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BIG BEATS

Hit the ultimate beach party

LET’S DANCE

Jordana Che Toback and Clarinda Mac Low team up

MIXED-UP FINGERS

As if learning how to play piano wasn’t hard already

Week in Review: Born Free

That's how you listen to Ghostface! Photo by Rebecca Smeyne​In the week M.I.A. broke the internet in a tidal wave of blood and guts and red hair, we did our best to put it back together.

Meet Avan Lava, New York's Newest Super-Funky, Fischerspooner-Affiliated Disco Duo

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. ​New York's super-funky disco exports (see Invisible Conga People, Escort) just got maybe their most luscious addition yet. Not to be confused with YIMBY favorite Ava Luna, Avan Lava is lush, sparkli ... More >>

Say Goodbye to 2009: Looking Back at the Year in Concerts

Last year's Stupid Party in Crown Heights. All photos by Rebecca Smeyne.​We're closing up shop early today, and getting a head start on the New Year by doing snow angels outside for a while. Last minute guidance on your own New Year's Eve plans can be found here and here. In the meantime, plea ... 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 >>

ART ATTACK

Performa 09 features a dizzying program

Fischerspooner Pre-"Entertainment" Rehearsal at the Performing Garage: Still Flamboyant, Hairsprayed, Shiny

Rebecca Smeyne Fischerspooner's new full-length Entertainment comes out May 5, so the electro-freaks spent three nights of the last week rehearsing their new stage show at the Performing Garage. Rebecca Smeyne documented the proceedings--and they were shiny. [Fischerspooner at the Performing Garag ... More >>

Week in Review: "Some Magazine, I Don't Know Where It Was."

Sahoko Yui In the week Rush Limbaugh called us "some magazine," we invited our friend Status Ain't Hood back for a day. Oh, and right: Congrats Tom! Interviews: Wavves' Nathan Williams on drugs and the beach, Albert Maysles on HBO's new Grey Gardens, Ian Svenonius on Kanye West and his new band, C ... More >>

'Kiss & Tell Presents Revenge of the Nerds'

ECO-MOVEMENT

Performers take on Mother Nature

Tuesday 4:1

METHOD MAN

Petronio pulls you into his fabulous madness

FranceOff! The Lower East Side takes on la France

Quel Surprise!

Acquired Tastes

A quickspin through New York nightlife's trendsetting hall of fame

Iraq Turns Four: To Rock or Protest?

Get Your War Off

Susan Sarandon, Cindy Sheehan, and Peaches bring it home

Central Asian Indie Wastes Post-Apocalyptic Landscape

Blast From the (Recent) Past: A More Mature Fischerspooner

Body Double

Seeing doubles at Casey Spooner's splashy birthday bash

Xmas Crawl

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Wack Job

Terry Richardson's 'Terryworld' brings blowjobs to the art world

How to straighten your CD shelves, which isn't the point

Music

Cool Like That

Wink, Wink

Roger's Big Night Out

Spin Cycle

Fischerspooner's Shtick Hits Stores, But Will America Get It?

NY Mirror

Something Smells Fishy

A Murray Murray Christmas!

Knocked Up

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From Safety to Where

Busted on Bleecker

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Promotion Commotion

'Vice' Squad

Artful Dodgers

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Trans-Decade Express

NYC Rocks Down to Electro Avenue

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Babylon Calling

Thoughts on Newness for the New Season