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Explosions in the Sky

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    May 9, 2012

    Kid Cudi Added To Governors Ball Lineup

    The Governors Ball—taking place at Randalls IslandJune 23 and 24—has added another headliner to its lineup, which is already led by the likes of Passion Pit, Beck, and Fiona Apple. Kid Cudi, the recently alt-rock-water-testing rapper from Chicago, will play on Saturday, which will also h ... More >>

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    April 25, 2012

    SATAN'S CHILDREN

    WU LYF fire up Williamsburg

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    March 27, 2012

    Live: Fiona Apple Can't Help It At The Bowery Ballroom

    Fiona Apple Bowery Ballroom Monday, March 26 Better than: Holding it all in. Before Fiona Apple took the stage at the Bowery Ballroom last night, Little Richard's "The Girl Can't Help It" pumped out of the speakers, its flirtatiously skipping beat booming throughout the packed room. The tale of a ... More >>

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    March 18, 2012

    10 Eye-Popping Concert Posters From The South By Southwest Edition Of Flatstock

    By Nick Rallo ​This year, the South By Southwest edition of the traveling concert-poster show Flatstock (presented by the American Poster Institute) showcased more than 100 artists who were selling enough completely badass concert posters to drain your checking account dry. No, seriously: five mi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 21, 2012

    Beck, Passion Pit To Headline 2012 Governor's Ball

    The 2012 running of the Governor's Ball, which debuted last year as a single-day festival, will be bigger and bolder than its inaugural outing. Held this June 23 and 24, the festival is moving to Randall's Island, expanding to two days from one, and hosting Beck (playing his first NYC show since 200 ... More >>

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    September 14, 2011

    Explosions in the Sky

    The 2012 running of the Governor's Ball, which debuted last year as a single-day festival, will be bigger and bolder than its inaugural outing. Held this June 23 and 24, the festival is moving to Randall's Island, expanding to two days from one, and hosting Beck (playing his first NYC show since 200 ... More >>

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    April 13, 2011

    ROCK ACTION

    The majesty of Mogwai

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2011

    Week In Review: Grade It On A Curve

    ​Five days! Many items! A look at the last week at Sound of the City is below. We weighed Salem and fake Salem and the Internet and the slippery notion of "truth" online We chatted with Mike Watt about being on crutches, taking naps, and "the Neutral Milk guy." We counted down Kool Keith's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 7, 2011

    Live: Low Mesmerize And Explosions In The Sky Triumph at Radio City Music Hall

    Explosions In The Sky/Low/Eluvium Radio City Music Hall Wednesday, April 6 Better Than: Sitting around and waiting for season five of Friday Night Lights to start. Explosions In The Sky have one of the strangest approaches to designing a set that I've ever witnessed. As soon as the Austin, Texa ... More >>

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    February 15, 2011

    Bonnaroo 2011 Announces Lineup, Starring Eminem, Arcade Fire, Lil Wayne, The Black Keys, And Buffalo Springfield

    Star-studded lineup videos: now a thing. Yes, the Tennessee mega-festival, now in its tenth (!) year, has announced its initial lineup, the usual melange of rappers, rockers, and jam-band monoliths, this year headlined by Eminem and Arcade Fire, only one of whom won the Album of the Year Grammy 48 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2011

    American Idol Season 10, Los Angeles: How Do You Get To Work?

    Stop grinning, bro. Photo by Michael Becker / FOX. ​The other night, a crippling snowstorm hit Chicago, way more crippling than the sad little Snowpocalypses you East Coast whiners are heroically enduring. It knocked out my cable, and no cable means no American Idol, since I'm not smart enough ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 3, 2010

    Your Guide to All Tomorrow's Parties New York 2010, Which Still Has Tickets Available

    Rebecca SmeyneWelcome back. The third All Tomorrow's Parties New York begins tonight. Jim Jarmusch is the curator. Christopher R. Weingarten is your official historian. Shellac are your house band. Barry Hogan is your host. And if you enjoy life, you should go. There's still time.

