Fillmore

Former Metallica Bassist Jason Newsted Is Back to Kicking Asses Again

Pulling no punches

Which NFL Playoff City Has the Best Musical History: Boston, SF, Baltimore or Atlanta?

Live: The Joshua Light Show With John Zorn, Lou Reed, Bill Laswell, Milford Graves, And Terry & Gyan Riley

The Joshua Light Show with John Zorn/Lou Reed/Bill Laswell/Milford Graves and Terry Riley/Gyan Riley Skirball Center for the Performing Arts Friday, September 14 Better than: Slippin' into darkness. "Just to watch people in weird shirts playing funny-shaped instruments is not visually on the same ... More >>

Joshua Light Show - NYU - September 14th and 16th, 2012

Terry & Gyan Riley Skirball Center, New York University Friday, September 14 Forro in the Dark, Debo Band Skirball Center, New York University Sunday, September 16 Better than: A Pink Floyd laser show. A couple of what used to be called "world music" acts—local Brazilian expats Forro in the ... More >>

MAD SCIENTIST

Be Kristen Schaal's guinea pig

Original Gem Spa (1972) Closes: Bye Bye, Miss American Egg Cream

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. February 24, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 8 Gem Spa closes: Bye Bye, Miss American Egg Cream By Clark Whelton Gem Spa is closed. The candy store which became a clearing house for the hip-yip-street freak festival in the East Village is now pa ... More >>

It's 1971, and the Voice is Already Nostalgic for the 1960s

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. August 26, 1971, Vol. XVI, No. 34 One-way street By Lucian K. Truscott IV Last Wednesday was hot and sunny. On St. Mark's Place, once the home of James Fenimore Cooper and later W. H. Auden and Abbie Hoffman, the air hung in soggy, hea ... More >>

George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton: The Concert for Bangladesh

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. August 5, 1971, Vol. XVI, No. 31 The Event wound up as a Love Feast By Don Heckman You could see it was going to be an Event almost immediately from the fact that the first 10 rows or so of Madison Square Garden had more than their usu ... More >>

The Last Show at the Fillmore

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. July 1, 1971, Vol. XVI, No. 26 Fillmore, Summer of '71: Graduation Day By Don Heckman So it turned out to be with a whimper, after all. Expecting fireworks at the Absolutely Last Final Fillmore East performance on Sunday night, we expe ... More >>

Bill Graham Closes Down The Fillmore

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. May 6, 1971, Vol. XVI, No. 18 Remember the Fillmore? By Lucian K. Truscott IV Out on the street, a group of black-clad, tough-looking longhairs who called themselves the Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers were distributing a handbill. I ... More >>

Live: Mike Posner Serenades A Roomful Of Screaming, Brawling Ladies At Irving Plaza

A bout of roadie-assisted crowd-surfing, and why not. Pics by Rob, more below.​Mike Posner/Far East Movement Irving Plaza Tuesday, October 12 Better than: Going to Duke Within five minutes of Mike Posner taking the stage, a full-scale omnidirectional brawl between at least eight remarkably p ... More >>

Mungo Jerry Arrives to Save Rock 'n' Roll

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. August 6, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 32 Riffs By Andrew Lycett LONDON -- The Beatles are dead, the Stones are playing bad, repetitive music. In fact, the English music scene has been in a state of unhappy hiatus for the last year or so. Gone a ... More >>

The Very First Consumer Guide: A Plus

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. July 10, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 39 Consumer Guide I by Robert Christgau Unless you are very rich and very freaky, your relationship to rock is nothing like mine. By profession, I am surfeited with records and live music. Virtually every r ... More >>

Frank Zappa Makes it Tough on Hard-Put Mothers Fans

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. February 27, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 20 Riffs by Carman Moore Mothers fans are the most hard-put, put-upon, and hardy crowd in music. The stresses they're put to are so thorough that, as a group, they are usually split down the middle. The ... More >>

