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Ten Things My Chemical Romance Fans Can Do RIGHT NOW to Cope With the Band's Breakup

In the wake of what, apparently, was the greatest band of all time -- My Chemical Romance -- breaking up, hundreds upon hundreds of unstable fans are currently struggling to put the pieces of their broken lives back together. There's a change.org petition requesting that MCR provide a proper worldwi ... More >>

The 10 Worst Things at SXSW This Year

Security and Cops Gettin' Wild: Look, I get it. Every drunken dickhead in town "knows someone" or thinks he has pull at the door, but that doesn't mean the hammer goes down on everyone. I was stopped by two cops who didn't want me to walk 50 yards from where the Smashing Pumpkins would be playing an ... More >>

Sad You Aren't at SXSW? Here's What You Could Be Missing...

Awwwww, I know it is a shame you aren't here with us at SXSW in Austin. I can only imagine the aching and longing in your heart for walking aimlessly and standing in long lines for no reason, and sweating through your cardigan to see a band you heard on one of the Twilight soundtracks. You don't w ... More >>

Ten Unlikely Musicians Whose Best Songs Are Slow Jams

Over time, rock and roll lost touch with its "Love Me Tender" and "Peggy Sue" beginnings and became kind of a closet Quiet Storm listener sometime around the time Ozzy Osbourne entered the collective consciousness. Except even hair metal was dominated by lighter-wavers. Basically, no one can resist ... More >>

Dent May On Do Things, Mississippi, and Briefly Quitting Music

Dent May's output can be divided into two distinct halves: biting, old-timey sardonicism (2009's stripped-down, snark-soaked The Good Feeling Music of Dent May and His Magnificent Ukulele) and clear-eyed, enabling positivism (2012's synth-heavy, ukulele-free Do Things). A gentlemanly uber-pop classi ... More >>

The Meatmen's Tesco Vee Counts Down His New Props, His Least Favorite Albums, And Why You Should See His Band

Tesco Vee has stretched his bawdy bile over three decades now as leader of the Meatmen, the Hate Police, and a few other concerns his lawyer would rather we not talk about. Whipping up face-slapping punk rock while juggling numerous onstage props—dildos, nun outfits, bloody rubber chickens, an ... More >>

WEMP's Discovery Mission

New rock returns to the New York airwaves

Live: The Summerland Tour Lets A Decades-Old Sun Shine In At Roseland

Summerland Tour: Everclear, Sugar Ray, Gin Blossoms, Lit, Marcy Playground Roseland Ballroom Wednesday, July 18 Better than: Watching Empire Records on basic cable. We make the "remember the '90s" joke around these parts a fair amount, but this week the alt-rock strain of that decade has been stu ... More >>

Live: Against Me! Buck The Norms, Duet With Joan Jett At Terminal 5

Against Me! w/The Cult, The Icarus Line Terminal 5 Friday, June 8 Better than: Being stuck in pre-tunnel traffic on a Megabus that was supposed to have left Philly at 3:30? (R.I.P. Chinatown buses.) Sorry, sorry. Better than... um, any other rawk band working right now? The critical indifference ... More >>

Q&A: The Arrogant Sons of Bitches' Jeff Rosenstock On The Joys And Stigmas Of Ska, CBGB Misery And Pranky Vibes

During my high school years in the early 2000s, I wanted to be in a ska-punk band. This fantasy could have been sparked by an Operation Ivy record, Save Ferris's prom-night concert in 10 Things I Hate About You, the genre's sartorial trappings, or the sound of trumpets. But one thing's for sure: Any ... More >>

100 & Single: Answering Questions On Adam Lambert's Historic Chart-Topping Album

I've never been happier to be wrong about something. Two weeks ago, the last line of my column read: "Probably won't happen. But wouldn't it be fun if it did?" The event I didn't think could happen was Adam Lambert scoring a No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 album chart with his second disc, Trespas ... More >>

The Ramones (1) Take On Anthrax (16) In The Queens Division's First March Madness Matchup

The Round of 64 for Sound of the City's own version of March Madness—in which you, the Sound of the City voting public, help determine the quintessential New York musician—continues, and you get to vote on who makes it to Round Two. The first pairing in our Queens division pits its top s ... More >>

The Grammys' 53 Record Of The Year Winners, In Order

53. Phil Collins, "Another Day in Paradise" [1991] 52. The 5th Dimension, "Up, Up and Away" [1968] 51. Olivia Newton-John, "I Honestly Love You" [1975] 50. Celine Dion, "My Heart Will Go On" [1999] 49. Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, "A Taste of Honey" [1966] 48. Bobby McFerrin, "Don't ... More >>

Free Fallin' With John Mayer: Spotify's Most Popular Songs Of The Past Five Decades

Long were the days when my nights when my days once revolved around you.​ Cool Spotify timewaster of the day: If you search for "year:xxxx-xxxx" the browser will display the most popular songs released in that range in descending order. So what does this tell us about, say, this morning's heal ... More >>

Radio Hits One: VH1 Takes On The '00s Pop Canon

VH1 spent last week counting down what the channel, and its panel of celebrities and "experts," consider The 100 Greatest Songs of The '00s. They certainly haven't been the first to assemble such a list—Rolling Stone and Pitchfork and every blog under the sun had their say about two years ago, ... More >>

The 10 Best Guesses To The Suddenly Pressing Question, "Who Are The Modern Weepers?"

