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By Rich Juzwiak
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12:41 pm
Sep. 2, 2010
Das Racist: The Video Game
By Rob Harvilla
Holy shit, everybody: Das Racist has their own video game. ... More >>

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12:00 pm
Sep. 2, 2010
Last Night: DFA Brings Downtown Cool Uptown To Hudson Hotel
By Puja Patel
We very rarely find ourselves leaving the safe confines of downtown Manhattan during a weeknight outing. Anywhere north of 14th Street seems impossibly far and unfortunately stereotyped. But when... More >>

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9:00 am
Sep. 2, 2010
Download: Callers, "You Are An Arc"
By Christopher Weingarten
Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. Brooklyn's Callers make an indescribable, codeine-ready micro-ruckus that straddles some downtown-vi... More >>

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8:00 am
Sep. 2, 2010
Live: The Williamsburg Salsa Orchestra Turn Arcade Fire, Santigold, And LCD Soundsystem Hits Into Latin Big-Band Anthems
By Rob Harvilla
The Williamsburg Salsa Orchestra Cameo Gallery Wednesday, September 1 It's tremendously cheering to see that people actually dance during Williamsburg Salsa Orchestra shows -- unadulterated, mil... More >>

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4:00 pm
Sep. 1, 2010
Lauryn Hill, Whose Set At Rock The Bells Was Probably Better Than You Think, Attempts To Explain Herself On Fuse Tonight
By Rob Harvilla
So despite months of confusion and trepidation, Lauryn Hill really did play a full set at Governors Island Saturday as part of the Rock the Bells festival's vintage hip-hop blowout -- and our ow... More >>

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3:05 pm
Sep. 1, 2010
Farewell, Paste Magazine
By Zach Baron
After nearly folding last summer, it looks like the Georgia-based music mag Paste is departing for good this time. Staffers got the news in an afternoon meeting yesterday, and have since taken to ... More >>

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12:00 pm
Sep. 1, 2010
Q&A: Steve Albini Is Not an Asshole But Sylvester Stallone Might Be
By Brad Cohan
In the early 2000's, the shits 'n' giggles folks at snarkier-than-thou Chunklet Magazine plopped recording engineer god and Shellac guitarorrist Steve Albini on its cover, screaming: Is This Gu... More >>

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11:00 am
Sep. 1, 2010
A Nation of Justin Bieber Fans Threaten to Kill Miley Cyrus on Twitter
By Zach Baron
Last night, the Canadian industry savior and haircut titan Justin Bieber overcame a cold and a guest appearance from Sean Kingston to sell out Madison Square Garden. The performance was being ta... More >>

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9:54 am
Sep. 1, 2010
Live: Super-Metalheads Destroyer 666 Finally Tear Down Europa
By Daniel D. Snyder
Destroyer 666/Enthroned/Mutant Supremacy/Immolith Club Europa Tuesday, August 31 For those of us who endured the utter tease that was Destroyer 666's last-minute cancellation of their August 4th... More >>

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9:30 am
Sep. 1, 2010
This Week's Voice: Fall Arts Guide, Interpol, Karen O's Style Guru, Robyn, Vijay Iyer, Matthew Dear, and More
By Zach Baron
In this week's Voice, we present our fall arts guide: Mikael Wood on the return of Interpol, sans Carlos D; Angela Ashman goes shopping with Karen O's style guru, Christian Joy; Aaron Hillis inte... More >>

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8:30 am
Sep. 1, 2010
Princess Superstar Will Give You A Lapdance For $10,000
By Rob Harvilla
Aficionados of gleefully porn-y electro-rap, rejoice: The inimitable Princess Superstar (remember "Bad Babysitter"? You should!) is recording a new album. This being 2010, the major-label system ... More >>

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8:00 am
Sep. 1, 2010
Listen To Fabolous' Bonkers Freestyle On Hot 97 Last Night
By Rob Harvilla
"This the flow that put haters on they deathbed/And make the chicks blow the whistle, give me ref head." SOTC favorite Fabolous stopped by Hot 97 last night and regaled Funkmaster Flex with a fiv... More >>

