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April 13, 2012
10 No-Brainer Rock Legends Never Nominated For The Rock And Roll Hall of Fame
This weekend, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts its class of 2012, which consists of Donovan, the Beastie Boys, the late singer-songwriter Laura Nyro, the Small Faces and the Faces, blues guitarist Freddie King, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Guns N' Roses, although not lead singer Axl Rose, wh ... More >>
Voice Choices
December 21, 2011
Gary Lucas
This weekend, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts its class of 2012, which consists of Donovan, the Beastie Boys, the late singer-songwriter Laura Nyro, the Small Faces and the Faces, blues guitarist Freddie King, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Guns N' Roses, although not lead singer Axl Rose, wh ... More >>
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December 1, 2011
Da Capo's Second-Best Music Writing 2011: 112 Of Last Year's Most Notable Music Stories
The 2011 edition of Da Capo's annual anthology Best Music Writing— which this year was guest edited by The New Yorker classical writer and The Rest Is Noise author Alex Ross; Daphne Carr has been the series editor since 2006—contains 32 essays and is augmented by a a jumbo-sized "Other N ... More >>
Art
July 20, 2011
Artists Reveal the Tunes They Work To
The sonic muses of Terry Winters, Lisa Yuskavage, John Chiara, Jaime Hernandez, Demetrius Oliver, and James Casebere
Music
May 11, 2011
Jazz Consumer Guide: Pure Joy and Hard Work
Saxophonists get up to mischief (and engage in a little drama)
Blogs
April 1, 2011
Rock-Critic Pop Quiz: How Many Steve Reich Pieces Can You Name?
Our weekly rock critic Scan-Tron is totally skipping work to run off to the Unsound Festival! The 10-day experimental music blowout is so enticingly nerd-centric that it makes Northside Festival look like a beer-bong at a frat party. This year's highlights include an appearance by electronic origi ... More >>
Voice Choices
March 30, 2011
STRICTLY PERSONAL
Remembering Captain Beefheart
Blogs
March 29, 2011
Video Premiere: O'Death's "Bugs"
Steven OberlechnerO'Death In the mid-to-late '90s, O'Death haunted Brooklyn's creaky loft spaces as cracker-barrel mad men, an angry Man Man who worshipped Neil Young instead of Captain Beefheart, wore overalls instead of dirty white linens. As country-noise loons, the five piece was best known for ... More >>
Music
December 29, 2010
R.I.P. 2010's Jazz Notables
Honoring this year's fallen, with a few we failed to note last year
Blogs
December 28, 2010
2010's Celeb Deaths: Which One Upset You The Most?
Jean SimmonsAnd there were a lot of them, all with a legacy of astounding achievements well worth reflecting on! Rue McClanahan? Elizabeth Edwards? Teena Marie?
Blogs
December 23, 2010
People Who Died, Circa 2010
Jay Reatard, gone but not forgotten.It is depressing but accurate to note how inexorably the internet bends toward death, and how much of the work of professional critics these days is announcing it, verifying it, and making sense of it (often in that order, unfortunately). Michael Jackson, a ... More >>
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December 23, 2010
Week In Review: All I Want For Christmas Is Train
We suggest you play this song around your family tomorrow. Get it here.That's it for us, internet, we're back on Monday. But before we leave, let's run it back. The worst song of 2010? Well, it wasn't the cast of Glee's "Loser." And it wasn't Bret Michaels's repulsive cover of "What I Got." W ... More >>
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December 20, 2010
Captain Beefheart: A Beginner's Guide
Don't buy this firstDon Van Vliet, a/k/a Captain Beefheart, died on Friday, reportedly of complications from a decades-long battle with multiple sclerosis. He was 69. Long a cult hero, with a critical fan base rivaling that of Lou Reed or the Fall's Mark E. Smith, he was naturally (and deserv ... More >>
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December 17, 2010
Don Van Vliet, a/k/a Captain Beefheart, RIP
Terrible news: Don Van Vliet, the stupendous avant-garde bluesman, surrealist painter, and world-class eccentric, has died, as confirmed to multiple outlets by a rep from the Michael Werner Gallery, which often showed his work. He would've turned 70 in January. The engine behind unclassifiabl ... More >>
Film
November 3, 2010
So Much More Than Just the Facts in DOC NYC
Terrible news: Don Van Vliet, the stupendous avant-garde bluesman, surrealist painter, and world-class eccentric, has died, as confirmed to multiple outlets by a rep from the Michael Werner Gallery, which often showed his work. He would've turned 70 in January. The engine behind unclassifiabl ... More >>
Voice Choices
October 13, 2010
WAX ON
WFMU's annual record fair is back
Voice Choices
September 1, 2010
'Gary Lucas's Beefheart Symposium'
WFMU's annual record fair is back
