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Seven Sets You Should See During CMJ Week: Main Attrakionz, EMA, Dierks Bentley, And More

Main Attrakionz. ​ Sound of the City's staff has opinions about which bands to see at the CMJ festival, happening around the city this week. Here, Nick Murray offers his seven picks—well, six festival-affiliated artists and one dude who just happens to have a couple of NY-area shows this ... More >>

THE GREAT OUTDOORS

Get out of your steamy apartment and dance next to hot people

Ten New York Bands You Should See At This Weekend's Northside Festival

Making Friendz (aka Tami Hart) plays Shea Stadium tonight.​Northside Festival starts tonight! Finally, your very own chance to see the best emerging local bands taking over Brooklyn bars for four nights... or as we like to call it, "pretty much every weekend in New York ever." We here at Sound ... More >>

Legendary U.K. Anarcho-Punks Crass Are Reuniting In NYC In March [Updated]

Crass in 1984. This photo was taken by a man named Trunt, of course.​See the update below... It doesn't get any bigger or more important than Crass, the Essex-born collective that helped integrate radical anarchist politics with punk rock, a bond that endures--insofar as the genre does--to th ... More >>

Ten Bands From The '90s That Haven't Reunited

Mark Ibold, still happier about the Pavement reunion than you are​So Chavez is reuniting, or whatever you want to call it. A Pavement reunion just dominated most of last week in New York City. Before that, it was a never-dissolved-but-certainly-largely-inactive Superchunk. In the past few year ... More >>

Vitalic, Escort, DâM-FunK, And DJ Eli And Lloydski Headline Your Weekend In Nightlife, September 24-26

​It's officially fall, y'all. And while that means, unfortunately, that Pavement Week has come to a close, we have a full schedule of dance-y affairs to keep you busy through the weekend. For the most part, we'll recommend you stay city-side. That is, unless seeing Zach Baron play black metal ... More >>

The Best of the Lamentably Short-Lived #literarychillwave Hashtag

Credit our friend, Stereogum's Brandon Stosuy, with starting this particular hashtag yesterday. Mashing up the world's most important genre with the world's most important literature seemed like an idea with legs, but alas, things done on the internet toward the end of the day on the one of the tw ... More >>

Dave Longstreth Finally Vents His Unrelenting Whale Obsession Through An Album With Bjork

Mount Wittenberg Orca​In the words of the Dirty Projectors' Dave Longstreth himself: "Don't listen on those tiny stereo speakers -- put in on the stereo and blast dat shiiiiiiiiiiii!!" Aside from commanding us to "blast dat shiiii," bet you never thought Longstreth would be singing (presumab ... More >>

"Thank You So Much For Making Art That Is Freaking Me Out": Stereogum Hosts A Fiery CocoRosie Symposium

Possibly a polarizing band, yes​So friend-of-SOTC Brandon Stosuy noticed, in the critical ether, a distinct air of either bizarre indifference or outright hostility to outré avant-pop sister act CocoRosie, from their latest record, May's Grey Oceans, on down. In response, he convened a panel ... More >>

Download: Mr. Dream, "Scarred For Life"

​Stereogum is already calling these guys post-"Knuckle Sandwich," which is funny--writing the next song is just what bands are supposed to do, right? Nevertheless, that site's Brandon Stosuy is indeed onto something: if "Knuckle Sandwich" was the howling, hobo-killing winter theme song for any ... More >>

What's Old Is New, Or Something: Swans, Christian Marclay Return to New York City

​Michael Gira's legendary noise punk crew Swans announced their reunion back in January, and with guitarist Norman Westberg on board (no Jarboe, alas), Gira seemed to be promising the return of the ferocious, '80s vintage of his band, rather than gothy, whispery, horror-house '90s version. Thi ... More >>

Photos: Rites of Spring, A DJ Benefit For Haiti Featuring Alex Ross, Björk, Dave Longstreth, Tyondai Braxton, and Brandon Stosuy

Björk, Brandon Stosuy, and the Dirty Projectors's Amber Coffman. All photos by Sam Horine.​We won't pretend to be remotely objective about Rites of Spring, last night's DJ benefit for Haiti organized by our pal Brandon Stosuy and featuring the diverse yet weirdly complementary talents of the ... More >>

