Christopher Weingarten

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 >>

Das Racist, Liturgy, And 18 More New York Bands Are On Christopher R. Weingarten's Hipster Puppies Mix Tape

​ SOTC pal Christopher R. Weingarten's Hipster Puppies, filled with pictures of bohemian canines and razor-sharp captions from the man himself, is out, and later this month there will be two events honoring its release: A pageant for pups at PowerHouse Arena on August 25, and a dog-friendly in ... More >>

Two Of The Songs On The New Kidz Bop Compilation Originally Had Titles That Couldn't Be Printed In A Family Newspaper

Clutch the pearls and cue the outrage, or at least the next round of thinkpieces about "raunch pop": The latest edition of Kidz Bop, out today, has on its track list sanitized versions of Cee Lo Green's "Fuck You" and Pink's "Fuckin' Perfect" (they're under the guises of "Forget You" and "Perfect," ... More >>

Spotify Launches In The States; Has Your Life Been Changed Yet?

The Top Tracks list is not nearly as twee as this "hi there" image would imply. ​After lots of whining from music-biz pundits and whinging from the "make music free for meeee" crowd, the Sweden-based streaming-music service Spotify launched today in the States. Those in search of invites to th ... More >>

This Week In The Voice: AUM Fidelity's Rise, Fucked Up's Suburban Epic, The Coathangers' Girly Shambles

Daniel BoudFucked Up. ​In this week's Village Voice, now available on newsstands: Brad Cohan profiles Steven Joerg, whose DIY aspirations helped launch the "jazz-forward" label AUM Fidelity and who'll be assembling the lineup at The Stone later this month; Christopher R. Weingarten reviews Fuc ... More >>

Please Welcome Maura Johnston, Your New Village Voice Music Editor

​Good day. It is with great regret that I inform you that this will be my last week at the Voice -- I am moving to San Francisco to take a job as managing editor of Rhapsody and raise a child in a slightly larger apartment with (hopefully) in-unit laundry facilities. It is with great pleasure, ... More >>

Pazz & Jop Voter Comments: The Personals

Premiere: Download Parts & Labor's "Constant Future," From Their Upcoming Album of the Same Name

​When last we heard from Brooklyn noise-rock trio Parts & Labor, it was 2008, and they'd just made their emo-fuzz masterpiece, Recievers, a startlingly epic journey through a couple of seven-minute songs and a bunch of really pleasant melodies. It's taken them two years, but a follow up is fin ... More >>

The Best Local Music Of 2010: Our Annual Mixtape Starring Sweet Bulbs, Marnie Stern, Sharon Van Etten, and Special Guest Hannibal Buress

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. This is a compilation of 2010's best local music, lovingly curated by YIMBY columnist Christopher R. Weingarten. See last year's tape here. R.I.P. Chris Weingarten's old blue trucker hat. Photo by Rebecca ... More >>

Was 2010 The Best Year For Music Ever? Five SOTC Critics Discuss.

Great song, at least​Welcome to Sound of the City's year-in-review rock-critic roundtable, an amiable ongoing conversation between five prominent Voice critics: myself, Zach Baron, Sean Fennessey, Maura Johnston, and Rich Juzwiak. Let us acknowledge at the onset that we are ripping this off fr ... More >>

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Tonight's Village Voice Web Awards

Here is an award. Ours will be better.​You have questions? We have answers! Tonight's first annual Village Voice Web Awards are, in fact, tonight, December 7. Doors open at 7 p.m. at Santos Party House (96 Lafayette Street between Walker and White). The party will go until about 10, or wheneve ... More >>

Week in Review: Who's Your Daddy?

​In the week we began our countdown of the 20 worst songs of 2010, we celebrated by mocking efforts from the Far East Movement, Ringo Starr, Godsmack, Trade Martin, and Lil Wayne. Where will Susan Boyle fall? Tune in next week and suffer more abuse until you find out.

This Week's Voice: AraabMuzik, My Chemical Romance, Orange Juice, Bill Frisell, Marc Ribot, and More

My Chemical Romance go . . . Styx. Photo by Neil Krug.​In this week's Village Voice, Brandon Soderberg profiles the 21-year-old rap producer AraabMuzik, Christopher R. Weingarten is not impressed with the new record from My Chemical Romance, Francis Davis praises new efforts from Bill Frisell, ... More >>

Week In Review: Please Shut Down The Internet, Too, While You're At It

Santos Party House, going as a temporarily shuttered club for Halloween​It's Halloween Weekend, and we're proud to offer both costume ideas ("Dude from Baths" is great if you can hunt down the Pomeranian) and nightlife suggestions, from James Murphy at Le Bain tonight to Oneida's five-year-old ... More >>

Download Fuck NoOoOO: The Anti-Witch House Mixtape, Curated By You-Know-Who

​Official friend-of-SOTC/last critic standing/great Halloween costume idea Christopher R. Weingarten, outraged at the critical proliferation of witch house (not to mention its even less desirable offshoots), has taken it upon himself to compile the characteristically amusingly (and profanely) ... More >>

10 Halloween Costume Ideas For Music Nerds

​Halloween is nearly upon us. You don't have a costume yet, because you're a music nerd. We are here to help. Abandon your half-assed Lady Gaga concept and try these practical suggestions instead.

