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Yeasayer Goes Digital

By Rob Harvilla
On the trio's latest campfire dance party More >>

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Sound of the City

5:00 pm
Feb. 9, 2010
OK, So, Hima From Das Racist Did A Fashion Shoot For Time Out New York
By Rob Harvilla
Not making this up. Heems now ranks among the "most stylish New Yorkers." His style: "Taliban street chic." Likes: Lizzie Owens, the Duke of Windsor, "My mom's closet." Dislikes: "Those kaffiye... More >>

Sound of the City

3:30 pm
Feb. 9, 2010
Lil Wayne Saved By Bad Teeth
By Zach Baron
"Rap star Lil Wayne has gotten a temporary reprieve from jail," reports the Associated Press: "for dental surgery." His lawyer apparently told the judge that Wayne needed to finish a string of p... More >>

Sound of the City

3:00 pm
Feb. 9, 2010
New Ninjasonik MP3: The Matt-and-Kim-Sampling, Dan-Deacon-Namechecking Premiere of "All Our Friends"
By Camille Dodero
Why isn't there universal shorthand for tracks in which rappers individually single out their loved ones, from God to Mom to the local corner slinger? Lupe Fiasco's "Outro" is a bloated exampl... More >>

Sound of the City

2:13 pm
Feb. 9, 2010
NYC Music Site Pop Tarts Suck Toasted Apparently Obliterated By Blogspot
By Rob Harvilla
Here is a link to five-year-old music blog Pop Tarts Suck Toasted, which you will notice doesn't work, because Blogspot apparently wiped it out, much to PTST mastermind Patrick Duffy's public dism... More >>

Sound of the City

1:15 pm
Feb. 9, 2010
M.I.A. Heads to Jamaica, Jumps on a Busy Signal Song: "Sound of Siren"
By Zach Baron
Good look on both sides--Busy Signal featuring M.I.A., "Sound of Siren." Busy Signal has a new mixtape out on which this song is on, Hottt Ed Turf!!!, which is a bit less daggering-y and bit more ... More >>

Sound of the City

11:30 am
Feb. 9, 2010
Cornel West Disses Jay-Z!
By Zach Baron
"Guys like Talib Kweli and Lupe Fiasco rap messages and have something to say," America's second most famous living public intellectual told the University of Buffalo's Spectrum. "Now Jay-Z is on ... More >>

Sound of the City

10:30 am
Feb. 9, 2010
Lil Wayne Is Probably Going to Rikers Island Today
By Zach Baron
Today Lil Wayne will finally enter a plea in a Manhattan courtroom stemming from a 2007 gun charge he caught in New York City. He's expected to start serving time at Rikers Island right away--"I j... More >>

Sound of the City

9:30 am
Feb. 9, 2010
Todd P Announces the (More or Less) Full Lineup For His MtyMx All Ages Festival of Art and Music In Mexico
By Zach Baron
Let's just take one more moment to wonder here at a mountainside festival in Monterrey, Mexico, with a ticket that will run you a cool $30 for three days, 75 bands, a bunch of visual artists, and ... More >>

Sound of the City

9:00 am
Feb. 9, 2010
Download MiniBoone's New-Waving, Arcade Fire-Vibing "Devil In Your Eyes"
By Christopher Weingarten
Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. Taut New York five-piece MiniBoone are an enchanting mesh of old-school energy and new-school melody... More >>

Sound of the City

8:30 am
Feb. 9, 2010
Lost: Nicki Minaj's Pink Stuffed Monkey. Reward: $50,000.
By Rob Harvilla
Here we have the young lady who just last week rapped "Money in the air/It's the best of all/'Cause I ball ball ball ball ball/No testicles" on David Letterman announcing a 50K bounty for her lost... More >>

Sound of the City

7:30 am
Feb. 9, 2010
Tonight! Residents, Lachi, Apollo Heights, Dinosaur Feathers, and Dinosaur Bones
By Paulina Reso
Riddle me this: What has four ginormous eyes, dresses in dapper tuxes, and refuses to grant media interviews? The Residents (that's them to the left) will ply freaky funhouse vocals, paranoid synt... More >>

Music

12:00 am
Feb. 9, 2010
Rebooting Gil Scott-Heron's Untelevised Revolution
By Stacey Anderson
"I didn't watch the whole thing—I know what state the union's in," says Gil Scott-Heron, sizing up his reflection in his living room's... More >>

