Andrew W.K.

?uestlove, Andrew W.K., Kim Gordon More - Masonic Temple - 5/1/13

Better Than: That unimprovised Paisley/Cool J duet. The format, in case you missed the emails, flyers, and Red Bull Music Academy promotional newspapers being handed out around the city, went something like this: One performer took the stage. He or she played for five minutes, at which point anothe ... More >>

The Lady GaGa Approved Dirty Pearls Want To Be Rock's First Gang "Since Guns N' Roses"

It's two-for-one happy hour at Motor City on the Lower East Side, and three-fifths of New York rabble rousers the Dirty Pearls quaff cheap suds to a soundtrack of the Heartbreakers, the Ramones and the New York Dolls. The Dirty Pearls fit right in with such musical brethren of the '70s, as well as ... More >>

New Year's Eve Guide: Dance

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Week, 12/3/12

Here are the ten best concerts around the city this week, in no particular order.

Diamond Rings

Radio Hits One: VH1 Takes On The '00s Pop Canon

VH1 spent last week counting down what the channel, and its panel of celebrities and "experts," consider The 100 Greatest Songs of The '00s. They certainly haven't been the first to assemble such a list—Rolling Stone and Pitchfork and every blog under the sun had their say about two years ago, ... More >>

Where the Bands Eat: Arcade Fire, Grizzly Bear and More

Kim Erlandsen​ Want to sip cocktails and eat with the Arcade Fire? Unless you are already an awesomely talented, famous musician, too bad! What you can do, however, is sit and subtly stare at them from a few tables over while eating deconstructed Niçoise salads and sipping glasses of Bulleit ... More >>

Juvenile Leaves Gathering of the Juggalos in a Huff; Busta Rhymes Wouldn't Get Off His Tour Bus Because His Rider Had the Wrong Pizza

photo by Nate "Igor" SmithJuvenile, pre-tantrum The Gathering of the Juggalos is an annual four-day camping retreat for followers of Insane Clown Posse that's currently underway in Cave-in-Rock, Illinois. Juggalos have a long tradition of throwing things at performers they hate, including Southern ... More >>

2010: The Year In Music Photos

​The year in music, circa 2010, started at the Cake Shop, with a shred-down to the New Year courtesy of Siren Festival MVP-to-be Marissa Paternoster and her band Screaming Females. After a tour through the NYE fetes of the Lower East Side and Williamsburg, that night ended amidst a marathon sh ... More >>

Vitalic, Escort, DâM-FunK, And DJ Eli And Lloydski Headline Your Weekend In Nightlife, September 24-26

​It's officially fall, y'all. And while that means, unfortunately, that Pavement Week has come to a close, we have a full schedule of dance-y affairs to keep you busy through the weekend. For the most part, we'll recommend you stay city-side. That is, unless seeing Zach Baron play black metal ... More >>

Week In Review: "You Died! Luckily This Is Just A Video Game."

​In a week wherein we bid adieu to both Fat Beats and Paste magazine, we needed something to fill the void, be that the Das Racist video game or, far less pleasantly, a glowering, shirtless Rick Ross. Good thing this one's over with.

Gucci Mane, DMC, Andrew W.K., Cool Kids, Big Freedia, Tim Harrington, And Doug E. Fresh Played The Last Jelly Pool Party, Possibly Ever

And so it ends, the fifth and most calamitous season of Jelly Pool Parties, with a finale abruptly canceled and grudgingly reinstated, in the end overloaded with a semi-secret parade of random-ass rappers, semi-secretly headlined by your friend and mine Gucci Mane. Never has the line "I don't wear ... More >>

'VANS Warped Tour'

Live: Fang Island Cover Mariah Carey, Inspire Much Unironic High-Fiving At Cake Shop

Fang Island's Jason Bartell, reveling. Pics by Raymond Haddad, more below.​Fang Island Cake Shop Saturday, May 29 No offense to the other four (!!!) bands on this bill, but the full-on, Facebook-abetted lightsaber battle raging in the park at Houston and Chrystie on the Lower East Side Saturd ... More >>

Tonight! Holy Fuck, Adam Green, Nickel Eye, Vivian Girls, Reading Rainbow, Harlem, Gang Gang Dance, Hot Chip, Titus Andronicus, Das Racist, Boy Crisis, TOBACCO, Real Estate, HEALTH, Andrew WK, Cold Cave, 17th Annual WBAR-B-Q, And Charlotte Gainsbourg

Norman Wong​Take a look above at Holy Fuck. Those blank, wide-eyed creatures make berzerker caveman grooves, a primitive stomping of drums and keyboard mashing. This vented fury is best exemplified by their MySpace quote: "Who the fuck is Bilbo Baggins?!" They begin your Friday night at Cake S ... More >>

Presenting The Ultimate Record Store Day Guide: See Some Music, Buy Some Music, Or Make Your Own

​It's that special time of the year again: Record Store Day, which is like Teacher Appreciation Day for independent record stores. Saturday, to celebrate their tenacity, among other things, record stores around the city are holding performances, releasing exclusives, and offering once-in-a-blu ... More >>

Week in Review: I Didn't Fill Out My Census

Definitely didn't fill out his census. Also has no idea about that Icelandic volcano.​In the week a gigantic cloud of ash and smoke and snow grounded flights all across Europe and wreaked havoc on a delicately balanced Coachella lineup, we rejoiced (for once) at being stuck in New York and, by ... More >>

"I Also Accidentally Went To The Bathroom In My Pants": Part Two Of The Andrew W.K. Childhood Crush/Restraining Order Story

​So a week ago The Guardian published a long, lurid account of professional party philosopher Andrew W.K.'s awkward teenage years, wherein he fell in love and wrote his crush a mortifying love song called "My Destiny" that got him slapped with a restraining order. Brace yourself for the sequel ... More >>

MONSTER MASH

GWAR and slaves host a fundraiser

Todd P's MtyMx in Photos

MtyMx's Autocinema Las Torres, at night. All photos by Rebecca Smeyne.​NYC promoter Todd Patrick's MtyMx festival wrapped late yesterday morning in Monterrey, Mexico's Yo Garage, the erstwhile after-party spot for three days of Brooklyn madness in another country entirely. Our report can be fo ... More >>

Sam Mason Says He'll Probably Open a New Restaurant This Year. Possibly in Park Slope.

