISTEN UP

  published October 6, 2010

  For two days at the Kitchen, minimalist legend Rhys Chatham finds an outlet markedly more minimal than his blistering 400-guitar armies. For the... More >>

• RAPPER’S DELIGHT

  published October 6, 2010

  Out of the five days and hundreds of shows occurring at this year’s CMJ booze-’n’-schmooze/hype-’n’-type... More >>

• Linkin Park Made Their OK Computer

  published October 13, 2010

  The fourth album from former rap-rock bloodletters Linkin Park is 2010's best avant-rock nuclear-anxiety concept record: a postmodern,... More >>

• The Growlers

  published October 6, 2010

  The Growlers are mid-fi, psych-garage Nuggeteers from Costa Mesa, CA, who exist in a unlikely, beach-rawk nook. They're too sexy and... More >>

• David Daniell & Doug McCombs

  published October 6, 2010

  Guitarists David Daniell & Doug McCombs are already minimalist dreamweavers separately--the former as leader of slowcore microscientists San... More >>

• SWANS' WAY

  published September 29, 2010

  For the first Swans tour in 13 years, one question is pressing: Will they return to the sludgy, deafening abyss-sucking misanthropy of... More >>

• The Vibrators

  published September 22, 2010

  Trash-boogie vets the Vibrators were already a little older than yer average snot-rocketing yob back when they were playing with the Sex Pistols... More >>

• Envy+Trash Talk

  published September 22, 2010

  Japan's Envy were in a prime position to be the new leaders of post-metal Explosions in the Dirt since Isis broke up--what with their penchant for... More >>

• O PIONEER!

  published September 1, 2010

  Since 1993, German electronic deconstructionist Markus Popp (a/k/a Oval) has been partially responsible for all sorts of mind-rattling,... More >>

• ROCK AQUATIC

  published August 25, 2010

  The band is Built to Spill—let’s hope the venue isn’t. Tonight, the long-standing indie-rock totems float down the Hudson... More >>

• Jim Jarmusch's Showtunes

  published August 25, 2010

  No director embodies the relationship between cinema and song like off-center hypnosis merchant Jim Jarmusch. For 30 years, his musical... More >>

• HEAD OF THE CLASS

  published August 18, 2010

  Los Angeles popgaze trio Autolux are a more finely polished cousin to wooshy blissrock bands like Deerhunter and the Big Pink—splashes... More >>

• Kayo Dot

  published August 11, 2010

  After three mind-bending, jazz-fusion, art-metal, something-or-other LPs, New York's moodily demented Kayo Dot have evolved into a most curious... More >>

• Julian Lynch

  published August 11, 2010

  New Jersey's Julian Lynch is one the most buzzed-about artists in the whole new wave of lo-fi/psychedelic/cassette-warped nostalgia-core. But even... More >>

• OPEN THE GATE

  published July 20, 2010

  Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra are pretty much the tightest and hardest-working band in New York right now—take that,... More >>

• Mincemeat or Tenspeed

  published July 13, 2010

  Philly tweaker Mincemeat or Tenspeed makes unlikely dance music from the sound of skipping distortion pedals and mixer feedback. At once funky,... More >>

• AFRICAN PRIDE

  published July 6, 2010

  OK, America’s out of the World Cup, Britain’s out of the World Cup . . . but screaming with a bunch of strangers never stops being fun!... More >>

• Junk Culture

  published July 6, 2010

  Mississippi sample-squisher Deepak Mantena, a/k/a Junk Culture, is signed to the same label as Girl Talk, but uses his plunder-phonics powers to... More >>

• Wolf Eyes+Black Dice+Growing

  published July 6, 2010

  This staggering triple bill (a/k/a the bands behind the best noise albums of 2004, 2002, and 2005, respectively) features the absolute vanguard of... More >>