Music

12:00 am
Feb. 9, 2010
Speak Onion's Wii Teenage Riot
By Ray Cummings
In his mild-mannered day job as a noise-control engineer, Daniel Abatemarco devises ways to, as he puts it, "make development projects quieter."... More >>

Down In Front

12:00 am
Feb. 9, 2010
Yeasayer: The Jam Band Goes Digital
By Rob Harvilla
New iTunes genre tag: "LOL Brooklyn." New entry under said tag: Yeasayer's Odd Blood, wherein the fanciest of boroughs gets its very own... More >>

Music

12:00 am
Feb. 9, 2010
Sade, the Ice Queen, Returns
By Drew Hinshaw
Born near Lagos, raised near London, the svelte and elegant bandleader Helen Folasade Adu, a/k/a Sade, spent MTV's first wave of raunchy... More >>

Music

12:00 am
Feb. 9, 2010
Hot Chip Love You Back
By Dan Weiss
One thing we like about Hot Chip is that they're horny dance nerds who can dance and pretend to not be horny. Or maybe they're horny nerds who... More >>

Sound of the City

6:03 pm
Feb. 8, 2010
Charting The Online Marketing Genius Of South African "Afrikaans Zef Rap Rave" Blog Sensations Die Antwoord
By Rob Harvilla
Here we have the video (dirty version!) for "Enter the Ninja," from burgeoning Internet happening Die Antwoord, who deftly combine Flight of the Conchords, the creepier Aphex Twin videos, the I... More >>

Sound of the City

5:00 pm
Feb. 8, 2010
In Praise of the Weird Narco-R&B of How to Dress Well
By Zach Baron
First of all, no idea, really--busted-headphone indie-rocker R&B with Kanye West covers and lots of falsetto from the Friendship Bracelet family. They've dropped six EPs since September, the las... More >>

Sound of the City

3:15 pm
Feb. 8, 2010
So Let's Deal With This "Taylor Swift Is a Feminist's Nightmare" Thing
By Rob Harvilla
So this lengthy, multimedia screed (thesis: "The rush to exalt Swift is (I believe) a desperate attempt to infuse our allegedly apocalypse-bound country with a palatable conservative ideology in... More >>

Sound of the City

2:15 pm
Feb. 8, 2010
Saluting Saturday Night Live's Sublime Tribute to '80s Hardcore
By Zach Baron
Judging from all the adulatory nods around the internet today, it's obvious how well Saturday Night Live's Crisis of Conformity bit--in which Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, Ashton Kutcher, and Dave G... More >>

Sound of the City

1:40 pm
Feb. 8, 2010
Bob Christgau On Vampire Weekend: "I Found Myself Scrawling 'Jonas Brothers!' In My Notebook"
By Rob Harvilla
Here we have the Dean taking on our Rancid-covering, (briefly) chart-topping heroes, and of course, their haters. "This is all still privilege. But it's no closer to ruling-class power than it is ... More >>

Sound of the City

12:45 pm
Feb. 8, 2010
New York Will Get Its Own Limited Fucked Up Record Store Day 7"
By Zach Baron
Record Store Day is set for April 17th this year, which means we can expect a flood of semi-exclusive records and in-stores from bands all across the country come spring. For instance: Fucked Up, ... More >>

Sound of the City

11:15 am
Feb. 8, 2010
Here Is Jay-Z's Orchestral "Run This Town" Super Bowl Opener
By Zach Baron
He will almost certainly get his own Super Bowl halftime show before too much longer, but in the meantime, Jay-Z will have to content himself with doing pre-show orchestral versions of his singl... More >>

Sound of the City

10:00 am
Feb. 8, 2010
Co-Sign: Vampire Weekend Covering Rancid's "Ruby Soho"
By Zach Baron
You thought they were kidding about the ska thing, huh? They were not kidding. In an interview with us back in January, Vampire Weekend drummer Chris Tomson revealed his band's hidden passion for ... More >>

Sound of the City

9:30 am
Feb. 8, 2010
Saying Hello to the Unsound Festival With Carl Craig and Andy Warhol's Blow Job
By Andy Beta
Carl Craig and nsi. Unsound Festival Lincoln Center Friday, February 5 The Thursday night opening ceremonies for the Polish Unsound Festival at the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center conf... More >>

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