Explosions in the Sky

Tyondai Braxton On His ATP Collaboration With Philip Glass

A collaboration between 33-year old former Battles leader Tyondai Braxton and 75-year old minimalist forefather Philip Glass takes place today at the All Tomorrow's Parties festival. It hardly falls under the header of WTF. In fact, it likely would have only taken a few dozen monkeys with a few doze ... More >>

Pan

11 Somewhat Fourth Of July-Appropriate Songs That Are Way Better Than Katy Perry's "Firework"

Tomorrow is the fourth of July, which means the celebration of American independence from Great Britain, which means Americans gathering in various wide-open spaces in order to watch things blow up. The big New York fireworks party is sponsored by Macy's, with the featured entertainment being none o ... More >>

Governors Ball 2012: Saturday Vs. Sunday In The World Series Of "Can New York Host A Music Festival"?

This weekend, Governors Ball took over Randall's Island for the latest installment of "Can New York City Host Its Own Major Music Festival?" Founders Entertainment, organizers of the second annual fest (that's what All Points West said, too), decided to go the "diverse" route, but at least they were ... More >>

MAJOR RAGER

Festival season comes to Randalls Island

Q&A: Mogwai's Stuart Braithwaite On How Happy Hardcore Sucks, Not Caring That Instrumental Rock Is Out Of Style, And Covering The Jewish Prayer "My Father, My King"

For the last fifteen years, the sonic-terrorizing Scottish smashheads Mogwai have remained true to their original vision: the cathartic squelching of a loud/soft gargantuan-riff dynamic undeterred by the music fashions and trends dictated by the Bitchfork monarchy. Admittedly an uncool bunch— ... More >>

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 >>

SATAN'S CHILDREN

WU LYF fire up Williamsburg

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Explosions in the Sky

ROCK ACTION

The majesty of Mogwai

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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.

WELCOME TO TOMORROWLAND

A rocker retreat with mere mortals

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 >>

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 >>

BRIGHT FUTURES

A night with three of Brooklyn’s finest

Pelican's Sketchy Metal

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

Mono

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 >>

MONO

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 >>

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 >>

Best Moderately Snooty Concert Series: Wordless Music Series

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

Live: Converge, Running Shit

Tuesday

MUTE EMOTION

Nothing but feeling

No Context: Vincent Gallo's RRIICCEE Live at the Green Room

Primal, Feral, and Mobile

On the Paleolithic clockwork of Brooklyn drummer Jerry Fuchs

Music

Stuff you need to know to avoid cultural ostracism

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

Noise From the Front

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

Perfect From Now On

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

Remaking the Band

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