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No Bigs, Just a Photo of Cheap Trick Reading Our Cover Story About NYC Metal/Hardcore

Well, whatdyaknow? It's Cheap Trick photographed outside the i Heart Radio Theater reading a copy of our cover story this week, The Oral History of NYC's Metal/Hardcore Crossover. If you've not yet read it, you really should. Here, we'll link it a third time. No excuses. Go. Now. And while you're a ... More >>

Top 10 Douchiest Guitarists of All Time

By Nate Jackson Hey, we can all appreciate a quality guitar god. Anyone who considers themselves a fan of music knows the joy of watching their favorite axe man/woman go on a tear and destroy the crowd with their fast-fingered prowess, signature style and lush mane of flowing hair. It's the textboo ... More >>

Ten Big Deal Albums We're Hella Excited For

Hey: Albums! In case people still care about these things, here's a batch of potentially interesting releases arriving in the coming weeks and months:

The Lady GaGa Approved Dirty Pearls Want To Be Rock's First Gang "Since Guns N' Roses"

It's two-for-one happy hour at Motor City on the Lower East Side, and three-fifths of New York rabble rousers the Dirty Pearls quaff cheap suds to a soundtrack of the Heartbreakers, the Ramones and the New York Dolls. The Dirty Pearls fit right in with such musical brethren of the '70s, as well as ... More >>

Beck's Sheet-Music Gambit And Six Other Alternatives To Just Putting Out A Boring Old Record

This week neo-pop superstar Beck announced the release of Song Reader, a new "album" in the form of sheet music. The finished product offers nothing to listen to; just 20 sheets of notation collected in a "lavishly produced hardcover carrying case," according to the publishing outfit McSweeney's, wh ... More >>

Six New York Acts That The Mets Should Consider For Future Post-Game Concerts

As the baseball season nears, the announcements of the season's schedule of promotions steadily increases, and over the weekend the Mets announced that for their 50th anniversary they'd be throwing a three-show postgame concert series in 2012. The lineup: the hesher-pop outfit REO Speedwagon (June 1 ... More >>

Brooklyn's Summer Concert Schedule Just Got A Whole Lot Joan Jett-ier

Joan Jett, Cheap Trick, the Monkees, Queen Latifah, Frankie Beverly and Maze, and Shaggy have all been announced as headliners for the 2011 series of Brooklyn Concerts, which are split evenly between the Martin Luther King Concert Series (held at Wingate Field) and the Seaside Summer Concert Series ... More >>

"Take Me By The Tongue" As A Come-On: Sexy Or Kinda Gross?

​Well, "Moves Like Jagger," the Voice-synergizing duet between Maroon 5 and Christina Aguilera that raises the sexual specter of the Rolling Stones frontman while, some hope, making people forget about Aguilera's overall pretty terrible 2010, has landed. It's an uptempo track with a riff that ... More >>

Live: Urge Overkill Kickstart Their Reunion At Mercury Lounge

"Yes, it's really gonna happen." Pics by Rob, more below.​Urge Overkill Mercury Lounge Monday, October 4 Better Than: Most other 15-year reunions Of all the song titles shouted at the stage this evening, no one offers "Sister Havana" or "Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon," and nobody plays them. ... More >>

Live: James Achieve Jubilant Transcendence At Webster Hall

Tim Booth, a/k/a Skeletor the Barista. Pics by Sarah Sellars, more below.​James Webster Hall Tuesday, September 28 Better Than: Pretty much any other band from the '90s the general public would regard as a One-Hit Wonder. Tim Booth began his band's Tuesday-night show at Webster Hall in the b ... More >>

Week in Review: What Your Kids Will Learn

Not again! Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​In the week we mostly spent anticipating tomorrow's Siren Festival, we talked at length with headliner Ted Leo, celebrated at a pre-party with Monotonix, and looked back at nine years worth of past triumphs. See you there, hopefully?

Live: Squeeze And Cheap Trick Revel In Their Ridiculousness At Radio City Music Hall

A disaster was barely averted tonight​ Squeeze/Cheap Trick Radio City Music Hall Tuesday, July 13 It's old-timer's power-pop night here at Radio City, where success is measured entirely by when and how often the crowd deigns to stand up (Cheap Trick: only for "I Want You to Want Me," "Surre ... More >>

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'Film Comment Selects' at Lincoln Center

Hail to The Victors, and revolting youth, and confused assassins

Tonight! Cheap Trick, Ozzy Osbourne, and Francois K

​In the words of our very own Jason Gross, "They've still got the two cute and aging boy-toys and the two weird-looking guys also." Yes, he is referring to none other than Cheap Trick, and yes, they are playing the Fillmore, wielding, as always, guitars with enough necks to impale a small army ... More >>

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Tonight! Reality-TV Rejects, '80s Cheese, and Worthy Jazz

How the fuck did Ryan Cabrera fall all the way to Sullivan Hall? Five years ago, the MTV star was sitting happily in the Billboard top 10, hooking up with Elvis' granddaughter, ripping Ashlee Simpson's facile little heart into pieces. Tonight, he plays an acoustic set at a venue music-business stude ... More >>

Tonight! Regina Spektor, Loudon Wainwright III, Tinted Windows, and Raekwon

Next week, Regina Spektor will release her first new album in three years. What we've heard of Far is more cinematic than her often bare 2006 breakthrough, Begin to Hope, which may or may not be a good thing. Take a peek at the Beacon tonight. Loudon Wainwright III, patriarch of the venerated Wai ... More >>

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Anne Hathaway Happily Drowns in a Sea of Love on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

It's almost too awkward to even watch--people who don't know how to play guitar playing guitar usually are--but there's something really endearing and also sort of funny about this clip of (Obies presenter!) Anne Hathaway playing "Sea of Love" on last night's Jimmy Fallon. Conan's debut is the new ... More >>

Actor Diego Luna Babysits, Discusses His On-Screen Reunion with Gael Garcia Bernal, Rudo y Cursi

"In Mexico, you're always asked where Gael is, like if you're by yourself then you are nothing." The Mexican blockbuster Rudo y Cursi is the first film that Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal have costarred in since Y Tu Mama Tambien, the much acclaimed 2001 indie coming-of-age film that simultane ... More >>

SXSW 2009: Meet Tinted Windows, the Taylor Hanson, James Iha, Cheap Trick, Fountains of Wayne "Super"-Group

CamilleTaylor, Adam, Bun, James Right now, Tinted Windows are sitting on the couch across from me at the Driskoll Hotel lobby. Tinted Windows?!? Yes, Tinted Windows: the mind-boggling "super"-group of Taylor Hanson, James Iha, Fountains of Wayne's Adam Schleslinger, and Cheap Trick drummer Bun E. ... More >>

The Melvins: Older, But the Same Age

Rock's idiot savants return

Hugs and Kisses #45: Slow Down Tallahassee

Live: Wolf Parade at the Warsaw, 08.19.07

How to Be an American Idiot

The Internet may eventually kill "the album" as a concept, but 2006 kept the concept album alive

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Fancy-pants glitter bands from Detroit, Canada, and upstate remember their forefathers

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Non-folkie Calgary twins family-chat amid the powerpop

Flamboyant and Amusing Legends of Hard Rock Show Their Homely Faces

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Pop-punk opera leaves mindless self-destruction behind

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Computer music's guitar god globe-trots like a dinosaur

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Midwestern rock duo unleash bubblegum balloons and Riff’s crotch

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