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May 1, 2013Better Than: The last asshole who broke your heart.
Elena Tonra stood sheepishly, having just returned to the stage of the Bowery Ballroom with the rest of her trio--the English indie folk band Daughter--for an encore. The previous hour was filled with her emotionally poignant and aggressive music, ... More >>
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April 15, 2013Karen 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 >>
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September 25, 2012Better Than: Seeing either of these guys in a festival setting, which seems to be the only way you're going to these days.
Last night Fader magazine and Vitamin Water's collaborative Uncapped tour series hosted their grand finale at the Lower East Side's Angel Orensanz Center. The performers were b ... More >>
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September 21, 2012In no particular order, here are ten can't-miss shows in New York this weekend. For the Voice's full rundown of New York concerts, hit up villagevoice.com/concerts.
See Also:
- All Tomorrow's Parties Preview: Founder Barry Hogan on the Festival's Move to New York City
- Fear of a Talibam! Planet
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September 19, 2012Indie folk phenoms Bon Iver return
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March 21, 2012Blogs
February 12, 2012Tonight's the running of the 54th annual Grammys, and for the past week Sound of the City has been running the odds on various categories. Below, a list of all the predictions made by our writers this week. (Spoiler: Adele (above) pops up a lot!) Feel free to clip and save, and fill in the (many) ga ... More >>
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February 10, 2012The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences introduced the Best Alternative Music Performance category in 1991 in anticipation of punk breaking later that year (and permanently renamed the award in 2000). Over the past two decades, the changing demographics of the nominees have reflected the ... More >>
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February 10, 2012Maybe it's all that misguided Year of the Woman chatter that dominated year-end roundups, or the slow, agonizing creep of Fashion Week, or the coming apocalypse, but hoo boy has there been a lot of terrible writing about female musicians in the past few weeks. The latest offender is the New Y ... More >>
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February 10, 2012Every year, when I get involved in Grammy debates with my cooler friends, I tell them the problem with the awards isn't that they reward mass-appeal schlock. If the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences is doing its job right, it should be rewarding popular, undeniable, and somewhat unhip ... More >>
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February 8, 2012Blogs
February 8, 2012In this week's Voice I wrote about Skrillex, the emo-dude-gone-dubstep-auteur who's spawned a bunch of funny-Photoshop blogs and garnered five Grammy nominations. One of the categories he's nominated in is one of the Big Four—Best New Artist, which seems to have shaken off its "one-way ticket ... More >>
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February 3, 2012Diana Levine/Bushmills
Elijah Wood
The Wooly
Thursday, February 2
Better Than: Reading about Bon Iver on the internet today.
After attending a party called Macaulay Culkin's iPod two months ago, during which I watched the love of my kindergarten days supervise a six-hour playlist and the tw ... More >>
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January 18, 2012Music
January 18, 2012Finding the bright side of 2011
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December 27, 2011The Song: Bon Iver, "Holocene"
The Crimes: Shapelessness, "atmosphere," wondering if we're all just particles, man, invoking existential music-listening crises.
Many of this year's most risible songs had clear reasons for being as irritating as they were—self-impressed "punk"dom, grating whi ... More >>
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December 22, 2011Think of the orange car as a clue. The resurrected NBA season kicks off (thankfully, finally) on Sunday. To celebrate, we've paired each team with a notable album from the past year; the list, with tweet-sized justifications, is below. (NB, although the NBA-savvy of you might have already fig ... More >>
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December 21, 2011Blogs
December 1, 2011Last night's Grammy nominations show was full of pomp, eyeliner, and people on Twitter becoming very confused. Here's the complete list of nominees; below, 20 questions that we're still wrestling with some 14 hours after the broadcast signed off.
1. "Super Bass": Robbed or totally robbed?
2. Now t ... More >>
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November 30, 2011Tonight's Grammy nomination concert, airing at 10 p.m. on CBS, will not only jam-pack a bunch of performances by the likes of Lady Gaga and Jason Aldean into its 60 minutes, it'll also let us know which artists will be prostrating themselves in front of the globe and thanking their families and God ... More >>
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November 16, 2011Voice Choices
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August 11, 2011Jake Moore
Bon Iver w/The Rosebuds
Celebrate Brooklyn! at Prospect Park Bandshell
Wednesday, August 10
Better than: Going it alone.