LET'S DANCE

Björk spins at a dance party benefit for Haiti

More Details on Rites of Spring: A Benefit For Haiti

​As promised, writer/curator/good human Brandon Stosuy has just posted the rest of the details pertaining to the May 2nd "Rites of Spring" benefit he organized with Björk, Alex Ross, Dave Longstreth, and Tyondai Braxton. Tickets go on sale next Tuesday at Brooklyn's Record Grouch/Old Made Vin ... More >>

Announcing "Rites Of Spring," a DJ Benefit for Haiti Featuring Alex Ross, Björk, the Dirty Projector's Dave Longstreth, Tyondai Braxton, and Brandon Stosuy

​Earlier this morning, the New Yorker's Alex Ross posted the Seldon Hunt-designed flyer for "Rites of Spring," the May 2nd benefit for Haiti organized by SOTC buddy Brandon Stosuy, and featuring Björk, the Dirty Projector's Dave Longstreth, and Battles's Tyondai Braxton in the humble confines ... More >>

Kathleen Hanna's Riot Grrrl Archive Goes to NYU's Fales Library

​L. Magazine comes up with the suitably photocopied-in-black-and-white flyer announcing the deal, which will send Kathleen Hanna's papers from the years 1989-1996 to the library, where the collection will "support scholarship in feminism, punk activism, queer theory, music history and more." F ... More >>

Weekend Black Metal Symposium Hideous Gnosis Graduates to the New York Times

"Brandon Stosuy, a Brooklyn music critic, read from his oral history in progress of American black metal: a welcome demystification, cast in normal-dude voices." Way more where this came from over at Ben Ratliff's critical dissection of Saturday's Hideous Gnosis symposium on black metal at Public ... More >>

Hideous Gnosis, A Black Metal Symposium, Is At Public Assembly Tomorrow; Internecine Warfare Already Very Much Underway

​Here we have the interesting prospect of spending six daylight hours tomorrow inside at Public Assembly, hearing men with beards elaborate on theories regarding black metal. An event called Hideous Gnosis, no less. Voluminously and silkily bearded SOTC affiliate Brandon Stosuy will be reading ... More >>

BLACK HEARTS

Celestia leave their lair in France for their first U.S. show

In Honor of YACHT's Surprising Best New Music Distinction, Let's Remember Back to When Jona Bechtolt Played Cinders Gallery in 2007

​ This was back in April 2007, after Jona Bechtolt had left the Blow. This was before Bechtolt opened a string of shows for LCD Soundsystem, before YACHT would thereby get signed to DFA. This was right before I Believe in You. Your Magic Is Real had come out, but after copies were at shows f ... More >>

New York Mount Eerie Show to Be By Far the Most Metal

 So the tourdates are up, and it's official: New York is getting the most metal Mount Eerie show by far. Where most of Phil Elverum's dates are with some combination of likeminded old souls No Kids, Karl Blau, and Tara Jane O'Neil, New York will get--in honor of Wind's Poem, the new not-really- ... More >>

Live: Anal Cunt Cover Lenny Kravitz at Public Assembly

"We've been around for 21 years now," says Anal Cunt's Seth Putnam, looking calmly out at a modest, late Sunday night Public Assembly crowd. "I'd like to thank all our fans for being here. This song is called 'All Our Fans Are Gay.'" Add it to the list, basically--is Seth Putnam calling you gay mo ... More >>

'Show No Mercy'

DOOMSDAY

A cuddly Easter treat with Genghis Tron

Björk to Team with Dirty Projectors for May Housing Works Benefit

We commend our friend, Brandon Stosuy, for convincing Björk and the Dirty Projectors to link up at Housing Works for a one-time-only collabo, in which Björk will perform music composed for her by DP auteur Dave Longstreth. We've spent many an afternoon or evening at Housing Works getting drunk i ... More >>

Ticketmaster Springsteen Debacle Headline of the Day

Brandon Stosuy, Stereogum: Ticketmaster Has Always Sucked, But For Some Reason People Are Shocked By This Springsteen Fiasco.

THE SLUDGE REPORT

Misery loves Ocean and Salome

John Berryman, Muse to The Hold Steady: Not News, Barely True

Hope Floats

Wet hot American bummer: Chris Adrian's post-flood Magic Mountain

Grandmaster Flesh

Senior momentum from Barth and García Márquez

High Fidelity

From A to B and back again: this is your correspondent, running out of mix tapes

After Sebald

German Shepherding with the notorious W.G.

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A Brooklyn Radiator's Negative Dialectic of Computer Play