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October 25, 2011
Download: Esque's Bubbly World Party "Bones To Be"
Julia Von Der HeideBrooklyn fourpiece Esque play Afro-Latin soul-pop, an unlikely combo of Joy Division melodies, bubbling Latin rhythms and the cheery smash-up feel of Talking Heads' Naked. Their website basically lays it out: "It's a waste of time to play only one kind of music when, you kn ... More >>
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September 15, 2011
Fashion Week: Sofia Coppola and Lisa Marie Presley Check Out Anna Sui; 3.1 Phillip Lim Wants You to Fly a Kite for Spring
Angela AshmanAnna Sui Sometimes Anna Sui, who is known for her love of everything retro, can design collections that feel too groovy to be modern. But for her spring collection, which she showed last night at Lincoln Center, Sui pulled her influences from all the right sources for a collectio ... More >>
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March 9, 2011
Crystal Castles
Angela AshmanAnna Sui Sometimes Anna Sui, who is known for her love of everything retro, can design collections that feel too groovy to be modern. But for her spring collection, which she showed last night at Lincoln Center, Sui pulled her influences from all the right sources for a collectio ... More >>
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February 23, 2011
Grimes+Doldrums
Angela AshmanAnna Sui Sometimes Anna Sui, who is known for her love of everything retro, can design collections that feel too groovy to be modern. But for her spring collection, which she showed last night at Lincoln Center, Sui pulled her influences from all the right sources for a collectio ... More >>
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January 14, 2011
U.S. Version of Skins: "Most Dangerous" Show Ever
via MTV: Skins.tvMTV's new series Skins, an American remake of the drugs-and-sex-filled British series, has been declared by the Parents Television Council "the most dangerous television show for children" that they have ever seen. The New York Daily News quoted the PTC's president Tim Winter ... More >>
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December 22, 2010
Rob Harvilla's Top 10 Singles of 2010
Not every great song this year was released by Katy Perry. From a snarling avant-electro NPR lecture to a haunted-house posse cut to a ludicrously profane viral sensation, here are 10 examples. "Teenage Dream" might still be better than all of these, though. Better get this started before I c ... More >>
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December 14, 2010
Was 2010 The Best Year For Music Ever? House Music vs. Hashtag Rap
Welcome to Sound of the City's year-in-review rock-critic roundtable, an amiable ongoing conversation between five prominent Voice critics: Rob Harvilla, Zach Baron, Sean Fennessey, Maura Johnston, and Rich Juzwiak. We'll be here all week! The most important artist of 2010.Hi everybody! To ... More >>
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September 20, 2010
The State of The Shank, Brooklyn's Favorite Afterhours Party: It Really Is Alive! At Its Original Location! With Jonathan Toubin and (Good) Scenesters! For Now!
No, dudebro, Bernd Naber will not give you a ride home from the Shank in his awesome old convertible. "It sounds like a tin shed in there," grouses a well-dressed couple walking briskly away from the Shank at five am this past Sunday. "The speakers are bad. Every room is half empty!"