The Radicalization of Hip Is Now Complete

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. November 28, 1968, Vol. XIV, No. 7 The Lower East Side: Radicalization of Hip by Steve Lerner The radicalization of hip, as it is known in Movement circles, is now complete. While only last year militants looked down on the hippie and ... More >>

This Weekend! James Maynard's Blood Into Wine, Reverend Horton Heat, Glee Live!, Holy Fuck, Nice Nice, Ninjasonik, So So Glos, Ava Luna, Bushick Rooftop Fest, And Much Much More

Tonight, the second viewing of Blood Into Wine, the documentary on Tool frontman James Maynard Keenan's brass-knuckled corkscrew domination of the Arizona winemaking frontier, aptly commences at the City Winery. Meanwhile, cowboy punk Reverend Horton Heat delivers his second sermon of "epically s ... More >>

Tonight! Beach Fossils, Woods w/ the Joshua Light Show, Phosphorescent, Everybody Was In The French Resistance...Now!, These are Powers, Buzzcocks, Das Racist, And Lady Gaga w/ Elton John

Tonight, The Deli's "Best of NYC" festival kicks off with Beach Fossils, the sensitive, disaffectedly distorted surf bums with a mobile drummer. At the Abrons Art Center, the Joshua Light Show splashes lava-lamp gurgling, polka-dotted hallucinogen projections atop Woods, a lo-fi folk act whose psy ... More >>

Tonight! Clipse, Ninjasonik, Lucky Dragons, Beach House, Washed Out, Sia, Local Natives, Jeff Mangum, a-ha, Bear Hands, Lemonade, And Dinosaur Feathers

Having learned about Pusha T's badass grandma (not to mention that Rambo-themed pizza joint) yesterday, you can better appreciate NYC tour guides/coke rap extraordinaires Clipse tonight at Highline Ballroom. For obvious moral support, Ninjasonik will also be there, "squeezing into tight pants and ... More >>

HIGH TIMES

Trip out to the Joshua Light Show

I Don't Go Clubbing, I Go Dancing: The Weekend In Nightlife, Starring Hot Chip, Basement Bhangra, Dam Funk, Carl Craig, And Gordon Voidwell

​Tonight Hot Chip performs at Terminal 5 alongside Gang Gang Dance... but you knew that already. Tickets have been sold out for weeks; so go nuts on Craigslist, stand outside an hour before the doors, or just go to the afterparty, which goes down at Webster Hall with the Hot Chip fellas on the ... More >>

I Don't Go Clubbing, I Go Dancing: The Weekend In Nightlife, Starring Kid Sister, Mark Farina, And The Mutek Festival

​Tonight a mix of electro and hip-hop pervades Webster Hall's "Girls & Boys," a party with more teenagers and neon than... not. The pairing of U.K.-born dubstep darling Rusko and Chicago hip-hop queen Kid Sister might seem strange at first, but just go with it. (Or, take a listen to Rusko's of ... More >>

Tonight! Oh No Ono, Black Lips, Julian Casablancas, And Clogs

​Never pass up the opportunity to see a self-proclaimed group of Danish "Internet Warriors" who have specifically branded themselves as human-headed "Lion Fish." That'd be Oh No Ono (to your left), performing their springy, game-show post-punk at Mercury Lounge tonight. Meanwhile, at Bowery Ba ... More >>

Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker -- Cream Plays NYC

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. October 5, 1967, Vol. XII, No. 51 Cream: They Play Blues, Not Superstar By Richard Goldstein It's Saturday night at the Village Theatre, New York's sad-eyed answer to the Fillmore-Avalon scene. Under the marquee, Slavs gape and Ratner' ... More >>

Tonight! Andrew W.K., The Dirty Pearls, Aeroplane, Apache Beat, And The Asteroid Galaxy Tour

via AndrewWK.com​While everyone is hiking down to SXSW, you can relax at the Fillmore, where, for the first time in five years, the lovably menacing, defiantly unshowered Andrew W.K. and his full band will strut their stuff alongside neo-glam rockers the Dirty Pearls. Over at the Andrew-affili ... More >>