Voice Choices
June 29, 2010
Gary Lucas
WFMU's annual record fair is back
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December 7, 2009
Times Talks Vinyl with J&R, Best Buy; Downtown Record Store Owner Has a Different Take
The New York Times says vinyl is hot again. Not only old-fashioned record sales but also turntables sales are up. (The 35 percent lift in LP sales still doesn't put vinyl above 1 percent of the music market, but it's exciting nonetheless.) They talk to J&R Music, which normally sells CDs, an ... More >>
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July 29, 2009
Organ Recital: Anticuchos in McCarren Park
McCarren Park may be the very last place where you'd expect to find organs, yet, last Sunday I did. The occasion was the summer picnic of a Greenpoint Peruvian soccer club, attended by perhaps 300 souls, who sat on folding chairs under the London plane trees as bad weather threatened. Undeter ... More >>
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June 12, 2009
The Top 10 Records That Sold Last Week at Other Music in the East Village
In 2009, the traditional practice of exchanging physical copies of records for money is a trade that might best be called quixotic. But New Yorkers are stubborn people, and the record store is not dead. Below, the top ten records that actually sold in the last week at a store near you. Photo of Tak ... More >>
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June 3, 2009
"Tom Always Had His Head Down Mumbling": An Excerpt from the New Tom Waits Bio
Perfect Sound Forever, friend-of-SOTC Jason Gross' long-running online music mag, has an excerpt from Lowside of the Road, Barney Hoskyns' new Tom Waits biography. (Here's the first chapter, actually.) The PSF bit concerns Tom's transformation from sweet '70s crooner to deranged '80s junkyard-dog ca ... More >>
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March 30, 2009
Quick Hits
Democratic Congressional candidate Scott Murphy wants NY-20 voters to know they have a choice in tomorrow's election: Scott Murphy, or Rushbush Palin. Think globally, retract locally: having established a global edition, the New York Times is getting rid of its City section, as well as its week ... More >>
Music
March 25, 2009
The Beautiful Chaos of Lukas Ligeti
An adventurous percussionist fights stagnation and wins handily
Voice Choices
March 18, 2009
FAMILY FUSE
Sprawling trips are just across the bridge
Voice Choices
February 25, 2009
Fast 'n' Bulbous
Sprawling trips are just across the bridge
Voice Choices
August 12, 2008
MIX MASTERS
From Captain Beefheart videos to Yoko Ono puzzlers
Voice Choices
April 8, 2008
WHO’S THE MAN MAN?
Indie band wages war on form and decorum
Voice Choices
April 8, 2008
Friday
Indie band wages war on form and decorum
Voice Choices
April 1, 2008
Wednesday
Indie band wages war on form and decorum
Voice Choices
April 1, 2008
ABBA ZABA
Raise a trout to the genius of Captain Beefheart
Art
June 19, 2007
Christ and the Robots
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Blogs
June 15, 2007
Tonight: O'Death at the Luna Lounge, plus MP3s
Raise a trout to the genius of Captain Beefheart
Film
February 28, 2006
Alternative Realities
Cosmic commies, Christian rockers, and gay Republicans at the 13th annual NYUFF
Music
October 4, 2005
Brooklynites With Ridiculous Italian Names Make Creepiness Sound Fun
Cosmic commies, Christian rockers, and gay Republicans at the 13th annual NYUFF
Music
February 15, 2005
Version-A-Ning
Jazz tributes foreground Beefheart's primitivist dada and Miles Davis's existential quack
People
February 8, 2005
Hot Spot
Jazz tributes foreground Beefheart's primitivist dada and Miles Davis's existential quack
Music
March 30, 2004
Music
Jazz tributes foreground Beefheart's primitivist dada and Miles Davis's existential quack
Music
March 23, 2004
Weirdo Beardcore
All Music Guide genre entry, just in case they ever need one
Music
February 24, 2004
Outside Lines
Chicago no wavers melt down indigo and violet crayons
Music
April 1, 2003
24-Hour Party People
Love Will Tear Us Apart Tonight or Live and Die This Way
Music
November 5, 2002
Proggy Went A-Jammin'
Love Will Tear Us Apart Tonight or Live and Die This Way
Music
February 12, 2002
Music
Love Will Tear Us Apart Tonight or Live and Die This Way
Music
January 16, 2001
Dub for Dummies
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Music
December 19, 2000
Give the Gift of UniMoth
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Home
February 15, 2000
The 1999 Pazz & Jop Critics’ Poll
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Music
November 23, 1999
Turkey Shoot
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Music
July 13, 1999
Hungry and Weird
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Music
October 27, 1998
The Other Lode
Love Will Tear Us Apart Tonight or Live and Die This Way
Music
October 20, 1998
R.O.C.K. in the USA
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