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September 13, 2010
HARD Fest on M.I.A.'s Free New York Show: "We Don't Really Want To Be Involved"
M.I.A. at HARD Fest in July. Photo by Jens Joller.M.I.A.'s July HARD Fest imbroglio has now been well documented: the rain and poor sound that torpedoed her set; the ensuing argument over who had failed who; M.I.A.'s subsequent promise to make it up to all those who had been there with a free ... More >>
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September 13, 2010
The Appeal Of Vampire Weekend's Contra Cover, Explained
It has triggered a high-profile lawsuit, of course, but even before then, Vampire Weekend's blonde-in-a-Polo-shirt found-Polaroid-ish image for Contra was, like it or not, the most compelling and iconic album cover of the year, if now also the most expensive. Why, exactly, does a random photo ... More >>
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August 20, 2010
HARD Fest, Peter Zummo, Tiki Disco, And The Soul Clap Dance-Off Headline Your Weekend In Nightlife
Start your Saturday off at Good Co. (the re-vamped Hope Lounge) in Williamsburg: New York magazine is hosting one of their last Barbeque Blowouts of the summer. Fatty Cue will serve up heaping $5 plates of Asian-infused barbeque and sides, while DJ duo Punches provide disco jams for you to mu ... More >>
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April 23, 2010
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 >>
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April 21, 2010
Crystal Castles Rush-Release New Record This Friday, Triggering A Lamentable Pun
Last week, a leak from an ash-hole (Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano) forced the Crystal Castles to cancel and reschedule a London live date. Today, NME is reporting, a leak from an asshole has compelled the duo to rush-release their self-titled new album, originally slated for June but no ... More >>
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December 9, 2009
Haha: Impose Picks The "Best New Music of 2009"
On Monday, our home slices over at Impose unveiled their year-end 50 favorite acts of 2009. It's a uniquely varied list of familiar blog-sprayed faces (Animal Collective, Fever Ray, Black Lips, Dan Deacon, Black Dice), mixtape rappers (Gucci Mane, Freddie Gibbs, Drake), relative unknowns (Nisennen ... More >>
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August 19, 2009
Japandroids, the Very Best, Das Racist, Pitbull (?!) Playing CMJ 2009
CMJ, that freezing fall rite of laminated passes and crumbled, much-folded L Magazine itineraries, is evidently already upon us. The music marathon, which will run from October 20th to the 24th, has just made its initial announcement as far as who is playing this year. Japandroids, the Very B ... More >>
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July 31, 2009
Free All Points West Alternatives Galore
Big gigantic music festivals featuring people with names that even those living deep in the Amazon forests or on the wild, wild plains of New Zealand have heard of tend to suck up most of the cultural airspace when they come to town--All Points West being no exception here. But this is an ex ... More >>
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June 22, 2009
Mess Up the Sound at a Crystal Castles Show at Your Own Risk, Apparently
Canadian 8-bit rave duo Crystal Castles are infamous for playing shows in which the violence and drama quotient far exceeds anything you'd expect from a couple of people who make what's basically dance music--Alice Glass, in particular, the band's leather-jacketed, heavily eye-linered demon frontw ... More >>
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May 13, 2009
If You're Gonna Throw a Shot Glass at Crystal Antlers, Please Put a Shot in It, You Idiot from Last Night's Mercury Lounge Show
To be reductive for a moment: If Crystal Castles are basement dance and Crystal Stilts are basement Warhol, then Crystal Antlers are basement psych--Hendrix and the Stooges played too loud in mildewed spaces too small to contain the band's throbbing sound. The band's debut release, 2008's EP, and ... More >>
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January 30, 2009
Coachella: Paul McCartney's Coming to the Desert
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January 6, 2009
Live: My Morning Jacket at Madison Square Garden, With MP3s
Download My Morning Jacket's entire New Year's Eve show here. My Morning Jacket Madison Square Garden December 31, 2008 So My Morning Jacket isn't the new Grateful Dead. That was Phish. Except that Phish wasn't half as good as the Grateful Dead and only had about half a dozen great songs ("Wolfm ... More >>
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December 22, 2008
New Year's Eve 2009: New York Shows, Continued
Download My Morning Jacket's entire New Year's Eve show here. My Morning Jacket Madison Square Garden December 31, 2008 So My Morning Jacket isn't the new Grateful Dead. That was Phish. Except that Phish wasn't half as good as the Grateful Dead and only had about half a dozen great songs ("Wolfm ... More >>