The now nine-member collective known as Bon Iver has certainly evolved from its oft-retold cabin origins. At Prospect Park last night, the band showed off the ... More >>
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June 22, 2011Stretching Justin Vernon's sound into the widescreen format
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June 22, 2011It's the Queer Issue! This week in the Voice, Steven Thrasher takes a look at the complicated relationship between members of Bronx Senator Reverend Rubén Díaz Sr.'s family when it comes to gay rights. Senior is staunchly anti-gay marriage; his son, Bronx Borough President Rubén Díaz Jr., ... More >>
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June 22, 2011D.L. AndersonJustin Vernon. In this week's Village Voice, available near you if you are currently located in the New York metropolitan area: Larry Blumenfeld looks at the tensions between music-makers and lawmakers in New Orleans; Jess Harvell gives the once-over to the sumptuous self-titled ... More >>
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March 23, 2011If you had asked us after 2007's For Emma, Forever Ago, or even after 2009's auto-tune adorned EP, Blood Bank, we probably would have told you Bon Iver would be crazy to put out an album during the summer. Justin Vernon had made a name for himself by capitalizing on heartbreak, exorcizing awa ... More >>
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September 15, 2010Jamey Johnson: Bon Iver, only good! Photo by James Minchin.In this week's Village Voice, Chuck Eddy on the charms of schizophrenic stoner country guy Jamey Johnson, Jessica Hopper reviews Superchunk's excellent new Majesty Shredding, Ryan Dombal talks with Killers frontman Brandon Flowers, an ... More >>
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August 13, 2010I don't know, seems PhotoshoppedSorry, but I felt that quote deserved to be reprinted in full in the largest font I had immediately available. Yes, America, it would appear the Kanye-Bon Iver team-up is a real thing, per a chat with Rolling Stone in which he acknowledges -- and we totally sup ... More >>
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April 16, 2010It's that special time of the year again: Record Store Day, which is like Teacher Appreciation Day for independent record stores. Saturday, to celebrate their tenacity, among other things, record stores around the city are holding performances, releasing exclusives, and offering once-in-a-blu ... More >>
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February 11, 2010Dustin Peyseur, sensitive as fuck.Even though they are so cowardly and weak that they ran screaming from their offices yesterday as if a little snow were a nuclear bomb, we still love our friends at eMusic, not least for their tradition of putting together holiday-appropriate featurettes. How ... More >>
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February 4, 2010
Not news that St. Vincent's Annie Clark has all kinds of special friends--she just came off a week in NYC that involved performing with everyone from David Byrne to Bon Iver's Justin Vernon to the National. So of course she pulled ThunderAnt, who go by Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein when not d ... More >>
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January 25, 2010
St. Vincent, Britt Daniel, Bon Iver, Zach Galifianakis, Janeane Garofalo, and more
Haiti Benefit @ Music Hall Of Williamsburg
Saturday, January 23
BrooklynVegan might best be known for having the most obnoxious commenters in the entire music blogosphere (which, in fairness, is certainly no small ... More >>
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January 19, 2010NY Guitar Festival diverges into folk
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October 27, 2009Some as adults (nice going, My Morning Jacket) but mostly as children (very cute, dude from Deer Tick). Gallery is here. On the left, we see Bon Iver. Try and guess who he is.
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September 18, 2009--Tickets for the October 16-18 New Yorker Festival, which will feature plenty of musicians--Neko Case, Bon Iver, Loudon Wainwright III, Ian Hunter, Jace Clayton, and Melvin Gibbs, to name a few----and a really ace concert at the Bell House with Liturgy and Dirty Projectors, are on sale now. ... More >>
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June 2, 2009"Singing all about [yourself] isn't all that interesting--I don't want to just do that. It's not very fun, and it may be dishonest."
Kristian Mattson
The Tallest Man on Earth is about five-foot-nine. Maybe; wearing the right shoes. Narrowly built, spindly legged, and quietly spoken, the loftiest t ... More >>
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April 22, 2009Your favorite compilation is now a live show
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April 20, 2009
"This song's about baseball..." Only three tunes into their Friday set, and the Felice Brothes cut straight to "Cooperstown," the nearly seven-minute ballad about an 18 year old Ty Cobb's first ever at-bat. The band's ramshackle slow numbers probably sound better live from a meadow near their Cats ... More >>
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February 19, 2008More rustic, beautiful folkiness
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