​Yesterday Brooklyn Vegan posted a query about about British act playing Mercury Lounge on May 27; the act goes by the name the Modern Weepers, and the Merc site claims that the Mancunian act is "well travelled and well known in their native England" and "thrill[s] audiences and critics alike ... More >>

Q&A: My Chemical Romance's Gerard Way on Vampires, Glee, And Liza Minnelli

​ My Chemical Romance's fearless leader talks about mocking his own concept albums and rebelling vicariously through his hair. What are your favorite post-apocalyptic movies? Night of the Comet, Mad Max obviously--I actually prefer the first one. A Boy and His Dog. I think those are like the ... More >>

My Chemical Romance Go . . . Styx

The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys is all wasteland and no heart

Tony Awards Dish Coming on Theater Talk

left to right: Healy, Riedel, Green, Haskins, me​On this Friday night's Theater Talk (1230 that night on PBS), legendary thesper Marian Seldes appears to talk about her illustrious career. Marian's the one who gave no acceptance speech at all for her special Tony--she simply looked bemusedly ... More >>

The Hold Steady Age Gracefully

On the still raucous and (only slightly) paternal charms of Heaven Is Whenever

Alice Waters To Appear on Real Time with Bill Maher Tomorrow Night

We usually watch Real Time with Bill Mahar with the same zeal most reserve for an old-fashioned revival. "Speak it!" we screech, as Maher encourages Obama to tell off Republicans in Tiger-Woods-sexting-style. ("Shut the fuck up while I slap your face for making noise! Now pass the cap-and-trade law, ... More >>

Lollapalooza Lineup Announced in Full

​Featuring the odd return of 1995, in the persons of Soundgarden and Green Day, modern arena-rock surrogates the Strokes, Arcade Fire, MGMT, Phoenix, the National, and the Black Keys, and who else but Lady Gaga? Music is a befuddling tapestry in which Cypress Hill will always have a home. Comp ... More >>

How to Fix the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Tips on how to expand its reach—or blow it up entirely

Confirmed: New Year's Eve is Going to Suck

​This year the State Liquor Board's deadline for bars to request after-hours authorization for New Year's Eve has come and gone, and only 165 bars applied. 394 had applied by deadline last year. The Times thinks bar owners didn't know the deadline had been moved up, but that's like saying th ... More >>

"You're All So Hammered You Don't Give A Fuck What I Say": Live From The Woodies

Girls not having much fun. Pic by Connar Walik, more below.​Once a year, mtvU hosts the Woodies, an event that's a lot like the Teen Choice Awards, except that it caters to college kids and music-industry people who can say stuff like, "I started listening to that band, like, two years ago." T ... More >>

News Roundup: The Walkmen, Green Day, Jay Reatard

​ --The Walkman have announced a fall tour. The band, still supporting last year's massive You and Me, will play the already-announced Guggenheim August 14 as part of the It Came from Brooklyn series and then play a stacked double-bill with Dinosaur Jr. in Central Park on August 16. The rest o ... More >>

Week in Review: "I Am the Best Filmmaker in the World."

Nate "Igor" SmithFun times at Roxy Cottontail's party. This is what Zach's birthday dinner looked like too. In the week that both Zach and Roxy Cottontail celebrated their birthdays, Rob posted a great moment in Wu-based subway-ad vandalism that became a whole shitload of peoples' Facebook profile ... More >>

This Week in the Voice

In his previous mayoral campaigns, Mike Bloomberg has cut deals with Randi Weingarten's teachers' union that have eased his way to victory. But they also also stiffed charter schools and thwarted any hope of a real turnaround in our school system. Wayne Barrett tells us why this could be -- and sho ... More >>

Rock of Ages: Start Believin'

On one '80s musical's evolution from so-bad-it's-good to good, period

Live: Stories in High Fidelity at Highline Ballroom

Grading the iTunes Hits, Again

Grow Up Like a Rock Star

LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy sheds his cool and unites the Guitar Hero III–addled masses

M.I.A. and the Double Standard of MTV Censorship

Punk'd

From DIY and mohawks to corporate backing and Blink 182, does anti-establishment rock live?

Don't Look Now

The war on terror percolates through Jonathan Raban's topical novel

Live: Pennywise and the Circle Jerks, Too Old for This Shit

Viva Love

Morrissey, 1956–Infinity: The drama queen is dead, long live etc

Burn Baby Burn

She's Not Your Steppin' Stone

He was a punk, she did ballet, now he's an indie boy and her week outpunks his year

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What's Their Age Again?

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Short Music for Short People

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