Oh, Those Hippies: A Store Where Everything Is Free

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. September 28, 1967, Vol. XII, No. 50 Everything's Free, But Don't Steal It By Don McNeill The one rule was "No Stealing." Aside from that, it was a free-for-all from the moment the Diggers opened the doors to the Free Store Thursday n ... More >>

The Hold Steady Announce New Record: Heaven Is Whenever, Due in May

Judson Baker​Here's to ending the longest drought between Hold Steady albums, ever. In the two years since the Brooklyn band released the hardcore revival moment Stay Positive, the former five piece toured endlessly and, at the tail end of last month, bade farewell to keyboardist and chief mou ... More >>

Tonight! Cheap Trick, Ozzy Osbourne, and Francois K

​In the words of our very own Jason Gross, "They've still got the two cute and aging boy-toys and the two weird-looking guys also." Yes, he is referring to none other than Cheap Trick, and yes, they are playing the Fillmore, wielding, as always, guitars with enough necks to impale a small army ... More >>

The 1000TimesYes Top 100: The Top 100 2009 Records Of A Guy Who Listened To More Records Than You

You know, we actually have other shots of Chris, he just won't let us use them. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​As a guy who plausibly could claim he listened to more music than anyone in the last year short of Robert Christgau, 1000TimesYes's Christopher R. Weingarten seemed like the ideal guy to as ... More >>

New Year's Eve 2010: New York Shows

Yeah it's Christmas, but it's also the dawn of the first of many, many maddeningly inconclusive conversations you're about to have about your New Year's plans. Let this guide help you. We're out of here for the day, and back on Monday. Enjoy the long weekend. May your holidays look a lot like this. ... More >>

Gwar

Tonight! The Jesus Lizard, Neko Case, And Kinky Friedman

Those of you not cool enough to attend the last upstate New York All Tomorrow's Parties jam or that Vice Halloween party clusterfuck have thus probably been denied the violent, visceral, vitriolic pleasures of the Jesus Lizard reunion, and this is no way to be, going through life without David Yow ... More >>

Stryper

News Roundup: Chris Brown/Rihanna, Oxford Collapse, Sunny Day Real Estate, Coney Island Rockabilly Festival

--Chris Brown reached a plea deal in court yesterday in his felony assault case. Brown will avoid jail time by receiving probation, doing 180 days of community service in his native Virginia, and attending domestic violence counseling classes. Brown is ordered to stay 50 yards away from Rihanna for ... More >>

The Avett Brothers Mix Maudlin Sentiment with Punk Ferocity

Rick Rubin approves.

White Rabbits on Recording With Spoon's Britt Daniel, Opening for the Pogues, and Playing Basketball With the Walkmen

"I just like seeing our press releases verbatim on blogs. That's just my favorite." Think they'll play inside this rig tonight at the Bowery Ballroom? Brooklyn's White Rabbits were known for two things when they first emerged in 2007: the ska/soul affectations of their sure-footed debut, Fort Nigh ... More >>

Brief Guide to All the Wacky Shit You Missed This Weekend, Ponce

DEEP TRANCE

A Krautrock legend casts his spell

X at the Fillmore at Irving Plaza

Osorezan's Mimidokodesuka

Our old friend, free (if not big) in Japan

SATURDAY | 5.24

MONDAY | 5.19

Tonight: Sara Bareilles at the Fillmore at Irving Plaza

Performances & Live Music

Rock of Ages

The Detroit Cowboy tells his congregation about the world, flesh, and the Devil

Splitting the Difference

For a brief moment in 1965, Charles Lloyd envisions the best of many worlds

Heads, Future and Past

Finally a chance to catch up on all those new bands. Well, maybe not bands exactly . . .

Deep Purple

Race Matters in New Books on Prince and Hendrix

Personality

Houston Person Sticks to Your Ribs

White Lines (Do It)

A Confederacy Of Idiots

Followers of Cult Radio DJ Build Their Temple Over the Net