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On September 25, Jett announced a surprise record release show at Santos Party House set for tomorrow, October 2. The show sold out in under a minute, but luckily we have FREE tickets to give to someone who loves rock 'n' roll (dimes for the jukebox...
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Better Than: Whatever the hell I was doing at 16.
Lorde has a darkness about her. Around 9:30 p.m, she slinked on a fairly dark stage that never let itself become much more brightly lit than moments of off-center spotlight grazing her dancing along...
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Merle Haggard:The Running Kind by David Cantwell
Outlaw: Waylon, Willie, Kris, and the Renegades of Nashville by Michael Streissguth
Surprisingly, since it stands as the finest and most thorough work of Hag-gazing any critic has yet mustered, Davi...
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Shark?: Where are our Mitt Romney masks? Fuck it. Let's get some Coors Light
The Coors Light-loving, California girls-hating, noise-pop-obsessive dudes in Brooklyn locals Shark? are helping lead an ever-bulging batch of on-the-rise indie rock ba...
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These are the best jazz shows in NYC in October.
Melissa Aldana Quartet
Tenor saxophonist Melissa Aldana made an impression with two strong albums on Greg Osby's Inner Circle label (Free Fall and Second Cycle). But last month the 24-year-old Chilean...
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Dear Fan,
I am a songwriter and have been in DIY/punk bands for the past 10 years. It was never how I was trying to make a living, it was my central creative focus. My first band was self sustaining and made money on tour, but the money went back int...
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and 125 speakers sprawled out over 175 venues and six days. There will be panel discussions too. (More info here.) And, just like last year, one of the biggest shows of the fest is happening right in the middle of Times Square. FOR FREE.
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See also: Dita Von Teese Has an "Official Corset Trainer"We have tickets to Dita's October 1 show at Gramercy. Here's all you have to do to win them.
1) Be a functioning adult human in the year 2013. That means, of course, having a Twitter account. ...
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See also: The Kanye You Once Loved Is Dead and GoneThe seeds of West's anger were planted during his interview with BBC Radio 1. As with almost anytime West speaks, he gave equal fuel to the fires of both his fans and his detractors. While West's fan...
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For more shows throughout the week, check out our New York Concert Calendar, which we update daily.Monday, 9/30:
Jagwar Ma
The Mercury Lounge
6:30pm, $12
Fusing a half-lidded lyricism with the boundless energy of Manchester drug-popsters like the Ha...
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"Some people are cool and collected. I'm cool and embarrassed," says Norwegian singer/songwriter Jenny Hval, referring to her notoriously explicit lyrics. "The key is to write something that will never stop being embarrassing." Cases in point: The op...
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kicked off in spectacular fashion, with Our Lady of Quick Wit, Tina Fey, returning to her stomping ground to host and hang with musical guests Arcade Fire. Lines were crossed in a way we haven't seen on SNL since Timberlake's last swing-through, as S...
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Better than: The "slappeh da bass" scene from I Love You Man.
"Hi, my name's Justin Bieber," Thom Yorke said in a high voice when he came back onstage for Atoms for Peace's first encore Friday night at the Barclays Center. While a quip like that was...
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By Brando
This week Drake officially crowns himself the current king of not only the rap charts, but moving the needle (both on and offline) with the release of his third album, Nothing Was the Same. The buzz around the rapper has swelled to almost ...
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For more shows throughout the weekend, check out our New York Concert Calendar, which we update daily.Friday, 9/27:
Korn + Asking Alexandria + Love & Death
Roseland Ballroom
8pm, $44.95-$55
It was inevitable. When founding Korn guitarist Brian "Head...
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I text Erick "Arc" Elliot, who rounds out the three man Zombie squad as a producer/rapper. I'm outside.
See also: The Sad Tale of Beast Coast Architect and Pro Era Emcee Capital STEEZAfter a minute the door opens up, and Elliott stands there looking...
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"No. No naked."
I am at the Russian and Turkish baths on east 10th St. with all four members of witchy Canadian synth-pop group Austra (Katie Stelmanis, Maya Postepski, Ryan Wosniak and Dorian Wolf), plus Maya's lovely French girlfriend Mathilde. At...
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Twerking. In the future, it will be used as currency. It will be a tool used to combat world hunger. Twerking will be used to broker peace deals. It will end poverty. In these early days of Twerk Mania, it's hard to understand what it will become, es...
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In this, our "Deep Voice" first installment, we find 1) a 1986 preview of the Beasties opening for RUN DMC at the famed Apollo Theater from a writer with no byline who calls them "lazy fucks" 2) a 1989 article by Robert Christgau that features the D...