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December 9, 2008
New Year's Eve 2009, Continued
Download My Morning Jacket's entire New Year's Eve show here. My Morning Jacket Madison Square Garden December 31, 2008 So My Morning Jacket isn't the new Grateful Dead. That was Phish. Except that Phish wasn't half as good as the Grateful Dead and only had about half a dozen great songs ("Wolfm ... More >>
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December 2, 2008
New Year's Eve 2009: Shows Announced, So Far
Download My Morning Jacket's entire New Year's Eve show here. My Morning Jacket Madison Square Garden December 31, 2008 So My Morning Jacket isn't the new Grateful Dead. That was Phish. Except that Phish wasn't half as good as the Grateful Dead and only had about half a dozen great songs ("Wolfm ... More >>
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October 14, 2008
Interview: Frightened Rabbit's Scott Hutchison
Download My Morning Jacket's entire New Year's Eve show here. My Morning Jacket Madison Square Garden December 31, 2008 So My Morning Jacket isn't the new Grateful Dead. That was Phish. Except that Phish wasn't half as good as the Grateful Dead and only had about half a dozen great songs ("Wolfm ... More >>
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May 14, 2008
Live: Kanye West Justifies Everything
Download My Morning Jacket's entire New Year's Eve show here. My Morning Jacket Madison Square Garden December 31, 2008 So My Morning Jacket isn't the new Grateful Dead. That was Phish. Except that Phish wasn't half as good as the Grateful Dead and only had about half a dozen great songs ("Wolfm ... More >>
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April 23, 2008
Hugs and Kisses #40: Drinking Tea With Old Time Relijun's Arrington de Dionyso
Download My Morning Jacket's entire New Year's Eve show here. My Morning Jacket Madison Square Garden December 31, 2008 So My Morning Jacket isn't the new Grateful Dead. That was Phish. Except that Phish wasn't half as good as the Grateful Dead and only had about half a dozen great songs ("Wolfm ... More >>
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March 31, 2008
The Quarterly Report: Best Albums of 2008 Thus Far
Download My Morning Jacket's entire New Year's Eve show here. My Morning Jacket Madison Square Garden December 31, 2008 So My Morning Jacket isn't the new Grateful Dead. That was Phish. Except that Phish wasn't half as good as the Grateful Dead and only had about half a dozen great songs ("Wolfm ... More >>
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March 27, 2008
Live: Crystal Castles Rule Hard
Download My Morning Jacket's entire New Year's Eve show here. My Morning Jacket Madison Square Garden December 31, 2008 So My Morning Jacket isn't the new Grateful Dead. That was Phish. Except that Phish wasn't half as good as the Grateful Dead and only had about half a dozen great songs ("Wolfm ... More >>
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March 18, 2008
HEALTH
Download My Morning Jacket's entire New Year's Eve show here. My Morning Jacket Madison Square Garden December 31, 2008 So My Morning Jacket isn't the new Grateful Dead. That was Phish. Except that Phish wasn't half as good as the Grateful Dead and only had about half a dozen great songs ("Wolfm ... More >>
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February 20, 2008
Crystal Castles: Better Than Justice
Download My Morning Jacket's entire New Year's Eve show here. My Morning Jacket Madison Square Garden December 31, 2008 So My Morning Jacket isn't the new Grateful Dead. That was Phish. Except that Phish wasn't half as good as the Grateful Dead and only had about half a dozen great songs ("Wolfm ... More >>
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February 7, 2008
Status Ain't Hood Podcast 24
Download My Morning Jacket's entire New Year's Eve show here. My Morning Jacket Madison Square Garden December 31, 2008 So My Morning Jacket isn't the new Grateful Dead. That was Phish. Except that Phish wasn't half as good as the Grateful Dead and only had about half a dozen great songs ("Wolfm ... More >>
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October 4, 2007
The Quarterly Report: Status Ain't Hood's Favorite New Singles
Download My Morning Jacket's entire New Year's Eve show here. My Morning Jacket Madison Square Garden December 31, 2008 So My Morning Jacket isn't the new Grateful Dead. That was Phish. Except that Phish wasn't half as good as the Grateful Dead and only had about half a dozen great songs ("Wolfm ... More >>
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August 27, 2007
Status Ain't Hood Podcast 2
Download My Morning Jacket's entire New Year's Eve show here. My Morning Jacket Madison Square Garden December 31, 2008 So My Morning Jacket isn't the new Grateful Dead. That was Phish. Except that Phish wasn't half as good as the Grateful Dead and only had about half a dozen great songs ("Wolfm ... More >>

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