Sam Mason fixes his penetrating gaze on Park Slope.​Sam Mason's schedule for the past few weeks has been consumed with filming a new roster of episodes for Dinner with the Band, which will premiere on the IFC channel on April 27. But while it's been fun teaching Rufus Wainwright to make schnit ... More >>

Jared Leto Likes Erin Wasson X RVCA; Hex Message Play Rachel Comey's Show

Photo by David Wentworth​ Last fall, Erin Wasson, a model turned fashion designer, held her show at the Tents in Bryant Park. We mean it in the best possible way when we say it was a little too glamorous for her. The woman, after all, has told reporters that she thinks homeless people have "t ... More >>

The Unsound Festival Gets Way Out

Poland's finest annual fete heads to NYC

Week in Review: An Extra Side of Arrogance

R.I.P. Jay Reatard. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​In the week our American Idol recapper made it all the way to the BBC for calling Victoria Beckham's face "too crazy", we also tossed epithets in the direction of the Times, in solidarity with M.I.A., and toward Esquire, who this week were forced to ... More >>

The French Meryl Streep Speaks About Her Craft!

Musical chairs with nuns and a Jew.

Would You Eat At a Restaurant/Piano Bar Run by the Glasslands Team?

Photo of the Glasslands "Painting Room" via jasoneppink's photostream​As in, would you eat a "Braised Pork Belly & Kimchi Pressed Sandwich" served to you by the same hands that painstakingly hung filthy streamers from a dust-covered rafter down on Kent Street? Eater reports the brand new exist ... More >>

Tonight! Fucked Up, Islands, And, Uh, Cerebral Ballzy

​Most definitely tonight's big whoop is Fucked Up, a/k/a that "brisk punk band from Toronto, with an unpublishable name," who will regale Brooklyn Masonic Temple, a/k/a New York's best venue for massive hearing loss, with a painstaking track-by-track recreation of their 2008 album The Chemistr ... More >>

In Honor of YACHT's Surprising Best New Music Distinction, Let's Remember Back to When Jona Bechtolt Played Cinders Gallery in 2007

​ This was back in April 2007, after Jona Bechtolt had left the Blow. This was before Bechtolt opened a string of shows for LCD Soundsystem, before YACHT would thereby get signed to DFA. This was right before I Believe in You. Your Magic Is Real had come out, but after copies were at shows f ... More >>

Tonight! Andrew WK, Richard Cheese, Scanner, Kuhn and Lovano

Andrew W.K.'s ventures in record production, crackpot philosophy, and bazooka-packed children's television are all a front for the simple, resoundingly true greeting on his voicemail: "The point of your day today is to do what you want to do, and do it all the way. That's the way I play, and that' ... More >>

Cartoon Network DUMBO Promo Offers "Real People," Shredding

Looks like the Cartoon Network is rebranding itself: Now, what it's all about is: DUMBO! (At least that looks like it, with the Manhattan Bridge in the background.) Xtreme sports! Fire-eaters! REAL people! Balloons! and oh yeah, cartoons. In this promo, Andrew WK (was Poochie unavailable?) appears ... More >>

Vivian Girls' "Moped Girls" Video: Kickball Katy Gets a Milk Shampoo, Gives Their Ali Drummer a Bloody Nose

Because we are juvenile and uncouth and easily amused, we generally prefer blogging about music videos that star naked people, but we'll make an exception for the Vivian Girls, since we always do. This one's called "Moped Girls," a breezy, under-two-minute tune that's from a Rough Trade seven-inch ... More >>

Your Last Minute New Year's Eve

Sound of the City will resume full-force come Monday. In the meantime, find your last minute arrangements below...

New Year's Eve 2009: New York Shows, Continued

Live: Quintron and Miss Pussycat are Swamp Buggy Badasses at Santos

Manhattan: Not Over Yet

Two new downtown venues save the city's soul—or so we hope

Baby Dee's Safe Inside the Day

Tales of Midwestern childhood hell from a fiftysomething transsexual

The Blood Brothers Break Up

Motherfucker I'd Like to Film

A new doc touts New York nightlife as it should (and might not always) be

Live: The Boredoms' Drum-Circle Clusterfuck

Live: Manu Chao at the Prospect Park Bandshell, 06.26.07

Live: Hanson Turns the Supper Club Into One Giant Wiggling Uvula

The Quarterly Report: Best New Albums

Crazy for You, but Not That Crazy

Madonna gives us the world, but suddenly it's not enough

A Level Field

1,500 up-and-coming acts take the music-biz mat in Austin

Gay Bar Vets Castigate President for His Utter Inability to Rock

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Strokes Are Stoked!

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Room for the Occasion

Working Professionals Defeat Doom on Two Benefit Comps