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Week in Review: Arcade Fire Won A Grammy And All We Got Was This BMX Bicycle Helmet-Cam

Santiago Felipe​And so it came to pass that a sleepy 2011 all of a sudden woke up and went crazy, as Arcade Fire won a Grammy, spawning a thousand think pieces (or two, anyway). Then Odd Future played Santos Party House! And Fallon! Many people said the word "swag." But just as the internet t ... More >>

Bonnaroo 2011 Announces Lineup, Starring Eminem, Arcade Fire, Lil Wayne, The Black Keys, And Buffalo Springfield

Star-studded lineup videos: now a thing. Yes, the Tennessee mega-festival, now in its tenth (!) year, has announced its initial lineup, the usual melange of rappers, rockers, and jam-band monoliths, this year headlined by Eminem and Arcade Fire, only one of whom won the Album of the Year Grammy 48 ... More >>

JJ Grey & Mofro

Fistful of Mercy

GLOWWORM

Shake one for the team

Three Days In the Life of Jay-Z, A Man Whose Weekend Was Way, Way Better Than Yours

Friday, June 11th: Isle of Wight Festival Oh, what am I doing Friday night? Yeah, I don't really know. Maybe fly to England and open the Isle of Wight Festival. Kanye West said he might come through and do "Run This Town." Thinking I'll maybe play in front of a tens of thousands of people wearing ... More >>

Reasons To Be Happy You're Not at Bonnaroo: 2010 Twitter Edition

Like a million? Braver men and women than us have foundered in the muddy, marijuana-soaked waters of Bonnaroo, the annual four-day music/camping festival on the grassy flats of Manchester, Tennessee. And though there is Jay-Z, and the Gaslight Anthem, there are also predatory drug dealers, swelter ... More >>

New York Artist Maya Hayuk Is Partly Responsible for the Half-Naked and Wet People at Bonnaroo

photo by Abby Manock Bonnaroo and body odor go together like Irish men and Jameson, which is why so many of the from-the-mud testimonials focus on the showering aspect of the three-day hackey-sacks-and-hulahoops showdown--or lack thereof. Apparently there are only two primary on-site option for scr ... More >>

Week in Review: Sign of Victory

One of these dudes is noticeably less enthusiastic than all the other dudes. Photo by Nate "Igor" Smith​In the week we interviewed an actual fitness instructor about the theoretical plausibility of exercising to Sleigh Bells, we also penned a Twitter-based ode to Erykah Badu's habitual latenes ... More >>

Your All Tomorrow' Parties New York 2010 Video Sampler Is Here

Apologies in advance for how loudly this SOTC contributor will bang the All Tomorrow's Parties NY drums for the next two-plus months, but there really aren't many, if any, better music festivals in the United States. (All due respect, Bonnaroo, but no.) At ATP NY, you're nestled in a remote part of ... More >>

Indecision+the Bulletproof Lincolns

Q&A: Henry Rollins Talks With Ex-MTV-VJ Iann Robinson About Why Black Flag Won't Reunite and Why He'd Rather Be 49 Than 20

Musician/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 >>

CSC Funk Band

Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band

KID STUFF

Ornette's here to tickle you

Ambiguous All Points West 2009 Attendance Figures Announced

Rebecca Smeyne​The attendance numbers are in for this year's All Points West. The festival drew 71,500 people over three days, according to APW promoter Paul Tollett, down 4000 from last year. In an interview with the New York Times, Tollett chalks the inferior numbers up to the weather, which ... More >>

News Roundup: Beastie Boys, Pearl Jam, Islands, They Might Be Giants

Islands--Islands have released the bubbly new track "No You Don't," from their upcoming third album Vapours, the one frontman Nick Thorburn once famously left on the C Train. The song features him switching between a falsetto and more conversational style, with lyrics like "Don't buy dope from the m ... More >>

News Roundup: Nine Inch Nails, Peter King, Beck, Online Radio

-- After abruptly announcing that Nine Inch Nails's appearance at Bonnaroo last month would be the band's last US show ever, Trent Reznor has decided to let fans down a little slower. NIN will play a series of holy-shit-they're-playing-there club shows later this summer to mark the band's supposed f ... More >>

