Girl Talk (Musician)

Behind Born Ruffians' Birthmarks

When a group of best friends lock themselves in a house with a bunch of beer, some firewood and their respective instruments, it's a situation that could result in charred guitars, wounded friendships and questionable morning after stories. Thankfully, Toronto's Born Ruffians did so with the intent ... More >>

The 15 Most Ridiculous Band Promo Photos

By Daniel Hill Here at SOTC Music HQ we see literally one shitload of press photos every week. Many of them stick to a template: Gather all band members together, shoulder to shoulder. Make sure no one smiles, ever. Have the artists try to look thoughtful, but also like they are not trying to look ... More >>

Live: Catalpa Offers A Little Bit Of Everything To The Soggy Masses At Randall's Island

PHOTOS: Sunday at Catalpa Catalpa NYC: Snoop Dogg, Black Keys, Matt & Kim, Matisyahu, A$AP Rocky, Hercules & Love Affair, TV On The Radio, Girl Talk, et al. Randall's Island Saturday and Sunday, July 28 and 29 Better than: Arguing over an iPod's shuffle function. Music festivals without a histor ... More >>

Six Very Important Interactions Between Rappers And Dogs

As part of this weekend's Catalpa Festival, Snoop Dogg will slouch around Randall's Island to perform his debut album, Doggystyle, in its entirety. With the Doggfather being somewhat obsessed with all things canine, SOTC decided it was fine time to shed light on hip-hop's infatuation with dogs. But ... More >>

A SOTC Flowchart: Should You Get Married In Catalpa's Church Of Sham Marriages This Weekend?

"We have the Frisky's Church of Sham Marriages going in, which is a 60 foot inflatable church, and we have a pimp pastor marrying people. We actually have two couples getting legitimately married at the festival - the wedding dress, the whole family coming in. I'm trying to get Snoop Dogg to actuall ... More >>

Food Vendors Announced for Catalpa Music Festival

The Catalpa Music Festival, a two-day music festival on Randall's Island from July 28 and 29, just announced their food vendor line-up. It's the festival's inaugural event and it will feature performances from over 40 artists including The Black Keys, Snoop Dog, and Girl Talk. Here's the full list ... More >>

Detention

Live: Nguzunguzu And Salva Get Heads Bobbing At 285 Kent

Nguzunguzu w/Salva, Rizzla, DJ Weird Magic 285 Kent Friday, March 23 Better than: Any workout that doesn't happen on the dance floor. At 2 a.m. early Saturday Salva took control of 285 Kent, commanding the audience with a mix that incorporated freestyle, house, Miami bass, southern rap, and west ... More >>

Underwhelmed And Overstimulated, The Finale: Jay-Z And Kanye West Fiddle While The Underground Gets Wasted

Smell that money burning. ​This concludes Sound of the City's year-end roundtable, a conversation about pop music in 2011 between Tom Ewing, Eric Harvey, Maura Johnston, Nick Murray, and Katherine St. Asaph. Read it all again. Thanks for the handoff, Nick, and thanks to Katherine, Tom and esp ... More >>

Madeon Gets Hands-On With 39 Pop Songs

​ Just when mashups seemed a horse corpse well flogged by the likes of Glee and Girl Talk, the prodigal son of Discovery-era Daft Punk and the very best of Dr. Luke's blockbuster pop comes along to breathe life into the genre. The 17-year-old wunderkind known as Madeon (he's based in Nantes, F ... More >>

'The Governors Ball'

Penguin Prison on Touring With Girl Talk: "I Would Like 15-Year-Olds to Like My Music Too"

Todd Owyoung for the Riverfront TimesPenguin Prison opening for Girl Talk at the Pageant Girl Talk shows are the sorts of underage blitzkriegs in which everyone gets hit with more ass than a toilet seat, so one would have to imagine that touring with Gregg Gillis and his neon busload would be, uh, ... More >>

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Dancers Take Over the Staten Island Ferry (VIDEO)

Girl Walk // All Day from jacob krupnick. If you've ever wondered how fun and sexy the Staten Island Ferry could get, we have an answer. And there aren't even any guidos involved! Dancers Anne Marsen, Dai Omiya, and John Doyle show off their moves on the free orange boat to the sounds of "All Day" f ... More >>

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Week In Review: The Love and the Wizardry

We are all Jay-Z's children,. Photo by Jori Klein.​In the week we told you why you can't hate Kanye West and love My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy at the same time, we made similarly bold claims about Girl Talk--ten worst moments on that record, right here--and the Beatles, who along with a c ... More >>

Download All The Songs Sampled On Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

​Given Kanye West's total ubiquity these past few weeks/months/years, it's jarring to realize that his profoundly unraveled My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is not even officially out yet. And yet the Internet dissection is well under way -- just as Girl Talk's All Day (which we can't exactly ... More >>

The Ten Worst Moments On Girl Talk's All Day

Greg Gillis in Williamsburg, summer of 2009. Photo by Sam Horine.​By now you've heard All Day, the fifth full length LP from Pittsburg's Greg Gillis--or, as he's known on chaotic, fan-filled stages around the world, Girl Talk. The record was released to minimal fanfare, at the low price of fre ... More >>

The Books Get to Carnegie Hall

Creepy collage artists head uptown, and further underground

Live From The Ghe20 G0th1k Party, Where Voguing Is Encouraged, And Gawking At M.I.A. Is Not

