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April 6, 2012
Q&A: Calvin Johnson Of The Hive Dwellers On Running K Records, Beat Happening, And How He's Always Wanted To Play Staten Island
Calvin Johnson is one forward-looking dude. He brought strict punk rock ethos and DIY aesthetics—supporting community, contributing to 'zines, booking shows—to underground rock, and played an integral role in revolutionizing it. Johnson's K Records (which he launched in the early '80s) w ... More >>
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December 15, 2011
Kickstarter Employee Writes Elaborate Fanfic for Leighton Meester on Craigslist Missed Connections
Nicole He Blake Lively and Leighton Meester filming 'Gossip Girl' on the LES yesterday. Craigslist Missed Connections have been good lately! A few weeks ago we had the man who posted an epic missed connection for the girl who held his iPhone hostage, and now we have the poor young startup emp ... More >>
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December 7, 2011
Launch Party for finite + flammable
Nicole He Blake Lively and Leighton Meester filming 'Gossip Girl' on the LES yesterday. Craigslist Missed Connections have been good lately! A few weeks ago we had the man who posted an epic missed connection for the girl who held his iPhone hostage, and now we have the poor young startup emp ... More >>
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March 3, 2011
Download: The Death Set's Charlie-Sheen-Conjuring "Can You See Straight"
Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. Pic by Nate "Igor" Smith, as it happensBrooklyn loft-show firestarters the Death Set are a post-modern pizza party: the tireless punk-o grind of an ABC No Rio bubblecrust band, the whizzing ghosts o ... More >>
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January 11, 2011
Download: Pregnant, "Help!"
Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. Brooklyn bubblegum-bashers Pregnant may roll deep to the ickiest, grimiest pigfuckiest loft parties in Brooklyn, but their music is sticky-sweet sugar-pop euphoria. Think Hüsker Dü, think Jawbreak ... More >>
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January 5, 2011
WT, Golf Channel, and L.I.E.S. Lead a Pack of Young Outer-Borough Dance-Music Labels
Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. Brooklyn bubblegum-bashers Pregnant may roll deep to the ickiest, grimiest pigfuckiest loft parties in Brooklyn, but their music is sticky-sweet sugar-pop euphoria. Think Hüsker Dü, think Jawbreak ... More >>
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March 30, 2010
A Guide to Party Expo, Brooklyn's Newest Wu-Tang-Approved DIY Venue
Party Expo, late January. Photo via SuperchiefBrooklyn Vegan brings word of a new Brooklyn venue, Party Expo, which is seemingly going public with a Japanther show this Wednesday--$5, limited to 75 tickets, no alcohol, either for sale or BYOB. So what is this place, exactly? Well. Their first ... More >>
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February 3, 2010
So Is Terminal 5 Really the Third Best Club in the World?
Julian Casablancas at Terminal 5 a few weeks back. Photo by Araceli Cruz.The concert-promotion and ticket-sales aggregator website Pollstar recently compiled a list of the "Top 100 Worldwide Club Venues" on which Terminal 5 ranked a shocking #3. The result surprised even Pollstar--"When a New ... More >>
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December 31, 2009
Say Goodbye to 2009: Looking Back at the Year in Concerts
Last year's Stupid Party in Crown Heights. All photos by Rebecca Smeyne.We're closing up shop early today, and getting a head start on the New Year by doing snow angels outside for a while. Last minute guidance on your own New Year's Eve plans can be found here and here. In the meantime, plea ... More >>
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December 18, 2009
ABC No Rio Got An Anonymous Check for One Million Dollars Two Days Before Thanksgiving
No Dame Dash, no credit? Photo of punks outside ABC No Rio by Rebecca Smeyne.Someone told me on the phone the other day that I'd "murdered the last DIY venue in Manhattan"--to which I probably should've retorted "second-to-last," as the nearly thirty year old punk space/community center ABC N ... More >>
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December 18, 2009
Week in Review: Pull a Monster Out of Your Soul
Goodbye to all that, I guess. Photo of These Are Powers by Rebecca Smeyne.In the week our F2K crew got within three wretched singles of revealing all 50 worst songs of the decade, we learned what giant, raging purple erections in cargo shorts would say if they could speak. (Probably something ... More >>
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November 24, 2009
The Ballad of M.I.A. and Ben Bronfman
Punk rock yachting: Ben Bronfman, center"Their love affair began in December 2007, a few days before New Year's" reports the Observer. They met at the home of a guy who worked the door at the Beatrice, and were engaged four months later. Despite being heir to a massive liquor fortune and the ... More >>
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November 16, 2009
Photos: Saturday Afternoon at ABC No Rio With Moderat Likvidation and Detonate
Moderat Likvidation and friends. All photos by Rebecca Smeyne.The next time someone does that thing where they yawn and ask in an incredulous voice whether ABC No Rio bothers to still host Saturday hardcore matinees, by all means, punch them in the face. Grizzled Swedish d-beat veterans Moder ... More >>
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October 19, 2009
Is ABC No Rio About to (Temporarily) Move Out?
ABC No Rio still has matinees booked through December, but it looks like one of the Lower East Side's long-running DIY spaces is getting very close to a momentary end. The venue's endless struggle with the city ended in June, when the two-man team of Manhattan borough president Scott Stringer and ... More >>
Music
September 22, 2009
Rorschach Re-Enraged
Nothing to pooh-pooh about these reconvened NJ hardcore dudes
Blogs
September 8, 2009
Fucked Up to Play The Chemistry of Common Life In Full at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple
The last time Fucked Up played an event-type concert in New York, it was the band's 12-hour stand at the Rogan Store, a terrible idea made awesome through the sheer force of good will behind it--within five minutes, the show was some unholy mix of the sweatiest ABC No Rio Saturday matinee eve ... More >>
Blogs
July 3, 2009
Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared
Dance troupe, Governor's Island. Boy, what a week. Gay Pride was effulgent as ever with three D.A. candidates voguing for the cameras, but marred by a gay-bashing on the Upper East Side. The authorities got involved and the cops went to work, and now it looks like there have been more such incide ... More >>
Voice Choices
February 11, 2009
Tombs
Dance troupe, Governor's Island. Boy, what a week. Gay Pride was effulgent as ever with three D.A. candidates voguing for the cameras, but marred by a gay-bashing on the Upper East Side. The authorities got involved and the cops went to work, and now it looks like there have been more such incide ... More >>
Art
November 6, 2007
The Big Clean-Up
Has performance art lost its edge? Is that a bad thing? A visit to Performa 07.
News
August 17, 2004
Events for Dissent
From protests to plays and films to forums, New York 'makes nice' with the RNC
NYC Life
December 30, 2003
Essential Numbers
From protests to plays and films to forums, New York 'makes nice' with the RNC
News
November 25, 2003
Merry Mayhem
From protests to plays and films to forums, New York 'makes nice' with the RNC
Art
August 26, 2003
Extreme Makeovers
The Fine Art of Picking a Shtick
News
May 6, 2003
Public Notice
Psychogeographers Navigate New York City's Changing Landscape
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January 29, 2002
Keepers of the Flame
As Moderate Groups Turn Down the Heat, Anarchists Light a New Way for Dissent
NYC Life
May 4, 1999
Rental plan
As Moderate Groups Turn Down the Heat, Anarchists Light a New Way for Dissent
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March 2, 1999
Letters
As Moderate Groups Turn Down the Heat, Anarchists Light a New Way for Dissent
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September 8, 1998
No Future!
The Life and Death of a Punk Poet
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August 4, 1998
From Boho to Soho
Artists Collectives Have a Recollective Moment

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