Band of Horses

The Best of Coachella, Weekend One

Karen O's Outfit Karen O's wardrobe on Friday night was bad ass. The Yeah Yeah Yeah's front woman appeared on the main stage in a technicolor cape draped over a suit that looked like it was made of mercury. The vibrant collage was topped with a headpiece that Liberace might have worn had he ever bee ... More >>

Neil Young, Foo Fighters, Black Keys To Play A Big Charity Show In Central Park

The Global Festival 2012, a concert on Central Park's Great Lawn sponsored by an outfit called the Global Poverty Project, will take place on September 29; Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Foo Fighters, and the Black Keys will headline, with Band of Horses and K'Naan serving as support acts. As is custom ... More >>

Live: My Morning Jacket Build A Better Classic Rock At Madison Square Garden

My Morning Jacket w/Band of Horses Madison Square Garden Wednesday, December 14 Better than: The other bands on the Bonnaroo roots-jam circuit. I sometimes imagine the young Kentucky rock fan who would one day name himself Jim James surfing the internet in the late '90s (we called it surfing bac ... More >>

Evanescence

J Mascis Is Opening For Band Of Horses At The Hammerstein Tomorrow Night

​There's something so exciting about last-minute announcements, right? Or maybe I just live on the deadline edge a little too much. Anyway, this just in: Tomorrow night's Band Of Horses show at the Hammerstein Ballroom—occasioned by the implosion of the Kings of Leon tour last week— ... More >>

Band Of Horses Turn Lemons Into A Show At The Hammerstein Ballroom Next Week

​Over the weekend Southern-rock boy band Kings of Leon had a meltdown in Dallas that resulted in them canceling their tour, a fate that left Band of Horses, who were slated to open for them at sheds across America, at loose ends. But they bounced back, setting up shows in the cities they were ... More >>

Paying Tribute To Archers Of Loaf: "Even If I Had Two Other Hands, I Couldn't Count My Favorite Archers Songs On Them"

​In this week's Voice, we looked at the history of Archers Of Loaf, the storied North Carolina indie outfit that recently got back together for a run of shows and reissues. Below, some quotes from Archers frontman Eric Bachmann that couldn't fit into the Voice's print edition; members of Band ... More >>

Coming To The Local Sheds This Summer: Lots Of "Heritage Acts" And Country Stars (And Yeasayer)

Yeasayer. Here's hoping things are a bit warmer than this for their shows this summer. ​Today Live Nation announced a slew of shows at Long Island's Nikon at Jones Beach Theater and New Jersey's PNC Bank Arts Center, and in addition to the many classic rock acts (with "classic rock" now being ... More >>

Live: Trash Talk Bleed and Off! Talk (and Talk and Talk) at Santos Party House

all photos by Rebecca SmeyneTrash Talk bleed for their fans OFF!/Trash Talk/Cerebral Ballzy Santos Party House Saturday, March 26 Saturday night at Santos, hardcore-elders OFF! played alongside Trash Talk, one of their more ferocious descendents. Stylistic nuances aside, both bands are characteriz ... More >>

J Mascis

Pazz & Jop Stats II: Calculating Enthuasiasm, Hipness, Metalism, And, Uh, Kvltosis

Time to learn about this album​Pazz & Jop's album chart is officially ranked by points: Each voter has 100 to hand out, with no album receiving more than 30 or less than 5. There are, of course, a bunch of ways to turn that mass of music data into revealing lists. Here are four of them.

Lissie

The Top 10 NSFW Music Videos of 2010

​ One major downside to 2010: There's a pretty good chance you lost your job. The good news, though, is that the concept of NSFW no longer applies, and so today, while your former co-workers are stuck in their cubicles, bored to death and forced to pass around OK Go's latest YouTube meme, you ... More >>

Was Animal Collective Really the Hipster?

​Making the rounds this week is a New York Magazine article entitled "What Was the Hipster?" Written by n 1's Mark Greif, the piece is meant as a critical history of an era pegged to have lasted just 10 years, from 1999 to 2009. The moment supposedly began with the move of Vice magazine from M ... More >>

ROCK AQUATIC

Built to Spill try not to sink the ship

Last Pool Party Canceled, OSA Slams Jelly, Jelly Prepares Rebuttal: "Their Statement Contains Numerous Falsehoods That We Can Document"

At the !!! Pool Party Sunday, in (slightly) happier times. Pic by Sam Horine.​A bad summer for the Jelly Pool Parties is ending worse. Word spread last night that the August 29th show at East River State Park, featuring Delorean, Dominique Young Unique, and two never-revealed SECRET SPECIAL GU ... More >>

The Acorn

Oh, Yes, It's Devo

When it comes to high-art subversion, these guys still have everyone whipped

Please Don't Riot at the Free Band of Horses Show at Grand Central Terminal Tomorrow