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12:00 am
Sep. 1, 2010
Matthew Dear and Shed Talk About Their Feelings
By Piotr Orlov
For dance music, tradition is both a flag and a curse: DJs, producers, and clubland cognoscenti are forever either wrapping themselves in it or... More >>

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12:00 am
Sep. 1, 2010
Fall Guide: Interpol Return With Their First Record in Three Years
By Mikael Wood
A number of things have changed in Camp Interpol since we last heard from these local gloom-rock dudes: In May, the band posted a note on its... More >>

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12:00 am
Sep. 1, 2010
A Brief History of Vijay Iyer
By K. Leander Williams
The past year has certainly been eventful for Vijay Iyer, but one recent instance in particular encapsulates the 39-year-old pianist/composer's... More >>

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12:00 am
Sep. 1, 2010
Fall Guide: Karen O's Style Guru Takes Us Shopping
By Angela Ashman
The moment that designer Christiane Joy Hultquist (a/k/a Christian Joy) opens the door of the Williamsburg vintage store Amarcord, we know why... More >>

Sound of the City

5:05 pm
Aug. 31, 2010
The Many Disturbing Faces of a Shirtless Rick Ross
By Zach Baron
More than anyone else, producer Lex Luger has had rap's summer on lock. His two booming, window-rattling tracks on Rick Ross's Teflon Don--"MC Hammer" and "B.M.F. (Blowin' Money Fast)"--have been ... More >>

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2:30 pm
Aug. 31, 2010
Das Racist's New Mixtape, Sit Down, Man, Drops In Two Weeks: "It's Gonna Be Fucking Really Good"
By Rob Harvilla
Yeah, like you don't want to hear a Das Racist song called "All Tan Everything." Here we have a teaser trailer (ordinarily a frivolous contrivance, but very serious business in this case) for Si... More >>

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1:22 pm
Aug. 31, 2010
The New York Times Managed To Write About Cee Lo's "Fuck You" Without Using The Words "Fuck You"
By Rob Harvilla
Watching the Times attempt to cover profane bands, songs, and social phenomena without offending their august readership by actually using profanity remains a great joy of ours, so it is with grea... More >>

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11:30 am
Aug. 31, 2010
The Best of the Lamentably Short-Lived #literarychillwave Hashtag
By Zach Baron
Credit our friend, Stereogum's Brandon Stosuy, with starting this particular hashtag yesterday. Mashing up the world's most important genre with the world's most important literature seemed like... More >>

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10:00 am
Aug. 31, 2010
Last Night: The Babies Played Shea Stadium, Are Putting Out A Record on Shrimper
By Georgia Kral
The Babies, Pygmy Shrews, and Unnatural Helpers Shea Stadium Monday, August 30 It's been a year since the Babies begged listeners to meet them in the city. In the time that's passed since, songw... More >>

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9:00 am
Aug. 31, 2010
Download: Elks, "Destined For the Sun"
By Christopher Weingarten
Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. Somewhere at the crossroads of punk, metal, sludge, garage, and a beer-soaked bag of 12-sided die li... More >>

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8:00 am
Aug. 31, 2010
The "Album Tacos" Blog Will Satisfy Your Cravings For Mexican Food, Amusing Photoshops
By Rob Harvilla
This week's innovation in random-ass Internet memes comes courtesy of the hot new self-explanatory blog Album Tacos, which alters iconic album covers so as to render them... crunchier and tastier.... More >>

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7:30 am
Aug. 31, 2010
Q&A: Radiohead Drummer Phil Selway On Why He Made A Solo Album (And Why It Came Out On A Plain Old Record Label)
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Almost exactly a decade ago, the purring electronics of Kid A threatened to marginalize real-life Radiohead drummer Phil Selway's role in the band he'd initially co-founded in name of alt-rock--... More >>

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