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April 6, 2012
Q&A: Calvin Johnson Of The Hive Dwellers On Running K Records, Beat Happening, And How He's Always Wanted To Play Staten Island
Calvin Johnson is one forward-looking dude. He brought strict punk rock ethos and DIY aesthetics—supporting community, contributing to 'zines, booking shows—to underground rock, and played an integral role in revolutionizing it. Johnson's K Records (which he launched in the early '80s) w ... More >>
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March 14, 2012
Bob Dylan (1) Gets In The Pit With Sick Of It All (16) In SOTC's March Madness
The Round of 64 for Sound of the City's own version of March Madness—in which you, the Sound of the City voting public, help determine the quintessential New York musician—continues, and you get to vote on who makes it to Round Two. We'll have some first-round results later today, but ... More >>
Art
February 1, 2012
Three Artists Guide the Way for NYC's Aesthetics of Decline
Get ready for the ruins
Blogs
November 1, 2011
Watch A 37-Year-Old Clip Of The Ramones At CBGB
Via SOTC pal Will Hermes—whose new book about New York's music scene from 1973 to 1977, Love Goes To Buildings On Fire, comes out next week—here's a clip of the Ramones playing at CBGB sometime during the summer of 1974. (Hermes' blog has a ton of other archival footage from the p ... More >>
Blogs
July 13, 2011
Jimmy Webb, Trash and Vaudeville Buyer, Speaks About the Old Neighborhood
Esther ZuckermanJimmy Webb leads us out of Trash and Vaudeville -- the famed St. Mark's store where he works as buyer and manager -- to a spot across the street. Over the buildings he points to a white wall that has the word "Muerte" written in block letters at its top. That's where there use ... More >>
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May 9, 2011
Bespoke Chocolates Is Closing This Thursday
theconche.comBespoke's soon-to-be-former home.Some sad news from Extra Place, the little stump of a street buried behind the Bowery: Bespoke Chocolates, the little chocolate shop opened by Rachel Zoe Insler two and a half years ago, will close this Thursday.
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April 20, 2011
Daniel Boulud to Bring Extra Place up to USDA Standards
Extra Place's vision of suburban bliss will now include charcuterie.Extra Place has been many things throughout its long, sordid, and illustrious lifetime: part of a farm, home to a speakeasy and metalshop, de facto bathroom and bedroom for patrons of CBGB, and, most recently, the privately o ... More >>
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April 12, 2011
The Ten Best Musician/Comic Artist Friendships
Grant Morrison in the video for My Chemical Romance's "Sing" Grant Morrison is a U.K. comic book writer known for known for highly singular--or insane, if you prefer, in a good way--takes on established mainstream properties like X-Men and Doom Patrol as well as his own, peyotesque original series ... More >>
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April 6, 2011
Blank City: A Self-Defeating User-Friendly Primer on the 'No Wave' Science
Grant Morrison in the video for My Chemical Romance's "Sing" Grant Morrison is a U.K. comic book writer known for known for highly singular--or insane, if you prefer, in a good way--takes on established mainstream properties like X-Men and Doom Patrol as well as his own, peyotesque original series ... More >>
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January 13, 2011
Live: Tom Tom Club Do Their Pee-Wee's Playhouse Thing At Irving Plaza
Try and guess the DJ's name. Pics by Rob, more below.Tom Tom Club/Matthew Dear Irving Plaza Wednesday, January 12 Better than: A Heads reunion. Tina Weymouth: "A lot of you are too young to know this show, but it feels like Romper Room. "Chris Frantz: "This song is about all the cute little ... More >>
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November 5, 2010
Week in Review: Weezy Freed
Welcome to my life, Weezy.So Lil Wayne is finally a free man. Perhaps a lonely free man, but a free man nonetheless. It's been a hell of a two weeks for the law around here, in all honesty. After last week's barrage of club closings, this week brought news of yet more: 171 Lombardy was raided ... More >>
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October 18, 2010
Someone Finally Cleaned the Silent Barn Bathroom
Would you use this bathroom? Photo via Viceland TodayAfter CBGB's unspeakably vile bathroom went the way of the rest of the erstwhile punk venue, the truly immortally foul New York rock bathrooms mostly moved east, across the river, taking up unfortunate new residence in Williamsburg's myriad ... More >>
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October 15, 2010
Week in Review: Apollo Kids
In the week one of this blog's authors inspired a short play about juggalo zombies and Lady Gaga, we celebrated by announcing the 2010 Village Voice/Redeye Distribution Day Party, featuring the great Marnie Stern, Hooray For Earth, and a bunch of others, including a wonderful special secret g ... More >>
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October 12, 2010
Live: Yelawolf Celebrates His Fader Cover With A Motley Crew Of Friends In CBGB's Basement
He makes friends everywhere he goes. Pics by Puja, more below.Yelawolf EP Monday, October 11 Last night's brief hailstorm and miserable downpours wasn't enough to keep Yelawolf fans away from The Fader's issue-release party underneath the old CBGBs. The open bar helped, too.
