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The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Week, 4/8/13

Here are the 10 best shows around the city this week, in no particular order.

Wavves+FIDLAR+Cheatahs

Prong - The Star of Palm Beach @ Rocks Off Boat Cruise - 10/19/2012

Better Than: Watching Titanic while "I'm sailing away / Set an open course for the virgin seas..." (sung by South Park's Cartman, of course) runs through your head. Setting sail for a metal show on the not-so-open seas, concessions must be made. Booze du nuit: Seven (Seagram's) and Seven's (7-up), ... More >>

Crocodiles

Q&A: Will Schwartz Of Imperial Teen On Being Into Unrest, Sharing A Band With A Dude From Faith No More And How Living In Brooklyn Ruined His Songwriting

Since the mid-Nineties, Imperial Teen has crafted an infectious, hard-to-shake boy-meets-girl candy-pop jangle. Formed by Faith No More keys-master Roddy Bottum and NYU grad/pop maven Will Schwartz with ex-punk rockers Lynn Truell and Jone Stebbins, they quickly scored a major-label deal during the ... More >>

Want Times Square to Be More Crowded? Air the Mars Rover Landing There Tonight

A few weeks ago, my roommate and I decided to take a late-night bike ride up the West Side Highway. It was around midnight when we hit 59th Street and headed east towards Central Park. Dangerous, yes, but the air was calm until we decided to advance on the brilliant idea of biking through Times Squa ... More >>

TURN UP THE HEAT

Ondatrópica make 
their U.S. debut

The Top 13 Hip-Hop Songs For Summer

Free lunch, fire hydrants on full blast and beach chairs on the sidewalk—yep, the summer's here Need a hand composing a playlist to go along with a hot and lazy day's activities? Just in time for the official start of summer (and today's 90-plus temperatures), SOTC has put together a list of t ... More >>

Q&A: Ches Smith Of Congs For Brums And These Arches On Playing With Marc Ribot And Drumming In All-Night Vodou Ceremonies

Brooklyn-via-Cali drums heavyweight Ches Smith is a master of percussion, an omnipresent figurehead about town who holds the beats down for the likes of avant-jazz heroes like Marc Ribot, Darius Jones, Trevor Dunn and Mary Halvorson and can also be found pulling all-nighters drumming in Haitian vodo ... More >>

Muy Caliente Summer Edition

Shake Shack, Yelped

This week, the Times' Pete Wells reviewed Danny Meyer's Shake Shack chain and gave it one star, writing that its food is inconsistent and its burgers unremarkable. Most Yelpers would beg to differ. They have come out in numbers (2,548 reviews have been posted for the Shake Shack in Madison Square Pa ... More >>

Q&A: C. Spencer Yeh On Self-Definition, The Perils Of Sequencing, And Going Semi-Indie

​Tonight, the prolix, improvisation-happy Ohioan C. Spencer Yeh will play a set with cellist Okkyung Lee and pianist Magda Mayas at the Knitting Factory. And while there's no way to predict what his set might sound like, it's a fair bet that it'll differ from the two shows he played last week ... More >>

Q&A: dos' Kira On The Physicality Of Bass Playing, Her Definition Of "Punk," And Why Duos Should Stay Duos

​When the subject of women in punk and rock is broached, the usual suspects often come up: Kim Gordon, Kathleen Hanna, Patti Smith, Kim Deal and Debbie Harry. The injustice here is how punk-rock bassist Kira (born Kira Roessler) is rarely mentioned in the same breath—not that she cares m ... More >>

Download: Making Friendz's Blown-Out, Hooky "Situation"

​ Brooklyn's Making Friendz is a self-described "punk 'n' b" dance riot, dragging the glittery disco blips of electro into the No Age age via euphoric, no-fi joymosh. Mastermind Tami Hart came here in 2005 from the same Cali scene that produced the mushy, expansive bluster of No Age, Abe Vigod ... More >>

Rock-Critic Pop Quiz: How Well Do You Know Anthrax's Back Catalog?

