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Rich Juzwiak's FourFour blog is required reading for any number of reasons: his absolute command of subjects ranging from horror movies, The-Dream, or America's Next Top Model chief among them. But mostly it's the animated GIFs. Nobody on...
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Hey, fuck it--from our email to god's ears. Can we get a Vegas line going on how many of these there will in fact be? For those that can still sustain excitement: buy 'em here.
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Totally solid first single here from the forthcoming Phrazes for the Young from Strokes leader Julian Casablancas. Rehab has stopped some but not all of these guys. If this were playing at every single one of the multiple bars we plan on ...
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Well, that didn't take long. It looks like as of 10:29 a.m., Pavement presale tickets for their previously announced September 21 show are long gone. On the other hand, wait, what's that, a second show? We are all in the grips of this thing a...
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That right there is a potentially satirical modeling pose being struck by the Vivian Girl's Cassie Ramone, whose new sideline is posing for the Brooklyn label SAFE Clothes. We respect the hustle, if not the ungainly cape. [Pitchfork]
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Kutsher's, the land of impossible indie-music dreams
Yeah, so All Tomorrow's Parties New York. It happened this past weekend upstate and it was epic. Nick Cave played piano with the Dirty Three, who did Ocean Songs in its entirety. David Cross g...
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It's maybe not the first thing you think of when you think about High Places, but the duo's Mary Pearson has one of the best voices around--clear, conversational, sad, but not quite fragile. "Oceans Pray," a song from her solo project, Trans...
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(The video above is the one exception to the 11th commandment.)
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That right there is Brooklyn's 560 State Street, shouted out by Jay-Z on perhaps the finest 16 on the entire Blueprint 3, and--as it turns out--still kicking. New York had the bright idea of dispatching a reporter, who comes back with tales of a "ser...
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--Mary Travers, the star and siren of folk's Peter, Paul and Mary, died yesterday. Though the Times obit is weirdly fixated on the beards of the two men that usually flanked her, Pete Yarrow and Paul Stookey, Travers was the consensus star of the gro...
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The Matador press release sent to the world this morning regarding that no-longer-apocryphal Pavement Reunion mentioned two brick-and-mortar places that would be selling surcharge-free tickets: Nokia Theatre box office in Times Square and W...
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"We were all singing the whole thing," is the not very edifying thing Cassie Ramone told us about this song when the Vivian Girls took us track by track through their new album last week. "I think it's the only song we're singing the whole...
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One interesting sentence in the latest press release making the rounds re: Pavement's reunion show at Central Park's Summerstage on September 21, 2010: "Please be advised this tour is not a prelude to additional jaunts and/or a permanent reun...
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Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent.
Brooklyn's Bear In Heaven have evolved from a spaced-out, fuzzy psych mess to a spaced-out, fuzzy dance band. They've kept their soaring choruses ...
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NSFW.
That's better. Let's just say watching it requires you to click a button that says "I approve to be of full age." (The video above is of cute cats, which I've provided to counteract my even bringing up the new Rammstein video.) It's been that ...
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New store, looks a lot like the old store. Sound Fix, the Williamsburg institution founded in 2004, upped and moved--"like Fitzcarraldo hauling that ship over the mountain"--from Bedford Avenue to 44 Berry Street, in a renovated factory near ...
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--After getting a bit more publicly excited than we care to remember about Thorns of Life, last fall's short-lived collaboration between Jawbreaker/Jets to Brazil's Blake Schwarzenbach, Aaron Cometbus, and (The L Word's) Daniella Sea, we figu...
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Ida Maria
Betsey Johnson Spring 2010 Fashion Week Party
Plaza Hotel
September 15
As Betsey Johnson showers her with kisses - on one cheek, on the other, on the forehead, smack, smack, smack - the Norwegian synaesthetic Ida Maria smirks and adjusts h...
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The remarkably unreliable reliability of "reliable sources" notwithstanding, this whole Pavement reunion rumor has legs, it would seem, with "more (and accurate) info" available tomorrow, according to our own reliable source, since these ...
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Todd P Goes to Austin, the Brooklyn promoter doc whose premiere our own Rob Harvilla braved--sparking much debate over whether or not Todd P can change a tire--is now screening in full over at Pitchfork TV. "I'm sure it's pretty obvious to anyone wat...