As the newly-crowned Nostradamus of the 2010 New York free summer concert circuit, we feel compelled to intervene here, and ask that when you are inevitably denied entry to this show tomorrow--which is actually being held in the beautiful Vanderbilt Hall, adjacent to the Main Concourse, and thus n ... More >>

PRETTY PLEAS

A cover girl sings out

Creepy Uncle New York James Murphy's LCD Soundsystem Is #10 In the Country

LCD at Terminal 5, celebrating. Photo by Puja Patel​So can we just put that whole "LCD Soundsystem are merely a regional phenomenon speaking to solely to jaded New Yorkers and people who are worried about turning 40" thing to bed now? This Is Happening is one of the top ten most popular record ... More >>

Judge Laughs at Pissed Off Variety Advertiser Over Being Pissed That They Didn't Get Good Review They Paid For

"We're gonna need a bigger ad buy."​Some guy with a movie called Iron Cross - starring the late Jaws actor Roy Scheider - decided to advertise in dying Hollywood trade rag Variety after Variety approached them about selling advertising. When Variety gave Iron Cross a bad review, the advertiser ... More >>

Thank You Jesus: New York Magazine's Ever-Maddening "Jukebox" Feature Has Returned!

​We here at SOTC miss no chance to heap opprobrium on the otherwise sterling New York arts-coverage empire's woeful, mercifully intermittent civilian-rock-criticism column, Jukebox, wherein three randomly chosen, achingly hip Joe-the-Yoga-Instructor everyday New Yorkers toss out neat little on ... More >>

Live from Shepard Fairey's "May Day" Opening at Deitch Projects: Fab 5 Freddy, Rick Ross, and a Topless Breastfeeding Lady

all photos by Sam HorineShepard Fairey has a motorcycle posse and it includes Rick Ross. Shepard Fairey's "May Day" show opened this past Saturday. The promotional noise from Deitch Projects' send-off has been near-deafening, amplified by the hubbub around Fairey's rabidly targeted, heavily guarded ... More >>

Week in Review: Born Free

That's how you listen to Ghostface! Photo by Rebecca Smeyne​In the week M.I.A. broke the internet in a tidal wave of blood and guts and red hair, we did our best to put it back together.

Band of Horses Not Available? Let Les Savy Fav Soundtrack Your Street Art Instead!

First Shepard Fairey gets up at the Music Hall of Williamsburg to the sweet, sweet strains of Band of Horses, Fugazi, and Metallica; now, it seems, Brooklyn vets Faile and their mysterious buddy Bast are getting in on the random street art-indie rock crossover act. The collective plus one have comm ... More >>

When Shepard Fairey Vandalizes the Music Hall of Williamsburg, He Does It While Listening to Band of Horses

Gregg Greenwood​So, if you're keeping track of Shepard Fairey-related activity around NYC, there is the wall on Houston Street, the Ace Hotel wrap-around, the May Day show at Deitch Projects and, last but not least, a permanent, indoor mural installation at the Music Hall of Williamsburg. That ... More >>

Dave Foley Goes Lower than Celebrity Poker for The Strip

Yes In My Backyard: Motel Motel Exclusive Video Premiere for "Coffee"

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing new and emerging MP3s from local talent. Last time, we gave you new MP3s from Love Like Deloreans and Blondes. Photo by Davey Wilson Motel Motel Brooklyn monster-buzz-band Motel Motel scream and bubble and flourish and sweat with that hyper-ext ... More >>

Coachella: Paul McCartney's Coming to the Desert

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Interview: Frightened Rabbit's Scott Hutchison

Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist: About A Boy, and Not Much Else

Live: Band of Horses at the Masonic Temple, 02.14.08

Valentine's Day Music Listings: Ways To Avoid Yr Loneliness

Pazz & Jop: 2006's Top 25 Albums

That Which We Cranked

Charting our myriad obsessions, amusements, and confusions

The Quarterly Report: Winter's Best Albums

Get Out of the Office

New York's faux-corporate holiday soiree hits a few bum notes

CMJ: Band of Horses at the Bowery Ballroom

Band of Horses' Second Act

Two minutes shorter and half as charming

Status Ain't Hood Podcast 5

Live: Status Ain't Hood at the Pitchfork Music Festival

Sold, to the Bashful, Inarticulate Blonde

Combating bad art, the cabaret law, and a vicious crush on a dreamy, hirsute comedian

A Road-Trip Playlist

Status Ain't Hood's Quarterly Report: The Year's Best Albums

I'm From Rolling Stone: The Finale

P&J Winners: Singles #21-33

The Year's Best Music Videos

Devils We Know

Serge Gainsbourg, Lara Croft, blue-collar rapper, Saharan exile—meet Cops

Status Ain't Hood Interviews the Mountain Goats