Fleetwood Mac

Fleetwood Mac - Prudential Center - 4/24/13

Better Than: The idea of the band not reuniting this year at all. It begins with "Second Hand News" -- a song with a title and lyrics probably meant to be a self-deprecating nod to the reunion's time and place. It's an entire arena clutching their hearts along to songs that are older than I am and ... More >>

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Week, 4/22/13

Here are the top 10 concerts around the city this week, in no particular order.

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Week, 4/8/13

Here are the 10 best shows around the city this week, in no particular order.

Fleetwood Mac

Fleetwood Mac

Dave Grohl and Other Rockers Toast L.A.'s Sound City

Kings of the Stone Age

Last Minute Music-Inspired Mashup Costumes For Your Already Busted Halloween

Halloween on a Wednesday. It was a massive bummer before Sandy came and took a shit all over it. It makes sense if you've not yet picked out a costume. We've got some last minute, music-inspired costume suggestions. All of them are awful, maybe. But after all that's gone down these last few days, ex ... More >>

100 & Single: Of Monkees, Michael, and "Maria"—The History Of The Chart-Dominating, Lifestyle-Accessory Album

Cassandra (Tia Carrere): You've heard it? Wayne (Mike Myers): Exqueeze me? Have I seen this one before? Frampton Comes Alive?! Everybody in the world has Frampton Comes Alive. If you lived in the suburbs you were issued it. It came in the mail with samples of Tide. —Wayne's World 2 (1993) Fo ... More >>

100 & Single: Adele's Focus-Grouped Chart-Topper And The Demise Of The "Deep Cut"

Remember the album cut—the track deep on a disc that fans knew best, that only cool radio stations would play? Like so many cherished things from before the iTunes era, it's essentially extinct. My evidence for this bold and seemingly facile statement isn't the steady, well-chronicled disappe ... More >>

Common Goes To The White House: In Which Okayplayer Hater Sarah Palin Gets A-Moralizing

​In case you haven't been paying attention to Sarah Palin's antics lately (in which case: good for you), she recently got mad on the Facebook and the Twitters about noted rapper Common Sense performing at a White House poetry event. Like everything Palin says, this is gross and wrong. She appa ... More >>

Rock-Critic Pop Quiz: Can You Reel Off The Track Listing Of "Rumours"?

​We spent Record Store Day choking and punching out mouth-breathing, acne-flecked nerdlingers, hoping to secure a copy of that Big Star test pressing. While squeezing the very life from a particularly frankfurtery collector's neck we noticed a rock critic or two peeking from the vinyl stacks, ... More >>

Week In Review: Their Eyes Were Watching You

​ The week that was in music: "Weird Al" Yankovic made Lady Gaga blink. Beyoncé overloaded everyone's eardrums. Fleetwood Mac is in rock critics' comfort zone.

MAGIC HOUR

The No. 1 chick of the ’70s hits a modest stage

It's Monday, And Already Many Record Store Day Items Have Been Resold On eBay

Money, honey. ​The "Hallmark holiday for music nerds" festivities of Record Store Day are a little less than 36 hours past, and as predicted, the speculators and collectors were out in full force on Saturday. And some of them are already seeing returns on their waiting-in-line investments! eBa ... More >>

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Excerpt: The 33 1/3 Book On Fleetwood Mac's Tusk, Featuring A Lot Of Money, A Lot Of Cocaine, And A Lot Of Band Bed-Hopping

​Recently, beloved friend-of-SOTC Rob Trucks (last seen chatting with the Big Star tribute crew and exploring Bob Dylan-centric Greenwich Village landmarks) published a book on Fleetwood Mac's Tusk, adding to the venerable 33 1/3 series the tale of the fraught, outrageously expensive, doggedl ... More >>

American Idol, Season 10: How Long Until Ashley Sullivan Eats Ryan Seacrest's Face?

​My favorite annual piece of fake American Idol suspense-building went down on tonight's episode. After they all sing, the contestants get divided into different rooms, and then the judges visit each room to tell everyone whether they made the cut or not. And it's never even remotely suspensef ... More >>

Kiss & Tell Gold Dust Woman Presents Mike Servito

Download: Religious To Damn's Moody Goth Melodrama "Glass Prayer"

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. ​A mix of desert strum, hypnotic pulse, spirited-away synths, Lynchian weirdness, and Fleetwood Maximalism, it's not entirely certain if Brooklyn's Religious to Damn want to take you higher or drag y ... More >>

Rogue Wave+Midlake

In Honor Of Weezer's New Hurley, Here Are Suggestions For More Lost-Themed Albums

​So Weezer's next album is named Hurley, and that's the cover: an unadorned photo of Hurley's face. Even if you consider this a terrible idea, you must admit it doesn't crack the Weezer's top 25 worst ideas of the past five years; in fact, the idea of records inspired by Lost characters has po ... More >>

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Tonight! Northside Festival, Fleetwood Mac, Meat Puppets

The first inaugural Northside Festival brings CMJ-style pandemonium to Williamsburg and Greenpoint, starting tonight. Ewok Village-natives Naybob and Raybob Shineywater of Brightblack Morning Light headline the opening gala at Studio B. The Music Hall of Williamsburg's sold out Hold Steady show a ... More >>

NICKS FIX

And you see your gypsy, times 1,000

Live: Fleetwood Mac at Madison Square Garden

all photos by David Atlas Fleetwood Mac Madison Square Garden March 19 It was sometime during Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham's delicate duet performance of the lullabye-like "Never Going Back Again" at last night's Madison Square Garden Fleetwood Mac show when someone behind me opined, "They ... More >>

Interview: "Alien Vs. Predator" Poet Michael Robbins

After the New Yorker, a real press photo, maybe. The poet Michael Robbins lives in Chicago, quotes both Lil Wayne and Paul Muldoon fluently, and studs his criticism with punchlines like "This sort of thing is why punk rock had to be invented." His January 12 debut in the New Yorker, "Alien Vs. Pre ... More >>

American Idol Season 8 Premiere: Ryan Seacrest Gets Lip-Raped by a Bitch, Tells Blind Guy He'll "See" Him Soon

Bikini Girl, Katrina Darrell Like the cockroaches after the apocalypse, American Idol is still here. And so, Idol fans and haters, the eighth season begins with some 16 hours of auditions from eight cities. Last night, we got two hours covering two days of auditions in Phoenix, Arizona--Archuleta- ... More >>

Big Takeover: Group Wants Bad Brains to Play Inaugural Ball

Interview: Lindsey Buckingham

Lindsey Buckingham: Still Weird and Beautiful, but Tedious, Too

Interview: Exene Cervenka of X

Dubya's Cum-Uppance: A Nucular Attack

The Wholesome Thrills of Small-Town Porn

Sugarland's tales of red-state grandeur resonate even if you've never made a casserole

Cred Sheet

Stuff You Need to Know to Avoid Cultural Ostracism

The Bored and the Beautiful

The Pierces are enjoying themselves a little more than their biggest hit would suggest

Things I Learned Watching American Hardcore

Bucolic Pop Evokes Supertramp, William Carlos Williams

Heck Week

Insecure Southern rockers thrill with West Coast harmony

Aggressively Adorned

The search for this season's hottest (and largest) jewelry

Outdoor Concerts & Music Festivals

Music

Blow Your House Down

It Takes a Rave Nation of Millions to Hold Armand Van Helden Back

Goodbye Mr. Zeps

All Ears

Disney Dreams Up the Best Radio Station in 30 Years

If She Makes You Happy

Big Mac

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