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The Best Metal Shows in NYC This Month (A/K/A Extended Saint Vitus Listings)

These are the best metal shows in NYC in April.\m/

Marnie Stern Gets Personal

It's when Marnie Stern, bundled in a gold puffer jacket, steps away from the Starbucks counter that I see she's covered from waist down in day-glo, neon lemon shoes sticking out from electric cerulean pants declaring her the brightest person on the Upper East Side before she's even opened her mouth. ... More >>

Laugh if You Like, Texas, but New York is Now a BBQ Capital

Fat and Happy

Great Barbecues of Texas: Gonzales Food Market in Gonzales

Great lamb ribs are one of Gonzales Food Market's eccentricities. Founded in 1958 on the north side of Gonzales, Texas' courthouse square, Gonzales Food Market is still youthful in Texas barbecue years. Yet, in its relative obscurity and unreconstructed nature (the place still functions fully as a ... More >>

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Week, 1/21/13

Here are the 10 best shows around the city this week, in no particular order.

The Movies to Know From Sundance -- and the Year Ahead

Park City's Breakouts

Eight Artists Who, Like Roky Erickson, Have Struggled With Mental Illness

It seemed something like a miracle back in 2005 when psychedelic-rock pioneer Roky Erickson -- who plays Bell House in Brooklyn tonight -- took the stage at the Austin, Texas eatery Threadgill's, returning from decades of crippling mental illness and a hermit-like existence that had him pegged as Am ... More >>

Too Much Johnny Business: 14 New Punk Combos Pick Their Favorite Tracks By Birthday Boy Johnny Thunders

So many years later, and still most musicians in the trashy rock'n'roll underbelly can't shake that Ramones rush. In fact, there has been a Rockaway Beach-like surf rolling in for the past couple years; boffo bands from all over have their debt to the four leather-clad lads instantly assessed, in th ... More >>

Winners of the James Beard Foundation's Restaurant and Chef Awards

Last night, the James Beard Foundation's winner's list was completed--the media awards were over the weekend and listed here yesterday. In addition to major excitement over the first ever Outstanding Bar Program award other highlights included a tie for Best Chef Southeast (a hot dining destination ... More >>

50 Cent, Eminem, And Skrillex's Hordes Of Fans Swarm Austin On Day Three Of SXSW

If you're familiar with chaos theory, which in its basic form is the attempt to find patterns in this planet's many happenings, then you may understand the difficulty that comes with describing a full day at the South By Southwest festival in Austin, Texas. To break down the chaos, a few of Village ... More >>

Q&A: Parts & Labor On Remembering Whitney Houston, Their Indefinite Hiatus, And Possibly Reuniting At Coachella in 2020

Brooklyn's econo-electronics-mishmashing, art-rocking noisemakers Parts & Labor are calling it a day and throwing a farewell jamz bash to ring in the band's indefinite hiatus on Friday at 285 Kent. Conceived in the early aughts by electronic gnaw artists and dueling vocalists Dan Friel and (bassist) ... More >>

Goat Town Brings Puffy Tacos, San Antonio Style, to NYC

The puffy tacos on Mexican Mondays at Goat Town An old friend of mine, Julie Farias, recently took over as chef at Goat Town, an East Village bistro. Julie was born and raised in San Antonio, and with her assistance, I made a trip there a couple of years ago. The Central Texas city is one of the c ... More >>

Q & A: Meat Puppets' Curt Kirkwood On Arizona Punk, SST Records, His Brother Cris Being Clean, And Not Making It Into Our Band Could Be Your Life

​The Meat Puppets' thirty-year journey can be divided into a trio of disparate trajectories: the mind-melting Deadhead-cum-hardcore desert-rock genius of their SST Records years (1982-89); the glossy, muscular grunge-lite of the successful major-label stint they enjoyed in the 90's (thanks in ... More >>

Watch Patrick Stump Cover Jeff Buckley's "Everybody Here Wants You"

On October 18 Patrick Stump will release his solo debut Soul Punk (Island), a fantastic, hooky pop-soul record, full of choruses that soar into the stratosphere and crystalline lyrics. The Fall Out Boy lead singer plays every instrument on the record, and the album lays bare his appreciation for bot ... More >>

Live: Titus Andronicus And The Black Angels Cap Off The 4Knots Fest

Willie DavisThe Black Angels. ​ 4Knots Music Festival: Titus Andronicus, The Black Angels Saturday, June 16 South Street Seaport Better than: Your average punk band/psych band combo. Titus Andronicus didn't make headlining this festival any easier for Austin's The Black Angels. The Texas nat ... More >>

Would Mexico Have Been Better Off If the American Southwest Remained Mexico?

