Voice Choices
November 28, 2012Dinosaur Jr. takes
Terminal 5 back in time
Art
November 21, 2012Voice Choices
April 25, 2012Voice Choices
April 4, 2012Witch cast their evil spell on Santos'
Blogs
November 11, 2011via Sub Pop RecordsSebadoh.The staggering gamut of cred Lou Barlow boasts in the hardcore, post-punk, lo-fi and indie rock realms toes past the line of the ridiculous and the legendary. In the early '80s, Barlow obliterated his guitar in the cataclysmic Massachusetts hardcore band Deep Wound ... More >>
Voice Choices
October 19, 2011CMJ’s Music Marathon kicks into gear
Blogs
August 10, 2011One of the more surreal moments in television history happened one superlate evening in 1989, when Sonic Youth appeared on the avant-garde-leaning music program Night Music on the severely avant-lacking NBC network. With downtown skuzz buddy Don Fleming playing SY's "manager on keyboards" ... More >>
Blogs
June 24, 2011
Dinosaur Jr., Fucked Up, Off
Terminal 5
Thursday, June 23
Better than: You and your friends sitting around, telling each other how much you appreciate each other.
Keith Morris is a founding member of both Black Flag and The Circle Jerks, the co-author of a song called "World Up My Ass," and a pi ... More >>
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May 19, 2011Titus Andronicus frontman Patrick Stickles named his band after one of Shakespeare's most violent, least regarded plays. He writes songs named "Upon Viewing Brueghel's 'Landscape with the Fall of Icarus'." His band's most recent album uses the Civil War as a metaphor for political and persona ... More >>
Voice Choices
April 27, 2011Palatable rock at Bowery Ballroom
Voice Choices
March 30, 2011Blogs
March 28, 2011What do you think about when you're doing your guitar solos? "Oh, you know, what's for dinner and...very weird thoughts."
Let us not ask too much of J Mascis. The Dinosaur Jr. frontman has given us much already: classic albums, amazing videos, monster solos befitting the name Dinosaur Jr, scientifi ... More >>
Voice Choices
March 16, 2011Blogs
January 27, 2011Less like Dinosaur Jr than you might have hoped/feared. Pics by Rob.Yuck/Total Slacker
Glasslands
Wednesday, January 26
Better Than: Watching American Idol exploit that brain-damaged woman, evidently
If you're here tonight, than you really want to be here. This includes your headliners, the ... More >>
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October 13, 2010Voice Choices
October 6, 2010Voice Choices
March 16, 2010Blogs
February 18, 2010
Blake Schwarzenbach's forgetters played the Bowery Ballroom about a week and a half ago, but prior to that, their big winter event was a tour--called Too Small to Fail, after one of their better songs--up and down the East Coast. In Gainsville, Jeremy Silveira caught the band's whole set on video, ... More >>
Blogs
November 20, 2009So even Devo now is into this play-a-classic-album-in-its-entirety thing: They're at the Fillmore at Irving Plaza Friday (Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!) and Saturday (Freedom of Choice). Have the courtesy to let that part of the setlist run out at least before you start hootin' and holle ... More >>
Voice Choices
November 17, 2009Blogs
November 4, 2009It's "Fireman." Our guess would've been "Bad Scene Everybody's Fault," but what do we know? That's a "mixtape shirt" up there, by the way, customized and signed by the Hold Steady's Tad Kubler, currently on auction (via Insound) to benefit 826NYC. There's also an Of Montreal one; further edit ... More >>
Blogs
October 7, 2009--The free download of Vampire Weekend's new track "Horchata" has shaken the dust off the intractable divides between the army of anons. Over at Brooklyn Vegan, we see college students ("The F. Scott Fitzgerald of American Indie Rock") pitted against college students ("...it's like the whiffe ... More >>
Voice Choices
September 29, 2009Blogs
July 30, 2009
--The Walkman have announced a fall tour. The band, still supporting last year's massive You and Me, will play the already-announced Guggenheim August 14 as part of the It Came from Brooklyn series and then play a stacked double-bill with Dinosaur Jr. in Central Park on August 16. The rest o ... More >>
Voice Choices
July 8, 2009Blogs
June 26, 2009via dennischang's photostream
Dinosaur Jr.
