Antony Hegarty

Youth Lagoon Majical Cloudz - Maxwell's - 5/6/13

Better Than: "Thinking about dying alone" If you saw Majical Cloudz play before they signed to Matador in February, it probably felt like you were watching an awkwardly mesmerizing high school talent show performance. Perhaps you were used to the Devon Welsh who sits in the back of your history cla ... More >>

Drowners and Sweet Baboo: Epic Pop From the Suspiciously Welsh

Contrary to what some poor, misguided souls might have lead you to believe, it's not all hilarity and high jinks being a music hack. Endless deadlines, over zealous PR people, petulant musicians, and the daily grind of trying to summon up a vague resemblance of enthusiasm for the endless barrage of ... More >>

Our 20 Most Popular Posts of 2012

We covered a lot of music ground in 2012. You loved all of it. But some stories were more read than others. Here now, our 20 most popular posts of the year. Thanks for reading. The Ten Best Reissues of 2012 The Ten Best Noise Tracks of 2012 The Ten Best Metal Albums of 2012 The Ten Best Country Alb ... More >>

Our 20 Most Popular Stories of 2012, 20 - 11

We've covered a lot of music ground in 2012. And you loved all of it. But you read some stories more than others. Here now, our 20 most popular posts of the year, from 20 - 11. The Ten Best Reissues of 2012 The Ten Best Noise Tracks of 2012 The Ten Best Metal Albums of 2012 The Ten Best Country Al ... More >>

Antony Hegarty's "Soul, Pain, And Love"

Antony Hegarty was an awkward, slightly pasty, and agreeable sort who used to take the stages of Jackie 60 nightclub and wail songs of longing and regret with a throbbing passion that made hearts melt and spirits soar. He's since become hugely successful--especially in England--which prompted this ... More >>

Usher Digs Deep on Looking 4 Myself

Diamond days

Live: L'Arc-En-Ciel Land At Madison Square Garden

L'Arc-en-Ciel Madison Square Garden Sunday, March 25 Better than: Hearing critics just talk about weird foreign scenes and stylistic blends and collisions at the EMP Pop Conference. Japanese hard rock band L'Arc-en-Ciel have been in well-deserved self-celebration mode of late. They celebrated thei ... More >>

On Mirel Wagner and the Alleged Death and Apparent Spread of Freak Folk

Scattered cosmic dust

Antony Goes Into the Light

The singer brings his singular vision to Radio City

Oneohtrix Point Never's Daniel Lopatin Builds an Empire

Live: James Murphy And Pat Mahoney Spin For James Franco And Other Beautiful People

​ Special Disco Version (James Murphy and Pat Mahoney) Museum of Modern Art Monday, May 23 Better than: Watching James Franco's "Actors Acting" clip over and over (and over and over) again. It wasn't too long ago that James Murphy said his goodbyes as the frontman of LCD Soundsystem. Accordi ... More >>

Live: Yoko Ono And Son Bust Out The Rolodex (Lou Reed! Patti Smith! Antony!) For Japan

Better Than: Getting harassed by Lou Reed's manager. There's many perfectly valid reasons to find Sean Lennon deeply dubious. The main knock on the guy is that he uses the obscene wealth and ridiculous connections to date models, to hang around in feathered fedoras, and to release solo albums per ... More >>

WHITE LIGHT TO SWANLIGHTS

Another world may just be love

Brooklyn's Noise Scene Catches Up to Oneohtrix Point Never

GOLD BOND

Let's Twitter-stalk Justin Bond, shall we?

TIMBER!

Canadian chamber-popper is oddly familiar

Hercules & Love Affair

Live: Antony and the Johnsons Cover Beyoncé at Town Hall

Antony and the Johnsons Town Hall February 20 For Antony and the Johnsons' second sold-out night at the venerated Town Hall, the moment that got the loudest audience laughs was when the broad-bodied and bellow-lunged singer and pianist Antony Hegarty mewled a plea of "hoping you'll page me right ... More >>

Antony Hegarty, Transformer

Fresh from a disco smash, an NYC original evolves anew

Best Disco Revival: Hercules and Love Affair

BIRD BOY

Antony plays the house of Billie and Mr. Brown

NEW THINGS & NEW TIDINGS

Rising star Nico Muhly goes medium-brow

The Non-Fatal Attractions of Martha Wainwright

Wry tales of ill-advised crushes from a singer-songwriter as blunt as she is funny

Lou Reed's Berlin is All New York

Julian Schnabel captures the music, moment, and mood of Reed's once-maligned record

No Context: Speak Up! With Lou Reed, Moby, Antony, and More

Hercules & Love Affair

Glorious dance music from an unlikely, warbling source

BAND AID

Anti-war stars speak up

Spring Dance Preview: Emanuel Gat's Club Mozart

Hallowed music gets the Gat treatment

Resident Alien Klaus Nomi is Back From Outer Space—25 Years After His Death—With a Wondrous New Disc

Hugs and Kisses #16: An Examination of Everett True's Desktop

Hugs and Kisses: David Thomas Broughton and the End of the Road Festival

Top Ten Plus

Register behind me bird in Arular's Sunday Illinois woodz machine

Mercury Positioning

England gives a New Yorker its prize, but Americans still wonder about the bands who also ran