And why the American Immigration Council is Great!

Quintron and Miss Pussycat Cancel Their Upcoming Tour, Including Brooklyn Show on May 28

We spoke with swampbuggy bad-ass Quintron very briefly on Monday afternoon, amid the throes of a pre-tour van emergency. But since then something else far more harrowing has developed, specifically an undisclosed "family emergency at home," which has sadly forced cartoon lady Miss Pussycat and her o ... More >>

Donald Glover Is More Talented Than You

The comedian/writer/rapper is on a collision course with stardom

Shopping with Kelly Framel, the Blogger Behind The Glamourai

She shops Brooklyn, rejects suitor

Announcing the 2011 Village Voice and Frank 151 SXSW Party, Featuring the Wu-Tang Clan, Yelawolf, Wild Flag, Fishbone, and More

Rocky Business at the Mercury Lounge last week. Photo by Nate "Igor" Smith.​With three weeks to go and counting, we figured we might as well make it official: please join us in welcoming the 2011 Village Voice SXSW party, presented in concert with Frank 151, and starring the Wu-Tang Clan, Fish ... 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 >>

Devo Cancel Their Tour, Including Saturday's Hammerstein Ballroom Show (Now Featuring The Drums, For Free)

​A rough week for canceled shows around here: Devo has scrapped all their upcoming dates, including Saturday night's Hammerstein Ballroom fete (which is now a free show with the Drums and Neon Trees), after a glass shard sliced guitarist Bob Mothersbaugh's right thumb to the bone. The band was ... More >>

SXSW 2011 Will Feature A Panel Titled "The Case Against Christopher Weingarten"

Well allow him to retort. Oh my. Beloved SOTC cohort Christopher R. Weingarten, he of the remarkably profane rants against music-blog culture, has ascended to such heights that he has now inspired an SXSW answer panel. This March, get down to Austin, Texas, by any means necessary for... Curatoria ... More >>

'The Original Copy' at MOMA; Okay Mountain's 'Benefit Plate' at Freight + Volume

Plus Arielle Falk's 'Lego My Ego' at LZ Project Space

Paul Rudd: He's an Actor...Right?

Josh Olson, at SXSW, Still Won't Read Your Fucking Script

​In Austin, Voice friend Josh Olson -- screenwriter of A History of Violence and author of last year's popular screed, "I Will Not Read Your Fucking Script" -- served on a SXSW panel with Alex Tse, who wrote the screenplay for Watchmen. Olson tells us Tse surprised him with a gift his wife Li ... More >>

Vivian Girls Played a "Nearly Acoustic" Set at SXSW, Thanks to the Austin Chill Wave

Rebecca SmeyneVivian Girls The biggest shocker of this year's SXSW was that it was bitterly cold in Austin on Saturday. Seriously freezing, out of nowhere, 37 degrees. The kind of abnormal Texas temperature that had yours truly shamefully wearing legwarmers purchased off the street (?!?) because th ... More >>

Go See Phish At Least Once

Hello from Madison Square Garden, where once may be enough

R.I.P. Gerard Cosloy's Lovely Austin Home

This photo is filed under "Internal Affairs, Technical Difficulties" on Cosloy's blog​ Our sincere condolences to Matador's Gerard Cosloy, whose motherfucking house burned down this morning in Austin, Texas, taking with it untold amounts of alt-rock memorabilia and most of Cosloy's worldy bel ... More >>

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Impeding the Stampede

Britt Daniel's Austin indie heroes resort to adoration-averse post-hoopla ambivalence

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Inter-Century Freundschaft

Where the fuck is for example the Z100, gangsta-rock, and Merina-Senegalese fusion?

For Your Amusement

A roll call of this year's bands at Coney Island's favorite freak show

Delicious Colliding

Peaceful universes in which the strange and the familiar lie down and leap up together

Corrections

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Dead Man Gawking

Dull Heads Among Windy Spaces

Shoot Me Now!

Tap Fest Redux

Books

The Happy Awkward Moment

Performance Theater's Intimate Surprise

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Thong Throng

This Precious Right

A Veteran of the Abortion Struggle Looks Back