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July 13, 2010
Murder City Devils+Silverghost
He makes friends everywhere he goes. Pics by Puja, more below.Yelawolf EP Monday, October 11 Last night's brief hailstorm and miserable downpours wasn't enough to keep Yelawolf fans away from The Fader's issue-release party underneath the old CBGBs. The open bar helped, too.
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June 29, 2010
Announcing the First Annual "Worst Band Name In New York Award"
When this isn't the cover of your single, but something that reasonably comes up in a Google Image Search for your band name, there is a problem. As much as we love local music, New York bands have a long, inglorious history of naming themselves totally stupid shit--romanticize the glory days of CB ... More >>
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June 4, 2010
Week in Review: He Did? I Love It!
Happy birthday, clowns. Photo by Rebecca SmeyneIn the week James Murphy finally squashed his beef with our own Michael Musto, we watched as another journalist-on-artist feud--M.I.A. vs. Lynn Hirschberg, who else?--heated up, adding an album cover, a response to a response to a response to a r ... More >>
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May 21, 2010
Week in Review: We Are A Viking Raiding Party of Good Will and Intention
These Are Powers, Secret Project Robot, Confetti. Photo by Rebecca SmeyneIn the week that everybody finally went outside for the summer, we hung out on a few rooftops ourselves. Twin Sister? Rooftop. The SFNY party? Rooftop. Good Co.? BBQ, outdoors, ground floor. So yeah. The rain drove us in ... More >>
Music
December 1, 2009
Agnostic Front's Victim in Pain at 25
A crucial 15-minute NYC hardcore origin story gets canonized at last
Music
November 24, 2009
Jazz Consumer Guide: Loosening (or Tightening) Up
Or slicing, or muscling—anything but letting up, really
Art
September 8, 2009
'Naked!' at Paul Kasmin; Jessica Dickinson's 'Here'; 'Looking at Music: Side 2' at MOMA
Or slicing, or muscling—anything but letting up, really
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August 24, 2009
News Roundup: Jay Z, Pearl Jam, Ryan Adams
--Jay Z, who released a new track with Drake yesterday, is expected to announce today that he will play Madison Square Garden on September 11th, the day Blueprint 3 is scheduled to come out. The show will benefit the New York Police and Fire Widows' and Children's Benefit Fund, created in 198 ... More >>
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August 21, 2009
Week in Review: There's Only One Viable Avant-Garde Art Form Nowadays, And It's Called Indie Rock
Sam HorineIn the week a Brooklyn indie-rock band either did or didn't kick a puppy in Prospect Park (sweat-soaked August news cycle, we see you), we amused ourselves making Rick Ross "Yo Mamma" jokes and watching rap panic take New York as 50 Cent did, and then didn't, shoot your grandmother. ... More >>
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July 31, 2009
Week in Review: I Have a Blog, This is What Happens.
