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Happy Halloween: 7 Scary Movies With Pretty Good Soundtracks

​ It's almost Halloween, and if you're like me, you've been spending your free time watching scary movies and thinking up costume ideas. These sorts of movies are usually known for blood, boobs, and bad jokes, but the music that accompanies them is important, too. For instance, high-pitched s ... More >>

Heaven Knows Valentine's Day Makes Us Miserable Now

Jim Jarmusch's Showtunes

On ATP 2010, musicians as actors, Tom Waits's threats, and what planet ODB was on

Wild Beasts

The Personals

We promise to do better next time

The xx

Photo: Echo and the Bunnymen's Mercury Lounge Setlist

​Bands like this one just don't play venues as small as the Mercury Lounge. And yet there was Echo and the Bunnymen's Ian McCulloch, a chatty jester clad in black shades and black coat, warming up for a November Hammerstein gig by playing a tiny LES room on a frigid Saturday evening, band in t ... More >>

This Weekend! Saint Vitus, Echo and the Bunnymen, Glenn Branca, and David Bazan

"Basically, I think right now, the world's in shit," Scott "Wino" Weinrich told the Voice's own Phil Freeman recently, by way of explaining the decision to revive the finest iteration of doom-metal giants Saint Vitus for a brief tour. "There's a lot of despair, a lot of economic problems. People h ... More >>

All Points West Sunday: (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To See Coldplay)

I wore straight-up hiking boots to this motherfucker, clunky and impenetrable, and sloshed invincibly across acres of gushy, foul-smelling New Jersey mud like a hovercraft, like a Range Rover, like God moving across the face of the waters. The mud is what we'll all remember about APW, first broug ... More >>

WESTWARD, HO!

Like Coachella, and just a ferry ride away

Jay-Z Is Replacing the Beastie Boys at All Points West

Indeed. Earlier this week came the terrible news of Adam Yauch's cancer diagnosis and the subsequent cancellation of all upcoming Beastie Boys tour dates -- including their opening-night headlining spot at next week's All Points West festival in Jersey City. Their replacement: Jay-Z, making "his U.S ... More >>

PUNKS & PREPS

Blane isn't a name—it's a household appliance!

Pink Mountaintops

Summer Guide: Amadou & Mariam's A Global Affair

Damon Albarn lends this "blind couple from Mali" a dash of Britpop

Interview: Barry Hogan, Creator of All Tomorrow's Parties

Gin & Juice: Times, Bloomberg Okay Open Container

Live: Who Do the National Remind You Of?

Status Ain't Hood's Quarterly Report: The Year's Best Singles

Project Norwegian Runway

The (possibly) next great Scandinavian rock sensation packs for the big city

The Killers: Not Enough Like Def Leppard

Welsh And French Interlopers Turn Vintage American Pop Into Fast Food

Live: Annie and the Indie-Pop Problem

Radical Comfort

Hey Mr. Sax Man, you're the hidden king of rock and roll, or whatever it is

The Personals

Falling in love for different reasons

Four More Music Video Veterans Enshrined in Pop Canon

Indie Bedwetter Dweebs Maybe Not So Bad

Hi-Yo Silver

Ready to head home, Chicago kids end tour wet with sweat

In From The Cold

Young indie Canadians make a life together before their own lives can tear them apart

Film

Music

CMJ Musicfest 2003

Rousing Constituencies

Old dogs singin' slow songs and fairygodmotherfuckers for discerning dilettantes

Jock Itch

Listings

Accidentally on Purpose

Coldplay Sizzles

Over the Killing Moon

Richard Kelly’s Totally ’80s

No Hype to Not Believe

Green Again

Station to station

Shake Your Bodega