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April 12, 2013These 10 concerts were chosen "Best of Weekend" by a robot made of melted down vinyl copies of Black Sabbath's Paranoid and the guts of old tube amplifiers. Make it happy. Go out into that good night.
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January 11, 2013A swirl of gritty, psychedelic guitars and screaming fans with their hands raised to the heavens isn't what you typically think of when you hear gospel. But Dallas-bred group the Relatives have no concern about your or anyone else's preconceived notions of the Lord's music. They weren't concerned in ... More >>
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July 27, 2012The Brooklyn collective of DJ Ayres, DJ Eleven, and Cosmo Baker celebrate the 10-year anniversary of their now-legendary rap party The Rub this weekend. While their monthly rager moved from the now-shuttered Park Slope club Southpaw to Gowanus' much larger Bell House, the party remains a house-party ... More >>
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November 23, 2011Ever-touring, ever-spazzing, ever-wig-donning punk rock nutsos The Spits have a brand-new album out on In the Red, their fifth. It's called, as all their albums are, The Spits, and it's another buzzy blast of freaky fun, if a tad darker than the rest of their gonzoid garage catalog. To celebrate its ... More >>
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September 1, 2011Maks Suski
"This is totally normal," G. Lucas Crane says as he drags an amp and a box full of cassettes into his former kitchen. The experimental musician (and occasional tape manipulator for Woods) studies the giant plastic balls hanging from the ceiling, which change color as people talk, a ... More >>
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December 21, 2010No.Ah, another shitty year is ending, and we find ourselves trying to buy our way out of it with Christmas presents while struggling to block out the same old endless stream of yuletide muzak. Luckily, there's always a few notable holiday-album standouts to break the tedium, this year includi ... More >>
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December 2, 2010Good advice. Pics by Phil Freeman, more below.Ozzy Osbourne/Rob Halford
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Wednesday, December 1
Better than: Any other Ozzy performance of the 2000s.
Ozzy Osbourne is turning 62 on Friday. That makes him older than his new guitarist (the shredtastic Gus G. of Greek power ... More >>
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November 18, 2010Given Kanye West's total ubiquity these past few weeks/months/years, it's jarring to realize that his profoundly unraveled My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is not even officially out yet. And yet the Internet dissection is well under way -- just as Girl Talk's All Day (which we can't exactly ... More >>
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October 25, 2010Just your average Sunday afternoon. Pics by Chris, more below.Waffles & Tits 3: Heavy Metal Parking Lot
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Sunday, October 24
Waffles & Tits, Brooklyn's traveling shit-show of a Sunday-afternoon party, is equal parts rock opera, Vaudeville revival, and Gathering of the Juggalos-esq ... More >>
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May 28, 2010
Tonight, the second viewing of Blood Into Wine, the documentary on Tool frontman James Maynard Keenan's brass-knuckled corkscrew domination of the Arizona winemaking frontier, aptly commences at the City Winery. Meanwhile, cowboy punk Reverend Horton Heat delivers his second sermon of "epically s ... More >>
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May 17, 2010
The metal world lost one of its greatest voices, and one of its nicest guys, on Sunday morning, when legendary singer Ronnie James Dio died of stomach cancer at 67. After swatting away Internet rumors earlier that day, Dio's wife and manager, Wendy Dio, finally delivered the news herself: "Today m ... More >>
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August 19, 2009Charles Hamilton, hitting deleteIn this week's Village Voice, Ben Detrick reports on rap's online overdose and the perils of allowing guys like Charles Hamilton anywhere near the Internet.
Tom Hull presents the summer edition of our Jazz Consumer Guide.
Phil Freeman celebrates the rebirth o ... More >>
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August 18, 2009The return of Dio-Era Black Sabbath
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June 24, 2009
He forgives youNYC-media liberal-elite types are most probably already acquainted with The Awl, a Gawker-alumni-heavy carnival of gossip, irreverence, and occasional profundity. The site's star attraction is Dave Bry's "Public Apology" column, wherein he begs forgiveness for a wide variety of hila ... More >>
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March 27, 2007The other Black Sabbath whips Baphomet's ass at Radio City
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February 28, 2006Japanese metal bands summon power and energy from the '70s
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February 28, 2006TV hospital drama life unfolds to new new wave
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December 27, 2005Messy Japanese rockers make annoyances work for them
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September 13, 2005Carnies, wolves, and goblin cocks transmogrify CMJ indie-rock fest
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September 14, 2004Eager young bands kneel down to altar, re-create history of psychedelic rock in own image
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November 11, 2003We come from garageland and we rock with drink in hand
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