Rebecca SmeyneThese Are Powers' Pat getting his temperature taken in China In the week leading up to All Points Wet (har har), vandals insulted the word "gay" in describing Coldplay, we came up with suggestions for a Beastie Boys tribute on Friday at All Points West, and there were plenty of ... More >>
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July 29, 2009
Remembering the Good Old Days at CBGB with Pig Destroyer
The now departed rock club CBGB has come in for some abuse around these quarters, it being mostly a repository for evermore decrepit punk nostalgia and incredible family/scene infighting of a remarkably bitter nature--plus the fact that half the club's bookings after like 1988 were battle-of-the-b ... More >>
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June 16, 2009
Tonight! Jonathan Richman Dances in the Lesbian Bar Once More
The prophecies of a teenage Jonathan Richman, drawn in 1967. Jonathan Richman's first group, the Modern Lovers, distilled the early hipster scene at CBGB down to punk. But throughout his subsequent solo career, he's favored acoustic instrumentation over sonic assault, and his songwriting has borr ... More >>
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May 22, 2009
Week in Review: "I Am the Best Filmmaker in the World."
Nate "Igor" SmithFun times at Roxy Cottontail's party. This is what Zach's birthday dinner looked like too. In the week that both Zach and Roxy Cottontail celebrated their birthdays, Rob posted a great moment in Wu-based subway-ad vandalism that became a whole shitload of peoples' Facebook profile ... More >>
Voice Choices
May 27, 2008
TALL ORDER
Remembering a nightlife legend
Film
July 17, 2007
Punk'd
From DIY and mohawks to corporate backing and Blink 182, does anti-establishment rock live?
Music
September 19, 2006
Out of Step, Out of Time
Black Flag, white guilt, blood-red noses collide in self-congratulatory American Hardcore
NYC Life
August 1, 2006
Saturday 8/12
Black Flag, white guilt, blood-red noses collide in self-congratulatory American Hardcore
Specials
October 18, 2005
1973
Black Flag, white guilt, blood-red noses collide in self-congratulatory American Hardcore
Specials
October 18, 2005
2003
Black Flag, white guilt, blood-red noses collide in self-congratulatory American Hardcore
NYC Life
May 3, 2005
Saved?
CBGB's landmark fight; East Village freaks, live and on film
Music
February 22, 2005
Music
CBGB's landmark fight; East Village freaks, live and on film
Music
March 9, 2004
Music
CBGB's landmark fight; East Village freaks, live and on film
Music
October 14, 2003
Wanna Buy a Used Bridge?
U.K. and NYC post-punk and no wave revisited, selectively
Art
August 26, 2003
City of Night
Fun Under 21
NYC Life
May 13, 2003
Listings
Fun Under 21
NYC Life
October 29, 2002
Listings
Fun Under 21
News
March 12, 2002
Punks in the Hall
The Ramones and Talking Heads Battle Their Way From CBGB to Cleveland
Music
March 12, 2002
Music
The Ramones and Talking Heads Battle Their Way From CBGB to Cleveland
Film
October 30, 2001
Casualties of Global War
The Ramones and Talking Heads Battle Their Way From CBGB to Cleveland
Music
October 23, 2001
Music
The Ramones and Talking Heads Battle Their Way From CBGB to Cleveland
Specials
May 1, 2001
Letters
The Ramones and Talking Heads Battle Their Way From CBGB to Cleveland
Music
June 27, 2000
Rekall Yr Idols
The Ramones and Talking Heads Battle Their Way From CBGB to Cleveland
Music
October 5, 1999
Everybody Wang Chung Again
Synthpop flocks like seagulls to indie labels you never heard of
Music
September 21, 1999
Wanna Love It, But I'm Getting Blown Away
Synthpop flocks like seagulls to indie labels you never heard of
Music
October 20, 1998
R.O.C.K. in the USA
Synthpop flocks like seagulls to indie labels you never heard of
Music
August 25, 1998
Hell Is Other Bands
Synthpop flocks like seagulls to indie labels you never heard of
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