Blogs
January 30, 2013Better than: Expected.
Cat Power is unsmoteable. Not Giovanni Ribisi and his potentially Scientologist Welsh supermodel wife, or The Miami New Times' "less than stellar" review, or angioedema, or tour bankruptcy, or alcohol could get in the way of last night's performance at Terminal 5. Maybe her s ... More >>
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January 28, 2013Here are the ten best concerts to check out around the city this week, in no particular order.
Voice Choices
January 23, 2013Voice Choices
October 17, 2012Welcome Cat Power back to the city
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August 21, 2012Are you a musician? Is your band having issues? Our new advice columnist, who we're going to call Fan Landers (a.k.a. Jessica Hopper), is ready to give you Real Talk about any problems your musical outfit might be having—whether professional, practical, or sartorial. Send your problems to sotc ... More >>
Voice Choices
February 29, 2012Widowspeak try out some new ones
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December 19, 2011Gish-era Smashing Pumpkins: Reissued in 2011, so it counts! Reports from the holiday-party front indicate that 2011 was another long and lonely year for the fiction writers and memoirists of New York, who were kept company at home all day long mainly by various "internet friends" and related ... More >>
Voice Choices
August 17, 2011Put another dime in Cat Power’s jukebox
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May 16, 2011Where, indeed. Hey, so the new Jane Pratt venture XOJane launched today! And one of the Sassy granddaughter's first music-related articles is Yet Another Thing About The Now Gingrich-Assisted '90s Fetishism Happening Right Now, in which Emily McCombs pleads, "Can the '90s Revival Include Fema ... More >>
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December 23, 2010Naturally, this dude is involvedDistilling a full year of furtive, easily distracted, constantly overwhelmed listening down to a mere 10 albums is a ridiculous, agonizing, thoroughly loathsome undertaking, and yet here we all are, pulling nine fully formed sonic universes together and capping ... More >>
Music
December 8, 2010Plus: Hall & Oates do the hits and redeem 'Jingle Bell Rock'
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December 2, 2010Emily Kokal (right) and Jenny Lee Lindberg, pulling you off the floor. Pics by Santiago Felipe, more below.Warpaint
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Wednesday, December 1
Better Than: Another night trapped in a space the width of your headphones, that's for sure.
Warpaint live is a disconcerting experience. Th ... More >>
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October 13, 2010Blogs
October 1, 2010It's understandable, your depression/jealousy/irritation at not being physically present in Las Vegas this weekend for Matador Records' bizarrely elaborate Matador at 21 spectacle, featuring just about every major label act you could possibly desire unless you're, like, a die-hard Thinking Fe ... More >>
Columns
April 27, 2010Voice Choices
February 2, 2010Composers score three silent films by Yasujiro Ozu
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December 7, 2009In which Cat Power is compared to Thomas Pynchon, and Bob Dylan's "I'll Keep It With Mine" echoes in the "abandoned gothic cathedral" of Nico's voice. Courtesy of the Washington City Paper. Who knew Lethem was an Animal Collective fan?
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March 9, 2009"[Beware] was like getting cum out of a thirteen-year-old boy: easy as hell."
Having a conversation with Will Oldham in an isolated corner-room in the Algonquin Hotel is a more pleasant experience than one might believe, if judged by his muted, frequently melancholy songs. But in person, Oldham d ... More >>
Blogs
February 24, 2009
Booking Bands, where book titles and band names get mashed up. 'Everything but the Girl Is Illuminated' is pretty good; so is 'Lil' Romeo and Juliet.' Categories are helpfully provided: Dr. Seuss, Meet Dr. Octagon and Dr.Dre (sample: 'The Cat Power in the Hat'); Booking Indie Rock ('Breakfast of F ... More >>
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February 11, 2009
You may have heard of the former Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals, Judith Kaye. But do you know the man who replaced her, Jonathan Lippman? Do you know he never practiced as an attorney, and barely served as a judge? So how'd he get appointed to this exalted position? Connections, baby -- chief ... More >>
Music
February 11, 2009On Chan Marshall's oddly prolonged, possibly unhealthy cover-song fixation
Voice Choices
January 28, 2009Voice Choices
August 5, 2008Go find something you like at the All Points West Festival
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April 16, 2008Voice Choices
April 1, 2008A conversation with Hong Kong’s hottest director
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February 26, 2008Grab a date for this sexy double bill
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January 15, 2008Too much depression, not enough transcendence on another Cat Power covers album
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July 17, 2007NYC Life
May 8, 2007Emperor reigns. J Mascis rocks. And Panda Bear goes all California.
Music
March 13, 2007Indie-rap fireplug El-P returns, as bombastically bleak as ever
Film
January 16, 2007Plunge into the archives of the Video Data Bank
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December 29, 2006Blogs
June 13, 2006NYC Life
April 4, 2006Music
January 24, 2006Looking at you looking at them, two indie semi-icons call in the reinforcements
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May 11, 2004Jackie Farry and friends fuck cancer; filmmaker Scott Crary kills his idols
Music
March 11, 2003Music
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February 27, 2001Lava Baby’s Lips Are Not Sealed
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