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March 13, 2013Cam, Juelz, Jimmy, and Zeke remember the good times
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August 9, 2012George Thorogood & The Destroyers w/Tom Hambridge & The Rattlesnakes
B.B. King Blues Club
Wednesday, August 8
Better than: Jack White.
The last time I was at B.B. King Blues Club in Times Square (right next to the Sanrio store, across from Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum), I saw Napalm Death. From the ... More >>
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August 1, 2012The r&b singer rides the pony at B.B. King's
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August 1, 2012This week in the Village Voice, out now: I head to B.B. King's for a show by R&B sex-jam-crafter Ginuwine; and Michaelangelo Matos treks to Jamaica—Queens, that is—to talk to the people behind VP Records, the country's largest independent reggae label.
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January 3, 2011Any old band (My Morning Jacket, Weezer) can do multiple shows here and play one full "classic" record a night, but cult Australian college-rock lifers the Church (they of "Under the Milky Way Tonight," see) have hit upon a novel innovation to celebrate their 30th anniversary: three full reco ... More >>
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July 26, 2010Joan MarcusMillion Dollar Quartet has proven that by throwing together a low-budget show with actors imitating four music legends (in this case Elvis, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins), the tourists will come and you can make lots of cash while nabbing some acclaim and even a To ... More >>
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July 2, 2010Even though we eat and sleep local music over here at SOTC, after countless hours of perusing the blogosphere and sifting through mail, we just had to say it: What the fuck, New York? We're talking to you, Wakey! Wakey! That's why we decided to create the First Annual Worst Band Name in New Y ... More >>
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April 10, 2010Tartan Week finishes up with the Tartan Day Parade up 6th Avenue today, or take in the all-day J-Cation food festival at the Japan Society. Both days, New York Classical Theater presents traveling performances of Hamlet at the World Financial Center.
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February 9, 2010The blues still have one name (and two initials)
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December 1, 2009If you listen to only one biblical-themed rock record this year, it's gotta be the Mountain Goats' The Life of the World to Come, explored by SOTC's own Zach Baron here and featured tonight as the Goats take Webster Hall with Final Fantasy. Note: Frontman John Darnielle's fans can be pretty i ... More >>
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November 16, 2009
Those of you not cool enough to attend the last upstate New York All Tomorrow's Parties jam or that Vice Halloween party clusterfuck have thus probably been denied the violent, visceral, vitriolic pleasures of the Jesus Lizard reunion, and this is no way to be, going through life without David Yow ... More >>
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November 11, 2009Oooh, lookit, it's the XX, fresh from beguiling long lines of CMJ patrons and subsequently canceling shows due to exhaustion. That's all sorted out, apparently, and thus will pleasantly gloomy goth-pop elegies fill the air at Bowery Ballroom tonight. We're still all into this band, right, Int ... More >>
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October 27, 2009Pre-hip-hop's poet laureate
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September 29, 2009Burlesquers descend on Gotham
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August 4, 2009Patitucci has elegant strings for hire
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July 21, 2009As a 16-year-old coal miner's son, Tom Jones dropped out of school to support the Catholic schoolgirl he'd knocked up. But when exactly did Mrs. Linda Jones realize she'd hit the jackpot? The Welsh singer held his own against martyrs like Joe Meek, Janis Joplin, and Elvis Presley, and cut his teeth ... More >>
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June 30, 2009
In the event you're hoping for a love connection at Harlem megastar Cam'ron's show tonight, know that the guy's idea of foreplay is "Get in the car, and don't touch nothin'/Either we lovin' or I'll see you tomorrow." He's at B.B. King's.
Marc Ribot is best known for the shambling licks he contrib ... More >>
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June 19, 2009Every year, 327 cities around the world arrange to simultaneously celebrate the first day of summer. So on Sunday, Make Music New York sponsors 800 free performances spanning all five boroughs. The most appropriately superlative event is at the Guggenheim, where 80 trombonists will line the museum' ... More >>
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June 17, 2009
Next week, Regina Spektor will release her first new album in three years. What we've heard of Far is more cinematic than her often bare 2006 breakthrough, Begin to Hope, which may or may not be a good thing. Take a peek at the Beacon tonight.
Loudon Wainwright III, patriarch of the venerated Wai ... More >>
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June 5, 2009Friday
Noted Björk collaborators the Dirty Projectors join 2008 Pazz & Jop winners TV on the Radio in Central Park Friday night to benefit this year's free Central Park SummerStage slate.
Beware of projectile vomiting at Webster Hall; Chromeo's Dave 1 is DJing tonight.
Trumpet virtuoso Ralph Ale ... More >>
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March 13, 2009Photo of Armory Show goofiness by Rebecca Smeyne
In the week Will Oldham said getting cum out of a 13-year-old boy was "easy as hell," we watched Michael Steele throw the final bon mot into the bonfire of his own political career. Revlon somehow had the nerve to ask if Rihanna was an "appropriate s ... More >>
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March 11, 2009
Busta Rhymes and Ron Browz
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March 10
Star power does funny things to your eyes. Take last night's Busta Rhymes/Ron Browz show at B.B. King, for instance. I mistook Kool Herc for Grey's Anatomy's Dr. Richard Webber--an honest mistake considering that the four elements of hip-ho ... More >>
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March 18, 2008Paying tribute to Leonard Cohen and the BeeGees
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March 18, 2008Bone Thugs-N-Harmony meet you at the crossroads
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February 7, 2008NYC Life
May 8, 2007Emperor reigns. J Mascis rocks. And Panda Bear goes all California.
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February 28, 2006Japanese metal bands summon power and energy from the '70s
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January 31, 2006Helping his people remember why they love themselves
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December 14, 2005Music
November 29, 2005The greatest bluesman standing whams his not so marginal differentiations all the way home
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November 14, 2005NYC Life
July 13, 2004Fans get suckered at the Purple One's 'secret' gig
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February 24, 2004Yuh bwoy! A night of coochie-popping, booty-shaking reggae takes over Radio City this May
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December 9, 2003Music
May 27, 2003Happenings 40 Years' Time Later
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October 8, 2002Sonny Rollins at the Summit
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September 11, 2001Your Choices Guide to Four Nights of CMJ Music
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