Email Author Christopher R. Weingarten

2010 Stories by Christopher R. Weingarten

• Lymbyc Systym+Slow Six+Glass Ghost

  published March 24, 2010

  After nearly a six month wait, Brooklyn's Lymbyc System finally get an official release party for their album Shutter. Released by the... More >>

• HARD-KNOCK LIFE

  published March 24, 2010

  Rapper K’Naan had one of the highest ranking hip-hop records in this year’s Village Voice Pazz & Jop Critics’ Poll.... More >>

• Gang Green+Cerebral Ballzy

  published March 16, 2010

  Gang Green are an essential, Budweiser-spraying part of American hardcore's Boston wing. They contributed seven tracks of sloppy splatter to the... More >>

• Nautical Almanac+Mouthus+Weyes Blood

  published March 16, 2010

  This strong bill of late-era noise legends is led by Baltimore-via-Ann Arbor squelchers Nautical Almanac. The band renowned for their Pee-Wee's... More >>

• Hauschka

  published March 9, 2010

  German pianist Hauschka is like Eric Satie for the sweaters-and-Converse era, someone who has a preternatural understanding of tender-touch... More >>

• Sissy Spacek

  published March 9, 2010

  California's best kept secret, Sissy Spacek, are the ultimate in extreme noise terror, a violently experimental band who cross whatever lines are... More >>

• ONE TO WATCH

  published March 9, 2010

  Bristol's sun-dappled Zun Zun Egui proves that Brooklyn doesn't have a patent on filtering African music through weirdo strains of indie... More >>

• Akron/Family

  published March 2, 2010

  Akron/Family are guilty of "freak-folk" by association—a career spent on Young God on Dead Oceans Records, unshaven necks, psychedelic... More >>

• Golden Triangle+Sandwitches+Coasting

  published March 2, 2010

  Local Birthday Party-meets-Cramps transgresso-punk crew Golden Triangle seems less like a real band, and more like a sexy-cum-disgusting movie... More >>

• WARM & FUZZY

  published March 2, 2010

  Since Memory Tapes’ live show seems to be letting everyone down, come see another one of chillwave’s rising stars, Georgian Earnest... More >>

• GROAN ZONE

  published March 2, 2010

  Alice in Chains were the perfect Seattleite midsection between Queensrÿche’s lateral-minded art-metal and Mudhoney’s... More >>

• Black Eyed Peas

  published February 23, 2010

  If their Saturday Night Live performance is any indication, the Black Eyed Peas are ready for Madison Square Garden: Pointless billows of... More >>

• Glenn Branca

  published February 23, 2010

  Glenn Branca's 1981 album The Ascension was a landmark moment for minimalism, rock, and minimalist rock. Four guitarists hammering away at... More >>

• Loren Connors & Alan Licht+Lee Ranaldo

  published February 23, 2010

  An exploratory night at the Issue Project Room, starring three guys who will drag hapless guitars kicking and screaming into otherworldly places.... More >>

• TRIP OUT

  published February 23, 2010

  Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavilion was named album of the year by everyone from Spin to Pitchfork to... More >>

• LISTEN UP

  published February 23, 2010

  The opening night of the Armory Show, New York's annual big-buckarooni art fair, could probably stand to find a band artier than local indie... More >>

• Lemonade+Brahms

  published February 16, 2010

  Lemonade are up-and-coming dub-punks walking that perfect midpoint between chillwave's nostalgic woosh, electropop's mechanical hooks, and Gang... More >>

• Mouthus+Sightings

  published February 16, 2010

  Mouthus and Sightings have outlasted the Brooklyn noise scene's various stages of trendiness and emerged as stalwarts and legends. Sightings are... More >>

• OUT OF AFRICA

  published February 16, 2010

  Vampire Weekend injecting African music into their silly art-rock is cute and all—but the way Malian blues-rockers Tinariwen can turn desert... More >>

• Child Abuse

  published February 9, 2010

  Besides having one of New York's best band names, Child Abuse also has the best T-shirts (gray rainbow!) and a distinctive, nrrd-fuck sound that... More >>

• HIPPIE DUDE

  published February 9, 2010

  Tonight, Citizen Cope starts his third night of five (!) nights across New York—two at Music Hall of Williamsburg, three at Bowery... More >>

• ELECTRIC LADYLAND

  published February 9, 2010

  Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band's Between My Head and the Sky was easily the best record of 2009 made by someone who was recording in... More >>

• PARTY IN THE ROUND

  published February 2, 2010

  Hell, since most modern art by the under-30 crowd seems to be photos of hipsters and détourned Nintendo controllers, why not spend a night... More >>

• SUPER FUZZ

  published February 2, 2010

  The drifty highlight of the first annual Unsound Festival's formidable 10-day spiral into electronic music features an all-star,... More >>

• The Long, Slow Death of Lil Wayne's Rebirth

  published February 2, 2010

  It barely took Lil Wayne two years to devolve from George Clooney to Billy Bob Thornton. In 2008, coming off his platinum-in-a-week Tha... More >>