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The 10 Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 5/17/13

The Killers walk into an Electric Daisy Carnival with known Liars ... these are the 10 best concerts of the weekend.

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Death-Metal Band The Faceless Draw Criticism for Becoming Less Death-Metal

By Jason Roche When music from Los Angeles metal group The Faceless' newest album, Autotheism, began to leak out into the blogosphere last summer, fans were divided, and so were critics. "A botched experiment of sorts," opined SputnikMusic.com; "razor sharp," countered ThePRP.com. The group's prev ... More >>

What's the Difference Between Tomahawk and Taylor Swift? Our Chat With Legendary Guitarist Duane Denison

Nearly six years after their last album, 2007's Anonymous, Tomahawk return this week with fourth offering Oddfellows: more phantasmagoric rock to weird you out and rev you up all at once. Tomahawk's cast of music luminaries--singer Mike Patton (Faith No More, Mr. Bungle), guitarist Duane Denison (Th ... More >>

The Melvins, Globe-Trotting Men of Metal

Destined to be in the Guinness book of world records, or die trying

100 & Single: Three Rules To Define The Term "One-Hit Wonder" In 2012

You could hear the sigh of relief among pop fans a couple of weeks ago, when Carly Rae Jepsen's single with Owl City, "Good Time," broke into the Top 10 on Billboard's Hot 100. In his weekly chart roundup, veteran columnist Paul Grein remarked, "'Good Time' is an appropriately positive title for a ... More >>

Q&A: Will Schwartz Of Imperial Teen On Being Into Unrest, Sharing A Band With A Dude From Faith No More And How Living In Brooklyn Ruined His Songwriting

Since the mid-Nineties, Imperial Teen has crafted an infectious, hard-to-shake boy-meets-girl candy-pop jangle. Formed by Faith No More keys-master Roddy Bottum and NYU grad/pop maven Will Schwartz with ex-punk rockers Lynn Truell and Jone Stebbins, they quickly scored a major-label deal during the ... More >>

Orion Festival In Photos: The Bands, The Scene, And The "Potato Tornado"

I spent the past two days at Atlantic City's Bader Field, which played host to the inaugural Orion Music More Festival, a two-day "music, arts and lifestyle" bonanza put together by the thrash kings in Metallica. It was pretty great all around—James Hetfield kept referring to the bash as a " ... More >>

Celebrating Jonathan Toubin: Gibby Haynes, Jon Spencer, Neil Hamburger And Others Share Their JT Stories

Eleanor LoganCertainly you've heard that New York's very own soul-and-rock DJ Jonathan Toubin was injured in a freak accident where a taxi crashed into his Portland hotel room and landed on top of him while he slept. As the kind of guy who knows all his local bodega owners, DJs in four states in six ... More >>

DOUBLY SWEET

Panda Bear returns for two nights

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Live: Sonic Youth Get Caught Between Bad Moon Rising and New York City

Sonic Youth w/Wild Flag, Kurt Vile Williamsburg Waterfront Friday, August 12 Better than: Listening to a playlist of the set on Spotify. Just before Sonic Youth played "Starfield Road," from 1994's Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star, at Friday night's Williamsburg Waterfront gig, singer-guit ... More >>

Download: Tracks By Charlie Looker's Extra Life And Sculptress

​Charlie Looker has spent 10 years in New York art-rock anomalies--Lavender, Zs, Period, Extra Life, Sculptress, even (briefly) Dirty Projectors. The common thread is always the place where the vulnerable sentiment of indie rock collides with the jagged rhythms of contemporary composition; Loo ... More >>

Sad Sack Uncle Sam Stumbles Around Chinatown in New Beast Installation

​Last month, the street artist Beast made the New York City subway map, usually a "limp dick," into an erect penis thrilled over the death of Osama Bin Laden. Yesterday he was back at work with a new installation he calls "Sam & Fred & Mike & Tom & Jerry go to China," which depicts a dilapidat ... More >>

Live: Bruno Mars And Janelle Monáe Dance It Out At Roseland

The Hooligans in Wondaland Tour Bruno Mars/Janelle Monáe w/Plan B Roseland Wednesday, May 4 Better than: Waiting for "Grenade" to come on the radio. The co-headlining tour starring sweet-voiced android Janelle Monáe and uxorious pop crooner Bruno Mars kicked off at Roseland last night, and why t ... More >>

Was 2010 The Best Year For Music Ever? American Idol Wobbles, R&B Thrives, And The '90s Rise Again

Welcome to Sound of the City's year-in-review rock-critic roundtable, an amiable ongoing conversation between five prominent Voice critics: Rob Harvilla, Zach Baron, Sean Fennessey, Maura Johnston, and Rich Juzwiak. We'll be here all week! At least one song on this record is really good!​Gent ... More >>

