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Tomorrow night's Stevie Nicks gig at Webster Hall, commemorating the release of her seventh solo album In Your Dreams, has been canceled because the legendarily witchy singer is suffering from pneumonia and the flu and has been instructed to "stay an...
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Today Live Nation announced a slew of shows at Long Island's Nikon at Jones Beach Theater and New Jersey's PNC Bank Arts Center, and in addition to the many classic rock acts (with "classic rock" now being expanded to include the mid-period Headbange...
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Kylie Minogue
Hammerstein Ballroom
Monday, May 2
Better than: Wearing sweatpants and sitting on the couch.
Let's get this out of the way: The Hammerstein Ballroom is a great room for spectacles. Some of the best shows I've seen in New York have be...
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The half-life of songs that fly under the collective radar such these days that some tracks can bob around for a long while, gaining fans in a slow, stubborn way. I'm hoping that happens with Leelou's "Burn Your Houses Down," which made my Pazz & Jop...
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Q&A: NT frontman Jake Pepper on "Transparency"
What is "Transparency" about?
It's about the frustration of wanting to relate to everyone you meet, but feeling unable to see through or make sense of the complex layers of traits or masks that someon...
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Obama's Trump zingers, the most-noticed remarks of the night, contained one example: In addition to comparing doubts about Obama's citizenship to doubts about the moon landing and Roswell, Obama also urged Trump to continue asking, "Where are Biggie ...
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"SEO Pop," for those of you who might be confused by the genre named by pop-lyric scholar Andy Hutchins, is the umbrella term given to those songs about bleeding-edge-current topics that are released via the speedy dissemination tools offered by the ...
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The Bamboozle
Meadowlands
Friday, April 29-Sunday, May 1
Better than: Watching scene reports scroll by on Twitter.
In a lot of ways, the Bamboozle is a festival tailor-made for the current moment of constant distraction. The festival's running tim...
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Music of Steve Reich
Bang on a Can All-Stars and Friends (feat. Bryce Dessner), eighth blackbird, Kronos Quartet, So Percussion
Carnegie Hall
Saturday, April 30
Better than: The ritual, anniversary replay of news broadcasts from the morning of 9/11....
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Songbird and butterfly enthusiast Mariah Carey gave birth to twins over the weekend, and according to reports, the first song she played for the kids was her monster 2005 hit "We Belong Together." OK, it's a much-better-than-fine ballad, and one th...
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The Kills
Terminal 5
Friday, April 29
Better than: The Kate and William Lifetime original movie, in a way.
The glorious bend of the Kills' albums is that they sound scarcely contained: recorded in flash floods of blues-rock jamming, a panicked p...
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Who gave Mustaine the keys to the Photoshop demo? (Just kidding, Dave!)
This is the news: The second concert event at the new Yankee Stadium has been announced, and oh boy is it a doozy. The metal deities Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, and Anthrax--...
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Venue closures: Don Hill's; Paul Shaffer's House.
Ad-Rock's 10 best remixes. Beyonc's "Move Your Body": The first sign that the hip-hop generation might exist in politics.
The Voice arrives; American Idol says goodbye to Casey Abrams.
In memory ...
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But then in 2008, candidate Barack Obama brushed the dirt off his shoulder.
The gesture, to anyone attuned to recognize it, was unmistakable, and enormously encouraging. This is not to say that it represented a particularly deep commitment to rap ...
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Hooray for Jersey pride. Titus plays a sold-out show at Maxwell's tonight. And just in case that didn't get you out of the Snooki mind-set, here's the state's official song, as danced along to by someone who's not a resident:
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On the album list, Adele's platinum-plus 21, already 2011's top seller, returns to No. 1 for its fifth week overall, evicting Wasting Light, the first chart-topping album by Foo Fighters. On the singles chart, Katy Perry's "E.T.," featuring a vital K...
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Robert Glasper Trio + Vijay Iyer Trio
Skirball Center at NYU
Thursday, April 28
Better than: Having another tornado warning to contend with.
What's the difference between "jazz fame" and the kind of recognition that gets you on Late Night with Jimm...
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Headed by industry vet and WKCR radio personality Bobbito Garcia, the label started as a gag (Fondle 'Em Records: A division of Tickle 'Em, which is a subsidiary of Squeeze 'Em Ent.) printed on the would-be white label pressings of the Kool Keith sid...
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Sixx's journals this time around address everything from guitarist Mick Mars's hip replacement and lead singer Vince Neil's grouchiness to Sixx's views on growing old and his heart-to-heart talks with Lemmy of Motorhead fame. If Sixx revealed himself...
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For the second time, Casey Abrams got voted off American Idol, and I honestly don't have a thing to say about it. I liked him at first, and then I got sick of him yelling and scatting at me. He ended things nicely, screaming and grunting while runnin...