  • Voice Choices

    August 25, 2010

    WELCOME TO TOMORROWLAND

    A rocker retreat with mere mortals

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2010

    All Tomorrow's Parties NY 2010 Additions: Shellac and the Greenhornes, A Cincinnati-Born Trio Who Coincidentally Includes Two of the Raconteurs

    Today brings more confirmations for the three-day line-up of the Jim Jarmusch-curated All Tomorrow's Parties New York. Adding to the stellar list of Explosions in the Sky, Raekwon, Sonic Youth, the Breeders, Fucked Up, Girls, and the Stooges doing Raw Power are Shellac (credited in the press relea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2010

    Talking to Brooklyn's Slow Six About Their Mournful Local Anthem, "The Night You Left New York"

    Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. ​Brooklyn's Slow Six walk a tightrope between glacial post-rock and modern classical music; they're equally adept at making swelling waves of Arvo Pärt viola bumblebees as they are manhandling good ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    December 8, 2009

    BRIGHT FUTURES

    A night with three of Brooklyn’s finest

  • Music

    November 24, 2009

    Pelican's Sketchy Metal

    The Chicago band leads a pack of wayward, ambiguous, faux-intellectual faux-headbangers

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    September 22, 2009

    Mono

    The Chicago band leads a pack of wayward, ambiguous, faux-intellectual faux-headbangers

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2009

    Tonight! Cam'ron, Marc Ribot, and Explosions in the Sky

    In the event you're hoping for a love connection at Harlem megastar Cam'ron's show tonight, know that the guy's idea of foreplay is "Get in the car, and don't touch nothin'/Either we lovin' or I'll see you tomorrow." He's at B.B. King's. Marc Ribot is best known for the shambling licks he contrib ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    April 29, 2009

    MONO

    In the event you're hoping for a love connection at Harlem megastar Cam'ron's show tonight, know that the guy's idea of foreplay is "Get in the car, and don't touch nothin'/Either we lovin' or I'll see you tomorrow." He's at B.B. King's. Marc Ribot is best known for the shambling licks he contrib ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2009

    SXSW 2009: Jason Lytle Shyly Resurfaces An Exceptionally Poor Band-Venue Combination

    This one's for you, Zeke. Jason Lytle (Home Slice Pizza) Explosions in the Sky (Auditorium Shores Stage) SXSW Saturday Afternoon, March 21 So I've got this Grandaddy fixation thing I'd just as soon not gas on about. (Anymore.) Suffice it to say that ex-frontman Jason Lytle remains a person of int ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 8, 2009

    SXSW's 2009 Partial Performers List: If You Can Afford to Go, You Must Be Running a Ponzi Scheme

    Dark Meat at last year's SXSW, photo by Rebecca Smeyne See, it's totally lame, don't worry, you're not missing a thing South by Southwest just firebombed everybody's inboxes with a partial list of names playing this year's barbecue-and-booze blitz. A quick scan reveals the midsize marquee names to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2008

    Best Moderately Snooty Concert Series: Wordless Music Series

    Dark Meat at last year's SXSW, photo by Rebecca Smeyne See, it's totally lame, don't worry, you're not missing a thing South by Southwest just firebombed everybody's inboxes with a partial list of names playing this year's barbecue-and-booze blitz. A quick scan reveals the midsize marquee names to ... More >>

  • Music

    September 17, 2008

    Mogwai Are As Brassy As Ever, and Even Jaunty For Once

    Dark Meat at last year's SXSW, photo by Rebecca Smeyne See, it's totally lame, don't worry, you're not missing a thing South by Southwest just firebombed everybody's inboxes with a partial list of names playing this year's barbecue-and-booze blitz. A quick scan reveals the midsize marquee names to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2008

    Live: Converge, Running Shit

    Dark Meat at last year's SXSW, photo by Rebecca Smeyne See, it's totally lame, don't worry, you're not missing a thing South by Southwest just firebombed everybody's inboxes with a partial list of names playing this year's barbecue-and-booze blitz. A quick scan reveals the midsize marquee names to ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    April 1, 2008

    Tuesday

    Dark Meat at last year's SXSW, photo by Rebecca Smeyne See, it's totally lame, don't worry, you're not missing a thing South by Southwest just firebombed everybody's inboxes with a partial list of names playing this year's barbecue-and-booze blitz. A quick scan reveals the midsize marquee names to ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    April 1, 2008

    MUTE EMOTION

    Nothing but feeling

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2007
  • Music

    May 15, 2007

    Primal, Feral, and Mobile

    On the Paleolithic clockwork of Brooklyn drummer Jerry Fuchs

  • Music

    February 20, 2007

    Music

    Stuff you need to know to avoid cultural ostracism

  • Music

    February 6, 2007

    Quiet-Loud-Quiet-Loud Thunderstorms With Passion And Stamina

    Stuff you need to know to avoid cultural ostracism

  • Music

    February 6, 2007

    Noise From the Front

    A musical valentine for the week of February 14-20, 2007

  • Music

    December 26, 2006

    Perfect From Now On

    New Year's resolutions, many of which are likely to be broken by the time you read this

  • Music

    February 22, 2005

    Remaking the Band

    Reunited and it feels so good: Our favorite groups are back to teach the young'uns how it's done

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