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How Following His Muse Paid Off Big for DJ Steve Aoki

The house's money

Live: The Crystal Ark And Avan Lava Bathe In Color At Music Hall Of Williamsburg

The Crystal Ark w/Avan Lava Music Hall of Williamsburg Wednesday, May 30 Better than: The record, in one case. Last summer, Jonathan Galkin described his work as DFA Records' head of A&R for me in an interview. "I literally have a stack at home of 40 CDs I picked out that's, like, '88 to '92," he ... More >>

Draper's Friends

What to do when Mad Men isn't on

The Decade in Music Genre Hype

A solemn tribute to once-hot-shit trends that (mostly) won't be joining us in the '10s

It's That Performa Time of Year Again

Brendan Fowler, grindin'​The third edition of the absurd festival of performance art and excess that is RoseLee Goldberg's Performa 09 is underway in New York. And as always, a bunch of musicians are moonlighting, including DNA's Arto Lindsay (his "SOMEWHERE I READ" Performa kick-off processio ... More >>

RAIN DANCE

Petronio and crew bring on the storm

Notes on Brooklyn Recording Studio the Rare Book Room

Inside Nicolas Vernhes's sanctuary, home to avant-rock

Spring Dance Preview: Emanuel Gat's Club Mozart

Hallowed music gets the Gat treatment

A Moveable Beast

Beware the hair-dryer throne! The Art Parade returns for its third year.

Sunshine, Underground

Brash DJ seeks audience that actually buys records—ironic Beyoncé devotees need not apply

Status Ain't Hood Interviews LCD Soundsystem

Get in the Ring

Someone should've kicked dance-punk DJ-producer-bandleader James Murphy's ass by now. No one can.

There Is a Light That Never Goes Out of Style

Raising a glass to Lit, mourning Disco D, and bashing the repellent cabaret law

What a Year That Was

NYC nightlife luminaries fondly recall what they can still remember from 2006

Status Ain't Hood Interviews the Rapture

Riding the Shortbus

Sex-starved East Village hippies get naked for John Cameron Mitchell's latest perverse utopia

Wish You'd Been There

How the boldfaced and the beautiful spent their summer vacations

Exit Stage Left

Earnest celebrities support the troops with jokes and anger

Celebrity Spin

Rock Stars Are Not DJs—But DJs Are Rock Stars

So Over

2005 is a blur; Tha Pumpsta, Goldfrapp, Gang of Four recap it.

Mojo's Working

Blues-rock's finest haw-haws NYC after 10 haw-hawless years

Homes for the Holidays

Bars to hibernate in when the weather dips

Helloween

Why tricks and treats should only last one night, not four

'Spin' Sugar

Public Enemy, D.M.C., Lady Sovereign rock Spin magazine's 20th Anniversary party

Artsy Fartsy

New Art Parade doesn't suck; Tommie Sunshine wants Revenge

So Dark

Dark Room turns one; Cyril's in the Hamptons

Mofos Unite

Records, blowjobs, and blackouts: The filthy bash turns five

Everybody Wang Chung Tonight

Ex-ska boy's band has the charisma-lack to move your butt

The French Are Coming

Keren Ann and Nouvelle Vague open up New York ears to the chanteuse nation

Absolutely Fabulous

Fu@!k Friendster

Fear of Flying

Kiss and Tell

The Miami Diaries

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NY Mirror

This Old House

Who's the Boss?

I'm (Not) on the List

Techno Grows Up

That's the (Low) Life

Let's Get This Party Started Right

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Opening to Yoga

Going to the Mat

A Doom of One’s Own

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