My 10 Favorite Concerts Of 2010, Starring Jay-Z, Pavement, And Michael Bolton

Stephen Malkmus, at the first of Pavement's 50 shows here. Pics by Rob unless noted otherwise.​The 100-plus shows I saw this year spanned from the Cake Shop to Radio City Music Hall, from Williamsburg block parties to Michael Bolton's house in Connecticut, the events that occurred therein all ... More >>

Ten Bands From The '90s That Haven't Reunited

Mark Ibold, still happier about the Pavement reunion than you are​So Chavez is reuniting, or whatever you want to call it. A Pavement reunion just dominated most of last week in New York City. Before that, it was a never-dissolved-but-certainly-largely-inactive Superchunk. In the past few year ... More >>

Last Pool Party Canceled, OSA Slams Jelly, Jelly Prepares Rebuttal: "Their Statement Contains Numerous Falsehoods That We Can Document"

At the !!! Pool Party Sunday, in (slightly) happier times. Pic by Sam Horine.​A bad summer for the Jelly Pool Parties is ending worse. Word spread last night that the August 29th show at East River State Park, featuring Delorean, Dominique Young Unique, and two never-revealed SECRET SPECIAL GU ... More >>

Live: Meek Is Murder Headline An Occasionally Headbanging Blowout At Public Assembly

Guess which member of Set Aflame has the most involved hair-care regimen. Pic by Dan.​Meek Is Murder/Set Aflame/Bandladeafy/Psycho Enhancer Public Assembly Tuesday, August 10 After the crushing disappointment of last week's canceled Destroyer 666 show, Tuesday night's affair at Brooklyn's Pub ... More >>

Answers to the Annoying Questions Your Indecisive Friends Will Ask About the First Jelly NYC Pool Party. (Yes, You Can Probably Watch the World Cup Final There.)

On Sunday afternoon, FIFA will crown the 2010 World Cup winner. At that very same time, Jelly NYC will be hosting its first Pool Party of 2010. To immerse yourself locally in the World Cup final experience, all you need is a football-friendly liquor-licensed establishment, a large-screen TV, and t ... More >>

Week in Review: Taking Our Talents To South Beach

Sam Horine​In the week we put the worst band name in New York to a vote (Phil and the Osophers, you are no match for Freelance Whales), we watched as LeBron James put his own name in as the most hated in New York, while Kanye West stood proudly at his side. The last place West was seen before ... More >>

How One Williamsburg Bar Welcomed All Those Faith No More Fans: Hey "Nerds That Never Got Over High School"

​Mike Patton may've teased the sold-out crowd at Monday night's Faith No More show by calling us "hipsters," but the malnourished layabouts who normally sashay down Bedford Ave really weren't the show's demographic. The East River Park was far more populated by aggro jocks, khaki cargo shorts, ... More >>

Live: Faith No More Invade Williamsburg, Still Care A Lot

Faith No More East River State Park Friday, July 2 We are gathered here this evening with our backs to the sunset to watch a reunited Faith No More play the East River State Park, a former shipping dock in Williamsburg consisting of seven mostly un-shaded acres, part concrete slab, part lawn, par ... More >>

10 Magnificent Discoveries from Behind the Music: Courtney Love

The nakedly turbulent narrative structure of VH1's Behind The Music was invented for Courtney Love. In fact, everything with her is behind the music. So when the hippie spawn who once fronted Faith No More (true story) and auditioned for the Mickey Mouse Club by reading Sylvia Plath (a piece about ... More >>

Summer Guide: Kelis Tries For A Rebound

With her new album Flesh Tone, the "Milkshake" singer tries on some club-pop

Second on the Williamsburg Waterfront After Faith No More? Nas.

​The second benefit show on the Williamsburg Waterfront after Faith No More will feature Nas and Damian Marley, reports Free Williamsburg. That's good news indeed--Marley had a couple of great Summerstage shows years back circa "Jamrock," a song that sounds just about perfect circa July 31st, ... More >>

Faith No More Is Playing A Benefit At The Williamsburg Waterfront In July

One of these guys might not be in the band​Paging @1000timesyes: Newly reformed avant-metal doggs Faith No More are hitting up everyone's favorite summertime hangout July 5, though it'll be a paid show, the first of several to support the Open Space Alliance for North Brooklyn. Trust me: You'r ... More >>

American Idol Week Eight: Dealing With Mariah

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BURN, BABY, BURN

Time to burn that rink to the ground

CMJ Day Three: Making the Most of Shitty Options

Imperial Teen's The Hair, the TV, the Baby & the Band

Mischievous pop stars act their shoe size, not their age

The Rage Against the Machine Reunion: Some Historical Perspective

Axl Rose: Still Crazy

White People Love Gnarls Barkley

Hip-Hop Hooray

Heard It on the X

There Is No Such Thing as Nü Metal, and It Has an X-Tremely Funny Face

Glitches With Attitude

The Roar of the Greasepaint, the Stank of the Crowd

Jugs and Jive