Your Guide to All Tomorrow's Parties New York 2010, Which Still Has Tickets Available

Rebecca SmeyneWelcome back. The third All Tomorrow's Parties New York begins tonight. Jim Jarmusch is the curator. Christopher R. Weingarten is your official historian. Shellac are your house band. Barry Hogan is your host. And if you enjoy life, you should go. There's still time.

This Week's Voice: Jim Jarmusch and All Tomorrow's Parties, Katy Perry, !!!, and More

Tom Waits wants to glue this man's hair to the wall. Illustration by Diego Tripodi.​In this week's Village Voice, Christopher R. Weingarten sits down with director Jim Jarmusch to talk ATP and the time Tom Waits tried to kill him, Ryan Dombal scales Fame Mountain with Katy Perry, and Andy Beta ... More >>

Whoever Just Faked The Jelly Pool Parties Lineup Could've Done A Way Better Job

​So a couple hours ago Brooklyn Vegan seemed to post this year's Jelly Pool Party schedule, easily the most vital dance card for Brooklyn-is-the-center-of-the-universe types. But apparently it was some clown with access to the JPP braintrust's official Twitter account last year. BV posts a pho ... More >>

Week in Review: A Safe Atmosphere

Those flower pots aren't going to replace themselves. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne​In the week that 25,000 people converged on a South Street Seaport venue meant for only about 10,000, were denied a free Drake concert, and promptly began rioting, we dodged metal chairs, watched as Police Commission ... More >>

This Weekend! LCD Soundsystem, Malaikat dan Singa, Fuck Buttons, Starscream, Truman Peyote, Beach Arabs, NY Eye & Ear Fest (w/ Blank Dogs and Effi Briest), Eric Copeland, And Previously On Lost

Since the weekend's LCD Soundsystem ticket shortage has us just as weepy and beat-crazed as Mr. James Murphy himself, we must seek eclectic alternatives: 1) Tuvan throat-singing via punk-rock ranters Malaikat dan Singa at Death by Audio; 2) the Beets, a couple of deadbeat lo-fi dudes that an alt-b ... More >>

Tonight! Golden Triangle, Terror Dance Pigeon Revolt!, Shakes, Yeasayer, Sleigh Bells, And Ariel Pink

The Terror Dance Pigeon Revolt endorses stuffed-animal abuse.​"People seem to always be makin' out and getting naked at our shows lately," says San Felipe of Golden Triangle, a group the honorable Christopher R. Weingarten praises as an "art-dance wet-dream-turned-night-terror." They'll rock y ... More >>

Week in Review: Listen to Them Goddamn Drums

​In the week SOTC blood kin Christopher R. Weingarten swore up an absolute storm in defense of music criticism, we memorialized his cascades of profanity in a very special video edit, then rode out on the battlefield once more to sort out the critical scrum that broke out in the speech's wake. ... More >>

This Weekend! The Very Best, Theophilus London, Foreign Born, Woods, Real Estate, Magnetic Fields, The National, Sundelles, Darlings, Total Slacker, PC Worship, B.I.G. Karaoke, Stupid Party, and Truman Peyote

"You better buy a ticket and get your ass to Mars," advises the wise Johnny Loftus. He is, of course, speaking in reference to the latest installment of The Fader's "One Step Beyond" series, which takes place in the American Museum of Natural History's Rose Center for Earth and Space. There, you c ... More >>

I Don't Go Clubbing, I Go Dancing: The Weekend In Nightlife, Starring Shackleton, Frankie Knuckles, And Other People You May Know

​Tonight, creepy dubstep producer Shackleton headlines Dub War at Love -- the genre gets even darker thanks to his unexpected silences and evil whisperings in between all that bass wobble. WARP's Eskmo and Eprom are also scheduled to play, along with Dubwar residents Joe Nice and Dave Q, among ... More >>

This Week in the Voice

​Time was, Andrew Cuomo would pass a lot of harsh comments about rival politicians. Now, the attorney general mainly lets his indictments do the talking. And they've been eloquent. But has the former bully-boy really changed, or just changed tactics? Tom Robbins looks at the possible second Go ... More >>

The 1000TimesYes Top 100: The Top 100 2009 Records Of A Guy Who Listened To More Records Than You

You know, we actually have other shots of Chris, he just won't let us use them. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​As a guy who plausibly could claim he listened to more music than anyone in the last year short of Robert Christgau, 1000TimesYes's Christopher R. Weingarten seemed like the ideal guy to as ... More >>

This Week's Voice: The 10th Annual Voice Film Critics' Poll, the Decade's Best Theater, Art, Dance, and Books, Harvilla's 'Worst Lyrics of the Decade,' and More

