Clem Snide

Clem Snide

Tonight! Heavy Trash, Om, and Clem Snide Vie For Your Love

​Heavy Trash, the garage-rockabilly duo of Matt Verta-Ray and the one, the only Jon Spencer, celebrate the release of their third record, Midnight Soul Serenade, at Bowery Electric tonight. As Verta-Ray explains in this weeks' Voice (drop by tonight), "Generally, rock 'n' roll guys are insecur ... More >>

Fall Guide: The Pains of Pure at Heart Will Pervert Your Indie Cliché

​Heavy Trash, the garage-rockabilly duo of Matt Verta-Ray and the one, the only Jon Spencer, celebrate the release of their third record, Midnight Soul Serenade, at Bowery Electric tonight. As Verta-Ray explains in this weeks' Voice (drop by tonight), "Generally, rock 'n' roll guys are insecur ... More >>

The Daily Show Throws a Party

​Heavy Trash, the garage-rockabilly duo of Matt Verta-Ray and the one, the only Jon Spencer, celebrate the release of their third record, Midnight Soul Serenade, at Bowery Electric tonight. As Verta-Ray explains in this weeks' Voice (drop by tonight), "Generally, rock 'n' roll guys are insecur ... More >>

Dean's List

​Heavy Trash, the garage-rockabilly duo of Matt Verta-Ray and the one, the only Jon Spencer, celebrate the release of their third record, Midnight Soul Serenade, at Bowery Electric tonight. As Verta-Ray explains in this weeks' Voice (drop by tonight), "Generally, rock 'n' roll guys are insecur ... More >>

Hearing the Irony

A piano trio whose fundamental aesthetic is irreverent—get it, coppers, irreverent?

DJ Kicks

Nine sane and rewarding life choices we promise you will not get punished by God for

Buried Love

From sipping iced tea and playing Al Green to imagining you're watching Ricky beat Lucy

Many Famous Fans Let the Sun Shine Down on Daniel Johnston

From sipping iced tea and playing Al Green to imagining you're watching Ricky beat Lucy

This Will Be Our Year, Pray Sam Stone, Tippecanoe, and Tyler Too

From sipping iced tea and playing Al Green to imagining you're watching Ricky beat Lucy

Jay-Z in a Bottle

Table 50, a kinder, gentler bottle-service club; KEXP invades New York

MLK Fever

Bill O'Reilly, we salute you, now please give us all our frankincense and myrrh back

Listings

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Shadows in the Cave

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Nothing Major

Bill O'Reilly, we salute you, now please give us all our frankincense and myrrh back

Music

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Shuffering and Shmiling

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Consumer Guide

Six of these 12 picks recast known compositions, and only two of the six are in the rock tradition. But I did find one medium-obscure alt band worth writing about. One.