Music Hall of Williamsburg
Thursday, June 25
Dinosaur Jr. did bring up Michael Jackson from the stage last night, frontman/guitar wizard J. Mascis muttering something about Farah Fawcett and MJ and, later, when Lou Barlow took requests: "What are we gonna ... More >>
Blogs
June 26, 2009The news that obliterated the week that was: MJ. Our remembrance here, plus the complete Michael Jackson Voice archives, as written by the dream team of Robert Christgau, Chuck Eddy, Greg Tate, Vince Aletti, Stanley Crouch, Guy Trebay, Nelson George, Elvis Mitchell, Simon Frith, and Scott Poulson-Br ... More >>
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June 25, 2009
Adult Swim's team of terrorists and aliens have organized a summer-long series of free shows at Santos' Party House. Tonight, New Pornographers frontman A.C. Newman joins Cheeseburger, the Woggles, and, apparently, "a hockey-mask-wearing burlesque review." [ED: Shouldn't that be "revue"? Or will s ... More >>
Blogs
June 25, 2009Michael Jackson is dead, and I'm taken aback by how incredibly unpleasant a feeling it is, far beyond the usual celebrity-grieving response: This is devastating in an unexpected and overwhelmingly surreal way. I'm also tremendously/overly conscious that at this exact moment thousands of writers/blog ... More >>
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June 19, 2009Stream the entirety of Dinosaur Jr.'s rock solid Farm, out this coming Tuesday, at their MySpace. On top of the three songs already out and circulating--the ferocious, double-soloing "I Don't Wanna Go There," album highlight "I Want You to Know," and "I'm Over It"--we heartily recommend "There's No ... More >>
Blogs
June 19, 2009Rebecca Smeyne
In the week one of us had to publicly defend himself against the crime of using the phrase "Fey Highwayman," we watched with amusement as close SOTC affiliate Christopher R. Weingarten became a viral video poster boy for the death of music criticism. Poetic choice of t-shirts, Chris! ... More >>
Voice Choices
June 17, 2009Voice Choices
June 17, 2009Blogs
June 15, 2009
SOTC buddy Ryan Dombal gets to the bottom of Dinosaur Jr.'s video for "I'm Over It," in which the band's three aging members do obviously stunt-doubled tricks on one skateboard and two BMX bikes. Except some of it--and not just the part where J. Mascis awkwardly cruises into the frame, and then si ... More >>
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June 5, 2009
Continuing their streak of awesomely, defiantly old-school gestures, Dinosaur Jr. chose to make the video to "I'm Over It" an homage to skateboarding and BMX biking: J. and Murph and Lou cruising around town, Mascis on a skateboard, his rhythm section on bikes. 90% of the tricks here are pretty ob ... More >>
Blogs
May 1, 2009
Hey, it was porn week!
Zach live-blogged the Dim Mak porn video. Jadakiss vowed to wake up beside you naked. Peter Saville's Erotic House of Pop streamed online. Asher Roth debuted his sweet new Bukkake-inspired video. (Speaking of which, Asher Roth should probably lose that hypeman.) The police ... More >>
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April 29, 2009The post-reunion Dinosaur Jr. has been so consistent at such a high level that, mostly, what separates one song from another is nothing more complicated than an extra solo or backing vocal. J. Mascis has an incredible feel for the tiny detail that elevates any one of his songs from good to great. He ... More >>
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March 25, 2009
The slobby, scrawled, couch-and-legs motif on the cover of Dinosaur Jr.'s wildly great 2007 comeback album Beyond was, like the music contained therein, a hilariously accurate homage/send-up of the late '80s SST aesthetic with which the band was then prominently associated. From artwork on, this w ... More >>
Voice Choices
February 18, 2009. . . And you're not getting sleepy now
Music
October 1, 2008Perfect From Now On gets all spilt on some green
Music
September 23, 2008Reporting live from Kutsher's, starring a loud-as-hell My Bloody Valentine
Voice Choices
September 23, 2008Built to Spill play their most elegant album
Blogs
September 17, 2008Blogs
May 13, 2008Voice Choices
March 11, 2008J Mascis’s Witch crank it up
Music
July 24, 2007No R.I.P. for the rock album just yet—Sonic Youth's seminal Daydream Nation lives again at McCarren Pool.
NYC Life
May 8, 2007Emperor reigns. J Mascis rocks. And Panda Bear goes all California.
Music
November 21, 2006For the week of November 29–December 5
Music
July 5, 2005Alt-rock pioneers Dinosaur Jr. return to the freak scene as seniors
NYC Life
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