Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza

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Live: Jack's Mannequin Make Themselves At Home At Irving Plaza

Jack's Mannequin w/Allen Stone, Jukebox The Ghost Irving Plaza Wednesday, February 8 Better than: The $7 Bud Lights on sale, marketed generically and dimensionally as "12oz beer." Cool story, Irving Plaza! People were packed into the helpless rectangle of Irving Plaza, walled off from the stage by ... More >>

Live: Lamb Of God Build Their Wall Of Death At Irving Plaza

Lamb Of God Irving Plaza Tuesday, January 24 Better than: Pretty much everyone on Ozzfest 2003. Rap metal entered its death throes in the early 2000s, allowing harder bands that had actually competent musicians and aggression directed at someone other than their parents to come back into vogue. ... More >>

Michael Schmidt Responds To Don Hill Tribute Controversy

I recently blogged about a brouhaha that emerged out of the December 15 tribute to late club impresario Don Hill at Irving Plaza. The event's producer, Trigger, felt he'd been screwed over by two very well-known promoters he worked with on the night.

The Go Gos

I recently blogged about a brouhaha that emerged out of the December 15 tribute to late club impresario Don Hill at Irving Plaza. The event's producer, Trigger, felt he'd been screwed over by two very well-known promoters he worked with on the night.

Happy 60th Birthday, Joey Ramone

Today would have been the Queens-born punk legend Joey Ramone's 60th birthday, and tonight his annual birthday bash will take place at Irving Plaza; tickets are still available for the show, which will offer performances by the likes of Bebe Buell, Richard Lloyd, and Richie Ramone and which benefit ... More >>

Live: Calle 13 Make The Wait Worth It At Irving Plaza

​Calle 13 Irving Plaza Friday, May 6 Sure, they came onstage 45 minutes later than advertised, but the crowd was only a little grumpy about being kept waiting. (Those who booed and threw empty beer cans and plastic cups at Irving Plaza's hanging video screen every time a new song came over th ... More >>

CMJ Day One: Wild Nothing Inaugurate the New Simplicity At Irving Plaza

​Wild Nothing Irving Plaza Tuesday, October 19 Better than: How I'll feel by Sunday Well, it's hard to imagine a more pleasant way to begin CMJ 2010 than this, a half full Irving Plaza on a Tuesday night, before the adrenaline really takes hold, four dudes in sweaters playing staunchly prett ... More >>

Download Playboy Tre's Fine New Mixtape, The Last Call

​We here at SOTC (or me here, at least) hold Atlanta rapper Playboy Tre, last seen in these parts warming up the underage masses at B.o.B.'s Irving Plaza show, in great esteem: His warm, raspy voice makes him the best ad-lib guy around ("MAAAAAAAAN"), and as flouted particularly on last year' ... More >>

Week in Review: He Did? I Love It!

Happy birthday, clowns. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne​In the week James Murphy finally squashed his beef with our own Michael Musto, we watched as another journalist-on-artist feud--M.I.A. vs. Lynn Hirschberg, who else?--heated up, adding an album cover, a response to a response to a response to a r ... More >>

Irving Plaza Is Officially Irving Plaza Again

The old marquee, before the new marquee, which is now the old marquee again. Pic via Joe Madonna's photostream​Goodbye, "Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza"--your many syllables and unwieldy national branding associations will not be missed. The Times reports today that Live Nation is backing a ... More >>

"I Found Myself Hoping The Police Would Trap Us In There For Hours": Buzzcocks Fans At Irving Plaza Largely Undeterred By Bomb Scare

OK then. Credit.​I wanted to go see power-pop deities the Buzzcocks at Irving Plaza last night, but unfortunately I had to watch some butt-licking basketball team deep-six professional sports in Cleveland for the next several decades, so. Seems like it was a great show, even with the bomb scar ... More >>

Tonight They're Gonna Rock You Tonight: Phish!

Props to Zach for intentionally running the words "Phish in a barrel" on this website. Starting today, the legendary jam band wanks three nights away at Jones Beach. Isis do metaphysics by way of doom metal at Irving Plaza, plus a set by sludgy post-rockers Pelican. Sweden is weathering the rece ... More >>

Meet The Daisy Spurs

The Daisy Spurs are everywhere these days, like crabgrass, but far, far lovelier. A traveling floor show, they recently performed at our Obie Awards' after party at Webster Hall, and the other night when I sashayed into Spin Cycle's "Lust" party at Irving Plaza, they turned out to be the featured ... More >>

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Raise a White Russian to a Coen brothers classic

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Raise a White Russian to a Coen brothers classic

Tonight and Tomorrow: Ministry Give Their Fans One Final Pummeling

Raise a White Russian to a Coen brothers classic

Free Beer, Carousels, Audio Assaults, and Bad Comedians

Navigating the great costumes and lousy underage fucks as Halloween descends

The Mod Rules

Seeing Paul Weller in concert now necessitates selling your car, your furniture, and possibly your soul

New Year's Eve Event Guide

Seeing Paul Weller in concert now necessitates selling your car, your furniture, and possibly your soul

CMJ Music Marathon Highlights

Seeing Paul Weller in concert now necessitates selling your car, your furniture, and possibly your soul

Slept On

The Big Sleep confuse initially, inspire headbanging eventually

Portable Noise Pollution

Todd P—promoter, janitor, toilet builder—gives Brooklyn's avant-garde a home

Hütz to the Rescue

Gogol Bordello's mastermind single-handedly improves your boring life

CMJ Music Marathon

Gogol Bordello's mastermind single-handedly improves your boring life

After Two Decades, Two Reliable Brits Deliver Two Keepers

Gogol Bordello's mastermind single-handedly improves your boring life

Your Guide to CMJ 2004

Gogol Bordello's mastermind single-handedly improves your boring life

Send Mascara

Deliciously debauched Duran fans not glam enough live

Music for the Masses

Fist-raising rockers tune out the majors and band with independent record labels instead

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Fist-raising rockers tune out the majors and band with independent record labels instead

Music

Fist-raising rockers tune out the majors and band with independent record labels instead

CMJ Musicfest 2003

Fist-raising rockers tune out the majors and band with independent record labels instead

Garage Daze

Girls Take Center Stage in Their Own 'Warped Tour' Spin-0ff and Other Shows Around the City

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Girls Take Center Stage in Their Own 'Warped Tour' Spin-0ff and Other Shows Around the City

Get Yourself Free

Fool for the Kitty

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Fool for the Kitty

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Fool for the Kitty

CMJ Musicfest 2002

Fool for the Kitty

Opening Up

When Who's on First Is What Matters

A Scene Grows in Brooklyn

Live Rock Finds a New Home Across the Williamsburg Bridge

Sound Checks

Your Choices Guide to Four Nights of CMJ Music

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Your Choices Guide to Four Nights of CMJ Music

Live and Erect

Rock And Rap Shows Bed-Spring Into Action

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Rock And Rap Shows Bed-Spring Into Action

His Own Kind of Guilt

Rock And Rap Shows Bed-Spring Into Action

All Mixed Up

Clubs Go Off the Deep End

Taking the Rap

City Clubs Ban Hip-Hop Radicals

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City Clubs Ban Hip-Hop Radicals

As Hundreds Cheer

The Glum Triumph of The Magnetic Fields

If You Succeed, Try Harder

The Glum Triumph of The Magnetic Fields