​Get ready to be caught in a proverbial mosh, New York, because The Big 4 of thrash--that's Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax--are coming to Yankee Stadium, and tickets go on sale this morning! To all you non-headbanging SOTC readers, this event is essentially as important to metalheads ... More >>

The 5 Best (Free!) Shows at River to River Festival 2011

​This year's River to River Festival, which runs from June 19 to July 17, marks the 10th time that its mix of free shows takes over Lower Manhattan for the summer. The 2011 bill has a decidedly New York-centric bent, with Patti Smith, Laurie Anderson, Rufus Wainwright, and the New York City Op ... More >>

Bad Apple: iPhone Robber in Morningside Heights

​The punk in this unusually sharp surveillance photo is the suspect in a mugging and robbery in broad daylight on January 15 at 113th Street and Broadway, in Morningside Heights. At about 1:15 p.m that afternoon, cops say, this scumbag, dressed as he is in this photo, tackled a 21-year-old guy, k ... More >>

Download: Beans' Latest Avant-Rap Fashion Statement, "Deathsweater"

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. "Man, I'm old"​A shrapnel bomb of ill-angled words and sputtering electronic bloops, Beans has been the most visible member of longstanding NYC avant-rap crew Antipop Consortium. He says his confessi ... More >>

WALK IT OUT

Make room for Daddy Fat Sacks

MASTER OF DISGUISE

Jesse F. Keeler, better known as . . .

Donner Party Cannibals Maybe Just Ate Pet Dog

​The shining American beacons of cannibalism, the Donner Party, are a lie, according to fresh research. Probably? A new study of bones found at the California campsite of the group indicates that the 84 hungry settlers might have only eaten cattle, deer, horses and their dog, Uno, but not one anot ... More >>

Rova Sax Quartet

David Zwirner's 'Primary Atmospheres' Is California Sweet

The beautiful haze of  West Coast minimalism makes Frank Gehry talk naughty

Yes In My Backyard: Download Ribbons' "Total Loss"

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. ​Brooklyn's Ribbons have the stripped-down fever-shivers and uneasy fidget of classic post-punk--think Joy Division, Orange Juice, Durutti Column, etc. But these two Cali transplants can also play t ... More >>

All Hail White Wizzard and the New Wave of British Heavy Metal

Tranny-welcoming L.A. dudes hop in their GTO and escape from evil girlfriends, each other

Nate Appleman Will Helm the Kitchen at Keith McNally's Pulino's

Jamesbeard.org​Grub Street brings word that Nate Appleman will be heading the kitchen at Keith McNally's slavishly anticipated Bowery restaurant, Pulino's Bar and Pizzeria. Appleman, who earned a James Beard Rising Star award for his work at San Francisco's A16, made news last month when he de ... More >>

Beach Eats, Food Trucks & Stadium Snacks

​Hungry Girl heads to the new Yankee Stadium to scope out tasty low-cal foods and finds Lobel's Steak Sandwich (464 calories), Nathan's Grilled Chicken Sandwich (380 calories), and cotton candy (175 calories). [NY Times] The Hudson Valley, once known as New York's "breadbasket," is full of gr ... More >>

HIGH MARX

A Communist and a fugitive get cozy

California Budget: Another Reason to Love New York

Hasta la vista, assholes. The California legislature has just passed a budget that uses "spending cuts, tax increases and borrowing" to help close a $42 billion dollar deficit. Why do we bring you this exotic news from the other side of the country? To make you feel better about New York's $1.6 b ... More >>

Daily Flog 8/5/08: Death of a smart Alek, crime by kids, mad scientists, veep intrigue, close shaves, kosher giraffes

Viva: The Far From Heaven of Sexploitation

Except not subversive

Rogue-Wave's Asleep at Heaven's Gate

Half-Awake at Hotel California

Part 3: Stuff You've Probably Never Heard Before and/or Should Hear More of . . .

'Freedom Writers'

Turn Off the Set!

How to stop watching TV and regain your senses

Swing Me Back Home

The career-launching music of another kind of '60s counterculturalist

The Dogs of War

Ream America: World's police take heat for various woes in Latin American film festival

New Christy Minstrels Dodge Their Coastal Collective Camps

Through Being Cool

One-Trick Moles

Murderous songs much too bouncy to bring anybody down

Das Rongold

Reagan's funeral as a Wagnerian opera. Plus: Eminem as censor

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Film

Fuck 'Em on the Dancefloor

Post-Disco Pervs Get Dicks in the Mix and Treat Cootchies Like a Maze

Bullets in the Cider

Lunch Goes On

Burritos, Burgers, Chili Dogs, and Vienna Sausages

Time’s Lonesome Fugitives

Rising to the Top

Laps and Marco Polo in the Hip Hop Pool

The Rubber Match: Beaches Bounce Back

Too Deep for Anger

To be Black in this Country is to Always Affirm Something