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Kurt Vile, Marnie Stern More Confirmed to Play 4Knots Music Festival

The lineup for this year's 4Knots Music Festival--the Village Voice's free, all-day outdoor summer music extravaganza at the South Street Seaport (Pier 17) on June 29--is beginning to take shape. We've just booked a few big-name acts we're completely thrilled about.

Parquet Courts: Band on a Wire

The Brooklyn band makes the familiar sound new again

Don't Miss These Bands At CMJ

CMJ: So many shows (about 1,300), so little time (5 days). Poring through the schedule, separating the wheat from the chaff--and sorry, there's lots of chaff every year--and figuring out a plan of attack is time-consuming and headache-inducing. So to help you out a tiny bit, we've picked out 10 acts ... More >>

Tall Firs' Ideal ATP Would Take Place in a Well-Funded Old Folks' Home

Don't expect much news (or even set times) from the Sunday Supplement, the on-site newspaper for the All Tomorrow's Parties festival this weekend, edited by Brooklyn-based duo Tall Firs. The group, composed of Aaron Mullan and Dave Mies, has become something like a house band for the festival, and t ... More >>

Q&A: Family Curse's Erik Bradshaw On Getting The Band Together, Cleveland, And Why 1979 Was The Best Year For Music Ever

Aside from being a go-to pundit on the eBay vs. Discogs debate and a heck of a dust-kicking commentator on punk forums, Erik Bradshaw is the expertly spazzy and spindly singer for local skronk-irkers Family Curse. Peeling paint for about a year with one single under their belts, they will hit the 28 ... More >>

Q&A: Liars' Angus Andrew On Basketball, Experimenting With Electronics, And How Visiting New York Is Disorienting

The globe-hopping music deconstructionist wonders in Liars revolutionized and jumpstarted the stagnant Brooklyn scene in the early 2000s with a bass-thumping, clatter-soaked dance-punk behemoth (They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top). Then they switched things up, and founders An ... More >>

Pazz & Jop 2011: Seth Colter Walls On Craig Taborn, Matana Roberts, And Voting From The Fringe

To supplement this year's Pazz & Jop launch, Sound of the City asked a few critics to expand on the reasonings behind their voting. We'll start off the series with Seth Colter Walls of New York City, who has a constant itch to do the deep dive and find the single-voter albums out there. Find his bal ... More >>

CMJ Day One: The Campaign To Save Rock And Roll Continues

​CMJ Day One: Hollerado, Mr. Dream, Delicate Steve, Chad Valley, Class Actress Better than: Trashing a hotel room and sex acts with a shark. In a CMJ world more than mildly dominated by moody bedroom electronica, Mediterranean sea-breezes, adolescent posse rap, and heaps of fashion-conscious ... More >>

Download: Household's Moody, Brittle "Go Away"

​Brooklyn post-punk trio Household has all the taut, jittery rhythmic propulsion of vintage art-pulsers like LiLiPUT and Delta 5, but the band adds a gorgeous, infectious layer of minor-key harmonies taken from the first wave of '90s twee. Guitarist Talya Cooper says the twin vocal dynamic bet ... More >>

Spring Arts Guide: The Feelies Get Perpetually Nervous All Over Again

Plus CSS, Adele, and other spring music picks

Live: Friendly Fires Gyrate Enthusiastically At Bowery Ballroom

Dance-rock that actually makes people dance. Pics by Rob.​Friendly Fires/The Hundred in the Hands Bowery Ballroom Monday, February 7 Better Than: Sitting around depressed that you didn't get to see Robyn at Radio City. "Oh! I want to feel true love!" moans Ed Macfarlane, perched precariously ... More >>

Let's Play "Name Your Favorite Bob Dylan Song," Starring No Age, Robyn Hitchcock, DJ Rekha, Greg Dulli, And More

Naturally, this record shows up quite a bit​As our celebration of the 50th anniversary of Bob Dylan's arrival in New York City winds down, we thought we'd reach out to a bunch of musicians with a simple question: What's your favorite Dylan song?