A rare moment where you could see more than two feet in front of you. Pics by Puja, more below.​Every now and then a tribal baritone yell cut through the fog of the Pyramid Club last night, though I was too busy dodging slaps from the man in front of me to seek out the source. A new wave of sm ... More >>

Here Is Das Racist's Best New Music Acceptance Speech

​Yesterday, local role models and our friends Das Racist snagged the coveted 8.7/Best New Music designation from Pitchfork for Sit Down, Man, the second of two dense, drug-addled, deceptively smart mixtapes the trio has produced this year. It was a national vindication of what we've known in N ... More >>

Live: The Hood Internet Unleash A Torrent Of Guilty Pleasures At Bell House

Best Bar Mitzvah ever.​The Hood Internet Bell House Friday, July 2 The scene at the Bell House Friday night could've easily been mistaken for a totally rad Bar Mitzvah: A dance floor filled with boys and girls not touching, but rather dancing in circles around each other (some were even shoel ... More >>

Junk Culture

The Brain-Wiping New Reality of Flying Lotus

Omnivorous electronic headphone music for days, but don't try to dance to it

So Is Terminal 5 Really the Third Best Club in the World?

Julian Casablancas at Terminal 5 a few weeks back. Photo by Araceli Cruz.​The concert-promotion and ticket-sales aggregator website Pollstar recently compiled a list of the "Top 100 Worldwide Club Venues" on which Terminal 5 ranked a shocking #3. The result surprised even Pollstar--"When a New ... More >>

Bulls on Parade: Live From MSG's Arena Rock Rodeo

Where the soundtrack is more Jock Jams than Red State

Interview: Luke Top from Fool's Gold on Being a Paralegal, Singing in Hebrew, and the Lost Art of Improvisation

"I feel really accomplished because I made two records this year, held down the day job, and I didn't have to break up with my girlfriend." Marianne WilliamsThat's a lot of people. Bands that list too many influences tend to sound like a mess. So what does Fool's Gold, a band that's a goulash of E ... More >>

News Roundup: R.I.P. Brendan Mullen, Kia Motors Hearts Girl Talk, Daniel Johnston, Chris Taylor

​--R.I.P. Brendan Mullen, who was one of the first DIY promoters of punk and independent rock and the first regular booker of punk bands in Los Angeles. The Masque, a venue that became home base for all that is first-wave L.A. punk--including the Germs and the Weirdos--was in essence his baby ... More >>

Fever Ray's Smoke, Mirrors, and Hirsute Wolfmen

Karin Dreijer Andersson's bone-chilling audio/visual fantasia isn't quite as dark as, say, death metal

A Somewhat Rueful Live Report From Twestival, As In "Twitter Festival," Which Went About As Well As You'd Suspect It Would

Pic by Puja Patel​NYC's Twestival (Twitter festival, get it?) went down Saturday at Brooklyn Bowl, raising money for Bronx-based charity Camp Interactive, which means there was at least one good thing about it.

Week in Review: More Topless Women Than Non-Topless Women

photo from Girl Talk's Pool Party show by Sam Horine But seriously, this was a really depressing week. We said goodbye to Teddy Kennedy through song and so did Orrin Hatch. Ellie Greenwich, the woman who wrote "Be My Baby" also passed, as did 29 year old New York DJ Josh Link. Speaking of death, M ... More >>

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Dick Move Has a New Teengirl Fantasy 12-Inch, Which Isn't Nearly As Pervy As It Sounds

If you haven't had the pleasure of stumbling onto the blog Pukekos, you should. Brooklyn's B.J. Rubin is a meticulous documenter of underground music from the past decade or so, and routinely offers up digital downloads of long lost releases ranging from an SST Sonic Youth CD with no paper trail to ... More >>

Tonight! Chat With Iggy Pop or Weep With Camera Obscura

Besides jerking around with Iggy Pop on Letterman, newly sober dance-music goof Fatboy Slim is working on a concept album with David Byrne about Filipino sovereign Imelda Marcos, based on the pair's 2006 stage production Here Lies Love. He plays at Terminal 5. Meanwhile, Iggy chats with the New Yo ... More >>

Hearts of Darknesses

The Hood Internet

Coachella: Paul McCartney's Coming to the Desert

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Kid Sister's Dream Date: The New Chinese Democracy?

Now that the Chinese Democracy release-date pools are through, we've been left with only two things to wager: 1) When is Gregg Gillis gonna get the track-suit pants sued off him? (Those "I am a PC" ads must pay; I say this May.) ; 2) What will the next unicorn will be? Chicagoist thinks Kid Sister ... More >>

The Top 20 (and Far Beyond)

Big year for metal, hip-hop, and Paul Simon/pigfucker reconciliation

Girl Talk, Times POV: Not Like the Old Days

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WILD THING

Move your booty to Girl Talk’s megamix

Interview: Steinski (a/k/a Steve Stein), Part I

All Points West Day 1, Part 2: Radiohead, Girl Talk, Andrew Bird, CSS

Girl Talk's Pop-Music Car-Wreck

Live: Cut Copy Carries New Order's Torch

Everyone's Gone to the Dentist

Downtown kids chill out, kick back, discover yacht rock, soak in the good life

Live: Girl Talk Gets Hit With More Ass Than A Toilet Seat

Live: Spazzy Hipster DJ Needs to Calm Down