News Roundup: Beastie Boys, The Roots, Jay Bennett, Lil Wayne

--After proving they-still-got-it at Bonnaroo less than two weeks ago, the Beastie Boys announced details about their new disc, Hot Sauce Committee Part 1. The album is due September 15, and its seventeen tracks include the Nas collaboration "Too Many Rappers" (which they performed together at the f ... More >>

Triumph the Insult Comic Dog Takes Bonnaroo

Though it doesn't reach the lofty heights of Triumph at the Star Wars Screening or Triumph at the Tonys, the mere fact that Conan O'Brien's attack dog deigned to take on Bonnaroo suggests a certain apex of mainstream acceptance/derision. A dog puppet humping a turntable is actually an excellent wa ... More >>

Nas Has Great Taste in Beastie Boys Songs

The Beastie Boys played Bonnaroo this weekend, bringing out Nas--of all people to show up randomly in the middle of the Tennessee countryside--for a new song that is reportedly destined for the upcoming Hot Sauce Committee. That would make Nas the second confirmed guest on the record, after Santi ... More >>

This Weekend! Not-at-Bonnaroo-and-Don't-Care Defiance Edition

So it's awful outside, and your friends ditched you for Bonnaroo. Quit sulking; Tennessee is flooded in state troopers and Phish acolytes, while you have countless local offerings to gorge on. If you haven't already picked up your Northside Festival badge, order online for pickup at 60 North 6th St ... More >>

Week in Review: Get Ready #Bonnaroo You're Gonna Be My Bitch For the Weekend

Rebecca Smeyne In the week we didn't go to the mud-soaked hobbit/hippie fest that is Bonnaroo (well, except for the top secret one of us who did, and is even now Twittering about it), all three members of SOTC did go to Prospect Park, where we wandered the green green grass 27,000 parents and thei ... More >>

Reasons To Be Happy You're Not Going to Bonnaroo

The Twittersphere is alight with #Bonnaroo, where it's supposed to rain all weekend. But that's not the only reason to avoid the annual mud-soaked four-day "camping festival" in Manchester, Tennessee: The pigs are apparently out in full force. Also, the word "'roo." You might end up inadvert ... More >>

Toubab Krewe

Dan Auerbach

Fashion Week: Punk For Pennies at Alexander McQueen for Target

Epic fail It says so much about us that, of all the beautiful runway shows bookending this Fashion Week, your sparkly-things correspondents were most excited about going to Target. Or, rather, going to the pop-up boutique for Alexander McQueen for Target, the latest, extremely high-profile installm ... More >>

The Bonnaroo 2009 Lineup's Secret Weapon

If you're real lucky maybe she'll rip off her afro wig mid-song and slam it down on the stage. I myself have never braved the differently hygienic masses at Bonnaroo, Tennessee's annual long-weekend hippie/hipster soiree. But the announcement of this year's lineup -- held June 11-14 in Manchester, ... More >>

Status Ain't Hood's Greatest Hits

Pearl Jam Ted Leo Tonight at Madison Square Garden

Kanye West Calls Bonnaroo Organizers "Fucking Idiots," "Squid Brains"

Bonnaroo Day 4: Broken Social Scene, Jakob Dylan, Aimee Mann, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss

Bonnaroo 2008: M.I.A. Going MIA?

Bonnaroo Day 2: Drugs For Fun and Profit

Bonnaroo Day 3: The Real Green Deal?

Bonnaroo Day 3: High Tide Blues, Mason Jennings, Abigail Washburn, B.B. King, Ben Folds, Chromeo

Bonnaroo Day 3: The Kanye Debacle

Bonnaroo Day 1: The Food. Plus, Body Odor Begins.

Bonnaroo Day 2: Celebrity Rumors from the Press Tent

Bonnaroo Day 2: Jose Gonzalez, Fiery Furnaces, Swell Season, Raconteurs, Rilo Kiley, M.I.A., Metallica

Bonnaroo Day 1: MGMT, The Weather Underground, Back Door Slam

Welcome to Bonnaroo 2008: Where's the Fun in Festivals?

M.I.A. Live at McCarren Park Pool

ONE MILLION CUSTOMERS SERVED

M.I.A. graces the first of many outdoor stages

Human Giant on Peter, Bjorn and John, MTV, and Heroin

Hope Solo

Sam Champion’s guitar-heavy classic-rock sound is doing just fine with no label to back it (yet)

Placing Politics Within the Pop Culture Landscape

Jammed for All Time

The Improvisational Rock Scene Isn't Just for Hippies Anymore