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    March 5, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 21, 2011

    "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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 29, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2010

    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?

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2010

    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 >>

  • Film

    June 15, 2010

    Our Town, 45365

    Midwestern life intimately observed

  • Film

    February 16, 2010

    'Film Comment Selects' at Lincoln Center

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

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2010

    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 >>

  • Voice Choices

    November 24, 2009

    GET UN-INNOCUOUS

    Free Energy bring the good stuff

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2009

    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 >>

  • Voice Choices

    June 10, 2009

    Tinted Windows

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2009

    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 >>

  • Music

    July 16, 2008

    The Melvins: Older, But the Same Age

    Rock's idiot savants return

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    May 28, 2008
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    August 20, 2007
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    January 30, 2007

    How to Be an American Idiot

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

  • Music

    November 7, 2006

    Noise from the Front

    For the week of November 15–21, 2006

  • Music

    October 3, 2006

    Cotton Candy on the Edge of Town

    On the uneasily triumphant Hold Steady, once nearly dead, now born to run

  • Music

    February 7, 2006

    Wanting You to Want Her to Be the Most Cake

    On the uneasily triumphant Hold Steady, once nearly dead, now born to run

  • Music

    July 26, 2005

    Wham, Bam, Thank You Glam

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

  • NYC Life

    July 5, 2005

    Surf'n' Turf: Rock on the Beach!

    A rundown of everybody's favorite summer festival, Coney Island's mecca of hot 'n' cool

  • Music

    April 19, 2005

    Meant for the Stage

    Theatrical indie heartthrobs the Decemberists give gawky drama-club girls something to dream and blog about

  • Music

    January 25, 2005

    Music

    Theatrical indie heartthrobs the Decemberists give gawky drama-club girls something to dream and blog about

  • Music

    January 11, 2005

    Soooo Appealing

    Non-folkie Calgary twins family-chat amid the powerpop

  • Music

    December 7, 2004

    Flamboyant and Amusing Legends of Hard Rock Show Their Homely Faces

    Non-folkie Calgary twins family-chat amid the powerpop

  • Music

    October 12, 2004

    Growing Up

    Pop-punk opera leaves mindless self-destruction behind

  • Music

    May 18, 2004

    Space Truckin'

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

  • Music

    May 11, 2004

    Pink Orbs for Pink Floyd

    Midwestern rock duo unleash bubblegum balloons and Riff’s crotch

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    March 16, 2004

    Music

    Midwestern rock duo unleash bubblegum balloons and Riff’s crotch

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    February 17, 2004

    Music

    Midwestern rock duo unleash bubblegum balloons and Riff’s crotch

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    January 20, 2004

    Music

    Midwestern rock duo unleash bubblegum balloons and Riff’s crotch

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    December 9, 2003

    Music

    Midwestern rock duo unleash bubblegum balloons and Riff’s crotch

  • NYC Life

    April 15, 2003

    Listings

    Midwestern rock duo unleash bubblegum balloons and Riff’s crotch

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    August 6, 2002

    Music

    Midwestern rock duo unleash bubblegum balloons and Riff’s crotch

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    March 26, 2002

    Music

    Midwestern rock duo unleash bubblegum balloons and Riff’s crotch

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    October 9, 2001

    Music

    Midwestern rock duo unleash bubblegum balloons and Riff’s crotch

  • Music

    May 29, 2001

    Best of the Rest

    Midwestern rock duo unleash bubblegum balloons and Riff’s crotch

  • Music

    May 29, 2001

    Music

    Midwestern rock duo unleash bubblegum balloons and Riff’s crotch

  • Music

    April 3, 2001

    Wildhearts Can Be Broken

    Midwestern rock duo unleash bubblegum balloons and Riff’s crotch

  • Music

    September 5, 2000

    Mixed-and-Matched Emotions

    Midwestern rock duo unleash bubblegum balloons and Riff’s crotch

  • Long Island Voice

    September 28, 1999

    The boys can't help it

    Midwestern rock duo unleash bubblegum balloons and Riff’s crotch

  • Music

    September 7, 1999

    As Not Seen on TV!

    Midwestern rock duo unleash bubblegum balloons and Riff’s crotch

  • Long Island Voice

    August 17, 1999

    Tracts of My Tears

    Midwestern rock duo unleash bubblegum balloons and Riff’s crotch

  • Music

    February 16, 1999

    Consumer Guide

    Midwestern rock duo unleash bubblegum balloons and Riff’s crotch

  • Music

    September 8, 1998

    A Terrible Beauty

    Midwestern rock duo unleash bubblegum balloons and Riff’s crotch

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