Week In Review: Bob Dylan Is Waiting In A Van Outside Your House

Photo via Fred W. McDarrah, there from the start.​Yes, it was Dylan Week here at SOTC, a veritable orgy of Greenwich Village-scouring videos (with installments covering Cafe Wha?, Jones Street, the Gaslight, and Washington Square Hotel, or just enjoy the whole thing in one shot here), along wi ... More >>

Gang Of Four Streaming Their New Record Content In Full, Playing Webster Hall Next Month

​Given our current climate of heated rhetoric, it's pretty much the perfect time for a new Gang of Four record, particularly one with song titles like "It Was Never Gonna Turn Out Too Good" and "You'll Never Pay for the Farm." So please welcome the excellently named Content, in stores next wee ... More >>

Q&A: Black Mountain's Stephen McBean on the Evolution of His "Psychedelic" Band

photo by Steve GullickFar right: Stephen McBean Vancouver's Black Mountain are usually considered two things: 1) a musical collective spearheaded by guitarist/vocalist Stephen McBean; 2) heir apparent to some vague Black Sabbath torch. While the former isn't necessarily true--they've settled down a ... More >>

Live: Tom Petty Looks Like an Anorexic Monkey, Sounds Like a Champ at Madison Square Garden

Another time at MSG Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers Buddy Guy Madison Square Garden July 28, 2010 Tom Petty looks like an anorexic monkey, and his voice is so nasal it makes Bob Dylan sound like a death-metal grunter. But he's a hell of a songwriter, and the Heartbreakers are one of the two or thre ... More >>

Download: El-P, "Whores: The Movie"

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. ​Since the release of his critically acclaimed second record, 2007's I'll Sleep When Your Dead, all eyes have been on producer El-P, the tornado-culling Brooklyn naysayer whose creative displays of p ... More >>

New M.I.A.: "Born Free"

​Punk rock is the new high concept pop. The Fall is the new Gang of Four. Bragging about your cash flow is the new global poverty. Snare drums are the new 808s. Bass is the new guitar. Not giving a fuck is the new giving a fuck. Confessional spoken word stuttering is the new gang vocal breakdo ... More >>

The Increasingly Believable Liars

On the art-rock trio's slightly too predictable Sisterworld

Interview: Hot Rats/Supergrass drummer Danny Goffey on Impressing Ray Davies, Licensed to Ill's Harmonizing Potential, and Covering Squeeze

Gaz Coombes and Danny Goffey always get excited when the power comes back on.​When Brit-rock's ultimate pleasure-seekers Supergrass lost bassist Mick Quinn to the most embarrassing run to the toilet since Slumdog Millionaire a few years ago, singer/guitarist Gaz Coombes and drummer Danny Goffe ... More >>

Live: The Raincoats Keep It Like a Secret at the Knitting Factory

The Raincoats, Soft Power, Viv Albertine Knitting Factory Friday, October 16 The Raincoats can't play their instruments any more professionally than they could 30 years ago, which is a relief. The band's sound was predicated on sacred simplicity anyway: Punk, sort of, but more like knotted folk-r ... More >>

UP IN ARMS

The boys are back for a Weekend in the City

Evil Empire Strikes Back

A rap-nostalgia bonanza feels like a rock show and sounds like a resurrection

Mythology

Maripol's photos at the Soho Grand induce '80s nostalgia

Not Giants in Those Days

A video disc and a big pile of reissues make the case for a '70s prog cult band who were never pompous

Another Good Kick

Thrift-shop-dapper Scottish new wave revival standard bearers approach the perfect beat

Books

Great Men

Post-punk pioneers return to demolish a microwave oven

Entertainment!

Next Big Thing tames Marxist innovations to rock the party

Mixed Mulatto

Melting ZZ and Jay-Z and all kinds of purple haze into the pot

One-Trick Moles

Murderous songs much too bouncy to bring anybody down

Music

Music

East European Weirdos Confuse Whammy Bars for Pillows

Wanna Buy a Used Bridge?

U.K. and NYC post-punk and no wave revisited, selectively

Babies on Fire

Like the Sweet Song of a Choir You Light My Morning Sky With Burning Love Like Blood

Tasty Like a Raindrop, From Stockholm to East California

No More Fiction

Sense and Instability

Our Band Is Your Life

That Misty Mountain Was Mount Everest, Dun

L Is for Children

Contort Yourself

It’s Their Factory

Music

Fake Germans Enjoy Beer, Porn

They Are Family

Green Again

Station to station

Fast, cheap and out of control

Blues for Jesus

Consumer Guide