"Band seeking 1000 guitar players. Other instruments also welcome. Influences include Woody Guthrie, Tom Morello, Willie Nile, and Sergio Ortega." Occupy Wall Street is raising a "Guitarmy." For months, activists have been preparing for May Day, laying plans for teach-ins, bank blockades, marches ... More >>
If any one-woman band can eclipse the delightfully volatile presence of Steve Albini and his stature in the annals of Amerindie rock and scrumptious food bloggery, it's the cerebral and dissonant classi-punk Helen Money, who's opening for Shellac at the Bell House tonight and tomorrow night. Helen M ... More >>
TV on the Radio, on the waterfront
Fucked Up w/JEFF the Brotherhood, Iceage 285 Kent Ave Saturday, June 25 Better than: Seeing Fucked Up at, say, Terminal 5. After playing the middle slot between two legends of indie in a cavernous Manhattan concert hall this past Thursday, Fucked Up shared Saturday night's bill at the Will ... More >>
The Suburbs and Contra contemplate little pink polos for you and me
Torquil and Amy, waxing romantic. Pics by Rob, more below. Stars Terminal 5 Friday, September 24 Better than: Popping the question via JumboTron at a Yankees game. Montreal's Stars are the sort of band that scatters roses all over the place -- atop amps, laced into microphone stands, draped ... More >>
A thematic triumph as personal as can be
Broken Social Scene rock Central Park
Unless you regard yourself as a ticket-scalping monger, you must accept that a Friday roundup begins with four sadly inaccessible sold-out shows: Caribou, Sleigh Bells, Local Natives, and Broken Social Scene. Fortunately, this gives you the opportunity to revel in some well-earned "I'm on a Boat" ... More >>
The surest signs of spring are upon us: flowers blooming, scantily clad NYU students smoking in the park, and most importantly, coworkers who have never showed any semblance of sports fandom live-streaming basketball for the next two weeks and yelling at their computers things like "Cinderella!" "B ... More >>
Oh, the places you'll go. Namely Buffalo Billiards (Das Racist! Andrew W.K.!), La Zona Rosa (Chamillionaire and Paul Wall!), Stubb's (Broken Social Scene!), Aces Lounge (Solange Knowles!), and so forth. Have fun, but don't forget about the Voice's own fete, featuring Surfer Blood, Superchunk, ... More >>
At last year's Siren Festival, we filmed Broken Social Scene's Brendan Canning performing solo on the beach. If any conclusions could be drawn from that impromptu set, it was that the endearingly redheaded muppet wigs out on the beach. Maybe it was the shirtless dudes behind him or the couples bi ... More >>
Cuba comes to Canadian rock
Rock meets strings, and no one gets hurt
Meet the first, and weirdest, and possibly best band on the bill
Ellen Page makes this stuff work
Canadian rock stars alternately please crowd, themselves
Joyously overwrought arena rock often sounds even better in church
Why should indie-rock bands go pop when webzines everywhere think theyre so cool?
Queer Eyes for the Great White North Sip That Yellow Snow
