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May 22, 2013Two nights of orchestral-soul invention, Amerykahn made
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December 21, 2012Here are the ten best concerts to check out around the city this weekend, in no particular order.
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December 19, 2012Blogs
November 9, 2012Some ridiculous dipshit* somewhere, we don't know who**, once said "There are no second acts in American lives." Really now? Try telling that to cop killer Ice T next time he's drinking wine with a smitten Kathie Lee and Hoda on the fourth hour of the Today show like he did yesterday. Or Arnold Schw ... More >>
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November 7, 2012When the American Flag meets Black Flag
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October 12, 2012By Brad Cohan
Joe Carducci not only played a monumental role in helping run and co-own SST Records in its glorious 1980's heyday when Black Flag, Minutemen, Hüsker Dü and Meat Puppets were the reigning kings of the Amerindie underground, but he also famously penned the lyrics for the Minutemen's ... More >>
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August 7, 2012Legendary L.A. groovy punks Redd Kross are back for reals with a new album, Researching the Blues (Merge), and soldiering on with their insistence that punk is indeed groovy. They were never strictly "punk" according to the norms of the early-'80s California scene they grew up in; nor did they alway ... More >>
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July 18, 2012Keith Morris, a few years shy of 60, remains typically snotty as hell, with trademark grimy dreads hanging from a head splotched with bald spots. But he also happens to be one happy camper. The iconoclastic ex-Black Flag bawler—whose bratty freak-puke was on SST Records' initial release (the N ... More >>
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June 27, 2012Voice Choices
May 23, 2012Blogs
April 6, 2012Calvin Johnson is one forward-looking dude. He brought strict punk rock ethos and DIY aesthetics—supporting community, contributing to 'zines, booking shows—to underground rock, and played an integral role in revolutionizing it. Johnson's K Records (which he launched in the early '80s) w ... More >>
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January 4, 2012Blogs
November 11, 2011via Sub Pop RecordsSebadoh.The staggering gamut of cred Lou Barlow boasts in the hardcore, post-punk, lo-fi and indie rock realms toes past the line of the ridiculous and the legendary. In the early '80s, Barlow obliterated his guitar in the cataclysmic Massachusetts hardcore band Deep Wound ... More >>
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November 9, 2011Blogs
November 4, 2011The 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 >>
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November 2, 2011Blogs
July 13, 2011When the subject of women in punk and rock is broached, the usual suspects often come up: Kim Gordon, Kathleen Hanna, Patti Smith, Kim Deal and Debbie Harry. The injustice here is how punk-rock bassist Kira (born Kira Roessler) is rarely mentioned in the same breath—not that she cares m ... More >>
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June 24, 2011
Dinosaur Jr., Fucked Up, Off
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Thursday, June 23
Better than: You and your friends sitting around, telling each other how much you appreciate each other.
Keith Morris is a founding member of both Black Flag and The Circle Jerks, the co-author of a song called "World Up My Ass," and a pi ... More >>
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May 21, 2011Ted Leo; Dan Deacon; Jenn Wasner of Wye Oak.Michael Azerrad's Our Band Could Be Your Life is one of the definite accounts of the 1980's independent rock scene and the rise of alternative culture. But unlike many cultural historians, Azerrad has little use for nostalgia. When the Voice talked ... More >>
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May 18, 2011His book mapped their lives
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May 4, 2011Blogs
April 4, 2011Mike Watt (center) and his Missingmen
To dig up some remotely negative bluster thrown at flannel-flyin,' bass-pluckin' Minutemen/fIREHOSE/Stooges punk-rock guru and super-nice dude Mike Watt is no small feat. Enter Watt's ol' SST Records pal Henry Rollins for lighthearted jabs at Watt, found in Rol ... More >>
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March 16, 2011Blogs
March 8, 2011This show is crazy: To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Michael Azerrad's Our Band Could Be Your Life -- an exhaustive history of '80s-indie giants from Sonic Youth to Fugazi to Black Flag -- the Bowery Ballroom is hosting a one-night-only parade of modern alt. superstars covering the bands ... More >>
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October 20, 2010Minor Threat, Black Flag, Dead Kennedys get an encore
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August 25, 2010Blogs
July 15, 2010Yup, that's an Amebix t-shirt. Photo by Mark HewkoThis weekend, Ted Leo returns to the Voice's annual Siren Music Festival for the record-setting third time, after performing in 2003 and DJing back in 2008. In anticipation, we called him up to talk about the rumors of his impending retirement ... More >>
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April 6, 2010Sorry, we couldn't resist
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April 5, 2010The UK trio Male Bonding play little jagged pop songs equally influenced by Black Flag, the Black Keys, and hazier stuff like Ride; dual vocalists Kevin Hendrick and John Arthur Webb manage melodies that wouldn't be out of place on any number of early '90s K Records releases. Either way, most ... More >>
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March 12, 2010Musician/actor/talker/personality Henry Rollins has been in touch Iann Robinson for years, long before Robinson's days as the MTV VJ Horatio Sanz once spoofed on Saturday Night Live. Since Henry Rollins headlines Irving Plaza tonight and tomorrow, we asked Robinson to get his old acquaintance on the ... More >>
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February 2, 2010Blogs
November 2, 2009The three on the right: Henry Rollins, Greg Ginn, and Chuck Biscuits, elusive even in Black Flag. Photo by Dave Markey.As harsh as 2009 has been for celebrity deaths, it's been an even harsher year for Internet-based fake celebrity deaths. As of June, the real-to-fake death ratio has approach ... More >>
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July 23, 2009Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing new and emerging MP3s from local talent. Recently, we've given you the Beets' "Don't Fit In My Head" and the exclusive video for Motel Motel's "Coffee"
Brooklyn's Werewolves brandish psych textures like weapons. Black Mountaineers without the ... More >>
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June 9, 2009-- Usually when a band announces an "extended break," it means they are too afraid to say they broke up. Not the case with Le Tigre. The electro-punk trio are back in the studio working with Christina Aguilera, though there isn't much more information available than that. The group has been quiet si ... More >>
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June 9, 2009After a lifetime of political hackery, former city councilmember Noach Dear, who had never even practiced law, became a municipal judge. Who knew he'd become a savior to hundreds of New Yorkers harassed and dunned by unscrupulous and sometimes crooked debt collectors? And that he'd get standing ova ... More >>
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May 27, 2009Jovially brutal metalheads actually say the mean things you're thinking
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March 18, 2009Voice Choices
August 12, 2008Catch this foursome before they go all Franz Ferdinand
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May 6, 2008Negative Approach reunite
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February 19, 2008Music
August 28, 2007Marveling at the eloquent insanity of the Dirty Projectors' new Black Flag tribute
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September 19, 2006Black Flag, white guilt, blood-red noses collide in self-congratulatory American Hardcore
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July 5, 2005Nonsensical Japanese noise legends get sunbaked, go up in incense smoke at the beach
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November 11, 2003Music
August 7, 2001Michael Azerrad Chronicles Indie Rock His Way
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April 24, 2001Music
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