If you want to actually read this thing, by all means, click here.​In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla stages a brutal, single-elimination, March Madness-style tournament to determine the worst lyrics of the decade. Spoiler: the Black Eyed Peas are very much involved! Elsewhere, Christo ... More >>

Bruar Falls Christmas Party Tomorrow to Feature Xmas Rap, Live Record Reviews, Wholesale Twitter Nerdery

​Surely you want to be in the room when, in some unfathomable dork ritual, 1000TimesYes Twitter auteur, F2K contributor, and YIMBY procurer Christopher R. Weingarten gets one some sort of stage and/or platform and sends his "1000th tweet LIVE @ midnite," thus capping his quixotic, insane, and ... More >>

Week in Review: Pull a Monster Out of Your Soul

Goodbye to all that, I guess. Photo of These Are Powers by Rebecca Smeyne.​In the week our F2K crew got within three wretched singles of revealing all 50 worst songs of the decade, we learned what giant, raging purple erections in cargo shorts would say if they could speak. (Probably something ... More >>

FYI, Andrew W.K. Is Being Interviewed Live on Twitter in A Little While

Twitter celebrity, martyr to the music writing game, and SOTC bedfellow Christopher R. Weingarten is interviewing the similarly outsized personality Andrew W.K. on the world's favorite micro-blogging medium today, LIVE OVER TWITTER. There is still time to send him questions. Such as, "Who could po ... More >>

This Week's Voice: R.A. the Rugged Man, Lil Wayne's The Carter Documentary, Zadie Smith, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Urs Fischer, and More

R.A. the Rugged Man: More dirty laundry than you can imagine. Photo by Calvin Godfrey.​In this week's Village Voice, Ben Westhoff recounts the long, setback- and STD-ridden journey of Long Island's own R.A. the Rugged Man, Jed Lipinski talks to the players involved with the semi-embargoed Lil ... More >>

Week in Review: The F. Scott Fitzgerald of American Indie Rock

Photo of South Williamsburg's the Woods by Puja Patel​In the week in which everyone went to rock and roll fantasy camp--whether it be the one that takes place inside the Colbert Report studios with the Mountain Goats' John Darnielle or the one that takes place on the disco dance floor with Vin ... More >>

News Roundup: forgetters, Rock Writer Literary Death Match, Ghostface on Fallon

​--After getting a bit more publicly excited than we care to remember about Thorns of Life, last fall's short-lived collaboration between Jawbreaker/Jets to Brazil's Blake Schwarzenbach, Aaron Cometbus, and (The L Word's) Daniella Sea, we figured we'd just go ahead and keep quiet about forgett ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Vivian Girls, All Tomorrow's Parties, Mike Judge's Extract, 'Mondo Fandom' at Anthology, and More

Hm, that ghost up there in the top left corner looks familiar. Vivian Girls photo by Santiago Felipe.​In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla goes one more round with The Vivian Girls, and comes away from their record release show a sweatier and more fulfilled man. Christopher R. Weingarte ... More >>

This Week in the Voice

​Mike Bloomberg has a deal with the city that keeps his mayoralty separate from the business he founded. But Bloomberg the company has a way of benefiting on local deals even without the help of Bloomberg the Mayor. You may have noticed, for instance, that the Yankees' cable network used to be ... More >>

Week in Review: All I Have Left Are My Memories and This Copy of The Razor's Edge Signed by Asher Roth

Photo of Jim Jones taunting hipsters by Rebecca Smeyne​ In the week Jim Jones put ten thousand dollars on a three-on-three basketball tournament sponsored by Converse and barred to the media, we got up in there anyway, and brought you the hilarious play-by-play. Take that, shoe company. Gera ... More >>

Week in Review: Do Not Go to Siren Fest Hungover!

Look, it's a member of Das Racist eating food. Photo by Sam Horine.  In the week we spent the early hours of recovering from Siren Festival--highlights of which were many and varied and included a photo of Das Racist daring to eat a type of food the duo doesn't rap about--we were officially and ... More >>

Week in Review: It's Time for Some Guiliani-Loving Madball Fans to Step Up to the Plate

Credit: Rebecca Smeyne In the week we worked in this church, paid our penance, and gave our blood, Lil Wayne and Pharrell said "Yes." To which Young Dro and Yung LA responded, simply, "Woah." And Diddy wept. TV season at Sound of the City has come (is it the cold weather?), and though The City re ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Chunklet, Gang Gang Dance, Changeling, Elizabeth Peyton, Crust, and More

This Week's Voice: Mickey Rourke and The Wrestler, Solange Knowles, ATP, TV on the Radio, Jonathan Ames, the New York Film Festival, and More

Crystal Antlers Tonight at the Mercury Lounge

Times New Viking ACME Tonight at the Whitney

Indian Jewelry Tonight and Next Tuesday

Tonight and Tomorrow: Ministry Give Their Fans One Final Pummeling

Thursday 05/01

Tonight: Pissed Jeans at the Knitting Factory

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Wednesday

Dark Meat: Tonight with Monotonix, Tomorrow at Union Pool